Mitsui's accidental injury did not affect the training plan of the Xiangbei High School basketball team in the new semester. Of course, this so-called training plan was just a training plan that Anzai Mitsuyoshi casually made in his spare time.
As a weak team in the county, Xiangbei High School's training intensity is quite low. Most of the players who participate in the training just treat playing basketball as an after-school pastime. As for achieving good results and dominating the country, these things are unrealistic for ordinary players.
Although Mitsui's foot injury was not serious, after being put in a cast, Mitsui could not participate in team training. Usually when the team was training, Mitsui would sit on one side of the court, slapping the basketball in his hands boredly, watching the players train.
It is worth mentioning that Akagi Takenori's physical condition seems to have made coach Anzai Mitsuyoshi a little interested in coaching. During the previous training of Xiangbei High School, Anzai Mitsuyoshi was more of a watcher on the sidelines of the court, and most of the time he did not instruct the players on what to do.
However, since Takenori Akagi joined the team, Mitsuyoshi Anzai has been more or less concerned about Takenori Akagi. After the team training, Mitsuyoshi Anzai would call Takenori Akagi to his side and speak to him in a gentle voice about the problems that Akagi encountered during training.
Although Anzai Mitsuyoshi obviously has a preference for Akagi, that's all. He will not take out his free time to stay alone and guide Akagi.
As for Mitsui, after learning about his injury, Anzai Mitsuyoshi simply comforted him. After that, during every training session, Anzai Mitsuyoshi just let Mitsui sit next to him and watch the players train together. In fact, there was not much communication between the coach and the players, and Coach Anzai did not give Mitsui special care.
However, due to his injury, Mitsui Shou's mind became more sensitive. During training, Mitsui Shou often saw Akagi Takenori receiving guidance from coach Anzai, but he could only sit on the sidelines. Mitsui Shou, who admired Anzai Mitsuyoshi, felt a little jealous of Akagi at this moment.
This also made Mitsui Shou more eager and urgent to play in the game.
Mitsui Hisashi is eager to show his strength in front of Coach Anzai and hopes to win the favor of Coach Anzai.
After enduring such emotions for four weeks, Mitsui Shou finally couldn't bear it anymore.
After four weeks of recuperation, Mitsui Hisashi no longer felt the pain in his knee, the plaster on his leg had been completely removed, and Mitsui Hisashi was able to walk normally.
However, during the follow-up examination, the doctor found that Mitsui's injury had not fully recovered, and suggested that Mitsui continue to rest for a few weeks and resume training after the injury is completely healed. However, how could Mitsui endure it at this time
Therefore, during the training on Friday, Mitsui appeared on the court and trained with his teammates.
On the day when Mitsui was injured and went to the hospital, Coach Anzai did not accompany him. He only learned about Mitsui's injury from Chiba Daishi. He knew that Mitsui's injury was not serious and he only needed to rest for a while. As for how long he would need to rest, Anzai Mitsuyoshi did not know.
Therefore, when Mitsui Hisashi came to Anzai Mitsuyoshi and said that he had recovered and wanted to participate in training, Anzai Mitsuyoshi did not think twice and smiled and included Mitsui Hisashi in the training team.
Xiangbei High School has a regular weekly training schedule, which can be simply divided into three phases. Monday's training is usually physical training, Tuesday to Thursday is basic training such as layups, passing and receiving, and running. As for Friday, it is the team's five-on-five confrontation practice. As for the weekend, there is no training task.
The Xiangbei basketball team practices once a day, that is, they need to practice after school. There is no training task at other times. In terms of training intensity, the training intensity of Xiangbei High School is not even as strong as that of Takeishi Junior High School, which practices three times a day. Among all the basketball teams in Kanagawa Prefecture, Xiangbei's training volume is also the lowest.
Mitsui Shou actually had the same idea in his mind. He felt that the training volume of Xiangbei High School was not very low, and he no longer felt pain in his knee, so he thought it was okay to participate in a low-intensity team practice match like Xiangbei.
However, fate has its inertia. Even though Mitsui Hisashi's junior high school career has undergone tremendous changes due to the existence of martial arts, he still cannot avoid the arrangement of fate.
Mitsui suffered a secondary contusion of the knee joint. After a shot, Mitsui's landing posture was slightly deviated during a training match. This slight deviation caused Mitsui to lose balance and twist his foot. When he fell, his knee, which had not yet fully recovered, came into close contact with the floor again.
