"Sakura, of course I have something to keep you here."
"You...and Rukawa Kaede, do you want to become stronger?"
The afterglow of the setting sun reflected on Coach Anxi's glasses, blocking his eyes. Hearing Coach Anzai's question, Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi Hanamichi, who were left behind, were stunned. After looking at each other, Sakuragi Hanamichi was the first to react and pinched the thick flesh of Coach Anzai's chin with his hand. , said with a smile:
"Dad, what nonsense are you talking about again?"
"Of course I want to become stronger!"
"You left me here because you want to start a small stove for me? Hahahaha!"
"Dad, you are quite discerning and know how powerful this genius is, but why would you leave this stinky fox behind?"
“Bang! Bang!
"
At the end of Sakuragi Hanamichi's words, he waved his hand towards Rukawa Kaede, as if to drive away a stray dog.
Rukawa Kaede rolled his eyes sideways at Sakuragi Hanamichi, and then looked at Coach Anzai. Although he didn't speak, his eyes had already told Coach Anzai his answer.
"Hoo ho ho!"
"If you all want to become stronger, you need to work harder than other team members!"
"After training every day, you have to train for 3 hours. The training will be very tiring. Can you bear it?"
Coach Anxi pointed to the clock hanging on the wall and said with a smile.
The training intensity of Xiangbei High School is also relatively strong among many neon universities. It trains for one and a half hours in the morning. After school at 3:30 in the afternoon, it will train until 6:30 in the evening. Adding up the morning and afternoon, it is a full four and a half hours of training. .
The ratio of training and reading can almost reach 1:1.
Of course, this is still very different from Jinguji Martial Arts in the United States. The basketball team of Oak Hill College basically does not have many cultural classes. Most of the day, they spend most of the day training in the gym, or playing with Other schools play games, or are on their way to games.
Some people may ask why there is such a big difference between Chinese basketball and European and American basketball. Regardless of race, the training time of young players is the key factor that directly affects the player's level.
Elementary and middle school students in European and American countries will use basketball as a stepping stone to college, and even to life. The number of elementary and middle school student athletes across the country is quite terrifying, but looking at the country, these elementary and middle school athletes are really very few.
Most of those who know how to practice sports cannot study. Even if you have sports talent, if you can read, the social environment will not support you to practice sports.
Many physical education students often don't formally come into contact with relatively professional campus sports training until their second or third year of junior high school. The standard of this kind of campus training is often very high. After all, a school's physical education teacher can often get sick. What high-level coaches do you expect the school to hire? How is that possible?
Most of the people in the national team now are players from the youth training, but then again, how many scouts are there in the youth training? The country is such a big place, so how can scouts and coaches cover the whole country in selecting talents? At the same time, in order to improve the success rate of material selection, isn’t it a simple and effective way to set a height threshold?
But this kind of selection method will eventually miss out most talented players.
Popularizing campus basketball, improving the level of campus basketball, and expanding the base of grassroots athletes are the way out for Chinese basketball.
Dayao, who was criticized for his inaction after taking office, did exactly this. However, this was not something that could be achieved in one or two years or four or five years.
At the very least, it will take up to twenty years of hard work before we can see results. In this regard, the rise of Japanese football has proven the feasibility of this approach.
Coach Anzai left Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede behind, not because he had any clever tricks that could make Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede become super masters.
He simply wanted Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede to spend more time on basketball training. A player's strength cannot be improved overnight, and extensive training is absolutely indispensable.
Jinguji Martial Arts has been able to rise in such a short period of time. In addition to the experience in its own mind, the amount of daily training is simply not comparable to that of ordinary players. It can be said that over the years, in addition to sleeping and attending classes, Martial Arts has The rest of the time is spent in the arena or in Fujima's gym.
Coach Anzai can predict that the strength of Jinguji Martial Arts who returns from studying in the United States will jump to a higher level. Coach Anzai plans to train Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede so that they can become the new right-hand men of Jinguji Martial Arts and lead Shohoku to the national championship.
"Dad, it's just three hours of extra practice. I'm a genius, how can I be overwhelmed?"
"For some people, it's better not to force yourself. If you train too hard, it won't be good if you get injured."
Sakuragi Hanamichi expressed no pressure on the additional training proposed by coach Anzai, and at the same time secretly stepped on Rukawa Kaede. When Rukawa Kaede heard Coach Anzai's proposal for additional practice, he did not object. Anyway, he would practice after returning home, but he would practice alone in the yard.
It’s actually better to practice in the gym in northern Hunan now. Although he was a reserve player in Shohoku, he still didn't feel like a master. After every training session, Rukawa Kaede was too embarrassed to stay in the gym to practice.
"Hoo ho ho, okay!"
"It just so happens that the two of you can serve as each other's teaching assistants."
