Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 101 Starters!
In early spring, the warm sunshine falls on the sea, and the gulls fly low on the sparkling sea.The broken azure blue reflected the figure of Budo Jinguji.

Today is Sunday. The basketball clubs of Xiangbei High School and Lingnan High School met to play a practice match in the basketball gymnasium of Lingnan.Jinguji Budo had never seen the sea of ​​Kamakura, so early in the morning, he took the tram to Lingnan High School alone with his bag on his back, and looked at the scenery on the coast not far from Lingnan High School.

The sea breeze is slightly cool, and it makes people sober when it blows on people.

"The scenery near Lingnan High School is also very good! If Xiaosan is not in Xiangbei, it would be a good choice to come to Lingnan when entering school!"

Jinguji Budo was attracted by the scenery of the Kamakura coast, and secretly thought it was a pity.

It's been a long time.

In the distance, a tram was approaching. After arriving at the station, a dozen or so Xiangbei team members got off the tram one after another, looking around curiously.

"I don't know if this guy from Wu Dao has arrived. If he doesn't act with the team, this guy has no team spirit."

"When you see him, you must educate him well!"

Hisashi Mitsui got off the tram, looked around, but did not find Budo Jinguji, frowned slightly, and muttered in dissatisfaction.

"Well, Mitsui, don't be angry."

"Budo also wants to see the scenery of Kamakura. After all, he has never seen it before. It is normal to have such thoughts."

"If I hadn't been to Kamakura many times, I would have been like him."

"Besides, he is already a high school student, so he has his own measure."

"Let's go to Lingnan High School first, he will come by himself when the time comes, and we agreed to gather in Lingnan's gymnasium."

Seeing Mitsui Shou looking a little angry, Mumu Gongyan immediately persuaded him.In the basketball club in northern Hunan, Mumu has a good relationship with everyone, and Jinguji Budo, who has just entered northern Hunan, is also deeply taken care of by him.

"we can only do this."

Mitsui Shou looked around and saw no sign of Wu Dao, so he could only nod his head and agree.

Afterwards, under the leadership of Coach Anxi, the Xiangbei group left the station, crossed the road, and walked towards Lingnan High School.

The location of Lingnan High School is directly opposite to the station. After crossing a four-lane road and going up a huge slope, that is where Lingnan High School is located.

From the station to the gate of Lingnan High School, the people in Xiangbei only took four to five minutes, which is quite close.

Today is Sunday, and the gate of Lingnan High School is closed. In a security booth next to the gate, a rather old guard is dozing off with his head drooping.

"The gate is closed. Did we come too early?" Akagi Takenori glanced at the gate, scratched his head, and said doubtfully.

"How is this possible? I'll ask."

Without coach Anxi's instructions, Mitsui Shou immediately stepped forward, knocked on the small window of the security booth, and woke up the dozing guard.

"Are you ... members of the Xiangbei basketball team?" The little old man obviously knew that Xiangbei would come to Lingnan High School for a practice game today. When he saw Mitsui Shou, he recognized the school uniform Mitsui Shou was wearing.

"Yes, old man, open the door." Mitsui Shou nodded and replied.

Not long after, the gate of Lingnan High School opened, and under the guidance of the guard, a group of Xiangbei people walked towards the gymnasium of Lingnan High School.

"Pass the ball faster, don't dawdle!"

"Hey! Fukuda, don't dribble! Don't dribble! How many times do I have to say that?"

"After receiving the ball, either shoot the ball, or pass the ball out, and quickly cut inside after the ball is out."

"What are you doing dribbling? Ah? If you play like this again, you will come down!"

In Lingnan's basketball hall, Lingnan players are conducting a five-on-five training match.Coach Tian Gang stood on the edge of the court, with his hands folded in front of his chest, with a serious face.Whenever a player on the field moves or has any actions or behaviors that are not in line with his wishes, Coach Tian Gang will directly yell at him.

There was an oppressive atmosphere in the entire arena.

"The coach treats Fukuda really harshly! The practice match only lasted seven or eight minutes, and Fukuda has already been called six or seven times, right?"

In the rest area on the sidelines, Akira Xiandao sat on the bench, looking at Fukuda who was reprimanded by Coach Tian Gang for being speechless, he couldn't help saying sympathetically.

"Is it harsh? Isn't it right to be scolded for failing to implement the coach's tactical arrangements and tactical arrangements?"

Shinomiya Tianye sat next to Xiandao Akira, his face was covered with fine sweat, and when he heard Xiandao sympathizing with Fukuda, he couldn't help but speak.

