Slam Dunk: Muguro

Chapter 114 Nan Lie: About me taking the Miko Chai script...

Nan Lie raised his head in a daze, staring at the electronic scoreboard with dull eyes.

Looking at the numbers above, Nan Lie's heart was filled with struggle, frustration and pain.

Murasaki's performance on both offense and defense was like a storm, just like Rukawa facing Zebei, which made Nan Lie begin to doubt his life and almost completely destroyed his confidence and fighting spirit.

The difference is that Nan Lie does not have Rukawa Kaede's indomitable will.

Rather than saying that Nan Lie took Rukawa Kaede's script, it would be more accurate to say that he performed Mikoshiba's script!

On the Touou bench, Coach Kitano slowly stood up. He naturally noticed that Nan Lie was not in good condition.

Because of Nan Lie, the team's morale was also affected.

The next moment, Coach Kitano's eyes fell on Murasakibara, as if he was thinking about something.

He had carefully studied the videotape of Murasakibara's games in the county tournament, even watching it repeatedly.

He was very clear about the importance of Murasakibara to the Shohoku team. Murasakibara's performance was crucial if he wanted to curb the Shohoku team's offense.

To this end, he formulated many strategies against Murasakibara, and Nan Lie was one of them.

However, after the game started, Coach Kitano found that he had seriously underestimated Murasakibara's strength.

Not only was Murasakibara not restricted, but he used his outstanding skills and tactical execution to lead the team forward in the game.

Whether attacking or defending, Murasakibara seemed to be at ease, proving to Coach Kitano that all his preparations were in vain.

The most important thing is that in the duel, he completely defeated Nan Lie.

In this match, Nan Lie failed in three consecutive singles matches, which caused Nan Lie to be hit hard and depressed.

At the same time, this is also a heavy blow to the team's morale.

Faced with such an unfavorable situation, Coach Kitano decisively called a timeout as he needed to stabilize the team's morale.

If the team's morale continues to decline, it is likely that Xiangbei will further widen the score advantage.

When he left the court, Nan Lie was like a walking corpse, with his head down and not daring to look at Coach Kitano.

If it weren't for his own willfulness, the team wouldn't have fallen into such a passive situation.

"Nan Lie, no one's life is smooth sailing. There are detours to take, losses to suffer, walls to hit, and traps to fall into. None of them are unavoidable.

Everyone will experience a period of lows in life. The key is to learn from them and have the courage to stand up again, so that there will be a bright future and a turning point. "

Many coaches are masters of chicken soup for the soul, and Coach Kitano is no exception.

In order to enlighten Nan Lie, Coach Kitano gave him a lot of chicken soup, hoping that he could learn from his failure and get out of the shadow of failure.

Coach Kitano's words were like a gentle spring breeze and rain. Under his influence, Nan Lie's eyes gradually rekindled his fighting spirit.

Seeing Nan Lie regain his fighting spirit, Coach Kitano was obviously relieved. If Nan Lie continued to be depressed, the game might not be played.

Although Nan Lie is not yet the ace of Touou, he is the best three-point shooter of Touou and his importance to Touou is no less than that of Matsushita Kura.

Soon, the pause is over!
After both sides returned to the court, Mu Mu looked at Nan Lie who had rekindled his fighting spirit and said with a smile: "It seems that you have recovered. Do you want to continue?"

"I have to admit that I am no match for you right now. However, I will definitely help the team win!"

While speaking, Nan Lie subconsciously glanced at Coach Kitano.

Seeing Coach Kitano nod to him, his eyes became more determined.

No matter what, he must not let down Coach Kitano's trust.

In terms of character setting, Nan Lie largely referred to Mitsui.

The same three-point shooter, the same bad record, the same strong attachment to the coach, and finally he turned over a new leaf under the inspiration of the coach.

When they were young, Nan Lie and Kishimoto admired Coach Kitano's run-and-gun basketball, and Coach Kitano liked them very much at that time and even lied that they were his grandsons.

From this we can see how much Nan Lie and Kishimoto rely on Coach Kitano. Precisely because he has a family-like bond with Kitano, Nan Lie does not want to disappoint Coach Kitano.

This is also the reason why Kitano was expelled from Touou and why Minami Rei and Kishimoto always insisted on the run-and-gun tactics.

They want to prove that the run-and-gun tactics can also win games, and hope that Touou will accept coach Kitano again.

On the court, Nan Lie began to run around. His steps were light and quick. He accelerated, stopped suddenly, and changed direction from time to time, trying to get rid of Mu Mu.

Murasakibara followed closely behind, and the two started a wonderful chase on the court.

He was also proficient in positioning skills, and with his extreme reaction, it was difficult for Nan Lie to completely get rid of him for a while.

In this situation, Nan Lie began to seek help from his teammates.

Soon, under Kishimoto's cover, Nan Lie finally ran out of the open space.

Nan Lie and Kishimoto grew up together and they have a very good understanding of each other.

Itachi Yasuda seized the opportunity and passed the ball without hesitation.

After receiving the ball, facing Murasakibara who was entangled with him again, Nan Lie did not stick to the ball, but quickly passed the ball to Kishimoto who cut into the basket.

Kishimoto quickly adjusted his pace, his layup was clean and the basketball fell into the basket accurately.

