Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 358 Point guard Rukawa Kaede!

Author: Chief Disciple of the Beggar Clan

Chapter 358 Point Guard—Rukawa Kaede!

Shohoku High School's first game in the national competition can be considered a smooth sailing.

The results of the team led by Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi and others were surprisingly good. Even Toyota High School, which was rated as an A-level team, was easily defeated by them.

And Shobei's strong candidate strength also attracted the attention of Sanno Industries and others.

On the night of the first match day, Goro Domoto returned to the hotel and began to review and study the playing style of these first-year players from Shohoku.

The senior members of Xiangbei have played a lot of games, and Domoto has collected a very comprehensive collection of game videos that can be used as reference. He has already made full preparations before the national competition.

However, the sudden rise of the first-year students in Shohoku was beyond Domoto Goro's expectations. He vaguely felt that these first-year students would be the biggest variable that their Sannoh would face, so he wanted to seize the time to eliminate this variable.

At night, the bright moon hangs high.

In the common room of Sanno Industries, the team members gathered around Goro Domoto and watched the TV. What was playing on the TV at this time was the morning match between Shohoku High School and Toyotama High School.

"That red-haired player is called Sakuragi Hanamichi."

"In my first year at Xianghoku High School, I found out that this kid has only been playing basketball for a little over a year."

"He is 192cm tall and has excellent jumping ability. He has 60% of the credit for Fyoyu losing the game so easily."

"Tell me, what do you think?"

Goro Domoto pressed the remote control, and the camera froze at the moment Sakuragi Hanamichi jumped up to grab the rebound. Pointing at Sakuragi Hanamichi in the screen, Domoto Goro turned around and asked.

"Nobe, you are also at the power forward position, please talk about it first."

For a long time, the Sanno players all looked at the screen and did not speak for a long time. Domoto Goro directly pointed at Nobe Masahiro and asked him to express his opinion.

These Sanno Industrial players are among the top players in the country at every position. If Nobe is placed at the power forward position on any other team, he will be the cornerstone of the team and an absolute ace!

"His jumping is very good. I think the best way is to pull him out of the paint."

"I have mid-range skills, and I think I can definitely move him out of the paint."

Nobe replied in a deep voice that he also recognized Sakuragi Hanamichi's ability. During the Shohoku competition in the morning, he discovered Sakuragi's amazing jumping and foot strength, so he also formulated some countermeasures in his mind.

"Well, does anyone else have anything to add?"

Goro Domoto nodded noncommittally and continued to ask.

"I think we can use a blocking method to prevent this kid from jumping up."

"Of course Nobi's method is good, but it can only be used on the offensive end. If it is on the defensive end, how can you pull the opponent out?"

"My suggestion is to create physical confrontation and use your position, height and wingspan to grab rebounds."

"Not to mention controlling the rebound 100%, at least it can limit the opponent's advantage."

"This guy's blocking skills are average. Toyotama's rookie power forward always has the advantage. As for Nobe, there will be no problem!"

Mari Kishimoto of Toyotama High School has become a rookie in the eyes of Kawada Masashi. However, if this were said by others, it would still be a bit controversial, but if Kawada Masashi said it, no one would be surprised.

Masashi Kawada of Sanno Industrial Co., Ltd. can now be regarded as the strongest center. With Masashi Kawada's ability, even if he directly enters college basketball, he can still prosper and become the one that all colleges and universities are competing for.

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"You heard it, Nobi, on both offense and defense, just play like this. It mainly limits his rebounding ability."

"As for his offense, just be careful with it. Xiangbei's offensive focus will not be on first-year players."

While speaking, Goro Domoto switched the screen, and the TV screen was fixed on Rukawa Kaede who was shooting, and Domoto's eyes also looked at Minoru Matsumoto and Eiji Sawabita.

"What about him?"

Hearing Coach Domoto's question, Sawabita Eiji looked at Rukawa Kaede, shook his head, and said:

"It's outstanding. It has a shadow of what I was in first grade."

"But I don't think you need to be too careful."

"His scorer, if Shohoku plays against our Sanno, Jinguji Budo and Mitsui Hisashi will definitely play. These two are the points we need to focus on."

"If there were no threats from those two people, both Matsumoto and I would be able to guard against him."

"His mid-range shooting is excellent and his offensive skills are comprehensive, but his body is relatively thin, so he just needs to fight."

When Zebita Eiji said this, his face looked a little ugly. When he talked about the physical confrontation, he seemed to have recalled some bad memories in his mind, with a grimace on his face.

"You're right about physical confrontation?"

"After all, you suffered a big loss in this area when you were in the first grade. You were educated by Shinomiya Tōno in IH last year, and when you arrived at Autumn Kokutai, Jinguji Martial Arts and Shinomiya Tōno took turns to attack your weaknesses.

