In the basketball hall of Takeishi Junior High School, a handsome boy ran up to Rukawa Kaede and talked about the practice match between Shohoku High School and Ryonan High School.
Rukawa, who was practicing basketball, paused when he heard this. He put the ball down, turned his head and looked at the junior and asked, "You mean... in the practice match between Xiangbei and Ryonan, Ryonan High School with Shinomiya Tano was defeated?"
“That guy even got 55 points?”
For the first time, Rukawa's dead face had such a big expression. It was the first time that Ichiro Mizusawa saw such a surprised look on Rukawa's face. In Ichiro Mizusawa's impression, no matter what happened, the captain Rukawa always had a cool expressionless look. This time, there was such a big emotional fluctuation, which was enough to explain Rukawa's mood at the moment.
It was no wonder that Rukawa was so surprised. Rukawa knew more about Shinomiya Tano than martial arts, because Takeishi Junior High School had played against Yokota Junior High School many times in previous competitions, and Shinomiya Tano, in Rukawa's mind, was an enemy that he had to overcome.
Wudao and Rukawa are familiar with each other. Wudao practiced basketball with Rukawa several times when they were in junior high school. However, in Rukawa's impression, although Wudao is strong, he is still inferior to Shinomiya Tano.
But from what he heard from Ichiro Mizusawa at this time, the martial arts master who joined Shohoku and displayed in official competitions was much stronger than the person he had imagined.
Being able to score 55 points to help the team win, Rukawa Kaede didn't believe that Ryonan High School's Shigong Tianye would leave Wudao alone. Under such circumstances, Wudao still got so many points, which means that the powerful Shigong Tianye could not suppress Wudao's attack at all.
Rukawa Kaede still remembers how the Takeishi Junior High School he led was beaten by the Yokota team led by Shinomiya Tano in the game in his second year of junior high school.
As the main scorer at that time, he only scored a total of 9 points in the game. Such a score might be considered good for other players, but for a ace like Rukawa who averaged about 30 points per game, it was a shame.
"Ryukawa-senpai, Budo-senpai, and Mitsui-senpai are really amazing. It's a pity that I have never played basketball with these two seniors."
"It would be great if I could see these two compete!"
Mizusawa Ichiro looked out the window, his eyes full of longing. He is now in the second grade of junior high school. He is three years younger than Mitsui Shou and two years younger than Budo. When he joined Takeishi Junior High School, Mitsui Shou had just joined Xiangbei High School. Therefore, he had only heard of Mitsui Shou's name from a few seniors.
As for Budo, he was already in the third grade at that time. Due to the influence of the suspension, Budo appeared on the court very rarely. He only knew that the director of the judo club at that time had been a member of the basketball team. His impression of Budo's basketball level was only that he had helped the team enter the national competition together with Mitsui Hisashi.
But at this time, Ichiro Mizusawa heard that Takeshi had scored 55 points in the practice match with Ryonan, which greatly changed Mizusawa's impression of Takeshi.
It turns out that their predecessors at Takeishi Junior High School were all such strong men!
After a brief moment of surprise, Rukawa Kaede's expression returned to his usual calmness. He lowered his head, looked at the basketball in his hands, rubbed his hands, dribbled on the spot, and then threw the basketball in his hands into the basket.
When Rukawa Kaede was shooting, what was in his mind was the duels he had had with Jinguji Budou.
He suddenly realized that he seemed to know very little about martial arts.
"Senior, what's wrong with you? Senior?" Seeing that Rukawa seemed to be in a daze, Ichiro Mizusawa stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Rukawa's eyes.
Rukawa came back to his senses, glanced at Mizusawa, and said calmly, "Gather and train."
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Some teams are very concerned about the results of the practice match between Xiangbei High School and Ryonan High School, but there are also some teams that do not care about the results of the game between these two teams.
The strongest team in Kanagawa Prefecture, the Kainan University Affiliated School, which is known as the king, is a team that does not care about the results of the game. Although some players have heard about the news of this practice match, no one in the team pays attention to it.
Except for Hainan's coach Gao Touli who asked a few questions, the team members didn't take it seriously.
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Hanging high in the sky on a hot summer day.
In the new week, the training of the Xiangbei High School basketball team officially began.
According to Mitsui's training plan, most of Monday's training is physical training. In his words, after the weekend, the players need a high-intensity physical training to quickly get into training mode.
In the Xiangbei basketball hall, the players were divided into groups of four and performed a full-court sprint.
Ayako sat behind a small desk on the sidelines of the court, holding a stopwatch in her hand, loudly encouraging the players in training. On the desk was a notebook. After the players completed a round of sprint, Ayako would record the players' sprint results in the notebook.
