Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 119 The gap between Akagi and martial arts!

Author: Chief Disciple of the Beggar Clan

Chapter 119 The gap between Akagi and martial arts!

Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk brought the atmosphere of the entire venue to a climax. Over the years, the number of slam dunks that can be seen in junior high school games is really only a handful.

This is not the United States. There are not so many talented people. Being able to dunk in junior high school is quite rare here.

At the same time, many high school coaches who were watching the game in the stands were shocked and speechless when they saw this scene. The coach of Lingnan High School, Shigeichi Taoka, was one of them.

"I can't believe there are players of this caliber in junior high school!"

"Rukawa Kaede, the talent he showed on the court before was not as outstanding as it is now."

"But as I grow older, my talents have begun to slowly show up."

"If he can join us in Lingnan next year, he will definitely be able to assist Tian Ye and Xiandao and help Lingnan shine in the national competition."

"You have to fight hard for this player."

In just the warm-up period, Coach Taoka is already very optimistic about Rukawa Kaede's ability and quite recognized Rukawa Kaede's talent. At the same time, Coach Taoka has also secretly made up his mind to invite Rukawa Kaede to Lingnan to establish a team in his mind.

dynasty team.

The presence of Rukawa Kaede put considerable pressure on their opponents. It can be seen that since Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk, Takeishi Middle School's opponents began to make some low-level mistakes during the warm-up.

A simple warm-up activity of passing the ball, catching the ball, and laying up, many players make mistakes when executing it.

If this happens to only one or two players, it is just an accidental phenomenon, but this situation occurs on a large scale, and it suddenly attracts the attention of the coach.

The team, which had just taken the field to warm up, was called back to the rest area by the coach for psychological counseling.

Akagi Haruko watched Takeshi's opponents being called back by their coach because of their nervousness. She couldn't help but get excited. She grabbed Takenori Akagi's arm and said happily:

"Brother, brother, look, because of Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk, Takeishi's opponents are all panicking!"

"Rukawa Kaede's ability is outstanding, isn't it?!"

Haruko Akagi was obviously very satisfied with Rukawa Kaede's performance, and said to Takenori Akagi as if she was taking credit. It was as if she was the one who dunked on the court, not Rukawa Kaede.

"." Seeing his sister's appearance, Takenori Akagi could only nod perfunctorily. However, his eyes were directed at Jinguji Budo, who was holding the fence and watching the ball.

Rukawa Kaede's physical talent is indeed quite outstanding. It is indeed rare to be able to dunk at the third level of junior high school. But for Yu Akagi, this alone is not enough, let alone his own junior high.

You can also complete a slam dunk.

In Jinguji Martial Arts alone, I could easily dunk him in the practice match when I entered Shohoku in high school. In terms of physical talent, Rukawa Kaede is indeed top-notch, but compared to Jinguji Martial Arts, he is still far behind.

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The pre-match warm-up time passed quickly. As the referee's whistle sounded, Takeishi's players, led by Rukawa Kaede, began to take their positions in the middle circle. The player Takeishi stood in the middle circle was the tallest one in their team.

Player, Rukawa Kaede.

As for Takeishi Middle School's opponent, Prefectural No. 2 Middle School, the player standing in the center circle is only a player who is about 180cm tall. He is 3~4cm shorter than Rukawa Kaede.

The referee took the basketball to the center circle, blew the whistle, and threw the ball into the air.

Rukawa Kaede's explosive power is quite outstanding. Relying on his excellent explosive power and height, he jumped up and hit the basketball with one hand. As Takeishi Middle School took control of the ball, Akagi Haruko cheered excitedly, completely ignoring the black-faced people around her.

Takenori Akagi.

"Pass!" Rukawa Kaede, who suppressed his opponent and dialed the jump ball, was traveling very fast. Not long after his teammates got the basketball, Rukawa Kaede had already entered the frontcourt and was close to the three-point line.

