Allowing the players to form teams freely, I have to say that this is a major breakthrough made by Coach Taoka and his coaching staff.
In previous years, Qiu Zhiguo's selection method was quite simple, that is, let the coach with the best performance in the county or the most prestigious coach in the county serve as the head coach of the representative team.
As for the players, they are often assigned by the head coach himself.
This kind of selection method will lead to a very serious problem, that is, whether the process of selecting players for the representative team is fair, which often depends on the integrity of the head coach.
The environment in Kanagawa Prefecture has been pretty good in recent years. In the past ten years, the head coach has basically been Coach Gaotou of Hainan High School. He is a fairly decent person. Although the selection of players will favor players from his own team, he also Players from other teams will be given corresponding opportunities.
As long as he is good enough, Coach Gao Tou will not have any particular opinions when selecting talents.
After Coach Gaotou, after Lingnan High School won the national championship last year, Coach Tian Gang also served as the head coach of Qiuzhi National Sports for one year. He was also fairly fair in his selection of materials.
But the situation in Kanagawa Prefecture is not representative of all teams.
In other counties, coaches show favoritism every year. It is considered "normal" to favor players from one's own team when selecting players, and there are even bold coaches who directly price the quota for the Qiuzhi National Sports Team.
Similar things are not limited to basketball, but are not uncommon in other sports as well.
There is no way to avoid this kind of thing anywhere in the world.
Looking at the country, this is the only place where Kanagawa Prefecture selects players purely based on their strength and gives all players the opportunity to participate in the selection.
In fact, the free formation of players' teams is not going very smoothly. Coach Tianoka and the others want to let the players find teammates that suit them. But the vast majority of people, when looking for teammates, still look for players based on "school" and "relationships."
It seems that someone has quickly assembled a team, but the configuration of the team is in a mess.
After confirming the members of their own team, Budao and Shinomiya Tanō sat on the sidelines and watched others form teams. Martial Arts even discovered that there is a team that does not have a single inside player.
This kind of chaos was also noticed by Coach Tianoka, but he did not remind those players.
He has made it very clear before that since he has chosen to form a team like this, the players must bear the consequences themselves!
Anyway, the 12 players he wants only need the best among them!
Therefore, when Coach Taoka noticed that several top players such as Jinguji Budo and Shinomiya Tanano formed a team, he couldn't help but have a satisfied smile on his face.
Nearly two hours later, 215 players finally completed the formation of all teams.
The round-robin competition between teams has also officially begun.
Jinguji Martial Arts and the others were the fastest in forming a team. They registered the member information with Coach Taoka early, so the first opportunity to challenge was of course given to Jinguji Martial Arts and the others.
"All team formations are declared complete."
"The No. 1 team that completes team formation first, you will have priority to challenge your opponents and use the court."
"Have you decided which team you want to challenge?"
After all team members were established, the coaching staff set up a large whiteboard on the sidelines with the personnel information of all teams written on it.
Jinguji Budo's team is called the No. 1 team. It is not called the No. 1 team because their team is the strongest, but simply because they were formed the fastest.
When Coach Taoka asked these words, Shinomiya was well prepared, took a step forward and walked out of the team, and replied to Coach Taoka:
"There is no opponent that particularly deserves our attention, there are just a few players that we want to get into our team no matter what."
"What we want to challenge is the No. 3 team."
While speaking, Shinomiya turned his head and looked at Sakuragi Hanamichi and others.
The No. 3 team he was talking about was Lao Shohoku, headed by Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede.
The six members are Takenori Akagi, Ryota Miyagi, Hanamichi Sakuragi, Kaede Rukawa, Nobunaga Kiyota and Ichiro Katsumi.
As for Nango Koichiro and Kuratani Sora, they were excluded. There was no way, there were only a few spots in the first round team, and it was impossible to take care of all the players.
Nango Koichiro and Kuratani Sora, who were abandoned by the team, were called over by Uozumi, Hanagata, and Fujima, who were also abandoned. In addition to the five of them, there was another player, Kamizou Ichiro from Hainan!
Wu Dao's team does not lack players with the ball. What they lack is a power forward who can give the team enough support under the basket.
