In the game between Shonbei and Yamano, Akagi was the first player to be crushed by Yamano, and his self-confidence suffered a great blow, so that it instantly affected the play of all members of Shonbei, and Ōkawada's suppression of Akagi can be described as a one-hit kill, with his own strength to seriously damage the Shonbei team that had just escaped from the quagmire, and causing such a situation, it can be said that it is more or less Akagi's personal reasons, mistakenly pushing himself to an unfavorable position.

In fact, without Sakuragi's initial discomfort against Kokawada, Akagi would have been suppressed by Ōkawada in the first half of the game.
In the first half of the game, Akagi knew the extra responsibility he had to hold on to, that is, to defeat the core trio of Sanno head-on, at least to defeat Ohida in a 1v1 duel, so as to help Shonbei gain an advantage and enhance the confidence of Shonbei players.
Therefore, it is undeniable that it is true that Akagi first provoked Okawada, after receiving mitsui assist dunk, Akagi had an obvious provocation of Okawada's action, and this also caused the result of Okawada's slightly playful action to mock Akagi later, recall, before Sawabe only verbally ridiculed Okawada, almost directly abolished by Okawada, to be honest, if Ōkawada confiscated the hand, it is possible to directly let Sawabku be absent from the match with Shonbei.
Obviously, Akagi's pre-race cognition of Ōkawada is the least sufficient, although Zebei also once suppressed Ryukawa Kaede, but through the game video, Ryukawa Kaede's perception of Sawachi's strength is roughly a reasonable range, but Akagi is different.
Shonbei ignored a problem, that is, the video of Kawada is considered to be the end of the period of physical changes, his strength in the inner line has not yet reached the peak, and through a year of training, Ōkawada's strength and his body, the same as his body, has undergone a huge change, which is Akagi is not prepared at all, so Kawada almost had a round of attack and defense to crush Akagi, self-confident Akagi how to think that he will encounter such an opponent.
However, it is the lack of understanding of Ōkawada that makes Akagi step into the abyss with one foot, and the reason why Ōkawada did not attack Akagi in the first half is domoto's decision-making problem.
After Akagi provoked Ōkawada for the first time, Ōkawada counterattacked appropriately, and the first round of the two men's mutual trial attack came to an end, and then Kokawada came on the court, and Domoto decided to let Ogawata as the core, which was an extremely favorable decision for Yamano, who never expected to lose.
This somewhat prevented Akagi from playing against Ōkawada in the first half, with both sides concentrating the ball in the hands of Sakuragi and Ogawada, who only assisted Sakuragi Kokawada, but Akagi was also on the verge of falling into crisis early.
Once Akagi took the ball, wanted to single-handedly hit Kawada, but when the two were fighting for strength, Akagi was in a normal state of play, but Kawada coped with Akagi too easily, and deliberately said the sentence "Akagi, work harder, take out all your strength to let me see", these words are generally said by the big villains in various movies, and they have the strength to crush Akagi, and they will have the courage to say this.
At that time, Akagi vaguely felt that the situation was not right, but the two did not have a fierce confrontation, but were avoided by Sakuragi's foul on Kokawada, and then Okawada showed a calm, but also let Akagi's perception of him change at any time, Okawada can deal with Akagi at the same time, part of the energy on his brother Kokawada, Okawada's calmness is also let Akagi's normal heart that was difficult to recover before the game gradually flustered.
And in the second half, The mountain king came up with a full-court pressing tactic at the beginning, Akagi felt powerless, this time and the past is different, although the former Shonbei is often beaten by the opponent without the ability to fight back, but as the core of Akagi can also fight back, he himself can become the last line of defense of Shonbei, but in the face of the mountain king's playing style, Akagi can not do anything.
Until Ansai found a way to crack it, but shonbei broke through the first attack of the mountain king blockade, Ryukawa Maple Sakuragi was blocked by Ōkawada, when Ōkawata took off Sakuragi and the basketball fell into Akagi's hands, the two people facing each other were destined to start a 1v1 duel.
It can be said that the 1v1 duel between the Shonbei Shanwang players was originally supposed to be Liuchuan Feng and Zebei, but in the first half, Zebei was replaced before he entered the state, and Liuchuan Feng also went to rest, and for these two teams, the player 1v1 duel is inevitable, and it is bound to affect the situation of the game.
Coupled with The fact that Shonbei had just pulled a leg out of the mire, Shonbei, who was confused at the beginning of the second half, was in urgent need of scoring, at this time, Akagi was the best choice for Shobei, Akagi also knew that at that time, he was the most deserving of standing out, after all, Miyagi was stared at by Fukatsu, the pressure was already great, Mitsui did not have a wonderful performance in the first half due to physical problems, Ryukawa Maple and Zebei were still in the stage of mutual testing, and they could not always put this heavy responsibility on Sakuragi, Akagi as the most stable scoring point in Shonbei, he needed to take on heavy responsibilities.
And this also caused a tragic result, Akagi crashed into the big mountain of Ōkawada, all of Akagi's singles were prejudged by Ōkawada in advance, Ōeda also showed excellent singles ability, Akagi soon had an idea that he had never thought of, that is, he could not defeat Okawada, but once thought that this idea was very shameful, but this time, Akagi was convinced.
In fact, Akagi's dilemma in the two high school three years of experience decided, if the two middle school period, Ogawada is definitely not Akagi's opponent, because at that time Okawada height has not yet had an advantage, the size has also undergone a huge change, still playing guard, until the first year of high school, the height of the surge, the size of the huge change, let him gradually become an insider player.
However, Ōkawada's more than two years were enough to gain the advantage of suppressing Akagi, and the training mode that Yamano had already formed, coupled with Ōkawada's certain talent, time and place, jointly created the Yamano Inner Line Pillar, which was made by Akagi as a large Kawada that existed in different worlds.
And Akagi? 10 years of hard training, can not withstand the time of more than two years of Dahetian, this is also a reality, you put in more effort than others does not mean that you are better than others, it can be said that The mountain king has achieved Dahetian, using more than two years of time to achieve curve overtaking, Akagi was left behind by him.
In the actual confrontation, Akagi felt the oppression of Ōkawada, but Ōkawada can be said to be at ease, although he had not fought with Akagi before, but it should not be ignored that he had played with many players similar to Akagi, so after basically understanding the rhythm of Akagi, Ōkawada faced not Akagi, but an opponent who had been defeated by him.
Akagi is because he is too obsessed with defeating Ōkawada, making himself a Shonbei version of Yuju, when Yuzumi and Akagi first fought, was Akagi unsealed, is not this the scene, the root knot is not want to admit the fact of their failure, want to defeat the opponent to prove their strength, but as this idea becomes more and more determined, the reality is more and more punched in the face. Akagi also pushed himself into the mouth of the tiger in Ōkawada until he was trapped in it and could not extricate himself.
Fortunately, the dream of dominating the country is still there, coupled with the awakening of Sakuragi Yuzumi and others, the gorilla roars, and Akagi, who admits defeat, becomes more powerful.