Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 115 The County Contest Starts, Super Rising Stars!

Regular and peaceful days often go by very quickly. In the blink of an eye, April has quietly left, and May has come to people's side unknowingly.

In the middle of the semester, the academic pressure of high school students began to gradually increase, and the teacher's lecture rhythm became more compact during class.

As for the various sports clubs in the school, at this stage of the beginning of the month, the training intensity also began to increase sharply.Almost all clubs are starting to prepare for the upcoming county competition trials.

As for the basketball team in Xiangbei, high-intensity training has been maintained for quite a long time.

"Yasuda, if you drive the ball faster, your players are already in the frontcourt, and your defender is still in the backcourt!"

"Listen, everyone, the selection for the county competition will start in less than a month."

"Give me a good adjustment to your training attitude! If you can't meet the requirements, let alone play the game, I will let you not even go to the court!"

In the basketball hall, the Xiangbei players are being divided into two teams, conducting long-lost actual combat practice.Jinguji Budou picked up his old job and became the referee of this game, while Mitsui Hisashi, as the captain, stood on the sidelines and yelled at the players in the field.

Coach Anxi of the basketball team did not come to the venue on time for today's training. According to Hisashi Mitsui, coach Anxi took Ayako to the organizing committee to draw lots. Before this evening, their Xiangbei High School will be divided into groups and appearances in the next trial The order will be settled.

During the period when Coach Anxi was away, Hisashi Mitsui was the coach of Xiangbei.

The coaching attitudes or coaching methods of Mitsui Shou and Anzai coaches are completely different.On the court, Mitsui Shou is an excellent leader who can calm the emotions of the players, but when he is a coach off the court, this guy becomes a negative emotion maker.

Playing on the court, a first-year player like Yasuharu Yasuda has been named and criticized by him for countless times. His stern attitude is no different from that of Coach Anxi when he was young.

Yasuda Yasuharu, who was trained by Mitsui Hisashi, became much faster with the ball. After entering the frontcourt, he quickly gave the ball to Miyagi on the side. Miyagi Ryota who received the ball made a fake move and cheated The defensive player's center of gravity then quickly breaks through, and then pulls up a jumper in the middle distance.

"Shh!"

After nearly a month of special training, Miyagi's shooting has more or less improved, and the basketball hits the net.

After scoring the goal, Miyagi glanced at Budou on the sidelines, clenched his fists, and was celebrating for himself. Seeing this, Budou also nodded with a smile.Miyagi Ryota's shooting hand shape and posture have been completely changed. According to Budo's original intention, he wanted Miyagi Ryota to change his shooting rhythm as well, from the original two motion to one motion.

Ryota Miyagi's jump shot rhythm is the traditional two motion. Simply put, Miyagi's shot speed is not fast. When shooting open shots, and when playing practice games against opponents who are not strong, Miyagi is still good. shot space.

However, if Miyagi encounters that kind of tall and quick-response player in the subsequent games, Miyagi's height, wingspan, and shooting speed will inevitably suffer a big loss.

He is different from Budo, Budo has excellent jumping and staying in the air, as well as excellent height, and the shooting rhythm of two motion allows Budo to maximize his advantages.But Miyagi is different. Although his bounce is not bad, his height and wingspan are at a great disadvantage. The shooting rhythm of two motion magnifies his weakness.

However, in order not to affect Miyagi Ryota's immediate combat power in the following games, Budo has not pointed out this issue for the time being. During practice, Miyagi's offensive power is also remarkable, which makes Miyagi's self-confidence , has been strengthened a lot, and Budo also hopes that Miyagi can maintain such momentum and momentum.

On the court, offense and defense transition.The team led by Akagi began to launch a counterattack. When Akagi Takenori counterattacked, he did not wait for his teammates to pass the ball as he did in the past when he counterattacked. Instead, he actively screened and rolled his teammates. Shun, successfully created an open opportunity for himself.

The basketball passed into the hands of Akagi, and Takenori Akagi scored a layup.

"Budao, do you think that guy Akagi seems to be a little different?"

Mitsui Shou touched his chin and asked while standing beside Bu Dao.Although Wu Dao is the referee of the game, but this is just a team practice game after all, Wu Dao didn't run the whole field, he just stood on the sidelines to watch the game between the two teams, and he would call when there was an obvious foul, so he behaved very leisurely .

"The style of play is indeed different from before. It seems that he has listened to Coach Anxi's tactical arrangements."

"But it's still too young. If you don't encounter any strong strikers, there is no big problem. If you encounter them, I'm afraid you will be educated."

Budo looked at Takenori Akagi on the court and expressed his thoughts. Takenori Akagi trained very hard. Although he has made progress, the gap between him and the first-class center is still quite obvious.

Although Akagi tried his best to adapt himself to Xiangbei's current offensive rhythm, his movement speed could not be greatly increased in a short period of time. Although Akagi's offensive method has changed, it still has a heavy shadow from before.

