The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master.

Chapter 179 Xiangyang wins!

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What was even more disappointing than Lin Dong's goal was that Rukawa Kaede sat down on the ground.

It is not so easy to open the Zone state. For those who are not familiar with this state, opening the Zone means gaining super abilities and states, but it also means improving one's own physical strength, mental power, mental will, etc. huge consumption.

Only a genius like Lin Dong who has mastered the zone 2.0 stage can adapt to the zone as a normal state in daily practice.

Although it is only about 7%, it can fully adapt to his body and mental will, which allows him to maintain full output for at least 10 minutes in a quarter.

But for people like Rukawa Kaede, who have just entered the zone and are not even able to control it yet, they do not have a full understanding of the physical and mental adaptability, or the dangers of the zone.

The zone state that lasted for several minutes in the second quarter brought his physical and mental strength to the edge. Although there was halftime as a buffer, it was not enough to make up for the consumption.

Just now, his physical strength had reached the limit, and he was relying on his belief in defeating Lin Dong to support him. But when he saw Lin Dong's various demands and demands, and saw that the hope of victory was no longer possible, the exchange with Takano Shoichi The collision was the straw that broke the camel's back.

At this time, he was lying on the ground unable to move, and there was a sense of dizziness in his head. Although he was breathing heavily, his consciousness was quite blurred.

He could hear anxious voices calling him all around, and then someone carried him onto a stretcher and staggered to the sidelines.

There was a buzzing sound in his ears, and a cooling fan came on, and someone applied some cool things to his temples. After doing this for a while, he felt that his consciousness had slightly recovered.

When he opened his eyes, Coach Anzai, the team doctor, Ayako, Tsunoda and others were all looking at him with worried expressions.

"It's just a temporary loss of strength. It will be fine when you wake up." The team doctor's voice finally reassured everyone.

Rukawa Kaede leaned on the ground and tried to sit up, but was held down by coach Anzai: "Rest peacefully and leave the game to your teammates."

"What's the score? How much time is left?"

Caiko and the others frowned and did not answer, while Rukawa Kaede turned his head and looked towards the field, only to see that all the Xiangbei generals on the field seemed to have lost the glory they had on their faces before the game.

Akagi, Mitsui, Miyagi, and Mugure, who replaced him, were already breathing heavily, looking exhausted.

Only the red-haired Sakuragi Hanamichi still looked active.

In Shohoku's offense, Mumu made a jumper against Ito Taku's defense, and Sakuragi Hanamichi grabbed the rebound over Hanagata Toru's head and made a tip-in.

But, it seems to have no meaning anymore.

There was no celebration, no cheering, the stands were buzzing, and the Xiangbei players just barely managed to gather their energy and retreat to their own half.

At this time, he turned to look at the electronic scoreboard and saw Xiangbei's score jump, from 56 to 58.

96:58, the time has come to the last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter.

Rukawa Kaede took a deep breath, and the desperate thought that had just arisen in his heart was completely knocked back.

Lost so much?

At this time, the stadium was buzzing, the tit-for-tat shouts like before had disappeared, and the game had entered garbage time.

Of course, the fans in Xiangbei have no reason to cheer, and even the fans in Xiangyang seem to have had too much fun before. With the victory or defeat already decided, they don't have much passion to cheer now.

"Lost?" He just said subconsciously.

"We lost." Coach Anxi didn't show any disappointment on his face, but smiled and comforted: "We lost to this Xiangyang team. It was not a crime of war. You have tried your best and your performance exceeded my expectations." Besides, we gained a lot from this battle.”

"Don't worry, I said this is our last chance to challenge Lin Dong, but this only refers to Japan... U19 World Championships. I will recommend you and Sakuragi to represent Japan. By then, you will still I have the qualifications to challenge classmate Lin Dong.”

"U19 World Championships?" Rukawa Feng subconsciously thought of Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue, and Wang Shipeng whom he had seen at the Lloyd training base. He couldn't help but laugh: "I'm afraid it will be more difficult than now."

Coach Anzai looked at him in surprise. He obviously didn't expect Rukawa Kaede to clearly realize this at this time, and he didn't expect that with his character, he would actually laugh at this time.

"Just lose." Rukawa Kaede closed his eyes and lay down on the floor mat. This would be more comfortable and help him recover faster.

