Chapter 85

With a "Release" from Tiandao Jingyan, he cleanly completed a steal.

Nijimura Shuzo was prepared and rushed up to snatch the rebounding ball immediately.

That clean movement looked as if he had practiced it specifically.

The Musashino Junior High people chased after this Teikou captain like a pack of wolves desperately defending.

After Nijimura Shuzo dribbled the ball across the half-court, he didn't charge toward the basket but walked toward the right side.

The Musashino Junior High people's attention was all on him, and they didn't notice that at least two of them had been led away by Nijimura Shuzo.

By the time Nijimura Shuzo threw the ball out with force, they noticed that their positions were far from the basket.

And Tiandao Jingyan had already strode into the enemy's paint, catching the ball and easily hitting the layup.

Unstoppable, simply unstoppable.

In the face of absolute strength, the wolf pack tactic had no effect. Because what Musashino Junior High was facing was a group of lions.

The high school head coaches in the audience from the Tokyo area couldn't help but shake their heads.

They certainly admired the tenacious fighting spirit of Musashino Junior High, but blindly taking shortcuts would ultimately make it hard to achieve great things.

It was a simple principle: when you spend all your energy using little tricks to disrupt the opponent's offensive, your own offense will gradually fail to open up.

Because Musashino Junior High couldn't stop Teikou's offensive.

As long as Teikou could keep scoring, Musashino Junior High would think more about what method to use to stop the opponent from scoring, forgetting that they were the side that needed to score more than Teikou.

The basketball IQ of the Musashino Junior High players was still too low.

Look at Tiandao Jingyan; his basketball IQ was much higher than theirs, knowing that only by putting the ball into the hoop could one score.

After one quarter, Teikou led the opponent by 11 points, 28:17.

Tiandao Jingyan was 7-for-9 in the single quarter, hit two three-pointers, and got a game-high 16 points plus 3 rebounds and 2 steals, with no assists and no free throws, which showed how secretive these little smart-alecks were with their hands.

Although Tiandao Jingyan had had many brilliant assist performances in previous matches, Baijin Kozo knew clearly that this disciple of his was a total cancer!

To what extent?

His most proud defensive ability was aimed at one-on-one individual defense.

Zone defense, help defense?

Tiandao Jingyan almost never did these things.

Even his assists were always for the sake of showing off, just like when he assisted Aomine's dunk earlier.

The audience's focus was on him, the one who gave the assist, not on Aomine or Murasakibara who completed the score.

Tiandao Jingyan didn't expect that his exquisite acting skills had still been seen through by his head coach.

He never forgot that he was playing under the eyes of a group of spectators.

The problem was, the protagonist here was Kuroko, not him.

The match wouldn't be broadcast in its entirety, only a few highlight clips, which was far from enough for the audience to notice him.

In order to reflect his numerical beauty, he was eager to fill his stats to the brim.

Otherwise, how would the audience know how awesome he was?

In this match, his movements of rushing into the paint to protect rebounds increased a lot, just because Murasakibara wasn't on the court.

Previously, with Murasakibara in the paint, he basically wouldn't rush for rebounds because he couldn't out-rebound that purple-haired brat.

The purple-haired giant baby reacted too quickly; every time Lord Tiandao rushed for a rebound, he would just jump up and find that Murasakibara already had the ball in his hands.

It pissed him off!

Today was better; the purple-haired giant baby was sanctioned by the referee's justice, and Tiandao's enthusiasm suddenly rose by several notches, grabbing 3 rebounds in a single quarter.

If the situation allowed, he would definitely try to get a triple-double, or even a quadruple-double, to give the viewers a wave of data shock.

In this regard, Tiandao Jingyan had quite the demeanor of his idol, James. ===== CHAPTER 87 =====