The practice match between Xiangbei High School and Lingnan High School came to an end with the referee's final whistle.
After all, Shohoku High School, led by Jinguji Budo, was unable to recover the score they had lost in the first half, and ultimately lost the game by 13 points. Although they lost the game, Shohoku's Jinguji Budo and others were in good spirits and did not feel depressed or disappointed because of the loss.
It was just a practice match. Not to mention that they did not use all their strength in the second half, and the situation in the second half was relatively stalemate. In terms of strength, Xiangbei and Lingnan are just about the same. The outcome of the two teams will probably be in the round robin or knockout round. Only under this cruel competition system can they be distinguished.
At the same time, Sakuragi Hanamichi performed very well in the second half. Except for his lack of integration with the team, he performed very well and still surpassed Chiba Oishi.
For today's Xiangbei High School, this is very important.
The growth of Sakuragi Hanamichi will increase the upper limit of Shohoku High School as a whole. Judging from Sakuragi Hanamichi's performance at this stage, in the prefectural competition in a few months, Sakuragi Hanamichi will definitely be able to become the heavy weight that belongs to their Shohoku in the scale of victory!
Not only Coach Anzai and everyone in Shohoku can see this, but Coach Taoka of Ryonan High School, Shinomiya Tanano and others can also see this.
"Although the red-haired kid is still very immature now, it is undeniable that that kid has the potential to become an excellent power forward."
"If the rebounds are still controlled by Xiangbei during the county competition, I'm afraid we won't be able to win the game."
"We were able to win the game today thanks to the widening of the lead in the first half."
"If we directly face the main forces in Xiangbei, it won't be so easy."
At the end of the game, the players from Xiangbei and Lingnan lined up in the center of the court and shook hands with each other.
Shinomiya turned his head and glanced at the score difference between the two teams. He recalled the score difference in the first half and suddenly felt huge pressure. However, the joy of winning still made Shinomiya couldn't help but smile. .
Off the court, Coach Anzai and Coach Taoka chatted with each other and discussed some plans for the two teams to train together after the game.
When I came to Lingnan High School today, Xiangbei didn't just play an abnormal practice match with Lingnan. The team also trained together and communicated with each other.
When Coach Anzai and Coach Taoka discussed the joint training plan with each other, the players from the two teams also walked off the court and sat in the rest area to recover their physical fitness.
“ohhh!
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"As expected of our second- and third-year seniors at Lingnan High School!"
"Facing such a powerful Xiangbei High School, we actually won the game! You are indeed the senior I admire!"
"Ah~ I can't believe that Jinguji Martial Arts from Shobei only played one half and scored 38 points. It's really a terrifying offensive ability!"
"However, even such a strong player can't change Xiangbei's defeat. Our seniors from Lingnan High School are really too strong!
"
Shinomiya and others returned to the rest area, and Aida Hikoichi enthusiastically handed water and towels to the team members. Regarding Lingnan High School being able to win, Aida Hikoichi was also extremely happy, showing his hospitality while sighing with emotion.
He does not mean that.
Shinomiya Tano and others, who were still smiling at first, heard Aida Yan's words, and the smiles on their faces froze.
"Hikoichi, tell me...how many points did Jinguji Budo score in the second half?!"
Sendao looked at Aida Hikoichi with some suspicion and couldn't help but ask.
In the second half of the game, Lingnan and Xiangbei switched offense and defense very quickly. Xiandao was also immersed in the game and really didn't pay much attention to player data.
Jinguji Budo has always had a strong presence on the court. Sendo also knew that the opponent scored a lot of points in the second half, but now he was shocked when he suddenly heard the statistic of 38 points.
Even Shinomiya Tōno looked at Aida Hikoichi with a serious look on his face. Like Sendō, he focused on the game and paid no attention to things like player statistics. When he heard that Jinguji Budō, who was playing against him, actually scored 38 points, his first reaction was disbelief.
Because in his impression, Jinguji Martial Arts should not have scored so many points...
"emmm...."
"38 points, there is nothing wrong with 38 points."
As soon as Aida Yan saw that Sendou, Shinomiya and other team members were focusing on him, he immediately took out his small notebook, flipped through it hastily, and then said to the other team members after confirming that it was correct.
"What!
! There are actually 38 points! "
"That guy can score 38 points? It feels like... that guy didn't even play much?"
"No way? I think Tianye's defense is very good? How could the opponent score so many points?"
Aida Hikoichi's words immediately made the rest area in Lingnan become noisy. Jinguji Budo had not scored any great goals except for a few beautiful goals at the beginning against Shinomiya. Nice goal.
