Chapter 524: The Sakuragi Army's Big Family

At this moment, the whole world seemed to be quiet.

The fans in the stands around the arena seemed to be cheering and roaring wildly, but Sakuragi Hanamichi felt like he couldn't hear any sound.

Dong dong, dong dong, dong dong...

Still lying on the ground, he could only hear his own heartbeat. Not only was the world silent, it even seemed to turn into black and white in Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes at this moment.

He could see that the basketball falling from the basket seemed to be gray, and Dayao and Odom, who were still standing in front of him like mountains, had also turned into "gray men", and he could clearly see that they were throwing the ball. The expression of despair...until a big hand stretched out in front of his eyes.

A big gray hand.

But when Sakuragi saw the amputated little finger on the big gray hand, it seemed to him that the big gray hand finally began to take on color.

"Hey!" The owner of the big hand's eyes were a little wet, but he smiled at him and shouted: "We won!"

……Won? we won?

At this moment, the color difference in Sakuragi's eyes began to recover quickly, and the whole world seemed to have sound again.

——Supersonic! Supersonic! Supersonic!

--Forest! Forest! Forest! Forest!

——Sakuragi! Sakuragi! Sakuragi!

——Rukawa! Rukawa! The best sixth man kill!

Only then did the deafening cheers in the arena rush into Sakuragi Hanamichi's ears, making him wake up from a dream.

Won...we won!

Rukawa made that buzzer-beater!

The whole stadium was filled with cheers. From the previous insults to the recognition of Rukawa, the SuperSonics fans actually cheered his name...

This guy who has been ups and downs in the NBA for several years, this guy who has given everything to basketball but never got anything in return, finally proved himself on this stage and helped the Sonics win this crucial victory!

And the two people who were fatefully entangled also connected with each other at this moment.

The corners of Sakuragi Hanamichi's mouth finally opened slightly.

Snapped!

He grabbed Rukawa Feng's outstretched hand, but he could feel that the big hand was trembling slightly.

Is it the excitement after completing redemption? Is it the fear when you think about the pressure of that ball just now? Or something else?

Sakuragi Hanamichi didn't think any more, but instead shook his hand hard.

The trembling big hands suddenly stopped shaking and became steady and strong, and then struggled to pull him up.

The two grown men clasped hands and pulled each other, bumped shoulders hard, and burst into excited and hearty laughter.

"Sakura! Rukawa!" Haruko Akagi covered her mouth in excitement in the stands.

"Hahaha, a few years ago, these two guys would have disliked each other and wiped their hands quickly!" Everyone in the Sakuragi Legion also laughed and joked in the stands, but the number of Sakuragi Legion has increased a lot. …

"Don't they seem to be in a good relationship?" This is Takamiya Nozomi's wife, Takamiya Nishiko, a Japanese girl who looks ordinary. Compared to anyone else, standing next to Gao Gongwang was like flowers stuck in cow dung. The beauty of the flowers was immediately highlighted, and she felt so beautiful.

Takamiya Nishiko is two years younger than Takamiya Nozomi. She is still studying at Seattle University. She is an international student at Seattle University, but her family's financial situation is average. She went to a spa shop in Yohei for two holidays to work as a student, and she was actually attracted by Takamiya Nozomi. After catching up, he was already holding in his hand a chubby boy who had perfectly inherited Gao Gongwang's genes. As the saying goes, fat is fat, and his genes are strong...

"It's a long story...Only the people in Shohoku know." Mito Yohei explained with a smile beside him.

"Err!" The fat boy made a curious sound and stared at his handsome uncle Yangping. When his mother was in school and his father was at work, he was raised by everyone in the bathhouse. Uncle Yangping gave him Most diaper changes.

"Haha! Little PPD wants to know too!" Daisy smiled and teased the child in Xizi's arms. This is Okusuo's twelfth girlfriend after coming to Seattle, and PPD is the English name of Takamiya Nozomi's son... Gao Gongwang gave his son a Japanese name, Takamiya Pinti, but Xizi was a top student after all, so he wanted to give his son an English name, but was firmly opposed by Gao Gongwang, who was uneducated but had strong self-esteem.

The fat man even poured water for Xizi's feet at home. He was afraid of the cold when he held it in his hands, and he was afraid of melting when he held it in his mouth. But the only thing he didn't give in to was his son's name. In the end, he had to transliterate it as 'Pindi' and abbreviate it to PPD sounds quite smooth.

"Oh, beautiful Daisy and Nishi, and my brothers, is it time to chat now?" Chuichiro Noma quickly interrupted. Ohkusu Yuji's girlfriends changed one after another, and even Takamiya Nozomi became a positive person. , it’s totally unreasonable for me to be single now. Isn’t it said that the more mature a man looks, the more popular he will be? But I am so lucky to be a woman... I obviously work hard every time we have a date!

The techniques Yuuji taught him about picking up girls were completely useless. Every time Yuuji sat in a corner and put on a melancholy look, a lot of girls immediately approached him. He did it every time!

But...as long as I sat in the corner and put on a melancholy look, even the aunt sweeping the floor didn't dare to come over, and timidly chose to go farther away...Oh my God!