Beside her, Coach Anxi sat quietly on the bench with a cup of hot tea at hand. However, Coach Anxi's eyes were not on the players training on the court, but on the tactical board in his hand, drawing lines on it with a black pen, and moving the pieces on the tactical board from time to time, as if he was doing some deduction.
Today, Coach Anzai behaved very abnormally. In the past, when the Xiangbei players were training, Coach Anzai would usually just watch quietly from the sidelines. Or if there was something else, the training would be entirely handled by Mitsui Shou. He rarely fiddled with the tactical board when the players were training, and as for tactical deduction, that was even more unheard of.
Ever since Coach Anxi took over as coach of Xiangbei High School, he has not done tactical simulations or anything like that!
"Teacher Anxi, what are you doing?"
On the court, the players entered a short break after completing a round of sprinting. Taking advantage of this moment, Ayako saw the movements of Coach Anzai beside her and couldn't help but ask curiously. Ayako was from Fuqiu Junior High School and joined the basketball team as a team manager purely because of her hobby.
Seeing that Coach Anxi seemed to be deducing tactics at this time, Ayako couldn't help but feel curious.
"I'm formulating offensive tactics for the kids."
"It's time for us at Xiangbei High School to change!"
“Hohohoho!”
Coach Anzai simply replied and then burst into laughter. Upon hearing this, Ayako also silently closed her mouth, poked her head out, and looked at the tactical board.
Although Ayako has just entered Xiangbei for a short time, she has watched quite a lot of games and knows a lot about basketball. After entering Xiangbei High School, Ayako actually has a vague understanding of the strength of Xiangbei High School basketball team.
The players of Xiangbei High School are not weak. Akagi Takenori, the center, is also a top player in the county. As for Mitsui Shou, it goes without saying that he is the core of any team in the county.
The new members who joined this year are Takeshi Jinguji and Ryouta Miyagi, one is a terrifying scorer who can score 55 points in a single game, and the other is an excellent backcourt core.
But what is strange is that Ayako feels that although Shohoku High School has so many excellent players, it always stumbles when playing against Ryonan High School.
This stumbling feeling was not because of how strong the players of Ryonan were, but because Xiangbei played without any rules. Although Xiangbei High School won the practice match with Ryonan, it was only because the players played well and were strong, not the team.
When Ayako heard what Coach Anzai said, she also realized what Xiangbei High School lacked.
Xiangbei High School does not have a real offensive tactic.
Relying on Mitsui and Budo to work alone is not a strategy at all. After all, personal ability is limited, and personal performance also has ups and downs. If a team relies on a certain player to play alone, then this team will never be able to become a top team.
As for Shohoku High School, if they still rely on Mitsui Hisashi or Budo's singles to complete their offense in subsequent games, it will be unknown whether they can enter the national competition, let alone dominate the country.
Xiangbei's offense is very deformed. It doesn't have the pastor-god connection like the future Hainan, nor does it have a tall man system like Xiangyang. Xiangbei's tactics are very simple and rough. Mitsui Shou plays one-on-one, Jinguji Budou plays one-on-one, Akagi plays one-on-one, and that's it~
According to the original plot, it would be Rukawa playing one-on-one, Akagi playing one-on-one, and Mitsui shooting, and that's it.
Xiangbei's skills and tactics were so poor that when Xiangbei played against Sannoh, Akagi gave Mitsui a high-post pick-and-roll, which could be regarded as the highlight of the game.
All this, of course, is due to Coach Anzai's inaction. Before Sakuragi and Rukawa joined Shohoku, or before Sakuragi Hanamichi said to Coach Anzai, "My most glorious time is now!", Coach Anzai had never really coached the Shohoku team.
But now, Coach Anxi seems to be aware of the current problems of Xiangbei, and he is seeking change.
After a long time, Coach Anxi seemed to have become a deduction, and slowly raised his head. On his chubby face, his brows relaxed, and looking at the players on the field, Coach Anxi showed a gentle smile on his face.
"Ayako, let the players stop for a while." Coach Anxi said softly to Ayako beside him, then stood up from the bench with his hands behind his back.
“Beep!
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"Everyone stop and gather, the coach has something to say!"
Ayako put down the stopwatch in her hand, blew the whistle hanging on her chest, and called out to the players on the field. All the Xiangbei players stopped training, looked at each other in confusion, and then slowly gathered off the field.
"Coach Anzai, what's wrong? Is there any problem with the training?" Mitsui Hisashi was the most active among all the players. When he heard Ayako say that Coach Anzai had something to say, he rushed to Coach Anzai and asked.
"Oh, Mitsui, there's no problem with the training. I have some ideas that I want you to realize."
Coach Anzai said with a smile, and the sharp-eyed Mitsui Shou immediately glanced at the tactical board placed next to the bench. Looking at the black pen marks on the tactical board, Mitsui Shou suddenly became excited.