Following Rukawa Kaede's reminder, the basketball was quickly passed out and successfully reached Rukawa Kaede's hands. At this time, the players of No. 2 Middle School also completed their positions. It was a typical zone defense. All the players of No. 2 Middle School were looking at each other.

To Rukawa Kaede who was holding the ball.

Rukawa Kaede, who was holding the ball, raised his eyes and looked at the defensive players. With a simple test step, he successfully mobilized the defensive players to move to Rukawa Kaede's right side, and an obvious flaw appeared.

As the opponent's defensive position shifted, Rukawa Kaede dropped the ball with his left hand, and his right hand ball protector directly touched the opponent's waist and quickly broke through with the ball. As soon as Rukawa Kaede moved, not only did no other defensive players in the No. 2 Middle School come up to cover, but they quickly

They shrink the defense line inside. From the looks of it, they want to defend the inside line.

After Rukawa Kaede broke through, he also noticed that his opponent had shrunk his defense. Instead of going deeper, he took two steps inside the three-point line and directly stopped for a jumper.

Rukawa Kaede's shooting posture was quite stretched, and the feeling of his shot was quite soft. With a soft sound, the basketball hit the net.

Rukawa Kaede, who successfully scored the first goal, quickly returned to defense without even glancing at his opponents.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! Don't worry about this kind of goal. Be careful not to let him break through so easily next time you defend."

"We are all junior high school students, so it's impossible for the ball to go in."

"Don't worry, organize the attack and attack steadily!"

The coach of No. 2 Middle School stood on the sidelines and yelled, reminding the players. With his comfort, No. 2 Middle School began to organize an attack.

However, when the defender of No. 2 Middle School entered the frontcourt with the ball, Rukawa Kaede saw through his intention of passing the ball. The ball was originally intended to be passed to a teammate on the side, but Rukawa Kaede jumped in and completed the steal.

The next second, Rukawa Kaede ran directly towards the frontcourt with the ball. At the same time, among the Takeishi Middle School team, Mizusawa Ichiro closely followed Rukawa Kaede's offensive pace. As for the other players, the one who saw the fast break was

Neither of these two people thought about running to help. Instead, they stood on their own side of the court, hands on their hips, watching Rukawa Kaede and Mizusawa Ichiro's fast break from a distance.

It was 2 on 0 in the frontcourt, and the defense of the second center could not keep up with Rukawa Kaede's fast break. Rukawa Kaede went to the basket, combined the ball and dunk, and made a beautiful dunk, which once again ignited the atmosphere of the court. And warm-up

It was different this time. This time, the audience cheered even more enthusiastically.

After all, it is an actual slam dunk, which gives people a completely different look.

Looking at it, Akagi Haruko was already fascinated by Rukawa Kaede's grace. She clasped her hands tightly and stared at Rukawa Kaede with her beautiful eyes as she started to defend herself.

When Akagi and others saw Rukawa Kaede successfully dunking again, everyone's eyes turned to Rukawa Kaede.

Rukawa Kaede in the field seemed to have noticed the gazes of several people, and subconsciously raised his head to look towards the auditorium on the sidelines. He saw Jinguji Budo, Mitsui Hisashi and others.

"That's Mitsui-senpai and the martial arts guy."

"Are they coming to see my game?"

Rukawa Kaede was a little surprised when he saw Jinguji Martial Arts and Mitsui Hisashi, and murmured in his heart.

Budo also noticed Rukawa Kaede's gaze, smiled and waved at Rukawa Kaede. Mitsui Hisunori stood up from his seat and shouted loudly: "Takeshi Middle School, come on!"

Of course, Hisashi Mitsui's cheers were drowned in the cheers of the audience, but there was still a senior member of the Takeishi team who heard this familiar voice and turned to look at the audience to see Mitsui Hisashi's figure.

Seeing the seniors in the stands, Takeshi's players were encouraged and their momentum was high.

I don’t know if it’s because No. 2 Middle School is not good at collecting intelligence. The defensive strategy they adopt is to stick to the inside, but Takeishi Middle School’s attacks are often initiated from the outside by Rukawa Kaede.