"That's not a problem. Improvement is enough. Although Akagi is a big talker, he still trains very hard."

"On this point, I also believe that he can grow up quickly."

"I don't know if the coaches are back, and I don't know what kind of opponent we will meet next."

"I hope the coaches are not too unlucky."

Mitsui Shou looked at the training players in the field and murmured, inadvertently revealing the worry and apprehension in his heart when he spoke.

"What?"

"How can there be good luck or bad luck?"

"Our Xiangbei school is different from those miscellaneous fish schools. They only want to get a good ranking in the county competition."

"But our goal is not just a good ranking."

"We have only one goal from beginning to end, have you forgotten?!"

Bu Dao could hear the worry and apprehension in Mitsui Shou's heart, and reminded him.

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"you're right!"

"We have only one goal from beginning to end!"

Mitsui Shou nodded and adjusted his mentality.Unfortunately, at this time, Satoru Kakuda missed the ball and missed a fast pass from Ryota Miyagi, and the basketball flew out of the court.At the same time that Budo blew his whistle, Mitsui Shou's roar followed closely behind.

When the practice match was in full swing, the door of the arena was opened, and coach Anxi and Caizi walked into the basketball arena.And in Caizi's hand, she was still holding a roll of paper.

The sound of the two walking into the arena attracted everyone's attention. Everyone looked at Coach Anxi and Caizi with strong anticipation and excitement on their faces.

"Let's gather."

"The battle table for the trials has been determined."

Coach Anxi came to the field and said to the players with a smile.The team members gathered around quickly when they heard the words, and Caizi began to post the match list on the wall in a corner of the arena under the signal of Coach Anzai. Everyone's eyes are focused on this battle table that has not been able to fully unfold.

There are only two teams in Kanagawa Prefecture that are eligible to compete in the national competition.The way to select teams is through two rounds of selection to select the teams for the competition.

The first round of competition is the knockout stage. A total of 64 teams participated in the county competition this time. According to the results of the lottery, each team in the knockout stage must guarantee a complete victory and enter the semi-finals before they are eligible to enter the second place. round robin stage.

There are only four teams participating in the second round of round robin. At this stage, the four teams will compare the number of wins and net points, and select the final two teams representing Kanagawa Prefecture to participate in the national competition.

In the past, Xiangbei High School led by Mitsui Shou met the seeded team Xiangyang High School in the eight-to-four competition, and lost.In the end, even the first round of the county competition was not able to pass successfully.

What I want to say here is that the previous top four teams were able to go straight to the top eight, and the 64 teams were also divided into four groups. among the group.

Their Xiangbei High School is in Group B, and the seed team is Mitsui Shou and his old rival, Xiangyang High School.

"Ok?"

"Our group doesn't have any decent opponents?"

Mitsui Shou looked at the battle table, found the location of Xiangbei High School, and then glanced at Xiangyang High School, which was at the top of Group B, and said calmly.

"Eh? Captain, are you right? The team with us is Xiangyang High School! The second strongest team in the county!"

"Our luck is really bad. Four teams, how good it is to draw Buri, but Xiangyang~"

Yasuda Yasuharu screamed out, he also had some understanding of the strong high schools in the high school stage, Xiangyang High School is the well-deserved second child in the county.

"Idiot, what are you talking about good luck and bad luck? So what if you get Xiangyang?!"

"It's just Xiangyang High School, we must defeat them!"

"Our goal is to dominate the country!"

Hisashi Mitsui opened his mouth and was about to speak when he heard this, but Takenori Akagi scolded directly.Hearing this, Mitsui Shou glanced at Akagi with a smile, and fell silent, while coach Anxi also laughed "hohohoho" when he heard Akagi's words.

"Akagi-san is right."

"For us in Xiangbei, it doesn't matter whether the luck of the lottery is good or bad. After all, our goal is to dominate the country!"

Coach Anxi's words made the players in the arena enthusiastic. After Mitsui Shou led the team and shouted a few slogans, the team went into training again.

The Kanagawa prefectural basketball trials will start at the end of May. In order to keep the players in a good state and avoid injuries, coach Anzai started to reduce the intensity of the players half a month in advance. By mid-May, Xiangbei’s Most of the training is simple physical training, and there are some basic training.

The training intensity is several levels lower than before.

The main purpose of training at this stage is not to improve the players' skills, but to keep the players in a good competitive state.

Soon, half a month passed quickly, and the opening ceremony of the county competition kicked off at the Kanagawa Prefectural Gymnasium.

The morning sun shines through the thin clouds, illuminating the earth.

The sunlight shot into the room and shone on Jinguji Budao's bedside, making the sleeping Budao frown.

Opening his eyes, he looked at the alarm clock beside the bed, it was only 6 o'clock.