Compared to his opponent Shinomiya Tanano, Jinguji Martial Arts played mediocrely in this match.
But now Aida Yanichi told them that the mediocre Jinguji Martial Arts actually scored 38 points, which made all the Lingnan players a little unbelievable. Only some players looked back on the previous games and their expressions became unusually serious.
After Shinomiya Tōno was stunned for a short time, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and he asked Aida Hikoichi:
"Yan Yi, have you recorded the number of shots he took? How many shots did he take? What's the hit rate?"
Hearing this, Aida Hikoichi nodded heavily and replied:
"He actually took a lot of shots. He took a total of 20 shots in the second half."
"but...."
Speaking of this, Aida Yan paused and said in a deep voice: "He made 9 of 11 three-pointers. He already scored 27 points on three-pointers alone."
Hearing this data, the rest area in Lingnan made a gasping sound. This data is really shocking. With a three-point shooting rate of over 80%, this terrifying three-point shooting rate was actually achieved by Jinguji Budo in the face of Shinomiya's defense.
This kind of scoring efficiency...
"alright!"
"Stop worrying about how many points the other team got."
"What you need to care about now is not how many points the opponent's main players scored, but how the opponent used those 20 shots!"
Just when the Lingnan players were looking at each other, marveling at the terrifying offensive efficiency of Jinguji Martial Arts, Coach Taoka had somehow returned to the rest area on Lingnan's side and shouted to everyone.
"coach!"
With the arrival of Coach Tian Gang, the eyes of all the Lingnan players were also focused on Coach Tian Gang. When Coach Tian Gang saw the players looking at him, he waved his hands with an indifferent expression and continued:
"Didn't any of you notice?"
"Shohoku High School's offense in the second half, no matter how our defense changes, the ball will definitely pass through Jinguji Budo's hands."
"Only when Jinguji Martial Arts makes a decision will Shohoku's offense really take off."
"Shobei's offensive system in the second half was completely built with Jinguji Martial Arts as its core."
"Jinguji Martial Arts is their heart! It's actually very easy to defeat Xiangbei. As long as you can pierce their heart, you can win the game!"
Coach Tianoka watched the entire second half of the game off the court and came to his conclusion.
but.....
Coach Taoka himself knows that although the method of defeating Xiangbei is easy to say, it is not that simple to actually do it. Shinomiya's single defense is already the best in the team. Even if you look around the country, you may not be able to find any player who has a stronger single defense ability than Shinomiya.
But even so, it still failed to restrict the performance of Jinguji Martial Arts. To defeat Shohoku High School and start with Jinguji Martial Arts, it may not be an easy task.
However, players like Shohoku High School may not be able to easily win the game if they don't defeat Jinguji Martial Arts, even if they block all other players.
"Coach...even the field can't stop the opponent's performance. What can we do to really defeat Shohoku?"
"If we get to the county competition and we still play like this, we may not be able to win like we did today."
Xiandao lowered his head and after pondering for a long time, he asked aloud. Not only him, but almost all the Lingnan team members were lost in thought. After a practice match, everyone felt the difficulty of Jinguji martial arts.
"Don't always think about blocking Jinguji Budo after getting the ball."
“Gotta find a way to keep him from getting the ball!”
"Okay, don't think about these things for now, get ready, let's start training!"
"You all have to behave well during the joint training with Xiangbei!"
"Not only must we win on the field, but we must not lose on the training field as well!"
Coach Tian Gang clapped his hands and loudly encouraged the players.
Subsequently, under the organization of coach Tian Gang, all the players from Lingnan High School and Shohoku High School were organized into a mixed team and began training.
The joint training content is mainly based on the daily training content of Lingnan High School, including a huge amount of physical training and basic training. The overall training difficulty is not high, but it is very torturous.
After a training session, even a physical monster like Sakuragi Hanamichi could only barely hold on. After the training session, his calves were shaking involuntarily. Even Sakuragi Hanamichi was like this, not to mention the other Shohoku players. Most of them couldn't keep up in the middle of training.
Only a handful of people persisted until the end.
As for Lingnan High School, which led this training, the situation was actually no better than that of Xiangbei.
Coach Taoka originally wanted to let the players shine on the training ground, but the more they practiced, the more shocked he became. The Xiangbei players turned out to be in good physical condition. Unconsciously, the training intensity increased. But coach Tian Gang failed to control it firmly and added too much at once, and few of Lingnan's own players persisted.
The joint training ended safely and successfully, and no players were injured due to excessive training.
When the Xiangbei players got on the bus back to school, Coach Taoka hurried back to the arena and asked the school doctor to do a physical examination on the players.
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In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun spread into the car.
