Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 172 Work hard, the future of Xiangbei!

"Jinguji Budo from Shonhoku High School, Shinomiya Tano from Lingnan High School, I heard from my colleague who went to Kanagawa for an interview, the abilities of these two people, even if they go to college now, they are the top players!"

What the reporter said made Domoto Goro a little dazed. He never expected that Hainan High School, which has dominated the basketball scene in Kanagawa County for more than ten years, would not even qualify for the national competition this year.

Speaking of which, he still knows the high-level coach in Hainan, and Sanno Industry and Hainan have competed in the early years.Although the strength of Hainan's players is quite different from their mountain kings, the Hainan's coach is not an easy character to deal with, which left a deep impression on him.

"You said. Hainan didn't even make it to the national competition this year?"

"The aces of the two qualifying teams from Kanagawa County are all first-years? Can they match the top players in the university?"

"Is this news accurate?"

Domoto Goro asked in surprise, he doubted the authenticity of the other party's words, after all, the other party was just "listening to colleagues".

"The news that Hainan has not entered the national competition is certain. The two teams from Kanagawa County this year are Xiangbei High School and Lingnan High School."

"It is certain that the aces of both teams are first-year players, but whether they have the strength to match the top players in colleges or not, I don't know."

"That's what my colleague said, but I didn't watch the game, so the specific situation is not very clear."

"However, Coach Domoto, you know that the reporters of our Basketball Weekly are considered basketball lovers and know a little about basketball. My colleague also interviewed some college basketball teams."

"He will say that. I guess it's not bad. The strength of those two aces must be very strong."

"And I heard that the local sports daily in Kanagawa also has special reports. I still have all the newspapers."

While the reporter was talking, he turned up the backpack at his waist, took out a folded newspaper from it, handed it to Domoto Goro, and then gave a look to the little brother who was carrying the camera behind him.

It can be seen that this reporter came to interview Domoto Goro, obviously well prepared.He even thought of the title of today's interview, which is called: "National overlord Sanno head coach Domoto Goro sneered at 'Kanagawa Twin Stars'"

Although the title is a bit long, the weekly magazine must sell very well in Kanagawa when it is printed.

"Coach Tangben, take a look." The reporter did not hide his emotions well, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Unaware of the reporter's emotions, Domoto Goro took the newspaper from the other party's hand and unfolded it gently. At a glance, he saw the report on the so-called Kanagawa Twin Stars, which occupied 1/4 of the newspaper's page.

"King が Curtain を Close じ, Taitou する Kanagawa ツインズ" a big title came into view.

Domoto Goro did not read the content of the report at the first time. Instead, he immediately set his sights on those photos, the photo of Jinguji Budou and Shinomiya Tanno shaking hands, the photo of Shinomiya Tanno dunking, God Photo of Miyajima Budo shot.

"The kid who slams the dunk has quite smooth muscle lines, he should be very strong in real life."

"There is also this kid. The posture of the backward jumper feels very stretched and light. It should have strong bounce and explosive power, and this shooting method must be practiced a lot."

Looking at the photo, Domoto Goro made a judgment immediately, and then began to read the content of the report.However, he was a little disappointed by the report. The whole report was basically boasting about how good these two players were, without revealing any details.

Height, weight, wingspan, and the data of each game are nothing at all, which makes Coach Domoto frowned slightly.

"Coach Domoto, what do you think of these two players?!" The reporter was keenly aware of Coach Domoto's emotions, raised his brows, and asked.

"Um"

"Judging from the reports alone, I can't see anything. These two players may have really good talents, but it's still too early to talk about the savior of the basketball world."

"In the end, it's just a county competition."

"Their strength will be personally tested by strong teams from all over the country."

Domoto Goro said some high-sounding words, and then simply answered a few questions under the reporter's question, and the interview was over.

Two days later, Friday.

The summer training of Xiangbei High School has begun to get on the right track. Without the pressure of schoolwork, the training in Xiangbei has become a full day, starting at 8.30 in the morning and continuing to train at 6.30 in the evening.Of course, there is a break time during the period, and even lunch can be settled in the cafeteria. Coach Anxi's arrangement is very formal, and no team training is arranged for an hour before and after lunch.

There is even a nearly two-hour lunch break after meals.

In the early morning, Mitsui Shou packed up his backpack and left the house as usual, heading towards Xiangbei High School.When passing by a bookstall, I spent money to buy a weekly basketball magazine from the stall owner.

In this era, Basketball Weekly is one of the most important ways for basketball fans like them to obtain information about professional players.Now that the Internet is underdeveloped, the speed and channels of information circulation are very limited.

In the past, basketball weekly magazines usually reported some information about NBA players, transfers, gossip, and even rookies.At the same time, in order to enrich the content of the book, some interview information of well-known national universities and high schools will also be included.

