Monday was another peaceful and calm day.
In the classroom, a little old man wearing glasses was "passionately" giving lectures to the students below. Jinguji Budo was sitting at the end of the classroom, with his chin in his hand, turning his head to look out the window, his mind completely absent from the class.
"I don't know if that boy Sakuragi Hanamichi will be waiting for me in the park today."
"Looking at the way he looked yesterday, he should be here."
"The team's training usually ends around 6:30. It shouldn't hurt to leave thirty minutes early. Compared to group training, training Sakuragi alone is not a waste of time."
Jinguji Martial Arts was lost in thought when a piece of chalk flew quickly from the podium. Martial Arts noticed the flying chalk from the corner of his eye. He lowered his head subconsciously and easily avoided the attack of the chalk. Then he slowly turned back and looked at the podium.
The little old man who was in class at this time was making a "throw" gesture. Seeing Wu Dao dodge the flying chalk, he was stunned, but he quickly realized it, clicked on the blackboard, and shouted at Wu Dao road:
"Jinguji Martial Arts, come up! Do this question!"
"If you can't do it, go stand outside!"
This old man is obviously Neon's teacher, but the words he speaks make him extremely familiar with martial arts. The method of teaching students seems to be no different from teachers in China. I glanced at the question on the blackboard and saw a simple quadratic function, which is a question for the third grade of junior high school in China.
He stood up, walked to the podium without saying a word, followed the impression in his mind, and wrote the problem-solving process and answers on the blackboard.
"Hmm...not bad."
"But it's different from what I just said."
"Listen well in class and don't get distracted."
The little old man nodded first, then shook his head, patted Martial Arts' arm, and his tone was much softer than before. The violent storm did not come down, which greatly disappointed some students who wanted to watch the show.
Returning to his seat, Wu Dao lowered his head, pretended to be reading, and began to doze off. Such classes can be considered torturous for him, but it will be better if he goes to the second and third years of high school in the future. After all, the questions in the senior grades are much more difficult than now. Although martial arts was not bad in the college entrance examination before, After so many years, I have forgotten a lot.
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What is a student looking forward to most when going to school?
Of course it was the school bell. In the afternoon, when the school bell rang, Jinguji Budo, who had been listless all day, suddenly became energetic. He grabbed his backpack and rushed out of the classroom and ran towards the gymnasium.
It's like a worm when you go to school and a worm after school. I'm talking about students like Martial Arts.
When Wu Dao arrived at the arena, there were not many people there. Wu Dao, who had changed his clothes and shoes early, found a basketball and started doing a simple warm-up.
Within half an hour after the school bell rang, players from the Xiangbei basketball team gathered in the gym one after another. After everyone arrived, Mitsui Hisashi began to lead the team members in warm-up activities.
When the warm-up was coming to an end, Coach Anxi walked slowly in from the gym door.
"Hello, coach!" As coach Anxi walked into the classroom, the players greeted loudly, which was considered a courtesy.
After the warm-up, under the instructions of Hisashi Mitsui, the players began to line up in front of Coach Anzai.
Looking at the energetic teenagers in front of him, Coach Anxi couldn't help but smile.
"Did you have a good rest on this rest day?" Coach Anxi asked with a smile. He was answered by a uniform "Okay" from the players.
Nodding, Coach Anxi continued:
"Our Xiangbei High School reached the semi-finals this year, which is a very good result."
"However, what I want to tell you is that my expectations for the team have never been just the top four."
"This is just the beginning."
"Mitsui, what is our goal?!"
As Coach Anzai was talking, he suddenly mentioned Mitsui Hisashi. When his name was called, Mitsui Hisashi didn't hesitate and shouted directly: "Dominate the country!"
"What about you?" Mitsui Hisashi's answer was obviously what Coach Anzai wanted to hear. After nodding slightly, he asked the players.
"Dominate the country!"
After such a long period of fermentation, Mitsui Hisashi's obsession has already affected every player, no matter strong or weak. When Coach Anzai asked, everyone had only one thought in their mind. Even Jinguji Martial Arts is no exception.
"Very well, remember what you said today!"
"The schedule for the semi-final round robin has been released."
"Caizi, post it for everyone to see."
After boosting the team's morale, Coach Anzai said to Caiko who was standing aside. After receiving instructions from Coach Anzai, Caiko quickly took out a roll of paper from the drawer and posted it on the wall.
