The Kanagawa Prefecture competition has officially come to an end.
The two places to attend the national competition have also been officially confirmed, namely the winner Ryonan High School, and the runner-up Shohoku High School.
This result was taken for granted by some spectators. Anyone who paid attention to high school basketball knew that the players who won the championship last year were still on the team this year. Ryonan was even stronger than last year.
However, some viewers who watched the finals did not think that Ryonan was definitely stronger than Shohoku High School. Many people believed that Shohoku High School, which dared to field five freshmen in the finals, might have hidden strength that was even stronger than Ryonan High School.
These two statements after the game increased the popularity of Shohoku High School and Ryonan High School. Like many people, local fans who just want to watch the game also like to discuss the team's combat effectiveness.
There are many fans of both Shohoku and Ryonan, and the quarrel between the two fans has been going on for a long time. The local media in Kanagawa Prefecture also noticed that this seemed to be a hot topic that could be explored, and specially invited a famous coach to do a special issue analyzing the hard power of Shohoku High School and Ryonan High School.
Even nationally renowned sports magazines smelled this smell and began to hype up this issue when publishing the magazines.
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It is the most important sporting event for students, and the number of people paying attention to high school basketball has increased over the years. The media and magazines will certainly not miss such a hot topic. The more fans of Xiangbei and Ryonan support them, the more money they make.
While everyone was discussing their fighting power, the players of Xiangbei High School had a three-day rest.
After three days of adjustment and rest, Xiangbei resumed training and began to prepare for the upcoming national competition.
During the match against Ryonan High School, Miyagi Ryouta collapsed due to the pressure, but after adjustments, the young man returned to the court full of fighting spirit.
Young people will always encounter some setbacks on their road to growth. After overcoming them, they will become tougher and stronger.
Miyagi Ryouta is a young man who has overcome a hurdle!
Now, Miyagi Ryouta has fully realized that his height is indeed short in the field of basketball, and this is indisputable.
But Miyagi Ryouta also believed that there were always some things that he could get through hard training. In other words, there were always some things that he could touch with his talent.
He felt he had not yet reached his limit.
Shooting, breaking through, speed, dribbling, passing, Miyagi Ryouta feels that he can do a lot of things on the court. Things that he couldn't do before, he will definitely be able to do with his efforts.
Miyagi Ryouta, who had no confusion in his heart, decided to devote himself completely to basketball. As for how far he could achieve, he would leave it to fate!
What he has to do now is to help Xiangbei High School win the national championship!
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“Run, run!”
"A first-year student, at this speed, can you keep up with me?!"
A practice match is going on in the Xiangbei basketball hall.
Miyagi Ryouta was running wildly on the court with the ball. Behind him, Katsume Ichiro was left behind. No matter how fast he ran, he could not catch up with Miyagi Ryouta's fast break.
Miyagi Ryouta quickly dribbled the ball into the inside and while shouting, he made a layup and sent the ball steadily into the basket.
"oh!"
After scoring the goal, Miyagi Ryouta roared passionately, pounded his chest hard, and quickly returned to the court to defend.
On the sidelines, Coach Anzai looked at the active Miyagi Ryouta and nodded slightly.
"Miyagi has completely surpassed his former self. Now he no longer has any confusion in his heart."
"You're going to be a great player, Miyagi..."
Coach Anxi thought to himself that he was very satisfied with Miyagi's performance.
"Well done, Miyagi!"
Beside Coach Anzai, Ayako cheered happily for Ryouta Miyagi. She also noticed the change in Ryouta Miyagi and was very happy that Ryouta Miyagi could regain his confidence.
However, at this moment, the door of the gymnasium was opened, and a girl in school uniform and a middle-aged man in a suit walked into the gym.
The arrival of the two of them did not attract the attention of the players on the field, as they all focused their attention on the field. The spectators on the sidelines also ignored the outsiders who entered the stadium at this time. To them, it was already nothing strange.
Shohoku High School is quite famous in Kanagawa Prefecture. There are always some strange people sneaking into Shohoku High School to do interviews and so on.
However, when Coach Anxi saw the people coming, he stood up and walked towards the girl and the middle-aged man.
At this moment, the offense and defense were changing on the court. After several passes, the basketball fell into the hands of Jinguji Budou, and the one defending Jinguji Budou was Rukawa Kaede.
In Xiangbei's internal team practice matches, students from all grades were divided into staggered teams.
On the Jinguji Budo team were first-year Katsume Ichiro, third-year Chiba Oishi, third-year Kogure Kiminobu, and Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Budou and his opponents are Mitsui Hisashi, Akagi Takenori, Miyagi Ryouta, Rukawa Kaede and fellow first-year student Nango Koichiro.
The purpose of coach Anxi's team practice is mainly to enable the players to adapt to different teammates and develop tacit understanding. The back-to-back competition system of the national competition means that the players need to cooperate with different teammates.
"Oh! Is that Jinguji Budo? He is really tall!"
"Is that the man Mike was talking about, the famous 'Yellow Storm'?"
