The atmosphere on the field was so tense that it seemed as if water could be squeezed out of it.
Ever since Kainan sent Yoshinori Miyawasu onto the field, Shohoku has inexplicably fallen into a passive disadvantage.
The key to the problem lies with Hanamichi Sakuragi.
Yoshinori Miyawasu's defensive task was to keep a close eye on Hanamichi Sakuragi.
However, when Hanamichi Sakuragi looked at Yoshinori Miyawasu, who was short and frail, he felt a sense of contempt in his heart and couldn't muster the energy to take him seriously at all.
This negligence gave Kainan the opportunity to widen the score.
Hanamichi Sakuragi made many mistakes on the court. The original stalemate between Shohoku and Kainan, which was only 4 points apart, was being broken little by little.
As time went by, Shohoku's initially slight deficit gradually widened.
When there were only 5 minutes left in the first half, the difference between the two teams had reached 10 points.
At this point, the electronic scoreboard clearly showed: Shohoku 24 to 34 Kainan.
Shohoku's bench.
Coach Anzai suddenly broke the silence and said in a deep voice: "Jack Carter, get ready to warm up!"
Hearing the coach's instructions, Jack Carter stood up without any hesitation and started doing warm-up exercises in an orderly manner.
The movement from Jack Carter instantly attracted the attention of everyone in Kainan.
There was vigilance and a hint of uneasiness in their eyes.
And in the press area under the stadium.
Yayoi Aida keenly captured this scene. She quickly picked up the camera and took several photos in succession.
Her eyes sparkled with excitement as she murmured to herself, "It looks like Shohoku is finally going to send Jack Carter into the game. Next up is a showdown between the two teams. I wonder what the result will be?"
At the same time, the audience also became excited, stretching their necks, eager to see Jack Carter's performance after he came on stage.
They were whispering and talking to each other, their voices rising one after another.
"Look, it's Shohoku's number 9."
"He's going to play!"
"Jack Carter vs. Shinichi Maki, I can't wait."
"I don't know how the game will develop, which is really exciting."
Kainan's team members felt as if a storm was about to come.
They all knew in their hearts that Jack Carter's strength was unfathomable, a truly powerful existence that made people awe-inspiring.
Beep...
A sharp whistle suddenly sounded.
Shohoku requested a substitution.
Jack Carter walked onto the court steadily, his eyes directed toward Hanamichi Sakuragi, and he raised his hand and pointed toward the seat on the bench, his meaning couldn't be more obvious.
Hanamichi Sakuragi looked aggrieved as he dragged his heavy feet off the court. When he passed Jack Carter, he glared at him fiercely, as if blaming Jack Carter for taking away his chance to play.
Jack Carter completely ignored this, with a stern look on his face, and strode towards the center of the court.
At the same time, Kainan also made new moves.
Riki Takato saw Shohoku make a substitution and immediately made an adjustment, replacing Yoshinori Miyawasu with Soichiro Jin.
However, at this moment, the audience's attention was almost all focused on Jack Carter, and they almost ignored Soichiro Jin's appearance.
Tread...
Tread...
Tread...
Jack Carter's footsteps were steady and powerful. He stepped onto the court, glanced at Kainan's players, raised a provocative arc at the corner of his mouth, and said loudly: "Let me see the weight of Kanagawa's number one team!"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the people in Kainan suddenly turned gloomy.
Nobunaga Kiyota was so angry that his face turned red, and he shouted angrily: "How dare you say such a thing?"
Jack Carter just smiled contemptuously, turned a deaf ear to Nobunaga Kiyota's anger, and instead waved to Ryota Miyagi for the ball.
Ryota Miyagi understood what he meant, and with a slight flick of his wrist, the basketball flew accurately toward Jack Carter.
Jack Carter received the ball steadily, his eyes sharp as a torch, and quickly scanned Kainan's defense line, but he was not in a hurry to launch a fast break.
At this time, Nobunaga Kiyota took the initiative to step forward, stood in front of Jack Carter, took a defensive stance, and shouted loudly: "I will never let you do whatever you want, I am the best newcomer in Kanagawa."
Hearing this, Jack Carter raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at Nobunaga Kiyota, and raised the corners of his mouth again, revealing a hint of disdainful sneer, but still said nothing.
This look of contempt completely angered Nobunaga Kiyota.
He felt his anger rushing straight to his head, almost burning away his rationality. "Damn it! How dare you look down on me."
The game officially began in the last 5 minutes of the first half.
Shohoku's roster:
Center, Takenori Akagi, No. 4, 3rd grade. (Captain)
Power forward, Jack Carter, No. 9, 1st grade.
Small forward, Kaede Rukawa, No. 11, 1st grade.
Shooting guard, Hisashi Mitsui, No. 14, 3rd grade.
Point guard, Ryota Miyagi, No. 7, 2nd grade.
Kainan's roster:
Center, Kazuma Takasago, No. 5, 3rd year.
Power forward, Tadashi Muto, No. 9, 3rd grade.
Small forward, Nobunaga Kiyota, No. 10, 1st grade.
Shooting guard, Soichiro Jin, No. 6, 3rd grade.
Point guard, Shinichi Maki, No. 4, 3rd grade.
Bang...
Bang...
Bang...
The timer on the electronic scoreboard began to tick again.
At the same time, Jack Carter began to hit the ball, again and again, with a slow and powerful rhythm.
