Slam Dunk: I'm the Glasses Brother

"Sakuragi, you have a great waist, you can score that kind of ball." The Kanagawa players patted Sakuragi affectionately, and Sakuragi's eyes narrowed into slits. "Am I a genius?"

"No need to make substitutions, keep up this pace of attack and defense" The lead was 18 points, and Coach Anxi felt that no adjustments were needed

After the break, Osaka made substitutions, with Nan Lie and Itakura replacing Awahara and Shiyu. Kitano knew that although it was important for the players to recover their physical strength, if Kanagawa continued to play like this, the score gap would get bigger and bigger, and by then, even if they had plenty of physical strength, it would be of no use.

In Osaka's attack, Nan Lie and Kishimoto made a pick-and-roll cooperation, faked a shot and passed the ball, fooling Kanagawa's players on the court. The ball was passed to Iwata under the basket, and Iwata made a shot and scored 76:60

Rukawa's mid-range shot missed, and Sakuragi grabbed the offensive rebound. Apparently, Sakuragi was a little too proud of his performance before the timeout, and he still chose to shoot in a crowded area, but was caught by Iwata. Osaka launched a quick counterattack, and finally Kishimoto completed the layup 76:62

Mike held the ball. Facing Kishimoto in front of him, he dribbled the ball a few times on the spot, and in an instant he turned into a white flash, flashed past Kishimoto's defense, took three steps to the basket, jumped high, and scored a one-handed dunk in front of Iwata. 78:62

"What a bully!" Kishimoto smiled bitterly. Normally, Kishimoto would not be beaten so easily by Mike. The physical exhaustion made him feel that he was willing but not able to do anything.

This time, Osaka replaced Iwata to cover Nan Lie, Sakuragi went out to defend, Kishimoto cut into the basket, Itakura blocked Mu Mu, Tingtian passed the ball to Nan Lie, Nan Lie passed the ball directly to Kishimoto without stopping. Facing Sakuragi, a fake shot, Sakuragi mistakenly thought Kishimoto would shoot, jumped up, Kishimoto received the ball and made a layup to score 78:64

In the next round, Mike continued to attack Kishimoto. However, this time, Mike was a little too confident and the ball was stolen by Kishimoto. Osaka launched a counterattack and Tingtian scored a layup, 78:66.

"Kishimoto, you did a great job!" Although the team consumed so much energy, they were still able to contribute in attack and defense. Osaka did not hesitate to give her applause to the team's power forward.

"Kishimoto is such a respectable opponent." In the original novel, Kishimoto strangled himself on the train, which made the real Mugure not very fond of Kishimoto. However, Kishimoto's performance also won Mugure's respect. "Respect for the opponent is to use all your strength to defeat him." Mugure slowly dribbled the ball to the front court of Osaka

"Pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah." The ball kept hitting the floor and then bounced back into Murasakibara's hands. Without any preparatory starting movement, it suddenly changed direction in front of him and then lowered his body to break through to the left.

"Don't even think about it!" Itakura, who was responsible for defending Murasakibara, also adjusted his posture in time, took a sideways step to catch up with Murasakibara's quick movement, and stuck closely to the opponent.

After crossing the free throw line, Mugure took another step, then jumped high, held Itakura with his right shoulder, held the ball with his left hand, made a layup with one hand, and threw it gently. Itakura was unable to block Mugure and could only watch the ball go into the net, 80:66.

Osaka was not affected at all. When Nan Lie attacked again, he took a step to the right first, and when Rukawa Kaede retreated, he suddenly stepped back, stepped out of the three-point line, and made a jump shot, 80 to 69.

Kogure breaks to the left, Itakura closely guards Kogure, but Kogure's move to the left is just a feint, and he quickly turns around and passes Itakura from the right. After Itakura is passed, he quickly reminds his inside players! "Iwata-senpai!" Kogure breaks into the inside, "Come on!" Iwata stands in position. Kogure jumps up for a layup, and Iwata also jumps up to block Kogure's layup, but Kogure ignores him and throws the ball to the basket, hitting it! 82:69

Osaka attacked, the ball was given to Kishimoto, this time he made a fake move to turn outward and then suddenly turned inward, and after turning inward, he immediately made a hip change of direction, then held Mike and dribbled from the outside to the basket, after taking two steps, he raised his left arm to hold Mike, while holding the ball in his right hand, his right arm drew an arc, ready to throw it towards the basket.

However, due to physical reasons, he was unable to push Mike away. Mike jumped high and blocked Kishimoto's shot! However, the dramatic thing was that the ball flew directly out of the three-point line and fell into Tingtian's hands outside the three-point line. Tingtian directly shot a three-pointer and made it 82:72, with a score difference of ten points!

"Osaka substitution" Tsuchiya came on again, replacing Kishimoto who was a little exhausted

Tsuchiya, who had just come on the court, made a steal. Although Rukawa succeeded in breaking through Nan Lie in disguise, Tsuchiya had seen through Rukawa's offensive intentions and ambushed Rukawa's offensive route, stealing the ball. Osaka counterattacked and the ball was passed to Nan Lie. Nan Lie made a three-pointer, but Rukawa had already rushed back and blocked the ball. Fortunately, the ball fell back into Nan Lie's hands again. Nan Lie saw that there was no chance, so he had to pass the ball to Tsuchiya. Tsuchiya holds the ball

"Oh? It's you." The person guarding him was Murasaki

"MVP Mugure, let me see how good you are." Tsuchiya dribbled the ball behind his back and broke through from the left, but Mugure blocked his attack route. Tsuchiya was not surprised. He did not believe that he could pass Mugure in one go. If that was the case, then Mugure would be a false reputation. Tsuchiya retreated to his original position, then changed direction to the right and broke through, Mugure moved to the right.

