Chapter 9: Rivals in Love
The day of the round-robin finals is fast approaching, and as last year's Kanagawa Prefecture champion team, Xiangbei's first opponent is the lowest-ranked Lingnan team.
That's right, after a hard and even very thrilling fight, Lingnan finally relied on Xiandao's three-point shot in the first second before the end to kill Buri with one point and advance to the joint finals, but they are here this year, with Lingnan's strength, the round-robin finals just provide them with a chance to increase their experience, don't think about winning.
Before the game, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who had been officially accepted as a disciple by Mitsui, led the Sakuragi Army to the scene, waving a banner to cheer for Xiangbei, similarly, in order to watch Mitsui's game, there are also many players or coaches from teams from other counties who have not started the game to watch the game in Xiangbei, and want to see how the strength of Xiangbei this year is compared to last year?
And after the end of this game, I saw that Xiangbei swept Lingnan with a huge score difference of more than 50 points, and Mitsui also took the number of 50 + 18 + 18 + 10 + 5 with ease, everyone knows that this year's Xiangbei is stronger than last year, and although Mitsui's score has declined, but it is because he has a group of better teammates, don't you see him improve in other numbers!
"Mitsui really lives up to its name." Many freshmen who are still watching Mitsui Shou play basketball for the first time are all shocked by Mitsui's strength after seeing Mitsui's table, and at the same time a little lost confidence, Mitsui's table xiàn is completely professional, worthy of being the most valuable player in last year's Asian Youth Championship, the best young player in Asia! And it is very likely to land in the NBA in the future, and now Mitsui Shou is already a star player that is being watched all over Asia. Compared with Mitsui, they are indeed lacking in confidence.
Seeing Mitsui Shou's wonderful performance, as well as the popularity of celebrities, as Mitsui Shou's apprentice, Sakuragi Hanamichi was proud to be with him, and even hooked up with female fans not far away, just because he said, 'I am Mitsui Shou's apprentice', these female fans were impressed by the bad boy Sakuragi Hanamichi, and even a few female fans also moved the mind of 'curve to save the country', which can only be said. The charm of Mitsui Shou is simply too great. It's so big that female fans don't even know what the festival is.
And Sakuragi Hanamichi also experienced the charm of basketball and the treatment of basketball stars, which also strengthened Sakuragi Hanamichi's determination and belief to learn basketball hard.
In the next two games, Xiangbei also defeated Xiangyang and Hainan without suspense. Shun lì entered the national competition as the first place in the county competition. And Hainan still entered the national competition as the second place. In the selection of the best team later, Xiangbei also had a bumper harvest, and Akagi was selected for the best team for the first time. became Kanagawa's first center, and Mitsui entered the best team without surprise, and the remaining three places were divided by Makishiichi, Fujima Kenji and Sendo Akira, and in the selection of the best player, Mitsui once again accepted the MVP glory without any suspense.
And this time, the Xiangbei team, which is determined to take revenge, under the leadership of Mitsui Shou, finally broke through all the way in the national competition, reached the finals, and defeated the king of the mountains with a huge advantage of more than 20 points in the finals, and successfully topped the championship of the national competition.
When the game ended, the whole Xiangbei team boiled, the fans in the stands also boiled, Akagi Gangxian shed tears of excitement and joy, finally, the dream of dominating the country was achieved, standing on the final podium, after Akagi hung the gold medal around his neck, he suddenly looked up to the sky and shouted: "Dominate the country!" I did it! ”
"Haha, Akagi is so cute." In the VIP seats in the stands of the stadium, a university coach looked at Akagi Gangxian who roared passionately, and his eyes showed a strong love color, although the light of Xiangbei was almost overshadowed by Mitsui Shou alone, but for Fukasawa Sports University, which is good at cultivating center forwards, the strength shown by Akagi is definitely worth having.