Fukuda Yoshio, like Shinomiya Tano and Sendo Akira, are new freshmen who joined Lingnan High School this year.Moreover, Fukuda's physical condition is not bad in the high school stage. He has just reached 181cm in the first year of high school, and Fukuda's speed and jumping are quite good. .

However, Fukuda Yoshio is more or less self-important. After joining the club, he was dissatisfied with each other. He regarded Shinomiya Tano and Sendo Akira as competitors. He worked very hard during training. Comparing myself with these two, when attacking, I always subconsciously ignore Coach Tian Gang's established arrangements.

Coach Tian Gang was very dissatisfied with this, but he also had some expectations for Fukuda in his heart. Therefore, on the training ground, Coach Tian Gang treated Fukuda Ji Zhao much more strictly than others.

"Even though you say that, it's still a bit too harsh. Coach Tian Gang doesn't treat you like that." Xian Daozhang shook his head and said softly.

"Doesn't the coach have the same attitude towards me and you?"

"Instead of worrying about Fukuda, you should imagine how you will play against Xiangbei High School in the future."

"I heard that this year's Xiangbei High School is very strong!"

After knowing that there was going to be a practice match with Shohoku, Shinomiya Tianye investigated the current team composition of Shohoku High School. After he learned about the players in Shohoku from his classmates, Shinomiya Taeno was full of expectations for today's practice match.

No, coming to Lingnan High School early in the morning, Shinomiya Tianye practiced for a while to make himself in peak physical condition, and the other players had just started warming up for practice games, and he was already sweating.

"Very strong? Is it stronger than our Lingnan High School?"

"I can't imagine what kind of team can defeat our Lingnan High School!"

The Immortal Way of the first year of high school is also the character of "I am the craziest in the sky and on the earth". He is full of confidence in Lingnan's strength.

"Don't underestimate them, today's game, you have to go all out."

"I want to completely destroy Xiangbei!"

Shinomiya Tano clenched his fist and said firmly.

While the two were talking, the door of the gymnasium of Lingnan High School was opened. Under the leadership of coach Anxi, everyone from Xiangbei arrived at the gymnasium of Lingnan High School smoothly.

"Stop!" Coach Tian Gang, who was supervising the training on the sidelines, saw the Xiangbei people when they first entered the gymnasium.Immediately, he stopped the practice match, and greeted Coach Anxi with a smile on his face.

"Coach Anxi! You and all the students from Xiangbei have finally arrived!" Coach Tian Gang walked quickly to Coach Anxi and shook hands with Coach Anxi enthusiastically.

"Hohohoho~"

"Sorry for keeping you waiting, Coach Tian Gang."

Coach Anxi and Coach Tian Gang exchanged pleasantries, and they seemed to have a good relationship.

While the two were exchanging greetings, the eyes of the players in Xiangbei began to scan the entire arena, and the eyes of Mitsui Shou and others swept over everyone in Lingnan one by one.When Mitsui Shou looked towards the rest area, two slightly familiar faces appeared in front of Mitsui Shou.

"That's because the hairstyle has changed, but it's absolutely true. Is it Akira Xiandao from Qiuyue Middle School?!"

"And the guy sitting next to him is that monster from Yokota Middle School, Shinomiya Tano."

"These two actually joined Lingnan High School?! Forget about Shinomiya Tianye, why did Xiandao appear in Lingnan's team?"

Although Sendo Akira and Shinomiya Tano had changed a lot in appearance and height when they were in junior high school, Mitsui Shou still recognized the two of them very quickly.The impression these two people left in Mitsui Shou's heart was so deep that he couldn't forget it at all.

Seeing these two people, Mitsui Shou, who was originally calm, trembled slightly.

Not fear, but excitement, blood-boiling excitement!
When he knew that he was going to compete with Lingnan High School, Mitsui Shou still lacked interest. Although Lingnan High School’s results in the competition last year were better than theirs in Xiangbei, Mitsui Shou never regarded Lingnan as Xiangbei’s opponent.Lingnan was too weak, and Mitsui Shou couldn't get up.

But seeing Akira Sendo and Tano Shinomiya at this time, Mitsui Hisashi no longer had such thoughts. With the addition of these two people, today's Lingnan really has the value of being defeated.

"This practice game has become more interesting!" Just when Mitsui Shou looked at Shinomiya Tano and Sendo Akira, the two of them also saw Mitsui Shou from the Shonhoku team. After going through the background of Xiangbei, I was not surprised to know the existence of Mitsui Shou, but Xiandao didn't know it before.

