NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

Hanamichi received Ayako's pass, turned his back to Akagi in the corner position, and tried to push back with force, but after a little trial, he chose to give up the power fight.

Not only is Akagi as strong as Hanamichi, but because he is bigger than Hanamichi, he can form an all-round defense for Hanamichi. Even if you have your back to Akagi, you can still feel his amazing momentum and strength in defense.

"As expected of Takenori Akagi, the leader of the four centers in Kanagawa in the original work, he is indeed a gorilla"!

Hua Dao complained in his heart, but his hands and feet did not slow down at all.

After another power confrontation, Hanamichi did not use inertia to bounce back as he did before. Instead, he took advantage of the situation to break through from his left hand, turned around quickly and broke through half a body length, running towards the baseline of the basket.

Akagi was slightly startled, then he took two steps at a time and immediately started chasing and defending from the inside near the center of the basket, and kept using his body to block Hanamichi's path to the basket.

As Hanamichi had to dribble the ball, his speed was a little slower than usual, allowing Akagi to "squeeze" him all the way to the baseline. At this time, Hanamichi still had a lead of half a shoulder.

Hanamichi ran along the baseline, using his shoulders to push against Akagi, using the momentum of his running to push Akagi away, then slipped along the baseline to the basket.

"What?" x3

Murasakibara, Rukawa Kaede, and Ayako who were watching the game were all greatly surprised.

Obviously, they were shocked by the physical fitness shown by Hanamichi when he pushed Akagi Takenori away while dribbling. From the initial collision of power, no one thought that Hanamichi was stronger than Akagi. After all, Akagi had the advantage in height, weight and experience.

In fact, this is also a misunderstanding of the three of them. In a static strength comparison, Hanamichi's strength of 92 points may be comparable to Akagi or even slightly worse than Akagi, but once they start running, the competition is not just about strength, but also about physical explosiveness, kinetic potential energy and agility.

Yes, it is agility that can help Hanamichi choose to make contact in advance when he is about to touch Akagi.

To put it simply, it is to take advantage of every opportunity. When Akagi starts running and his body strength has not yet fully gathered in the direction of contact, Hanamichi can choose to use all his potential energy and strength to press on the barrier formed by Akagi's body.

This is also the advantage that Hanamichi took the initiative on the attacking side. When he was running and tearing Akagi's defense, he could choose to suppress in advance, and then use the advantage of his shoulders to press Akagi, thus freeing up his own space. When Hanamichi ran to the basket, he had completely freed up space under the basket and stood firmly, but Akagi did not lose his position at this time. He raised his hands high to cover the air above Hanamichi's left hand, and the basket was above his hands.

At this time, Hanamichi had only two choices. One was to use his left hand to push Akagi away and then shoot or dunk.

Another way is to take a step forward and make a layup (looking back at the moon), or take a step back and make a layup.

The former is more difficult and may even result in an offensive foul. As for the latter, it is time to show your status and pace.

The thought only took a moment. In the eyes of Rukawa and the other two, Hanamichi ran to the basket and passed the ball to the basket. He then looked up at the basket above his head, raised the basketball with his right hand, and prepared to make a back hook layup.

Seeing this, Akagi hurriedly stood on tiptoe, stretched out his left hand, and centered himself to the left front. Hanamichi's right hand shifted in the direction he was aiming his right hand. At this time, the two were facing each other, Akagi was facing the basket, and Hanamichi was under the basket.

If Hanamichi had attempted a hook shot at this time, he would have been blocked for sure, but he was prepared. He used his left foot as the axis, withdrew his right foot and right hand, and instantly leaned his back against Akagi, then raised his right hand to prepare for a small hook shot.

Seeing this, Akagi shouted: "It's still early!"

But at this time, because the center of gravity was biased to the left, there was no time to retract it, so Akagi exerted force with his left foot, jumped up, and shot in the direction of Hanamichi's hand in front of him on the right. If he hit it, it would be a solid block.

"Well done, Akagi, well done!"

Murasaki cheered loudly on the side.

