At nightfall, the players who had been assigned dormitories returned to their respective rooms. After a simple wash, the players who had worked hard all day returned to their rooms to rest.
The victor was the color team led by Shinomiya Nono. According to Shinomiya Nono's original intention, he planned to allocate single rooms to Uozumi Jun, Rukawa Kaede, and Sendō.
Because according to the performance on the court, the performance of these three players is even better.
However, Xiandao was a little embarrassed considering that Lingnan alone occupied two single rooms. After thinking about it for a while, he gave this place to Takenori Akagi.
Of course, although he gave it up voluntarily, in order to take care of Takenori Akagi's face, Sendao just said that Takenori Akagi, who was guarding the inside, needed a good rest.
Seeing Sendao giving up the single room, Akagi himself wanted to refuse, but Shinomiya Tano did not give him this chance and helped Akagi put his luggage into the single room.
At the same time, in order not to let Akagi think too much, Shinomiya also joked towards Akagi: "You centers often snore very loudly, so don't come to the dormitory to affect the rest of other players!"
Shinomiya Tōno had already said this, and Takenori Akagi was too embarrassed to refuse anymore and moved into a single room.
After the three single dormitories were determined, the remaining dozen players were divided into two dormitories.
The standard of division is also very simple. Those who snore are in a room with those who snore, and those who do not snore are in a room with those who do not snore.
However, the players had good ideas when allocating dormitories, and Budo was also assigned to a dormitory with Shinomiya Tanoh, Sendō, Fujima, Miyagi and Hanagata who thought they didn't snore.
Who would have thought that after lights out, these bastards except Fujima and Miyagi would tell the truth, and the other snores would become louder and louder, making it so noisy that Budo couldn't sleep.
Helpless, Wu Dao had no choice but to go to the living room to get some tissues and plug his ears. Only then did the snoring around him become quieter and he was able to fall asleep.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Jinguji Budo, who had slept relatively lightly, was the first to get up. After tiptoeing to the bathroom to wash up, Budo went to the living room, glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, and found that he had gotten up. It was only after four o'clock.
I originally planned to go back to the room and take a nap, but as soon as I walked into the room, I heard the snoring of my roommates one after another. I shook my head helplessly, then put on a coat and walked out of the room.
Shonan coast at four o'clock in the morning.
There was silence.
It was still dark, the night sky was dotted with stars, and the sea breeze blew by, making Wu Dao feel cool.
Taking a deep breath, Jinguji Budo suddenly sobered up a lot. He returned to the equipment room to find a basketball, and Budo planned to go to the court for a morning practice.
"clang!!"
"clang!!"
When the martial arts approached the open-air court by the sea, the clear sound of striking metal reached the ears of the Jinguji martial arts.
"Um?!"
"It's so early, and it's still so dark. How could someone be earlier than me?"
Jinguji Budo was puzzled when he heard the sound, then quickened his pace and walked quickly towards the stadium. When he came to the edge of the court, Wu Dao saw a figure practicing shooting in the dark night.
It was getting dark, and the stadium lights were not turned on.
Wu Dao stood outside the guardrail and looked towards the field. After staring at it for a long time, he recognized the person who was practicing.
"Rukawa Kaede?"
"You guys got up so early?"
Jinguji Budo opened the court door and walked towards the court. As he walked, he greeted the people who were practicing in the court.
The player who was practicing shooting on the court at this time was none other than Rukawa Kaede.
Rukawa Kaede on the court heard Budo's shouting, stopped his movements, glanced at Budo, nodded slightly, then trotted to the basket, picked up the basketball, returned to the three-point line, and shot.
Maybe it was because it was dark, or maybe it was because Rukawa Kaede, who had also just woken up, had not yet moved around. The basketball hit the edge of the basket and bounced out.
After falling to the ground, he rolled to the feet of Jinguji Martial Arts.
"You are really diligent, Rukawa Kaede."
"What about practicing three-pointers?"
"Do you want to come together?"
Budo threw the basketball in his hand to Rukawa Kaede. As he spoke, he bent down, picked up the basketball, and then looked at Rukawa Kaede.
Rukawa Kaede, who had the basketball in both hands, quickly dropped the ball, moved two steps laterally and then quickly jumped with the ball together, then changed direction and made a pull-up three-pointer.
The shooting action is quite smooth and standard.
However, the basketball that flew out hit the edge of the basket and bounced out again.