Seeing Mitsui Shou at this time, Xiandao immediately became interested.

In the country of Nihong, the basketball circle in a county is very small. In Kanagawa County, there are only a few top-ranked players, and there are only a few top-ranked schools.Sendo Akira had already played a practice match with Wushi Middle School, and he was also deeply impressed by Mitsui Hisashi, the captain of Wushi.

I thought Mitsui Shou would go to the best school in Kanagawa, affiliated with Hainan University, but unexpectedly, he met him in the team of Xiangbei at this time.

Mitsui Hisashi, Sendo and Shinomiya Tano looked at each other, and they could read the strong fighting spirit in each other's eyes. Before the practice match started, there was already a sense of tension.

After a brief exchange of greetings from Coach Wadaoka, Coach Anxi led the Xiangbei people to the rest area on the side of the arena and asked the players to change their equipment.

Coach Tian Gang also summoned all the players and began to arrange the players to play.

"The opponent in today's practice match, as you all have seen, is Xiangbei High School!"

"Xiangbei's previous competition results may be mediocre, but you must not underestimate them."

"Xiangbei is a very strong team!"

"In this game, our starting players are Kenichi Nishibayashi, Jun Uozumi, Ryoji Ikegami, Sendo and Tianye, you five."

"The task of controlling the ball is handed over to Xilin Jianyi. The two of you, Yuzhu and Ikegami, will guard the basket. Xiandao and Tianye will attack with all your strength."

"In the first half, I want you to widen the point difference to more than 10 points and enter the second half with such an advantage."

Coach Tianoka quickly called out the names of several starting players, then turned his head and glanced at Mitsui Shou who was changing clothes on the opposite court, turned around and told Shinomiya Tano:
"Tianye, in this game, you are defending against Mitsui Shou. You must limit and even kill his scoring!"

"Sillin, if the short guy comes on the court later, you can defend him. That kid breaks through very fast, but he doesn't have a basket. When you defend, you should focus on defending against breakthroughs and passes."

"Yuzhu, Akagi will be handed over to you. He is about the same size as you, even shorter than you. Don't lose to them!"

"The rest of the players, play freely, and use man-to-man defense."

Coach Tianoka obviously has some understanding of Shohoku High School, and he is also careful about rejecting him to join Miyagi Yoshida in Shohoku. The defensive arrangement also takes Miyagi, a first-year student, into consideration.

At Xiangbei High School, the players were changing their jerseys in an orderly manner. Coach Anxi stood in front of the team, looked at the players changing clothes, and said leisurely:

"Akagi, Mitsui, Chiba, Miyagi, and Kigure, the five of you will play as starters."

"At the offensive end, the inside line is handed over to Akagi-san, and the outside line is handed over to Mitsui-san. For the rest of the team, don't panic if there is a good opportunity, just rest assured and boldly attack."

"As for defense, let's use man-to-man defense for now. However, Chiba and Akagi, the two of you must stay inside and don't be drawn out of the paint."

Coach Anxi announced several starting players, and then did not continue to say anything, walked slowly to the rest area, sat on a stool, and started to make tea for himself.

"Miyagi, you are the starter, you have to work hard!" Ayako was sitting next to coach Anzai, and said to Miyagi with a smile.

"Oh oh oh oh! Of course!"

Caizi's encouragement was no less than a shot of chicken blood to Miyagi, and Miyagi Ryota became excited.

"That guy in Budao is actually late! You bastard!"

Hisashi Mitsui changed his jersey, looked at the gate of the basketball gym, but saw no sign of Jinguji Budo, his blood pressure soared, and he was furious.After waiting for a while, there was still no sign of Wu Dao, so he had no choice but to lead the team to warm up.

The 15-minute warm-up time passed quickly. With the referee's whistle, the two teams ended their warm-up and began to settle in the middle circle, ready to jump the ball.

Although it was a practice match, Lingnan was well prepared. The scoreboard was prepared early, and even the professional referee was specially lightened to judge this match.

In the middle of the court, Takenori Akagi and Jun Uozumi stood facing each other, and there seemed to be lightning in their gazes.

The referee came to the middle of the two and blew the whistle to start the game.

The whistle blew, and the basketball was thrown into the air. As the basketball entered the air, Akagi Takenori and Uozumi Jun both let out angrily, and then leaped into the air with all their might.

"Snapped!"

Two big hands pressed the sides of the basketball almost at the same time.

(End of this chapter)