Monday was another peaceful and calm day.
In the classroom, a little old man wearing glasses was giving a passionate lecture to the students. Jinguji Budo sat at the end of the classroom, resting his chin on one hand, looking out the window, his mind completely distracted from the class.
"I don't know if that boy Sakuragi Hanamichi will wait for me in the park today."
"Looking at the way he looked yesterday, he should come."
"Team training usually ends around 6:30, so leaving 30 minutes early shouldn't be a big deal. Compared to group training, training with Sakuragi alone isn't a waste of time."
Jinguji Wudao was lost in thought when a piece of chalk flew rapidly from the podium. Wudao noticed the flying chalk from the corner of his eye, and subconsciously lowered his head, easily dodging the attack of the chalk, and then slowly turned his head and looked at the podium.
At this time, the old man in class was posing as if he was throwing something. When he saw Wu Dao dodge the flying chalk, he was also stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted, pointed at the blackboard, and shouted at Wu Dao:
"Jinguji Budo, come up! Solve this problem!"
"If you can't do it, just stand outside!"
This old man was obviously a teacher in Japan, but what he said was very familiar to Wu Dao. It seemed that his teaching method was no different from that of teachers in China. He glanced at the question on the blackboard. It was a simple quadratic function. In China, it was a question at the level of a third-year junior high school student.
He stood up and walked to the podium without saying a word. Following the impression in his mind, he wrote down the problem-solving process and the answer on the blackboard.
"Hmm... not bad."
"But it's different from what I just said."
"Pay attention in class and don't be distracted."
The old man nodded first, then shook his head, patted Wu Dao's arm, and his tone was much softer than before. The storm did not come down, which greatly disappointed some students who wanted to see a good show.
After returning to his seat, Wu Dao lowered his head, pretended to read, and began to doze off. Such a class was torture for him, but it would be fine when he was in the second or third year of high school. After all, the questions in the senior grades were much more difficult than the current ones. Although Wu Dao did well in the college entrance examination before, he had forgotten a lot after so many years.
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What does a student who is currently in school look forward to the most
Of course it was the school bell. In the afternoon, when the school bell rang, Jinguji Budo, who had been listless all day, suddenly became energetic. He picked up his backpack, rushed out of the classroom and ran towards the gym.
He is a sluggish student at school and a dragon after school. This is the kind of student that Wudao is.
When Wudao arrived at the gym, there weren't many people there. Wudao had already changed his clothes and shoes, found a basketball, and started doing some simple warm-ups.
In the half hour since the school bell rang, the players of the Xiangbei basketball team gathered in the gym one after another. After everyone arrived, Mitsui Shou began to lead the players in warm-up activities.
As the warm-up was coming to an end, Coach Anxi slowly walked in from the gymnasium gate.
"Hello, coach!" As Coach Anxi walked into the classroom, the players greeted him loudly. This was considered a courtesy.
After finishing the warm-up, under the instruction of Mitsui Hisashi, the players began to line up in front of Coach Anzai.
Looking at the energetic young people in front of him, Coach Anxi couldn't help but smile.
"Did you all have a good rest on this rest day?" Coach Anxi asked with a smile. In response, the players said "good" in unison.
Nodding, Coach Anxi continued:
"Our Xiangbei High School made it to the semi-finals this year, which is a very good result."
"But what I want to tell you is that my expectations for the team have never been just the top four."
"This is just the beginning."
"Mitsui, what is our goal?!"
As Coach Anxi was talking, he suddenly called out Mitsui Shou. Mitsui Shou, whose name was called, did not hesitate and shouted directly: "Dominate the country!"
"What about you?" Mitsui's answer was obviously what Coach Anzai wanted to hear. After nodding slightly, he asked the players.
"Dominate the country!"
Mitsui's obsession had been fermenting for such a long time that it had already affected every player, no matter whether they were strong or weak. When Coach Anzai asked questions, everyone had only this one thought in their mind, even Jinguji Budo was no exception.
"Very good, remember what you said today!"
"The schedule for the semi-finals round-robin tournament has been released."
"Ayako, post it here so everyone can see it."
Coach Anxi encouraged the team's morale and said to Ayako. After receiving the instruction from Coach Anxi, Ayako quickly took out a roll of paper from the drawer and posted it on the wall.
The curious players gathered around and looked at the posted round-robin match schedule curiously.
