The next day.
After training in the United States for a long time, Jinguji Martial Arts has become somewhat uncomfortable with the morning and afternoon classes. During those days in the United States, team training and competitions took up 80% of his life. Now that I'm back on campus, I'm not only sleepy, I'm still sleepy.
During class in the morning, Wu Dao was lying on his seat, with his hands under the table, rolling the basketball against the ground, looking bored and unfocused.
Fortunately, Wu Dao had already told his teacher about his situation at the beginning of school. After his senior year of high school, he would go directly to the United States, where he would attend another year of high school, play football for a year, and then enter Duke University!
During the six months he spent in the United States, Jinguji Martial Arts had already made quite a name for himself in that country. He was only a freshman in high school, and he had already attracted the attention of many universities.
Although some of the universities backed down when they learned that Jinguji Budo was going to Japan to play for two years, some schools, even after knowing the news, still believed in the talent of Jinguji Budo and issued early warnings. Invited. Wu Dao also accepted the invitation from Duke University and agreed to go to Duke University after his senior year of high school.
Of course, Duke University is not a fool. There is a prerequisite for Jinguji Martial Arts to go to Duke University, and that is that Martial Arts must break into the top ten of the top 100 high school students in the United States in his senior year!
To this, Wu Dao agreed without hesitation. After living in the United States, he already had a clear understanding of his talent and strength. Being among the top ten in the United States was definitely not a problem for him. In fact, he His goal is not just to be in the top ten in the United States!
The boredom passed very slowly.
It wasn't until my waist and back ached due to martial arts that I finally waited for the bell to ring for the end of school.
"Huh~~ It's finally time for school, and my body is already stiff!"
"Playing ball, playing ball, finally able to move around."
When Jinguji Budo heard the school bell ringing, he let out a heavy breath and complained softly while packing his backpack. Just as Budo packed up his things and was about to leave the classroom, he suddenly felt a cold feeling in his hands. He turned around and found Takako Fujima following him, and took the initiative to reach out and take Budo's hand.
The two looked at each other in the corridor, and suddenly they both smiled knowingly. Budo held Fujima Takako's hand tightly and said softly: "Let's go." Then they walked hand in hand towards the Shohoku Basketball Stadium.
Wu Dao was still a little slow in packing his backpack. Before him, many students had already rushed out of the classroom the second the bell rang. By the time Wu Dao went to the locker room to change his clothes and shoes, there were already many students in the gym.
There were even people playing a three-on-three game in one half, with many players surrounding them watching the game.
The arrival of Wu Dao immediately attracted the attention of some students. The second and third graders who knew Wu Dao greeted Wu Dao one after another, while some freshmen looked at Wu Dao excitedly, as if they had seen some idol star.
"Ohh, real person!"
"That's Jinguji-senpai, wow...so tall!"
"Jinguji-senpai is so tall, has he changed his position to playing center?"
"Hey, don't tell me, it's really possible."
The arrival of Jinguji Martial Arts made the originally relatively quiet arena instantly noisy. After arriving at the arena, Fujima Takako did not stay with Martial Arts anymore. He directly found an empty seat on the sidelines and sat down. Prepare to watch Jinguji martial arts training quietly.
Perhaps because of the relationship between Aiwu and Wu, Fujima Takako now has a good understanding of basketball, and is very interested in both training and ball games.
Jinguji Budo didn't pay attention to those classmates who were talking about him. His attention was already attracted by the three-on-three match on the side of the court.
Both sides of the competition were people he knew, and they were sophomores and juniors at Shohoku High School. One of the teams is composed of Mugure, Tsunoda and Shiozaki, and the other team is composed of Miyagi, Yasuda and Chiba Oishi.
In Budo's view, the gap in strength between the two teams should be quite large, but after watching a few balls, Budo was surprised to find that the three people led by Mumu Konobu were not at a disadvantage on the court. Among them, the one who played a key role was Mu Mu Gongyan.
Budo was surprised to find that the current mid-range shot of Konobu Mumu was quite accurate. Under the defense of Miyagi Ryota, he still made three consecutive mid-range shots. Budo was stunned for a while.
"Oh! Martial Arts! You're here!"
"How about it, do you want to come and play for a while?"
After one round of attack, Konobu Mumu missed the shot, and the basketball bounced out of bounds. When the ball was exchanged, Konobu Mumu saw Jinguji Budo standing on the sidelines watching the ball and said hello.
