Just like last year, after the end of the national competition, the organizing committee once again announced that the players who entered the third squad would 'go abroad to learn from teachers', but this time it was not the United States, but Europe.

Since the Second World War, European basketball has really begun to rise, among which Spain, Italy and other countries have been vigorously developed by introducing the first batch of American players, while self-taught, while stealing from the opponent, which gradually formed the characteristics of European basketball in the future.

European basketball is characterized by a standard floor flow, with few real flyers, players are used to playing steadily on the floor, advocating collective strength, and the head coach directs the whole team like the next game of chess.

Obviously, the Europeans don't have the same perverted physicality as their African-American counterparts, nor do they like the fancy style of play of the Americans, and they have gradually become accustomed to the style of play that tears through the opponent's defense little by little through ground cooperation, aiming to knock down opponents with team strength.

Naturally, attacking players such as Zebei who prefer to play alone are disappointed, and they want to go to the United States, which advocates individualism, rather than Europe, which focuses on teamwork and floor flow, but for Hakado players, although the level of European basketball is not as good as that of the United States, the basketball style is undoubtedly more suitable for them.

For Ikegami, European basketball has already formed its own unique style and system, and he will naturally have an experience. In addition to observing, you can also learn the world-renowned basketball technique - European Step!

In this part of Europe, there are many players who have been playing side by side since childhood, and they are so familiar that they don't need to show off anything to each other, which is also a key factor in the European basketball faith team.

Of course, an important reason for the flow of the European floor is that they have always allowed joint defense, no matter how the opponent runs, there will always be an elephant standing under the basket, and it is not easy for an outside player to rely on pure touch and floor skills to score 60 points.

This time, the destination is simply Europe, to be precise, Barcelona Basketball Club in Spain.

Many people only know the Barcelona football team, but they don't know the Barcelona basketball club, which may be the reason why European football completely suppresses basketball, resulting in the latter's lack of fame around the world. However, the Barcelona basketball team and the Barcelona football team are both under the management of the Barcelona club.

Barcelona Basketball Club is a basketball club in Spain, the oldest professional basketball club in Spain, and it is also a giant in Europe. Although Ikegami is not very familiar with Barcelona basketball club, he remembers that the basketball club will have a bumper year in a few years, winning three titles in the Spanish league, the Spanish Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League, becoming the "treble" for the first time in history. This glorious result marks Barça's true emergence as one of the most formidable top teams in European club basketball.

Although Barcelona Basketball Club has not won the treble at present, this does not mean that the club is not strong enough, just winning 4 consecutive Spanish championships in 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990 is enough to prove its strength, and won 4 league championships throughout the 90s, while Real Madrid only 2 times in the same period, under the impact of Barcelona, Real Madrid's supremacy in Spanish basketball began to waver.

Although the historical accolades are not as rich as Real Madrid, in the 30-year history of the Spanish ACB league, Barcelona has slightly better overall results than Real Madrid, ranking first in the total number of wins, total win percentage, number of league titles and number of playoff appearances.

The biggest feature of the Barcelona basketball team is that it has strong defensive ability, and the players basically have good defensive ability, and they are good at assisting defense and joint defense.

The reason why the organizing committee of the national competition was able to contact this European basketball giant this time also relied on the connections of Japanese/local/large enterprises. In order to promote the level of competition in their countries, these large corporations often contribute money in the name of sponsorship, for example, to achieve their goals. Just like the reason why the level of Japanese/Japanese football will develop rapidly, it can be regarded as the blessing of these large enterprises, and a large number of Japanese/Japanese players who go abroad will not only bring personal skills and tactics to improve, but also promote the development of the Japanese/Japanese football system.

Since the national team entered the Barcelona Basketball Gymnasium, in addition to training with these professional players every day, they have also played games regularly.

Of course, the result of the game seemed miserable, which can only be described as miserable, and there was no chance of winning at all, after all, the opponents were all professional players. And with the strength of the Barcelona basketball team, even if the Japanese/national team comes, I am afraid that it will be defeated.

All the professional players in the Barcelona basketball team are no worse than the normal Ikegami, and a few can only compete with the dynamic vision. There is no way, although Ikegami is using hellish training, but in the end it is only a little more than a year, and it can be said that it is quite rare to be able to compete with the professional players of European basketball giants in just one year.

There is pressure to be motivated, and this is true, since coming to Barcelona, through these professional players, Ikegami's progress has been relatively slow, but he can continue to see his own progress every day. Not only that, but because of his strength, he has also been initially recognized by these professional players.

For the Japanese/local basketball team that was mixed in through sponsorship, Barcelona professional players naturally disdain, thinking that the players of the team are low. And this is indeed the case, not to mention Mu Shen and others, even Zebei, who has been practicing since childhood, also feels unbearable, and only Chishang can barely enter the eyelids of these professional players.

The difference between the differences in strength is enough to show the meaning of this sentence. These professional players express their disdain for players other than Chishang from the bottom of their hearts, and there is no communication at all, at most they acquiesce to the fact that there are more groups of followers in training every day, plus the occasional easy rubbing is considered relaxation, nothing more.

It is also the recognition that Ikegami has received from these professional players, which has led him to blatantly learn some basketball skills from these players, and the focus is on European steps.

Imitation from textbooks or videos will always be a little different from reality, even if the imitation is standard, but some subtle places will always be a little different, and the demonstration and explanation of these European professional players can undoubtedly make Ikegami learn the most orthodox European steps.

The biggest highlight of this skill is the pace of the layup, which swings left and right widely, which is easy to make the defender unable to judge the direction of travel, causing the defender to lose the defensive position.

The founder of this pace can no longer be confirmed, and the origin of this pace cannot be verified, it is said that it is called the European step because of a passing step first adopted by European players when they went to the basket.

During a high-speed dribble run, the body moves in the direction of the same foot forward, while the other foot moves in the opposite direction of the foot that landed earlier, and changes direction in a big stride, and then the body also moves in the direction of the other foot. It is equivalent to changing direction at high speed, and at the same time as the other foot lands, the upper body completes the change of direction, and uses the foot that lands as the supporting foot, exerts force, jumps, and lays up to avoid walking. This action is a very practical European step.

The difficulty of completing the European step lies in the high requirements for body coordination, the combination of man and ball should be good, the ball follows the upper body, and when changing direction, it is necessary to follow the upper body to complete a large change of direction, and the combination of man and ball is not good to change direction and it is easy to lose the ball.

It can be said that this is a gorgeous and practical technique, and it can be widely used in the NBA in the future, with representatives such as Ginobili, Wade, Paul, Harris, and so on.