In this national competition, Akagi Gangken averaged more than 25 points per game, more than 16 rebounds per game, and more than 4 blocks per game, such a number is absolutely impeccable, and Akagi was also selected as the best team in the national competition, and the name of the first center in the national high school world is almost no suspense, but the big forward of the mountain king, the one called Masashi Kawada, seems to have grown a lot taller than last year, Masashi Kawada seems to be only 1.7 meters last year, but now he is close to 1.9 meters tall, and Horita in northern Xiangbei can't raise his head, If Masashi Kawada continues to grow taller, he may be able to wrestle with Akagi by waiting until next year.
But it depends on whether Masashi Kawada can continue to grow taller next year.
Summer goes to autumn, autumn goes to winter, winter goes to spring, and in a blink of an eye, another year has passed.
In the past year, since Xiangbei won the championship in the summer national competition, it has been out of control, Mitsui was inspired by the Japanese national youth team, and continued to participate in this year's Asian Youth Championships.
This time the Japanese team lost no temper at all, except for Mitsui still can't suppress it, with a super god of play, the rest of the Japanese team is simply sparse, directly pressed to the ground by the Chinese team to play, especially the inner line, by the Chinese team's center Wang Zhizhi exploded into slag, without the containment of the inner line, the Chinese team almost the whole field of two to three people encircled and suppressed Mitsui, Mitsui is outstanding, but also unable to resist the encirclement and suppression of the Chinese team, lost quite breathlessly, but the Chinese team won enough thrilling, even if the game is over, still afraid, If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese team's throw-in serve was intercepted by China at the last moment, with Mitsui's ability, it was entirely possible to kill the Chinese team. Thankfully, really lucky.
However, the best player of this year's Asian Youth Championship was still snatched away by Mitsui, no way, if the players who average more than 60 points per game can't win the MVP, if a player who leads a group of waste players to the finals can't win the MVP, is there still a need for the Asian Youth Championship to be held?
The MVP of the Asian Youth Championship is always won by the best player in the table, not necessarily the player of the championship team, so Mitsui won the MVP title of the Asian Youth Championship twice, but next year. At Mitsui's age, he can only participate in the U18 Asian Youth Championship, and he can only be the MVP of the U16 Asian Youth Championship. (In the 90s, there was no Asian Youth Championship!) Here the rules of later generations are borrowed, don't mind)
After returning from the Asian Youth Championships, Mitsui continued to lead the Xiangbei team to soar, and in this Winter Cup, Xiangbei once again won the glory of the championship, and Mitsui almost won the Grand Slam, but unfortunately at the level of the national team. Mitsui still can't lead the Japanese national youth team to the podium. It became a big regret for Mitsui.
In this way, the time came to 1993, which was the day when the plot began. It's just that the freshmen of the Xiangbei team are completely different from those in the original book. Except for the two Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi Hanamichi. Oda, who is also in the same country as Sakuragi, also joined Xiangbei, and the wild monkey Kiyota Nobunaga also abandoned Hainan and joined the championship team of Xiangbei.
There are also some new students who can't be named. is also quite powerful, which makes Mitsui Shou a little surprised.
After a year of growth, the strength of the veteran players of the Xiangbei team has improved in different ways, Mitsui's strength is needless to say, let's talk about height, the current Mitsui has reached a height of one meter eighty-nine, five centimeters taller than himself at the same time in the original book, and such a height, even if he plays point guard in the NBA, it is more than enough.
And Akagi Gangxian's height is also surprisingly up to a full two meters, although it is only 3 centimeters taller than in the original book, but these 3 centimeters are enough to make Akagi a player in another realm.
And in addition to height, Akagi's skills have also been fully developed, with footsteps under the basket, hook shots, mid-range jumpers, and his own ability to hit the back, which is now very proficient, and even has a hint of freewheeling rudiments, in addition, Akagi's free throw shooting rate is also more than 85%, even as a guard player, this shooting rate is quite terrifying. The most terrifying thing is that after more than two years of yoga, Akagi's physical flexibility and speed have made great progress, and now Akagi Gangxian has evolved from Gorilla Ewing to Olajuwon, and in the position of center, no one can beat him.
