"Look at you, getting worked up again." Ken Kaneki spoke unhurriedly. "The third thing I taught Kuroko about Misdirection is using big movements to conceal small ones."
"Big movements... conceal small ones?" Daiki Aomine pondered this.
"Honestly, the real problem is that the Third String players are too weak." Ken Kaneki looked helpless. "Even Kuroko and the others can't create a decisive gap, which is why the Second String players caught on so quickly."
"Yeah, I know, Tetsu's a shadow. You just told me that." Daiki Aomine waved a hand dismissively. "Quit dragging it out. Spit out the rest."
"Can't you think for yourself, Aomine..." Ken Kaneki turned away, speechless, and looked at Tetsuya Kuroko on the court. "Before they noticed Kuroko, the basketball was the most eye-catching thing on the court. Now that they've noticed him, Kuroko himself is the most eye-catching. The Second String players are more likely to focus on Kuroko than on the ball. In a way, that's reverse Misdirection."
Ken Kaneki paused, then continued explaining. "In this situation, Kuroko just needs to use relatively large body movements while running to conceal his relatively small passing movements. He can still pull off Misdirection. At the end of the day, Misdirection is Kuroko's ultimate weapon."
"Whoa! Nice pass!"
"I didn't even notice the ball had been passed!"
"Nice one, blue hair!"
As if to prove Ken Kaneki's point, Tetsuya Kuroko kept moving around the court. Even with two, sometimes even three, players constantly marking him, he lightly tapped the ball with his left hand, sending it to the unguarded Ichiro Hasegawa. Ichiro Hasegawa scored with an open jump shot, bringing the score to 30–30 just as the halftime buzzer sounded.
"Hey, nice work." Kōzō Shirogane had appeared beside them with Shuzo Nijimura at some point. Smiling, he