There are no outstanding star players in the No. 2 Middle School, and no one can limit Rukawa Kaede's breakthrough in a single defense situation. Whenever Rukawa Kaede breaks through, the strategy adopted by the other defensive players in the No. 2 Middle School is often not to cover up defense, but to

It is to tighten the inner line of defense.

This defensive method did not give Rukawa Kaede a chance to break into the inside for a layup, but after passing through, Rukawa Kaede could easily shoot without anyone guarding him.

Although they were both medium and long-range shots, Rukawa Kaede's shooting accuracy was quite high, not at the level of a junior high school student. Takeishi Middle School's attack surrounding Rukawa Kaede was simply not something that the No. 2 Middle School players could stop.

At the same time, Rukawa Kaede's defensive awareness is also quite good. There were several passes in the middle of the attack, but Rukawa Kaede saw through and completed the steal.

Moreover, the average height of Takeishi Middle School is higher than that of No. 2 Middle School, and the pressure on them during defense is also great, which directly disrupts the offensive rhythm of the entire team of No. 2 Middle School.

In this situation of ebb and flow, Takeishi Middle School quickly took the lead and slowly expanded this advantage.

Thirteen minutes into the game, Takeishi Middle School took a huge lead at 32:17. As Rukawa Kaede rushed into the paint and scored two plus one, the coach of the second middle school couldn't hold it in any longer and called a timeout.

The coach of No. 2 Middle School stabilized the mentality of the players. It can be seen that the players from No. 2 Middle School who returned to play have more confidence and less frustration on their faces.

After a stumbling attack in No. 2 Middle School succeeded, the offense and defense switched. Takeishi Middle School's defender brought the ball to the frontcourt, and then quickly gave it to Rukawa Kaede.

After returning from the timeout, the defensive strategy of No. 2 Middle School was adjusted. The number of players specifically tracking Rukawa Kaede was increased from one to two. The remaining three players built a zone defense on the inside.

"Look, the defensive formation of No. 2 Middle School has changed. They are going to target Rukawa Kaede!" Haruko saw the defensive intention of No. 2 Middle School and said excitedly, pulling on Akagi's clothes. Without waiting for Akagi to reply, Haruko continued:

"Rukawa Kaede is indeed very strong. He alone has affected the defensive strength of No. 2 Middle School."

Takenori Akagi glanced at his sister and said solemnly: "Only now can we see some signs of whether Rukawa Kaede is strong or not."

"The previous goals were not valuable enough."

While Takenori Akagi was speaking, Rukawa Kaede had already made a move.

Rukawa Kaede, who was holding the ball, didn't seem to notice the change in No. 2 Middle School's defensive strategy. He relied on his speed to initiate a breakthrough. When he passed the first defender and broke into the three-point line, he met the defender.

Facing the defensive player Rukawa Kaede, he didn't need anything at all. He faced the opponent's defense and shot a jump shot. At the moment when he was shooting, the defender's hands had already covered Rukawa Kaede's face. Unfortunately, due to his height and jumping,

After all, the defensive players had no way to block Rukawa Kaede.

"This guy's timing is too bad to take action!"

“It’s really fun to play ball”

Takenori Akagi whispered, and just as the words of criticism came to his lips, he saw the basketball thrown by Rukawa Kaede hit the board and make a soft sound.

"Well"

“It actually scored, which is not bad.”

Akagi was a little surprised that Rukawa Kaede could actually score a goal under such circumstances. He swallowed the criticism and could only praise it in a neither salty nor bland way.

"This kid has not made any progress!"

Mitsui Hisashi looked at Rukawa Kaede's goal and shook his head, seemingly extremely disappointed.

But Budo, who had been watching the game with a smile, also frowned slightly after seeing Rukawa Kaede's goal.

Although the ball was scored, Rukawa Kaede's handling of the ball was not pretty. Some people may think that Rukawa Kaede was confident enough to score the ball against the defense, but in Budo's view, Rukawa Kaede had too many choices.