Jinguji Budo leaned against the window, listening to the snoring in the car and looking at the scenery outside the window.
The sunset scenery on the Shonan coast is beautiful, which makes Budo's heart calm down.
In the practice match with Lingnan High School, Jinguji Martial Arts gained a lot. While having a clear understanding of the strength of Lingnan High School, he also had an intuitive understanding of the strength of Sakuragi Hanamichi and the others.
Before the county competition, hurry up and train. When it comes to the county competition, first-year Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede will become the weight for Shobei to defeat Lingnan!
....
After the practice match with Lingnan High School, Xiangbei High School took a two-day break and the team training returned to normal.
Since the practice match, Coach Anzai started a small stove class for Sakuragi Hanamichi after training in the evening.
What Sakuragi Hanamichi needs to learn in Xiaozao's class is shooting!
"Sakuragi, look at the basket, bend your knees slightly, and raise the ball above your head."
"Don't lift it so high, just above your forehead."
"Relax your muscles, spread the fingers of your supporting hand, and don't press it on the basketball! Use your support, support it!"
Although it was coach Anzai's small lesson, the task of instructing Sakuragi Hanamichi in shooting fell on Jinguji Martial Arts. There was no other way, but Coach Anxi caught the young man in martial arts during extra practice in the gym.
However, Martial Arts did not refuse this task. He had to practice shooting anyway, and now it was just a matter of taking Sakuragi with him. And martial arts are not stupid either. He specially called several of Sakuragi Hanadao's bad friends. These guys will never miss the opportunity to see Sakuragi make a fool of himself.
With the boys from the Sakuragi Legion here, Martial Arts can safely hand over some of the hard work to these big grudges.
Most of the time in martial arts, I practice by myself, and then correct some of Sakuragi Hanado's movements.
Not to mention, Sakuragi is really a genius. He learns very quickly and can quickly understand the essentials of shooting movements. With the correction of martial arts, after shooting more than a hundred balls, he was already looking good.
Although Sakuragi Hanamichi is very powerful, his touch when shooting is very soft and his ball feel is also very good. In Budo's view, Sakuragi has the potential to become an excellent pitcher.
It's just that the hand shape and posture are still a bit unfamiliar, and sometimes the shooting movements will subconsciously go wrong. However, this kind of detail will slowly disappear as Sakuragi accumulates more shots.
Martial Arts did not come up with a training plan of 20,000 balls a week. That kind of temporary training method was not advisable in Martial Arts. Martial Arts only asked Sakuragi to practice 500 balls after training every day.
As for how many more balls Sakuragi will practice in addition to these 500 balls, this is not a matter for martial arts to consider.
The purpose of Budo's training plan was not to make Sakuragi more effective at this stage. He just wanted Sakuragi to develop the habit of practicing shooting.
The power of habit is the truly terrifying power!
High school basketball teams in Kanagawa Prefecture have begun to prepare for the prefectural competition at the end of July. There is an undercurrent in the high school basketball world.
Not long after Sakuragi Hanamichi started shooting training, Hainan High School secretly went to Aichi Prefecture to have a practice match with Aiwa Academy there.
I don’t know what the result of that practice match was, but after that practice match, Coach Gaotou began to use his connections to find various nationally strong teams from other prefectures in Hainan to come to Kanagawa to play practice matches with them. .
However, after many practice matches, other schools in Kanagawa Prefecture did not receive any news. Even coach Tian Gang invited Hainan after the practice match with Hunan North, but was rejected by coach Gao Tou.
Hainan started closed training after a high-intensity practice match. No one knew what coach Gao Tou was doing.
But the keen coach Tian Gang knew that Gao Tou probably wasn't holding anything back.
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Life is like this sometimes. After a period of ordinary life, unexpected things will happen to you.
On this day, Jinguji Martial Arts rushed to the arena after class as usual. However, when he arrived at the arena, he was surprised to find that there were not many people in the arena at this time in the past, but today there were actually The whole place is full of people.
The court in the center of the arena was surrounded by the crowd, and from time to time, cheers would erupt from the crowd.
"What's going on? Did Coach Anxi arrange a practice match today? Why didn't I know?"
With such doubts in mind, Wu Dao squeezed into the crowd and squeezed towards the stadium. It didn't take long for him to see clearly what was going on in the stadium.
There are two teams playing in the stadium at this time, wearing white and blue jerseys respectively. The players on the field are all new, and their faces are all very childish. You can tell at a glance that they are not high school students.
With a confused look on his face, Budo looked at the white team on the field, looked at the name of the school on the jersey, and couldn't help but murmured:
"Teiko Middle School...Teiko Middle School?"
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