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"Although your confrontation has improved this year, if you encounter Jinguji Martial Arts during the competition, you still need to have other team members to support you."

"We all went to watch the finals of the Kanagawa Prefecture Competition. Although Jinguji Martial Arts started not long ago, I can see that his strength is much better than last year."

Hearing this, Goro Domoto nodded, and the topic turned from Rukawa Kaede to Jinguji Martial Arts. He agreed with Zebei's words. If Shohoku met their Sanno, the main attack would definitely be the ace Jinguji Martial Arts.

After a simple analysis, Domoto pressed the remote control in his hand, and the screen jumped to Nango, Katsumi Ichiro, Kiyota Nobunaga and others. As the screen jumped, the Sanno team members also talked about corresponding response methods.

Due to the seriousness with which Sakuragi and Rukawa were treated, the other first-year players in Shohoku became more relaxed.

It can be seen that the only first-year students in Shohoku who can really attract their attention are Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede.

After reviewing the Shohoku first-grade game, Domoto Goro did not waste time and emphasized to the players the key points to pay attention to when competing against Shohoku.

Goro Domoto attaches great importance to the competition the day after tomorrow. He knows very well that Shohoku High School, which has a lower rating than their Sanno, is a sleeping tiger. When their Sanno Industrial stands in front of Shohoku, this tiger will definitely wake up.

At night, the bright moon hangs high.

Under the same night sky, the Shohoku team members were gathering in the common room at this time, reviewing the Sanno Industrial game. The video of the game was the Akita Prefecture finals.

However, this video does not have much reference value, because the strength gap between Sanwang and their opponents is too huge, and the point difference between the two teams once reached 40 points.

However, this kind of crushing game can still reveal some things. Combined with Sanwang's video last year, we can also get a lot of useful information.

"Sanno Industrial lost to Lingnan last year."

"I have analyzed the characteristics of their team before. If Eiji Sawabita gets rid of his bad playing habits, Sanno will be one of the strongest challenges we face."

"To be honest, our inside strength is not as good as the other side."

"Budo, Mitsui, if you don't feel good in the game the day after tomorrow, you need to reduce your outside shooting and use more breakthroughs to stretch their defense."

Coach Anzai looked at the video on the TV and emphasized again. But as soon as he finished speaking, Sakuragi Hanamichi flashed directly to Coach Anzai's side, put his arm around Coach Anzai's shoulders, and kept dragging Coach Anzai's shoulders with his palms.

Chin meat.

"Hey, Dad, how can you say that?"

"How can it be possible that our inside strength is not as good as that of the Mountain King? With me, a genius rebounder, we have a huge advantage inside!"

Although Sakuragi Hanamichi is tall and tall, the names he calls Coach Anzai are the ones that kindergarten children are accustomed to. (In the early years, Japanese kindergarten teachers called teachers dad and mom, and they changed it when they grew up.

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"Hey, bastard, don't be rude to Anzai-sensei!" Hisashi Mitsui's forehead suddenly jumped with veins when he saw this. He quickly came behind Sakuragi, hugged Sakuragi Hanamichi from behind, and dragged him away from Coach Anzai.

"Hoo ho ho." Coach Anzai didn't care at all about Sakuragi's actions and said with a smile:

"Oh! In that case, Shohoku's basket will be left to you, Sakuragi."

Coach Anzai's words suddenly boosted Hanamichi Sakuragi's confidence. He stood up and got rid of Mitsui Hisashi's control. He patted his chest and promised:

"Don't worry, Dad, I will never lose!"

"I'm the rebounding king, Sakuragi Hanamichi!"

Sakuragi's sworn assurance made Budo feel a headache. This single cell was tightly controlled by Coach Anzai. It's not that this is bad, but Sakuragi is really too good at guessing. If the Sanwang understands

Sakuragi's words are really easy to target.

After inspiring Sakuragi, Coach Anzai still looked at Jinguji Martial Arts, pushed up his glasses, and continued:

"Martial arts, in this competition, your mission is still the most important."

"Destroy the mountain king's offensive weapons, this is what you have to do!"

While Coach Anzai was talking, the camera on the TV happened to show the scene of Eiji Zebita scoring a slam dunk. Although this ace of Sanno Industries had been trained by the martial arts military, there was no doubt that he was under the martial arts of Jinguji Temple.

The super ace of the first echelon. There is no doubt about his personal strength.

"Okay, I actually hope to meet some interesting opponents."

"Zebei is actually very good."

As the night progressed, the lights in the Shohoku common room went out.

After a night of silence, the next day, the second day of the national competition started in full swing.

In the knockout stage, the first round of competition was held over two days. There were many participating teams, but there were not many competition venues. The conference considered allowing more spectators to watch more games, so only one venue was used.

