Mori Shigehiro's outstanding inside ability quickly attracted the attention of many members of the coaching staff.
During the physical examination, many members of the coaching staff had already noticed this freshman center from Hainan. However, the physical examination was just a physical examination after all, compared to the two "champion center" titles of Akagi Takenori and Uozumi Jun.
Mori Shigehiro was not highly regarded by the coaching staff at the center position.
Hainan High School couldn't even make it to the county competition, and the famous coaches from these universities only paid slight attention to Mori Shigehiro at first.
But now, seeing how Mori Shigehiro easily broke through Jun Yuzumi's defense and completed a slam dunk in actual combat, everyone's attention was focused on Mori Shigehiro.
As giant centers who are both over two meters tall, the first-year player Mori Shigehiro has shown more potential than the third-year player Uozumi Jun.
On the court, the White Team began to retreat quickly after completing the attack. Although Mori Shigehiro was huge in size, his speed of returning to defense was also quite fast. He and the White Team's back line returned to their own half at the same time, and then quickly entered the baseline.
Not long after, Rukawa entered the frontcourt with the ball. After arriving at the frontcourt, Rukawa looked up at Jun Uozumi who had just entered the inside with his back to the basket. After glancing at Shinomiya Tano and Sendoh on both sides, he found that neither of them had any intention of actively running to catch the ball.
Seeing this scene, Rukawa Kaede instantly understood his teammates' intentions.
On the basketball court, sometimes it is not just about right and wrong, but also about social skills. Of course, this social skills is different from the so-called "social skills" off the court. On the court, a qualified point guard needs to be able to grasp the mentality of his teammates.
In a situation like this, Jun Uozumi, a "champion center" and a third-year player, was dunked on the head by a first-year center.
There is no doubt that Yuzumi is holding his breath right now.
If this anger cannot be vented smoothly, it may affect Jun Yuzumi's enthusiasm on the court.
Now the teams of both sides in the game are temporarily put together. If it is Ryonan's own point guard Fujima Kenji, even if he does not pass the ball to Yuzumi, Yuzumi may not say anything, because they are familiar enough, and Yuzumi knows that Fujima's passing choices are all for victory.
But it is different for Rukawa. Yuzumi and Rukawa are not familiar with each other. If Rukawa does not give Yuzumi the opportunity to prove himself at this time, Yuzumi will most likely feel that he is looked down upon by Rukawa, a freshman.
Once you start to distrust your teammates' choices, conflicts within the team are likely to arise.
This situation is common in immature high school stadiums.
If it were the previous Rukawa Kaede, he would not have cared about Uozumi Jun's feelings, but would have just played the style he thought was best for the team.
But now Rukawa Kaede has learned how to motivate his teammates by passing the ball.
The body was straight, and the basketball was passed directly from Rukawa Kaede's hands to Yuzumi Jun in the inside. Yuzumi Jun, with his back against Mori Shigehiro, took a step forward and took the initiative to meet the ball.
He grabbed the ball with one hand, and then turned his back to the basket, put the ball in his arms, and slightly turned his head to the left to observe the position of Mori Shigehiro. Seeing that Mori Shigehiro was standing a little to the right, Yuzumi Jun no longer hesitated, quickly dropped the ball, turned around and faced the basket, and at the same time, his body was hard on Mori Shigehiro's body, invading the basket.
"Bang!"
The two burly men, Jun Yuzumi and Shigehiro Mori, collided with each other. Jun Yuzumi dribbled the ball with his right hand and quickly invaded the basket. Then he jumped directly based on Shigehiro Mori and quickly hooked the basketball in his hand towards the basket.
The traditional center style of play relies on physical strength to get into the inside. Yuzumi does not have any fancy moves, he relies on his solid body.
“Bang!”
Mori Shigehiro, who was defending Jun Yuzumi, just raised his hands when facing Jun Yuzumi's hook shot. In such a physical confrontation, Mori Shigehiro had no way to fully utilize his jumping ability. The basketball went directly over his head, hit the backboard, and then bounced into the basket.
"Well done! Yuzumi!"
"pretty!"
After Yuzumi scored the goal, Shinomiya Tianye and others smiled and encouraged him. When returning to defense, Yuzumi Jun quickly came to Rukawa Kaede, stretched out his fist towards Rukawa Kaede, and took the initiative to say: "Good pass, Rukawa Kaede!"
Rukawa looked at Yuzumi Jun who was holding out his fist beside him, hesitated for a moment, then held out his fist to bump with Yuzumi, and replied softly, "Oh!"
