Chapter 101: Take You Down First, You Blackie

Basketball has never been a necessity for Haizaki.

For him, there are no so-called necessities at all.

He has been used to freedom since birth, living as he pleased for over a decade.

Yet, a guy like this has surprisingly high talent, and no one can do anything about him.

If Tiandao Jingyan had to compare him to someone, this guy Haizaki is simply a *Kuroko's Basketball* version of Ding Xie.

A villain with extremely high combat power and outstanding talent.

Transition from offense to defense.

Haizaki once again took the ball away from Akashi.

The word "team" doesn't exist in his dictionary; from the first time he played ball, he was used to playing 1 against 9.

You didn't read that wrong, playing 9 people; if his teammates didn't listen and refused to obediently hand the ball to him, he would not hesitate to reward the other party with an iron fist to correct their thinking.

Akashi and the others, upholding the idea of testing Haizaki's ability, decisively opened up space after giving him the ball.

From the physical talent Haizaki just showed that didn't lose to Tiandao, this student who is also a first-year like himself possesses the qualifications to enter the First String.

Putting the big picture first, Akashi didn't care about Haizaki's rudeness.

Haizaki didn't care about that; after receiving the ball, he immediately turned and leaned heavily toward Tiandao with his back.

"Hmm?"

"Could it be that he wants to..."

"Impossible, right? Kawamura and the others are one thing, but can he copy Tiandao's technique at a glance?"

It's not copying, you idiot.

It's taking it all away!

Haizaki grinned, constantly bumping into Tiandao Jingyan with his back.

He is testing the strength gap between himself and Tiandao.

It's above his, but it can't play a decisive role yet.

The two, with similar builds, made almost identical movements.

Only the careful Akashi discovered that when Haizaki used Tiandao's post-up technique, there were some differences in the details.

Very subtle gaps, such as the height of the dribble, the frequency of slapping the basketball, etc.

While thinking, Haizaki had already completed the turn, like a whirlwind, changing from facing away from the hoop to facing it in an instant.

But Tiandao was faster than him and immediately made a lateral move.

However.

"Idiot, do you think I'm one of those idiots who only knows how to copy blindly?"

Haizaki chuckled secretly, his body turned significantly again, moving from the left side to the right in one go.

Haizaki is the same, and so is Kise.

Their copying is not as simple as just copying.

Being able to completely turn the learned skills into their own is where their strength lies.

Otherwise, others could predict your actions in advance; what is the point of copying?

Who knew.

The moment Haizaki thought he had succeeded, brushing past half of Tiandao's body and about to complete the breakthrough.

Tiandao was attached behind him like a ghost.

A cold chill pierced his back like a sharp dagger; Haizaki instantly felt a crisis descend, as if a pitch-black ghost was following behind him.

The moment he turned his head, he saw a palm rapidly enlarging from far to near, accompanied by Tiandao's cold voice, piercing the basketball precisely like a long spear.

"Release!"

Boom~

The basketball slammed into the floor and rebounded; Aomine picked up the ball immediately.

When he looked up again, Tiandao and Haizaki were already rushing toward the other half of the court.

Such counterattack tactics, since Tiandao joined Teikou, they don't know how many times they've played them; it's almost become muscle memory.

Aomine forcefully whipped the ball to the front court; he believed Tiandao could defeat Haizaki.

And the facts were indeed so.

Haizaki and Tiandao judged the ball's landing spot almost simultaneously.

Seeing the ball about to hit the ground, he judged the timing of the rebound and reached out to grab it back.

As a result, Tiandao didn't wait for the ball to hit the ground and slapped it away first, continuing to rush forward without slowing down.

Haizaki gritted his teeth, but he had already lost the initiative and could only watch helplessly as Tiandao Jingyan scooped up the ball and put it into the hoop.

Total defeat.

After these few rounds of exchanges, Haizaki found that he was actually not this guy's opponent.

Mainly because in the arsenal he had plundered, he couldn't find a single thing that could break Tiandao's "Release."

"How on earth did this freak do it?" Haizaki thought, biting his thumb.

Basketball defense, especially successful defense.

Cannot do without precise prediction.

In the sport of basketball, the offensive side is always half a step or even a full step ahead of the defensive side.

The defensive side is the passive one; this is the truth.

Even league stars, when they first enter the league, most of their defense is not good and they need to practice for a few years to see results.

That is because defense is very experience-intensive.

"So, the key is in the prediction; as long as I understand that guy's offensive pattern, it'll be fine." Haizaki felt he had found Tiandao's flaw, "Let this bastard be smug for a while first."

He made up his mind to first figure out Tiandao's actions and finally plunder all of Tiandao Jingyan's skill sets.

This has the same effect as Kise imitating the Emperor Eye later on.

And so.

When the match restarted, Shirogane Goro and the others found that the troublemaker Haizaki had miraculously become obedient.

"Gave up?"

How could that be.

If he gave up so easily, he wouldn't be Haizaki Shogo.

What's more.

Tiandao Jingyan keenly sensed that Haizaki's look at him was still as malicious as ever.

"Is he up to something?" ===== CHAPTER 103 =====