The arrival of the Shohoku News Agency will not stop the game in the stadium for even a minute.
After Jinguji Budo performed a double fake move in front of Rukawa Kaede, the score between the two teams had reached 21:12, and the point difference widened to 9 points. It was only seven minutes before the start of the game, but this huge score gap made the first graders feel powerless.
However, others just felt powerless. Rukawa Kaede, who faced Jinguji Temple martial arts, felt deep despair.
He felt like he had fallen into a swamp, and no matter how hard he struggled, he could not get out.
From the beginning of the game to now, he has not been able to score even one point against Jinguji Budo. He has a few assists, but for the proud Rukawa Kaede, assists? What the hell is that? !
On the other hand, Jinguji Martial Arts easily scored 18 points on Rukawa Kaede's head. Don't think that Jinguji Martial Arts scored 18 points in 7 minutes as if they put in a lot of effort. Martial Arts scored points in front of Rukawa Kaede, and it felt as simple, easy and comfortable as eating and drinking.
The cool and agile shooting, the gorgeous slam dunk, all tell the same thing.
He, Jinguji Martial Arts, and Rukawa Kaede are two levels of players! I'm afraid even Rukawa Kaede himself doesn't know the specific gap.
The one-sided crushing situation of Jinguji Budo against Rukawa Kaede also made the audience watching the game unconsciously bring themselves into Rukawa Kaede's perspective, and regarded Jinguji Budo as a terrifying villain. .
Compared to the Jinguji martial arts with terrifying physical talent, the audience felt that Rukawa Kaede was an "ordinary person" like them.
And now, when this ordinary person is trying to complete "the bottom overcomes the top", he fails repeatedly. How can this not make the audience empathize?
Even Rukawa Kaede Sakuragi Hanamichi who liked to mock Rukawa Kaede felt so empathetic when he saw Rukawa Kaede being beaten so badly by martial arts, and felt a burning fire in his chest. After dunking Tsunoda Satoru, Sakuragi Hanamichi felt that the burning sensation in his chest had eased a lot.
But when looking at Tsunoda Satoru, Sakuragi still looked vicious, like a villain.
When he looked at Martial Arts, he had the same expression, but in Sakuragi's eyes, Martial Arts was the boss of the villain.
As the "messenger of justice", he, Sakuragi Hanamichi! How can we tolerate these villains' wanton behavior and remain indifferent.
Not only Sakuragi Hanamichi, but also Kiyota Nobunaga, Katsumi and others also shared the same hatred with Rukawa Kaede at this time.
The tremendous pressure that martial arts puts on first-year students makes Sakuragi Hanamichi and others work closely together to try to resist the suppression of martial arts.
In the stadium, in just a few minutes, the two teams had several rounds of offensive and defensive interactions, and the score reached 24:16.
The first graders obviously realized that Rukawa Kaede could not do anything in front of Jinguji Martial Arts, and the attack began to revolve around the connection between Sakuragi Hanamichi, Kiyota Nobunaga, and Katsumi Ichiro.
Nowadays, Sakuragi Hanamichi is no longer the fledgling rookie and layman. Now he has mastered the scoring methods of layups and slam dunks. He also has triple threats and probing steps as weapons. Relying on his outstanding talent, he is facing the challenge. For Tsunoda Satoru, that would be a complete crushing.
Sakuragihana rushed up and said goodbye and said it was Tsunoda Satoru, but even third-year Chiba Oishi couldn't resist it. Among the 16 points scored by the first grade, Sakuragi Hanamichi alone contributed half of the points.
However, facing the terrifying pressure brought by Jinguji Martial Arts, Sakuragi, who scored half of the team's points, did not get carried away. Instead, he focused on the game and his concentration became stronger and stronger than ever before. Be strong.
"Dang~"
As the sound of iron was heard in the stadium, Chiba Oishi took the ball under the basket. Faced with the interference of Nango Koichiro, he unexpectedly missed the shot from close range.
However, the rebound had just appeared. Sakuragi Hanamichi, wearing a blue jersey, jumped up first. The basketball had just begun to fall when Sakuragi caught it in his hands.
Few people noticed that when Sakuragi Hanamichi grabbed the rebound, his eyebrows were already level with the basket.
After Sakuragi Hanamichi grabbed the rebound, the first graders launched a fast break. The senior Shiozaki ran very slowly and was far away by Katsumi Ichiro on the way back to defense. Soon, Rukawa Kaede, Kiyota Nobunaga, and Katsumi Ichiro passed through the center line one after another. On the senior side, only Miyagi Ryota and Jinguji Budou were able to return to defense in time.
Three-on-two in the frontcourt.