"Amu, play inside."
"Give our freshmen on the team some opportunities to shine."
After the opponent scored a goal, Jinguji Budou did not run to the front court immediately. After receiving the serve from Mori Shigehiro in the backcourt, he shouted to Maki Shinichi.
Hearing this, Maki Shinichi turned his head and looked at Jinguji Takeshi, and seeing Takeshi's smile, he nodded.
After all, it's just a practice match. Although Wu Dou still wants to win this practice match very much, it would be very interesting to see the battle between the twin towers of Jun Uozumi and Akagi against the first-year inside combination of Mori Shigehiro and Sakuragi.
He wanted to see if these two first-year students could surpass their third-year predecessors.
After receiving instructions from Jinguji Budo, Maki Shinichi's dribbling movements became more relaxed.
In fact, from the beginning to now, the ball has been played back and forth several times, and Jinguji Takeshi has never held the ball for a long time. Maki Shinichi is still wondering whether Takeshi will have any emotions for not having the ball for such a long time.
After all, he is the captain of Shohoku High School and the super ace who leads Shohoku to win the championship. In Maki Shinichi's imagination, Wudao should be very obsessed with the ball possession.
After all, he had watched a lot of Shohoku's games, and in Shohoku's offensive rounds, the basketball was controlled by Jinguji Budou most of the time.
Originally, in this attack, Maki Shinichi was planning to pass the ball to Takeshi Jinguji Takeshi's emotions into consideration.
Unexpectedly, Jinguji Budou didn't care about this kind of thing at all. Instead, he signaled him to continue playing inside.
In this case, Maki Shinichi was truly relieved.
In fact, what Maki Shinichi wanted in his mind was to continue playing inside. He felt that Mori Shigehiro's ability was not inferior to Ryonan's Uozumi, and he wanted the freshmen of his team to continue playing.
While thinking, Maki Shinichi quickly entered the frontcourt with the basketball. Just when Maki Shinichi was dribbling the ball towards the three-point line, Mori Shigehiro, who had originally planned to go to the inside, quickly ran back and quickly came to the side of the free throw line, reaching out to Maki Shinichi for the ball.
An inside player actually came to a place like this to ask for the ball
Mori Shigehiro's action instantly attracted the attention of the players on the court, and they all looked sideways at Mori Shigehiro.
Maki Shinichi did not hesitate because Mori Shigehiro was far away from the basket. After a fake dribble, he quickly passed the ball to Mori Shigehiro on the ground.
After getting the ball, the latter quickly turned around to face the basket. At the same time, he quickly swung the basketball in his hand to his right side. At the moment of mobilizing Yuzumi Jun's defense, he quickly dropped the ball and changed direction, rushing to the left and instantly passing Yuzumi Jun.
“It’s over?!”
"Shake off the fish!"
On the sidelines of the court, the coaches were all looking intently at Mori Shigehiro, and at this moment on the court, Mori Shigehiro had already quickly dribbled the ball past Uozumi Jun and was rushing towards the basket.
Akagi Takenori, who was originally defending Sakuragi Hanamichi, saw that Uozumi was left behind by the opponent, and quickly stepped forward to provide defense.
However, just as Mori Shigehiro was approaching the basket, he suddenly passed the ball high and came directly in front of Akagi Takenori with one step. When Akagi saw the basketball in front of him, he subconsciously reached out to intercept it, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, Mori Shigehiro took another step, passed Akagi directly, entered the basket, and then made a light layup and put the ball into the basket.
As the basketball went into the net, Shinomiya Tano, Sendoh Akira and others looked at Mori Shigehiro in amazement. Even Jinguji Budou was surprised at this moment, as he did not expect Mori Shigehiro to be able to do this.
Facing Jun Yuzumi, he cleverly used his speed to pull his opponent out of the inside.
Facing Takenori Akagi, Mori Shigehiro was able to use the change in rhythm when passing his opponent and score the ball.
Such delicate operations actually appeared in the hands of a huge center like Mori Shigehiro.
This discordant yet impactful style of play caught everyone by surprise.
How should I put it? It's like you see a player with O'Neal's body shape, and then he uses the footwork of Dream Team to break through his opponent and score.
O'Neal's footsteps are really extremely agile, and Mori Shigehiro at this time also has some of O'Neal's shadow. Although he is still very young, if he can maintain this body shape and flexibility, there is no guarantee that Mori Shigehiro will not become a similar player.