The curious players suddenly gathered around and curiously looked at the posted round-robin match list.
"Our first game is against Wuyuan? I heard that the male to female ratio in this school is 2:8!"
"What is your focus?! What is the ratio of men to women? Is this team good? Can we beat them?"
The players saw that the first opponent in the round-robin matchup was Wuyuan High School, and the discussion immediately became heated. The second opponent in the round robin is Lingnan High School, and the third opponent is Hainan. In terms of the opponent's ranking order alone, it actually doesn't have much impact on their Xiangbei High School.
"This Wuyuan's strength is average. I haven't heard of any outstanding players."
"It should be far inferior to Xiangyang High School."
"The opponents we need to pay attention to are Lingnan and Hainan. These two teams are our biggest opponents."
Mitsui Hisashi looked at the match list, touched his chin and said to everyone.
"It's all the same. They all have to be encountered and defeated anyway. Whether we encounter them early or late, it doesn't make any difference to us."
When dealing with this matchup table, Jinguji Martial Arts has a much calmer mentality. In his opinion, there is no difference between encountering him early and late. Different from the competition system of the national competition, the competition system of the county competition to the semi-finals is not back-to-back. There are three or four days between games, and the players actually have plenty of rest time.
After all, they are selecting the two strongest teams in the county. If they play back-to-back, the results of the competition will inevitably be affected by the grouping. The current competition system completely avoids this drawback.
"Okay, stop hanging around here and start training!"
Hisashi Mitsui recognized the idea of martial arts, clapped his hands, and drove away the players surrounding the battle table. After a brief period of chaos, Xiangbei's training finally began in an orderly manner.
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While Shohoku High School was training, the basketball team of Lingnan High School, located on the coast of Kamakura, was also training in full swing.
However, their training seems to be a little different from the large group training in Xiangbei.
"Force them up, force them all towards Shinomiya Fields!"
"You should regard him as the Jinguji Martial Arts of northern Hunan and the Mu Shenyi of Hainan!"
"As long as your zone defense can limit the field, you have a chance to limit others!"
"Cross-country, Chishang, pace faster, keep up!"
On the edge of the court, Lingnan's coach Tian Gang was standing on the sidelines, yelling at the people practicing on the court. All the players from Lingnan High School gathered on the sidelines. There were only three people on the court.
Shinomiya wore a white training uniform on his upper body and blue shorts on his lower body. He was carrying the ball and approaching the basket. Defending him was a two-man defense line composed of Lingnan High School's cross-country team Hiroaki and Ikegami Ryoji.
Shinomiya's dribbling height is very low, his rhythm is very fast, and his ability to find opportunities is also quite good. Cross-country Hiroaki's footsteps are just a beat slower, and Shinomiya directly seizes the flaw and quickly dribbles the ball through. While breaking through, Shinomiya also used his ball protector to slightly block the pursuit of cross-country Hiroaki.
Shinomiya Tano, who broke through the cross-country speed, immediately opened up a distance. Although Ikegami wanted to follow up, he could not catch up with Shinomiya Tōno, who had already started speed. Shinomiya broke through and reached the basket, easily stretched for a layup, and scored the ball.
"This won't work! I haven't fully unleashed my speed yet, and my dribbling doesn't change much when I break through. If you can't stop me like this, you won't be able to stop Jinguji Martial Arts."
"That guy's dribbling changes more than me, and his mid-range shot is very accurate. The defensive difficulty is much more difficult to deal with than what I showed at this time."
After Shinomiya's goal, he seemed a little dissatisfied with the defensive effect of his two teammates and said aloud. Coach Tianoka on the sidelines couldn't hold back the anger in his heart at this time, and shouted at Ikegami and Cross Country:
"You two, where are your ears? Press them up! Press them up!"
"Even if you can't steal the ball, don't let Tian Tian break through too easily. Don't pity your physical strength. What I want now is not to let you two reasonably distribute your physical strength!"
Coach Tian Gang roared angrily, then pointed at the panting cross-country Hongming and shouted: "Cross-country, take a rest!"
"Afu, go and practice defense with Chishang."
Coach Taoka patted Fukuda Koshi next to him, pointed to the field and said.
Cross-country Hiroaki walked off the court and was caught and trained by coach Taoka. Jun Uozumi noticed that the cross-country training seemed to be a bit harsh, so he smiled and patted the opponent's shoulder to comfort him.
All Lingnan players once again set their sights on the court.
