[Black Basket] Warm Mist

After the players of both sides stood in their respective positions, with the referee's whistle, the basketball was thrown high.

Kagami and Midorima are the players Seirin and Hidetoku are in charge of the jump ball in this game.Vulcan's amazing jumping ability made it easy for him to hit the basketball half a palm higher than Midorima.It's a pity that Takao, who was guarding the rear, quickly dodged Seirin's defense in front, and successfully intercepted the basketball that Itsuki was supposed to catch, so the ball temporarily belonged to Hidetoku.

Jiang Qi, who was in charge of dealing with Takao, followed immediately, sticking tightly to Takao's side, unable to shake him off.

The corner of Gao Wei's mouth twitched: "No way...it's this guy who always likes to use suicide defense again?"

The biggest advantage of Jiangqi is his determination and courage in defense.

If a player defends the opponent's player with the belief of "defending even if he dies", then he will definitely add a lot of psychological pressure to the opponent.

——The lowering flag belongs to this kind of player.

Seizing the moment, Lower Flag uses a slide to force Takao to slow down his dribble, and then tries to snatch the ball back from Takao.But he acted a little too hastily, but Takao took the opportunity to dribble and break through.

Afterwards, Takao easily dodged the double-teaming of Hinata and Kawara, and adjusted his dribbling movements.He smiled and said to Jiang Qi who was left behind by him: "It's a promise!"

"It's not that simple!"

Fueling all his energy, Jiang Qi took advantage of the gap between Takao and the two of them and ran forward sideways, and stuck to Takao's side again.Unexpectedly, Gao Tai who activated Eagle Eye didn't care about the flag's defense at all. He turned around and made a move to prepare to pass the ball.

"what?!"

Jiang Qi was caught off guard by Takao's actions.

Seeing that Takao was about to pass the basketball to Midorima, and Midorima was ready to shoot at any time, Hasegawa Shiho squeezed the notebook tightly, and muttered silently: "No, it's not Midorima... Feint...cut...force attack...fast attack..."

Heizi reminded her in a low voice: "The competition has just begun, don't get too excited."

Hasegawa Shiho paused, turned around and sat back on the bench: "It's the first time watching a game as a coach, it's a little..." She poked her cheek with the tip of a pen embarrassingly, "I'll try my best to pay attention."

Heizi comforted her and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't pay attention to this kind of thing. However, if you start to get excited from now on, you will feel very tired after the whole game - there will be more tense moments waiting for you later. .”

Hasegawa Shiho let out a "huh" and stared intently at the movement on the field.

In the moment between speaking, Takao has already passed the basketball to another Hidetoku player.After the Hidetoku player got the basketball, he didn't head-on through Seirin's defense line and went straight to the basket like others imagined, but took the opportunity to throw the basketball in his hand to Midorima.

Kagami, who quickly returned to the defense, had already seen through Takao's intention to use the triangle pass method to create shooting opportunities for Midorima, so he rushed over quickly and made a steal.

After successfully intercepting the basketball, Vulcan immediately dribbled the ball and turned around, unstoppably rushed into the opponent's penalty area, and scored a dunk over the heads of the two Xiude players with a violent meteor dunk in front of them.Not to mention interceptions, blocks, and the like, the two Xiude players who were in charge of defending the basket didn't even have a chance to take off, and they were frightened to the ground by Vulcan's powerful dunk.

Seirin is the first to break the deadlock.

The audience applauded thunderously, and the audience cheered loudly.

The temporary cheerleaders formed by Seirin's first-year members also cheered: "Good shot! Go, go, go! Seirin!"

Due to Hinata's timely cover, Midorima Masa was upset that he couldn't keep up with Vulcan. Seeing this, he couldn't help but sneered: "It's really useless. At least it will cause that Vulcan guy a little trouble..."

Takao smiled and ran over from behind and patted him on the shoulder: "After all, you are a rookie, so don't be too demanding. Besides, Vulcan's dunk just now was indeed very powerful. It was obvious that he wanted to stimulate the emotions of the whole team. They couldn't defend it." It’s justifiable to live there.”

Midorima pushed his glasses, and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't make others' ambition destroy your prestige."

Takao grinned: "Hey, next, the real show will begin!"

Accompanied by Takao's announcement, Xiude was like a lion who suddenly woke up from a deep sleep, showing the unquestionable strength of the King of the East, and the continuous coordination of offense and defense made the unsuspecting sincerely shocked The child fell into a passive state of being beaten.

Hasegawa Shiho muttered to himself: "As expected of the king of battles..."

Before the score was further stretched by Shutoku, Seirin finally adapted to Shutoku's fast-paced offense, and Kagami, who had previously activated the ZONE, also freely released the ZONE state and returned to normal play.

After the first half, the score between Seirin and Xiude was fixed at 54 to 57, and Xiude temporarily led by three points.

Aida Reiko let go of the heart that has been hanging since the start of the game.She muttered softly: "Ah, it really turned into a veritable scoring battle..."

Shiho Hasegawa called just one timeout in the first half, and Reiko Aida agreed with her, not interrupting the high spirits of the players in a fast-paced game.After all, the current situation is not very urgent, and the players on the field also know what they should and should not do.Therefore, too many timeouts are purely draining the player's concentration.

While Aida Reiko was analyzing Hidetoku's offensive tactics to Hyuga, Itsuki and others, Hasegawa Shiho handed a bottle of water to Fuqi, and then said to him very quickly: "Senior Fuqi, please listen carefully: In the second half, I will Heizi-senpai will replace Kawara-senpai on the field, so what Fuqi-senpai needs to do is to continue to keep an eye on Takao. But unlike the marking in the first half, the second half must let Takao notice the existence of Kuroko-senpai from time to time, so as to lure him to defend Heizi-senpai. After Takao took the bait, Fuqi-senpai immediately covered for Heizi-senpai, so that Heizi-senpai could disappear from his eagle eyes. When Heizi-senpai was about to pass the ball, Fuqi-senpai had to stick to Takao to prevent him from breaking through Go and intercept the ball passed by Senior Heizi."