Unexpectedly, Hanamichi seemed to know something about it. Perhaps he had anticipated that Akagi would be tricked into raising his center of gravity when jumping. So when Akagi jumped into the air, he used his left foot as the axis, took a big step to the left with his right foot, and then calmly jumped up and hit the backboard in the opposite direction. This series of movements was silky and smooth, and done in one go.

"What!"x4

Even Akagi, the person involved, didn't expect to be fooled like this. It was like a monkey being played with two fake moves in a row.

Muguro looked at Ayako, and Ayako spread her hands and gestured, "No walking."

Murasaki knew in his heart that Hanamichi's attack did not involve any traveling. After Ayako confirmed it, he was stunned for a moment, then became very excited. He looked at Ayako again with excitement in his eyes, and Ayako responded with a bright smile.

“We are stronger!”

Rukawa Kaede was stroking his chin, reviewing Hanamichi's series of actions in his head:

"First, he tricked the captain into moving his center of gravity to the left, then he tricked the captain into jumping to the right in the opposite direction so that he couldn't return to defense in time. Finally, he pulled forward to make a layup calmly... If the captain didn't jump, he could have just hit the backboard and made a layup. Hmm~ He is indeed a deceptive red-haired monkey!"

After Akagi landed, he looked at Hanamichi with a satisfied smile and praised: "Well done, Sakuragi Hanamichi!"

"Yes, Captain," Hanamichi also responded by standing at attention.

Although Akagi was on defense and Hanamichi was on offense, everyone was quite satisfied with the final result. Akagi and Mugure confirmed that Rukawa and Sakuragi Hanamichi were both strong players, and Rukawa and Hanamichi confirmed that captain Akagi was not just a name, but really had the power of a gorilla, at least in defense.

As for Muguro, Muguro said: As long as you are happy, as for me, I am also very happy, after all, the Xiangbei basketball team has become stronger. I am really happy, wuwuwuwuwu... I am so happy that I am crying.

For the next week or so, the training was basically carried out like this. After lunch and after school, they first did a group jogging warm-up and body stretching. Then the second-year students led the first-year students in basic passing, layup, and shooting training. As for Akagi Takenori, Kogure Konobu, Rukawa Kaede, and Hanamichi, they trained their subjects in the other half according to their own progress.

For example, Akagi is more focused on strength and footwork training, Rukawa is focusing on dribbling and shooting training, and Murasakibara is busier. In addition to doing three-point shooting himself, he also goes to the other half of the court from time to time to instruct the first-year students.

As for Hanamichi, he trained his footwork and shooting under the basket with Takenori Akagi.

From time to time, the two would perform defense against imaginary enemies. For example, Hanamichi would act as a wooden stake for Akagi who was practicing his footwork, and Akagi would raise his hands to pretend to defend when Hanamichi was shooting under the basket.

Such training certainly doesn't consume too much physical energy for Hanamichi, who is a master of physical strength, let alone the growth of strength and speed. His growth is as slow as a snail. However, his field goal shooting increased from 77 points to 80 points. When there is no defense, he can basically make 10 shots. When there is interference, as long as there is space, he can basically make 8 out of shots. Of course, if there is serious interference, it is not good.

The training usually ends at 7:, at which time the second and third grades go home first and the first grade takes over the cleaning.

But no one knows that after cleaning, Rukawa and Hanamichi will stay and start extra practice.

Rukawa Kaede practices basic movements such as dribbling, ball control, layups, and spot shooting.

Hanamichi is more targeted. In addition to practicing 100 extra shots under the basket, he gradually expanded the range of shots under the basket to the vicinity of the restricted area and the surrounding areas, especially the positions one step outside the restricted area. As fixed positions, Hanamichi would shoot 25 balls each day before the training ended. In total, he had to shoot 200 balls.

The two of them had a tacit understanding and each occupied half of the court. Late at night every day, the only sounds in the basketball hall were the friction between footsteps and the sound of the basketball hitting the floor, backboard, and basket.

Until one morning, a white-haired old man broke the fixed training pattern of the Xiangbei basketball team.