Chapter 366: The guy who can go head-to-head with Facing Qingfeng, and you let him run point the whole game?!

Murasakibara's technique is certainly there, but clearly, there isn't much of it.

Izumikan vs. Yosen.

The score on the court is 24:12.

A score no one anticipated.

From the very first ball, Yosen—famous for their Iron Wall—had their absolute defense broken through, and afterward, in order to chase down the score, they had no choice but to engage in a shootout with Izumikan.

They couldn't afford not to push the offense either. Compared to Izumikan relying on Yukimiya Kazuma's "Passing and Control Master · Link-up," Yosen's scoring was simply too difficult.

That Yukimiya Kazuma...

His defensive mode is almost identical to Murasakibara's!

Once he steps to the free-throw line, he extends his defensive coverage to the entire three-point line!

And Murasakibara, who also possesses "ultra-wide-range defense," is repeatedly forced to be pulled down to the paint because of Yukimiya Kazuma's drive-and-dish. When Yukimiya passes, he has no choice but to run the full radius of the three-point line to chase outward!

Yet the rapid shots drawn out by Yukimiya Kazuma's miraculous passes—even with Murasakibara's reflexes and enormous strides—remain out of reach. Thus, Izumikan's offense is extremely easy, while Yosen's offense is extremely difficult.

This is the difficulty of not having a perimeter superstar on the team. If they were facing Facing Qingfeng, Qingfeng would certainly be happy to oblige and shoot it out with you, cranking the pressure up to the max.

To the point that Yukimiya Kazuma was forced to start laying out his scheme from the opening tip; otherwise, once Facing Qingfeng got hyped up with full stamina, there'd really be no pulling him back.

In the original plot, Facing Qingfeng only entered the court in the second half of Seirin's first match against Touou, and it was exactly this script—he collapsed Seirin in a single half. In their Winter Cup rematch, Seirin only barely won by stacking buffs: Midorima's return, Kuroko's newly trained skill, Kagami's sudden Zone activation, and so on.

In front of Yosen's bench.

Araki Masako's gaze had been fixed on Yukimiya the entire time, never once leaving him.

Before the game started, she never imagined that Yukimiya Kazuma—the one who had faced off against Aomine Daiki looking like a perimeter super-scorer—could so easily dominate Murasakibara in the paint, and even on both ends of the floor, press Murasakibara until he could barely breathe!

Looking at the scoring so far.

Yosen's points all came from Murasakibara's interior attacks; Izumikan's all came from Yukimiya's passing assists.

But in the end, Yosen trails Izumikan by a full 12 points, and every single one of those points came from Yukimiya locking Murasakibara down ball by ball.

Murasakibara clearly has the advantage in height, and even showed off some techniques that caught Yukimiya Kazuma off guard, but Yukimiya Kazuma's defense still maintained an even match against Murasakibara's offense.

An even match means that every time Murasakibara attacks, he faces defensive pressure on par with his own offense. From the look of the court, his shooting percentage has been suppressed below 50%.

On the defensive end, Murasakibara facing Yukimiya can indeed shut down his drives to the rim, but against those miraculous drive-and-dish passes, he is almost helpless.

As a result, over the same number of offensive possessions, Murasakibara's shooting percentage is far lower than Izumikan's as a whole.

Moreover...

Now an even more shocking scene for Araki Masako has appeared.

Izumikan has fully pushed Yukimiya Kazuma up to the point guard position; even the original point guard has been subbed out.

Yes...

The one subbed out by Kakita Yishi was He Xiuyang. The third-year senior, center Tsukiyama Masahiko, came on in his place, while Yukimiya Kazuma plays on the court as point guard.

Tsukiyama Masahiko relays the coach's words on the court, telling everyone to watch Yukimiya's movements: "Stay sharp! From here on out, we're taking Yosen down in one go!"

At the same time.

Fukui Kensuke stared dumbfounded at his opponent, watching Yukimiya Kazuma slowly bring the ball up the court, completely spaced out.

What is Izumikan doing?

A super-scorer who can go head-to-head with Facing Qingfeng, and you're having him run point all game?

Fukui Kensuke: "..."