In October, the sky is high and the sea is wide.
There are several sycamore trees on the campus of Xiangbei High School. At this time of year, the leaves have turned deep red. When the autumn wind blows, the fallen leaves swirl and fall to the ground, feeling indescribably desolate.
"Hey, why is that seat vacant? Where is Jinguji Martial Arts?"
In the morning, the bell for the first morning class had just rang. A young teacher walked in as the bell rang. Looking at the empty seat in the back row of the classroom, the teacher's expression changed slightly and he asked the students below.
"Teacher, today is the opening of the Autumn National Sports. Jinguji Budo is a player on the Kanagawa Prefecture representative team."
A student below answered the teacher's question. After receiving this information, the young teacher looked stunned and turned to look at the corner of the blackboard.
"Isn't it already the golden sun? I heard that this year's Autumn National Sports will be held in our Kanagawa Prefecture?"
"So, I can still watch this kid's game tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!"
The young teacher pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, muttered to himself, and showed a gentle smile.
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Kanagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, the prefectural gymnasium that had been silent for several months, became bustling with people on this day.
The prefecture hosting the Autumn National Sports this year is Kanagawa Prefecture. For the players from Kanagawa Prefecture, this year's game can be regarded as a home game.
A red and white bus slowly stopped at the entrance of the stadium. After the bus stopped, the front door opened, and coach Tian Gang, wearing a suit, slowly stepped off the bus.
"Hiss~~hu~~"
"Haha, the weather is really good today. This day has finally arrived!"
After Coach Tian Gang got off the bus, he raised his head and took a deep breath. He looked at the steps in front of the gym and whispered excitedly.
"Everyone, come down! We're here!" Coach Tian Gang turned his head and shouted towards the bus. His voice also attracted some pedestrians.
"Hey, is that Coach Taoka from Lingnan High School? I heard that this year's Kanagawa Prefecture team is led by him."
"Oh? Really? So, the person on the bus..."
The people who will appear at the county gymnasium on this day are basically basketball enthusiasts, or players and coaches from other counties and cities. Coach Tian Gang also gained some fame after leading Lingnan High School to win the IH National Championship. At this time, Coach Tian Gang standing in front of the bus was easily recognized.
"Squeak....squeak...."
Under the gaze of everyone, the bus parked on the sidewalk suddenly started to shake slightly. Not long after, a strong man wearing a red and white sweatshirt slowly got off the bus. After getting off the bus, he silently He walked behind Coach Tian Gang and looked towards the direction of the gymnasium.
"So burly! Is that a player from the Kanagawa Prefecture representative team?"
"Don't you know that person? Jun Uozumi, the center of Ryonan High School, is known as the monster. I heard that he is over two meters tall!"
The burly Uozumi instantly attracted the attention of passers-by around him. After all, with a figure like his, he was absolutely eye-catching no matter where he went.
Coach Tian Gang looked a little impatient when he saw Yuzhu getting out of the car but not seeing anyone else.
"Where are the others? Why haven't you come down yet?" Coach Tian Gang raised his hand and glanced at his watch and asked in a deep voice. But as soon as he finished speaking, there were hurried footsteps from the other side of the bus. Mu Shenyi, Maekawa Daiki, Da Zheng Sifu and Shenzong Ichiro stepped off the bus one after another.
"Hey, who are those people? Are they also players of the Kanagawa Prefecture representative team? They have strange faces!"
"I don't know him, he's a local player from Kanagawa Prefecture."
"Ohhhh, that, that, Xiandao from Lingnan High School! I saw him on the IH court!"
Just as passers-by were commenting on the people who had just gotten off the bus, Akira Sendō got off the bus, and his appearance immediately attracted the attention of everyone around him. Coach Tianoka seemed to enjoy the scene of his players being amazed by the people around him. He stood aside silently and gave up the so-called C position to Xiandao who got off the car.
However, Xiandao was obviously still out of the situation. He had just gotten out of the car with a sleepy look on his face, as if he had just woken up. He didn't pay attention to the attention and comments of the people around him. After getting out of the car, he silently walked behind Yuzhu, rested his head on Yuzhu's back, yawned, and used Yuzhu as a wall.
Coach Tian Gang's face darkened when he saw this scene. He rushed to Xiandao's side in a few steps, stretched out his hand and grabbed Xiandao's ear, and yelled:
"Asshole! Cheer up!"
"We have a game to play later. How are you going to play in the game like this?! Huh?!"
The furious coach Tian Gang grabbed Xiandao's ear and shouted in Xiandao's ear. That voice made Xiandao sober up in an instant.
"Don't be angry, coach. Don't look at Xiandao like this. When he gets to the court, he won't lose his temper."
"calm down."
