Chapter 28 - Tokiwadai vs. Meiho, Part 1 (2/2)
Aone's guard: ”What!”
The audience in the stands 'oohed' at the assist.
Aone caught the ball and moved towards the hoop. Nebula tried to go in for a block but was screened out by Otsubo. Aone scored easily with the lack of defense.
The crowd cheered at the smooth play by Shun and Aone.
Shun: 'We are going to score from the outside today, but that doesn't mean that Tokiwadai inside is going to be idle. It will be a waste when both of our inside players are so heated up today.'
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Akashi: ”That was an excellent assist, he drew in the defender and then passed at the best time.”
Kuroko: ”I was sure that he was going to shoot; he has a good court vision.”
Kuroko couldn't wait to play against Tokiwadai.
Aomine looked at Kuroko and smiled,
Aomine: 'Kuroko looks cold on the outside, but he runs hot inside.'
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Ishida shot the ball from mid-range, but he missed.
Nebuya moved in front of Otsubo; the ball had three people rebounding after it. Nebuya jumped full force and caught the ball, the impact from his jump pushed Otsubo and Aone back a little.
He threw the ball to the small forward, who dribbled his way to the basket. He was met by Ishida, the moment Ishida got close, the small-forward passed the ball to the power-forward, but the pass was intercepted by Mibuchi.
Mibuchi got inside and shot from mid-range, the shooting guard jumped to contest but Mibuchi who was in his 'Earth' form, drew a foul while sinking the shot.
Mibuchi sank the free-throw with ease and gained his team three points.
At Meiho's side, Nebuya ordered the point guard.
Nebuya: ”Give me every ball till the end of this quarter.”
Just as he asked, he got the ball, forced his way to the low-post, and scored three times just like that.
Nebuya wanted to do repeat it a fourth time, but Shun fouled him to force a free-throw.
[A/N: Haq-A-Shaq strategy.]
Nebuya missed the free-throw, and with that, the first quarter ended.
The score was 19-15 in Tokiwadai's favor.
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Midorima: ”Nebuya Eikichi managed to score ten points himself even after having so many guards on him. While the Tokiwadai's points were equally distributed among all the members.”
Murasakibara: ”Wasn't Tokiwadai suppose to be strong, they only have a four-point lead, if it was us, we could have at least a ten-point lead by now.”
Midorima: ”Murasakibara, you didn't listen to anything explained in the meetings, do you? Tokiwadai's game changes drastically in the second half. They widen the gap by a large amount in a short amount of time.”
Aomine: ”Kageyama, still hasn't gone on the offense.”
Teiko looked forward to the game.
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