Chapter 3

Hit!

When Akagi received the ball, he quickly assumed his position and used his body to push Rukawa away.

Akagi dominated the position, he just turned and jumped.

Bang!

A deafening sound came out.

I saw that Akagi hit the ball into the basket.

"Captain, great!"

"Good job!"

Akagi scored a dunk, Kogure's confidence soared and he hastily praised Akagi.

Akagi's dunk shook a lot of first-year players' morale.

"The veterans will play seriously, we are not good at playing."

"The captain is so powerful that we can't stop him."

"Rukawa and Ryuma, it's up to you."

...

The three rookies said grumpily.

Seeing the performance of the three, Ryuma comforted them, "Cheer up everyone, the game has just started and it's still hard to know the outcome."

"Besides, we're the ones who scored first. If you want to panic, we should play like them."

Under Ryuma's appeasement, his group became calmer and their morale recovered a bit.

After reassuring them, Ryuma looked at Rukawa and said, "Rukawa, I will try to pass the ball to you and better is ready to attack."

Hearing Ryuma's explanation, Rukawa looked at him surprised and said, "All right!"

"Come on!"

After everything was explained, Ryuma served and attacked.

With the ball under control, he quickly reached the opponent's area.

"Play steadily and win this point!"

Ryuma brought the ball to the attacking court. He did not run to attack, but first stabilized everyone's emotions.

Ryuma's voice was thick and full of energy, and introduced into the ears of his team, which immediately calmed them down.

Looking at Ryuma's performance, Ayako's eyes lit up, and a sweet smile appeared on her face, and she said, "I can tell Ryuma is quite a leader, the first year is really dominated by him and not Rukawa."

"Ryuma is really much stronger than Rukawa in terms of leadership."

Coach Anzai agreed with his head, thought for a moment, and said, "Ryuma has a somewhat similar temperament to classmate Kenji Fujima from Shoyo High School."

Ayako's eyes twitched and her face was full of surprise. She really hadn't expected Coach Anzai to do such about Ryuma.

...

Ryuma knew nothing about Coach Anzai's evaluation, and now a systematic voice sounded in his mind.

Ding: Trigger a random task. Before the end of the team practice game, complete five assists and get "5" free attribute points. The current progress of the task is 1/5 (times).

"The number of assists is really counted and the difficulty of this task and pretty low."

Seeing the progress statistics of the task, he was a bit surprised.

This way, he only needs to make but four assists to complete the task.

As Ryuma began to think about how to make the assists to complete the task.

Then Ryuma's dribbling pace was obviously accelerated.

Seeing Ryuma's dribbling pace quickening, Kogure's expression became tense, knowing that he would break through with the ball.

"Kogure, here I come!"

When Ryuma's words ended, he took a quick step to the right, and the speed was extremely fast.

Seeing that Ryuma was about to break through using his speed, Kogure immediately stepped back and moved to the right to prevent Ryuma from interrupting.

Then, as Kogure moved to the right, Ryuma turned to the left.

"It's not the right, it's the left!"

Seeing this, Kogure's expression became frightened and he quickly moved to the left.

But at this moment, Ryuma crossover and moved back to the right side.

Seeing Ryuma moving back to the left again, Kogure was shocked and wanted to move back to the left to block.

But at this moment, he found that his legs could not move and seemed to fall into a state of inertia.

Then Kogure's legs softened and the whole person sat on the ground.

Ryuma turned into an afterimage and quickly broke off on his right side.

"Incredible!"

Seeing Ryuma breaking through Kogure and coming towards him, Shiozaki was shocked.

So, Shiozaki gave up on tagging Ishii and is went to defend Ryuma.

Compared to Ishii, Ryuma's threat is much greater.

Seeing that Shiozaki was defending him, Ryuma's speed didn't slow down and he ran straight to the basket.

Ryuma didn't even look and passed the ball straight to Ishii.

He raised his hand and it was a three-point basket.

"Shua!" so in.

Fortunately Ishii hit the shot.

After celebrating the basket with Ishii we voted for defense.

This time who is bringing the ball is Yasuda and who is marking him is Sasaoka.

Yasuda uses his speed to pass Sasaoka on the right before I can move to defend.

I see Rukawa going to defend him, but before he arrives Yasuda passes the ball to Akagi who is free.

Bang!

But once again the sound of a dunk echoes through the gym.

"Good job, captain!"

After dunk, Akagi turns and looks at Rukawa and keep going back to the defense.

Then the ball was still passed to Ryuma, this time Kogure was totally focused on defense, but Ryuma broke through Kogure's defense with a spin and passed to the left, even though he couldn't get rid of Kogure he managed to open enough space to pass the ball to Rukawa, who didn't know when he ran across the three-point line in a second.