A trace of curvature curled up at the corner of his mouth, and Rukawa Kaede said to himself: "At least I really surpassed myself."

Coach Anxi was startled for a moment, then burst into laughter.

Frankly speaking, although he lost this game, he personally didn't feel any regrets.

Both Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede have broken through themselves. He has gotten everything he wanted. The only thing he was worried about just now was that he was afraid that after he wakes up, Rukawa Kaede would not be able to accept such a tragic loss.

But now Rukawa Kaede is no longer the child who was beaten to tears by Lin Dong in the summer league.

"Yes. Although sports competitions are determined by victory or defeat, for a real athlete, the pursuit of continuous breakthroughs in one's own limits is an eternal topic."

"Continue to break through yourself. You are far from your own limits." Coach Anzai smiled and patted Rukawa Kaede on the shoulder: "I will help you and Sakuragi get tickets for the Nike Basketball Summit. You will soon I will meet him again in the international arena."

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Lin Dong is still galloping on the field.

Since coming to Japan, I have never played a game so freely.

The breakthroughs of Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede made him feel this kind of joy, so even if the outcome of the game was decided, whether it was due to the continuation of his emotions or respect for this Shohoku team, he was the only one who played the entire game. choose.

Of course, he didn't exert much force in the last few minutes. In fact, after Rukawa Kaede went down, Lin Dong was no longer in the zone. In his normal state, he had 70% of the zone's strength, which was enough to deal with the extremely tired Shohoku.

In fact, Xiangbei has no power to resist.

No matter on the offensive or defensive end, without Rukawa Kaede as a containment and starting point, Mitsui Hisata was at the limit of physical collapse.

No one left in Shohoku can take the lead in the attack. Although Sakuragi has been working hard to support with faith, in front of himself with full firepower, Sakuragi's persistence is undoubtedly meaningless, which is the same as summer vacation. He was just like the boy who was beaten 10-0 by him at that time. Although he could keep up, he had no means of restriction.

Hisashi Mitsui was on the verge of physical collapse. In fact, he couldn't even run two or three minutes ago. Coach Anzai seemed to want to replace him, but Hisashi Mitsui refused.

When he was at the Lloyd training base, Lin Dong actually had a better understanding of Mitsui Hisashi's thoughts.

When he first went to the training base, he wanted to choose a good university through winter selection, want to play college basketball, and even want to enter the Japanese professional league.

But after a brief training at the training base and returning to Kanagawa, this guy's idea changed to 'wanting to go all out in the winter selection.'

Probably because he saw the gap between himself and his profession, and also saw the hidden dangers in his own body.

Those with a genetic history of asthma are indeed not suitable for strenuous exercise.

After winning the Mountain King, he actually had no regrets. In this game, he tried his best to stand until the last moment, probably because he wanted to say goodbye to his high school basketball career. Under the successive attacks on the inside by Lin Dong, Hanagata Toru and others, Takenori Akagi was no longer brave, and his physical strength was on the verge of collapse like Hisashi Mitsui.

However, unlike the guy who was strong on the outside and weak on the inside in the summer league, although the strength of Takenori Akagi in front of him has been limited, his mentality has always been maintained very well.

From the beginning of the game, he positioned himself as the team's inside assistant. Except for those scenes where he was restricted by himself, he and Toru Hanagata were basically in a state of mutual explosion, but in terms of rebounds, pick-and-rolls, and other team contributions, Akagi will win by one point.

Lin Dong knew that he had communicated with Fukasawa. Now that Masashi Kawada has gone to the United States, and super insiders such as Sakuragi and Shigehiro Mori are still in their first year of high school, Takenori Akagi's performance today should be enough for him. Win a ticket to Fukasawa University.

Miyagi Fertile Land... This is probably the one that Lin Dong has the least impression of among the Five Tigers of Northern Hunan.

To be honest, his talent is limited. When playing against a weak team, his speed may be a beautiful sight in Shobei, but when facing a team like Xiangyang, the role Miyagi Ryota can play is extremely limited.

On the offensive end, they can't get into the paint, and there's no basket on the outside. On the defensive end, they are the biggest leak in Shohoku.

If Fujima didn't need to be distracted by doing many other things, if he really had to confront Miyagi, with Fujima's current strength, one person would be enough to hold him to death.

In an absolutely desperate situation like Xiangbei, his sense of existence is almost zero. Although he still feels that he can run, his effect is limited and he can only run blindly.