There is no doubt that Mori Shigehiro's draft template is O'Neal.
"This kid is really capable!"
"If Kainan hadn't been crushed by Shohoku and Ryonan in Kanagawa Prefecture, this freshman would have definitely shined in this year's national competition!"
"What a treasure! I didn't expect there is such a treasure in Kanagawa Prefecture!"
The white team began to defend, and the college coaches in the coaching staff looked at Mori Shigehiro with shining eyes. Some coaches had already made plans to poach him, and they wanted to contact him early before the college coaches from other counties found such a player.
In the hope of bringing Mori Shigehiro back to his team in the future.
These coaches have high expectations for Mori Shigehiro and do not expect Mori Shigehiro to grow to O'Neal's level.
They only hope that Mori Shigehiro can become the best center in the country and lead his university to win the championship for a few years in a row!
With the talent that Mori Shigehiro has shown so far, as long as he is equipped with strong enough partners, he will definitely be a favorite to win the championship in the future!
"But... it's such a pity!"
"Such an outstanding young man is playing in the same county as people like Jinguji Budou and Shinomiya Tano."
"But....we are also lucky that Jinguji Budo and Shinomiya Tano are both one grade higher than Mori Shigehiro."
"This kid still has a chance to show up in the national competition."
After watching for a while, the coaches turned their eyes to Jinguji Takeshi and Shinomiya Tano on the field, and then let out a sigh.
Mori Shigehiro is indeed excellent, but that's all.
Compared with players like Jinguji Takeshi and Shinomiya Tano, he still seems a little naive.
The practice match on the field was in full swing, with both teams adopting a positional warfare style, mainly attacking the inside line.
Takenori Akagi did not have much advantage in the matchup with Hanamichi Sakuragi. Hanamichi Sakuragi had sufficient defensive experience and was not at a disadvantage against Akagi, who was one of the best inside players in the county.
In the matchup between Jun Yuzumi and Shigehiro Mori, Yuzumi is at a slight disadvantage.
This disadvantage is mainly on the offensive end. Yuzumi's defense is very good. In the next game, Mori Shigehiro tried to move Yuzumi out of the inside again, but Yuzumi was not fooled at all. Mori Shigehiro's mid-range shooting ability is a bit eye-catching, and he has no way to get the ball into the net well.
But the same is true in reverse. Jun Uozumi's mid-range shot is also very bad. He and Shigehiro Mori are just the elder brother and the younger brother, so there is no need to blame anyone.
In addition, Mori Shigehiro's strength is also very good, and Yuzumi's footwork is not fast under the basket, so it is not easy for him to get past Mori Shigehiro's defense.
Therefore, the offensive efficiency of both teams was very low. It seemed that the two practice matches were very intense, but the scores of both teams...did not improve much at all.
After more than ten minutes of the game, the score between the two teams was still 20:19, with a difference of only one point.
And the terrible thing is that Maki Shinichi seems to be determined to fight Mori Shigehiro to the death. This guy has to deal with Yuzumi's defense and Akagi's backup defense. At this point in the game, he is already sweating profusely.
On the other hand, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who is also an inside player, has hardly even touched the ball so far in the game. The same goes for Takeshi and Fujima, who are all watching Mori Shigehiro's performance.
But Sakuragi Hanamichi is different from Takeshi and Fujima in their indifferent mentality. This kid hasn't got the ball for such a long time, and he is holding back his anger and is waiting for a chance to explode.
As a freshman, Sakuragi Hanamichi saw that Mori Shigehiro had constant opportunities to get the ball and attack, but he did not have many.
If you say you're not angry or jealous, then you're not Sakuragi Hanamichi.
“Bang!
!”
At this moment, Mori Shigehiro received the ball in the interior, turned sideways and shot a small lob shot. The moment the basketball rose, Akagi came from the side and blocked it with a slap.
The basketball fell rapidly and hit Sakuragi Hanamichi directly on the chest. Sakuragi's mind was distracted at the moment, and the basketball bounced back, and he didn't have time to catch the ball.
Then the basketball was picked up by Jun Yuzumi, who quickly passed the ball.
Mori Shigehiro, who was blocked, happened to see Sakuragi Hanamichi losing the ball when he landed, and he taunted:
"Redhead, are you daydreaming?"
"Are your hands used to hold tofu?"
"If you can't fight, just go down."
Mori Shigehiro's words completely ignited Sakuragi Hanamichi, who had been feeling frustrated throughout the entire game.
"asshole... "
"What did you say?!"
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