"Huh? No, we'll start training when everyone arrives. Save some energy for training, so we won't fight."
Wu Dao waved his hand and said with a smile. He actually wants to see how much progress his teammates have made in the past six months. If he plays next game, it will not be obvious and they will have no chance to perform.
"Haha, you kid, you think too much."
"With so many new students joining the club today, how can there be a lot of training?"
"Today's training subject is most likely a competition, and the opponents in the competition are the new students who have joined the club!"
"You might as well save your strength. When the time comes, you can show your skills in front of the new students."
Konobu Mumu smiled cheerfully, went to the sidelines to pick up the basketball, and then rejoined the game. Budo also smiled when he heard this, watching the three-on-three game played by Konobu Mumu and others, while waiting for the arrival of Coach Anzai, Hisashi Mitsui and others.
However, Coach Anzai and the others hadn't arrived yet. Sakuragi Hanamichi and the Sakuragi Legion arrived first. The group saw Jinguji Budo watching the game on the sidelines and immediately came over enthusiastically.
"Brother Martial Arts! When did you come back?" Sakuragi Hanamichi greeted with a smile. When he arrived in front of Martial Arts, he involuntarily raised his head and saw Martial Arts's face clearly. Before Martial Arts could answer, Sakuragi stretched out his hand. , compared his height with that of Wu Dao, and exclaimed:
"Brother Martial Arts, you have grown a lot! Are you taller than a gorilla?!"
Jinguji Budo turned around and saw Sakuragi and others. He patted Sakuragi on the shoulder with a smile and replied, "I came back a few days ago."
"I'm a little over two meters now. I should be taller than Akagi."
"You've grown a lot taller, it seems, you've made great progress in the past six months!"
While Jinguji Budo was speaking, he had already involuntarily opened Sakuragi Hanamichi's system panel.
"Hanachi Sakuragi, height 190cm, weight 83kg, strength: high school A+ level, agility: high school S level, physical coordination: S level."
"Destiny: Beast Intuition, Miracle Creation, Endless Physical Strength, Son of Destiny."
A string of extremely high ratings, a string of bright and blinding entries, even if Budo has never seen Sakuragi playing now, he can still know that Sakuragi Hanamichi's strength has probably grown to a very terrifying level.
It has only been one year since Sakuragi Hanamichi officially came into contact with basketball.
"It's really time! Hanamichi, your strength will definitely open my eyes."
Martial Arts closed Sakuragi's system panel, patted Sakuragi's shoulder and said with a smile, and then cast his eyes on the court, while watching the ball, while chatting with Sakuragi and others.
They were very curious about martial arts life in the United States, and martial arts also told them everything, satisfying their curiosity. And not long after Sakuragi and the others arrived at the arena, Kiyota Nobunaga, Rukawa Kaede and others also arrived one after another. Kiyota Nobunaga was obviously curious about the American life of martial arts, and he immediately joined the conversation.
Rukawa Kaede, on the other hand, had a slightly cooler temperament. He just stood not far away and listened with open ears, without getting too close. He still looked arrogant.
Soon, more and more students gathered in the gym. Some were members of the basketball team, and some were freshmen who planned to join the basketball club of Xiangbei High School. Soon, hundreds of people gathered in the Xiangbei arena, and the arena became noisy.
Mu Mu and others, who were originally playing 3v3 basketball in the court, stopped when the number of people increased. As the vice-captain, Mu Mu Gongyan started to form a team, mainly for the freshmen.
When Coach Anzai and Hisashi Mitsui entered the gym, the first-year students had already lined up neatly in order from tallest to shortest.
After Mitsui Hisashi arrived, the 2.3-year-old team members were called to assemble.
Soon, the noisy arena became quiet.
Coach Anzai walked slowly in front of the team members. After his eyes stayed on Jinguji Budo for a few seconds, he moved to the new students.
The first-year players are all in good spirits. The top ones, like Nanxiang and Sakuragi, all hold their heads high and look elite, which makes Coach Anxi very satisfied.
"Hoo ho ho, very good."
"Let me briefly introduce myself first."
"My name is Mitsuyoshi Anzai, the coach of the Shohoku Basketball Club. You can call me Coach Anzai from now on."
"The first-year students here all hope to join the Shohoku Basketball Club. For this, I am very grateful to everyone for choosing our Shohoku Basketball Club."
"but...."