Jiang Qi nodded: "I see."

Koganei asked her, "Why didn't Kuroko just use the 'disappearing dribble'?"

Hasegawa Shiho said: "Once the 'disappearing dribble' is used too much, Hidetoku will find a flaw, and the 'disappearing dribble' will consume a lot of Kuroko-senpai's physical strength. We are now in the chasing stage, and we absolutely need it in the second half. Open the gap in one breath, otherwise the situation will be very unfavorable to us. I hope Takao can fall into the trap, but I am afraid that he will use his tricks... Anyway, try it first. If it doesn't work, I have other tactics that can be switched , without sticking to the same strategy.”

Grabbing the lowering flag of the water bottle, he thought for a while, and then said, "Can Heizi-jun use 'Reverse Misleading'?"

Hasegawa Shiho resolutely objected: "It must not!"

Not only did she reject the proposal to lower the flag, she even turned around and told Heizi who was doing warm-up exercises: "Senior Heizi must not use 'reverse misleading'!"

"Eh?" Jiang Qi felt very strange, "Why? From the final effect point of view, there is not much difference between the plan proposed by Hasegawa-sister just now and the 'reverse misleading' completed by Mr. Heizi alone!"

Hasegawa Shiho said seriously: "The difference is too big, but I don't have enough time now, so I can't explain it to you in detail, but one thing can be made clear in one sentence: the height of Hidetoku's players is much taller than our Seirin's." However, the 'reverse misleading' is the easiest way to be broken by tall strikers. In short, Senior Heizi must not use this trick, not even once!"

As if responding to her order, Heizi said firmly, "Don't worry, I understand."

After instructing Lower Flag and Kuroko, Hasegawa Shiho said to Vulcan again: "Vulcan senior, the tall No. 6 in Hidetoku's second year is a power forward, and his strength should not be underestimated. He has a strong sense of rebounding, and I don’t think his level of rebounding is lower than that of Tsuchida-senpai. So please be careful, Vulcan-senpai, and don’t let him affect your offensive rhythm.”

Vulcan said: "Ah, I've already seen it. That guy is very arrogant. Just now he said something like 'I will beat you next time'. Haha, I'm really looking forward to it!"

Before the start of the second half, Hasegawa Shiho encouraged the five players who were about to play: "It doesn't matter if we can't keep up with them in height, we can win in space! Come on everyone!"

Obviously, among Seirin's current players, only Kagami is over 1.9 meters, and the height of the others is all tragic.In addition to Xiude, who is nearly two meters tall, there are three players who are over 1.8 meters five.In terms of height alone, Seirin really doesn't have the upper hand.

Kuroko stared blankly at Shiho Hasegawa, who inadvertently hit everyone's shortcoming, and said in a flat tone: "Ah, bring up the topic of height... Has Hasegawa-senpai forgotten to raise her head and talk to Midorima-kun just now?" Did you feel it?"

Hasegawa Shiho: "...Senior Kuroko, you are so dark." Why do you have to poke my sore spots?

Heizi: "No, I am very confident in my skin color." Because you poked my sore spot first.

The dialogue between the two has not yet fully started, and the second half of the game officially started.Seirin's team members tidied up their protective gear and continued to fight Hidetoku.

Midorima is still showing his long-range shooting, and the threat of Vulcan to him has gradually declined.Less than half a minute after Heizi came on the court, Heizi responded with an extremely lethal pass. With the cooperation of his teammates, Vulcan dribbled the ball and rushed into Xiutoku's defensive circle. When he was about to take off and dunk, he was caught by Takao from behind. intercepted the ball.

Takao made one hit and quickly passed the ball to Midorima.

Midorima's three-pointer went into the basket beyond the half court without any suspense.

Just as Hasegawa Shiho expected, Takao did fall into the trap she set automatically.However, Takao was too shrewd, and quickly jumped out of the trap against him.

In the second half of the game, Seirin called a timeout twice, and Hidetoku's coach also called twice.Hasegawa Shiho and Aida Reiko respectively made three fine adjustments to their offensive and defensive tactics according to the specific situation on the field.

The tense battle is still going on.

Hasegawa Shiho had already started to repeat the movements of getting up, sitting down, getting up, and sitting down unconsciously.

Aida Reiko also bit her lip tightly, for fear that she would affect the performance of the players on the field.

In the last three seconds before the end of the game, Hinata got a precious opportunity to hit four points when he was two points behind Hidetoku.Not only did he successfully hit the ball to the basket and get a three-pointer when he was interfered by the opponent's player, but he also got the right to add a free throw due to the opponent's thug foul.

Hinata made a free throw and scored again.

At this time, Xiude was unable to organize an offense, and the sharpshooter Midorima did not shoot a three-pointer in the last three seconds.The final score of the two sides was 101 to 99, and Seirin won.

Hasegawa Shiho, who had been tense for a long time, suddenly fell to the bench, and was pulled up by Aida Reiko after a while.

Aida Reiko happily hugged Hasegawa Shiho and spun around in place, saying loudly as she spun: "We won again! We won again! We won again!"

Hasegawa Shiho has never experienced such an exhilarating absolute joy since he was a child.She stretched out her arms involuntarily and hugged Reiko Aida, and said with a choked voice: "I... I am so excited for the first time... Great, we won! We won!"