"Tsk." Seeing that the shot failed, Rukawa Kaede's face clearly showed some impatience. He quickly ran to the basket, picked up the basketball and quickly returned to the three-point line.
Seeing that Rukawa Kaede ignored him, Budo didn't care at all. He had long been accustomed to Rukawa Kaede's cold personality.
When playing or training, Rukawa Kaede has always been a man of few words.
Wu Dao simply did not join Rukawa Kaede's training. He walked to the bench on the sidelines, sat down, and watched Rukawa Kaede's training.
Rukawa Kaede practices three-point shooting in private. Different from ordinary standing jump shooting training, Rukawa Kaede often makes a large breakthrough before shooting, and suddenly stops while in motion, and then combines the ball to shoot.
The purpose of training is not simply to practice the accuracy of three-pointers, but more to strengthen the ability to combine movement and stillness.
but
Rukawa Kaede's ability to combine movement and stillness is very powerful when shooting mid-range shots, but when it comes to shooting three-pointers, his hit rate is quite poor. Budo sat aside and watched Rukawa Kaede make more than a dozen shots and successfully scored. There are only two or three balls.
The hit rate during training did not even exceed 30%.
However, Rukawa Kaede did not give up such training at all because of missed shots. Although Budo could clearly feel that Rukawa Kaede became a little impatient as the number of shots increased, Rukawa Kaede still had no idea of stopping.
After watching a few more balls, Martial Arts still didn’t want Rukawa Kaede to do such useless work, so he couldn’t help but shout: Stop:
"Hey, Rukawa Kaede."
"Take a rest. Training like this won't have any effect."
"At most, it just makes your ball skills better. It won't help your three-point shooting rate!"
Rukawa Kaede, who had been silent and focused on training, finally stopped after hearing the words of Jinguji Martial Arts. He ignored the basketball that rolled to the side of the court. After calming down, he turned to look at Jinguji. Temple Martial Arts asked:
"What's the meaning?"
The reason why Rukawa Kaede practices such an offensive method is to some extent influenced by the martial arts of Jinguji Temple.
On the court, Rukawa Kaede has gradually become accustomed to the role of defender. Is it because he likes playing this position?
No, the main reason is actually that in Shohoku High School, only Jinguji Budo is still in the team, and the position of small forward will always belong to Jinguji Budo.
Kaede Rukawa will either be on the court as a defender, or he will be a backup for Jinguji Budo.
But this is not actually what Rukawa Kaede wants. He doesn't care so much about which position he plays. What Rukawa Kaede cares about is that he is not as good as Jinguji Martial Arts.
As a teammate of Jinguji Budo at Takeishi Junior High School, Rukawa Kaede knew very well what abilities Jinguji Budo relied on to survive on the court.
It's not a strong breakthrough ability, nor is it a height condition that is superior to ordinary people.
The most powerful thing about martial arts is the terrifying shooting ability that can be shot from any area in the opponent's half.
In terms of height, Rukawa Kaede doesn't think it can be improved through training. As for breakthrough skills and footwork, Rukawa Kaede doesn't think he will be any worse than Jinguji Martial Arts.
He feels that what he lacks most is his shooting accuracy and shooting range.
In order to make himself stronger, Rukawa Kaede also shifted the focus of training towards this aspect. Rukawa Kaede is confident that as long as his ability in this area is strengthened, one day he will be able to no longer follow Jinguji Martial Arts, but stand beside Jinguji Martial Arts, or even walk in front of Jinguji Martial Arts!
In order to achieve this goal, Rukawa Kaede spent most of his time on training besides eating and sleeping.
But now Jinguji Martial Arts tells him that it's useless?
How could Rukawa Kaede accept this kind of thing? !
"It doesn't mean anything. It just means your training method is wrong."
"No matter how hard you work on the wrong path, it's meaningless, Rukawa Kaede."
Martial Arts held the bench with both hands, leaned slightly and said with a smile.
Hearing this, Rukawa Kaede's face changed slightly, he pondered for a while, and asked Martial Arts: "What kind of training method is the correct training method?"
At this time, Rukawa Kaede finally couldn't maintain his "arrogant" persona, so he took the initiative to ask.
Facing Jinguji Martial Arts, Rukawa Kaede is still very convinced. Jinguji Martial Arts has been his senior since Rukawa Kaede has been in Wusei Middle School. After so many years, Rukawa Kaede has seen the growth of Jinguji Martial Arts and is still on the court. I really haven’t encountered any major setbacks.