Such a strong investment is simply unnecessary.

The change in No. 2 Middle School's defensive method did not have much impact on Takeishi Middle School. Rukawa Kaede's offense was still unstoppable. Under the defensive pressure of No. 2 Middle School, Rukawa Kaede's shooting rate dropped slightly, but it did not affect the overall situation.

But Rukawa Kaede exposed a big problem in this game, that is, his offensive choices were really poor.

In the end, Takeishi Middle School won the game. Kaede Rukawa scored 37 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 steals. The statistics are quite gorgeous and unique in the entire junior high school competition.

"This kid needs to practice hard after coming to Xiangbei. If you play like this, you will hit a wall whenever you meet a player who is not bad at talent."

After the game, Budo took a deep look at Rukawa Kaede before leaving the stadium, and then left the stadium with Takako and others.

Hisashi Mitsui, Takenori Akagi and others obviously also discovered the problem with Rukawa Kaede's playing skills, so no matter how Haruko tried to improve Rukawa Kaede's ability, Akagi just dealt with it lightly.

In Akagi's view, Rukawa Kaede can only be said to be a good seedling, but his combat power is still far behind Jinguji Martial Arts and Mitsui Hisashi.

Watching a junior high school game is just a way of relaxing during the county competition for Martial Arts and others.

The next day, Shohoku High School ushered in their second game of this year's prefectural competition trials, against Matsubara High School.

Songyuan High School is not a strong team in the traditional sense, and the team composition is also very young. Although they are also the same team that won the first game and entered the second game, there is still a big gap between them and Shohoku in terms of hard power.

Facing Matsubara, Coach Anzai still fielded the first-year team headed by Jinguji Budo at the beginning. Halfway through the first half, Jinguji Budo surrendered 19 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 blocks.

Horrifying data.

The score between the two teams also reached a big lead of 26:11.

In this game, Budo still played the center position. In the low post area, it was like being in no one's land, and Matsubara's defense was useless in front of Budo.

Although the martial arts game went smoothly, coach Anzai still did not leave martial arts on the court for too long. He only changed martial arts and put Takenori Akagi on the court.

When Akagi was watching the game off the court, he felt that fighting in martial arts was easy because his opponent was so incompetent.

But when Akagi came on the field, replaced Budo as the main center, and took on the offensive task, Akagi realized that he had been wrong.

Matsubara's group was frustrated in martial arts and wanted to get it back. After Takenori Akagi came on the court, whenever he received a basketball in the paint, he was immediately surrounded by four people.

Unlike Budo, Akagi has superb inside footwork. After receiving the ball, in addition to holding the basketball stupidly to prevent being stolen, he also wants to find the target of the pass. His intention is very obvious. When facing a double team, Akagi has to stop dribbling.

Even passing the ball has become quite difficult.

At this time, the Matsubara players suddenly discovered that Takenori Akagi, who was also about 195cm tall with a mature face and seemed difficult to deal with, was actually much easier to deal with than the pretty boy No. 15 just now!

Akagi was surrounded and suppressed, Miyagi's outside shooting was mediocre, and the rest of the players could only barely overcome their nervousness in the second game. For a while, Shohoku's offense fell into a sluggish state.

As the game progressed, Shohoku's leading score was being chased by Matsubara little by little.

At this time, the Shohoku High School team on the court seemed to have turned into the one-man team of Akagi in the martial arts memory. Even facing a team like Matsubara, there was no way to gain an advantage.

"Is this the only level a team supported by Akagi alone can achieve?"

"From this point of view, the ability of this guy Akagi is not even a little bit inferior to that of the martial arts guy!"

Mitsui Hisashi looked at Takenori Akagi who was fighting hard in the field, and then turned to look at Jinguji Budo who was drinking ginseng and wolfberry tea, and secretly sighed in his heart. Sometimes the gap is revealed through inadvertent comparisons.

(End of chapter)