Speaking of this, Coach Anxi pondered for two seconds before continuing:
"I think many students know something about our Xiangbei. Our goal in Xiangbei is to dominate the country!"
"Therefore, the selection of the main players will be much stricter than that of other schools. I hope you can be mentally prepared."
"Now, all students who have no basketball foundation, please step forward and step out."
After Coach Anxi finished speaking, the first-grade queue was completely silent. The team members looked at me and I looked at you, but no one walked out of the queue. Coach Anxi saw this and said with relief:
"Don't worry, I'm not asking students with no basketball experience to expel you."
"All the first-year students who are standing here today and have submitted their applications for joining the team are members of our basketball team. Letting players with no basketball foundation stand out is just for better training in the future."
Coach Anxi's words had some effect. After the words fell, many players in the queue gradually walked out of the queue, and then under the instructions of coach Anxi, they formed a group and lined up again. There are not many students who have never played ball, only a dozen or so.
"Okay, all the first-year students standing here, wait a minute, you will participate in a freshman training game."
"The playing order and playing time will be arranged by me personally."
"And your opponents are the 2.3-year-old members of the Shohoku High School Basketball Club."
"Now, the team's vice-captain, Mu Mu Gongyan, will take you to do warm-up activities and prepare to start the training match."
After Coach Anzai finished speaking, he waved to Konobu Mumu, then walked towards the sidelines, picked up a list of first-year freshmen from his seat, went to the queue of pure novices, and called their names.
When Konobu Kigure led the first graders to do warm-up exercises, Hisashi Mitsui also led the second and third graders to do warm-up exercises. Today's training plan can be guessed by the senior students because they all came here this way. Today is a chance to play hard. Every second- and third-year player is very excited and their warm-up is in place.
After Coach Anzai finished the roll call, he handed over these first-year players with no foundation to Akagi, and asked Takenori Akagi to be responsible for the training of these freshmen.
Of course, today is the first day of joining the team. Akagi’s task for this team member is to observe the upcoming training game for freshmen. Akagi will also use this training game to popularize the basic knowledge of basketball to the new players. .
Today's Shohoku basketball team has a total of more than a hundred people, divided into three groups. The one who leads the stupid rookies is Akagi, the one who leads the other freshmen is Kimuji Nobuhiro, and the one who leads the 2.3-year-old players is Mitsui Hisashi.
When everyone was warming up, the entire arena was in full swing. It was many times more lively than before.
Soon, the warm-up for the second- and third-year students ended first. After all, the warm-up is almost enough. If there is a little bit missing, you can make it up after you get on the court. It’s just a training match for freshmen. It won’t work. It's very intense right from the start.
"In the freshman training game, which five will go up first to have fun?"
After the warm-up was over, Mitsui Shou looked at the first-year students who were still warming up and asked the team members.
"Count me in. I haven't played for a few days and I'm jet-lagged. I just have the chance to play some fun at once today."
Before the rest of the team members could speak, Budo raised his hand first and said to Mitsui Shou. The rest of the team members were stunned when they saw that Jinguji Martial Arts actually planned to play. Mitsui Hisashi also joked when he saw this:
"I thought you didn't want to play today. After all, you are a top student who came back from the United States. I thought you looked down on this level of competition."
"Since you plan to fight, let me count you down."
While Mitsui Hisashi was talking, the other team members also enthusiastically signed up when they saw that martial arts was about to take place. It's quite easy to play with martial arts. With Jinguji martial arts leading the team, it can only be more enjoyable to abuse food.
Seeing that there were many senior team members signed up, Hisashi Mitsui directly selected a few of them himself. They are Chiba Oishi, Tsunoda Satoru, Miyagi Ryota and Yasuda Yasharu. These teammates can be more or less helpful to the martial arts, and they will not make the senior team too strong, nor will they let the martial arts fight one against five.
It's a reasonable lineup configuration.
After deciding on the players, Wu Dao waved to several players and then walked towards the stadium. At this time, Mumu Gongyan was also leading the team members for the final stretch.
Wu Dao led his teammates past the freshmen queue, suddenly stopped, looked at the freshmen, and said loudly:
"Rookies, I am the ace of Shohoku, Jinguji Martial Arts!"
"The opponent you are competing against today is us."
"You are welcome to face me. Those who covet my ace position, seize this opportunity and challenge me!"
"The person who can beat me is our Xiangbei High School, the new ace!"
"Sa, don't be polite, just let your horse come over here!"
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