Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Mitsui Shou went abroad, and after the Shohoku team saw off Mitsui Shou at the airport, they all realized that Shohoku High School was really going to be different from before.

With the departure of Mitsui Shou, even the most optimistic Sakuragi Hanamichi and Kiyota Nobunaga were depressed for a while.

They have played in Xiangbei High School since the third year of junior high school. The captain Mitsui Shou has indeed helped them a lot on their growth path, and Sakuragi and the others have also established a deep relationship with Mitsui Shou.

Different from simply entering a higher school, it will not be easy for Sakuragi and the others to meet Mitsui Shou again in the future.

However, time is the best medicine to heal scars. With the passage of time, Yingmu Huadao and the others also walked out of the loss of parting and started their own high school life.

The training time of the youth training team was not short. It was not until the beginning of school in September that Sakuragi Hanamichi and his players who participated in the youth training officially returned to Xiangbei High School.

As I said before, unlike Huaguo's youth training system, today's Neon does not have an established professional echelon construction. The so-called youth training is just a temporary allocation of outstanding young players across the country to form a team for training .

Hanamichi Sakuragi and the others are still players of Xiangbei High School after all. If there is no accident, Sakuragi and others will not be able to formally contact professional basketball in this country until they graduate from university.

Neon's basketball construction is on par with the United States. It has abandoned the large echelon model of the youth training mechanism and adopted pure campus basketball. It wants to use this method to select enough outstanding players.

For a basketball powerhouse, the way of campus basketball is obviously more difficult to miss truly talented players. Because of the low threshold of campus basketball, basically all students who are interested in basketball have the opportunity to get in touch with regular games.

However, such a training method needs a huge basketball population as support. Japan obviously does not have such a large basketball population. Therefore, in general, the basketball level of the entire Neon is relatively low.

In this context, Huaguo's youth training mechanism has brought out its advantages. In the case of insufficient basketball population, it is easier to cultivate excellent players with targeted selection and training.

If such a mechanism does not rot over time, Huaguo's youth training physique can also take a path that is completely different from campus basketball.

But here lies the problem. No matter how good the system is, people need to implement it. As time goes by, it will only be a matter of time before the system is corrupted by greed.

With the increase of the basketball population, there are young people playing basketball all over the country. At this time, the youth training mechanism no longer has his advantages.Because the resources of youth training are limited, no matter how the echelon construction is expanded, it is impossible to include all talents.

The lack of grassroots coaches will also make most talented children who have no access to youth training scouts disappear.

As for campus basketball?Students can play regular games, probably only in the annual sports meeting.

With such intensity, how can we talk about cultivating talents?

In this era, when Jinguji Budo was training in the United States, there were competitions almost every day.Even if it is Huaguo campus basketball 30 or [-] years later, it is impossible for young players to have such a number of games.

The same 18.9-year-old young player, the American students can be said to have experienced many battles, while Hua Guo.
The construction of campus basketball is actually in conflict with the youth training mechanism. If there is no trade-off, one will have to do the other. In the end, there will be nothing.

Yingmu Huadao and others who came back from the youth training obviously have a lot more confidence. After seeing the outstanding players in the country, their plans for themselves have obviously changed.

School season.

The temperature in Kanagawa Prefecture in September finally started to drop. If the weather was around 35°C every day before, then after entering September, the temperature is generally 30°C.

Don't underestimate the fact that the temperature difference is only 5 degrees Celsius. The difference in body temperature is quite huge.

Early morning hours.

On both sides of the road in front of Xiangbei High School, the vegetation in midsummer was lush. Jinguji Budao was wearing a black school uniform, carrying a white sports backpack in his hand, and walked towards the school.

He is obviously a sophomore in high school, but Jinguji Budou has no habit of carrying a schoolbag at all. The backpack in his hand is not stationery, but basketball shoes and sportswear.

His stationery for reading is only three pens
As for the book, it hasn't been released yet.Jinguji Budo walked into the campus, and some students who passed by who did not know each other enthusiastically greeted Jinguji Budo after seeing Jinguji Budo.

Jinguji Budo can be regarded as a celebrity among celebrities in Xiangbei High School. He led Xiangbei to the national competition and helped the team win the national championship.

Known as "the strongest high school student in the country" by some local media in Kanagawa Prefecture.Nowadays, the title of "Kanagawa Double Star" is not mentioned by many people. Judging from the personal data of the players alone, Budo Jinguji, who averages close to 40 points per game, is obviously under pressure from Shinomiya.

