After the warm-up, Coach Anzai did not make any other arrangements for the Xiangbei players. The starting players were the same as what was said in the locker room. Chiba Daishi played as center, Kakuta Satoru played as power forward, and Miyagi Ryouta and Yasuda Yasuharu played as double point guards.
As for Jinguji Budou, he is a small forward.
From the perspective of Coach Anzai's deployment, the starting team he arranged will completely organize the offense around Budou. Yasuda Yasuharu and Kakuda Satoru do not have offensive capabilities, and although Miyagi Ryouta is very sharp in breakthroughs, when Budou is on the court, he rarely breaks through himself, and more often creates opportunities to pass the ball to Budou.
Chiba Oishi, although he is also an old player of Shohoku and was once the main player of Takeishi Junior High School, whether in Takeishi Junior High School or Shohoku High School, Chiba Oishi played more of a blue-collar role and his ability to attack independently was average.
Overall, among Shohoku's starting team, the only one who has the ability to play singles is Jinguji Takeshi.
Coach Anxi's arrangement was to truly put martial arts on the stage. In the competition before the county competition, Coach Anxi was just confirming the attack power of martial arts, which was a small test for Coach Anxi.
The match with Xiangyang High School was like a midterm test for martial arts.
"Beep!" After another whistle, the players of both teams began to enter the court.
Although Chiba Daiishi is the center, the one who is responsible for the jump ball on the Shohoku side is Jinguji Budou.
When Budou stood in the center circle, Shoyo High School's center, Hanagata Toru, also came in front of Budou. The second-year Hanagata was already very tall, and looked about the same height as Budou, about 195cm, but compared to Budou, Hanagata looked a little thinner.
Huaxing has fair skin and a pair of black-framed glasses on his nose, revealing an elegant temperament that does not match his figure. At this time, he was looking at Jinguji Budo curiously.
Hanagata looked at Wudao, and then looked at Akagi Takenori who was sitting on the bench of Xiangbei. When he turned his head to look at Wudao again, he smiled and said to Wudao:
"Shohoku actually sent a freshman like you to play. It seems that you are stronger than that Akagi Takenori."
"I've watched all your previous games. You're a pretty good center. You've made a huge contribution to Xiangbei's advancement to Shoyo."
"But that's it."
Huaxing pushed his glasses up, his tone full of pride.
In Jinguji Budo's impression, Hanagata is a quiet person, similar to Rukawa, but compared to Rukawa, Hanagata is more active.
But what Wudao didn't expect was that the boy who seemed to be quite quiet in his impression actually said harsh words to him
"You... only said one thing right."
"It's right that I'm stronger than Akagi, and everything else is wrong."
"You, Xiangyang, are just a small stone on our Xiangbei's road to the national level. I can kick it away if I want to."
Wudao replied calmly, ignoring Hanagata and focusing his attention on Fujima Kenji who was standing next to Miyagi Ryouta. The second-year Fujima was estimated to be around 175cm tall, a little taller than Miyagi.
Although his muscle lines are obvious, he gives people a feeling of being thin. However, Fujima is indeed very handsome, with sharp eyebrows and sharp eyes. If he practices for two and a half years, he will definitely have no problem becoming a trainee. When he introduces himself to the audience in the future and says that his hobbies are singing, rap and basketball, no one will ridicule him.
When Wudao saw that Fujima was wearing the No. 4 jersey, he was a little surprised.
Normally, the No. 4 jersey is the captain's number. Now second-year student Kenji Fujima is already the captain of Shoyo, which is somewhat different from Wudao's impression of Shoyo.
The Fujima who was defeated by the ace killer Nan Lie should have worn No. 9. And according to Wudao's impression, in the match between Shoyo and Touou, there was only one sophomore starting player. But now, in addition to Fujima, the sophomore, there is another sophomore.
Thinking of this, Wudao's eyes swept over the other Xiangyang players.
As expected, except for Hanagata and Fujima, Wudou didn't recognize any of the other Shoyo members. Judging from the order of their numbers, those three members should all be third-year students at Shoyo.
Hanagata Toru, who played against Budo, was a sophomore, wearing a No. 9 jersey and about 195cm tall. The power forward who played against Chiba Oishi wore a No. 5 jersey, was about 195cm tall, had a muscular build, and was obviously a size bigger than Chiba. Chiba was talking to the other player with an angry look on his face, and it seemed that he knew the other player.
The Shoyo player who played against Kakuta Satoru wore number 7 and was a little over 180cm tall, but he was also muscular and much taller than Kakuta. As for Yasuharu Yasuda, the Shoyo player who played against him, number 6, was also around 180cm tall, much taller than Yasuda.
