Chapter 995： Regret but not imperfect

Sakuragi Hanado is back on the court at this time, is there any hope of winning?

No one believes that the Xiangbei team can still win, the main player Akagi Takeken has been lost, Mitsui Shou and others are also lost.

At this time, only two people still believe that they can win, coach Anzai and Huadao Sakuragi.

Sakuragi Huadao jumped to the table of the judges on the sidelines and shouted to the audience: "I will definitely hit the mountain king. This is the prediction of my genius Sakuragi."

Amidst the laughter of the audience, the game continued.

Sakuragi Huadao scored the basket and the score became 38 to 60. The Xiangbei team finally got the first point since the start of the second half.

After that, Sakuragi Hanado played bravely, scored one after another, and completely controlled the rebound.

The morale of the Xiangbei team was greatly boosted.

Afterwards, Yuzumi in the stands saw Akagi lost and came to the side of the game, awakening the lost Akagi Takeken, "It is no problem to give you the position of chief center, but the dream of dominating the country cannot be allowed."

The Xiangbei team rushed to catch up. Mitsui Kotobuki made a three-pointer, whose physical strength was close to collapse, and Sakuragi Hanado and Akagi took the goal one after another.

The score became 55 to 63, only 8 points away, and the audience was in an uproar.

Just when all the book fans were excited and looking forward to the further narrowing of the points difference in Xiangbei, the situation on the court suddenly changed.

The No. 1 trump card of Sanno Industry, the nation's No. 1 high school student Sawakita Eiji was inspired by his fighting spirit and began to show his super personal ability, helping the Sanno Industry team to open the score again.

When there were 5 minutes left, the score was 55 to 73, and Xiangbei was once again in desperation.

Rukawa Kaede was also completely at a disadvantage in the contest with Sawabei Eiji, but at this time Rukawa Kaede suddenly laughed.

In the recent contest with Zebei Eiji, he finally understood that the reason why coach Anzai said he was still inferior to Sentiaki Akira was the full cooperation with his teammates.

His eyes are no longer just shooting and scoring, he began to give the opportunity to score to teammates with better chances, and the cooperation with teammates is more intimate.

The Xiangbei team once again caught up with the score, with 2 minutes and 50 seconds left, the score was 66 to 74, which was 8 points behind.

After that, Sakuragi Huadao saved a ball and hit the table on the sidelines. Everyone at the scene thought that Sakuragi Flower Road must have been injured and could not stand up, but the iron man Sakuragi quickly stood up wow haha.

However, even though Sakuragi stood up quickly and was still alive and well, his spine was still injured, but he didn't say anything and had no plans to end.

Sakuragi Hanado struggled to save the ball from his injury this time, and the head coach of Sanno Industries, Kishimoto, palpitated, "Xiangbei, how many times will it take before you will give up?"

give up? The Xiangbei team had thought about failure, thought about starting again, but they had no idea to give up.

The injured Sakuragi Flower Road, after jumping high again to grab a rebound, suddenly felt pain in his spine and became a little lack of concentration.

But Rukawa Kaede made a beautiful 3-pointer, making the score 69-74, and there was 1 minute 59 seconds left.

Although Sanno Industry still leads by 5 points, they have already felt the crisis and requested a suspension.

After the game restarted, Sanno Industry's center Masashi Kawada regained his power and scored a goal, with 1 minute and 20 seconds left, the score was 69-76.

At this time, Sakuragi Flower Road finally could no longer persist in the game and was replaced.

Sakuragi Flower Road, lying on the sidelines, was motionless, and his mind was full of pictures of him joining the basketball team for months.

He told Akagi Haruko from the beginning that he liked basketball very much, but it was fake. Not only did he dislike basketball, he also hated it.

His motive for joining basketball was "purely bad" and was entirely for Haruko Akagi.

but now…

Sakuragi Hanado, who was lying motionless on the ground, suddenly stood up, walked to Haruko Akagi on the sidelines, and said, "I like it very much. This time I am definitely not lying."

