Chapter 10: The End
Because the strength of the Xiangbei team is already quite strong, even if there is no Mitsui Shou, it also has the strength of the top four in the country, so the main purpose of this year's county competition in Xiangbei is to train newcomers.
It's a pity that Xiangbei is the national champion, and if it is placed in the county competition, it can only play in the quarterfinals, and the opponent of this year's Xiangbei quarterfinals is Bururi, who was killed by Lingnan in the top four last year.
This year's Buri is completely declining, Xiangbei is just a group of newcomers, and they defeated Buri and successfully promoted to the joint finals, and in this game, Mitsui did not appear, which disappointed the audience who wanted to watch Mitsui's performance, but they also understood this, after all, Buri's strength is too poor, and it is understandable that Xiangbei chose to train newcomers.
And when it came to the joint finals, Mitsui Shou finally played, but Mitsui didn't play much on the field, he completely regarded himself as a defender who organized in tandem, and almost didn't take the initiative to score too much, because there are too many scoring points in Xiangbei this year, whether it is Ah Shen, Rukawa or Akagi, all have a strong scoring ability, when the whole team has so many scorers, Mitsui only needs to sort out the team's offense, as for the defensive aspect, it is to take the defensive strategy of man-marking, as well as blocking and dismantling substitutions, After all, Xiangbei's personal strength is very strong, and man-to-man is the most effective way to defend.
So in the three games of this joint finals, Mitsui played a rather strange number jΓΉ, averaging 10 points per game, if you only look at the score, everyone will definitely think that Mitsui has a problem, but look at Mitsui's other numbers jΓΉ, this doubt can be dispelled.
He averaged 28 assists per game. 11.3 steals, 10.6 rebounds, and 5.3 blocks, an average of four doubles per game, and an average of 28 assists per game, when those more professional fans saw this kind of count, they were shocked by Mitsui's omnipotence, and more and more college basketball coaches were ruthless: You must dig Mitsui into your own hands!
However, in addition to Mitsui's all-round play, the terrifying offensive power of the Xiangbei team and the emerging offensive players also made other teams envious and jealous, because in the three joint finals, four of the Xiangbei team scored more than 20 points per game. They are Akagi's average of 25 points per game. Rukawa's average of 24 points per game and Ashen's average of 26 points per game, the last one no one expected that it would be Sakuragi, a big forward who has only practiced basketball for a year, with an average of 20 points per game. No more, no less. The combined scores of these four men reached 95 points per game. accounted for three-quarters of the team's total score, and in addition to them, Mu Du from Xiangbei could also score more than a dozen points per game. Coupled with Mitsui's average of 10 points per game, there are six players in Xiangbei who average double-doubles per game, which is really a terrifying attack group.
And in this year's joint finals, although Mitsui's score is less, but the other numbers have improved, so in the end, the MVP of this joint final is still awarded to Mitsui, because everyone knows that Mitsui can't score, but he doesn't need to score, just look at Mitsui's assists are more than others' scores, you can't find any excuses.
And this year's biggest dark horse is the Lingnan team, in addition to losing to Xiangbei, Lingnan is relying on the attack line of Yuzhu, Xiandao and Futian, plus a group of good defenders, it is forced to cut Hainan and Xiangyang off the horse, although they are all narrow wins, but in the end they still succeeded in snatching the last ticket to the national competition.
After the competition, Uozumi cried with joy just like Akagi two years ago, and finally, after more than two years of hard work, Uozumi finally had a chance to enter the national competition.
And Xiandao also showed his usual sunny and lazy smile after the game, and the genius Xiandao finally had the opportunity to prove himself on the stage of the national competition.
After the end of the joint finals, Xiangbei is still training in an orderly manner, and at the same time paying close attention to the learning of the players, after all, there are three families with learning difficulties in Liangtian, Sakuragi and Rukawa, and this year's Xiangbei is under a lot of pressure.
Fortunately, because of Mitsui's vaccination in advance, the three of them finally got through the thrilling pass during the exam, and since then, the three of them have finally put all their minds on training and competition.
