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* Masami threatens to upload to the Internet a rather suggestive picture of Saki and Subaru at the firing range during the festival. Saki basically tells her to [[Bring It]], to which Masami responds by caving in and deleting the picture.
* With the fifth graders' collective asses getting kicked, Subaru's father Ginga takes over as coach and cooks up a strategy where they take turns shooting the ball and persuaded them to stick through it far smoother than Subaru ever did with the sixth graders. This allowed the fifth graders to compete so well for a hastily-formed team, but Tomoka and the gang held their ground to win the dojo match in the end.
** When you realize how badass Ginga was both [[Famed Inin Story|as a player]] and as a coach and Subaru had to get his own skills somewhere, [[Like Father, Like Son|you now know where the awesome comes from]].
* Subaru's [[Heroic Rematch]] with Ryuichi and his gang.
** After at least a night of bonding with Tomoka, they are now in perfect sync with each other, allowing her to successfully receive his backdoor pass she couldn't before.
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* While the ForM exhibition tournament isn't as great as the regional tournament later on, it also has a good amount of awesome on its own.
** The two Keishin teams and Suzuridani's B-team easily making it to the semifinal is a true testament to the strength of both schools.
** The Keishin fifth graders run-and-gun strategy courtesy of Aoi and taken straight out of Mike D'Antoni and the Phoenix Suns's "Seven Seconds or Less" playbook with the Phoenix Suns. This allows them to set up their offense before the defense could react, and cruise to a halftime lead against the sixth graders.
** Subaru countered the above by reducing their offensive rotations to only three players and have the Saki and Airi duo focus on defense. He has Airi roam around the free throw line to deter penetrations from Mimi and TsubaHii, forcing them to pass to Masami, who will always attempt a long-range jumpshot. Saki then proceeds to slowly take Masami farther and farther out of her shooting range. Masami then responds by making a long range shot from ''near the half court line''.
** Tomoka wins the semifinal game with her own version of the scoop shot, complete with angel wings sprouting out of her back.
* '''THE''' [[Heroic Rematch]] against the [[Opposing Sports Team]] in the first round of the regional tournament.
** Airi and Hinata managing to outplay their respective matchups who gave them a hard time before as Tomoka leads the charge to give Keishin the lead in the first quarter.
** Masami guarding Rena despite the gap in their abilities in order to figure out her playstyle, leaving it to TsubaHii's [[Signature Move|Twin Hell]] to completely contain Rena in the second quarter. She's not even done yet, as she throws this potshot to Rena before firing a long-range shot over her: "''[[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Take this, Rena Ashihara, and choke on it]]'!''"
** Aya [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|calling Rena out]] for her hero ball antics, capping it off with an epic [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: "''Do you want our team to win because of you, or do you want our team to lose because of you?''"
** The fifth graders held Rena to only 4 points and drew 3 personal fouls from her in the second quarter. Maho held Rena scoreless the entire third quarter and drew her fourth personal foul ''all by herself''. Maho pulling off a [[Wronski Feint|hesitation move]] that caused the twin towers of Suzuridani to collide with each other is just icing on the cake.
 
== ''Miscellanous and Meta'' ==
* Hinata's [[Character Development]] is definitely a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in itself. To wit:
** She made the game-winning shot against the boys' team, this time in the inter-class tournament.
** The [[Offhand Backhand|BOSS HAND reverse shot]] against Suzuridani in their practice match, which she does again in their [[Heroic Rematch|official match]].
** In ''SS'', she managed to curb-stomp an opponent who was giving her a hard time before.
* While ''[[Ro-Kyu-Bu!]]'' certainly did not influence the rise of Japanese basketball the way ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' did in the 1990s or the way ''[[Kuroko no Basuke]]'' did in the 2010s, it may not be a mere coincidence that the Japanese women's national basketball team managed to win the Asian championship '''''fourfive times in a row''''' and grabbed the silver medal from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics since the anime series aired in 2011. Special mentions go to their amazing 2017incredible championship runruns in 2017 (with their '''''B-team''''' no less), in 2019 (with their returning veterans), and their silver medal run in the returnOlympics of(defeating theirseveral longtimeEuropean nationalteams teamon veteransthe forway theirand 2019making championshipit run,competitive bothagainst withTeam USA in the gold medal match) under American coach Tom Hovasse as their own Subaru.
 
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