Who is the most popular person in school?rich?
There are only three people who attract the most attention in the school. Those who are good-looking, have particularly good academic performance, and those who are particularly outstanding in a certain sport!

Athletes in sports such as basketball and football can easily attract the attention of other students.

When Budou Jinguji came to the classroom, there were not many people in his class. Jinguji Budou, who is used to going to bed early and getting up early, came earlier. Since it was the first day of school, the basketball team did not have morning practice.

The students in the classroom at this time are generally hard-working "student masters" and "student gods".

Wu Dao is not very familiar with these classmates, that is, nodding acquaintances, after a brief greeting with his classmates, Wu Dao went to his seat, and after tidying up his backpack a little, he sat on his seat boredly and looked out the window. landscape.

Soon, the students came to the classroom one after another, and some students who thought they had a good relationship with Wu Dao also gathered around Wu Dao at this moment, asking about the national competition, and gossip The feeling of TV on martial arts.

Wu Dao communicated with his classmates politely and perfunctorily, without making a gesture, trying to be easy to get along with.And this kind of tormenting scene did not end until the bell rang outside the corridor.

On the first day of school, like most schools, the teacher did not rush to talk about the contents of the textbook on the first day of school. Instead, he chatted with the students and bragged, alleviating the anxiety in the students' minds when they returned to school. That sense of confrontation.

The relationship between Jinguji Budo and the teachers is decent, and some teachers still don't forget to congratulate Budo for leading the Shonhoku basketball team to win the championship when they brag.

"The ordinary school day is almost overlapping with the high school life in my mind."

During the lunch break, Jinguji Budao lay on the desk, looked at the sky outside the window and couldn't help muttering.There is no bloody youth love pain, no so-called campus bullying, and no discrimination from teachers and classmates.

Jinguji Budou's time in high school in Xiangbei was plain but fulfilling. In such an environment, all the worries of adults disappeared.

"Students, today, a new classmate will come to our class!"

"Come on, classmate, introduce yourself to everyone."

On the podium, the female teacher gave up the central position, pulled the short boy beside her to the center of the podium, and said with a smile.

"Uh-huh. Uh-huh!!"

"Hello everyone!!!"

"I'm Kuratani Sora, a transfer student, please give me your advice!"

In the first-grade classroom, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was sleeping soundly on the desk, was awakened by the loud self-introduction, squinted, and looked up at the podium.I happened to see a slightly thin boy standing beside the female teacher.

The boy has broken hair and bangs similar to Rukawa Kaede's, but his hairstyle is more "swelled" than Rukawa Kaede's, and the hair quality is obviously much harder.

The boy is very short, even shorter than the female teacher next to him. According to his visual height, he may only be in the early 150cm. Although he is wearing a black school uniform, his face is immature, completely like a child The appearance of the mouth is clean, and it is obvious that it has not even developed.

But Kuratani Sora has a very cheerful personality, with a smile on his face.

At this moment, he looked excitedly at the students in the classroom, his eyes shifted, and he noticed Sakuragi's sight, and he actually waved towards Yingmu Huadao.

"Who is this short man?"

"Did you meet him today?"

Sakuragi saw Kuratani Sora waving and didn't respond, scratched his head, fell down on the desk again and continued to sleep.He is not interested in the transfer students at all. After this class, the class will be over. He needs to recharge his energy and prepare to go to the arena for training.

Sakuragi, who was lying on the table, didn't notice that Kuratani Sora, who was standing on the podium, was looking at Sakuragi Hanamichi eagerly.

"Ohhh!!! Is that person the first-year genius of Xiangbei High School, Hanamichi Sakuragi?!"

"Red hair is so cool! So imposing!!"

"Am I going to be teammates with such a person in the future?! Ohhhh! So excited!!"

Kuratani Sora looked at Sakuragi and screamed in his heart, and sat down on an empty seat in the front row under the teacher's signal.Obviously, this position was "specially" prepared by the teacher for him.

It is impossible for ordinary boys to sit in that position.
After Kuratani Sora sat on the seat, he put his backpack into the drawer, then groped a bit, and took out an "Application for Membership" from the backpack.

【Application Form for the Basketball Club】

【Car Valley Empty】

【First grade】

【Height 153cm, Weight 41KG】

【Point Guard】

Looking at the completed application form, Kuratani Sora clenched his fists excitedly, and murmured, "Xiangbei High School!"