Now that the IH national competition is approaching, Basketball Weekly will often report on high school basketball teams and interview high school players.Mitsui Shou walked along the sidewalk towards Xiangbei High School, and at the same time opened the plastic book cover of the book watch.

He flipped through a few pages casually, and on a certain page, a big headline followed by a small headline immediately attracted his attention.

"National Overlord Sanno Industry Head Coach Domoto Goro commented on 'Kanagawa Twin Stars'"

"'Double Star' county competition level!"

A big title and a small title immediately attracted Mitsui Shou's attention.Not surprisingly, this report was written by the reporter who interviewed Domoto Goro at that time.

The other party "artistically processed" Domoto Goro's words and included them in his report.The original words of Domoto Goro above have not been changed at all, but a lot of "interpretation" by the reporter himself has been added.

In the four-page report, one whole page is to establish opposing words and language, and the next three pages introduce the three players of Sanno Industry.Kazunari Fukatsu, Masashi Kawada and Eiji Sawakita.

Different from the local articles in Kanagawa that reported Jinguji Budo and Shinomiya Tianye at that time, Basketball Weekly clearly listed the data of these three players when introducing these three players.

Kazunari Fukatsu, sophomore, point guard, 177cm tall, 70kg in weight, averaged 16 points, 3 rebounds, 9 assists and 6 steals in the county competition.

Masashi Kawada, sophomore, center, 190cm tall, 91kg in weight, averaged 33 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists, and 4 blocks per game in the county competition.

Zebei Eiji, a freshman, small forward, 186cm tall, 73kg in weight, averaged 36 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, and 3 steals per game in the county competition.

"Sanwang's defender averaged 6 steals per game. Is the opponent too weak? Or is this guy too strong."

"Oh~ This center's data is really gorgeous! He is only 190cm tall, but his weight is much heavier than that guy Akagi."

"He can score, grab rebounds, and block a lot of shots. He is a very comprehensive guy. He is a very strong opponent!"

"As for this small forward, he is a small dog. If he is up to martial arts, he will definitely be slaughtered."

Hisashi Mitsui looked curiously at the various data of the Sanno Industries team members, and gave his own evaluation.For Kazunari Fukatsu and Masashi Kawada, Mitsui Shou gave great importance to them.The data characteristics of these two people are very distinctive, and the combination is quite gorgeous.At least, Miyagi Ryota and Akagi Takenori in the same position in Xiangbei are definitely not as good as the other two in terms of data performance alone.

As for Zebei Eiji, although it was reported that he was evaluated by Domoto Goro as a boy who could become "Neon's No. that one.

The small forward position in Xiangbei is Jinguji Budao. Although Budao has always said that he belongs to the sub-position, in fact, Budao plays the small forward position in Xiangbei, and at most there is some swinging interest in it.

Jinguji Budo in the same position has reached 196cm in height and 83kg in weight this year. Although the average score per game is [-]-[-] with that of Zebei Eiji, Budo does not have much time to play in the county competition, and only When playing against a strong team, it can be regarded as playing the whole game.

The height difference is 10cm, and the weight difference is almost 20 catties. The two of them don't need to fight against each other. Hisashi Mitsui can already predict the fate of Eiji Sawakita.

After all, Jinguji Budo fought very hard against Shinomiya Tianye.

Shinomiya Tianye is 191cm tall and weighs a terrifying 93kg. Just looking at his physical data, he is far beyond the dimension of a small forward. He is less than 20 kilograms heavier than Jinguji Budo, but he is already in the confrontation. Let Wu Dao suffer a lot.

Wudo fights against Shinomiya Tianye, at least he still has some height advantage, but if Zebei Eiji faces anyone in the double star, no matter what it is, he will not have an advantage, and then he will probably be eaten to death .

Therefore, Hisashi Mitsui simply dismissed the so-called "Neon No. [-] high school student" that coach Zebei Eiji bragged.

While flipping through the magazine in his hand, Mitsui Shou walked towards Xiangbei High School, and soon came to the Xiangbei campus.Putting the magazine into the backpack, Mitsui Shou walked towards the arena.

"Boom!!!"

Just when he walked to the entrance of the arena, Mitsui Shou heard a loud noise from the arena, opened the door and looked inside, and happened to see Jinguji Budou holding a basket with one arm, hanging on the ground The basket swayed slightly.

In front of him, a red-haired boy was sitting stupidly on the floor, looking up at Jinguji Budao above.

There is no one in the arena now, except Jinguji Budao, who is the red-haired boy.Mitsui Shou knew each other, he was a junior from Wako Middle School, named Yingmu Huadao.

Judging by the looks of the two of them, they should be training.
"Sakuragi, you need to move faster. With your physical fitness, it is not so easy to be blocked."

