Slam Dunk: I'm the Glasses Brother

"Last year's Takenoko only lost one third-year student compared to this year. And Daiming from their team also played in the county tournament last year, but the No. 9 player was the main player for the first time. It can be said that Takenoko's strength has not been weakened. But Xiangbei didn't score a single goal after the opening without a full main lineup. This shows that Xiangbei has made greater progress than last year." The twin brothers of Takenoko's inside line-up looked serious.

"It's Murasakibara. Murasakibara not only led the offense of Shohoku, but also disrupted Takezono's offense on the defensive end. I'm not afraid of Akagi. He has Kobayashi brothers taking care of him, so he can't make any big waves. Mitsui's firepower is taken care of by Imamura and Nagao in turn. Although it cannot be completely contained, it is not impossible to control his scoring. But Murasakibara... it seems the secret weapon has to be used in advance." Takeri's coach Anten frowned.

"Haha, everyone did a great job, keep up the lead" and Coach Anxi didn't need to make any adjustments.

After the timeout, the players of Wuyuan were much calmer. After patiently passing the ball, the captain Yuanshan finally scored a mid-range shot and broke the deadlock.

"Huh... we finally scored a goal!" Coach Ye Shan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Damn it, it's just a little bit short, the time is almost up" Kemei, who was facing Yuanshan, gnashed his teeth in anger

"Don't worry, Katsumi, let's fight back." After comforting Katsumi, Murasaki dribbled the ball across the front court. Katsumi suddenly started. "Don't think about getting rid of me." But as soon as Harayama started, he felt that he had hit a wall. It turned out to be Horita, and Horita came out to cover Katsumi. Katsumi secretly made a gesture to Horita at that time. As a teammate of Takeishi in junior high school, Horita understood what he meant and pulled out to cover Katsumi. Katsumi got space.

"Not good!" Mikawa rushed to make up for the defense. Seeing this, Mu Mu immediately passed the ball, but the target of his pass was not Katsumi, but Hasegawa who was missed by Mikawa after making up for the defense. Hasegawa made a mid-range shot

"This Murasakibara has such a clear mind." An Teng was getting more and more troubled by defending Murasakibara.

Takezono attacked, Deming used Tanaka's pick-and-roll to get an open space, Akagi did not choose to come out to defend, and Deming made a long two-pointer!

Mugure slowly dribbled the ball across the frontcourt, reading Takezono's defense this time. Horita came out to cover for Katsumi again, but Takezono was prepared this time. Mikawa helped defend Katsumi, and Uki went to defend Hasegawa. You guys are only thinking about the outside line. Have you forgotten our giant inside line? Mugure sneered, "Akagi"

Akagi caught the ball with both hands, turned around and leaned against Tanaka who was sticking to him, turned left and right, turned his body quickly, held the ball with both hands to shake off his opponent, and then quickly lowered his body. With a "bang!", the basketball bounced up, Akagi received the ball, rushed into the basket and jumped high. With a "bang", Akagi dunked and scored.

After completing the dunk, Akagi was extremely excited. On the defensive end, he blocked a big shot from Tanaka. After completing the block, Akagi was very excited and showed off his muscles to the audience. As a result, the Takezono cheerleaders said, "The more you look at him, the more he looks like a gorilla." I don't know which girl even threw down a bunch of bananas.

"Hahaha" the audience laughed. Akagi's face was as black as charcoal. If the opponent was not a girl, Akagi would probably hit her. The referee couldn't stand it, so he temporarily stopped the game and talked to the coach of Takenoko. Coach Yeshan said to the Buri cheerleaders: Please pay attention to your behavior.

"Oh, hehe." Coach Anzai was also amused, and Ayako also covered her stomach. "Don't laugh," Kusao Takeshi scolded the players. But everyone could see that the captain was forcing himself to hold back his laughter.