Therefore, the most unsightly thing now is these people showing off their wives and sons. Noma Chuichiro is so angry with his angry face!

"Can't you feel the atmosphere? Let's have fun!" He interrupted everyone's laughter, stood up and swayed while shouting in a majestic voice like a Poro's: "Supersonic! Supersonic! Supersonic!"

But... there are voices that are even louder and louder than his!

"Supersonic! Supersonic! Supersonic!"

This damn duck voice... majestic and heroic, passionate and unrestrained... Whose general is this!

Noma Chuichiro couldn't help but turn his head to look over there, and then he saw a tall black girl, more than 1.75 meters tall, with one foot on the chair in the front row, holding a Supersonic team flag in her hand, very majestic.

But... her weight is also quite majestic, it feels like she is heading straight for 200 kilograms.

Of course, being fat also has its advantages, that is, the chest is extremely majestic. When waving the Supersonic flag, the waves are surging and swaying, just like the waves of the sea, which made Noma Chuichiro stare blankly, and his eyes couldn't be pulled out.

Feeling the naked gaze of the man, the girl turned her head and glanced at Noma Chuichiro while shouting. When she realized that the other party's eyes were locked on a certain part of her body...

The girl was not ashamed or angry, but laughed and proudly puffed her chest in the direction of Noma Chuichiro, winked at him teasingly, and continued to shout in a rough voice: "Supersonic! Supersonic! Supersonic!"

Noma Chuichiro's pupils suddenly shrank. I don't know if it was because the girl was so fierce or because of the girl's secret glances. Anyway, at this moment, it seemed that the eye connection finally met, and he was so excited that his face flushed and continued to shout.

——Supersonic! Supersonic! Supersonic!

The cheers around the stadium were endless.

On the court, other teammates also rushed towards Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede frantically, squeezing the two in the middle, as if the Supersonics had won their fourth championship trophy...

…………At this time, in distant Cleveland.

There were more than a dozen people sitting in the living room of Mike Brown's house. Except for the head coach Mike Brown, the others were all Cavaliers players.

The Cavaliers just finished G1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals yesterday. Even with all five main players off the court in the fourth quarter, they still beat the Wizards with McGrady 137:101.

So today I didn't go to the training ground, but gathered at the head coach's house to watch the game.

Frankly speaking, the Cavaliers have been having various problems this season, and the most fatal one is the distribution of ball rights.

Whether it is O'Neal, the former LeBron, or Wade, they all need the ball to exert their power.

Kidd has been trying to adjust this point, trying to balance the number of shots of these arrogant guys, but it is more appropriate to say that Kidd is in control of this thing. It depends on the opponent's defense.

Some teams are strong in the interior, so they double-team O'Neal, so Wade naturally has more ball rights. Some teams are strong in the outside, so they double-team Wade, so O'Neal naturally has more ball rights.

In fact, no matter Wade, LeBron or O'Neal, after being defeated by the Supersonics at the beginning of the season, what they most desire in their hearts is to defeat the Supersonics. For this goal, even when the ball rights are unevenly distributed sometimes, they all try to restrain their emotions so that there is no conflict in the locker room.

But the ball rights thing is not something you can ignore if you don't care.

With the ball rights, any of these guys can quickly get into their own state and rhythm by scoring, making themselves excited and making themselves indestructible on both offense and defense.

But if they don't have the ball, their habitual style of play will make it difficult for them to find their own rhythm. Even if they repeatedly tell themselves not to fight and that defeating the Supersonics is the first priority, what's the use of just shouting in their hearts if they can't get into shape?

This makes it difficult for the Cavaliers to have five players perform extremely well this season, either O'Neal breaks out, or Wade breaks out, or LeBron breaks out.

Such Cavaliers will certainly have no problem playing against most teams in the league, but if the opponent is the Supersonics, the Supersonics that defeated the arrogant, peak Lakers...

"The Lakers' performance is already extremely wonderful, I didn't expect..."

"Hey, LeBron, can you defend against Kobe like this?"

LeBron smiled.

Although he only returned to the team in the playoffs, the state LeBron showed in the last round of the series and yesterday's game was really too good, so perfect that it was impeccable.

Probably because of Kobe Bryant's off-ball performance in the regular season, he finally broke the Sonics' defense. LeBron obviously did a lot of off-ball training during his time in Japan, which not only did not aggravate the Cavaliers' ball possession problem, but under his neutralization, the team produced a wonderful chemical reaction, making the ball possession that was originally unevenly distributed between Wade and O'Neal suddenly become balanced.

After several games, Wade, LeBron and O'Neal's scores are surprisingly similar, all fluctuating around 30 points, and what's more terrifying is that LeBron's super awareness on the defensive end has driven the team's overall defense, and also allowed O'Neal and Wade to always quickly enter the game state.

When playing against a weak team, you can't tell from the score alone, but Mike Brown, the head coach, can feel that this Cavaliers, who suddenly fit in perfectly, has reached its true peak quietly. !

Otherwise, today's game between the SuperSonics and the Lakers would probably have made everyone here frown.