"I finally managed to transfer here. I'm really lucky. A school like Xiangbei is actually a public school."

"If it's here. If it's here!!"

Kuratani Sora's body trembled slightly with excitement, a girl sitting half a meter away from him noticed the movement beside him, looked at Kuratani Sora suspiciously, and asked in a low voice: "Student Che Chegu Sora, are you sick?" Yet?"

"Ah?! No, no!"

Che Gukong heard Nuo Nuo's questioning voice beside him, and immediately said loudly.And his words fell into this quiet classroom, like a stone falling on a calm lake, stirring up layers of waves.

Everyone's eyes were attracted by Kuratani Sora, and the embarrassed Kuratani Sora lowered his head, wishing to bury his head in the desk.

Sakuragi was awakened by Kuratani Sora's movement again, raised his head, glanced at Kuratani Sora's back in dissatisfaction, and lay down on the desk again.

Mito Yohei, who was in the same class as Sakuragi, also looked at Kuratani Sora for a while, and couldn't help but said to himself, "He's really a strange transfer student."

After class, the moment the bell rang, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was sitting in the last row, jumped up from his seat, picked up the backpack at hand, and rushed out the door.

On the podium, the teacher hadn't even had time to say that the get out of class was over. Looking at Yingmu Huadao who rushed out of the classroom, he froze there, his fists were clenched unconsciously, and the chalk in his hand was directly pinched into two pieces.

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"get out of class is over!!!"

After a long time, the teacher threw the chalk in his hand into the pencil case and said angrily.But as soon as he finished speaking, a black shadow flashed in front of his eyes, a thin figure followed Yingmu Huadao's footsteps, rushed out of the door, and rushed out.

Turning his head to look, the teacher found that there was no one in Kuratani Sora's place.

"These bastards!!!"

Sakuragi Hanamichi and Kuratani Sora successively showed a "positive" attitude towards get out of class dismissal, which made the teacher unable to bear the rage.

Yanghei turned his head and glanced at Sakuragi's seat, with a smile on his face, after packing up his things briefly, he stood up and walked towards the basketball court.

And on the way to the basketball court in Yanghei, "coincidentally" ran into Danu, Gao Gong and others who were also planning to go to the gym.The few people I met by chance smiled at each other and quickened their pace.

"First!!!"

In the basketball arena, Yingmu Huadao directly opened the door, laughed and shouted into the arena.The naive Sakuragi, even the player who arrives first, has to fight for first and second.

However, the moment Sakuragi opened the door, a thin figure in the hall turned around and looked at Sakuragi Flower Road.

"Um?!"

"This guy is... that brat just now?"

Yingmu Huadao saw the person in the arena and recognized him. Isn't this the transfer student from their class?It seems to be called Kuratani Sora?
"First, it's me!"

"Sakuragi-san!"

Kuratani Sora saw the Sakuragi Flower Road at the door, looked at the surprised expression on the other party's face, and said with a smile.

Hearing the other party call out his name, Yingmu Huadao frowned slightly, and asked, "Your name is Kuratani Sora?"

"Is that the transfer student?!"

"What are you doing in the gymnasium? If it's to watch the training of Xiangbei High School's basketball team, you can't enter the court wearing outer shoes. You need to change indoor sneakers, or you can only stand on the sidelines."

Sakuragi Hanamichi folded his hands in front of his chest, and said to Kuratani Sora, with some lessons in his words.

"Huh? Do you want to change your shoes?"

"Sorry, I don't know."

Hearing this, Sora Kuratani ran to the sidelines in a hurry while speaking, and said to Sakuragi with an apologetic face.However, when Yingmu Huadao looked slightly pale, Kuratani Sora suddenly took out a piece of paper from his pocket, showed it in front of Yinggi, and said:

"But I didn't come to see Xiangbei for training!"

"I'm here for training!"

"I want to join the basketball club of Xiangbei High School!"

Kuratani Sora's words stunned Sakuragi Hanamichi, and then he looked at Kuratani Sora intently. He was only as tall as his chest, and should be less than 160cm by visual inspection. His figure was thin and there was no flesh on his body.

Such a person wants to join their Xiangbei high school basketball club? !

Sakuragi was suspicious, looked at Kuratani Sora, and couldn't help frowning:
"Are you underestimating our Xiangbei High School Basketball Club?!"

"What kind of people do you think can join us in Xiangbei?!"

(End of this chapter)