The opponent of this year's Xiangbei practice match is still Fengyu High School, but Fengyu laborers came to Xiangbei to compete, as the national champion of Xiangbei, no high school can afford to invite Xiangbei to condescend to the noble, not to mention that the coach of Xiangbei is still Anxi Guangyi, Japan's former national player, is highly respected, and no one dares to be presumptuous.
is different from the original book, because the national championship of Xiangbei is the national championship won by the running and bombing tactics of TongguΓ², so the principal of Fengyu High School did not fire Coach Kitano, so Nanlie did not become a trump card killer, and the atmosphere of Fengyu's whole team is also very good, and the strength is very strong. So Mitsui came on the scene, and this third game played an incredible score.
At 188:135, the two teams that were not very defensive teamed up to score more than 300 points, and Mitsui Shou on the Xiangbei side was full of firepower, scoring 118 points alone, once again showing the style of the super scoring champion two years ago, and the big victory of more than 50 points also made Fengyu see the gap between them and Xiangbei. Well, in fact, it's not bad, it's just a Mitsui Shou.
After the game, the case book pretended to be angry and said, "Damn, Mitsui, why aren't you a player from our Fengyu?" If you had you, we would have won the national victory. β
Mitsui Shou smiled: "You guys are not bad, at least you reached the semi-finals of the national competition last year, and this year you will work harder and strive to see you in the finals!" β
"What's the use of being in the finals? It's not that I'm being abused by you. Kishimoto pursed his lips and sighed: "Forget it, you have caused great damage to our hearts, you have a treat!" Don't shirk it, I know you've made a lot of money writing novels over the years. β
Mitsui smiled slightly bitterly: "Okay! I invite you to a Chinese restaurant to eat Chinese food. β
"That's pretty much it." Kishimoto laughed treacherously, and then shouted to his teammates, "Brothers, Mitsui invites everyone to eat luxurious Chinese cuisine." They all went back to take a shower and ate Mitsui poor. β
"Oh-" Fengyu's players cheered with their fists, and the frustration of losing was swept away.
On the contrary, the players in Xiangbei, especially the freshmen in Xiangbei, are a little restrained, because they saw Mitsui's scoring ability for the first time, 188 points, one person scored 118 points, and the scores of the rest of the team and all the others did not add up to Mitsui, which was simply terrible. And Rukawa Kaede, who has always been negative about his scoring ability, also looked cold. For the first time, I had doubts about whether I could surpass Mitsui Shou.
"Captain...... It's really amazing, and he deserves to be the strongest young player in Asia. "Xiangbei freshmen finally have an intuitive understanding of their captain, that kind of unreasonable scoring methods, and the hit rate that scares people to death. For the first time, they realized what a real talented basketball player is. Also since then. Mitsui's prestige is higher than before, and at least in the first grade, no one is convinced.
It's just that there are also dogs fighting in the first grade.,It's Sakuragi's megalomaniac.γ Sakuragi, who considers himself the only disciple of Mitsui Shou, is quite lively in the Xiangbei team, and even self-proclaimed the only candidate for the next captain, which makes Miyagi and Ah Shen quite unhappy, but Sakuragi is indeed a genius, only playing basketball for one year, he can average 20 points per game in the freshman season, and he also has an average of 15 rebounds per game and 4 blocks, his talent and ability are indeed undoubted.
If Sakuragi is allowed to play for another year, it is really impossible to become the captain, as for Kiyota Nobunaga, who originally had the strength to play the main force in Hainan, the table xiΓ n in the joint finals this time is really not very good, the average score per game is only single digits, except for the occasional dunk that can also make the fans excited, there is no other table.
Kiyota Nobunaga...... How to say it! The shooting ability is very bad, and even the shooting rate of free throws is outrageously low, but the ball sense is very good, the ability to dribble through is more prominent, and he can dunk with a height of more than one meter and seven, and his bounce is also very good, and his defensive ability is also quite good.
Who is Xiangbei's starting small forward? It's Rukawa Kaede, he can't compare, if you go to the position of scoring guard, it's okay, but Xiangbei's scoring guard is Ichiro Shenzong, he can't compare, but the point guard can always play! After all, the ball is still good, but Xiangbei's point guard is Mitsui Shou, and in addition to Mitsui Shou, Xiangbei also has Miyagi, an excellent substitute point guard, so after coming to Xiangbei, Kiyota Nobunaga was desperate to find that he, a talented freshman, had no place and could only be a substitute.