This time, Toyotama successfully broke through Shohoku's defense with wonderful interlaced running and tacit cooperation.

Compared with defense, Coach Kitano pays more attention to offense.

In daily training, Toyotama spends most of its time practicing offense, and players often practice fast break drills to practice how to quickly launch an attack before the opponent has organized a defense. At the same time, Coach Kitano also encourages players to keep moving at high speed on the court, creating scoring opportunities through unremitting running and passing and cutting, so as to be able to complete the offense quickly and smoothly in the game.

Finally, Coach Kitano also emphasized the importance of three-pointers. He believes that three-pointers are one of the most efficient ways to score in modern basketball.

Coach Kitano believed that only by continuous attacking could the opponent be exhausted and scoring opportunities created, allowing Toyotama to score more than 100 points in almost every game.

Thanks to Touou's run-and-gun system, this is also the main reason why Nan Lie was able to become Osaka's scoring champion in his freshman year.

Of course, Touou's run-and-gun tactics also have huge flaws.

Due to physical limitations, it is difficult for Touou players to maintain high-intensity games and they can only focus on the offensive end.

Therefore, Toyotama is a typical example of a strong offense but weak defense.

When facing opponents with tighter defense and more varied tactics, it is often difficult to be effective and may lead to failure.

In the plot year, Darei Academy did just that.

Of course, Darei Academy only defeated the remnant Toyotama.

Coach Jinping said he was not to blame for this, because Nan Lie, Kishimoto and others did not listen to him at all and insisted on using the run-and-gun tactics.

Despite their outstanding performance on the offensive end, defense won the championship, and it would be difficult for Touou, who focused more on offense than defense, to go further, especially as the national competition format was not very friendly to Touou.

Fengyu might be able to achieve good results in the regional competition, after all, regional competitions are usually only held on weekends.

But in the national competition, the drawbacks of the run-and-gun tactics were clearly revealed.

In a one-game-a-day format, once encountering a strong opponent, Touou players are likely to be unable to maintain the continuity of their offense due to lack of physical strength, ultimately leading to loss of the game.

This is also the main reason why Coach Kitano was dismissed. The Touou management believes that only a team with balanced offense and defense can go further in the national competition.

In the attack of the Shohoku team, Nobuhiko Okamoto continued to slow the pace and then passed the ball to Murasakibara.

In the Shohoku team, Murasakibara has officially become the team's engine.

Facing Nan Lie's defense, Mu Mu broke through with the ball.

Nan Lie tried his best to entangle Mu Mu and not give him the opportunity to score easily.

Unfortunately, facing the LV8 cross step, Nan Lie was still easily broken through by Mu Mu.

Asakura Tenyu was about to step forward to provide defense, when suddenly, Akagi bypassed Asakura Tenyu and rushed into the paint area at high speed.

Without hesitation, Murasaki threw the ball into the basket.

When Asakura Tianyu saw that something was wrong, he quickly turned around and rushed towards Akagi.

Akagi watched the flying basketball while moving his feet. The moment the basketball appeared above his head, he jumped high and made an aerial relay.

Asakura Tianyu tried hard to stop it, raised his hands high, and jumped up with his head held high.

Bang~
The two collided in mid-air. While Akagi dunked the ball over the opponent, he also knocked Asakura Tenyu out of the baseline.

bang~
Asakura Tianyu fell heavily to the ground, and his mind went blank.

Looking up at Akagi who let go of the basket, beat his chest and roared, there was a hint of fear in his eyes.

Akagi's expression is very similar to King Kong climbing up the Empire State Building.

All I can say is, there are only wrong names, but no wrong nicknames.

The gorilla Takenori Akagi is so terrifying!
Asakura Tianyu suppressed his fear, stood up awkwardly, and wanted to serve quickly.

Akagi hurriedly turned around and returned to defense, fearing that he would hold the team back and be beaten into a fast break by Touou.

In the following games, Toyotama continued to implement the run-and-gun tactics.

Their offense was as fast and smooth as mercury flowing out of the ground. They were always able to quickly find loopholes in Xiangbei's defense and score easily.

Although the Xiangbei players tried their best, they were always a step slow and could not effectively curb Touou's offensive momentum.

Coach Anxi must take the blame for this.

Coach Anzai has been coming to the basketball club more frequently recently, but his attention is mainly focused on Murasakibara, and he is still not very concerned about the team's development.

However, Touou was also unable to limit Shohoku's offense.

Under the leadership of Murasakibara, Shohoku's rhythm did not lose its rhythm because of Touou's rapid attack.

Murasakibara reduced the frequency of singles in a timely manner and began to create more scoring opportunities for his teammates.

Among them, Murasaki and Akagi had the best cooperation, and Akagi had a great advantage in the interior, so he was fed a lot of balls.

Whether in height, weight or strength, Akagi is clearly superior to his opponents, and his initial mastery of post-up singles makes him even more powerful.

In the one-star, four-shooter system, Akagi can only be described as a fish in water.

Facing Asakura Tenyu's defense, Akagi showed overwhelming advantage. He used his physical advantage to continuously attack under the basket, making Asakura Tenyu unable to resist.

Once Touou starts double-teaming, Akagi, who has the advantage of vision, will quickly pass the ball away, causing Touou a headache.

In this situation, the first half finally ended!

50:42
Shohoku is in front and Touou is behind.

(End of this chapter)