Slam Dunk: Muguro

Chapter 156 Have you ever seen Kanagawa at four in the morning?

Time slipped through your fingers like sand, and in the blink of an eye, twenty days passed silently.

Six o'clock in the morning, Xiangbei Basketball Hall.

Murasaki was wearing a brand new sports suit and a pair of Air Max 180s.

This is a pair of sneakers launched by Nike last year. With its slender silhouette and visible air cushion design, it has become a favorite of many shoe fans.

In addition, Murasakibara also has a series of sports equipment such as knee pads, wrist guards, ankle guards, and finger guards.

These sports equipment were not purchased by Murasakibara, but were sponsored by the store manager with a mustache.

The mustache store manager has always praised Murasakibara's basketball talent.

Some time ago, in order to increase the sales of sneakers, the mustache store manager decided to make Murasakibara the spokesperson for the store.

The two sides hit it off immediately on this.

Although this endorsement did not bring any extra income to Murasakibara, he was able to use the sports equipment in the store for free.

As for whether it can increase the sales of sneakers, it is hard to say.

In this era, basketball is still a relatively unpopular sport.

On the basketball court, Murasaki was concentrating on practicing Sam Gold's dribbling skills.

After countless attempts, Murasaki finally succeeded in mastering the Sam Gold pass last night.

In order to quickly take Sam Gold's skills to the next level, Murasaki got up early and couldn't wait to go to the basketball hall for training.

Murasaki seemed particularly focused, not missing any details from simple to complex, and constantly repeating Sam's extraordinary qualities.

Sam Gold's steps are longer than ordinary dribbling movements, and he pushes the ball farther.

Although the hand movements of this technique are not complicated, the footwork makes it difficult for many novices to master it.

The essence of Sam Gold's dribbling is pushing the ball and changing direction sideways while moving, which is mainly divided into sudden stops with the same-side foot and sudden stops with the opposite-side foot.

Among them, European players, led by Dejan, like to turn sideways to their opponents and stop suddenly with the same foot.

The advantage of this action is that it is highly misleading, making it easy for defenders to confuse the breakthrough with the same hand and foot, making it difficult for opponents to predict the next move.

As for the disadvantages, since the foot of the hand pulling the ball is in front, if you want to connect and change direction, you need to pull this foot back and take one more step to complete it.

As for the Sam Gold dribbling move that will be popular in the NBA in the future, it mainly involves stopping suddenly with the opposite foot, then changing the direction of the breakthrough, and then using the scissors step to break through at the moment of pulling the ball.

Scissors step: a step in which the front and back feet quickly switch.

The scissors step can not only speed up suddenly while passing the ball to shift the opponent's center of gravity, but also adjust the footwork and complete an emergency stop on the opposite side.

To put it simply, it means pulling the ball with your left hand and braking with your right foot, or pulling the ball with your right hand and braking with your left foot.

The first step after changing direction in this way is naturally to push off the ground.

Since the foot on the same side is behind, you can just take a step forward to connect the change of direction.

Before seven o'clock, the reminder sound that Murasakibara had been waiting for finally sounded.

[Sam Gold: LV1→LV2]

Sam Gold's passing can improve four attributes: ball control, speed, explosiveness and flexibility!
Murasaki practiced Sam Gold's pass again, and his movements became smoother than before.

As Sam Gold's dribbling skills improve, he is able to judge the positions of defensive players more accurately and use the movement of his body and the ball more cleverly to confuse opponents.

At the same time, he felt as if there was a close connection between his hands and the basketball. The basketball was like his other hand, and he had the feeling that he could control it as he pleased.

Murasaki tried other movements and found that they gave the same feeling.

Could it be that Sam Gold’s dribbling through the defense to get promoted could also improve his ball sense?
Murasaki was ecstatic about this.

Name: Mumu Gongyan
Age: 15
Height: 182cm
Armspan: 195cm
Weight: 73kg
physical fitness
Strength: 89, Speed: 90, Physical Fitness: 88, Flexibility: 95, Reaction: MAX, Injury Resistance: MAX, Explosive Power: 95, Bounce: 92
Offensive skills

Ball control: 93, passing: 80, layup: 94, close shot: 89, mid-range shot: 94, three-pointer: 90, free throw: 89, running: 85, organization: 77, dunk: 81
defensive skills

单防：79、协防68、抢断:77、盖帽：68、防守篮板：71、进攻篮板：65
技能：交叉步LV8、急停跳投LV8、欧洲步LV7、转身跳投LV8、极限拉杆LV7、击地传球LV7、后撤步跳投LV7、后仰跳投LV7、背身单打LV7、指尖挑篮LV6、西克玛步LV6、内线脚步LV5、山姆高德过人LV2
Status: Excellent
Evaluation: Core of a strong team

Note: Attributes below 50 will not be displayed!
After the national competition, Murasakibara's strength has improved significantly.

Following the crossover step and quick stop jump shot, Murasakibara's turnaround jump shot also reached level 8.

As for other skills, they have been improved to varying degrees, with the fastest improvements being the lower-level Sikma steps and inside footwork.

During this period, Murasakibara advanced Xikma Bu to level 6 in one go.

When Xikemabu was promoted to LV4 and LV6, Murasaki's height increased by 1 cm respectively.

If he continues to advance to the Xikma step, Murasakibara's height will be able to increase further, and he feels that he can hope to reach 190 cm.