He just raised his hand and shot.

"Shua!" then jumped in.

The three other rookies were excited and in awe of Ryuma and Rukawa's move.

Compared to the excitement of the three, Rukawa was much calmer and waved to Ryuma.

This time, when Ryuma returns to defense, he was trying to think of a way to defend Akagi, but no matter how much he thinks.

He still didn't have with to Akagi the difference in weight and height was too great and Akagi's game experience made a lot of difference during the game.

When Kogure gets in front of me, he faked a throw and ends up managing to fool me.

Fortunately I am faster than him, but when I got in front of him again he simply passed the ball to Akagi.

When I turn around I see Akagi using his strength to push Rukawa, I run to help defend him, but even with two people defending him he still scores a dunk.

After scoring Akagi speaks.

"Newbies you are still too skinny to try to stop me."

He speaks this as he was returning to defense.

I simply shake my head. He is right, both Rukawa and I have no way to stop him.

The easiest way to defend against Akagi is to keep him away from the basket since he's a terrible shot.

But to do this you must at least have a strength and weight similar to Akagi's.

After receiving the ball, Ryuma began to slowly make his way to the front court.

When Ryuma arrived, Kogure came to defend him at that moment, Ryuma simply used his speed and went past him and into the area.

"Ryuma, this time you won't score."

Seeing Ryuma pass Kogure easily, Akagi's expression became solemn and he quickly took the position to defend him.

Rukawa, who was originally with him, was also blocked by him at the moment, unable to receive Ryuma's pass.

"There's no way to pass the ball to Rukawa, so I can only score by myself."

Seeing that Rukawa was blocked, Ryuma quickly decided and planned to try to make a layup by switching hands in the air.

When Ryuma reached the basket, he simply jumped up and forced a layup.

"Without Rukawa's help, you really can only handle this by yourself."

Seeing Ryuma's forced move, Akagi smiled with pride, feeling that Ryuma was at a disadvantage or trying a layup in front of him.

Akagi felt that Ryuma forcing a layup in front of him was equivalent to sending a block.

Immediately, Akagi jumped up, raised his hand and patted Ryuma's right hand, "You are too naive to attempt a layup in front of me."

Just when Akagi thought the block on Ryuma was completed, Ryuma's right hand suddenly deflected and he shifted the ball to the left.

Then Ryuma hooked the fingers of his left hand and sent the ball into the basket.

Seeing Ryuma's performance, everyone in the stadium was surprised.

"Takamiya, that Ryuma is so amazing that he scored a goal in front of the gorilla."

"It's really powerful. Even Rukawa's spotlight was completely covered by him."

"The gap between Sakuragi and him seems to be getting bigger and bigger."

...

Takamiya didn't understand basketball, so he didn't know the technical content of Ryuma's ball.

Therefore, they found Ryuma's basket normal, so they were the quiet ones.

"Wow! Classmate Ryuma is so amazing that he actually scored such a difficult tray again in front of the captain."

"It's still another really hard tray. He should know that skill by now."

"He must be lying to us. Like Rukawa, he must have been a master in high school."

"Ryuma, how dare you deceive us, and worry us in vain."

...

The first graders are happy, but the seniors are depressed.

Ryuma was a beginner, even if he passed for a person easily, he was still in Akagi's hands and forced a tray to score by changing hands.

"Ryuma, you are going too far. You're obviously a basketball player, so why pretend to be a starter?"

"That's right, it's really abominable to pretend to be a starter to fool everyone."

"You should apologize."

...

The three veterans were outraged.

To the dissatisfaction of the three, Ryuma innocently said, "I'm really a beginner. It's not a big deal. There's no need to lie to you guys."

Looking at Ryuma's attitude, Kogure believed a little and asked with a little doubt, "If you're a beginner, why these difficult skills like switching hands and the 360 degree basket, how can you do that?"

Hearing Kogure's question, Ryuma looked stunned and said, "It's actually quite simple. After jumping, stay in the air for a short period of time and switch the hand ball at 360 and about the same, only instead of switching the hand ball you rotate by 360 degrees."

Jumping to make a short stay in the air, that's pretty simple?

Ryuma's response made Kogure feel like vomiting blood. Are you serious?

Even in the NBA, the people who can jump and stay in the air and make those plays won't be many.

So Kogure closed his mouth and didn't want Ryuma to speak again.

"It turned out to be, but an acrobatic tray. You play very well now. Keep it up."

Akagi showed an approving smile and encouraged Ryuma with words.

Akagi's reaction surprised Kogure and the others for a while, and they looked at him suspiciously.