The sound of the basketball hitting the ground kept entering Nobunaga Kiyota's ears.
Inexplicably, he felt that the sound weighed a thousand pounds. Every time it sounded, the pressure on his body suddenly increased a little, as if he was bound by invisible shackles, becoming increasingly heavy.
A drop of cold sweat quietly slid down Nobunaga Kiyota's cheek, and with a "plop", it dripped onto the shiny floor under his feet.
Just at this moment, a breeze blew across Nobunaga Kiyota's face, bringing a moment of coolness.
But when he came to his senses, he was shocked to find that Jack Carter had disappeared.
Bang...
The sound of a basketball hitting the ground suddenly sounded behind him.
Nobunaga Kiyota's eyes widened and his whole body shuddered. "Are you...are you kidding?"
His voice was trembling and his face was full of disbelief.
He turned his head stiffly, only to see that Jack Carter had broken through his defense, like red lightning, crossing the center line in the blink of an eye.
Kazuma Takasago reacted quickly and rushed forward to stop it.
But just as he stood in front of Jack Carter, before he could gain a firm footing and get into a defensive stance, Jack Carter turned around and nimbly passed by him like a nimble fish.
This series of actions was completed almost at the same moment, so fast that it was hard to keep up.
Jack Carter drove all the way into Kainan's paint, then jumped high, ready to make a layup.
At this critical moment, a big hand reached out like lightning and slapped the basketball in Jack Carter's hand heavily.
Um?
Jack Carter's pupils suddenly shrank, but the movements of his hands did not show any panic or distortion.
Relying on his superb skills and clever control of strength, he used a clever force to dissolve the impact from the big hand and regained control of the basketball.
Jack Carter quickly adjusted his layup posture in the air, retrieved the basketball, moved it to the side and back of his body, and at the same time cleverly blocked the opponent who came to block the shot.
Then, he shook his wrist lightly, and the basketball was like a magical meteor, drawing a graceful arc from behind him, passing over his head and flying towards the basket.
The audience all stared with eyes wide open and held their breath, watching all this.
Under the stunned gaze of the crowd, the basketball flew high, stayed in the air for a short time, and then fell straight down.
Swish...
The net shook slightly and the basketball went into the net.
Jack Carter landed steadily on the ground with both feet, but at this moment he was not paying attention to the goal he had just scored. Instead, he quickly looked to his side.
He saw that next to him was the person who had just blocked his layup, Shinichi Maki.
Jack Carter raised his lips slightly, a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes, and said, "Not bad!"
Cut...
Shinichi Maki snorted helplessly, his eyes full of seriousness. "Didn't you stop me? As expected, I can't let my guard down when facing you!"
Shinichi Maki knew clearly that he thought he had blocked Jack Carter's shot just now, but who could have thought that Jack Carter could retrieve the ball halfway in the air and score with an extremely outrageous behind-the-back shot.
This shooting method completely breaks the rules and has no patterns to follow, making it hard to defend against.
The two looked at each other, without much emotion in their eyes. They just looked at each other quietly, as if they were engaged in a silent contest.
However, the reactions of others around them were completely different.
The crowd outside the stadium immediately exploded.
The audience was completely shocked by Jack Carter's astonishing shot.
"Oh my god! What kind of shot was that?"
"It was actually thrown from behind, and it actually went in."
"Jack Carter's unique shot finally appeared, but I didn't expect it to be even more outrageous this time."
Everyone was talking at once, and the atmosphere was as heated as a burning fire.
Riki Takato stood on the sidelines, with a big "confused" expression on his face.
He couldn't believe his eyes that a player could actually score a shot from behind.
He had watched Jack Carter's games before and seen his unstructured shots.
But this time, he was still shocked.
"Could it be that this is also his normal shooting method?" The more Riki Takato thought about it, the more frightened he became. He gained a new understanding of Jack Carter's strength.
Shohoku bench.
The substitute players couldn't sit still anymore.
They had seen Jack Carter shooting with his back to the basket before, and that had already amazed them.
But this time, although it was not as exaggerated as last time, it still made them dumbfounded.
Jack Carter managed to move the basketball behind him and shoot with a hook shot, a seemingly impossible move, and even scored successfully.
"It's amazing. I'm afraid only Jack Carter can do this kind of inhuman shot." Kiminobu Kogure's voice trembled with excitement.
Ayako breathed a sigh of relief and praised with a look of satisfaction on her face: "He really didn't disappoint us. I thought the ball was going to be blocked just now!"
In the press area at the edge of the court.
Yayoi Aida was so excited that her hands were shaking slightly. She kept pressing the shutter of the camera, and the "click-click" sound was endless.
"I finally took a very valuable photo, it's great. This picture will definitely be one of the best shots of this game." She murmured to herself while continuing to capture the wonderful moments on the court.
Nobunaga Kiyota stood on the court, his body trembling slightly uncontrollably, his eyes wide as saucers, and he felt as if he was in a fantastic dream.
"That guy..." He murmured in a low voice, his heart filled with shock and horror.
The expressions of Kainan's other players at this moment were exactly the same as Nobunaga Kiyota's.
Thinking back to Jack Carter's magical shot just now, they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.
Obviously, the shot had been blocked, but Jack Carter was able to turn decay into magic and "revive" the ball.
Their eyes were all fixed on Jack Carter who was returning to defend, and the same thought came to their minds at the same time.
Is this guy really human?