"It's a meaningless question." LeBron said with a smile: "We can't meet the Lakers. They have tried their best in this game, but they still lost..."

"They may not have the same mental state and courage as they did in this game. The SuperSonics will quickly win this series, maybe 4:1, or even... maybe 4:0!"

"The Spurs can't consume the Sonics. It even feels like they can't get the Sonics to take it seriously."

"Isn't this better?" O'Neal said angrily: "This is how we met the SuperSonics after recharging their energy in the finals! As long as we beat them, no one will say that we just defeated a tired team. The teacher!”

Mike Brown has been listening. A lot of confidence in his players is a good thing, but it can be a bad thing if it's too much.

"The Lakers' offense played well this time, and it can be regarded as exploring the upper limit of the SuperSonics' defense for us. Although the new sixth man has good defensive skills, he is still far behind Payton in his peak era. , the SuperSonics' defense may not be worse than when they won the championship for the first time in the 2002 season, but it is at most the same, and it is thanks to Sakuragi Hanamichi, which has nothing to do with the sixth man..."

"Just avoid the two defensive points of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Lin Dong. The Lakers only have three offensive starting points, and the SuperSonics can't lock them down. And we... have four!"

Mike Brown smiled and concluded: "So I'm not worried about you on the offensive end. LeBron's return and the balance of the ball rights in the team are now. As long as our engine is more aggressive, we will only be better than the Lakers' offense." powerful!"

Everyone looked at Kidd with a smile, and Kidd also laughed. He turned to look at the SuperSonics carnival scene on the TV screen, and looked at the lost Nash: "That guy is still a little greener, and his physical condition is better." Worse...if it were me, even Lin Dong wouldn't be able to lock me down!"

"So the focus is on our defense."

"The Lakers lost because of their defense. They couldn't restrict Lin Dong, and the consequence of the three-man double team was to let go of the Sonics' perimeter, but we..."

This time, there was no need to wait for Mike Brown to speak clearly. Everyone laughed knowingly.

The Lakers' defense not only has a super loophole like Nash, but also Yao Ming himself moves too slowly. When three people double-team Lin Dong, he can only guard the basket and can't even complete an interference. This makes the SuperSonics perimeter There are too many empty seats.

But the Cavaliers are different...The Cavaliers have O'Neal, who is not only a killer at the basket that is as powerful as Yao Ming, but also has athletic ability that Yao Ming can't match. If the situation before the Cavaliers encountered the Lakers, O'Neal can definitely do it Guarding near the penalty area, he can rush to the basket to grab rebounds when advancing, or step outside to block Seattle's outside shots.

What's more, the Cavaliers' overall defense is stronger than the Lakers!

If you want to compare Kidd and Nash's passing and offensive abilities, they may be equivalent, but when it comes to defense... Kidd is more than one or two levels better than Nash!

This is a super tough guy who has been practicing with Payton since he was a child. Even Payton’s understanding of defense came from Kidd. Kidd was entangled in Payton’s death every day. As the saying goes, he has never eaten pork before. Having seen pigs run away, can his own defense be bad?

In fact, Kidd's fame in the league is based on two major methods, one is assists and the other is steals. His defense is definitely at the level of the national team on the back line!

Nash can't guard Iguodala or Rukawa Kaede, but try it with Kidd? Those two young men may not even have a chance to take action!

As the engines of the two teams, the gap on the defensive end is really too big.

As for the others, compared to Doug Christie, Artest, although slightly lacking in experience, is better because he is older and more motivated, and he has a "deep hatred" with the Sonics. The defensive will that can be unleashed is definitely not comparable to that of Doug Christie. This point is undoubtedly the winner of the Cavaliers!

Odom's opponent is LeBron, and even if we don't talk about the improvement after returning from Japan, LeBron's own ability at the beginning of this season is already superior to Odom's, and his physical fitness is also better.

Especially on the defensive end, even LeBron, who has not yet evolved, teamed up with Wade during the Olympics to guard against Lin Dong and effectively restrict him... LeBron, who has experienced the trip to Japan, has improved the most except Without the ball and outside the basket, it's his defense!

The Lakers need three guarantees to defend Lin Dong, but for the Cavaliers, two at most is enough, even if Lin Dong seems to be stronger than in the Olympics.

Mike Brown feels that there is no one in this world who can face the defense of Wade and LeBron at the same time and still be able to do one-on-two, not even Lin Dong!

At the basket, there is O'Neal who can play both inside and outside. On the outside, there are defensive heroes Kidd and Artest. When facing Lin Dong, there is also Janeway connecting!

Frankly speaking, Mike Brown couldn't even think of any reason for the Sonics to win. This Cavaliers is much better than the Lakers!

"We have discussed and arranged the tactics many times. The only thing we need to pay attention to is to be careful of the connection between Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede. This is the only point of the Supersonics that we have not seen the upper limit of. As long as we strangle this pair..."

Mike Brown deliberately stopped here and smiled at the faces of the players around him: "Get ready for your big contracts next year, multi-millionaires, we will definitely be the champions this year!"