Kogure and several people originally thought that Akagi should feel unhappy when he lost points at Ryuma's hands.

As a result, he praised Ryuma, which was really confusing.

From the eyes of Kogure and the others, Akagi guessed what they were thinking and said with a stern expression, "Ryuma is a Shohoku player. The better his basketball skills, the more help he will be to us, how can I be angry about that."

"If you guys are not satisfied, let's see how I teach you."

Under Akagi's warning, Kogure and the others were silent, all showing fear.

After scolding Kogure and the others, Akagi nodded to everyone and said, "Continue the game."

Seeing Akagi say this, Ryuma turned to defend and quickly returned to his basket.

"Keep defending, let's use this opportunity and try to open up a good lead against the veterans in one go."

Looking at Akagi and others who were attacking quickly, Ryuma's morale was high, inspiring the others around him.

Hearing Ryuma's words, the three rookies responded, showing great fighting spirit.

...

Off the field.

"I really didn't expect that, Ryuma and quite brave to say such a thing."

Looking at Ryuma's confident face, Ayako showed a playful smile, looked at Akagi and said, "I don't know how Akagi will feel when he hears Ryuma's words, he should immediately want to respond with the ball back."

Seeing that Ayako kept praising Ryuma, Sakuragi felt very uncomfortable and shouted to Ryuma on the field, "Ryuma, you are already in the spotlight, hurry up and replace me on the field."

Hearing Sakuragi's words, Coach Anzai said sincerely, "Sakuragi, Ryuma's performance now is outstanding in many ways, you need to learn more from him."

"When the training match with Ryonan comes, Ryuma's skill level can be on the same level as Akagi and Rukawa."

Coach Anzai's words came out, they shocked Ayako and Sakuragi.

They did not expect that Coach Anzai's assessment of Ryuma would reach such a level.

At this moment, Ayako who was very optimistic about Ryuma said with disbelief, "Coach Anzai, there is only half a month until the training match with Ryonan. In such a short time, can Ryuma really reach this level?"

"In my opinion, this time will be too short."

Coach Anzai's praise for Ryuma was not at all mean. After a pause, he added, "I've taught basketball for so many years and I've never met anyone whose talent and potential surpassed Ryuma's."

Hearing what Coach Anzai said, Ayako and Sakuragi's opinions of Ryuma changed dramatically in an instant.

If they hadn't heard with their own ears, they couldn't believe that Coach Anzai was so optimistic about Ryuma.

Bang!

At this moment, a clear sound of hitting came from the court.

Ryuma leaned over slightly, stretched his right hand forward, and quickly took the ball from Kogure.

"Quick attack!"

Taking the ball from Kogure, Ryuma turned into an afterimage and dribbled the ball quickly across the court.

Seeing Ryuma's performance, Ayako's eyes fluttered and she said in shock, "So fast!"

"Get back on defense!"

Seeing that Kogure's ball was stolen, Akagi screamed and ran toward her own basket.

When Akagi returned to the basket, Rukawa and Ryuma came simultaneously, and ran into the area from both directions.

Seeing Ryuma and Rukawa teaming up, Akagi became totally focused on defense and his expression became very serious.

The strength displayed by these two first-years is still incredible.

Can he defend them alone?

Ryuma dribbled the ball to the basket, not hesitating at all, dribbling the ball directly to the basket.

Seeing Ryuma's dribbling, Akagi could no longer keep his cool and didn't care for Rukawa.

It is true that Ryuma is a rookie, but he is no ordinary rookie. He has the ability to score in incredible ways.

Just now, he showed his extraordinary layup skills by forcing layups under Akagi's defense.

Now, if he doesn't stop Ryuma, he will surely score another basket.

As for Ryuma passing the ball, it's just a gamble.

Seeing Akagi coming to defend himself, Ryuma passed the ball to Rukawa without hesitation.

When Rukawa received the ball, he just straightened his body and dunk the ball directly into the basket.

Bang!

A deafening sound came out.

As a result, the ratio between the first-year and the veterans changed from 8:12 to 8:14 in favor of the first-year team.

Seeing such a result, everyone was a little surprised that the rookies actually suppressed the veteran team. But everyone present knew very well that the person who had caused such a situation was Ryuma who had come to be admired by everyone. While everyone was thinking about what had happened.

A voice sounded in Ryuma's mind.

Ding: After completing the task, the team trained for five minutes and acquired the 'throwing' skill.

Then, the information of the 'throw' skill appeared in Ryuma's mind. Jump Shot: increase the shot's postage by 10%, each shot hit increases the postage by 5%.