At this time, Shinomiya's opponent changed. He picked up the basketball and walked to the center circle, indicating that Ryoji Ikegami and Fukuda could start.
Then, facing the defense of the two men, Shinomiya began to dribble, looking for gaps in the defense of Ikegami and Fukuda.
The training that coach Tian Gang arranged for the team today is a zone defense training in pairs. The offensive side is played by Shinomiya Tano and Sendō Akira. As for the defensive side, it is randomly named by coach Taoka.
The purpose of this kind of training is to prepare for the subsequent round-robin competition.
After watching the performance of Jinguji Martial Arts on the court, Coach Taoka had a deep sense of crisis. In order to deal with the threat posed by Jinguji Martial Arts to their Lingnan High School, he planned such a training plan. The entire training is conducted for the opponent's "leading soldiers".
In the opinion of Coach Taoka, against players like Jinguji Budo, it is very difficult to use conventional zone defense to limit the opponent's offense. However, letting Shinomiya play one-on-one with the opponent may be able to limit the opponent, but after limiting the opponent At the same time, their Lingnan High School's offensive firepower will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, Coach Taoka came up with the idea of using a two-person defense to consume Jinguji Martial Arts' physical strength.
He had watched the competition in Shohoku, and the only two people with super strong offensive abilities were Mitsui Hisashi and Jinguji Budo. Takenori Akagi is still very immature now, and although he is slightly stronger than Uozumi, generally speaking, he is only in the middle of the pack with Uozumi Junya.
As for Miyagi Ryota, his offensive capabilities have not yet been developed. As for the other people in Xiangbei, their ability to attack from the outside is average.
Coach Taoka planned to use Sendō to defend Mitsui Hisashi alone, and let Shinomiya enter the basket to help Uozumi control the inside, while the other two players would entangle Jinguji Budō. As for the other members of the Xiangbei team, let them go!
The same tactics can be used not only on Xiangbei, but also on Hainan.
Coach Taoka has already deduced that as long as Jinguji Martial Arts is restricted by their Lingnan's double-hot zone defense, then the winning rate of Shohoku High School against their Lingnan will be 0.
However, judging from the current stage, Lingnan's joint defense training is not going so smoothly.
While Coach Tagoka was thinking, Shinomiya broke through the defense of Fukuda and Ikegami and shot from mid-range. Perhaps due to the huge physical exertion, Shinomiya did not make the ball in this shot.
"Phew~ The defense was pretty good this time, and it affected my shooting rhythm."
Shinomiya breathed a sigh of relief, with a smile on his face, and then looked at Coach Taoka. Coach Taoka noticed Shinomiya's gaze and replaced Shinomiya with Sendō who took Shinomiya's place and started the attack.
Sendō's style of play is completely different from Shinomiya's. His dribbling speed is not very fast, but the rhythm of his dribbling is quite weird, and he also mixes in some small movements when breaking through.
With a simple INout, Sendō directly deceived Yoshio Fukuda and broke through easily. Different from Shinomiya's play style of getting to the basket, Sendō had no intention of going inside after breaking through. After getting a little opening, he directly made a breakthrough. Shot from beyond the arc.
The basketball flew towards the basket, hit the edge of the basket, bounced and then fell to the floor. Although Xiandao's ball was boring, coach Tian Gang off the court frowned slightly and reminded Fukuda loudly not to take advantage of Xiandao's fake moves.
If the Sigongano breakthrough just now was based on speed, then the current breakthrough of Xiandao is more technical.
And whether it is the breakthrough method simulated by Shinomiya Tōno or the breakthrough method simulated by Sendō Akira, they are all possessed by Jinguji Martial Arts!
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Jinguji Martial Arts far away in northern Hunan had no idea that his fighting style was being studied and analyzed.
At about six o'clock in the evening, Jinguji Budo said goodbye to his teammates early and rushed to the park agreed with Sakuragi Hanamichi.
But when Jinguji Budo hurried to the park court, Sakuragi Hanamichi had already arrived and was practicing dribbling. On the edge of the court, Mito Yohei, Takamiya Nozomi and others sat in the open space under the basket, watching Sakuragi Hanamichi practice.
The light blue vest that Sakuragi Hanamichi wore clung tightly to Sakuragi's skin, and the sweat stained his chest and back into dark blue. It can be seen that Sakuragi has been practicing for some time before the martial arts came.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
"This guy...is a bit beyond my expectations!"
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