Chapter 454

As for passing.

Akashi wasn't afraid at all; he was confident he could cut off all connections between Tiandao and the other Kirisaki Daiichi players.

But would things really go as he expected?

Tiandao suddenly accelerated the force of his dribbling; this change in rhythm allowed Akashi to instantly distinguish that he intended to pass.

He opened his left eye suddenly and reached out his left arm to slap the basketball.

But he discovered Tiandao suddenly pulled the ball backward, completed a behind-the-back dribble, and instantly launched an attack toward his left side.

"Flaws, it's not just you who can sell them."

Akashi was shaken off once again.

Seeing this, Rakuzan's players couldn't help but shrink the paint and come over to help defend.

All of this was seen by Tiandao, and even their upcoming actions were clear to him.

Mibuchi Reo arrived in time and stood firm on Tiandao's path.

It seemed he wanted to imitate Hanamiya Makoto and draw an offensive foul on Tiandao.

Then, Tiandao stopped.

"Success!" Although he didn't cause an offensive foul on Tiandao, at least he forced the person to stop.

Mibuchi Reo secretly rejoiced, but looked down to find that the basketball originally controlled by Tiandao had vanished.

"Where's the ball?"

"In the basket."

"Swish!"

The basketball went into the net; Mibuchi Reo's help defense being in place also meant Yamazaki Hiroshi was in an open position.

At this time, Tiandao still maintained the sudden-stop motion, comparable to Nash in the theatrical version, with a posture quite enchanting.

Even the audience in the real world, after watching, had to exclaim, "Nice butt!"

It was fortunate that Tiandao didn't watch anime when playing important matches, otherwise, seeing the barrage, he would definitely have lost it.

He didn't want to be discussed by a group of men about his butt!

4:2!

Kirisaki Daiichi took the lead again.

"Truly an incredible player." On the sidelines, Shirogane Eiji sat firmly like a fisherman.

Since even Akashi, who possessed the Emperor Eye, couldn't stop Tiandao's passing, then this kind of passing was almost an unsolvable existence.

"However, we in Rakuzan also possess an unsolvable existence."

"Huh?"

Just as Shirogane Eiji had this thought, he saw Kirisaki Daiichi's defensive deployment make a change.

One-on-one man-to-man defense, cutting off the possibility of Mayuzumi Chihiro passing.

Even, to prevent missing their man, Kirisaki Daiichi's bad boys were very skilled at secretly pulling the jerseys of the players they were marking.

This meant they were letting Mayuzumi Chihiro shoot.

"Completely letting Mayuzumi Chihiro shoot? But he's different from Kuroko-chi, he has scoring ability!"

"That guy is probably planning to deal with Mayuzumi Chihiro as quickly as possible."

Aomine saw through Tiandao's plan.

Kuroko's misdirection effective time is about 20 minutes.

They believed this limitation also existed for Mayuzumi Chihiro.

Tiandao didn't want such trouble to stay on the court for 20 minutes, so he could only take extreme measures.

Then what about Akashi?

How would he choose?

Pass or not pass?

He passed!

Akashi didn't make people wait too long, very decisively passing the ball to Mayuzumi Chihiro and letting him shoot boldly.

Mayuzumi Chihiro didn't know the weakness of his misdirection; he was only transformed into a shadow this year, and upon catching the ball, he threw it directly into the basket.

"A shadow without offensive ability is a good shadow."

"Not all new things are better than the old ones."

Tiandao taught Akashi a lesson.

Even if Mayuzumi Chihiro's scoring method wasn't Kuroko's flashy phantom shot, vanishing dribble, etc.

But he was scoring after all, and scoring continuously.

Players, including the audience, are creatures that follow the basketball with their line of sight.

As long as Mayuzumi Chihiro keeps scoring, he will always be exposed to the air.

"I don't need you to remind me; I understand this level of causality better than you."

Akashi of course knew that using Mayuzumi Chihiro this way would compress his misdirection time to the limit.

But for Rakuzan, this was also an opportunity to widen the point gap.

The key was that Rakuzan could defend against Kirisaki Daiichi's offensive; this way, even if Mayuzumi Chihiro's misdirection time reached its limit, Rakuzan would have established a sufficient lead by then.

Such a sacrifice was very worth it! ===== CHAPTER 456 =====