Fortunately, he only needs to endure for a few months, because the third-year players represented by Mitsui Shou will soon quit the team, and when the time comes, the center of Xiangbei will definitely be topped by Sakuragi, a big man, and the big forward, with Rukawa Kaede's height is also indispensable, so that the position of the small forward is vacant, although there is still Imamura Kazuo in Xiangbei, but Imamura's scoring explosiveness is not enough, and Imamura's height is also in his early nines, he will definitely play inside, so by that time, It's the day of Kiyota Nobunaga's emergence, in short, bear with me! Nobunaga.
But compared with Oda, Qingtian is already very good, because of the problem of talent, although Xiao Tian can occasionally play in Xiangbei, but the improvement is very small, the joint finals didn't even get time to play, only appeared in the practice match, and the table is very mediocre, basically Coach Anzai gave up Oda, it is estimated that when Akagi withdrew, he only gave Sakuragi as a substitute.
No way, national champion, that's how capricious.
It didn't take long for this year's national competition to finally begin, as the defending champion, Xiangbei's grouping this year is not very good, the first game is going to meet with the Fengyu team, and the second game is going to meet Aichi Academy, if there is no accident, the semi-finals will even meet with Mingpeng Industry, as for the finals, it is estimated that the king of the mountain did not run.
"Good fellows." Seeing this year's grouping, Mitsui also smiled, Xiangbei actually replaced the original historical mountain king, and was assigned to this kind of brain-dead competition area in advance, and I don't know if the organizer of the event was kicked in the head by a donkey?
"Hehe, this year's grouping is not very good!" Coach Anthy walked over and said with a smile.
"It doesn't matter." Mitsui threw the magazine aside and said: "As a champion, you must have the confidence of a champion, no matter what opponent you meet, just crush the past, not afraid that the opponent is strong, but afraid that the opponent is not strong enough." β
Hearing Mitsui's words, Coach Anzai smiled and said, "That's good." β
"Bad luck!" Halfway through. The Fengyu team also got on the train, and after meeting the Xiangbei team, Kishimoto immediately complained to Mitsui: "What is going on with this year's competition grouping?" Last year's champion and semi-finalist had to meet in the first match, and it was over, we wanted to make it to the final! β
"And in last year's quarterfinals, Aichi Gakuin, which is not weaker than us, is waiting in the back." Nanlie looked at the basketball magazine and said, "There must be something wrong with the grouping this time. β
Mitsui Shou said helplessly: "Fools know that there is a problem, maybe the organizers of the event want to see how I can behave under this kind of grouping!" After all, this is my last year of high school competition, and I will be assigned a few strong teams from the beginning, if you go along the way. Then I'm afraid I'll be ...... in the future Hehe. But if you take a step forward, although it won't change much, it will always be a little imperfect, and Japan is very fond of the broken beauty. β
"Those damn bastards!" Listened to Mitsui's analysis. Nam Yeol and Kishimoto have no other way but to get angry. After all, the grouping is out. They had no choice but to fight.
"You're going to treat us to dinner when the game is over." Kishimoto put his shoulder on Mitsui's shoulder and said, "And I want to eat luxurious Chinese food, I ate it last time." What is that dish called...... I want to think about it...... Yes, the fish-flavored eggplant, it's so delicious, I must order ten servings. β
ββ¦β¦ Foodie. Mitsui was helpless, opened his hand, and said, "I heard that you have another strong team rising in Osaka?" β
"Ahh Oh, yes! Kishimoto said unconcernedly: "It's just a team that likes a slow pace, and it's a style of play that we hate, but in terms of strength, they're still a little bit better." β
Because no coach Kitano was fired, Toyoyu's strength was much stronger than in the original book, so this year it was still the first place in the Osaka area, but it was a pity that they were overshadowed by the organizing committee, and they were destined to go home early to rest this year.
Soon after, the national competition began, Xiangbei had a bye in the first round, and collectively went to the stadium to watch the game of the Fengyu team, the first opponent of the Fengyu team was a little-known team, and finally was directly beaten into a sieve by Fengyu's running and bombing, and the victory of more than sixty points was also slightly brutal.
The Lingnan team, which participated in the national competition for the first time, was divided into another half of the district, and there were no too strong teams in this district, but there were three quarterfinals last year, and if Lingnan was lucky, he even had a chance to reach the top four in the country.