When the players of both teams took their positions in the center circle, the Xiangbei rest area was not quiet either.
"Shoyo's No. 5, Shinji Koizumi, isn't he the third-year center of Shoyo last year?! Shouldn't that guy have graduated after playing in last year's winter season?"
"Why are you still in Shoyo?!"
At this time, Mitsui Hisashi was holding a Shoyo's starting roster in his hand, his eyes fixed on Shoyo's No. 5 player who was facing Chiba Daishi, with an angry look on his face.
"Probably... he failed a grade..." Caizi expressed her guess, and after she finished speaking, her pretty face was full of anger.
"That bastard! How could he do that?!"
Akagi Takenori clenched his fists and said angrily, and then he seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly asked Coach Anzai beside him: "Coach, please send us to play when there is a chance. The first-year students Kakuda and Yasuda can't handle such a situation."
In the Xiangbei rest area, everyone knew about the situation of Shoyo's No. 5, and everyone looked indignant.
However, Coach Anxi looked calm and composed, not caring at all. However, he seemed to be unable to bear the noise of the players, so he pressed his hand towards the players and said calmly, "Be quiet, you will see more situations like this when you enter the national competition."
"Don't be so surprised. Trust your teammates."
After Coach Anxi finished speaking, he murmured in a voice that only he could hear: "You can't become good at basketball just because you're old!"
On the court, Chiba Daishi had obviously recognized the opponent and was angrily trash-talking. As for the other Xiangbei players, they didn't understand the situation and were concentrating on preparing for the game.
"Beep!" After a whistle, the referee threw the ball high into the air.
The moment the basketball flew up, Jinguji Budo jumped up from the ground, and the moment the basketball just fell, he hit it accurately. At this time, Huaxing, who jumped high, only had his fingertips just below Budo's wrist.
“So high!
!”
"This guy didn't even use his full strength in the previous match!"
Hanagata was shocked when he saw the basketball being pushed away by Wudao. He clearly saw that he was far behind the opponent after he jumped up, and he had a new understanding of Wudao's jumping ability.
The jump ball was played by Wu Dao, who had an absolute advantage. The basketball flew towards Miyagi Ryouta. Just as Miyagi was about to catch the ball, a green shadow suddenly jumped out from behind him, caught the basketball before Miyagi, and then turned around quickly, advancing to the front court with the ball.
"Um?!"
Miyagi Ryouta looked at the green figure No. 4 in front of him with some surprise. After he reacted, he quickly chased after the other party.
"Go back to defense, go back to defense quickly!"
Chiba Daishi shouted and retreated quickly.
Jinguji Budou didn't expect that just after winning the jump ball, the basketball was actually stolen by Fujima. Miyagi was stolen. This situation has never happened before. However, Budou's reaction speed was also very fast. He sped up instantly and directly surpassed Hanagata Toru who ran a few seconds ahead of him.
"This guy, is he moving so fast?!" Hanagata Toru was running towards the front court with his teammates when he suddenly found a tall figure quickly passing him and chasing after Fujima Kenji who was in the front.
Miyagi Ryouta was chasing Fujima closely, when he suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind him. Turning his head, he found that Jinguji Takeshi had appeared behind him and Fujima at some point, and the distance between them was rapidly closing.
Seeing that the person coming was Takeshi, Miyagi Ryouta immediately gave up chasing Fujima and suddenly slowed down his pace. The next second, Takeshi passed Miyagi and came behind Fujima.
Fujima, who was dribbling the ball in front, didn't notice that the person chasing him had changed. He looked back and knew that the person following him was Miyagi Ryouta.
Facing Miyagi, who was shorter than him, Fujima had no intention of slowing down or passing the ball. He went straight to the basket of Shohoku, then jumped up and lifted the basketball in his hand towards the basket.
But in the next second after the basketball was shot, a figure suddenly jumped out from behind him. The tall figure blocked the lights above the venue and covered Fujima in shadow.
Fujima subconsciously turned around and happened to see Jinguji Budou leap up and grab the basketball he had just thrown with both hands, confiscating Fujima's layup.
"This guy, when?!" Kenji Fujima was shocked when he saw Takeshi Jinguji behind him. He never expected that the tall Takeshi Jinguji not only followed his one-man fast break, but also blocked his layup.
And what was that Jinguji Budou did just now? Did he take the ball off the board? The basketball didn't even reach the backboard, but the terrifying explosive power was enough to allow Jinguji Budou to catch up with the speed of the basketball!
"Miyagi, be careful, this opponent is different from the ones you have faced before."
"I don't want to clean up your ass every time!"