"I think it's just a reputation. Shohoku didn't even beat Ryonan. Jinguji Budo's strength is probably not much stronger than Mike's."
While Coach Anzai was communicating with the middle-aged man, a strange girl walked to the sidelines, looked at Jinguji Budou who was holding the ball in the middle of the court, and recognized him immediately.
The girl's name is Huili, she is the manager of the basketball team of Green Wind High School, and her other identity is the daughter of the school director. The middle-aged man who came to Xiangbei High School with her is the coach of the basketball team of Green Wind High School, named Ohfune.
A few years ago, Coach Ofuna was also a nationally famous high school coach, but he later retired due to health problems. But now for some unknown reason, he has gone to Green Wind High School to coach.
Perhaps, this is the power of money.
Oh, right.
Midori Wind High School is a newly established private aristocratic school in Kanagawa Prefecture. The school focuses on further studies and studying abroad, and the tuition is quite expensive. However, this year, because the school director's daughter Eri likes basketball, they started to form a basketball team.
The Green Wind basketball team, from the coach to the players, were all brought in from various places by Huili at great expense.
Although this new team was unable to participate in the county competition because it had just been established, according to Huili's own positioning of his team, that is - Green Wind High School, has the potential to dominate the country.
Today, she and Coach Ofuna came to Xiangbei High School for no other reason than to arrange a practice match between Green Wind and Xiangbei to prove that Green Wind really has the qualities to dominate the country.
As for why they didn't go to Ryonan High School, the reason is very simple. It's because Green Wind's current ace player, the Eurasian mixed-race Mike Okita who was just about to return from the United States, specifically asked to play a practice match with Shohoku High School.
Eri also asked the reason on the phone and learned that the current ace player of Shohoku High School, Takeshi Jinguji, had actually played in the United States and even made a big name for himself in the United States.
This was something Huili had not thought of at first. Although she liked basketball, she did not have much passion for it, so it was impossible for her to specifically investigate the resume of a team's ace player.
Although she is not a big fan of basketball, Eri still has some common sense. She is still very curious about Jinguji Budo who can make such a big name in the United States.
When he came to the Shohoku gym this year, he recognized Jinguji Budo at first sight.
At this time, Wu Dao had no idea that there was a "young lady" watching him play basketball. His attention was all on Rukawa Kaede.
In today's practice match, Rukawa was full of fighting spirit. Just like now, Rukawa did not relax for a moment when defending. He took small steps to adjust his defensive posture and put one hand in front of Wudao's eyes, as if he was trying to interfere with Wudao's shooting.
“Nice move.”
"Ryukawa Kaede's defensive skills are becoming more and more solid."
Wu Dao thought to himself, a smile appeared on his face, and then he quickly dropped the ball and broke through to the left. At the moment when Rukawa Kaede slid to follow up, he changed direction in front of his body and changed the direction of his advance.
However, Budo's transformation only lasted for a moment. At the moment when Rukawa Kaede readjusted his position and followed, Jinguji Budo turned his back to the left with one hand, transformed himself again, and successfully crossed Rukawa Kaede's defense line.
"What a fast movement! And very smooth, without any pauses!"
Coach Ofuna, who was talking with Coach Anxi at this time, was also distractedly looking at the court. When he saw the moment of martial arts breakthrough, his eyes immediately lit up and he widened his eyes slightly.
On the court, Rukawa would not give up the pursuit so easily. After being surpassed by Wudao, Rukawa immediately turned around and ran to follow, not wanting to let Wudao easily enter the inside and score a layup.
However, just when Rukawa Kaede completely adjusted his posture to chase, Jinguji Budo suddenly stopped and then made a jump shot with a fade away.
Rukawa, who was chasing hard, failed to brake in time and was misaligned with Budo who suddenly stopped. Not to mention blocking the shot, he couldn't even interfere.
“Bang!”
“Swish!”
The basketball hit the side of the backboard and went into the net, making a slight sound.
As Wudao scored the goal, the Xiangbei players who were watching the game around the court cheered loudly, looking excited, as if they had scored the goal themselves.
"Well, Rukawa, the most important thing when defending against an opponent like me is your own rhythm."
"You must not be led by others. You must have your own defensive rhythm and know how to make choices."
“Know which balls to defend and which balls not to defend.”
Wudao watched the basketball go into the net and said to Rukawa Kaede with a smile.
Rukawa has very good skills and beautiful defensive moves, but from a martial arts perspective, he tries too hard and uses too much force, leaving him with no energy to adjust to his opponent's changes.
"snort."
"I want to defend all your balls!"
Rukawa Kaede snorted lightly, his lips didn't move much, but the words floated into Wudao's ears.
“Hey!”
“That’s the problem!”
"You try to defend every ball, but in the end, you can't defend any ball."
"In this regard, Ryonan's Shinomiya Tano did a very good job. He knew how to make choices and would sacrifice some follow-up opportunities to gain some strength so that he could adjust his posture in time."
"Ryukawa Kaede, if you don't understand this, you won't be able to defend against me, let alone some strong opponents!"
Jinguji Takeshi said earnestly.