"Our first game is against Wu Yuan? I heard that the male to female ratio in this school is 2:8!"
"What is your focus?! What about the ratio of men to women? Is this team good? Can we beat them?"
The players saw that the first opponent in the round-robin match was Wuyuan High School, and the discussion became heated. The second opponent in the round-robin match was Ryonan High School, and the third opponent was Hainan. Just looking at the ranking order of the opponents, it actually didn't have much impact on Xiangbei High School.
"This Wuyuan is just average, I haven't heard of any outstanding players."
"It should be far inferior to Xiangyang High School."
"The opponents we need to pay attention to are still Ryonan and Hainan. These two teams are our biggest rivals."
Mitsui Shou looked at the matchup table, touched his chin and spoke to everyone.
"It's all the same. We will meet them anyway and defeat them. Whether we meet them sooner or later, it makes no difference to us."
Jinguji Budo was much calmer about this matchup. In his opinion, there was no difference between meeting the opponent early and meeting the opponent late. Unlike the national competition, the county competition was not a back-to-back round-robin tournament. There were three or four days between the games, so the players had plenty of rest time.
After all, it is a competition between the two strongest teams in the county. If it is a back-to-back match, the results of the game will inevitably be affected by the grouping. The current competition system completely avoids this drawback.
"Okay, stop gathering here and start training!"
Mitsui Shou approved of Budo's idea, clapped his hands, and drove away the players who were surrounding the match table. After a brief period of chaos, Xiangbei's training finally began in an orderly manner.
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While Shohoku High School was training, the basketball team of Ryonan High School, located on the coast of Kamakura, was also training in full swing.
However, their training seems to be somewhat different from Xiangbei's large group training.
"Push them forward, all of you, push them forward towards Shigong Tianye!"
"You should think of him as the Jinguji Budo of Shohoku and the Maki Shinichi of Hainan!"
"As long as your zone defense can limit Tian Ye, you have a chance to limit others!"
"Yueyue, Chishang, hurry up and keep up!"
On the side of the court, Ryonan's coach Tanaoka was standing on the sidelines, yelling at the players practicing on the court. All the players from Ryonan High School gathered on the sidelines, and there were only three people on the court.
Shinomiya Tianye was wearing a white training uniform and blue shorts, and was approaching the basket with the ball. The two defending him were Hongming Yueyue and Ryoji Ikegami from Ryonan High School.
Shinomiya Tano dribbled the ball at a very low height and at a very fast pace. His ability to find opportunities was also quite outstanding. Yue Yu Hongming was just a beat slower, and Shinomiya Tano directly seized the flaw and quickly broke through with the ball. At the same time, Shinomiya Tano also used his ball-protecting hand to slightly block Yue Yu Hongming's pursuit.
Shigong Tianye, who broke through the cross-country and accelerated, instantly opened up the gap. Although Ikegami wanted to follow, he couldn't catch up with Shigong Tianye who had already accelerated. Shigong Tianye, who broke through, rushed to the basket and made an easy layup and scored the ball.
"That won't work! I haven't fully unleashed my speed yet, and my dribbling skills aren't very varied when I break through. If you can't stop me like this, you won't be able to stop Jinguji Budo."
"That guy has more dribbling changes than me, and his mid-range shots are very accurate. He is much more difficult to defend than I have shown at this moment."
After scoring the goal, Shinomiya Tianye seemed to be somewhat dissatisfied with the defensive effect of his two teammates and spoke out. At this time, Coach Tanaoka on the sidelines could no longer hold back his anger and yelled at Ikegami and Konoyu:
"You two, where are your ears? Push them up! Push them up!"
"Even if you can't steal the ball, don't let Tian Ye break through too easily. Don't be merciful with your energy. What I want now is not for you two to distribute your energy properly!"
Coach Tian Gang roared, then pointed at the panting Yueyue Hongming and shouted: "Yueyue, take a break!"
"Afu, go and practice defense with Ikegami."
Coach Tanaoka patted Yoshitaka Fukuda beside him and pointed to the field.
Hiroaki Yuyue walked off the court and was grabbed by Coach Tiangang and scolded again. Jun Yuzumi noticed that Yuyue seemed to be scolded a little too harshly, so he smiled and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.
The players of Ryonan once again turned their attention to the court.