Therefore, their target is actually eyeing Sakuragi Hanamichi!
"Number three?"
"Um!"
"The challenged team has no right to refuse!"
"Then everyone, go outside the venue and empty the venue."
"The two sides in the first game are the No. 1 team and the No. 3 team."
"Team No. 2 takes this opportunity to start looking for your opponents!"
After confirming both sides of the game, Coach Tianoka began to clear the field. Signal all other players to go to the sidelines.
As the players on the field left, only players from both sides of the game were left on the field.
Sakuragi Hanamichi stood in the stadium, looking at Jinguji Budo and others opposite, clenched his fists vigorously, and then shouted loudly to the team members: "Let them see how powerful we are!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi's fighting spirit is high. Having been "betrayed" by Jinguji Martial Arts, what he wants to do most now is to defeat Jinguji Martial Arts and his team, and then take Jinguji Martial Arts back from the opponent's hands. Then he said to Jinguji Martial Arts: "We in Xiangbei are the strongest!"
Things like emotions are contagious. Now all the team members in Shohoku are in a similar mood to Sakuragi now, and all of them are very motivated to fight.
"How do we allocate it?"
Across the court, Shinomiya saw Sakuragi Hanamichi and others looking full of fighting spirit, chuckled and said to the players around him.
"I don't care how you arrange it, I'm going to play."
"I want to defeat this guy Sakuragi myself!"
Jinguji Budo looked at the players on the court with a smile, glanced at Sakuragi Hanamichi, and said.
Hearing this, Shinomiya Tōno nodded slightly. He could understand the idea of martial arts, and he would do the same if he were a martial artist from Jinguji Temple.
"In this case, I won't be playing, and you guys can just play."
"Mike and I are both the type of players who hold the ball hard, so the last one is enough."
"In this case."
"Mori Shigehiro, you are the center, Amu is the point guard, and Sendō is the point guard. Let Budō play the power forward and Sakuragi Hanamichi."
"Mike, you play small forward."
Shinomiya put himself off the court and did not compete with other players for opportunities to play.
The other players have no objection to this. After all, we are all basketball players. How can we not be happy when we have a ball to play with? No player wants to be the water cooler keeper.
Soon, everyone in Xiangbei on the opposite side also quickly selected the players to play.
Takenori Akagi plays the center, Hanamichi Sakuragi plays the power forward, Ryota Miyagi plays the point guard, Nobunaga Kiyota plays the point guard, and Kaede Rukawa plays the small forward position.
Katsumi Ichiro was temporarily placed off the court as a substitute.
The discussion within the Shohoku team is that if the defense of the back line is really weak, then Katsumi Ichiro will be replaced by Miyagi Ryota and the height of the team will be raised to strengthen the team's defense.
These people have been teammates for such a long time, and everyone knows what shortcomings the team will have.
Soon, the assistant coach who acted as the referee walked into the court with a basketball in his hand.
The coaches attach great importance to game performance, and the number of referees is supermodel. In a game, there are four linesmen on both sides and two referees in the middle, a total of six referees.
The other coaches are also scattered in various positions outside the stadium, paying attention to the competition in the stadium.
In fact, there is one thing that Coach Taoka did not tell the players.
When all the players are playing, the coaches will actually grade the players privately. Talented players will be marked by the coaches and either sent to the coaching staff of the youth training, or they will digest it themselves in college in the future.
The selection of Autumn National Sports is a rare opportunity for all players!
"Beep——" As the players completed their positions in the center circle, the referee also blew his whistle and then threw the ball directly into the air.
As Takenori Akagi shouted loudly, two huge figures at the center line quickly rose into the air and shot the basketball in the air.
"Snapped!!!"
Takenori Akagi was full of energy and had excellent timing. He was the first to slap the basketball and hit the ball towards his own half.
Soon, the basketball fell into the hands of Miyagi Ryota in the backcourt, who quickly dribbled the ball forward.
They use man-to-man defense in martial arts. It's simple after all, isn't it?
