Sakuragi's road to NBA superstardom

Chapter 47 The Emerging Rival
"Hello Sakuragi Hanamichi, I am a reporter from "Shoe Upper" magazine, what is written on the sneakers you put on today?"

The sneaker magazine reporter asked a question about sneakers, of course Hanamichi Sakuragi would not give up the opportunity to promote Aoi.

"Written on the sneakers is 'blessing from my brother'. This is my brother Aoi's wish for me. I think the shoes I wear today may become a new hot item in Aoi's sneaker store."

After accepting questions from the reporters, Hanamichi Sakuragi could finally return to the locker room.

Although they won the game today, and the players from Xiangbei just wantonly celebrated the victory, but in the locker room, everyone had a cold face and no one spoke.

All in all, this game was a disappointing one for Xiangbei High School.

That's it for Miuratai, how to deal with Xiangyang High School, Lingnan High School and Hainan High School, everyone has more or less anxiety in their hearts.

But Sakuragi Hanamichi is not as worried as others, because Xiangbei's opponents in the next three rounds of Group B are Kadono High School, Takahata High School and Tsukutake High School.

These three teams do not have such a gifted athletic genius as Naito Tetsuya. Kadono High School and Takahata High School do not even have much footage in the comics.

The real test for Xiangbei is actually the match against Xiangyang High School, the representative of Kanagawa County in the last national competition.

湘北高中与三浦台高中的比赛是在1992年的5月29日，而神奈川县大赛的B组最后一轮则会在1992年的6月20日举行。

That is to say, Yingmu Huadao and Xiangbei High School still have nearly a month to make some targeted adjustments and improvements to Xiangyang High School.

Hanamichi Sakuragi did not use the 4600 tokens he got from the match against Miuradai High School. He decided to decide how to spend the 4600 tokens and the proceeds from future matches before the match against Xiangyang High School.

In the training after the match with Miuradai, under the suggestion and suggestion of Sakuragi Hanamichi, Sakuragi Hanamichi and coach Anzai jointly developed several sets of very special tactics.

The design of these offensive and defensive tactics made Coach Anxi look at Sakuragi Hanamichi with admiration. As the designer of the tactics, Sakuragi Hanamichi also gained more voice on the field.

The chemical reaction between Yingmu Huadao and his teammates has also reached full marks, and some cooperation that could not be completed before has become familiar with the practice day after day.

In the second round of Group B, in the match between Xiangbei High School and Kadono High School, the famous Kanagawa tragedy happened. Xiangbei High School defeated Kadono High School with a huge score of 147 to 29. The difference of 118 points also set a record for the largest difference in the county competition.

Xiangbei High School released all the oppressive feeling of facing Miuradai before on Kakuno High School!
In this game, Xiangbei fully demonstrated the various training results of the past week. Among them, Yingmu Huadao's all-round performance was amazed by all the audience!

In this game, Sakuragi Hanamichi won the first triple-double in his high school career, and his triple-double is also the first triple-double in this Kanagawa competition.

樱木花道出场28分钟，数据为两分球15-9，罚球6罚5中，斩获23分11篮板13助攻2抢断3盖帽的超级全能数据。

The game rating was also rated as A+100 by the Superstar Road system, and the reward was doubled. In addition to unlocking the triple-double achievement, Sakuragi Hanamichi earned a total of 6600 tokens in the game of massacring Kakuda High School.

On the next game day, Shohoku High School will face Takahata High School. Like Kadono High School before it, Takahata High School does not have any star players, and the game has shown a one-sided situation from the first minute.

However, Xiangbei in this game was not like the previous game, and maintained a super high confrontation intensity from beginning to end.

The game entered garbage time 5 minutes into the second half, and coach Anxi also called back and replaced Xiangbei's starting five tigers.

Sakuragi Hanamichi played 21 minutes in this game. In a relatively short playing time, he still maintained an efficient performance.

He made all 10 two-pointers, made 5 of 5 free throws, and scored 25 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists. This high-efficiency performance also earned Hanamichi Sakuragi an A+ rating. In addition to unlocking the achievement of making all shots with more than 5600 shots, Hanamichi Sakuragi earned [-] tokens in this game.

In the second and third rounds, the number of fans of Yingmu Huadao did not increase exaggeratedly, because there were many people who watched the game repeatedly.

Two consecutive rounds of defeating their opponents did not make the players in Xiangbei feel the slightest slack. During the training, everyone still devoted themselves to practicing hard.

In the fourth round of the game, Xiangbei ushered in another opponent, Tsuji Takeshi High School.

This Tsukutake High School has more connections than Kanono High School and Takahata High School. After all, this is a team that has developed a huge spark with Shonhoku High School in the theater version.

Moreover, the No. 4 power forward Wudai Yuka, the captain of Tsukutake High School, was a junior high school classmate with Akagi Takenori and Mugure Gongyan.

Their No. 15 center, a super rookie Nango Koichiro with a height of 192 cm, also has a lot of connections with Sakuragi Hanamichi.

In the manga theatrical version, when Haruko was playing in the open-air court, Nango Koichiro rushed over on a motorcycle.

When he was close to the basket, he jumped up from the motorcycle, caught Haruko's missed ball from the air and made a heavy dunk!
Haruko couldn't help being dumbfounded by such an astonishing move.

Akagi Haruko asked in surprise, "Are you playing basketball?"

Later, Yingmu Huadao crazily climbed in from the barbed wire outside the arena...

The two met head-to-head because of Haruko, and they really hit each other badly!Meeting Akagi Haruko inspired his fighting spirit, he was simply another Sakuragi.

This Nango Koichiro was also dubbed a yellow-haired monkey by the audience, Kiyoda Nobunaga from Hainan High School was called a long-haired monkey, and the protagonist Sakuragi Hanamichi was called a red-haired monkey.

These three people were given a resounding group name by the audience, the three big monkeys in Kanagawa Prefecture!

Unlike in the comics, Sakuragi Hanamichi at this time had no relationship with Nango Koichiro before the game.

But this is Sakuragi Hanamichi's pure thought, he still doesn't know that the matter of Sakuragi Hanamichi blowing a kiss to a girl from the same school during a key free throw has been quickly fermented through the "Boys and Girls" magazine.

And this youth magazine, which has a huge audience among high school students, did not know how to dig out the kiss blower of Sakuragi Flower Road is Akagi Haruko, and the magazine even included Akagi Haruko's life photos.

When Koichiro Nango watched that issue of "Boys and Girls", he became a crazy fan of Haruko Akagi!
Yingmu Huadao didn't expect that a rival in love would appear out of thin air!
(End of this chapter)