He is talking about basketball, and he has completely fallen in love with basketball.

Later, Sakuragi Huadao wanted Coach Anzai to replace him for the game, but Coach Anzai refused.

Because if Sakuragi Flower Road insists on the game forcibly, it may cause more damage to the body and even affect the future basketball career.

Sakuragi Hanado is an unborn basketball genius. Coach Anzai wants to watch Sakuragi improve little by little.

Therefore, he rejected Sakuragi Flower Road's request to play, even if this game was lost to Sanno Industry.

But Sakuragi Huadao stood on the sidelines and said very firmly: "Father, when was your most brilliant time? Was it when you were a national player? And I am now."

Sakuragi Flower Road is determined to play.

At this time, Rukawa on the court deliberately pushed for a foul in order to allow the sideline to complete the substitution.

He knows Sakuragi Flower Road best.

Sakuragi Flower Road reappeared, and the audience chanted the name of Sakuragi Flower Road.

"Red-headed boy, do it as much as you want!"

"Red head boy, we are waiting for you!"

For the first time, the voice of cheering for the Xiangbei team surpassed the voice of cheering for the Shanwang Industrial Team.

Many people who used to cheer for the Shanwang Industrial Team have now changed to cheer for the Xiangbei Team.

With 57.4 seconds left, the score was 71 to 76.

The injured Sakuragi Hanado jumped high again and blocked the shot of the big man Kawada Mikio. The Shōbei team counterattacked. Hisashi Mitsui scored a 3-pointer and also got an additional free kick.

Mitsui Kotobuki scored a free throw, the score was 75 to 76, with 49.1 seconds left.

The Shanwang Industrial Team attacked, and the Xiangbei team had a chance to turn defeat into victory as long as they held the ball.

The whole audience was in Gao Gan "Desperately defend!" All the members of the Hainan team, "Desperately defended! Xiangbei!"

Akagi Takeken and Sakuragi Hanado blocked the shots of Kawada Masashi and Sawabei Eiji, respectively, and the Shōbei team won the ball and launched a counterattack.

Rukawa received a pass from Sakuragi Hanado and scored.

With 24.1 seconds left, the Xiangbei team overtook a score of 77 to 76, and the audience went into madness.

However, the game was not over yet. The Sanno Industry team attacked and Sawabei Eiji scored the basket. The Sanno Industry team again led 78 to 77, with 9.4 seconds left.

The Xiangbei team serves to attack, this is Xiangbei's last chance.

Rukawa Kaede got the ball, jumped up from the basket to make a shot, but was tightly blocked by the opponents. He saw Sakuragi Hanado standing under the basket, making a catch with both hands. There was 2 left in time. In the second, he decisively passed the ball to Sakuragi Flower Road.

Sakuragi Huadao catches the ball and shoots. Under the gaze of everyone in the court, the basketball draws a beautiful arc and accurately falls into the basket. The remaining time just becomes 0 minutes and 0 seconds.

Sakuragi Flower scored the buzzer, setting the score at 79-78.

The Xiangbei team miraculously defeated the strongest team, the Sanno Industrial Team.

All the members of the Xiangbei team fell into a carnival, and the audience also shouted frantically.

The Shanwang Industrial Team seems lonely, but this does not mean that they are no longer the kings, they are still the strongest team.

They should thank the Xiangbei team, as the head coach Kishimoto said, "Today's failure will become a valuable asset tomorrow."

Today's failure will make them stronger.

Of course, the Xiangbei team will also become stronger.

The Xiangbei team defeated the strongest team, but did not win the national championship.

Due to the excessive consumption in the match with the Sanno Industry Team, Sakuragi Flower Road suffered a spinal injury.

In the third round of the match against Aihe Academy, they were eliminated by a big loss, ending this trip to the national competition.

It turned out to be a bit regretful, but it was not imperfect.

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