NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

In their opinion, the Xiangbei basketball team was lucky to automatically advance to the second round because they had a bye in the first round.

As their predetermined opponent, Ma Gongxi, I don’t know what kind of bad luck the Xiangbei basketball team had, but they defeated Hainan.

Maybe...it seems...as if...Hainan's main players graduated collectively last year.

If this is the case, it may lead to a decline in the team's overall strength and cause them to lose to other teams!

So the captain of Ma Gongxi started to be sarcastic again:

"Ah~ How boring! It looks like our Mamiya Nishi will be like the previous years and lose to Sannoh in the semi-finals!"

"There's nothing we can do about it. He's the King of the Mountain!"

"But you guys on the Xiangbei team are really unlucky. You actually met us in the second round. This time, your journey to the national competition ends here! Hahahahaha."

Akagi certainly wouldn't indulge such a person, so he stepped forward and said something.

"Excuse me, who are you?"

It directly broke the defense of the captain of Ma Gongxi.

Then, Hanamichi asked loudly:

"Captain, which team is Ma Gongxi on? Will we meet him?"

Upon hearing this, Akagi also sang a duet:

"I don't know. I haven't heard of such a strong team in the manual."

"Oh, that's fine! Let's go back and figure out how to deal with Sannoh after we become the top four!!"

So the Xiangbei group completely ignored the existence of Ma Gongxi's team members and left the venue directly after the opening ceremony.

The smallest and most inconspicuous Gong Cheng who was walking at the end turned back before leaving. After hesitating for a while, he kindly reminded:

"You'd better book your tickets for tomorrow in advance, otherwise if you meet us Xiangbei the day after tomorrow, you won't even be in the mood to go home and buy tickets!"

After saying that, Miyagi left quickly.

(Just pretend to be 13 and run away~ How exciting!)

"Damn it! Even the most insignificant little character in the Xiangbei team dares to mock us like this. He simply doesn't take me, Iwata Masao, seriously!"

"Listen up to me, everyone. When we meet Xiangbei the day after tomorrow, you must give them a good beating!"

"It's x10."

……

Fast forward to August 8rd, when Shohoku's first game was against the Mamiya Nishi basketball team, which had eliminated Dogo University in the first round.

Before the end of the first half, Ma Gongxi had already called two timeouts, but still couldn't stop the opposing team's offensive.

"Beep!"

The whistle at the end of the first half completely saved Ma Gongxi and his group of basketball players who were sleepwalking on the national competition stage.

The score was 62:27, poor Ma Gongxi was dominated by Xiangbei and had no chance to fight back.

As for their captain Masao Iwata, he was sitting on the bench and kept muttering to himself:

"I just want to make a layup, why don't you let me make a layup properly..."

On the Xiangbei side, Brother Glasses waved his towel 5 times and cheered 7 times in the first half. It seemed that getting a double-double in the whole game would be no problem at all.

So Brother Glasses, who was in a good mood, showed compassion again:

"Akagi, you and Hanamichi are defending the inside too... harshly!"

"I think Ma Gongxi's No. 4 is about to become autistic because of your blocking!"

Akagi and Hanamichi directly passed the buck:

"This was all Miyagi's idea!"

Upon hearing this, Gong Cheng also crossed his legs and said with disdain:

"Ma Gongxi's No. 4 looks tall and strong, and he speaks in a loud voice. Who knew that he could only score in the basket?"

"I was just thinking about teaching him a lesson, huh!"

It turned out that after the first few rounds, Miyagi, as the commander on the field, had figured out Mamiyanishi's offensive method.

That is to rely on the height of No. 4, 190cm, to continuously attack the basket and score, so he said:

"Oh, what a coincidence, we also have two guys over 2cm tall in the inner line, go ahead!"

Then, the captain of the team, Masao Iwata, who was tall and strong but mediocre in other aspects, ran into a big mess in the inside line of the Shohoku team!

Throughout the first half, he contributed 5 turnovers, was blocked 7 times, had 16 rebounds, and was stolen 6 times, which was an all-around statistic!

Akagi and Hanamichi were so happy about this data that they danced with joy and defended even harder.

If Ma Gongxi suffered in the first half, then he would suffer a bigger disaster in the second half which is about to begin!

At the end of the game, Xiangbei defeated the Magongxi basketball team with a representative score of 137:58, and started their first game in the national campaign.

After the game, the Xiangbei bench fell into a carnival.

Mitsui, who made 10 consecutive three-pointers and scored 30 points in the game, pinched his wrist and said that he was not satisfied at all.

He just yawned out of boredom and said:

"It's effortless. Mamiya Nishi's strength is not even comparable to Tsukubuki!"

Akagi said calmly:

"Not all the teams competing in the national competition are third-rate teams like this. We must not be careless next time!"

Miyagi said that there was still time to go and watch the match between Touou and Sannoh.

So everyone ran to the venue where Touou was, leaving only Ma Gongxi in a mess!

……

The Shohoku people approached the stadium where Touou and Sanno were, but there was complete silence...

"Strange, according to Toyotama's basketball style and the Osaka people's crazy love for basketball, it shouldn't be so silent!"

Yesterday, after watching the first game between Touoma High School and Kumamoto Third High School, Kogure Kiminori completely understood the truth about Kishimoto Mitsuki's "politeness".

To be honest, Touou’s playing style and atmosphere can be considered “rough”.

But it must be said that Touou's running and gunning is indeed very powerful.

But now... there are still 3 minutes left in the game, 42:113, what is going on!

An old man standing near the Shohoku crowd in the stands spoke with a thick Osaka accent, sweat dripping from his forehead, and trembling as he said:

"Too...too strong..., Sanwang..."

"I never thought that Touou High School, which is also A-ranked like us, would be forced into this state by Sannoh!"

Akagi said with a serious face. At this time, the joy of defeating Mamiya Nishi and breaking through the second round had long been thrown into Java.

"Sanno will face the top four team Aiwa Academy in tomorrow's game. They are a team that is as strong as Kainan."

"The team's super ace, Dai Moroboshi, is known as the Aichi Star. He is also a top-level scoring player in the country, not inferior to Uncle Maki."

"We will just finish the game by then, so we have to observe carefully!"

Everyone stared at Sannoh's main players seriously, as if they wanted to put themselves in Touou's perspective!

If I were to fight against Sanwang, how would I deal with them?

On the way back to the B&B, no one said a word...