As for Sakuragi Hanamichi, he is probably the only person in Shohoku who still has fighting spirit at this time.

The Linphobia he had at the Lloyd training base seemed to have completely disappeared, thanks to his heroic explosion in the first half, driven by Kaede Rukawa.

This guy is the type who never looks back. No matter how high some obstacles are, as long as he gets over them once, he will never go back again.

His performance throughout the second half may seem to fans to be in a state of being continuously beaten by himself, but in the eyes of experts, in Lin Dong's eyes, this guy is still growing at a rapid rate.

He also opened zone, but unlike Rukawa Kaede's primary level, this guy opened it a bit strangely.

His improvement in opening the zone is in aspects such as golf intelligence, sixth sense, physical strength, speed, and reactions, rather than full-scale basketball prowess.

Lin Dong thinks this is probably related to his usual playing habits, training methods, etc. This guy is really not good at attacking. Even if he is a fixed-point mid-range player with the highest hit rate, as long as someone interferes, his hit rate will be far away. .

But his defensive intuition continued to improve, so much so that later on, he predicted Lin Dong's route several times, which also caused a lot of trouble for Lin Dong's offense.

This kind of feeling was not brought to Lin Dong by Rukawa Kaede, who was the most explosive one-on-one.

Swish!

The basketball was passed to Lin Dong's hands. Although everyone on the court was motionless at this time, Sakuragi Hanamichi instinctively stepped forward immediately.

But he saw Lin Dong holding the ball and looking at him with a smile: "It's over Sakuragi."

"One more!" Sakuragi Hanamichi's face didn't look as naive as he had in the summer league when he had no idea about game time.

Sakuragi's voice was very low, and instead of the previous babble, it was filled with absolute concentration.

"I know the time," he said coldly, "There are still more than ten seconds."

"We usually don't fight at times like this."

"Stick to the end." Sakuragi Hanamichi stared into Lin Dong's eyes: "You said so!"

Lin Dong was slightly startled.

hum hum...

"Look over there!"

"No. 10 hasn't given up yet..."

"He's talking!"

"It seems like there's another one coming?"

"ikebana……"

The buzzing sound on the court continued to echo, and many fans in Xiangbei had actually stood up and prepared to leave the field, but at this moment, everyone involuntarily stopped and looked this way. come over.

"call."

Lin Dong exhaled and smiled. He grabbed the ball with his right hand and stretched it to the right side of his body, then leaned down slightly.

Sakuragi Hanamichi also lowered his center of gravity and made eye contact with Lin Dong.

The two eyes met, and fierce sparks seemed to collide in the air in an instant.

"Be careful..."

Lin Dong said, and then his body swayed slightly, and his right hand controlling the ball swayed with his shoulder.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's center of gravity was slightly pulled to the right, but then he saw Lin Dong's right arm swinging like a big pendulum clock to control the ball.

The basketball changed hands to the left, and Lin Dong suddenly took a step forward.

Brother Gao Ren's breakthrough from the left, not to mention this game, he had seen it countless times as early as in the Lloyd training base, but most of them could only be seen when Brother Gao Ren and Stephen were dueling.

Sakuragi's attention was highly concentrated at this time, his body's center of gravity suddenly pulled to the left, his feet moved quickly, and his outstretched right arm crossed in front of Lin Dong.

But then he felt that Lin Dong's whole body was leaning against him.

too fast!

When Takato controls the ball with his left hand, Sakuragi Hanamichi feels as if he is running with nothing.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes were full of fire, and he barely blocked Lin Dong's momentum and moved back close to him. His ultra-fast reaction and extreme speed allowed him to not lose his position in defense at this step.

When starting, the two were one step away. When Lin Dong took the first step, they were only half a step away from each other, and the defense was not out of position.

But by the second step, he had already bumped into Sakuragi Hanamichi's defensive position. From then on, one rushed and the other retreated. Although the steps were very fast, when one of the attackers and defenders was rushing, the other was forced to retreat. , the fall is a foregone conclusion.

After four steps, Sakuragi only followed four steps, and on the fifth step, he had completely fled from his side.

Lin Dong jumped high towards the basket and dunked with two hands before the red light on the basket came on.

The numbers on the electronic scoreboard jumped slightly.

105: 60.

Xiangyang wins, the overall winner of the winter selection!

(End of this chapter)