Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Grouping Situation of the National Competition
――As for the question of the enemy, I just want to answer, in real life, would you fund your opponent or enemy for no reason--! everyone's point of view and position is different, and they all have their favorite slam dunk role, but please be able to analyze it calmly, I just hope it can be a little more reasonable. That's all. There is also the fact that Sakuragi has not yet begun to learn basketball, with Sakuragi's character, unless the girl he likes basketball, not to mention his super fast progress speed, I am afraid that even if someone supervises it, it will be three days of fishing and two days of drying nets. In addition, Naito is still in the third year of junior high school, and it is impossible to run Lingnan all day, thank you, understanding first.
Shinkansen, Lingnan and his party packed their luggage and gathered here.
"Strange, why hasn't Senior Panasonic come over yet?" Ikegami was carrying an Adidas backpack with one hand, which was one of the official prizes given to MVP by the county competition, and the rest were wrist pads, shoulder pads and other items of the same brand.
Shigeru Tagaoka on the side clasped his hands, his face was a little dark, and he seemed to be a little impatient.
"Who knows, this kid usually jumps out very much! However, if this kid from Panasonic can't make this trip, I think the coach will definitely not let him go. ”
Yusaku Ozawa, who had recovered from his injuries, showed a rare evil smile on his face, and whispered to Ikegami, for fear of being heard by Coach Takaka.
Just as the two were talking, the late Matsushita Asahi Kenqi finally ran over from a distance out of breath.
"Panasonic, I need an explanation!" As soon as he saw Matsushita Xujian appear, Coach Tiangang, who had long been impatient, came to Matsushita Xujian with a black face, and his words were full of evil anger. Among the basketball coaches in Kanagawa, except for Coach Anzai, who has incarnated as a white-haired demon, Tagaoka is the most severe.
"Teach... Coach, you misunderstood, this is not the grouping situation of the national competition, I went to buy a copy, a total of 59 teams participated in the national competition this year, give, you take a look!"
Matsushita Xujian gasped in his mouth, and as soon as he heard Coach Tagang talking to him in this tone, he knew that it was not good, and hurriedly handed the basketball weekly in his hand to Shigeichi Taoka.
As soon as Matsushita Asahi's words fell, Shigeichi Taoka's attention really began to focus on the basketball weekly, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
When the other players in Lingnan heard the words of the national competition, they immediately surrounded Coach Tian Gang and focused their eyes on the basketball weekly.
"I hope I don't be in the same group as the King of the Mountain!" Ikegami prayed silently in his heart when he was encircling. He knows very well that although the current Lingnan has improved his personal strength and team cooperation after a month of high-intensity training, his overall strength is at best half a catty and eight taels of Hainan, and he can't compare with the king of the mountains at all.
In this case, Ikegami naturally didn't want to be in the same group as the Mountain King. In addition to Lingnan can get higher honors and more competition experience, if he gets good results in the national competition, he can also get a lot of scholarship for Chishang.
Although the other players don't know how terrible the mountain king is, how could Shigeichi Taoka, as a coach, not have heard of the terrible mountain king.
Of course, the current mountain king is not as prestigious as two years later, because the mountain king of this period won the national championship last year and is working hard to win it this year.
However, as last year's national champion, the mountain king has a strong reputation. Shigeru Taoka is a veteran basketball coach in Lingnan, and he still has some connections, so he can naturally 'borrow' the videotapes of the King of the Mountains and other strong teams last year through some special channels.
After some observation and the final score, Shigeichi Taoka had to helplessly get a fact, that is, the king of the mountain is significantly stronger than the other top four teams in terms of strength, and the players in the five positions are all first-class or even top ace players, and Hainan in the top four last year was beaten by the king of the mountain by more than 30 points.
In other words, the current Lingnan has no chance of winning at all, and it is not bad if it is not slaughtered by a big score.
Shigeichi Taoka turned to the page of the national competition group with apprehension, and set his eyes on it like the Lingnan players.
"Found it, we're in the second group in the upper half of the district!" Yuzu's eyes lit up, and a finger immediately pointed to a place in the weekly magazine, where the words Lingnan University were written.
Here I have to say that in the form of the grouping of the national competition, as long as the team that entered the semi-finals last year will become the seeded team, not only will they not meet each other before entering the semi-finals, but they will have a direct bye in the first round of games. That is, in each of the four groups, there is a team from last year's national semi-finals.
These four teams are Sanno Industry, Hakata Business University Affiliate, Hainan and Aihe College!
Shigeichi Kooka looked towards the top of the second group, which was the name of the seeded team in each group, and was relieved to see that it was not Sanno Industries.
"Love and Academy!" Coach Tian Gang muttered to himself, but his heart was happy, in his opinion, in addition to the King of the Mountain, the most difficult thing in the top four last year was the affiliated Hakata Business University, and this team also defeated the Academy of Love and Academy last year to get the runner-up, even in the game with the King of the Mountain, it was only a 'small loss' of more than ten points, and saved enough face.
In fact, in terms of lineup, the lineup affiliated to Hakata Business University is not necessarily stronger than Hainan, and it is also not because the king of the mountain intends to release water. The main reason for this is that Hakata Business University is affiliated with team basketball, although there are no aces in this team's lineup, but the starters in the five positions are first-class players in the third grade, and because of this, the loss is not so bad.
For the affiliated Hakata Business University, Coach Tian Gang naturally does not want to meet. Of course, he doesn't like the other party's philosophy, because too early exposure to team basketball is not conducive to the development of individual strength, which may also be the fact that Hakata Business University has not been a true ace player.
As for Aihe Academy, the type is similar to Hainan, with ace players in the lineup, and there are also some good role players. It's just that the current Coach Tian Gang doesn't know that this year's Aihe Academy has another strong player, that is, Aichi Star Zhuxingda!
Hainan's Mu Shen Yi and Zhu Xing Da are also from Aichi Prefecture, the two are in the same grade, and they have fought against each other in the national high school competition, but the team led by Mu Shen Yi lost the championship, and the championship was won by the team led by Zhu Xingda, and the MVP of the Aichi County National High School Basketball Game was also awarded to Zhu Xingda.
Of course, this is not to say that the strength of Zhuxingda is stronger than that of Mu Shenyi, because although both of them are guards, one plays point guard, and the other is a position, so it cannot be generalized. According to SD, Zhuxingda is stronger in offensive skills and projection ability, while Mu Shenyi is a monster-like physical fitness, to put it simply, the two belong to the situation of mutual explosion.
"Aichi Stars! Ikegami looked at Aiwa Academy, the expression on his face did not change, and he was still as calm and quiet as ever.
After discovering that the grouping situation was not as bad as he imagined, Ikegami's nervous state of mind was put down, and he immediately observed the distribution of the remaining three group seeded teams.
Of the remaining three seeded teams, Sanno Kogyo is in Group 1, Hakata Shodai is in Group 3, and Hainan, also in Kanagawa, is in Group 4. With the strength and line-up of these three teams, there is still a lot of hope for a place in the semi-finals this year.
After looking at the distribution of the remaining three seeded teams, Ikegami began to observe the opponents his team might face in the group. At the sight of a name, his eyes shrank slightly.
"Fengyu!"