It was also at this time that footsteps were heard.

Murasakibara turned around and saw that it was Rukawa Kaede who came in.

During this period, no matter whether he was in school or on vacation, whether it was windy or rainy, Rukawa would always follow him in training every morning without fail, without slacking off for a single day.

Murasakibara was very satisfied with Rukawa's performance.

Which master doesn’t like a diligent student!

"Ryukawa, morning!"

"Kumure-senpai, it's so early today!"

Rukawa replied that usually Murasakibara would come to training after finishing jogging and usually arrived later than him.

Soon after, Sakuragi and Yohei also walked into the basketball hall.

Sakuragi was still full of energy, but Mito Yohei had droopy eyelids and yawned from time to time.

There was no way out, Mito Yohei was forced by Sakuragi to serve as a soldier.

As for the three idiots, Sakuragi looked down on their strength and said he would not play with them.

The three idiots expressed their approval of this, except for Yohei.

Compared with the three idiots, Mito Yohei's progress is obvious to the naked eye, and he is not much inferior to Sakuragi. As soon as he saw Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi immediately muttered: "Yohei, if you hadn't slept in, we would have arrived earlier than the foxes."

"Big idiot!"

Rukawa Kaede replied concisely.

Sakuragi glared at Rukawa fiercely, and their eyes seemed to collide and produce intense sparks.

"These two idiots!"

Mu Mu spread his hands and couldn't help but think of a funny thing.

Some time ago, Sakuragi discovered that Rukawa always arrived earlier than him, so he started to compete with Rukawa to see who could arrive earlier.

Rukawa Kaede readily agreed.

In order to defeat each other, the two got up earlier and earlier, and finally came to the basketball hall to train at four in the morning.

They were almost going to ask, "Have you ever seen Kanagawa at 4 a.m."

When Murasakibara found out, he immediately stopped their funny behavior.

From a scientific point of view, training at 4 a.m. does more harm than good.

Even Kobe can't train at four in the morning every day. Who can stand that?

After being stopped by Murasakibara, the two had to give up the fight.

Thanks to Murasakibara's "sugar-coated bullet" and the competition with Rukawa, Sakuragi has become much more serious about training and is no longer as lax as before.

In order to compete with Rukawa, Sakuragi increased his training time from two and a half hours to five hours, commonly known as Ryoukunshi.

If they didn't have to go to school, Sakuragi and Rukawa would have wanted to spend the whole day in the basketball hall to outdo each other.

Unconsciously, Sakuragi gradually fell in love with the sport of basketball.

Under Murasakibara's training, Sakuragi's progress is visible to the naked eye, and even Rukawa Kaede looks at him with admiration.

After a period of hard training, Sakuragi successfully mastered layups and close shots.

In addition, Murasakibara also taught him how to use his body to play.

He taught Sakuragi Mirai the GOAT's special skill - the bulldozer style.

Of course, he doesn't teach the crab walk.

It’s not that we don’t want to teach, but that we don’t know how!

With their explosive physical fitness, it would be difficult for the junior high school players to withstand Sakuragi's charge.

Of course, if the opponent has a strong center, Sakuragi's efficiency will be greatly reduced.

This is similar to Amu.

After learning the bulldozer style, Sakuragi's self-confidence was unprecedentedly high, and he believed that he had reached half a step to the peak.

So, Sakuragi made decision 1 - Challenge Oda Ryumasa!
As for decision 2 and 3, we will talk about it after defeating Oda Ryumasa.

While Sakuragi and others began to warm up, Murasaki continued to practice Sam Gold's dribbling move.

Before the Autumn National Games began, he planned to level it up to level 5.

At this time, there are less than ten days left until the Autumn National Games.

"Hey, Mumu-senpai, what's this move of yours?"

Suddenly, Mito Yohei's voice rang out.

Rukawa and Sakuragi stopped warming up and looked at Murasakibara's movements curiously.

"This is the 'whip-off' dribble from Europe, a very efficient way to break through."

Murasakibara did not say that Sam Gold was outstanding, after all, Sam Gold was only 16 years old at that time.

Most importantly, he will definitely join the NBA earlier than Sam Gold, and by then this technique will most likely be named after him.

Well, Kogure Kimiya is awesome!

Samuel Gold can do it, but Mu Mu can't? How can that be true!
Sakuragi showed an interested look: "Kumure-senpai, I want to learn this!"

"Sakuragi, don't aim too high!"

Murasaki flatly rejected Sakuragi's request.

In order to further increase Sakuragi's desire to win, Mumu turned to Rukawa and said, "You can learn from Rukawa!"

"Thank you, senior!"

Rukawa thanked him politely and then glanced at Sakuragi.

"Damn Rukawa Kaede!"

Seeing Rukawa's eyes, Sakuragi felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten shit, but he couldn't refute.

It was almost eight o'clock when the morning training ended.

"Kumure-senpai, I will go challenge Oda after school this morning. Don't forget to watch this genius' famous battle!"

Before leaving, Sakuragi did not forget to greet Murasakibara.

As for Rukawa Kaede, he simply ignored him.

"it is good!"

Naturally, Murasakibara agreed readily. He believed that with Sakuragi's funny personality, there would definitely be a good show to watch.

After Murasakibara agreed, Sakuragi left with confidence.

Rukawa Kaede held his chin and decided to cancel his precious lunch break and join in the fun.

(End of this chapter)