"Hurry up! Gather together, what are you dawdling for?"
Mitsui Shou shouted loudly to the players behind him, and then immediately stood obediently in front of Coach Anzai.
After all the players of Xiangbei gathered in front of Coach Anxi, Coach Anxi began to scan the players one by one.
"Classmates, we won against Ryonan High School in the practice match a while ago."
"But one victory doesn't show how strong we are."
"On the contrary, that practice match exposed many of our problems."
"The players don't switch defenses in time, the double-teams are not decisive, and only a limited number of players have the ability to output firepower during offense. These are the problems we are facing now."
Although Coach Anxi's tone of voice seemed quite gentle, the faces of the players who heard his words turned serious.
Miyagi, who had been staring at Ayako, turned around and looked at Coach Anzai with a serious expression. Mitsui Hisashi, Akagi and others nodded and waited for Coach Anzai's next words.
"Although we have many problems in Xiangbei, these problems are not unsolvable."
"There is still some time before the county competition trials. We should use this time to strengthen our shortcomings."
"First, let's start with the offense!"
As he spoke, Coach Anxi turned around, picked up the tactical board from the bench, and waved to everyone: "Come over here!"
When Budo saw Coach Anxi holding the tactical board, he couldn't help but take a few steps forward and approached curiously. In Budo's impression, the days when Coach Anxi held the tactical board were very few and far between. At least during the time that Budo entered Xiangbei, he had never seen Coach Anxi holding the tactical board.
"In the next period of time, I need you to practice a new offensive tactical running position."
Coach Anxi started drawing on the tactical board. He used small circles with numbers to represent his players. He drew a number 3 in the center circle, and then drew a number 1 about two meters away from the left side of the three-point line at 45 degrees. He drew a number 2 about one meter away from the other side of the three-point line. On the same side, he drew a number 4 on the free throw line in the paint area. At the bottom of the diagonal corner, he drew a number 5.
“What is this?”
Mitsui Hisashi and others looked at the tactical board and saw Coach Anzai drawing circles at various places on the tactical board. They all looked at Coach Anzai in confusion.
Only Jinguji Budo was looking at the player distribution on Coach Anxi's tactical board, and he felt a strong sense of familiarity. He seemed to have seen this kind of tactical distribution somewhere before.
"Miyagi, Mitsui, Budou, Chiba, Akagi, all look at your positions."
Coach Anzai pointed to number three in the center circle and called Miyagi's name, pointed to number one and called Mitsui, pointed to number two on the other side and called Takenori, number four was Chiba, and number five at the bottom was Takenori Akagi.
Afterwards, Coach Anxi pointed to Miyagi's number three and put a black dot on it, which was regarded as a basketball.
"You all need to remember this position."
"The one advancing with the ball is Miyagi."
"When the attack starts, Miyagi, you have to pay attention to the positions of Mitsui and Budou. If they are open, pass the ball immediately and let them finish the game."
"If both Mitsui and Budo have defenders, then..."
As he spoke, Coach Anzai looked at Akagi and Chiba.
"Chiba, Akagi, your mission is to provide pick-and-roll support for Takeshi and Mitsui Shou, and to provide them with opportunities to break through when they have the ball."
"Budo, Mitsui, if one of you breaks through with the ball, the other one needs to move inside. If the other side has an open opportunity, pass the ball to them immediately. If not, the one running without the ball needs to cross the baseline and run in a V shape to the other side."
"During this period, if either of you has space to shoot, you can do it at the first opportunity."
While speaking, Coach Anzai drew on the tactical board with a black pen, marking Budo's No. 2, with two lines extending in front. One line was along the three-point line, penetrating into the inside and ending directly, and the other line went straight into the inside, and then extended from the inside to the position of Mitsui Hisashi's No. 1 at this time.
The two lines mark two situations of Wu Dao. One is that the pick-and-roll goes well and Wu Dao breaks into the inside to score. The other is that he cuts in without the ball and runs to the other side to seek opportunities.
On Wudao's new route, Chiba Daishi and Akagi Takenori are both on the route. Both of them can provide Wudao with pick-and-roll support and give Wudao space to catch the ball and shoot.
Although the example is taken from martial arts, the way Mitsui Hisashi, who is in another position, moves is the same as martial arts.
In other words, Coach Anzai's tactics were built around Takeshi and Mitsui Hisashi, reducing Akagi and Chiba to pick-and-roll tools, giving Takeshi and Mitsui Hisashi more comfortable shooting space.
After Coach Anxi drew out the players' routes of action, Wudao finally understood what Coach Anxi's tactics were!
"This is... the Warriors... No, this era should be the Suns' bombardment and screen shooting."
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