While Momoi Satsuki was thinking, Waseda took action.
Their movements started becoming rude and savage.
"Momo-cchi, what are you doing?"
At this time, Kise Ryōta, with blond hair and a model face and figure, walked in.
Seeing Momoi Satsuki in a daze, he leaned over to look.
"Oh, it's a game from another region. Is there someone Momo-cchi values very much?"
"Ki-chan, don't talk nonsense, people will misunderstand."
What person she values very much?
Should say a player she values very much!
"Hahaha, sorry, sorry."
Kise laughed, shifting his gaze to the TV.
"Playing very wildly. Tochigi Prefecture's Homi Academy and Waseda... is their basketball always like this?"
"Of course not."
Satsuki rolled her eyes.
"Waseda's head coach once served as an assistant coach for a youth team in Europe for a period, so his coaching style leans towards European basketball."
European basketball is like this.
Discipline, tactics, and calculation are far more important than aesthetics, speed, and one-on-one play.
If it were in the US, the situation would be different.
This game would likely turn into a one-on-one battle between Yuuto and the opponent's core.
But in Europe, the situation is much more complicated.
Waseda's head coach, who returned from learning in Europe, instilled all his basketball philosophy into the team.
However.
Waseda's plan fell through.
Yuuto did not get lost in the opponent's strangulation.
In the simulation, he needed to drive inside toughly. Now he can shoot elegantly, drawing his bow and shooting through the enemy's defense line.
Smack!
Yuuto received the ball and shook off the defender in one step.
But this time he didn't get the shooting space he wanted as wished.
The moment he passed one person, Waseda, who had been guarding against his mid-range shot, immediately had two people helping defend.
What will he do?
Under the gaze of Momoi Satsuki and Kise Ryōta, Yuuto jumped directly against the defense of two people.
His right hand gently flicked the basketball, and the basketball immediately spun, tearing the air and flying out.
"Too reckless."
"Going to be blocked."
Both of them thought unconsciously.
Result, the next second.
Their eyes suddenly widened.
Because the shot that should have been swatted away actually passed through the large net constructed by the four arms of the two defenders as if it had no physical body.
Swish!
The ball went in.
Yuuto established merit (scored) using the Mirage Shot for the first time in actual combat.
"What is this?!"
"Why? I clearly..."
Waseda's two defenders were stunned on the spot.
They had already seen the basketball touch their palms, but the expected tactile sensation did not appear. Instead, the basketball passed through their palms and drilled into the hoop.
"What did you do?!"
Someone stared at Yuuto incredulously, even once suspecting he possessed superpowers.
"What did I do?"
"I jumped up, I shot, I made the basket. Do I have to translate such a simple thing for you to hear?"
Yuuto turned and ran back on defense, leaving the bewildered crowd behind.
Momoi Satsuki and Kise Ryōta in front of the TV were equally shaken.
Such a jump shot, never seen before, brought a shocking visual impact, just like Aomine's unreasonable playing style.
"How did he do it? Ki-chan, did you see clearly?"
"He seemed to shoot twice in the air..."
Kise's brain recalled rapidly, finding that this shot was much more complicated than imagined.
Besides needing strong hang time, the player's use of fakes was also extraordinary.
"But the speed was too fast, I didn't see too clearly either."
Kise, who originally just came to look, instantly developed a strong interest in Yuuto.
"Shooting twice in the air?" Satsuki pursed her lips.
She opened the notebook again, turning to the page recording Yuuto.
"Compared to first year, the change is simply earth-shaking. Sprint speed, startup time, hang time, jumping ability, mid-range success rate... The biggest change is still that utilitarian basketball style clean without a speck of impurity."
Momoi Satsuki believed it a bit.
Yuuto, like her childhood friend, unlocked his own talent due to age growth.
Then in the coming period, Yuuto's basketball level will very likely usher in a period of explosive growth.
Just like Aomine, getting stronger the more he plays. Wait until he fully adapts to the suddenly erupted talent...
He won't be able to find an opponent anymore!
"Yuuto... huh?"
....
Competition venue.
The first quarter has ended.
Even if the opponent adopted an iron-blooded defense, Yuuto still hacked 14 points, 2 rebounds, and 3 assists in a single quarter.
He won't keep shooting just because he is accurate.
He will adjust in time according to the opponent's dynamic defense.
Such a player is difficult to deal with because he is very smart.
Waseda's head coach has such a headache now.
How to defend?
First, he needs a player whose model matches up and whose speed can also keep up with Yuuto to interfere.
But he looked around his team and found no such character.
After all.
Yuuto, who has completed two simulations, has reached the level of the Uncrowned Kings.
He is one of the best players aside from those five monsters from Teiko.
Finding someone to watch him one-on-one is not an easy task.
"Double team. Must apply double-team defense on him!"
In the first quarter, they used a zone strategy.
Using one person at the front, with one or two people ambushing on the wings ready to help defend at any time.
But this method is useless now; they can only steel their hearts to double team.
Yuuto saw their changes.
Before his geezer coach could come up with a solution, Yuuto took action first.
He plunged headfirst into the paint, and the opponent was at a loss again.
If they followed into the paint, what about Sakurai Ryō and others on the perimeter?
Yuuto didn't give them a chance to think.
Steadily securing position, legs rooted to the floor; with his body type, guest-starring at the number 4 position (Power Forward) is no problem at all.
Sakurai Ryō gave the ball to Yuuto. He stuck his butt out and arched a few times.
The opponent was pushed back repeatedly by him.
Seeing this, the people responsible for double-teaming Yuuto on the perimeter still came over to besiege him as instructed by the coach.
Yuuto immediately passed the ball to the perimeter.
Bang!
The ball hit the floor and bounced into Sakurai Ryō's hands.
The mushroom-head boy said "Sumimasen" (Excuse me/Sorry) very punchably, then threw the ball into the hoop.
Waseda's people were so angry the veins on their foreheads throbbed.
Provocation!
This is definitely provocation!
Even had the urge to hit someone!
If you win, you win. Why deliberately humiliate us?
Sakurai Ryō was terrified.
He noticed that the way the opponents looked at him was quite unfriendly, looking like they wanted to tear him apart.
Yuuto patted his shoulder and said, "I've changed my opinion of you, Mushroom Head. You're actually pretty gutsy."
Sakurai Ryō, "..."
I really didn't provoke them!!!
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