In other words, he was suspended for two years during his junior high school years, but that kind of thing did not prevent Jinguji Budo from being a strong player.
In today's high school arena, Jinguji Martial Arts can be said to be unstoppable. Even Rukawa Kaede had heard that Jinguji Martial Arts was playing abroad and he also made a big name in the high school arena.
As far as Rukawa Kaede knew, this kind of thing had never been possible before martial arts.
He attaches great importance to the opinions of Jinguji Martial Arts.
"You kid, you really use people to face the front and don't use people to face the back!"
"Hahaha!"
"Well, I won't argue with you."
Seeing Rukawa Kaede's current appearance, Budo couldn't help but complain. But he didn't care, because Rukawa Kaede has always been such a person, a pure person.
"Shooting, it seems like a technical move."
"But actually the essence of shooting is the process of mobilizing the body to exert reasonable force."
"Do you know why your mid-range pull-up jump shot has good accuracy, but when it comes to outside the three-point line, it no longer has such accuracy?"
"Actually, it's not because your shooting skills are not good enough, nor is it because your posture is not standard enough."
"Simply because you don't have enough strength."
"The most important thing to train to expand the shooting range is actually not posture or hand shape, but strength and rhythm."
"Rhythm can be found through constant training, but strength cannot be developed through training like this."
Budao said, stood up from the bench, picked up the basketball next to him, walked into the court, came to the three-point line, simply dribbled the ball under his hips, and then quickly moved towards his left side After a few steps, he quickly combined the ball and took off to face the frame.
At the moment when Budo's body reached its highest point, Jinguji Budo raised the ball and threw the ball directly. At the moment of shooting, Jinguji Budo was still almost one meter away from the three-point line.
But the basketball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then crashed into the basket.
In this dim environment, Jinguji Budo still easily sent the ball into the basket. When Rukawa Kaede saw this scene, he even doubted whether Martial Arts could score the goal even if he closed his eyes.
"Rukawa Kaede, go pick up the ball."
After Budo scored a goal, he shouted to Rukawa Kaede.
After hearing this, Rukawa Kaede did not hesitate, went to the basket, quickly picked up the basketball, and threw the ball towards Jinguji Budo.
After taking the ball, Budo quickly dropped the ball, took two quick steps to the right, and then quickly took off with the ball. With the same rhythm, at the moment when Budo's body reached the highest point and smoothly faced the frame, Jinguji Budo once again Shot release.
This time, the arc of the basketball was a little flatter than the previous shot, but there was still no accident. The basketball fell directly into the basket. But this time, the shooting point of Martial Arts was almost two meters away from the three-point line.
"Pass the ball."
Budo had no intention of stopping and shouted towards Rukawa Kaede.
Soon, Rukawa Kaede under the basket once again gave the ball to Jinguji Budo.
Budo held the ball, fell quickly, and then continued to move toward the top of the arc on the right. Three meters away from the three-point line, Jinguji Budo took off again.
However, this time, Jinguji Budo's shooting rhythm has changed significantly.
In the first two times, Jinguji Budo held the ball up and waited until he reached the highest point before shooting. He used a standard two-stage form, which gave the impression that Budo was stuck in the air for a moment when shooting.
But this time, when Jinguji Budo took off, the basketball quickly rose from the waist and abdomen to the top of the head. When the body reached the highest position, his arms straightened and the basketball in his hand was quickly thrown out.
Under Rukawa Kaede's gaze, the arc of the basketball became flatter than the two balls just now. After crossing the half court, it fell steadily into the basket with a crisp sound.
"Rukawa Kaede, have you noticed it?"
"A change in the rhythm of my shooting."
"Use your brain and think about why my shooting rhythm has changed like this."
"Is it because I didn't control my posture well?"
"It's because of strength. Every time I'm farther away from the three-point line, I need more strength to shoot, and my core strength is stronger."
"The change of rhythm is also to allow me to fully utilize my strength."
"However, Rukawa Kaede, you and I are still different."
"You don't have enough strength to shoot a three-pointer like this in two steps. You can't catch it."
"Two methods are to either change your shooting posture and rhythm, or to strengthen your core strength."
"Only in this way will you be able to complete difficult shots from longer distances."
(End of chapter)