This is a great skill, it doesn't really improve my throwing, but if in a game I'm hot this skill can be very strong depending on how many shots I hit.

...

"Rukawa is great, he scored another slam dunk.

"Ryuma is even better. If Rukawa can score so easily and because of Ryuma's ball stealing."

"Under Ryuma's leadership, the rookies can win this intra-team practice."

...

Seeing that Ryuma and Rukawa teamed up and scored another goal, the other rookies were very excited.

Looking at their appearance, those unfamiliar with the situation thought they made the basket.

"Back on defense!"

Seeing Rukawa make the basket, Ryuma reminded everyone and went back to defend his own basket.

With a reminder from Ryuma, the four quickly followed him and quickly returned to defense.

Seeing the performance of Ryuma and the others, Kogure's face was full of surprise and said, "It's really surprising that the first series under Ryuma can display such tacit understanding."

"It seems that it is not easy for us to beat this intra-team practice."

Akagi agreed with his head and said, "It is mainly Ryuma's performance, which is beyond my expectations. "

"Because of his performance, Rukawa has a lot of room to play."

"Next, Rukawa will continue to be marked by me, you four will be marking Ryuma with all your might, and the others can let them go."

After hearing Akagi's arrangement, Kogure's eyes lit up and he understood what he was thinking. Akagi participated in the county competition for the first time, and the opponent used this method to block his playing space and defeat the Shohoku basketball team.

Akagi is now using this method, obviously wanting to suppress Ryuma's game and disintegrate the cooperation of the novice team.

"Come on."

After discussing countermeasures, Akagi led Kogure and the others to attack the first set.

The person who dribbled the ball this time was still Kogure, who was being defended by Ryuma.

Kogure is a very steady player and likes to play steady when attacking. If it were a normal situation, Kogure's actions were not wrong, but when he encountered Ryuma, he could only consider himself unlucky.

Ryuma who has the "iron wall" buff that is geared towards defending players like him. Kogure dribbles the ball in front of Ryuma after trying to get rid of Ryuma's defense unsuccessfully with dribbling and fake moves he tries to pass the ball back to Akagi.

But before he could pass the ball, he saw Ryuma running towards him.

Seeing Ryuma's actions, Akagi's expression became frightened and he quickly shouted to Kogure, "Kogure, be careful."

It hit!

Before Akagi could finish speaking, Ryuma interrupted Kogure's pass.

Seeing Ryuma stealing the ball, Akagi's expression became frightened and he hurriedly shouted to Kogure and the others, "Get back on defense!"

At the same time, Akagi also ran out and quickly reached basket to defend.

At that moment, Akagi felt extremely depressed. Before his tactics were implemented, Ryuma stole the ball, which was really a shame.

With the previous experience, Akagi and others went back to defense very quickly this time.

Ryuma who decided to go with an attack, but slow, instead of starting a fast counterattack to prevent his teammate from getting too tired too quickly.

Akagi's team scored the paint, completely cutting off Ryuma's chance to make a basket, so he had to stop the attack.

Looking at the veterans he was defending the basket, Ryuma frowned slightly, thinking about how to attack next.

"The attributes of the shot have been strengthened."

After remembering the information from 'Jump Shot', Ryuma decided to try his luck.

With that idea, Ryuma accelerated, and when Kogure backed off to try to stop him from passing, Ryuma took a side step to open up space.

When Ryuma managed to run out of a defender in front of him, he made a mid range shot.

Seeing Ryuma's performance, everyone around was surprised and felt a little unbelievable.

Ryuma is going to try a shot?

"Is he going to make the basket?"

Seeing Ryuma's performance, Ayako's eyes fluttered and her eyes were filled with surprise. In her memory, Ryuma didn't seem to have practiced shooting.

When Ayako thought about it, she pouted and muttered to herself with a bit of dissatisfaction, "It's pretty stupid, with Akagi under the basket, if the ball doesn't go in, it means giving the opponent a chance."

Compared to Ayako's anxiety, Coach Anzai looked shocked and said in surprise, "So familiar with momentum and fighting spirit, the current Ryuma is very similar to Mitsui in high school."

Hearing Coach Anzai's words, Ayako seemed to be recalling the information about Mitsui. At that moment.

Ryuma jumped up with the ball and threw the ball with a standard throwing stance. At that moment, time seemed to stop and everyone looked at the ball in the air.

Can this basket be scored? Outside the Shohoku basketball stadium.

"Although the Shohoku basketball team is not famous, its captain Akagi is very powerful. I will investigate carefully."

"Also, Rukawa and the guard Miyagi, should also be carefully recorded."

A thin boy, holding a notebook, approached this side talking to himself.