"Opportunity" Tsuchiya's move to the right was a feint. His real intention was to break through to the left. Sure enough, Tsuchiya changed direction again and avoided Mugure's defense.

"?!" Just as Tsuchiya was secretly delighted, Mugure suddenly turned around and knocked the ball off from behind Tsuchiya! Then he ran forward without looking back. Kiyota took a step forward to grab the ball, made a long pass, and the basketball came into Mugure's hands. The latter made a three-step layup and scored 84:72

"Sakuragi" Mu Mu came to Sakuragi and whispered a few words, Sakuragi smiled wickedly and nodded.

Osaka attacked, the ball was passed to Tsuchiya, Tsuchiya continued to fake but could not get rid of Mugure's defense, and used his eyes to signal Iwata to pick and roll, "Pick and roll?" Mugure noticed Iwata's move out of the corner of his eye, and secretly took a step back to prevent being blocked

"You've been fooled, Mugure." Tsuchiya pretended to break through, suddenly took a step back and made a three-pointer!

"What?!" Tsuchiya widened his eyes, and a black shadow appeared in front of him.

"Look at the genius's big dunk!" Sakuragi had already followed Iwata out and rushed to the outside line, giving Tsuchiya a big dunk! The ball fell into Itakura's hands, and Itakura made a three-pointer. This time, Kiyota suddenly appeared and gave Itakura another dunk! At the same time, he took the ball in his hands

"Give me the ball," Murasaki said. After receiving the pass from Kiyota, Murasaki crossed the half court, but Tsuchiya had already caught up with him.

"Come on, Tsuchiya." The two formed a one-on-one situation. Mugure first stepped forward with his right foot under his crotch and aimed at the basket. Tsuchiya saw this and slightly raised his center of gravity to prevent Mugure from shooting. Mugure saw that the prayer had successfully mobilized Tsuchiya's defensive center of gravity, and he dribbled the ball with his left hand and pulled it back under his crotch. He dropped his foot and pretended to break through on the left, dribbled the ball to his right hand with his left hand, and at the same time raised his right foot and turned his body sideways to Tsuchiya. He pretended to bounce out to the outside line, and Tsuchiya hurried forward. At this time, Mugure dribbled the ball under his crotch again, successfully passed Tsuchiya, and made a layup to score 86:72.

"What a beautiful pass!" Kanagawa's players waved their towels

"What an amazing dribble. The defense just now should have been arranged by Murasakibara. Murasakibara, the MVP player, lives up to his reputation." Tsuchiya looked at Murasakibara's figure returning to defense

Tsuchiya Jun suddenly broke through from the outside, but Murasaki was not shaken off. Of course, this was within Tsuchiya's expectations. Tsuchiya suddenly stopped, raised his upper body slightly, raised his right arm while dribbling, and turned his right wrist slightly inward, as if he was about to shoot with the ball.

"Fake move!" Mumu stopped with both feet, but just followed the opponent to raise his body, without completely raising his center of gravity. Sure enough, Tsuchiya Jun lowered his body to dribble again, and Mumu still blocked in front of him.

"No chance!" Tsuchiya sighed and passed the ball to Nan Lie. However, Nan Lie had no chance to shoot a three-pointer under Rukawa's defense. The ball was passed back and forth among the Osaka players. Finally, Itakura had no choice but to shoot a three-pointer, but the ball did not go in. Sakuragi grabbed the rebound.

"It's time to give Osaka the final blow. Akagi, Uozu, and Katsumi, the three of you, get ready to play." Coach Anzai decided to play the last two cards. Taking advantage of the dead ball opportunity, he replaced two people, Akagi for Sakuragi, and Katsumi for Kiyota. Uozu replaced Rukawa. Kanagawa concentrated its forces on the inside this time. Uozu and Akagi, who had been holding back for a long time, dominated the inside lines on both sides. There were two big men sitting in the inside. Tsuchiya tried to challenge Kanagawa's inside line. Although he bypassed Uozu, he was blocked by Akagi who came to defend. And there were also Mike, Murasaki and Katsumi on the outside. Osaka was unable to limit their outside offensive and the score difference was gradually widened. In the end, Kanagawa defeated the opponent with a score of 110:83. Sendoh scored 17 points, Fujima scored 13 points, and Murasaki scored 11 points and 6 assists. For Osaka: Tsuchiya scored 26 points, Minami Lie scored 18 points, and Kishimoto scored 16 points and 7 rebounds

With the return of Amu, Miyagi and Mitsui who were watching other games, the results of the other three games are as follows

Akita defeated Ehime 89:50 without even using a full-court press, even though Zebei, Fukatsu, and Kawata played only half the game. Matsumoto scored 30 points and Kokawata got a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

In the match between Fukuoka and Shizuoka, Shizuoka did not hold back this time. Mikoshiba and Yufune played their best. Mikoshiba scored 20 points, 11 rebounds and 1 block, Yufune made 8 of 4 three-pointers and scored 16 points. Shizuoka lost to Fukuoka again with a score of 61:77 without any regrets.

The first half of the match between Kyoto and Aichi was quite intense, but in the 12th minute of the second half, Kyoto finally collapsed as Nogawa fouled Mori Shigehiro five times in defense. In the end, Aichi eliminated its opponent 93:74 and advanced to the semi-finals. Moroboshi scored 27 points, Mori Shigehiro scored 31 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks.

The matchups in the semi-finals are Kanagawa vs. Aichi, Akita vs. Fukuoka!