At this time, Shimono's opponent changed players. He picked up the basketball and walked to the center circle, signaling Ikegami Ryoji and Fukuda that they could start.
Then, facing the defense of two people, Shinomiya Tano started dribbling the ball, looking for the defensive loopholes of Ikegami and Fukuda.
The training that Coach Tanaka arranged for the team today was a joint defense training with two players in each group. The offensive team was played by Shinomiya Tano and Sendoh Akira, while the defensive team was randomly selected by Coach Tanaka.
The purpose of this training is to prepare for the subsequent round-robin matches.
After watching Jinguji Budou's performance on the court, Coach Tanaoka had a deep sense of crisis. In order to deal with the threat Jinguji Budou brought to Ryonan High School, he planned such a training plan. The entire training was carried out against the opponent's "vanguard".
In Coach Tanaoka's opinion, it is very difficult to use conventional double team defense to limit the opponent's offense against a player like Jinguji Takeshi. Letting Shinomiya Tano fight the opponent one-on-one may be able to limit the opponent, but at the same time, the offensive firepower of their Ryonan High School will be greatly reduced.
So Coach Takeo came up with this idea and planned to use double defense to consume Jinguji Budo's physical energy.
He had watched the games of Xiangbei, and only Mitsui Hisashi and Jinguji Budou had strong offensive abilities. Akagi Takenori was still very young, and although he was slightly stronger than Uozumi, he was generally on par with Uozumi Jun.
As for Miyagi Ryouta, his offensive ability has not been fully developed, and the other players in Xiangbei are all average in their ability to attack from the outside.
Coach Tanaoka planned to use Sendoh to defend Mitsui Shou alone, let Shinomiya Tano enter the basket to assist Yuzumi in controlling the inside, and the other two players would go to entangle Jinguji Budou. As for the other Xiangbei players, just let them go!
The same tactics and strategies can be used not only against Xiangbei, but also against Hainan.
Coach Takeo has already deduced that as long as Jinguji Budo is restricted by Ryonan's double-heat defense, then Shohoku High School's winning rate against Ryonan will be 0.
However, from the current perspective, Ryonan's joint defense training is not progressing so smoothly.
While Coach Tanaka was thinking, Shinomiya broke through the defense of Fukuda and Ikegami and shot a mid-range shot. Perhaps because of the huge physical consumption, Shinomiya did not make the shot this time.
"Huh~ The defense was pretty good this time. It affected my shooting rhythm."
Shinomiya Tano breathed a sigh of relief, a smile appeared on his face, and then looked at Coach Tanoka. Coach Tanoka noticed Shinomiya Tano's gaze, replaced Shinomiya Tano with Sendoh, and started the attack.
Sendoh's playing style is completely different from Shimonoseki's. His dribbling speed is not very fast, but the rhythm of his dribbling is quite strange, and he also mixes in some small movements when breaking through.
With a simple INout, Sendoh directly deceived Yoshitaka Fukuda and broke through easily. Unlike Shinomiya Tano's style of rushing to the basket, Sendoh had no intention of going inside after the breakthrough. After getting a little shooting space, he shot directly from outside the three-point line.
The basketball flew towards the basket, hit the edge of the basket, bounced a bit and fell to the floor. Although Sendoh's shot was weak, Coach Tanaoka frowned and reminded Fukuda loudly not to fall for Sendoh's fake moves.
If the breakthrough of Shimoya Tanabe just now was based on speed, then the breakthrough of Sendoh now requires more technique.
Regardless of whether it is the breakthrough method simulated by Shinomiya Tano or the breakthrough method simulated by Sendoh Akira, they are both possessed by Jinguji Budo!
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Far away in Shohoku, Jinguji Budo had no idea that his fighting style was being studied and analyzed.
Around six o'clock in the evening, Takeshi Jinguji said goodbye to his teammates early and rushed to the park where he had agreed to meet Hanamichi Sakuragi.
By the time Jinguji Budou hurried to the park court, Sakuragi Hanamichi had already arrived and was practicing dribbling. On the side of the court, Mito Yohei, Takamiya Nozomi and others were sitting in the open space under the basket, watching Sakuragi Hanamichi practice.
The light blue vest that Sakuragi Hanamichi was wearing was tightly attached to his skin, and the sweat had turned his chest and back dark blue. It was obvious that Sakuragi had been practicing for a while before Budo came.
"This guy... is beyond my expectations!"
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