Bu Dao rubbed his sleepy eyes and closed them again. After two or three minutes, Bu Dao opened his eyes again, then slowly got up from the bed, put on his slippers, and went to the bathroom to wash up.

Today is the day of the opening ceremony of the county competition. The opening ceremony will be held at the county gymnasium at 07:30. After nearly an hour of the opening ceremony, the game will start in the basketball hall.It takes about four to 10 minutes to take the tram from the Budo school to the gymnasium, so there is plenty of time for Budo.

And today's game, they are in the second round of Xiangbei, and according to the arrangement of coach Anxi, Wu Dao will not play for a long time, so Wu Dao did not perform very actively when he got up early in the morning.

It was already seven o'clock when Bu Dao walked out of the house after washing up, having a meal, and in Bu Dao's plan, he had no intention of participating in the opening ceremony at all.He was already tired of the smelly and long opening ceremony.

After Budo went out, he even took a leisurely detour to the court to shoot a shot, and then got on the tram to the venue after it was over.

In the basketball gymnasium in Kanagawa County, the opening ceremony has already begun. The Xiangbei players stood in the venue solemnly, listening to the speeches of the leaders on the stage.

Mitsui Shou, who was standing at the top of the row, looked towards the direction of the ranking from time to time, wanting to see if the martial arts had arrived. As the opening ceremony passed by, Mitsui Shou's expression, from the calmness at the beginning, slowly changed. Get furious.

Until the end of the opening ceremony and the players moved to the basketball court, Mitsui Shou still did not see Budo.

After Xiangbei people moved to the basketball hall, they sat directly on the auditorium. Halfway through the match in Group A, they went to the locker room in Xiangbei.

Just when Mitsui Shou had lost his temper in the locker room, Jinguji Budao walked into the locker room with his bag unsteadily, and was scolded by Mitsui Shouhao. Corridor to the pitch.

"Xiangbei is here!"

"It's from Xiangbei High School!"

"Xiangbei!"

"Mitsui!"

"Brother~"

When the players from Xiangbei High School walked into the field, it was just after the end of the last round of the game and it was time for the assembly personnel to clean up the field.As the Xiangbei players entered the stadium, the voices of the auditorium became enthusiastic.

The popularity of Xiangbei is not bad, and the previous results can be regarded as above-average level. There are also some teams that attach great importance to Xiangbei High School.Xiangyang High School, which once played against Xiangbei and was divided into a group this year, is the team that attaches great importance to Xiangbei.

Above the auditorium, the three fellows of Horita tied the "Flame Man Mitsui Hisashi" battle flag on the railing in the front row. Budo just mentioned it before, but I didn't expect these guys to put it into practice so soon. .

Akagi Takenori's younger sister, wearing the school uniform of No. [-] Middle School, sat on top of the auditorium to cheer for Akagi Takenori, but her voice was covered by the cheers of other audience members.

"That No. 15 is the super star in Xiangbei who scored 55 points!"

"It does look very different!"

A group of Xiangyang players sat on the auditorium, and Kenji Fujima folded his hands in front of his chest, looking at Jinguji Budo in the stadium with a pair of star eyes.

At this time, Bu Dao was wearing the red uniform of Xiangbei No. 15, holding a basketball in one hand, and followed silently at the back of the team.Although he was standing at the end of the team, Fujima noticed the existence of Budo immediately. Jinguji Budo's figure was very similar to his teammate Huaxingtou.

The difference is that Jinguji Budo in northern Hunan looks stronger than Huagata.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, some people in Xiangbei acted calmly, and the freshmen like Kakuda watched curiously, while Budo and Miyagi, who were both first graders, had long been used to this kind of scene.

When they arrived at the rest area, Coach Anzai signaled the players to put down their backpacks, then turned to look at Budou and Miyagi Ryota, and said:

"Today's game, I want the first-year players to practice and practice."

"Budo and Miyagi, you two will lead the team, let's play first."

"Satoru Kakuda, Yasuharu Yasuda, Tetsushi Shiozaki, the three of you will make your debut as starters."

Coach Anxi pushed his glasses and said to everyone. After he said this, Mitsui Hisashi, Akagi, Chiba Oishi and others were stunned, and looked at Coach Anxi in surprise.

"This coach!"

"This is a county competition. Isn't such an arrangement too risky?!"

"Or should we still play normally, and send other players to play after leading by a certain point?"

Mitsui Shou hurried to Coach Anxi, trying to persuade Coach Anxi to change his mind.However, Coach Anxi shook his head and said lightly:
"After taking the lead and playing again, the mentality will be different, and the effect of exercise will not be achieved."

After finishing speaking, Coach Anxi looked at Budao and asked:
"Budao, do you have confidence?"

At this time, Bu Dao was taking out a cup of ginseng wolfberry tea from his backpack. Hearing this, he silently put the cup back, nodded, and said:
"Of course! I will bring Xiangbei the first victory!"

(End of this chapter)