And the height of Tokuo Digita has also grown to 1.85 meters, as a big forward is still qualified, especially in addition to dirty work and shooting, and developed the technology of small toss under the basket, even if Akagi encounters this kind of laziness, there is no way at all, can only expect this goal not to score, but Horita's small toss hit rate is still quite high, in the usual practice, the hit rate exceeds 70%, and the rest is just a test in the official game.
And Mu Du Gongyan, the same height as in the original book, is still 1.76 meters, but his running and shooting ability have improved, but Mu Du Gongyan is indeed a very good senior, because he found out that Ichiro Shenzong is the same type of player as him, and Ichiro Shenzong has better talent, is taller, and has a similar hit rate to him, so Mu Dui Gongyan also intends to quit the basketball team after playing this summer national tournament and let Ichiro Shenzong take the position.
Naturally, this idea of his was also known to Ichiro Shenzong, so he was very respectful and grateful to the predecessor of Koyan Mudu, although Ichiro Shenzong's strength is now stronger than that of Mudu.
In addition to the rapid progress of Ichiro Shinso, Miyagi Ryota's progress is also very fast, in the original book, this period of Miyagi Ryota is just a very fast, organizational ability and steal ability are very good guards, but the shooting ability is lacking, but after a year of training in Xiangbei, Miyagi Ryota actually developed the ability to shoot mid-range and three-point line shooting, but the mid-distance shooting is quite stable, but the three-point shooting is a bit mediocre, even if no one is defending, the shooting rate is only 30%, this shooting rate is ...... Mitsui Shou was a little afraid to look at it.
But one of the good things about Miyagi Ryota is that the shooting rate in the usual practice matches is what it looks like, and the shooting rate in the official games is still what it is, so if there is a three-point shooting rate of 30% in the official game, it is considered passable.
And the Xiangbei team's super jack-of-all-trades Kazuo Imamura's progress is limited, because of his all-round skills, so the direction of his efforts is naturally towards the all-round development, but people's time and energy are very limited, others only need to practice two or three techniques, but he has to practice more than a dozen techniques, and the limited progress can be expected, even so, Kazuo Imamura is still an indispensable member of Xiangbei, because in addition to Mitsui Shou, no matter who in the Xiangbei team rests off the field, Kazuo Imamura can be on top, this kind of patch-type player. It's what any team needs.
Therefore, the strength of Xiangbei has increased a lot this year, and the champion of the national competition is basically no suspense.
And these newcomers, Rukawa Kaede's strength is the same as in the original book, and so is Kiyota Nobunaga, but Oda's strength is much stronger than Mitsui expected, perhaps because of Sakuragi's sudden rise, so that Oda, the star player of the junior high school basketball team, feels huge pressure, so last year, Oda's training was also harder than before, and his strength naturally increased.
But Xiao Tian's current strength in Xiangbei can only be a substitute. He can't even compare to Sakuragi now. After a year of teaching by Mitsui Shou, Sakuragi Hanamichi's strength is simply rising like a rocket.
In the original book, Sakuragi Hanamichi went from a novice who didn't know anything in just four months to a qualified player who could save the Xiangbei team at a critical juncture. His talent is undeniable. And with Mitsui Shou's teachings. In the past year, Sakuragi Hanamichi's strength has been stronger than Sakuragi after participating in the national competition in the original book.
Sakuragi now, dribbling is excellent. The layup is stable, there is no problem with mid-range shooting, and he has developed good footwork skills, and because Sakuragi was positioned in the position of a power forward from the beginning, Mitsui also pulled Akagi and Horita from time to time to train Sakuragi, so that Sakuragi's interior skills have also reached a fairly high level.
