Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 354 An A-level team that is not in the same class!
The eve of the national competition.

The bright moon hangs high, and the night sky is filled with stars.

However, not many people have the heart to appreciate such a beautiful night scene.

In the common room of the hotel where Xiangbei stayed, the lights were brightly lit, and what was playing on the TV was the video of last year's national competition between Sanno Industry and Lingnan High School.Coach Anxi sat on the blanket, leaning against the sofa stool, resting one hand on the coffee table, staring closely at the game video being played on the TV.

This afternoon, the opening ceremony of the national competition has been held at the center arena in Hiroshima.

Tomorrow morning, Xiangbei High School in Group A will face Fengyu High School from Osaka in the first game.

Although the first game of Xiangbei High School tomorrow is Fengyu High School, the TV in front of Coach Anxi's eyes is the game between Sanno Industry and Lingnan last year.

In the eyes of Coach Anxi, the threat of Fengyu High School to Xiangbei High School is almost zero.

"There is no doubt that Sanno Industry is indeed a very good team."

"Last year in Budo they fought against Sanno in the Autumn National Stadium, but...the Autumn National Competition is still different from the national competition."

"The reason why Lingnan was able to win Sanno, the biggest problem is not how good Shinomiya Tianye played, the problem is that the Sanwang Eiji Zebei is too young."

"Sanno's Kawada Masashi is definitely the top center in the country. If Sanno only plays inside and mobilizes Shinomiya Tano to defend the inside, the outside teams will have plenty of room to play."

"The strength of Shenjin Kazun is also obviously higher than that of Fujima Kenji. With the assistance of two phases, in front of Lingnan, he can definitely catch Lingnan's flaw and break it with one blow."

"Domoto trusted Zebei's power so much that Shan Wang suffered such a big loss at Lingnan's hands!"

"After experiencing the baptism of last year's IH, Autumn National Sports and Winter Games, Sanno Industry will definitely pay attention to this issue."

"Zebei Eiji's personal strength has definitely improved compared to last year!"

"I'm afraid, there will be a huge change in the style of play!"

While watching the game, Coach Anxi grabbed the tactical board beside him, took a marker pen and drew on the tactical board, deducing in his mind the possible battle situation when Xiangbei High School encountered Sanno Industry.

This is the first time since coach Anxi coached Xiangbei, he has seriously examined his opponents and deduced the battle situation as he is now.

"The inside line combination of Akagi and Sakuragi may not be able to suppress Sanno's Masashi Kawada."

"In terms of rebounding, we Xiangbei should still have a chance to fight against each other."

"The biggest advantage of our Xiangbei is actually Budo's absolute advantage in attacking with the ball."

"However, if he relies too much on the power of martial arts, his consumption will definitely not be small. Under the back-to-back competition system, even martial arts may not be able to withstand it. Therefore, Mitsui Hisashi and Rukawa must be able to assist him on the court to attack."

"Tomorrow's match with Fengyu, we also need to win the opponent with the least physical energy consumption."

Coach Anxi was doing deduction on the tactical board, and he had already established the tactics against Sanno Industry in his mind.

At this moment, the door of the lounge slammed twice, and then it was pushed open.

"Mr. Anxi, haven't you rested yet? This is... you are watching the match between Shanwang and Lingnan?"

"Has this already begun to study our opponent in the second round of Xiangbei? It is indeed Mr. Anxi."

Standing at the door, Mitsui Shou saw Coach Anxi watching the video, smiled and complimented Coach Anxi.

"Oh Mitsui!"

"come in."

"It's so late and you haven't rested yet, what's wrong with you?"

Coach Anxi turned his head, saw that it was Mitsui Shou, pushed his glasses, and asked with a smile, but the eyes behind the glasses showed a slight sternness.

It is already 11 o'clock at night, and Xiangbei's game tomorrow will be at 8 o'clock in the morning.Normally, the players have to get up at 6.30 and rush to the stadium to make some pre-match preparations.

Mitsui Shou hasn't slept yet at this point in time, and the rest time is simply not enough.

"Sorry, teacher."

"I'm so excited that I can't sleep."

Sensing Coach Anzai's emotions, Mitsui Shou scratched the back of his head and said in embarrassment.

Hearing this, Coach Anxi was very surprised. He didn't expect that a player like Mitsui Shou would have such emotions.

If it was a first-year rookie who said this at this time, he would still understand it, but if Mitsui Shou, such emotions should not appear.

Now Mitsui, who is in the third grade of high school, has played many big and small competitions. It is not the first time that he has played in a national competition. Coach Anxi did not expect such emotions to appear.

"Excited. Not nervous?"

"Mitsui."

Coach Anxi didn't finish his sentence, Mitsui Shou walked directly into the door, sat on the blanket next to Coach Anxi, and said to himself:

"Teacher, I'm already a senior in high school. If I don't win the national championship this year, I won't win it in the future."

