Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 280 Junior high school students on the high school practice field!

December.

As the winter trials approached, the heavy training tasks of Xiangbei High School began to gradually decrease, and were replaced by frequent practice matches within the team.

Coach Anxi intends to use frequent team practice games to verify the training results of the players in the past few months.Because it is preparing for the winter trials, Xiangbei High School's practice team formation is relatively fixed.

The middle school students who were training in Xiangbei formed a group spontaneously and became the training partner of Xiangbei high school players.

Center Koichiro Nango, power forward Hanamichi Sakuragi, small forward Kaede Rukawa, shooting guard Katsumi Ichiro, point guard Kiyota Nobunaga.

The biggest difference is actually Nobunaga Kiyota, because in junior high school, his grandfather trained him as a small forward and shooting guard. The main ability he cultivated was the ability to hold the ball and cut without the ball. Nobunaga's amazing bounce, Kiyota's performance in the junior high school are often also exceptionally bright.

But after becoming a reserve player of Shonhoku High School, coach Anzai's training of Nobunaga Kiyota focused more on the position of point guard.

There are two reasons for this. One is that there are already super scorers like Jinguji Budao and Mitsui Hisashi in Xiangbei, and among the younger generation, there is also Rukawa Kaede. If Kiyota still plays small forward, it is impossible There is a chance to play.The second reason is Kiyota Nobunaga's height.

Nobunaga Kiyota is not even 180cm tall, even if he bounces well, it is difficult to compete with players like Kaede Rukawa at the small forward position.Not to mention no advantages, on the contrary, all are disadvantages.

With this in mind, Coach Anxi assigned Kiyota to the point guard reserve.

Fortunately, Kiyota Nobunaga's ball-handling foundation is very solid, and his speed is also quite good.To become a qualified point guard, what he lacks is the overall situation, vision, and passing ability.

These abilities have also been greatly improved after he entered Xiangbei.

At this time, on the field of Xiangbei High School, it was a Xiangbei team practice match.

The two sides of the competition team are teams formed by high school students and junior high school students.

For the high school students, Chiba Oishi is the center forward, Kakuda Satoru is the power forward, Kogure Koyan is the small forward, Miyagi Ryota is the shooting guard, and Yasuda Yasuharu is the point guard.

Hisashi Mitsui, the captain, and Takenori Akagi, the main center, stood on both sides of the field as referees, watching the game on the field.

At this time, the game was less than 5 minutes away, and the score of the two teams reached 13:8. The team leading was actually the team of junior high school students!

"Come on, play steadily, let's go ahead by one goal!"

On the court, Yasuharu Yasuda slowly advanced with the ball and crossed the center line.And the other players entered the junior high school position early before he crossed the center line, which seemed a bit out of touch.

The junior high school students used man-to-man tactics, and Nobunaga Yasuda was facing Yasuharu Yasuda.Kiyota Nobunaga on the defensive side noticed that there was a disconnect in the high school team. Yasuda Yasuharu, who was holding the ball, was a few meters away from his nearest teammates. This was a very good opportunity to steal.

Even if the opponent passes the ball, it is easy to be intercepted by such a long-distance transmission.

When the opportunity presented, Kiyota Nobunaga didn't hesitate, and went forward to press directly. Yasuda Yasuharu, who was in high school, actually panicked in the face of Kiyota Nobunaga's pressing. He threw the ball hastily, for fear of being intercepted by Kiyota.However, he was too flustered when he played the ball, and he didn't even notice Mugure Gongyan in the direction of his passing. Rukawa Kaede was already watching him.

Seeing the opponent's basketball coming out, Rukawa Kaede squeezed directly onto Kogure Koyan's body with a lunge. Rukawa Kaede's strength in the third year was actually much stronger than that of Mugure Koyan. Then quickly hold the ball and fast break.

At the moment of completing the steal, Katsumi Ichiro and Kiyota Nobunaga also activated together, closely following Rukawa Kaede, supporting Rukawa Kaede's fast break.

As for the high school students, the only one capable of catching up was Ryota Miyagi from the outside line.

Three-on-one frontcourt.

But Rukawa Kaede didn't have the idea of ​​passing the ball. Against Miyagi Ryota's defense, he forcibly cut to the basket and scored a layup.In the three-on-one chance, Rukawa Kaede did not rely on passing the ball to pass Miyagi Ryota's defense, but relied on his own ability to score the ball. Neither Katsumi Ichiro nor Kiyota Nobunaga had much opinion on this.

Miyagi Ryota, who was chasing and defending, was much shorter than Rukawa Kaede. Facing such a defense, Rukawa Kaede's choice to fight hard was not a wrong choice.

With the basketball into the net, the score of the two teams also came to 15:8.

Facing this group of junior high school students, Xiangbei fell behind by 7 points. Everyone felt ashamed and desperately wanted to catch up with the score.