When Coach Anzai heard Sakuragi's answer and saw Rukawa Kaede's firm eyes, he knew that both of them agreed and said immediately. Then he glanced at the equipment in the stadium, patted the arms of Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede, and motioned for them to follow.
"On the first day of extra practice, let's do something simple first."
"Let's start with the basics and do layup training." Coach Anxi murmured, walking towards one half of the arena.
"Ah?! Dad, are you training for layups?"
"This...I can already do it! And, I can also dunk!"
"Dad, why don't you teach me how to shoot? For so long, that orangutan guy has always taught me about positioning, rebounding and so on."
"I want to attack! I want to score!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi heard what Coach Anzai said, and his face was full of displeasure.
A layup or something, it's so ungrateful!
"Hoo ho ho ho!"
"Sakura, don't worry, shoot, I will teach you."
"The food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step."
"The layup drill I'm going to give you is different from what you usually practice."
"You guys wait for me here."
Coach Anxi said, turned around and went to the equipment room. When he came out after a while, he was holding a thin wooden stick about 50cm in his hand and walked back to the court.
Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede both looked at Coach Anzai in confusion, not knowing what Coach Anzai was planning to do.
"Sakuragi, go, get a ball and make a layup!"
As Coach Anzai said, he walked to the basket with a stick in hand. Sakuragi was confused after hearing this, walked to the side of the court, picked up a basketball, and asked in confusion:
"Dad, what are you going to do? Is it a layup?"
Coach Anxi didn't speak, but waved towards Sakuragi.
After receiving instructions from coach Anzai, Sakuragi Hanamichi did not hesitate and quickly ran towards the basket with the ball.
"Genius Sakuragi, layup!"
It was just a simple layup. Sakuragi Hanamichi was not running fast and his body was loose. He quickly passed Coach Anzai and entered the basket. He jumped slightly and extended his right hand to send the ball out. During the layup, Sakuragi still shouted softly and explained to himself to create the atmosphere of the game.
However, the next second after the basketball was released, a stick shadow flashed directly in front of Sakuragi's eyes and hit the basketball accurately with a snap. Although the force does not seem to be great, the ball path for the layup is completely destroyed, and the basketball slides down the basket.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!
"
"Dad, what are you doing?"
The basketball missed. Sakuragi Hanamichi was stunned for a moment, then grabbed his hair and shouted. Coach Anxi's stick knocked him out of his imagination and back to reality.
"Hoho...defend!"
"Sakuragi-kun, when you go for a layup, you must pay attention to your surroundings."
Coach Anzai said with a smile, then moved his eyes to Rukawa Kaede, and continued: "Rukawa-san, would you like to try?"
When Sakuragi heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. He walked to Coach Anxi with a smile, snatched the wooden stick from Coach Anxi's hand, and said coquettishly: "Dad, you are old, go and have a rest." Bar."
"As for defense, leave this kind of thing to young people like me, hahaha!"
When Coach Anzai heard this, he turned to look at Sakuragi and walked off the court with a smile. After Coach Anzai left the field, Sakuragi pointed at Rukawa Kaede with a stick and shouted: "Smelly fox, come on!"
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Rukawa Kaede curled his lips when he heard this, walked to the sidelines, picked up a basketball, and looked at Sakuragi Hanamichi, his eyes became sharp.
Anti-interference layup practice.
Rukawa Kaede was exposed to it when he was at Takeishi Middle School. That kind of training method was popularized by Jinguji Martial Arts when he was at Takeishi Middle School.
During this period of training in Shohoku, Mitsui Hisashi arranged the most training in physical fitness, running positions, dribbling and practice games. This kind of anti-interference layup exercise has never been used by the team.
Perhaps Mitsui Hisashi felt that the foundation of these people in Shobei was too poor and they would not be ready in time.
At this time, Rukawa Kaede saw Sakuragi standing under the basket with a stick, and became interested.
Sakuragi Hanamichi, who is standing under the basket, is also very excited now. In normal practice games, he has never blocked Rukawa Kaede, but today is different. With the blessing of this stick, he has gained 50cm for nothing. .
He didn't believe it, and he couldn't stop the other party!
While Sakuragi was thinking, Rukawa Kaede was dribbling the ball forward at a very fast speed. In the blink of an eye, he had already crossed the three-point line and rushed towards the basket.
Sakuragi Hanamichi, the grinning boss, excitedly looked at the ball in Rukawa Kaede's hand, ready to use his stick to block it at any time.
Soon, Rukawa Kaede got close to Sakuragi, entered the basket and got up in depression. His body actually hit Sakuragi Hanamichi's body, suppressing Sakuragi and unable to jump up. Then he stretched out his hand and released the basketball.