"We're going to be strong, I'm pretty sure of that."

"But, teacher, how can there be certainty about the competition?"

"Apart from the excitement, I was also a little scared, afraid of Xiangbei's mistakes and losing."

"I do not want"

Before Mitsui Shou finished speaking, Coach Anzai already knew why Mitsui Shou had such emotions.

A strong person has a strong self-esteem, and the more such a person, the heavier his thoughts.The pressure on Mitsui Shou was not only given to him by himself, but also given to him by his teammates, and even given to him by Koyoshi Anzai!

Patting Mitsui Shou on the shoulder, Coach Anzai's eyes were full of tenderness.

"Mitsui, I have always believed in you, you."

"It's the strongest!"

[The next thing is, the first match of the national competition. 】

[The opposing sides are Shonhoku High School from Kanagawa Prefecture, and Fengyu High School from Osaka. 】

[Team members from both sides, please enter the arena immediately. 】

In the Hiroshima Central Gymnasium, the radio sounded.

The player passages on both sides of the basketball court opened, and Fengyu High School players in blue uniforms slowly entered the court amidst the cheers of the audience.

"Huh~~ There are really a lot of people!"

"Okay, defeat Xiangbei in front of so many people and advance to the second round! Fight all the way to the finals and win the national championship!"

"We must prove to everyone that Coach Kitano's tactics can win the national championship!"

Kishimoto Mari looked at the cheering audience around, and said excitedly, while quickly scanning the stands, trying to find the thin old man.

Coach Kitano, the former coach of Fengyu High School, once guided a series of Fengyu third-year players such as Nan Lie and Kishimoto on the correct basketball path.

But a year and a half ago, coach Kitano was dismissed by the school.

The reason is also very simple, that is, under the leadership of coach Kitano, Fengyu High School has never broken through the best result of the top 8 in the national competition.Not all school leaders are like Xiangbei, who don't pay much attention to the awards and achievements of basketball games.

Fengyu High School, which regards basketball as a development focus, cannot tolerate such things happening.

Therefore, coach Kitano was replaced and coach Muramasa was replaced. However, last year, Fengyu was eliminated in the second round, and coach Muramasa was fired directly, and he was replaced by the current coach Jinping.

However, Nan Lie and others, who were trained by Kitano coach, have deep feelings for Kitano. They know that Kitano left because of their poor grades. Let coach Kitano return to the team.

But last year, Fengyu was not lucky. In the second round, he met Shonhoku High School led by Jinguji Budo and Mitsui Shou, and ended in a disastrous defeat.

This year, Fengyu met Xiangbei High School again.

Although Kishimoto Miri had a hard mouth when he was on the train, but in fact he knew very well in his heart that it was not easy to cross the obstacle of Xiangbei!

Coach Jinping is a latecomer, but his prestige in the team is not bad.Fengyu High School experienced a disastrous defeat in the past year. Coach Muramasa also had a good heart with these Fengyu players before leaving, which somewhat changed some extreme thoughts of Fengyu players.

After Jin Ping took over, he originally planned to completely deny running and bombing and switch to defensive counterattacks. However, under the persuasion of his former coach Muramasa, he decided to let the team focus on running and bombing to assist other offensive tactics.

This made Jinping and Feng Yu's players get along much better. Although Feng Yu still ran into Xiangbei this year, each of the players was very confident in their team.

What?Lost to Xiangbei last year?
That's just because our team hasn't run in yet!

This is what Fengyu's team members think in their hearts. They want to find their own victory in Xiangbei!
"Tap."

In the player tunnel, footsteps sounded, Fengyu players looked sideways, and happened to see Coach Anxi leading the Xiangbei players out of the tunnel, Jinguji Budou standing behind Coach Anxi, glanced at Fengyu High School from afar, with an expression on his face smiled.

When the Xiangbei players entered the field, there was a "wow" in the stands, and amazing cheers erupted.The enthusiasm of the cheers was completely different from the previous Fengyu players entering the field.

Yingmu Huadao waved towards the stands around him familiarly, with a look of enjoyment on his face, Kiyota Nobunaga and Nango were surrounded by the cheers, and they also secretly said in their hearts, "That's amazing, we are really famous in Xiangbei!" It was trying to maintain a calm and serious appearance.

Quite a "strong team player" demeanor.

"Here we come, Xiangbei!"

Nan Lie saw Jinguji Budao in the Xiangbei team from a distance, his expression froze, and he couldn't help but recall the scene when he confronted Jinguji Budao last year in his mind.

That "military training", he, the scoring leader in Osaka, has never forgotten it.

Later, Nan Lie also saw the scene where Jinguji Budao led Xiangbei to fight against Lingnan. From then on, he no longer cared about the false title of "Osaka scoring champion". What he wanted was to defeat Jinguji Budao!Use running and bombing to defeat Xiangbei High School!
"Let's go, today, we want to take back our own victory!"