The first time he participated in the national competition, he reached the semi-finals, and only Xiangbei did it two years ago, and Lingnan can be said to be quite happy this year.
In the face of the first opponent, Lingnan also won the opponent with a score of more than 100 points and a big victory of more than 30 points, revealing the fangs of the representative team in Kannai County.
"Last year's top four Hainan were all eliminated by Lingnan, it seems that it is not Hainan that has become weaker, but Lingnan is stronger." This is what some professionals who watched the game said.
So on the second day, Xiangbei finally appeared, and because of the game in Xiangbei, the game was already full an hour before the game started, and almost all the fans in the stands were Xiangbei, and there were more than 300 cheerleaders organized by girls, they were all members of Mitsui Shou's support group, and now Mitsui Shou has a support group all over Japan, and there are hundreds of members in almost every region, and they are all young, beautiful, and well-shaped female fans, More than 300 beautiful girls wearing miniskirts and cheerleading uniforms suddenly emerged at the scene, whether it was the players of the Xiangbei team or the Fengyu team, they were all envious and jealous of Mitsui.
"You're really popular!" During the warm-up, Kishimoto said jealously: "No, you have to invite me to dinner after today's game, and you also have to invite me to a nightclub, I want two beautiful women." β
"Let's play." Mitsui kicked him away, and then said to Nam Yeol, "Let's give full play to all our strength in this game!" No matter who leaves in the end, don't leave regrets. β
"Of course." Nan Lie smiled slightly and said, "I will let everyone know that in terms of scoring ability alone, I, Nan Lie, will not lose to you Mitsui." β
Mitsui smiled slightly: "Who knows!" See you at the arena. β
Soon after, the game officially began, because of this game, Mitsui indicated in advance that he would go all out to fight with Fengyu and hit the tactics, and the next game would have to face Aiwa Academy, so Akagi Tsuyoken and Horita, Imamura did not start this game, Xiangbei's starting center is Sakuragi, the big forward is Rukawa Kaede, small forward Kazuichiro Kamikawa, scoring guard Mitsui Shou, point guard Miyagi Ryota, Xiangbei is directly put the fastest player, the best athleticism and the strongest scoring ability on the court. It's all about who scores more.
When the game started, Sakuragi easily won the jump ball, and after Miyagi got the ball, he immediately quickly advanced towards the Toyotama half, and just after the half, he directly made a long pass and smashed it in the direction of the rebound.
Blunder?
Just as everyone was thinking so, a red-haired figure jumped high, caught the basketball in the air, and then slammed the ball into the basket.
Bang -
There was silence. An exclamation ensued.
"Hahaha...... I'm a genius! "After the Sakuragi Hanamichi slam dunk was successful. With his hands on his hips, he looked up to the sky and laughed wildly.
"Sakuragi, well done!" Mitsui Shou went up and slapped him on the buttocks, encouraging, "That's it." Good table xiΓ n. Let people all over the country see the power of my Mitsui Shou personal disciple! β
Encouraged by Mitsui. Sakuragi Hanamichi's fighting spirit instantly reached its peak: "Brother Mitsui rest assured!" I, Sakuragi Hanamichi, will definitely not disappoint Brother Mitsui's expectations! Hahaha! β
"......" Rukawa Kaede's eyes were a little more sharp.
In the stands.
"Hey, there seem to be a few more new students in Xiangbei this year!"
"Yes! The redhead is so strong and bounces, and he plays so passionately. β
"And that number 11 is also good. There are a lot of offensive means, and it's simply a weakened version of Mitsui. β
"It's far from it, Mitsui's defense is very strong, but he can't stop the opponent's attack."
"After all, there has only been one Mitsui for so many years, which is already very good."
"Yes! Ha ha. β
This game is as expected before the game, playing passionately, because no one wants to leave regrets, so the players on both sides have shown their greatest energy and shown their best state, so the score of this game is also rising, after half the game, the Xiangbei team went crazy to cut 100 points, and Fengyu also surprisingly cut 88 points, only 12 points behind, to be able to play like this with Xiangbei, Fengyu's attack power shocked all the players and coaches who came to watch the game.