But this time, Mitsui Shou was not so lucky.
Mitsui was once again sent to the hospital, and this time his injury would require 3-6 months of recuperation. Such a long recuperation period also meant that Mitsui completely missed the summer prefectural trials.
It was several months later when Jinguji Budo learned the news that Mitsui Hisashi was injured.
July 1st.
The basketball hall of Kanagawa Prefectural Stadium was bustling with people, and the large stands around were filled with spectators who came to watch the game. Today was a day off, and it happened to be the day of the prefectural competition, so the basketball hall, which was usually deserted, became unusually lively on this day.
Jinguji Budo arrived at the stadium early and took a front row seat. He placed his backpack at his feet and took out a teacup filled with wolfberries and a large bag of shredded beef. He adjusted his sitting position to be comfortable, half lying on the chair, and watched the players of the two teams gathering on the court.
Wudao, who had some free time, came to watch Xiangbei's game today. In order to cheer for Xiaosan, Jinguji Wudao didn't even watch Rukawa Kaede's game. In Wudao's mind, Mitsui Shou's status was always slightly higher than Rukawa Kaede.
"Hey, why isn't Xiao San in the Xiangbei team?"
"Did you take a shit?"
Takeshi Jinguji casually opened the package of hand-shredded beef, took a piece of dried meat and put it in his mouth to chew, while his eyes were scanning the court. It was strange that Takeshi did not see Mitsui Hisashi in the Shohoku High School team.
Today's opponent of Xiangbei High School is Awata High School. It is not very famous, but in previous high school competitions, it has often made it into the top 16. Compared with the bottom-ranked Xiangbei, Awata can be regarded as a mountain standing in front of Xiangbei.
Wudao's attention was never on the players from Awata High School. He had been looking for Mitsui Hisashi in the Shohoku team, but unfortunately, Wudao did not find Mitsui Hisashi in the Shohoku team.
Even after the warm-up period, when the starting players of both teams stood in the center circle and prepared for the jump ball, Wu Dao still did not see any trace of Mitsui Shou.
"It's time for jump ball, but there's still no sign of Xiao San. What is this guy doing?"
"Fell into the toilet and can't get out?"
Wudao scratched his head, feeling puzzled, but he didn't take it seriously. He ate, drank tea, and watched the game.
Among the starting players of Xiangbei High School, Wudou only knew two of them. One was Chiba Oishi who graduated from Takeishi Junior High School, and the other was Akagi Takenori. Wudou did not know the other three Xiangbei starting players. Akagi Takenori wore a red number 10 jersey, while Chiba Oishi wore a red number 11 jersey.
Both of them were very tall, and could be seen at a glance even when standing in the crowd. The one who jumped the ball for Xiangbei was Akagi Takenori, who stood in the center of the circle and was a head taller than the opponent's center.
"Did Xiaosan not play? Was he delayed by something, or did Coach Anzai not arrange for Mitsui Shou to play?"
"Can Xiangbei defeat Awada with these players?"
Wudao looked at the starting players of Xiangbei, gave up the search for Mitsui Shou, and started watching the game. He was also quite curious about the current fighting strength of Xiangbei High School.
Among the players of Xiangbei standing on the court now, some are the teammates who played with Budou after he entered high school, such as Chiba Daishi and Akagi Takenori, who are both first-year freshmen. When Budou entered high school, these two were only in the second year of high school.
Soon, the referee blew the whistle and the game officially began.
The centers of the two teams jumped the ball. Akagi Takenori, who had an absolute height advantage, easily grabbed the basketball before his opponent. After No. 7 of Xiangbei got the basketball, he directed his players to attack, and he himself took the ball and quickly advanced to the frontcourt.
Awata adopted a man-to-man tactic. After Akagi and Chiba Oishi entered the inside, Awata's two defensive players also quickly entered the inside. For a moment, the entire inside became quite crowded.
Although the center Awata, who was defending Takenori Akagi, was much shorter than Akagi, his opponent had much more basketball experience than Akagi. Although he was at a height disadvantage, his opponent cleverly adopted a front-circling defense method. He did not foolishly wrestle with Takenori Akagi on the blue line. Instead, he used his pace, constantly changing positions, blocking Akagi and not giving Akagi the chance to receive the ball.
On the other hand, Akagi, facing the opponent's defense, would only use his strength to try to push his opponent away and create space for himself to receive the ball.