Nan Lie felt ruthless in his heart, and led his team members into the arena to warm up.

The Xiangbei players entered the field and after putting down their things in the rest area, they also began to enter the field to warm up.Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi Hanamichi, Nango Koichiro, Miyagi Ryota, and Kiyota Nobunaga changed their jerseys early to warm up.

Jinguji Budao and Mitsui Shou both wore white training uniforms, and walked to the field to pass the ball to these players.The rest of the Shonhoku players entered the arena to warm up, and all of them were also wearing team uniforms, which made Budo and Mitsui Shou who were wearing white training uniforms particularly eye-catching.

"Hey~ Jinguji Budo and Mitsui Hisashi haven't changed their clothes yet."

"Aren't they going to play?"

In the stands, all members of Lingnan High School, who had a bye in the first round of the game, were still present. Watching today's game, Aida Yan held a notebook in one hand, saw the warm-up situation on the Xiangbei side, and whispered.

"Well, it looks like that should be the case."

"Furthermore, the active warm-up team members in Xiangbei are all in the first and second grades."

The Xiangbei players began to warm up. Coach Tian Gang looked at the Xiangbei half and nodded slightly.

After finishing speaking, Coach Tian Gang suddenly smiled and said:

"It seems that Coach Anxi is planning to preserve his strength."

"After the match with Feng Yu, Xiangbei will face Sanno Industry!"

"There is no doubt that Shanwang is one of the strongest teams in this conference other than Lingnan."

"It's normal to be prepared and be on guard!"

Coach Tian Gang understood Coach Anxi's plan in an instant, and explained to the players with a smile.But Aida Yanichi, who heard this, scratched his hair in doubt, frowned and asked:

"I see."

"But...wouldn't this arrangement be too big?"

"I know Fengyu High School. Although they lost to Xiangbei last year, Fengyu's record in Osaka this year is almost all victorious and they only lost one game."

"Moreover, the games they won were always leading by a large score, and even the one they lost, Da Rong Academy only won by three points."

"Nan Lie from Fengyu High School is still the leading scorer in Osaka."

"Fengyu High School, which is also an A-level team with Xiangbei, does not send players like Jinguji Budou to play, but sends some freshmen who have not played in the national competition. Has it really won Fengyu?"

After all, they are both members of the Kanagawa prefectural team. At this moment, Aida Yanichi actually started to worry about Shonhoku High School.

"It's unnecessary to worry. Coach Anxi may have already calculated the strength of the two teams."

"A-level teams are different from A-level teams! The strength of Xiangbei High School is hard to describe with an A."

"And the quality of the first grade in Xiangbei is excellent!"

After finishing speaking, Coach Tian Gang pursed his mouth and looked unhappy.The new stars of Xiangbei High School are all excellent players who make him jealous. Even if it is the most inconspicuous Hanamichi Sakuragi, Coach Tian Gang sees full of talent from each other.

Compared with Xiangbei, which has a large number of talents, Lingnan High School led by Coach Tian Gang is really.
"hateful!"

Coach Tian Gang gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, he already had a plan in mind!

After this year's competition, third-year mainstays such as Kenji Fujima, Jun Uozumi, and Toru Hanakata are about to go to higher education. Although Shinomiya Tianno and Xiandao are still there, Lingnan has already begun to face a situation of lack of success. There are a lot of talents in the first grade, and the Jinguji martial arts are in the second grade.

Next year, Xiangbei's strength may not necessarily weaken, and it may even become even more terrifying.

Absorbing outstanding freshmen is something that Lingnan must consider.Coach Tian Gang is not only worrying about the team's game during this time, but he is also paying attention to the middle school's game in order to find enough good players.

In fact, there is a third-year middle school point guard named Tianwo Yuta in Yokohama who has already attracted his attention. This year's National Middle School Basketball Conference, this kid performed brilliantly, and many teams have already paid attention to him. , and Coach Tian Gang is also waiting for an opportunity to intervene to include that player in his pocket.

This year's national champion is the "opportunity" he was looking for!
While coach Tian Gang was thinking, the warm-up of the players on both sides of the court was over.

Sure enough, as coach Tian Gang expected, with the referee's whistle, players from both sides entered the field.

The players on the Xiangbei side are first-year Nango Koichiro, Sakuragi Hanamichi, Rukawa Kaede, Kiyota Nobunaga, and a second-year Miyagi Ryota.

Many of the audience on the sidelines knew about Shohoku, and they also knew that Shohoku's most famous trump card was the second-year Jinguji Budo.

But at this time, seeing the formation in Xiangbei, there was a "buzz" discussion in the stands.

Nan Lie, who walked into the court, was adjusting the position of his wrist guards. He looked up and saw the players on the field from Xiangbei.

"Ju unexpectedly"

"Dare to underestimate us!!!"

"Xiangbei!!"

(End of this chapter)