Takeshi Jinguji turned around with the ball and threw it to Miyagi Ryouta who was following up. He pointed his thumb at Fujima Kenji behind him and said.
"Don't worry, it won't happen again."
Miyagi Ryouta was not angry when he heard this. After receiving the ball, he nodded and started moving forward.
Shoyo's fast break was blocked, and all the players began to retreat quickly. After Fujima came to his senses, he also quietly returned to defense. Although the person he was defending was Miyagi Ryouta, his eyes kept looking at Budou who was in the middle distance while defending, his eyes were full of fear.
He had also watched Jinguji Budou's previous county tournament, but Fujima had never realized how fast Jinguji Budou was. Fujima was quite confident in his speed. Jinguji Budou was so tall, but he was able to keep up with his fast break. Budou had never shown such foot strength in previous games.
"Hanagata, can you really stop that guy?!"
Seeing the matchup between the middle-range Budo and Hanagata, Fujima couldn't help but think so in his heart.
Fujima's brief distraction gave Miyagi Ryouta an opportunity to seize the opportunity. Facing Fujima's defense, Miyagi Ryouta quickly accelerated and broke through. Fujima was shocked and subconsciously reached out to hit the basketball. Facing Fujima's steal, Miyagi was already prepared and quickly passed the ball the moment Fujima made a move.
The basketball hit the ground and bounced into Jinguji Budo's hands.
At this time, Budou was standing in the middle distance, about two meters inside the three-point line, with his back to the basket and holding the ball with both hands. The one defending Budou was Hanagata Toru, while Chiba Oishi and Kakuta of Xiangbei were both near the paint area at this time, and the defenders of Xiangyang stood near the edges of the paint area on both sides, controlling the inside line.
"Snap!" The basketball fell, and after Wudao dribbled the ball, his back leaned directly on Huaxing's body. Feeling Huaxing's defensive focus, Wudao quickly turned around and then made a jump shot with a fade away.
Hanagata Toru had never expected that Takeshi would shoot from this position, and Takeshi even deliberately gave Hanagata some physical confrontation before the shot. Facing Takeshi's fadeaway jump shot, Hanagata could only watch and was unable to make any effective interference.
The turnaround and fade away is a classic move of Jordan and Kobe. Using the two-motion shooting rhythm can maximize the player's jumping and air-staying ability.
Wu Dao had practiced this shooting technique countless times over the years.
At this point it can almost be said that the shot is in a wide-open space and no accidents will occur.
“Swish!”
The basketball spun and fell into the net. The first goal of the game between Xiangbei and Shoyo was scored by Jinguji Budo.
"Ohhh, what kind of shooting motion is that?! The fadeaway shot of number 15 is much more than 30 degrees, how can a shot like that go in?!"
"Is this true? A guy this tall can lean back. His shooting range is really far!"
"Isn't that guy a center?! How can he play like that?!"
This was the first time that Budou had displayed this shooting action in a major competition. In the previous match against Ryonan, when facing Shinomiya Tano, Budou had been using it, but that was a practice match.
After the county competition began, Wu Dao also appeared on the court as a center, and most of his goals were scored by layups and slam dunks after using his footwork to scare away the defenders.
This kind of offensive method, like the current breakthrough, is the first time that martial arts has been demonstrated in this arena.
In Kanagawa, where even the martial arts attacking style is not popular in the NBA, it immediately attracted countless exclamations of surprise.
Amid the surprised exclamations of the crowd, Wu Dao calmly began to return to defense. The players of Xiangbei were already used to it and quietly set up their defense line.
On the contrary, the Xiangyang players who were preparing to attack became extremely depressed.
He was 195cm tall, fast enough to keep up with top guards, had strong jumping ability, excellent footwork, and was good at mid-range and long-range turnarounds. When all these characteristics were concentrated in one person, the people of Xiangyang realized that a real monster had appeared in Xiangbei High School.
A monster that could easily penetrate their Xiangyang defense line.
"Shoyo High School, I'm afraid we're going to be in trouble now."
"It's not just Xiangyang who's in trouble, we're in trouble too!"
In the stands, Hainan's coach Gaotou had folded his folding fan at some point, and now held it tightly in his right hand, whispering. On the other side of the stands, Ryonan's coach Tanaoka folded his hands in front of his chest, looking serious, but much better than Gaotou.
"As expected of Jinguji Budo, even though it's just a ball, it's enough to explain a lot of things."
"Whether Shoyo can defeat Shohoku depends on whether they can limit Jinguji Budo's scoring."
"But according to my estimation, Xiangyang probably can't do it. Not to mention Xiangyang, Hainan can't do it either!"
"We are the only ones in Ryonan who have a chance to stop him from scoring!"
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