Sakuragi Hanamichi obviously did not expect that Rukawa Kaede would actively seek physical confrontation. He had no way to use his full bounce. He could only hold up a wooden stick and try to knock the ball down, but Rukawa Kaede's release point was very high, and the parabola of the basketball was also very high. High, he easily jumped over the stick and hit the board into the net.
"What?!" Sakuragi was obviously startled when he heard the sound of the basketball hitting the net, and then shouted angrily towards Rukawa Kaede:
"Smelly fox, you violated the law!"
"Hitting someone with the ball! Dad, this guy Rukawa Kaede committed a foul!"
Sakuragi tried to find Coach Anzai on the sidelines for comment. Before Coach Anzai could speak, Rukawa Kaede replied calmly: "You just moved your steps and didn't stand still. This is a reasonable collision."
"Damn it, it's a foul! I don't care, it's just a foul!"
"You despicable villain! Stinky fox!"
Faced with Sakuragi's thoughts, Rukawa Kaede spread his hands, ignored Sakuragi, and sighed softly: "You idiot..."
On Sakuragi's side, after thinking for a few minutes, seeing that Coach Anzai didn't say anything, he slowly stopped scolding, then rolled his eyes, threw the stick towards Rukawa Kaede, and shouted:
"Change me! Change me! I'll lay up, you guard me!"
Rukawa Kaede subconsciously caught the stick. Hearing Sakuragi Hanamichi's words, he didn't object and silently walked to the basket.
There is a difference between anti-interference layup practice and one-on-one defense. Defensive players can only stand under the basket and cannot defend. In other words, Sakuragi Hanamichi can maximize his bounce when he goes for a layup, and at the same time, he also has the powerful momentum brought by sprinting.
The wooden stick is very thin. As long as Sakuragi can avoid it a little in the air and raise his shooting point, he can successfully lay up. The essence of this kind of training is actually to cultivate the offensive players' aerial vision and the ability to stay in the air to avoid defense, which greatly simulates an actual layup with defensive players.
Rukawa Kaede holding a stick is equivalent to a center about 220cm tall with a jumping wingspan and wide hips.
If Dayao assists in training, he only needs to stand under the basket and raise his hands, which is enough. At this level, it is a huge challenge for Sakuragi. In fact, it is a big challenge for many NBA point guards. Yao Ming has blocked countless NBA players.
In the court, Sakuragi Hanamichi was already charging towards the basket with the ball. This time, his speed had increased. Soon, Sakuragi Hanamichi was heading towards the basket with strong kinetic energy, and Sakuragi also followed suit. Following Rukawa Kaede's example, he planned to actively seek some physical confrontation.
In this regard, Rukawa Kaede did not dodge, deliberately accumulating strength. The moment Sakuragi approached, Rukawa Kaede took off on the spot a moment earlier than Sakuragi. And the next moment he jumped, Sakuragi Hanamichi also jumped. When they got up, their bodies collided in the air. Sakuragi sent the ball directly without thinking.
But the next second after the basketball was released, the shadow of the stick flickered and hit the basketball directly.
"Ahhh!" After failing to lay up, Sakuragi Hanamichi shouted, quickly ran to the basket, picked up the basketball and walked towards the three-point line, shouting:
"Come again!"
Up.
What Rukawa Kaede can do, he Sakuragi can't do. This is something Sakuragi Hanamichi will never tolerate. And the key is that such a layup is not difficult at all in Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes.
How could he, a genius, not be able to do such a simple thing?
Off the field, Coach Anzai pushed up his glasses when he saw this scene, and the corners of his mouth curled up, very satisfied with Sakuragi's fighting spirit. However, Coach Anzai had no intention of watching the show. After seeing Sakuragi’s question, he directly mentioned:
"Sakuragi, your bounce is very good. Don't rush to shoot. Watch the position of the stick when you go for a layup."
"The shooting point can be higher. If you want to successfully layup in front of Rukawa Kaede, you must do this."
"Find a way to stay in the air longer, find a way to see more clearly in the air!"
Coach Anzai has high expectations for Sakuragi Hanamichi. He does not expect Hanamichi to become an all-around scorer like Jinguji Budo, but he also wants Sakuragi to reach the height of Tanizawa. After he learned about Jinguji Budo's experience in the United States, Coach Anzai made a series of training plans for Sakuragi and Rukawa.
This kind of anti-interference layup training is just the beginning!
Before the next IH, he will train Sakuragi Hanamichi into a qualified power forward, a player who can assist Akagi in defense and at the same time provide offensive pressure in the interior.
Develop Kaede Rukawa into a powerful ball-handler who can share the offensive pressure of Jinguji Budo, a more powerful ball-handler than Hisashi Mitsui!
Next year Mitsui Hisashi and Akagi will be in their third grade, and Shohoku needs a new coach to drive Shohoku towards the national championship.
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