And Mitsui has already scored 48 points in the first half, which is still the result of too many scoring players in Xiangbei and deliberately controlling the desire to attack, if Mitsui is full of firepower, I am afraid that it is not impossible to score sixty or seventy points in the first half.
In the rest area of the "Hu......h" Fengyu team, several main players such as Nanlie and Kishimoto were all tired and sweating, and they were frantically drinking water to replenish their water.
"Xiangbei is really strong, we have shown our best form, and we have played better than ever, but we are still 12 points behind, this game is really fierce." Nan Lie smiled bitterly.
"There's no way around it." Coach Kitano smiled slightly and said, "After all, there are Mitsui in Xiangbei, if Mitsui is in our Fengyu, we would have been champions two years ago." β
"yes!" All the players in Fengyu smiled bitterly, the gap between them and Xiangbei is a Mitsui Shou, during the practice match, it can be seen that the first two games were one win and one loss, but in the third game, Mitsui appeared on the stage, and directly beat them by more than 50 points, which is the value of Mitsui alone.
"It's useless to say more." Coach Kitano said: "Don't care about winning or losing the game, just squander your youth and sweat, and don't leave any regrets, because this is the most precious journey and wealth in your long life." β
Listening to Coach Kitano's words, the wind and rain players have a strong fighting spirit and desire to fight in their hearts, yes! Don't leave regrets, because this is our youth.
After the start of the second half, Xiangbei has changed a group of players, in addition to Mitsui Shou, Akagi, Ki Dusk, Horita and Imamura, who did not appear in the first half, have replaced Sakuragi, and they have appeared in full body.
However, after the start of the second half of the game, Xiangbei was surprised to find that Fengyu seemed to be even more crazy, completely gave up defense, and put all his energy on offense, and after concentrating on the attack, the hit rate also increased a lot, in just five minutes, not only was the score not widened by Xiangbei, but narrowed to single digits, scaring the Xiangbei team into a cold sweat, but that's the end of it, after all, Xiangbei has Mitsui Shou, in terms of scoring ability, who can compare with Mitsui?
So Mitsui opened fire after five minutes of the second half.
Two minutes later, Kishimoto gritted his teeth and said, "You demon. β
Five minutes later, Nan Lie wiped the sweat from his face and panted, "Can you stop being so crazy?" β
When the game is over, see the score of 203:168. All the players on the field of the Fengyu team collapsed on the ground, their chests rising and falling violently, obviously overdrawn.
"Are you alright?" Walking up to Nanlie and Kishimoto, who were lying on the ground with their chests rising and falling violently, Mitsui stretched out his hand.
Looking at Mitsui's hateful smile, Nanlie and Kishimoto smiled bitterly, held Mitsui's hand and stood up, and said, "You guy, you actually scored more than 100 points by you, it seems that all of Japan ...... No. No one can snatch the title of Asia's No. 1 attacker. β
That's right. In this game, Mitsui scored more than 100 points, 108 points, accounting for more than half of the team's total score, you know. Mitsui scored 48 points in the first half. And he didn't shoot much in the first five minutes of the second half. The 60 points in the second half were basically completed in the last fifteen minutes, which can also show the horror of Mitsui's scoring ability.
Because both sides contributed a very good game for the fans. So after the game, both teams got applause and cheers from the audience, and no one laughed at Fengyu, because they were really good, if it weren't for Mitsui Shou in Xiangbei, it was really not certain who would die in the end.
After the game, Mitsui also invited Fengyu's whole team to dinner as promised, of course, there were players from Xiangbei to accompany them, and as for the coaches of both sides, they were old and drank tea together.
After crossing the Fengyu level, Xiangbei easily defeated Aihe College in the subsequent game, because there are too many players in Xiangbei who can play, so the Xiangbei team has no physical problems, especially Mitsui Shou, after more than two years of training and practicing qi meditation, his physical fitness is completely comparable to the champion of triathlon, playing Japanese high school games is definitely easy, even if he goes to play the NBA now, he also has the physical fitness to play the whole season all season, so compared to physical fitness, no one can compare to Xiangbei.
