Chapter 191 Winning the Championship
The battle between Yokota Middle School and Fukuoka High School continues. Yokota Middle School has started scoring consecutively since changing its offensive tactics. Kusato's big butt made outstanding contributions to Yokota Middle School tying Fukuoka High School in the first half. At the end of the first half, Yokota Middle School successfully grabbed the score to 44:44, and the two teams tied.
During the halftime break, Coach Kitano arranged the defensive tactics of tightening the inside and gave up the defense of long-distance attack on Fukuoka High School.
Sakuragi Hanamichi was taken care of by Fukuoka High School in the first half. The people who were Fukuoka High School scored consecutively on their heads, which made Sakuragi Hanamichi feel very unhappy. He was completely in a low pressure.
However, Sakuragi Hanamichi's sluggish state also fell into the eyes of Coach Kitano. He pulled Sakuragi to the side and whispered to Hanamichi for a few words and successfully let Hanamichi get out of that low-pressure state.
After returning from the intermission, Yokota Middle School's momentum had obviously reached its peak. They successfully tied the score at the end of the first half, which was a very morale boost. In the Fukuoka High School, the emotions of the players obviously had a certain impact.
"Bee!" As the referee whistled, the game between the two teams began again.
This time, Kusato did not give Kawada Mikio any chance to touch the ball. The basketball flew straight toward Yuta Tarota on the side, and Yokota Middle School's inside offense was still dominated by Kusato. However, Fukuoka High School's memory has indeed increased. The inside line not only allowed Kawada Mikio to resist Kusato with all his strength, but also arranged a faster defender to enter the inside line to help defend.
"Bang!" Kusato failed to control the first ball at the beginning of the second half. Under the defensive pressure of the two Fukuoka High School, the basketball crashed into the basket.
Fortunately, Yokota Middle School is not just Kusaki who is waiting for an opportunity to move under the basket.
"duang!" The basketball was deducted from Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Sakuragi Hanamichi began to return to defense amid the enthusiastic cheers of the audience. Hanamichi, who scored the goal, looked at the leaves on the stands and then happily joined the defense.
At the beginning of the second half, Yokota Middle School successfully scored and took the lead with 46:44.
After scoring the goal, Hanamichi Sakuragi began to get better. Although the running position on the defensive end was clumsy, fortunately, Coach Kitano explained Kusato to help assist in defense during the halftime break. This arrangement made Yokota Middle School lose a lot of points.
On the offensive end, Sakuragi Hanamichi also began to become active. He has now entered the inside from the outside three-point position. Tian Wayota did not pass the ball to Sakuragi, and he would make a fuss by himself if he got the chance. Tian Wayota's three-pointer was pretty good. Although he missed the shot from time to time, the air supremacy had already been controlled by Yokota Middle School.
When Tatsuo Yuto misses the shot, they will strive to compete for offensive rebounds. They need to be tall and strong. Mikio Kawada is no match for two people at all, and the power forward of Fukuoka High School is still good at speed, but the strength and bounce are a bit worse than Sakuragi Hana.
Yokota Middle School successfully took the lead in the second half with its outstanding rebounding performance of Kusao and Hanako Sakuragi, and also widened the gap between the two teams.
Halfway through the second half of the game, Yokota Middle School led by 12 points. During this period, in order to prevent Fukuoka High School from losing points, the coach of Fukuoka High School also asked the timeout to reorganize the defensive formation and wanted to regain some air superiority. However, his tactics were defeated by Sakuragi Hanamichi's absolute talent.
On this stadium today, there are two people taller than Sakuragi Hanamichi, one is Kusato of his own team, and the other is Mikio Kawada from Fukuoka High School. In terms of bounce and explosive power, Sakuragi Hanamichi is a existence above everyone on this stadium.
In terms of rebounding competition, what you most value is actually explosion, bounce, strength, and prediction of the basketball landing point. With its excellent bounce and amazing explosive power, Sakuragi Hanaki is enough to make up for the disadvantage of height compared to Mikio Kawada in terms of strength. In terms of strength, Sakuragi Hanaki, who is fully engaged in the game, is not afraid of Mikio Kawada. In the final prediction of the basketball landing point, both Mikio Kawada and Hanaki Sakuragi are equally between them.
However, Yokota Middle School has a Kusao Gang Sakuragi Hanada. No one in Fukuoka Affiliated High School can interfere with any of the Kusao Gang Sakuragi Hanada and Kusao.
The defeat at Fukuoka High School has become inevitable. Although the players of Fukuoka High School are making their final efforts, facing the strong attack of Yokota High School, they can only watch the victory and their team get further and further away from their team.
As the final whistle sounded, Yokota Middle School successfully won the championship of the National High School National Championship with a score of 102:88.
The Yokota Middle School players who won the victory hugged each other excitedly, while Sakuragi Hanamichi stood in the middle of the field without participating in the fun of his teammates.
"Is this... the champion?" The dazzling metal lantern on the roof of the venue hit Sakuragi Hanamichi. He stood in the middle of the venue, gasping, staring at the cheering audience in the stands, stunned...
The warm cheers, the dazzling halogen lamps, and the smell emitted by the wooden floor on the ground. All of this strongly stimulated the heart of Sakuragi Hanadao.
"Basketball! Hehe!" Hanamichi Sakuragi picked up the basketball on the ground and laughed unconsciously. This was a feeling he had never experienced before. He played basketball just for Ye Zi before. Of course, there was also a little bit of a factor that didn't want to let Tian Ye down. However, Hanamichi Sakuragi himself knew that although he did not reject basketball, he was definitely not a fan of it.
But it was different at this moment. Sakuragi Hanado vaguely felt why Tiano and Sendo liked playing basketball so much. He also understood where the joy of the players came from after winning.
"Senior Sakuragi, line up!" Kusato's voice was still sobbing. He came to the back of Sakuragi Hanamidao, patted Sakuragi's back and said to Sakuragi Hanamidao.
"Ayi, do you like playing basketball?" Sakuragi held the ball and walked towards the middle circle with Kusato.
"Of course, senior!" Kusato's voice returned to his old perseverance. He didn't understand why Sakuragi Hanamichi suddenly asked such a question without thinking.
"Is that true? Actually, I like it too." Hanamichi Sakuragi turned his head and smiled at Kusato, then went to the center of the stadium.
Tianno looked at Sakuragi Hanamichi who was shaking hands with his opponent in the middle circle, and suddenly felt that Sakuragi's temperament had changed.
"It's becoming very mature! Hanadao." Tianye clearly felt that Sakuragi Hanada's temperament calmed down.
"Hahahahaha! I am indeed a genius! Genius basketball player Hanamichi Sakuragi!"
"The mortals from Fukuoka High School now know how powerful I am! Hahahaha!"
Suddenly, Sakuragi Hanada in the center of the field burst into laughter, and praised himself shamelessly in front of the audience across the country. At the same time, he also mocked the members of Fukuoka High School. The members of Fukuoka High School had crystal tears on their faces. Suddenly, they saw the red-haired boy in Yokota High School sarcastically mocking him, and his face became even darker.
"Damn it! I was blinded by my dog eyes. I thought this guy was calm! Cao!" Tian Ye cursed inwardly, reached out to carry his backpack and left the venue.
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Chapter completed!