In order to be on the safe side, Budo entered the inside early. Miyagi Ryota chose to defend Kiyota Nobunaga. He felt that once Kiyota Nobunaga, who was able to make sudden passes and pass, entered the inside and cooperated with Rukawa Kaede, even Budo would be difficult to solve.
After Kiyota Nobunaga received the basketball in the frontcourt, he did not choose to give the ball to Rukawa Kaede. Instead, he gave it to Katsumi Ichiro who was standing outside the three-point line. Katsumi Ichiro, who was in the open position, simply adjusted his posture and took a three-point shot.
"Uh-huh!"
With a soft sound, the basketball hit the net.
Sakuragi Hanamichi's rebound and Katsumi Ichiro's three-pointer. Thanks to the efforts of these two people, the first-year team was given a shot in the arm. The team members were all refreshed and their morale was much higher.
Facing the high-morale first-year students, Jinguji Martial Arts had no intention of holding back. They took everything they wanted on the offensive end, as if they were in a no-man's land. The first graders tried to double team, but Jinguji Martial Arts was as slippery as a loach and did not give the first graders a chance to double team at all.
Rukawa Kaede, who faced Jinguji Budo, was also completely invisible on both offense and defense. If it weren't for Sakuragi Hanamichi's strong rebounding, and if it weren't for Katsumi Ichiro, Kiyota and others' offensive abilities, their group would have collapsed long ago. .
However, Sakuragi Hanamichi's efforts could not help the team win. When the score of the two teams reached 47:26, coach Anzai on the sidelines finally stopped the game.
"The future is yours and ours, but in the final analysis it is yours!"
After the game, Jinguji Budo said this to the first-year freshmen. When Budo said these words, his expression was soft and approachable, which was completely different from his sharp edge on the court.
Although the first-year students were tortured by the senior team led by Jinguji Budo, they were greatly moved when they saw their senior, the team's ace, encouraging them so much. They vowed to practice well and take up the responsibility of martial arts. The word "future".
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For a time, the conflicting atmosphere between the freshman and senior teams was reconciled.
At the end of the game, Jinguji Budo and others, who had been fighting for several hours, finally came to rest. Coach Anxi was not idle either. Taking advantage of the results of this game, he began to divide the players into groups according to their strength.
It was immediately announced that Hanamichi Sakuragi, Nobunaga Kiyota, Koichiro Nango, and Ichiro Katsumi would become the regular players of Shohoku High School.
In addition to the four of them, Rukawa Kaede, Oda Ryumasa and other first-year students were promoted to the second team. If there is a vacancy in the main selection, these second team members will be the first to fill in and become the main selection. .
At the same time, some second-year players such as Shiozaki who performed poorly were eliminated from the main selection and were transferred to the second team.
In this regard, Shiozaki and others who were transferred to the second team did not complain. From the day when the special recruits trained with the team, they knew that this moment would come sooner or later.
Sakuragi and others who were promoted to the main selection were naturally elated. Although Oda Ryumasa failed to become the main selection, he also knew that his performance in leading the team today was not good, and it was normal not to be recognized.
What's more, Rukawa Kaede, the star player in the junior high school back then, was only on the second team like him, so what did he have to complain about?
After most of the first-year students saw the strength of the upperclassmen and Sakuragi and others, they had no hope of being promoted to the main roster and accepted the grouping arrangement of coach Anzai.
Xiangbei High School will be divided into three teams for training starting today.
They are the main players, the second team and the third team.
There are 12 regular players, with jersey numbers ranging from 4 to 15. Captain Mitsui Hisashi, vice-captain Kimime Kimonobu, are jersey No. 4 and 5 respectively, Akagi Takenori is No. 6, Miyagi is No. 7, Jinguji Budo is No. 8, and Chiba Oishi is No. 9.
The newly added Sakuragi Hanamichi got the No. 10 jersey, Kiyota Nobunaga got the No. 11 jersey, and Nango Koichiro and Katsumi Ichiro got the No. 12 and 13 jerseys respectively.
As for Xiangbei's jersey numbers 14 and 15, there are vacancies.
Coach Anxi's meaning is very simple. He plans to use these two regular selection spots to motivate all non-main selection players to actively train. This can also be regarded as a stimulation method for Coach Anxi.
Seeing Sakuragi Hanamichi and other special recruits in the same class as him become regular players one by one, Rukawa Kaede was selected into the second team, and she felt really mixed emotions at this moment.
Is there any resentment in his heart? More or less, Rukawa Kaede is a proud person. He doesn't think he is worse than Sakuragi Hanamichi and the others. In other words, he thinks his strength is much stronger than all the other first-year students. Even in the entire Xiangbei High School, there were only a few people who were stronger than him.
