Chapter 19: Not to mention the hit rate, it

The barrage teachers were frantically interpreting what Jingyan Tiandao's "Jie" actually meant.

Most people, through the inner monologues of people like Kozo Shirogane, believed it had to do with Kendo.

During the conversation, the Second String's offense was thwarted again.

The Second String's spearhead, Yuta Shan-naka, was completely lost in Jingyan Tiandao's defense.

Successive offensive failures made the Second String members inevitably a bit restless.

If it were an official match, the coach would have called a timeout to let the players calm down, but today was just an entrance test, and there would be no help from coaches.

So the Second String members didn't even have time to calm down.

As the big boss leading the team to launch a counterattack, Jingyan Tiandao naturally became the first choice for passing in the freshman team.

Jingyan Tiandao didn't decline either; he took the ball from his teammate and started running without a word.

Yuta Shan-naka had been repeatedly frustrated by Jingyan Tiandao and made up his mind that if he couldn't score, he wouldn't let Jingyan Tiandao continue to run wild.

Being a player famous for his explosive power, he turned and chased after seeing the freshman team push a counterattack.

The two crossed the mid-court line one after the other.

Facing Yuta Shan-naka's man-eating gaze, Jingyan Tiandao jumped up just after crossing the free-throw line, making a layup motion with the momentum of "holding fire to burn the sky."

Yuta Shan-naka saw this, his leg muscles tensed, and he jumped up with force.

His height was about the same as Jingyan Tiandao's, but his build was stronger.

Freshmen, after all—not just in the league, but in middle school and high school—are generally relatively thin.

On one hand, it's due to age limitations; on the other, it's because they haven't received more professional training.

Teikou's head coach, Kozo Shirogane, was a former national player who came to Teikou to coach after retiring, with the goal of cultivating the younger generation and contributing to the development of basketball in Japan.

Therefore, he spared no effort in training the basketball club players; anyone who had stayed at Teikou for a year would more or less put on some muscle.

Basketball, after all, is a sport that emphasizes physical confrontation.

Therefore, Yuta Shan-naka was very confident that this collision would definitely knock Jingyan Tiandao off balance.

The previous time was just because he wasn't prepared and suffered a loss.

The result.

Just as Jingyan Tiandao was about to collide with his opponent, he slightly turned his body in mid-air to avoid Yuta Shan-naka.

Then he lifted the basketball and gently flicked it with his fingertips from a distance away from the basket.

The basketball smoothly avoided Yuta Shan-naka's Five Finger Mountain and then crossed over his head.

"Swish!"

The basketball went through the net cleanly, without any dragging or water.

Jun Kubo leaned toward the court involuntarily.

This jumping ability, this touch, this body coordination, this mid-air operational capability...

It seems a bit incredible!

Jingyan Tiandao wasn't actually thin, but compared to Yuta Shan-naka, who had undergone Kozo Shirogane's training, he appeared a bit thin.

But that didn't matter.

Jingyan Tiandao was also quite thin in his previous life, but in the amateur games he participated in and when playing with friends, he could always score high.

That was because he had this finger-roll layup as an attacking means.

He possessed the soft touch characteristic of Asian players and could flick the ball into the basket in many difficult situations.

In this regard, he was quite similar to the Spurs legend George Gervin.

The Iceman also appeared incredibly thin in the NBA league, which was full of tough guys.

As a result, he used his peerless finger-roll layup and excellent body coordination to elegantly rack up various high scores among a bunch of tough guys.

Jingyan Tiandao was a veteran fan and couldn't help but imitate the attacking means of stars.

He hadn't learned anything else, but he specifically focused on learning those elegant things.

The Iceman's finger-roll, Kobe's fadeaway jumper, McGrady's pull-up, etc. —this guy had buried his head in hard practice for all of them.

Not to mention the hit rate, at least the posture was fully learned.

Super cool!

"Except for the Generation of Miracles, Teikou's other players don't seem to be much either." Jingyan Tiandao couldn't help but think this after scoring.

This was normal.

The Generation of Miracles were, after all, geniuses known as once-in-a-decade talents.

Geniuses, if they didn't cause a dimensionality reduction strike on their peers and only fought to a draw, would they have the nerve to call themselves geniuses?

Just like those superstars who entered the draft in high school later on.

Such as Garnett, Kobe, James, and the likes of Howard.

They all had one thing in common: they could fight across levels!

The intensity of high school games was too low for them; even Kobe could be hyped by scouts as an omnipotent magician, and rough guys like Howard could be written as all-around interior players with decent shooting ability.

In the world of basketball, geniuses have always been incomprehensible creatures.

Yuta Shan-naka, as an important role player for the Second String, similar to an important sixth-man rotation, was definitely a favorite in the minds of many head coaches.

But Jingyan Tiandao, as a rookie who had just entered middle school, had easily defeated him on both ends of the court.

Jun Kubo on the sidelines was already completely messed up.

He had only come to observe Shuzo Nijimura and Atsushi Murasakibara, never expecting to discover such a good seedling.

The key was that in his mind, there was absolutely no information about Jingyan Tiandao.

It was as if he had popped out of a rock.

Once is luck, but what about the second and third time?

It's hard to explain with luck.

Soon, this somewhat sensational confrontation match ended.

With Jingyan Tiandao's appearance, the Second String only scored a pitiful 4 points in the 10 minutes of the second half.

The freshman team, led by Jingyan Tiandao, also successfully completed a comeback with a score of 36:30.

In these 10 minutes of game time, Jingyan Tiandao scored a total of 10 points and 2 rebounds, but his steals were as high as 7.

Yuta Shan-naka's head was dizzy when he left the court.

He had actually been blown to pieces by a first-year rookie.

He was as glorious in the first 10 minutes as he was miserable in the last 10 minutes.

"Good work, Yuta." Shuzo Nijimura walked over with water to comfort his teammate, a smile on his lips.

"Don't mock me, Captain." Yuta Shan-naka's expression was dim. ===== CHAPTER 21 =====