After the game, Xiangbei went all the way to the semifinals, and in the semi-finals, Akagi, the country's No. 1 center, taught Mori Shigekuan, who was named Japan's future No. 1 center by the media, in the whole game, Akagi scored an astonishing 50 points, plus 18 rebounds and 8 blocks, while Mori Shigekuan only had a pitiful 10 points and 11 rebounds, plus 2 blocks, which can be said to be completely suppressed by Akagi, which also made the media who touted Mori Shigekuan a little blushing, but Kazuo Karasawa was very happy, Because Akagi's strength has completely reached the ranks of the top center forwards in the university, and can even be ranked in the top three.
And Xiangbei also easily reached the finals, so that those who arranged this kind of schedule for Xiangbei are very satisfied, and on the other hand, Lingnan is also very good, the first time to enter the national competition, it directly reached the semi-finals, and achieved the achievements of Xiangbei two years ago, but it is a pity that they still lost by ten points in the semi-finals and the king of the mountain, and stopped in the semi-finals.
Even so, the whole team of Lingnan has no regrets, and after losing the game, they all stayed, ready to watch the upcoming finals, hoping that Xiangbei can continue to keep the national championship trophy in Kanagawa.
And Xiangbei did not disappoint anyone who supported them, in the finals, Akagi suppressed Kawada, Mitsui suppressed Zebei, and Liangtian, a small point guard, also made Fukatsu suffer, and then, without any suspense, Xiangbei completed the defense of the national competition and created the glory that belongs to Xiangbei and Mitsui Shou.
Originally, at this time, Mitsui could leave the world of slam dunk, but he was afraid that he would lose interest in this world after leaving this world, so Mitsui Shou did not leave immediately, but applied for a transfer and went directly to the United States to study in high school, which also made Ayako and Haruko very sad, because Mitsui did not respond to their feelings.
However, for a period of time after that, Mitsui has been maintaining communication with them, after all, it is 1993, the network has not yet developed, and mobile phones are not developed, so communication has become the most common way now.
Then in the past few years, Mitsui Shou relied on his supergod in the high school league, did not go to college, directly participated in the NBA draft, and was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the tenth pick, which also made Mitsui directly the number one idol in Japan, and various sponsors also poured into the NBA, making the NBA president David Stern and the owner of the Lakers happy.
And Mitsui Shou's table XiΓ n is also absolutely amazing, in his debut season with an average of 38.5 points per game to cut the scoring champion, and in the competition with the comeback Jordan, he did not fall behind, cutting 47 points in the game, although the game was lost, but it still made the media exclaim, Jordan's successor appeared.
At the end of the season, Mitsui Shou was selected to the NBA's best team, and led the Lakers to the playoffs in eighth place in the West, and fought seven games with the Spurs, the first regular season in the West, before losing by four points. And Mitsui's average points per game in the seven games of the playoffs exceeded the 40 point mark, making everyone realize that Jordan's successor is basically certain to be the yellow race of the Lakers.
Then in this offseason, the Lakers recruited and expanded the team's strength, but unfortunately the Lakers' lineup this season is still flawed, and the center is too bad, so although the Lakers finished third in the regular season and reached the Western Conference finals, they still lost to the Rockets and hated the playoffs.
And this year, the Lakers finally made a big move, attracting the league's strongest new generation of center O'Neal, so in the next fifteen consecutive seasons, Mitsui Shou's Lakers dominated the league, fifteen years, the Lakers won thirteen championships, and Mitsui Shou also announced his retirement at the age of 35, and ended his NBA career with 13 championships, 16 regular season MVPs, 10 Finals MVPs, and 6 All-Star MVP honors.
After Mitsui's retirement, all the media headlines were the same β the era of Mitsui's rule was finally over.
And coincidentally, China's Yao Ming also ended his NBA career due to injury after this season, and chose to retire with Mitsui, and because of various problems such as injuries, Big Shark O'Neal also retired this season, which really made an era of the NBA end, and in the years after Mitsui's retirement, the NBA has lost its previous attention, which also makes everyone realize Mitsui's contribution to the NBA.
And in these years, Mitsui Shou did not get married, but Mitsui Shou had two lovers, one named Haruko Akagi and the other Ayako Inoue.
On the second day of Mitsui's retirement, at the villa by the sea, Mitsui broke free from Haruko and Ayako's pink legs, walked to the window, looked at the rising sun that was about to rise on the seaside, smiled slightly, and chose to leave the slam dunk world. (To be continued......)
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