After a small episode, the game continued. Mumu saw that his friend was depressed, so he chose to give the ball to Akagi. Akagi ducked and dribbled twice, taking advantage of the situation to use his body to push Tanaka, and despite the opponent's pushing and shoving, he took another step to the basket. He took a big step to the middle with his right foot, and pressed his entire back towards Tanaka. It seemed that he would turn around and shoot. Although Tanaka was not as strong as Akagi, he had three years of experience, and he also had self-esteem. He couldn't let Akagi score easily again. He immediately moved to the right and pressed his elbow against Akagi's waist. Even if Akagi wanted to turn around and jump, it would be difficult for him to keep his balance after being pushed.

However, Akagi's move was a fake. After taking a step, he immediately used his left foot as the axis, turned his right foot 270 degrees, raised one hand, and attacked in the other direction. Tanaka had already used up all his strength and could no longer defend. Akagi scored another one-handed dunk!

"Is it cool?" Mu Mu went over and patted Akagi

"It feels so good!" Akagi cursed excitedly. "This is the first time I've discovered that swearing can be quite enjoyable."

“It’s okay to do it occasionally, don’t make it a habit.”

"I know"

Akagi's dunk again made the Takezono cheerleaders suddenly silent. Affected by Akagi's two consecutive dunks, Takezono's offense did not improve much. In the first half, Xiangbei led by 48 points 30:18. In this first half, the Takezono cheerleaders also turned from excitement to loss and silence as Mu Mu expected.

"The lineup for the second half is center Nakajima, power forward Kusao Takeshi, small forward Mitsui, shooting guard Mori Akira, and point guard Iida." Coach Anzai simply replaced five players with five.

At the beginning of the second half, compared with the first half lineup, although the captain Kusao Takeshi and the ace Mitsui were on the field, the other three players were two bench players and one was a newcomer. The start was not smooth, and Takenaka scored 6 points in a row. Takenaka's cheerleaders seemed to see hope and cheered for their "male gods" again.

"Hey, captain and vice-captain, Mitsui, can you guys help the other cheerleaders get motivated again? If not, let us take over." Murasakibara stood up to encourage the players on the field

"No way." Being provoked by their juniors, Kusao Takeshi and Mori Qi were a little embarrassed, and Mitsui was even more embarrassed. "Kill them!" The Takezono players immediately felt that the Xiangbei players on the field were on fire.

Daiming dribbled the ball to attack, and Yitian and Senqi double-teamed Daiming. The two of them seemed to have taken medicine and firmly sandwiched Daiming in the middle. The unprecedented pressure made Daiming confused, and Senqi found the right opportunity to steal the ball. "Mitsui" The ball went to Mitsui

"Don't let Mitsui score easily," Harayama shouted, and immediately some of Takezono's players rushed to defend Mitsui near the three-point line.

After Mitsui faked a dribble with the ball, he took a step back, jumped high outside the three-point line, stretched his arms and shook his wrists, and the whole movement was done in one go.

With the ball still in the air, Mitsui stretched out his right arm and raised his index finger.

"Did you see that just now? That kid knew the ball would go in after he threw it!"

“What confidence!”

On the defensive end, Kusao Takeshi blocked Tanaka's shot, and Xiangbei counterattacked. Mitsui scored another three-pointer! Mitsui's two three-pointers immediately extinguished the flames of Takezono's counterattack. The Takezono cheerleaders fell silent again. Even if they didn't understand basketball, they could see the gap between their team and Xiangbei's strength. The score kept widening in the back-and-forth offense and defense transitions. Anyone could see that the Takezono team had no chance of recovery.

"Beep!" The buzzer sounded, marking the end of the game. The score was fixed at 84 to 67, which seemed not to be a big difference. But this was the score when Shohoku replaced Mitsui and Kusao Takeshi with only substitutes in 6 minutes. Shohoku easily advanced to the quarterfinals. They will compete with the third place in the last session, Buri High School, for a place in the joint finals.

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This chapter was added because Liaoning Basketball Team won the final match of the second stage. The Chinese National Football Team failed to live up to expectations and didn't score a single goal. I won't add more chapters.