Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 72 Retirement from Injury
"Ahhhhhhhh! Muscle alley-oop!" Takeyoshi Netani jumped up in the three-second zone, grabbed the ball in the air and slammed it into the basket.

"Oh oh oh oh!" Takeyoshi Netani, who finally scored a goal, excitedly flexed his muscles and roared at Kaneki Ken who was blocked outside the three-second zone by Taisuke Ootsubo.

"This guy is so noisy, Kenji." Murasakibara Atsushi said impatiently as he looked at Netani Takeyoshi's retreating figure.

"Yeah, it's quite annoying." Kaneki Ken also looked at Negaya Takeyoshi's back with some displeasure, "I'll beat him up later!"

"Kaneki-san wants the ball," Tashiro Heihachi shouted excitedly, "It looks like he's going to personally respond to Neya Takeshi-san's goal just now."

"Hey, Takeshi Negaya." Kaneki Ken had a blank expression on his face. He held the ball high in one hand and turned his back to Takeshi Negaya who was defending him. "I finally scored a goal just now. How do you feel?"

"." Takeshi Neiya was a little overwhelmed by Kaneki Ken's question and didn't say anything.

"Really? You didn't even answer my question. That's really rude." Kaneki Ken leaned back slightly, "Well, let me teach you a lesson. No one can talk loudly to me on the court."

"Damn it, where does this guy get so much strength?" Takeyoshi Netani's eyes went dark after being hit by Kaneki Ken, but his strong desire to win drove him to try to keep up with Kaneki Ken's movements. Kaneki Ken pushed Takeyoshi Netani away, first half-turned to the right with his left shoulder as the axis to shake Takeyoshi Netani's center of gravity, and then turned around and dribbled behind his back to completely pass Takeyoshi Netani.

Seeing this, Taisuke Ootsubo rushed forward to make up for the defense, but it was too late. Facing Taisuke Ootsubo's defense, Kaneki Ken took advantage of the situation and threw the ball hard towards the backboard, making a pass, then jumped up, caught the rebounded basketball, and slammed the ball into the basket with a windmill dunk.

"Well done, Kaneki!" Aomine Daiki excitedly high-fived Kaneki Ken to celebrate, "Look, that big dark-skinned guy was made stupid by you~"

"How dare you call someone dark-skinned..." Kaneki Ken looked at Aomine Daiki's face and said this out of the blue.

"Kaneki, who are you on the same side with?" Aomine Daiki was choked, and turned his head to look at Momoi Satsuki on the sidelines, "You don't care!"

"You're going to die, A-Da!" Tao Jing Wu Yue's pretty face turned red after being hit by Q, "We're playing a game!"

"Okay, stop it, Aomine." Kaneki Ken patted the back of Aomine Daiki's head, "Don't be too distracted, Kasamatsu Yukio is not an easy guy to deal with."

"Captain, what should we do now..." Netani Takenagachi looked at Kasamatsu Yukio with an unpleasant expression, "None of those guys are easy to deal with..."

"Look at you, why did you bother Kaneki Ken for no reason?" Kasamatsu Yukio looked at Netani Takeyoshi helplessly, "Did you get beaten up?"

"I'm sorry, Captain." Takeyoshi Netani lowered his head with some guilt.

"Don't apologize. It's already happened, so find a way to face it. I know it's hard now, but if we give up, we'll all look down on ourselves." Kasamatsu Yukio panted heavily, but his expression remained firm. "No matter what, the original style of play cannot be changed. Even if we can't defend against Teiko's attack, if our own attack can successfully score, we still have a chance."

"Yes!" Everyone in Baishui Pavilion responded in unison.

The game continued to advance with Teiko Junior High School crushing all the way. Although Hakusuikan Junior High School occasionally resisted, they were all suppressed by Kaneki Ken. In such a boring game atmosphere, suddenly, something strange happened.

During one of Hakusuikan's offensive rounds, Kasamatsu Yukio's pass was deflected by Nijimura Shuzo and flew straight out of bounds. "Not good!" Kasamatsu Yukio cursed inwardly, and rushed towards the ball at an unprecedented speed.

"Get out of the way!" Kasamatsu Yukio shouted angrily to remind the substitute players on the sidelines. He jumped up and pushed the ball back into the field. With a loud bang, the Teiko Junior High School bench was smashed into a mess.

"What a great save! We saw Kasamatsu-san desperately pass the ball back to Sakurai Ryo-san's hands... Wait, Kasamatsu-san seemed to be injured and hasn't stood up yet..." On the sidelines, Tashiro Heihachi introduced worriedly.

"Time out!" Seeing that his favorite student had problems, the coach of Baishuiguan Middle School quickly called a timeout.

"Are you okay, Yukio?" Taisuke Ootsubo came to Yukio Kasamatsu as soon as possible.

"I... I'm fine..." Although Kasamatsu Yukio's face turned pale with pain, he still managed to respond, "It's just my arm..."

It was not until then that Taisuke Ootsubo noticed that there might be something wrong with the movement when he was supporting himself on the ground, and Yukio Kasamatsu's left arm was bent inward 90 degrees.

"This is not good..." Muji Tieping sighed helplessly as he looked at the situation on the sidelines, "Although the defeat is certain...but at this time the main point guard has suffered such a serious injury..."

"Alas, the competition has really come to an end." Takao Kazunari was a little regretful, "But to be honest, Hakusuikan has worked very hard to get to this point."

"The game is over." On the sidelines, on the bench of Teiko Junior High School, Shirogane Kozo looked at the flustered people at Shiramizu-kan and said, "Akagi, Haizaki, get ready to play."

Although Teiko Junior High School has called it a day, the huge gap in strength and the impact of the main player's injury still trouble the players of Hakusuikan.

In the end, Teiko Junior High School defeated Hakusuikan Junior High School with a score of 170:95. Kaneki Ken once again scored 40+ in 5x5, the best in the game. It is worth mentioning that Murasakihara Atsushi also scored 43+21+7 blocks for the first time in this game, becoming the first duo in the history of the county competition to have two players on the same team score 40+ at the same time. This also made the reporters who interviewed after the game smell the smell of news.

"Excuse me, Kaneki-san, what do you think of Murasakihara-san's performance this time? And what do you think of Kasamatsu Yukio-san's injury and retirement?"

"You know, Murasakihara Atsushi is an extremely good player. In fact, the other players on our team are also talented, and our relationship is as harmonious as brothers." Kaneki Ken answered very skillfully, "As for Kasamatsu Yukio, I feel very unfortunate, but injuries are also part of the game. I hope Kasamatsu can recover smoothly."

"Then may I ask..." Seeing that the reporter did not get the information he wanted and continued to ask questions, Shirogane Kozo spoke.

"Okay, fellow journalist friends, the interview time is over. Our bus fares are charged by the length of time," Shirogane Kozo joked.

Seeing that they could not find any breaking news, many newspapers left the press conference in disappointment.

"What's wrong?" Shirogane Kozo could see that Kaneki Ken was not in a good mood.

"It's nothing, I just have some feelings in my heart." Kaneki Ken shook his head and avoided Shirogane Kozo's inquiring gaze.

I’m sorry brothers, I broke my promise the day before yesterday and yesterday, because the follow-up reading data here has not been ideal, so I have been revising the outline. Well, you need to give me two more days to think about it. Now I owe you five cards. I will gradually make up for it within the next week. I hope you can give me some time. If there are people who are relatively interested in this book, please read it more. Don’t keep reading it. It will kill me... Alas
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