This is a helpless choice.
He once tried his best to encourage the team members, attempting to help them regain confidence.
However.
Those players only said to him, "Coach, that monster is not something we can defeat."
That lifeless gray feeling made Seikai Affiliated's head coach give up.
He can only use newborn calves that are not afraid of tigers to charge.
The referee started the game.
Homi Academy won the first possession.
Then.
People surprisingly discovered that as last year's strongest small forward in the country...
Yuuto actually appeared in the point guard position this year.
"Yuuto playing position 1?"
"This... his height is almost 1.9 meters, right? Is it too tall?"
"What is the consideration for this?"
Fans discussed spiritedly.
But soon they saw the reason why Yuuto took the position of the team's number one.
Seeing this, Seikai Affiliated's people still followed the pre-match deployment, with the team's small forward marking Yuuto.
And their point guard appeared in front of Haizaki.
"This..." Seikai Affiliated's head coach was dumbfounded.
No matter how they switch defense, this is a mismatch.
Their starting point guard is only 1.75 meters tall.
While speaking, Yuuto had already broken through with the ball.
The opponent only felt a strong wind blowing past his ear; Yuuto had already pierced past his side like a sharp knife.
His body and speed were crushed. These people favored by Seikai Affiliated's coach were not much better than the original players.
Of course.
Seikai Affiliated has more than just this preparation.
Without pressing this monster to death, how to talk about defeating Homi Academy?
When Yuuto broke into the free-throw line, Seikai Affiliated players surrounded him from all directions.
"Jordan Rules?"
Someone recognized this tactic that doesn't look like a tactic.
That was the tactic the Pistons once used against the Bulls, or rather a helplessness.
Against Jordan who scored as easily as drinking water, the Pistons adopted the most extreme defense, almost using the whole team's strength to mark Jordan.
Because they couldn't find other ways to stop Jordan, they would rather give up defense on other players to pin Jordan down.
Therefore, this cannot be considered a tactic, but a helplessness.
This tactic blocked the young Jordan and the immature Bulls outside the finals several times.
And Yuuto.
His current situation is very similar to Jordan back then.
He also lacks helpers around him.
The most powerful Ota has entered high school; Homi Academy now only has Sakurai Ryō left.
Obviously.
Their intelligence gathering work was not done well enough.
Homi Academy played two practice matches before the Prefectural Tournament.
Yuuto scored 35 points and 43 points respectively in the two games, and the team scored 123 points and 118 points respectively.
Subtracting Yuuto's points, who got the remaining points?
The answer is Haizaki.
He scored 33 points and 34 points respectively in the two games.
However.
Yuuto had no intention of passing. This is an excellent opportunity to destroy the opponent's morale.
Although it is a simultaneous encirclement of five people, their defense cannot be seamless in time and space.
Bilibili
Accompanied by the sound of electric arcs, dazzling golden light blossomed from Yuuto.
Like a human-shaped sun, dribbling with five fingers, he rushed out radiating golden light before the opponent's encirclement net formed.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~
In the blink of an eye, Yuuto swayed his body three times consecutively. The opponent players' figures seemed to freeze.
Speed so fast, like a bolt of lightning passing by. Thinking so clear, like an antelope hanging its horns (traceable?), he captured the holes in the opponent's defense elegantly.
In an instant, the opponent's five-man siege was actually torn open a bloody path by him.
"Bang!"
Yuuto jumped high and took the opening points with a violent tomahawk dunk.
"Boom!"
After a lapse of one year, this dilapidated arena boiled again because of him.
Not seen for a year, the Lion of Okukozome's style remains.
Seikai Affiliated's head coach looked at Homi Academy's No. 10 landing on both feet, his heart trembling violently.
This was a five-man death siege!
Result?
Torn to pieces by the opponent using unreasonable individual ability.
Seikai Affiliated suffered a major blow at the start.
He suddenly understood why those third-year members lacked fighting spirit so much.
But looking over, seeing their expressions of "as expected," he hated iron for not becoming steel even more in his heart.
2:0!
Just a 2-point ball, but Yuuto's goal completed in less than ten seconds at the start shattered the pressure Seikai Affiliated had built up with great difficulty.
"Ah-Yu became stronger."
Tokyo's Satsuki was watching this game.
Yuuto let Satsuki see his progress with a violent dunk.
A summer passed, Yuuto successfully gained 5.5 kg, reaching 80 kg overall.
...
Not that he can't be heavier, but this weight is currently the most suitable for him.
Under the premise of not affecting shooting touch, speed, and explosive power, this is currently the most suitable weight.
This is all thanks to the joint efforts of the Aida Kagetora father and daughter.
Yuuto also discovered.
He seemed to have underestimated Aida Riko's ability. Many of her suggestions were quite effective.
Seirin could achieve such huge growth in the time from National Tournament to Winter Cup.
Aida Riko played a key role in it.
...
The game continued.
Seikai Affiliated suffered a critical hit at the start, and morale was greatly affected.
But not enough to make them give up completely.
They also wanted to return one on the offensive end.
But the ball refracted suddenly during the conduction process.
Clearly a pass to a teammate, but it unexpectedly went to Yuuto's hand.
"What happened?!"
Seikai Affiliated's head coach was dumbfounded on the spot.
Yuuto didn't give them a chance to react, throwing the ball violently to the front court.
Over there.
Haizaki had already turned and sprinted in advance, receiving the pass and scoring easily with a dunk.
4:0!
The score wasn't despairing, but the scene just now was terrifying.
They tried again.
Result.
The basketball refracted and changed direction again, deviating from the intended target.
Homi Academy succeeded in counterattack again.
Using a wave of 6:0 climax, the opponent was beaten dizzy.
Seikai Affiliated stared dead at the court.
Then he saw, in the "shadow," a player with blue short hair moving silently on the court.
"Does Homi Academy have such a person in the starting lineup?"
He suddenly discovered that he hadn't noticed such a person in the opponent's formation at all.
Like a ghost.
This new "Wo Luen Shing" (Harmony/Team - likely meant Homi Academy's new lineup vibe) is completely different from what he thought before the game.
Still Seikai Affiliated's possession.
Although figuring out what happened, this didn't stop them from playing more cautiously.
They tried to hit the ball to the inside, scoring near the basket.
They succeeded.
Using several passes, safely sent the ball into the paint, and even faked Homi Academy's first-year center into the air with excellent low-post skills.
But when he gathered the ball to jump, Yuuto had already flown up, slapping the ball away with one palm in the air.
...
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