During the transition between offense and defense, Miyagi Ryota asked Yasuda for the ball near the center line early.After the basketball started, Miyagi called a pick-and-roll, and then rushed forward with the ball under the cover of Koyan Kogure, facing Sakuragi Hanamichi's defense in the middle distance and chose to throw.

Although Miyagi's mid-range shooting level has improved, but when there is no open space, the shooting percentage is still impressive.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's supplementary defense put a lot of pressure on Miyagi Ryota, the throw was wrong, the basketball crashed out of the basket, and the rebound was caught by Sakuragi Hanamichi who quickly rushed back to the basket.

"Hahaha! I am indeed a genius!"

Sakuragi Hanamichi who got the rebound shouted excitedly, and then ignored Kiyota Nobunaga, Rukawa Kaede, Katsumi Ichiro and others who asked for the ball. As a power forward, he directly dribbled the ball forward.

His actions were beyond everyone's expectations. Kakuda and the others didn't check for a while, but they were quickly passed by Yingmu Huadao, and they could only catch up with Yinggi's back.

On the outside, Miyagi and others followed the junior high school students, and also chose to return quickly, ignoring Sakuragi who was in possession of the ball.

Sakuragi Hanamichi who dribbled the ball crossed the center line and approached the three-pointer. Chiba Oishi's raised defense was ushered in and he was forced to slow down.But here, Sakuragi Huadao still has no plans to play the ball. After a short dribble to adjust the rhythm, Sakuragi actually chose to force himself.

The breakthrough technique of Sakuragi Flower Road was trained by Jinguji Budo. Although Budo led Sakuragi to train for a lot of time, but more time Budo allowed Sakuragi to practice basic dribbling.

As for the breakthrough technique, Budo only taught Sakuragi Hanamichi the one-handed digging breakthrough, and then he corrected the four-dimensional three-threat breakthrough that Sakuragi learned from Haruko.

Relying on the step-digging technique, Yingmu Huadao can increase his speed to the maximum in an instant.The faster the player, the stronger the explosive power, the greater the threat of digging breakthrough!

And the explosive power of Sakuragi Flower Road.
"Huh?! This kid, so fast!!!" Chiba Oishi just blinked his eyes, and the figure of Sakuragi Hanadao disappeared from his eyes, and came to his side with the ball. Ye reacted, Sakuragi Hanamichi had already passed Chiba Oishi's defense, directly invaded the basket, and made a layup near the basket.

"Don't even think about it!" Seeing Sakuragi Hanamichi trying to make a layup, Kakuda Satoru at the basket directly raised his arms to try to block the shot, but his jumping was so much worse than Sakuragi's. It is only the position of Sakuragi's forearm, and it is not a threat to Sakuragi's layup at all.

When Sakuragi tossed the ball for a layup, he slightly lowered his eyelids in mid-air. He glanced at Satoru Kakuda indifferently, stopped looking at him, and successfully sent the ball into the basket.

"Hoho~~~"

Sakuragi, who scored the goal and fell to the ground, hammered his chest happily, and then quickly returned to defense with his teammates.Kiyota Nobunaga originally wanted to talk about Sakuragi, but he didn't expect Sakuragi to score a goal successfully. In such a situation, Kiyota had to swallow the words that came to his mouth.

He didn't expect that Yingmu Huadao, a layman, actually broke through Chiba's defense and scored the ball in one go.

"hohohoho"

"Sakuragi-san, your layup skills are becoming more and more proficient."

"The digging step breakthrough is also quite beautiful!"

"Such a breakthrough technology requires not only strong explosive power, but also high proficiency."

"During normal training, I didn't see Sakuragi-san practicing this technique. It seems that after the training, Sakuragi-san is also working hard in private."

Coach Anzai on the sidelines smiled gratifiedly when he saw Sakuragi's goal.Ayako, who was sitting on the side, glanced at the happy Coach Anxi and smiled knowingly.

For more than a month, it is no secret that Coach Anxi gave Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede a small treatment in Xiangbei High School.

The rest of the players would be lying if they said they didn't envy them, but they didn't have the courage to ask Coach Anxi to give them some advice.

Mitsui Shou, on the other hand, had the cheek to go to coach Anxi, but Anxi's answer to Mitsui Shou was: "You already have a mature style. In terms of technology, I can no longer give you guidance."

While Mitsui Shou was greatly disappointed by this, he was also secretly delighted.Coach Anxi's words are not perfunctory, Mitsui Shou knows this very well.What Mitsui Shou has to do at this stage is to practice non-stop, to thoroughly integrate all the abilities he has mastered!The guidance that coach Anxi can give him is more about playing ideas.

However, after Hisashi Mitsui shamelessly asked Coach Anzai to guide this incident, Coach Anzai also realized that his partiality seemed to be too much, and then announced to the players that after the team's normal standard training hours, those who are interested Players, you can stay for additional training.