Just when Coach Taoka was ready to teach him a lesson, Shinomiya Tano came to Coach Taoka's side at some point, patted Coach Taoka's back and comforted him softly.
"snort!"
"Xiandao, you don't have to play in today's game! From the looks of it, you probably haven't woken up yet. I'll give you time to catch up on your sleep!"
Coach Tian Gang looked like he was still angry, snorted softly, and said to Xiandao. When Xiandao heard this, he spread his hands indifferently, with a nonchalant look on his face, and his look also made Coach Tian Gang angry.
Shinomiya noticed something was wrong and immediately interrupted: "Hey, coach, who is our opponent in the first game today?"
Upon hearing this, Coach Taoka glanced at Shinomiya Tōno, then glared at Sendō fiercely before replying:
"Shimane!"
"Where are Mitsui Hisashi and the others? Why haven't you come down yet? Hurry up and line up. The opening ceremony is about to start. Hurry up!"
Being interrupted by Shinomiya Tanoh, Coach Taoka lost some of his anger. He glanced at the players who had already gotten off the bus and found that they were not all there yet, so he yelled again.
"Come on, come on! Sorry, sorry, change clothes, change clothes~~"
Under the roar of Coach Taoka, Mitsui Hisakai hurriedly got out of the car, and not long after he got off, talents such as Akagi Takenori, Miyagi Ryota, Chiba Oishi and Jinguji Martial Arts came to the fore. They got out of the car one after another.
Until now, the 15 members of the Kanagawa Prefecture team have officially arrived.
"Yeah! Let's go to the arena."
Coach Tian Gang looked at the few people who got out of the car, nodded their heads, nodded slightly, waved his hand, and took the lead on the steps in front of the gymnasium.
Behind him, 15 players from the Kanagawa Prefecture representative team, wearing uniform red and white team uniforms, followed closely behind Coach Taoka.
The selection of Kanagawa Prefecture team members lasted nearly two months, and as of today, the selection and training work has been completed.
All 15 players come from only three local schools in Kanagawa Prefecture, namely ih champion Lingnan High School, ih top eight Shohoku High School, and the local powerhouse in Kanagawa Prefecture, Hainan High School.
There are no outstanding players drafted from other schools in the prefecture, and this is reasonable. After all, in previous Aki no Kuni Sports, the Kanagawa Prefecture representative team players were often players from Hainan and Shoyang. It's just that this year, the high school basketball landscape in Kanagawa Prefecture has changed drastically. The top players are no longer strong, and the upstarts in the prefecture are also ridiculously strong.
Behind Coach Taoka are five players from their Lingnan school, Jun Uozumi, who won the No. 5 jersey, Kenji Fujima, the No. 6, Akira Sendō, the No. 8, Shinomiya No. 8, and Toru Hanagata, the No. 9.
The captain of the county team is not a player from Lingnan High School, but Mu Shenyi from Hainan. Mu Shenyi showed overwhelming ability in the training. At the PG position, Mu Shenyi is undoubtedly the strongest in the county. His ability is more trustworthy than Xiandao, who is trying the PG position for the first time.
The point guard did not become the coach on the court, but Mu Shenyi, who had obtained the starting qualification, naturally became the captain of this county team.
In addition to Mu Shenyi, Hainan's Shenzong Ichiro and Dazheng Sifu were successfully selected into the 15-man roster, but these two did not receive corresponding jerseys with numbers. At the same time, Chiba Oishi from Shohoku High School also has no number. Although the three of them are wearing the sports uniforms of the county team, they do not have their own jerseys inside.
The county team's jerseys only have numbers 4 to 15, a total of 12 jerseys with numbers. In other words, when it comes to the competition stage, only these 12 people with jerseys are truly qualified to play. As for the other three people on the roster, only when these 12 people are injured and unable to play can they be replaced.
But normally, it is impossible for such a situation to occur in the Qiuzhi National Sports competition.
Chiba Oishi participated in the training camp as a PF, but during the training process, Coach Taoka considered that there were too many players in the post this year. In addition to the traditional centers Jun Uozumi and Takenori Akagi, the power forwards were also included in the post. Also in the position are Toru Hanagata and Kazuma Takasago, as well as Daiki Maekawa of Hainan.
Oishi Chiba, who has poor height conditions, was naturally compressed in the draft. Ichiro Kamizou, who participated in the training camp as a SG, was not as good as Hisashi Mitsui and Kenji Fujima in scoring ability at the same position. Moreover, this year's county team's offensive firepower does not require a player of Kamizou Ichiro's caliber to support it.
Also in the same situation as them was Omasa Shifuku. Although he was a third-year student at Hainan High School, his competitors were Shinomiya Tanano from Lingnan High School and Jinguji Martial Arts from Shohoku.