"At the end of the day, it's because your pace was slow, and you didn't stand up and block the shot immediately."

"Along the court, slide sideways, jog when the bottom line is on both sides, speed up the slide when the sideline is long, let's start first."

In the court, Jinguji Budao let go of his hand, fell back to the ground, held Sakuragi's hand, pulled him up from the ground, and then said lightly.

"Hmm!" Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was punished for slipping, unexpectedly didn't have any extra nonsense, and took a step directly, starting from the bottom line, and sliding forward.

Mitsui Shou walked past Sakuragi, came to Budao, pointed to Sakuragi Hanadao curiously, and asked, "What's going on?!"

"Training, what else can happen?"

"This kid didn't know what stimulated him. He came to my house and said he wanted to have a special basketball training. I simply brought him here."

"It's time to let him do some basic training, so we won't delay things."

Bu Dao looked at Sakuragi Hanadao and said with a smile.In fact, Budo still doesn’t know why Sakuragi Huadou suddenly became so motivated. Although he took Sakuragi to do some basketball training before, although every time he trained Sakuragi Hanado, although he completed enough training, Budo can tell that, Sakuragi's enthusiasm is actually mediocre.

The driving force for him to play is not to love the sport, but to become a so-called "athlete" and gain Haruko's favor. The purpose of playing is not pure, and all he thinks about is Haruko, so the speed of improvement is actually very average.

But today's Yingmu Huadao is different, Wu Dao can see that Yinggi Huadao's enthusiasm is very high today, which is not the same as before.

Budou didn't realize it at first, and asked Yingmu Huadao to practice with him, let him defend himself, and put a little pressure on his training.But as the practice progressed, Bu Dao actually saw the emotion of longing in the opponent's eyes.

That desire is the desire to win.

When Budo realized this, he changed Sakuragi Hanadao's role as a sparring partner, and became a real bullfighting bullfight.Although Hanamichi Sakuragi, who is attacking with the ball, is weak, it can be seen that he is very excited and happy when he plays.

Seeing that Sakuragi Huadao was so eager to become stronger, Budou stopped being polite to Sakuragi. With 3 goals as a limit, every time Sakuragi lost, he was asked to complete some basic training.

Sliding, dribbling with left and right hands alternately, defensive positioning, defensive posture, etc. Although the things taught in martial arts are very complicated and very simple, Sakuragi is very serious every time he completes them. Although there is no way for him to fly with quality It's far away, but Hanamichi Sakuragi's posture on the court is more and more like a player.

"Basic training. This kid, I remember his talent." Mitsui Shou knew Sakuragi Hanadao, and he had heard about it before.

"Well, the talent is very good."

"Now in the third year of junior high school, my height is 185cm, and my weight is 79kg. I haven't developed yet. But dunking is already very easy."

"His jumping potential is also terrible. If he exercises well in the next half a year and enters our Xiangbei next year, he will directly be able to fight immediately."

"He will be the future of our Xiangbei."

Budou looked at Sakuragi who was training, with a smile on his face.He likes this kid Yingmu Huadao very much, he likes this guy's character, he likes this kid's simplicity.He hopes that his existence can accelerate Sakuragi's growth and make Sakuragi's growth less bumpy.

"A 185cm, 79kg third grader can easily dunk."

"In terms of physical fitness alone, this kid is almost comparable to 'Neon No. [-] High School Student'."

Mitsui Shou curled his lips, and said meaningfully.

"Neon number one high school student?"

"what?"

Wu Dao looked puzzled, turned his head and asked.Mitsui Hisakami mysteriously opened the zipper of the backpack, took out the Basketball Weekly from it, put it in Budo's hand, and said in a low voice, "Here, take a look."

Mitsui Shou looks like a country aunt who speaks ill of people behind her back. There is no one else in the arena, but she lowers her voice and pretends to be heard.

"It's mysterious, and it's not some pornographic book."

"What did you show me?"

Bu Dao took the magazine and flipped through it casually, but didn't see any weird pictures, then looked at Mitsui Shou speechlessly.

"Here, here." Mitsui Toshi took the magazine and flipped through it, and found the interview with Domoto Goro, and then sent it back to Budo.

"Sanwang's first grader was called 'Neon's number one high school student' by their coach."

"If you want me to tell you, how can a small dog be worthy of such a title? If we meet them in Xiangbei, we must show them some color."

Mitsui Shou suddenly said angrily at this moment, this guy seems to be obsessed with the title of the first high school student.Budou flipped through the magazine, directly ignoring the previous words deliberately creating conflicts, and turned his attention to the data of Kawada Masashi and others.

His expression became serious.

"It's hard to deal with, Okawada has already started playing center forward in his second year of high school, Akagi can't deal with it."

"If we meet the king of the mountain, it will be bad luck!"

(End of this chapter)