But being put into the second team, Rukawa Kaede didn't argue for himself.
In a training match, he was beaten by Jinguji Martial Arts. Although the opponent he faced was Shohoku's strongest ace, his statistics from Rukawa Kaede were really ugly. Even if Coach Anzai knew his strength and put him in the main selection, the other players would probably shout that it was unfair.
Although Rukawa Kaede is really capable of shutting up everyone, Coach Anzai will not do that.
Coach Anzai's decision today was actually based on the idea of training Rukawa Kaede.
After the game, the lively audience gradually dispersed. The news agency of Shohoku High School briefly interviewed Hisashi Mitsui as the captain. The content of the interview was also very simple. It was to popularize simple basketball through the words of Hisashi Mitsui. Knowledge.
Mitsui Hisashi does not reject this. While Mitsui Hisashi was being interviewed, Sakuragi Hanamichi and Kiyota Nobunaga were surrounded by troublemakers, while the rest of the team members were free to move around in the gym. Some players practiced the basics on their own, and some spontaneously organized a half-time 3v3 match.
Soon, the arena became lively again.
However, Rukawa Kaede had no intention of joining in. He neither went to the corner to practice alone nor participated in the half-time games organized by other players.
Instead, he sat alone in his seat, lowering his head and looking at the ground, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Hey, kid, what's wrong with you?"
"It's just a training match, are you autistic?"
"Or are you not convinced because Sakuragi and Kiyota have become the main candidates, but you are not?"
Jinguji Budo noticed Rukawa Kaede sitting alone on the sidelines, silently came to Rukawa Kaede's side, sat on the bench next to Rukawa Kaede, looked at the first graders playing a 3v3 game on the court, and asked with a smile road.
"..." Rukawa Kaede didn't respond. I don't know if he didn't hear it or if he deliberately ignored Jinguji Martial Arts. He still maintained his original appearance.
Seeing that Rukawa Kaede ignored him, Martial Arts didn't pay attention and said to himself:
"Actually, when I returned to Shohoku High School this time, I did not continue to play in the United States. It was just to finish what I had not finished."
"Rukawa Kaede, losing to me is actually not an unacceptable thing."
"When I was in the United States, there were many, many high school students who lost to me."
"You are not the strongest among the players who lost to me."
Jinguji Budo's comforting words were really harsh to Rukawa Kaede's ears, but when he heard Budo mention the United States, Rukawa Kaede, who was originally immersed in failure, finally reacted, raised his head and looked at Budo.
"There are really a lot of talented monsters in that place!"
"In the top high schools in the United States, there are many small forwards with a height of around 195cm. Even guards, there are very few who are less than 185cm."
"Rukawa Kaede, with your physical condition, wherever you go, it can be said that you can't just grab a handful of them."
Rukawa Kaede was silent for a while after hearing Wu Dao's words. The ridicule from the winner was really harsh.
"I am telling you this just to let you know that this world is very big."
"There are many, many failures that you will experience on the road of basketball."
"You will encounter opponents stronger than me, and one day you will even encounter opponents that you cannot overcome no matter what!"
"You have to learn to accept your incompetence, so that you can become stronger."
When Wu Dao said this, he fell into a brief silence.
While in the United States, he participated in the then ADDI training camp, where he was fortunate enough to meet Barkley. At that time, Barkley was very interested in seeing Wu Dao, a yellow man, in the training camp, and asked Wu Dao to play a few balls with him.
That game made Budo realize his insignificance. He could make all the difference on the American high school court. Facing Barkley, he looked like a rookie who had just learned how to play. Under Barkley's defense, he couldn't even get the ball. stable.
From then on, Wu Dao clearly realized his own weakness.
But now, Rukawa Kaede's journey has been smooth. He has been playing for so long, and the only opponent he has encountered may be martial arts. Rukawa Kaede's horizons have not been completely opened.
"From what you said, you couldn't survive in the United States and came back?"
It was rare for Rukawa Kaede to react, but his words confirmed the martial arts and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes.
Listen, what are these words?
"You may not believe it, but not only can I survive, I can also do well."
"I have a place among the top 30 high school students in the United States, and I am called a five-star high school student."
"If I hadn't played enough games, my ranking would not be a big problem if I entered the top ten."
"But...you have to know that every year, many 5-star high school students graduate, but not many can actually play professional basketball!"
"Rukawa Kaede, this road requires a strong heart."
"do you have?"
After Budo finished speaking, he patted Rukawa Kaede on the shoulder and left his seat.
Rukawa Kaede looked at the back of Jinguji Martial Arts. After a long time, he murmured:
"certainly!"
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