These two players are both strong ball-handling players, and their personal abilities are obviously far superior to ordinary high school students. Competing with these two people, Dazheng Sifu has no chance of winning.
Therefore, after forming the army, Omasa Shifuku, Kamizou Ichiro and Shohoku's Chiba Oishi did not enter the standard rotation lineup.
Takenori Akagi, who was selected, got the No. 14 jersey, Kazuma Takasago got the No. 15 jersey, Maekawa Daiki, who was ranked higher than Akagi, got the No. 13 jersey, and Jinguji Budo got the No. 10 jersey. , Hisashi Mitsui, was No. 11, and Ryota Miyagi got the No. 12 jersey.
The distribution of jerseys depends more on coach Taoka's arrangements and personal preferences. As for whether he will be a starter and whether he will have a chance to play, all players who get jerseys will have equal opportunities.
At least, that's what coach Taoka said.
Under the leadership of coach Taoka, the players of the Kanagawa Prefecture representative team entered the gymnasium. Before they arrived, many players had already come to the venue where the opening ceremony was held.
There are a total of 47 teams participating in the Autumn National Sports, and the competition system is also very tightly arranged. Like the ih national competition, it is a back-to-back competition system.
Kanagawa Prefecture's historical performance in Aki no Kuni Sports was mediocre. They did not have a bye in the first round, but had to compete with a team from Shimane.
For example, the old and strong teams, such as Akita Prefecture, Kyoto, Fukuoka, and Aichi, all had byes in the first round, and they started playing directly from the second round.
Although Kanagawa Prefecture's historical performance in the Aki no Kuni Sports is mediocre, this year's situation is obviously different from previous years. Reinan High School won the IH with a strong victory, and Shohoku High School made it to the top 8 with strong performance, both of which impressed the national audience. They were deeply impressed.
The name of Kanagawa Twin Stars has already spread throughout the country with the end of the ih competition.
Therefore, when everyone from the Kanagawa Prefecture team entered the venue, they immediately attracted the attention of many people.
"People from Kanagawa Prefecture are here! Sure enough, Shinomiya Tōno from Ryōnan and Jinguji Martial Arts from Shohoku are both members of the representative team!"
"I'm really looking forward to it. The two stars of Kanagawa Prefecture are joining forces. I really don't know which team can stop them."
"Ah? No way! Either one of these two is invincible. How could they lose if they join forces?"
In addition to the players and coaches of the representative team who will participate in the competition in the future, there are also many local fans from Kanagawa Prefecture attending the ceremony.
For local fans, Shinomiya Tōno and Jinguji Budō are undoubtedly the business cards of Kanagawa Prefecture high school basketball. In their minds, Shinomiya Tōno and Jinguji Budō are the two strongest people in the country.
As for which of the two is stronger and which is weaker, there is no conclusion, because so far on the court, these two have not met an opponent who can really stop them. During the Kanagawa Derby during the IH period, the two of them were also in a situation of mutual explosion.
"The Kanagawa Prefecture representative team is here. At first glance, there are quite a few familiar faces!"
"Lingnan High School and Xiangbei High School have a few new faces, but not many."
"Our biggest opponents in Akita this year should be those people from Kanagawa Prefecture!"
In a corner of the venue, the players from the Akita Prefecture team, who had arrived at the venue early, turned their attention to the people from Kanagawa Prefecture who had just entered the venue. Speaking of the Akita Prefecture representative team, it is also very interesting. The members of the representative teams of other prefectures are drawn from various schools in the prefecture. Only in Akita Prefecture, the players of the entire team are players from Sanno Industries.
Different from the chaotic high school basketball scene in other counties, Akita County has always had one and only one overlord, and that is Sanno Industries. All talented players in the county are recruited by Sanno Industries. Therefore, when other counties are allied forces, They are the only ones who form an army alone.
"Kanagawa Double Star... This time, I will never lose to anyone!"
Sawabita Eiji looked at the members of the Kanagawa Prefecture team from a distance, clenching his fists and thinking to himself.
Goro Domoto, who was standing in front of the team, seemed to be aware of the emotions of Eiji Sawabita, and also felt some changes in the atmosphere of the team. He clapped his hands and encouraged:
"During IH, our Mountain King lost to Lingnan High School."
"This time the Autumn Kingdom is an opportunity to avenge shame!"
"In the main competition, let them see the results of your exchange in the United States this summer."
"Zebei, through this Autumn National Sports, officially ascend to the throne of the first person in the country! I believe you can do it!"
As Goro Domoto spoke, he walked up to Eiji Sawabita, patted Eiji Sawabita on the shoulder, and looked at the players of the Kanagawa Prefecture representative team from a distance with a confident smile on his face.
"Yeah! Of course!"
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