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The same golf course starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m., without stopping for a moment.

Normally, the teams in the first round of the national competition will not be very strong, and the seed teams basically all get byes. The opponents that some A-level teams are matched with are usually C-level, B-level, and two A-level teams.

There are actually not many collisions.

It has to be said that the magazine's ratings still have a certain reference value. After two days of games in the first round, the weak defeated the strong, and there were few teams that succeeded in defeating the following.

After watching the day's games, Wu Dao didn't feel that any of the teams were noteworthy, so in the afternoon, he left the gym with no interest.

Coach Anzai didn't say anything about the martial arts behavior. He knew that the vision of Jinguji martial arts no longer looked down on such low-level fighting.

Jinguji Martial Arts was not idle when he returned to the hotel. He did some training in the hotel gym to keep his body from becoming stiff.

For people like him who exercise all year round, if they don't exercise for a day, they will feel something is wrong all over their body. Just like a person who stays at home all year round, if he suddenly goes to the playground to run a few laps, he will feel "something wrong" all over his body.

"The biggest opponent this year is probably Lingnan."

"Most of the contestants in the national competition do not pose a threat to me."

"After IH, you still have to focus on training. It doesn't matter whether you play low-intensity games or not."

In the United States, martial arts competitions are held 365 days a year, maybe 300 days a year. Even intra-team practice matches are more intense than most competitions in national competitions.

But competition is ultimately a "test" to verify training results. If you want to increase your strength, training is the most important thing.

At this stage of martial arts, the accumulation of competition experience is very important, but the most important thing is the development of physical talent. Compared with endless competitions, down-to-earth training is the most important thing for him at the moment.

In the evening, the Xiangbei team members who were watching the game also returned to the hotel one after another. When everyone saw martial arts training in the gym, they also joined in one after another, in order to put themselves in the best condition to face tomorrow's game.

The next day.

[We are now inviting players from Group A, Shohoku High School and Sanno Industries to enter! 】

As soon as the host finished speaking, the Hiroshima Center Arena erupted into amazing cheers.

"Wow——"

Amid the cheers of the audience, the player tunnels at both ends of the basketball court were opened.

The third day of the national competition.

In the second round of the knockout round, the first game of Group A, Shohoku High School, which defeated Toyotama High School and qualified, faced off against Sanno Industries, which had a bye in the first round.

This game attracted much attention. The stands were crowded with people, and the circle outside the stadium was filled with reporters and media people who came to watch the game.

As the player tunnel opened, the cheers from the audience became even more enthusiastic.

"Shobei! Shobei! Shobei!"

Shohoku High School has already accumulated considerable popularity. As the Shohoku players entered the stadium through the tunnel, the audience, led by Tokuo and others, uniformly shouted Shohoku's name.

The bright red "Man of Flame" flag fluttered in the stands, even attracting the attention of the media. The flashlight flashed and the scene was captured.

When the Xiangbei players entered the stadium, the reporters' cameras focused on everyone in Xiangbei. There were also reporters in front of the camera, introducing the Xiangbei players one by one.

"Here we come, Xiangbei."

"We will definitely win, and then challenge Lingnan High School on the throne!"

Not long after the Shohoku players entered the stadium, the players from Sanno Industries also entered the stadium through the players' tunnel. Sawehita Eiji in the team glanced at the Shohoku crowd from a distance, his eyes full of fighting spirit.

Change clothes and warm up in the rest area.

Thirty minutes after the players from both teams entered the stadium, the starting ten players stood in the center circle, preparing to jump the ball.

This time, Shohoku no longer hides its strength. The five starting players are center Akagi, power forward Sakuragi Hanamichi, small forward Jinguji Budō, and point guard Mitsui Hisashi. The point guard is actually Rukawa Kaede!

In contrast, Sanno's players are center Masashi Kawada, power forward Masahiro Nobe, small forward Eiji Sawabita, point guard Minoru Matsumoto, and point guard Kazunari Fukatsu.

When Shohoku and his team came on the field, Goro Domoto was shocked. He never expected that Rukawa Kaede would actually be positioned in the backcourt, acting like a point guard.

"Xiangbei. What are you doing?!"

"Kaede Rukawa is very good, but he has never played point guard, right? And this guy was a lone wolf when we played practice games with us before. Can he also play point guard?"

In the stands, Aida Hikoichi exclaimed in confusion when he saw Shohoku taking his seat.

"Haha. Poor imitation."

"Shōhoku probably feels that Miyagi and Kiyota are not strong enough to deal with Kazunari Fukatsu, but"

"Rukawa Kaede is not an immortal. He is very talented, but there is still a gap between him and the immortal!"

Coach Taoka commented with a smile, not seeing this "trick" played by Shohoku.

(End of chapter)