As Miyagi Ryota dribbled the ball into the frontcourt, Makoto quickly moved towards Miyagi Ryota. Without the slightest pause, Miyagi Ryota immediately passed the ball sideways as soon as Makaki stepped forward, directly into the hands of Kiyota Nobunaga.
Facing Sendō's defense, Kiyota Nobunaga made a simple test step after taking the ball, and then chose to break through by dropping the ball himself.
Sendō thought the opponent would pass the ball, but he didn't expect Kiyota to hit it himself. Without paying attention, Qingtian, who is relatively short in stature, got past him.
"This kid's breakthrough moves are so clean!"
"And I don't know if it's my imagination, but this kid seems to be getting faster?"
Sendao was surprised and quickly turned around to pursue him. However, just when he was about to catch up with Nobunaga Kiyota, Kiyota seemed to be aware of it. Without even looking behind him, he directly hit the basketball in his hand and passed it forward.
It was given to Takenori Akagi, who was in position under the basket at this time.
When the basketball was released, Kiyota did not pause for a moment and continued to rush towards the inside. Sendō's eyes subconsciously glanced at Akagi, and in such a short gap, Takenori Akagi quickly gave the ball to Kiyota Nobunaga who cut into the inside.
The latter passed directly through Morishigehiro's defense and attacked directly towards the basket. Then he jumped up, grabbed the basketball and prepared for a dunk.
"I'll shoot the ball first!"
Nobunaga Kiyota looked at the basket in front of him with an excited smile on his face. However, the next second, Kiyota Nobunaga's smile froze on his face. From the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed a figure jumping up quickly from his side.
"What?!"
"Jinguji-senpai?!"
With a slight tilt of his head, Kiyota Nobunaga saw who the person who appeared next to him was.
Jinguji Martial Arts, Kiyota seems to have forgotten that Jinguji Martial Arts is responsible for the power forward position in this game!
Jinguji Budo, who jumped high, reached out and swatted the basketball in Kiyota Nobunaga's hand without showing any mercy to Kiyota.
However, just when Budo was about to complete the block, Kiyota Nobunaga actually collected the ball and moved the ball to his left hand. At the same time, his right hand acted as a ball protector and directly blocked Budo's arm.
Then he made a layup and actually put the ball into the basket in front of Jinguji Budo.
"Uh-huh!"
As a soft sound rang out, all the players watching the ball looked at Nobunaga Kiyota in astonishment. They simply couldn't believe that Nobunaga Kiyota had successfully scored the ball under Jinguji Budo's defense.
"Yo Xi!!!"
After landing, Kiyota Nobunaga hit his chest with both hands and roared excitedly.
He raised his hand and pointed towards Jinguji Martial Arts, and said loudly: "Don't underestimate me! Jinguji-senpai!"
"I am always growing!"
Jinguji Budo looked at Kiyota Nobunaga with a bit of surprise at this moment. Not to mention the other players watching the game, even he, a senior from Kiyota Nobunaga's school, did not expect that Kiyota Nobunaga could actually do it in his own school. Score the ball in front of him.
The change of hands for the layup and the ball protector during the layup all told Martial Arts that Kiyota Nobunaga is very different from before.
Layup ball protector.
This thing that is ignored by most people is an important skill in whether a player can score the ball.
Often "Ye Guchan" will ignore such small details. Players who come out of academic basketball will not be able to develop such good habits if they do not meet a good coach.
When training in Shohoku before, Coach Anzai actually didn't remind him much about this matter. Before becoming the captain, Budo paid more attention to his own training. After becoming the captain, the team's training was mainly based on individual training, and there was no time to pay attention to details for each player.
But Kiyota Nobunaga has made huge progress compared to before!
"very nice!"
The look of astonishment on Jinguji Martial Arts' face disappeared, and he praised him heartily.
At the same time, Budo also looked at Coach Takatou on the sidelines. Kiyota Nobunaga's growth must be inseparable from Coach Takatou's help.
"but."
"Qingtian, if you just become arrogant and complacent, it won't work."
"I hope you can show me more abilities!"
"Only in this way can you have a small chance of victory!"
As he said that, Budao made a gesture expressing his sorrow for losing the Korean market.