According to Mitsui's estimates, Sakuragi is not inferior to Rukawa Kaede in any aspect except for scoring explosiveness, and Sakuragi's body is even better than Rukawa Kaede.
The most important thing is that because of the rapid progress of Sakuragi Hanamichi basketball skills in the past year, and led Heguang Middle School to the top four of the national junior high school competition, it also made Sakuragi Hanamichi a star player of Heguang Middle School, and the same girl who was originally rejected fifty times actually accepted Sakuragi's confession, and was admitted to Xiangbei High School with Sakuragi, and now the two are sweet and loved! Naturally, there is nothing to do with Haruko.
Speaking of Haruko, the little girl is a lot more beautiful than two years ago, and her figure is better, but she is only one meter five or six tall, compared to Mitsui Shou, who is close to one meter nine, it is a lot worse, but the little girl has completely become a loyal fan of Mitsui Shou, as long as there is time, almost every game in Xiangbei, she will go to the scene to watch, and with the relationship between Mitsui and Akagi, Akagi Haruko is also close to the water, and often goes to Mitsui Shou to play, saying that it is playing, in fact, it is playing basketball, but even so, it is enough to make Haruko feel happy.
But Haruko also has something unhappy, that is, Ayako, in the past year, although Mitsui and Ayako still have not announced the news of their official relationship, but the relationship between the two has become more and more intimate, basically no different from ordinary boyfriends and girlfriends, sometimes on vacation, Ayako will even go to Mitsui's house......
Don't get me wrong, she went to Mitsui's house to read a novel written by Mitsui Shou.
In the past two years, the melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has become the best-selling novel in Japan, and after a magazine interview, Mitsui Shou released his photo and identity, so Mitsui Shou has poked a hornet's nest.
Basketball is played well, novels are well written, people are still so handsome, and the family still has money, Mitsui Shou has almost become the prince charming in the hearts of all Japanese girls, even many young women also like Mitsui's masculine handsomeness, Mitsui doesn't know how many love letters he receives from all over the country every day, I heard that the biggest fun of Mitsui's parents now is to keep opening love letters, and then see which of the girls who send photos is better? Now I will start looking for a daughter-in-law for myself......
Because of this, Ayako felt a strong sense of crisis, so as soon as she was on vacation, she ran to Mitsui's house every day, under the pretext of watching the latest progress of Suzumiya Haruhi, of course, occasionally helping Mitsui's mother do some housework to win the favor of Mitsui's mother, and Mitsui's mother and Mitsui's father both liked Ayako, and basically treated Ayako as a future daughter-in-law.
And this matter was discovered by Haruko, a little girl, so the little girl's hair soared, and a few months before she entered high school, she often ran to Mitsui's house, constantly pleasing Mitsui's parents, and making Mitsui's parents in a dilemma.
The two girls have their own characteristics, and they are both beautiful, it can be said that they are indistinguishable, but Japanese law can only allow men to marry one wife, and they are not easy to choose, so in the end they simply kicked the ball to Mitsui Shou and let the son decide to go for himself! Anyway, whether it's Ayako or Haruko, they can accept it.
In this way, it made Mitsui Shou a lot of trouble, after all, he didn't have a relationship with any girl, but the two girls regarded each other as rivals, although the relationship was good on the surface, but the open and secret fighting behind the scenes even Mitsui Shou was secretly frightened, so Mitsui Shou seemed to have only one way to go after opening ~ the palace, because no matter who he chose, there would be another girl who was heartbroken, in order not to make any of them sad, then ...... It's good to be sad together.
Emotional matters aside, with the start of the new semester, Haruko also joined the Xiangbei basketball team and became the fourth beautiful manager in Xiangbei, while a basketball club has four beauties, which naturally attracts the envy and jealousy of other clubs, and those single dogs in Xiangbei are also because of the supervision of four beautiful managers, and they work hard in training and want to win the hearts of beauties. (To be continued......)