"Gorilla was not very good at playing basketball in his first year of high school! Although he started playing basketball in elementary school, it can be seen that he did not receive formal and strict basketball training and his basics were very poor."
Since Mitsui Hisashi did not come on the court, Wudao focused his attention on Chiba Daishi and Akagi Takenori. Seeing Akagi's clumsiness in blocking the position, Wudao could not help but shook his head, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Xiangbei's No. 7 didn't find a chance to pass the ball to the inside, so he lowered his center of gravity and started to play alone. I don't know if it was because of nervousness or poor foundation, Xiangbei's No. 7 dribbled the ball on his instep when he broke through, and the basketball rolled out of bounds.
“… … ..”
“Ho ho ho… Ho ho ho!”
Wudao looked at the scene happening on the field. After a brief surprise, he couldn't help but cover his mouth with his hands and laughed like a goose.
In the transition from offense to defense, Awata High School's attack was much smoother than that of Shohoku. After several rounds of transmission, the small forward of Awata High School made a mid-range shot and successfully scored the first two points for Awata after the opening.
His two points officially kicked off the game.
Xiangbei High School was very weak. Even with the presence of Akagi Takenori and Chiba Daishi on the court, Xiangbei High School was still very weak. This weakness was particularly evident in the back line.
Xiangbei High School's offense was not smooth. Xiangbei's No. 7 was a little unsteady under the defense of Awata High School, and his advancement was bumpy. The poor back line also led to the entire team's offensive connection being not smooth, and the scoring efficiency was very low.
On the defensive end, Xiangbei High School's rim protection ability is quite good, and they often get rebounds. Although Akagi and Chiba Daishi do not get along with each other, they are both very focused when defending. Therefore, although Xiangbei's scoring efficiency is low, they are not left too far behind by Awata.
11 minutes into the first half, Xiangbei was trailing by seven points at 14:21. Seeing that the score was not closing, Awata's coach called a timeout and rearranged the tactics.
After the timeout, there were some small changes in the playing style of Awata High School, the most important of which was on defense. Awata High School shrank the inside defense line, and the number of players defending Akagi and Chiba Oishi suddenly increased from two to four.
Awata High School simply withdrew its long-distance defense line, allowing Xiangbei to shoot three-pointers at will without even trying to defend.
Such a weird defensive formation was surprisingly effective against Shohoku. Just two minutes after the timeout, Awata High School directly beat Shohoku 7:0, directly widening the gap between the two teams to 14 points.
Coach Anxi, who was sitting on the sidelines, couldn't sit still anymore, so he called a timeout and started to arrange tactics for the Xiangbei players. Wudao didn't know what tactics Coach Anxi arranged for Xiangbei, he only knew that after the timeout, Xiangbei High School's offense still couldn't get going, and the score difference continued to widen.
The first half hadn't even ended yet and the difference between the two teams had exceeded 20 points.
"emmmm..." At this point in the game, Wudao no longer had the idea of continuing to watch the game. The back line of Xiangbei was too weak. Those guards were so bad that they couldn't even pass the ball to Akagi.
Looking at the score difference between the two teams, Wu Dao no longer had any interest in watching the game.
"Xiao San didn't play. Did something happen?"
“Could it be that…”
Wudao packed up his things and was about to leave, but when he thought about not seeing Mitsui Shou in this game, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
His eyes subconsciously swept to the surrounding stands, looking for Mitsui Hisashi.
"I hope it's not what I think."
The more you fear something, the more likely it will come. When Wudao's eyes swept across the north stands, he saw a familiar figure at the top of the mountain. The man was leaning on a crutch. Although Wudao was far away and couldn't see the other person's expression, he could feel the other person's loneliness from the low pressure emanating from him.
"Xiao San.....is injured?!"
Wu Dao found Mitsui Shou, but not on the court, but in the stands. Looking at Mitsui Shou who was leaning on his unusually long legs, Wu Dao quickly packed his things, picked up his bag and walked towards Mitsui Shou.
...
In the stands, Mitsui Shou stood in front of the railing and watched the game of Xiangbei on the court. His handsome face was full of loneliness. After watching for a long time, Mitsui Shou silently lowered his head, turned around with his crutches, and prepared to leave through the passage.
"Are you running away out of shame?"
"Xiao San!"
"After seeing your teammates' hard work, you felt your own incompetence, so you wanted to run away?"
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