However, the daily training in Xiangbei is already very heavy. After a day of training, most players have no energy and physical strength at all, so they stay for additional training.

Therefore, Coach Anzai's small kitchen class is just a few more junior high school students, as well as Akagi, Mugure, and Miyagi.As for Mitsui, although he doesn't need coach Anxi's individual guidance, he will stay to practice shooting when he has extra energy, or help to act as an assistant.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's one-sided attack was just a coincidence. The main offensive system of junior high school students is the medium and long-distance attack that revolves around Rukawa Kaede and Katsumi Ichiro.

In today's game, Kaede Rukawa made many shots from the middle distance or near the three-point line. As for Katsumi Ichiro, most of them were open three-pointers. When there was no such opportunity, he chose to give Kaede Rukawa and let Kaede Rukawa to fight.

It was Gongyan Mugure who was defending Kaede Rukawa. Facing Mumu, who was nearly ten centimeters shorter than him, Kaede Rukawa kept using emergency stop jump shots.

Not to mention Rukawa Kaede and Katsumi Ichiro's high hit rate, the internal strength of the middle school students is also much higher than that of the high school students.Nango Koichiro was not at a disadvantage in the face of Shonhoku's main power forward Chiba Oishi, and even relied on his excellent athletic ability to faintly overwhelm Chiba.

As for the matchup between Yingmu Huadao and Kakuda, it was a unilateral crush.

Whether it's height, strength, athletic ability, etc., Hanamichi Sakuragi crushed Satoru Kakuda in all directions, and when he was stuck at the basket, he was often able to get Kakuda stuck in the north.

Sakuragi has been playing for nearly eight months. In terms of rebounding level alone, he already has the quality of a top power forward in the county. Even looking at the whole country, he can also rank first among high school students.

The speed of progress made everyone speechless.

A player like Kakuda Satoru is no longer Sakuragi's opponent.

Even if Akagi Takenori came to the court to watch Sakuragi himself, he could only rely on experience and strength to deal with Sakuragi. In the rebound competition, he might not be able to suppress Sakuragi Hanamichi.

There are Rukawa Kaede and Katsumi Ichiro on offense, Nango Koichiro and Sakuragi Hanamichi on the inside and rebounds, and Kiyota Nobunaga, although his presence seems thin, has repeatedly oppressed Yasuda and caused the opponent to make mistakes. At the same time, he himself has also done it. 0 turnovers.

As the game progressed, the junior high school team began to widen the gap, and the speed of widening the score was very fast.

Seeing this scene, Coach Anzai realized that the training game might not be effective if this continued. When the game went on for 10 minutes, he replaced Yasuda and Kakuda and sent Akagi Takenori and Mitsui Hisashi.

So far, Xiangbei's lineup on the field can be said to be the strongest lineup in Xiangbei today.

But even if Mitsui Hisashi and Akagi Takenori are on the court, it is still quite difficult for high school students to chase points.The arrival of Akagi has indeed strengthened the inside line, but in terms of rebounds, junior high school students are not empty at all.

Although Mitsui Shou filled the high school students' outside offense, Rukawa Kaede who was facing him became slippery. From the beginning of playing alone, he began to share the possession of the ball.

Driven by Kaede Rukawa, Katsumi Ichiro played better and better, and Konobu Kogure, who was defending him, couldn't prevent Komi Ichiro's three-pointer at all.

For a while, Xiangbei, which was replaced by the strongest lineup at this stage, was only evenly divided with the junior high school students. There was no way to quickly chase points, and they could only barely maintain the point difference.

"These middle school students are really amazing!"

"Rukawa Kaede who is not at a disadvantage against Captain Mitsui, Sakuragi Hanamichi and Nango Koichiro who compete for rebounds with Akagi-senpai and Chiba-senpai, Katsumi Ichiro, a shooter who can't even guard against Kigure-senpai, and, face to face Kiyota Nobunaga who did not make any mistakes in pressing Miyagi-senpai."

"It's really hard to imagine that these junior high school students can actually fight back and forth with our main candidates in Xiangbei."

"Fortunately. In the coming year, these people will be able to join Xiangbei."

Back off the court, Yasuharu Yasuda wiped his sweat with a towel, sat on his seat and sighed.

"Yeah! That Yingmu Huadao grew really fast, how long did it take? I feel like I can't stop him at all."

"Such a guy has played for less than a year."

Kakuda Satoru squinted his eyes and echoed, with a look of exhaustion on his face. Although it didn't take long to confront Sakuragi, it exhausted his strength.

The voices of the team members fell into Coach Anxi's ears. Regarding this, Coach Anxi smiled faintly and did not speak.But in his heart, he sighed heavily. Without Jinguji Martial Arts in the high school team, the strength dropped by more than one level.

According to the current strength of the team, it may be very difficult to qualify in the winter trials.

Without Jinguji Budo, how could he cross the mountain of Lingnan High School?

(End of this chapter)