The Kanagawa Prefecture tournament has ended, and Shohoku is in second place with no seeding.
This result is exactly the same as in Wudao’s memory.
Therefore, even though the match schedule for the national competition has not yet been released, Wudao already knows what kind of opponents they will be facing.
In the first game, the opponent should be Toouou High School, which focuses on run and gun. With Shohoku's strength, if they are a little bit wary of the opponent's hidden elbows and don't get hurt, victory can be easily grasped.
The second game will undoubtedly be between Sanno Industrial and Ryonan. Although Sanno was defeated by Ryonan before and no longer has the dominant position, they are still the strongest in Akita Prefecture and will definitely get the seeded spot, so they will meet the unseeded Shohoku in the second game.
If Shohoku is lucky enough to defeat Sannoh, then Shohoku will have to face Aiwa Academy led by the star of Aichi, Moroboshi Dai.
Originally, Xiangbei High School was defeated in this game.
Only by defeating Aiwa can Xiangbei become one of the top eight. In the top 8 match, Budo doesn't know who Xiangbei will meet.
But no matter who it is, Xiangbei will never lose.
What Budou said before was mainly referring to Sawakita Eiji of Sanno Industrial.
Destiny is sometimes so wonderful.
Rukawa Kaede and Sawakita Eiji are just like destined opponents. Even if Budo comes to Shohoku, he can't escape the duel between the two.
At that time, Zebei's opponent will definitely be Rukawa Kaede.
Why not Jinguji Budou? Because Budou was going to try to support Sakuragi in the inside in that game.
He wouldn't allow his lovable goofball Sakuragi to be affected by injuries.
And if it is Rukawa Kaede against Zebei, in Budo's opinion, the current Rukawa Kaede may still not be able to defend Zebei Rongji. Rukawa Kaede, who does not know how to choose and tries to defend every ball of the opponent, will definitely not be able to defend Zebei Rongji, who has a comprehensive style of play.
Rukawa Kaede is not like Budo, who has the height, arm span and strength.
If Wudao went to defend Zebei, even if he let the opponent take a step, he would be able to block Zebei from behind with his terrifying explosive power and physical condition, but Rukawa Kaede could not do that.
If Rukawa wants to fight against Zebei, he must not lose his position.
But this kid Rukawa Kaede doesn't listen to advice!
While Budou was talking to Rukawa on the court, Coach Anzai had already discussed the practice match with Coach Ofuna. Eri watched Budou Jinguji's performance and was not impressed.
In her opinion, the martial arts moves were neither fancy nor difficult. They were just turning around and shooting in disguise. Mike could definitely do this!
She felt that the reason why Xiangbei, where the martial arts school was, lost to Ryonan was because of its reputation. She looked at Xiangbei as if it were a stepping stone, a stepping stone for their Green Wind High School, nothing more!
The game was still going on, and the two players from Green Wind High School left Shohoku High School after confirming the training match. Coach Ofuna had originally planned to observe Shohoku's training to see how strong Jinguji Budo was.
But he was pulled away by Eri, and the reason was that Shohoku was just like that, and instead of spending time watching Shohoku practice, it would be better to go back to school and let the team practice more, so that when Mike Okita returns home, the Green Wind players can quickly cooperate with Mike.
The coach of the big ship couldn't stand the "young lady" and could only get into her luxury car and go back to school.
After the Xiangbei practice match ended, Coach Anxi also announced to the players that they would go to Green Wind to play a practice match.
In this regard, Sakuragi Hanamichi and others were not enthusiastic, but rather somewhat repulsive:
"Green Wind?! What's the point of playing a practice match with a school with no reputation like that?!"
"Coach, make an appointment with Lingnan! Let's play another game with them, and this genius will definitely not count anymore!"
After Sakuragi finished speaking, the other team members echoed him. Although Rukawa didn't say anything, the indifferent expression on his face also showed his thoughts.
Instead of playing with a rookie, it’s better to practice more with Jinguji Budo.
However, Coach Anzai's next words made Rukawa completely change his mind.
"Well... Although the Green Wind High School basketball team is newly established, their players are all experts recruited from all over the country!"
“I estimate that if they play in the county competition, they should have the potential to win the championship.”
"Oh, by the way, their team's ace, Mike Okita, is a famous 4-star high school student in the United States. I heard that he has attracted attention from the NBA."
"Martial Arts, have you ever heard of it?"
Coach Anxi smiled and said a piece of news that excited everyone, and then the players glanced at Budo.
"A four-star high school student!"
“I’ve never heard of that…”
When Budao heard the title of a four-star high school student, he scratched his ears with a lack of interest. He had never talked about the United States with his teammates in Xiangbei. Seeing Budao's appearance at this time, his teammates thought that Budao could not meet high-level high school players like "four-star high school students" in the United States.
Therefore, everyone turned their attention to Coach Anxi.
However, Mitsui Shou knew how far Budou had come in American high school basketball. Looking at Budou's expression, he knew that the other party should be a small figure.
However, the little man in the eyes of martial arts is unattainable in the eyes of most Xiangbei team members!
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