In the past few years, the MVP of the junior high school in neighboring Tokyo has come to Kanagawa without pulling a lot, and the situation in Yamanashi and Shizuoka in the west is slightly better, but this is only because there is only a strong team in Hainan in the west of Kanagawa.

Suzuki's ability to maintain the basic stability of the team's performance in the context of the rising strength of the county's strong teams is a very boastful achievement, and his participation in the National Sports Conference as one of the leading coaches last autumn is an affirmation of his ability.

Entering the national competition twice in four years has significantly improved Xiangbei's status in the Kanagawa high school basketball world, and at the same time, Suzuki's reputation has spread in this small circle, and some of his team building concepts and training methods have also been accepted or borrowed by some enlightened coaches.

Now in several strong teams in the county, even if there is no newcomer who can make people shine in the first grade, the coaches will focus on cultivating one person and letting him join the main squad as the core of the future to temper.

Of course, the stronger and more famous the team, the more it can recruit newcomers with good potential and strength.

It's just that the addition of newcomers at the level of Sakuragi and Rukawa is the first time for Xiangbei.

Their presence has seriously squeezed the living space of sophomores.

How to arrange this year's registration list, Suzuki has been thinking about it since the beginning of the year, and he has not been able to make up his mind, but after today's team competition, Suzuki's thoughts gradually became clear.

In the past two years, Suzuki's proudest achievement is that all the players of Akagi have been cultivated.

Just talking about height, the official players in the third grade have all reached 1.8 meters, which is worthy of the name of tall people.

Among them, Akagi's height can be touched to two meters, Hotta's is more than 1.9 meters, and the other two Shakura and Takassu are also more than 1.85 meters.

Players like Deben and Yamane who have never opened their heights and skills are just average, know that they are not selected, and now they are only members of the basketball club, without a special training plan, and during the game, they can only sit in the stands and cannot enter the bench.

Rao is like this, in Suzuki's eyes, there are still as many as eight players who can be used in the third year.

Obviously, these people can't all be elected.

In Suzuki's mind, the first and second graders should account for half of the team, no matter how little less than five, so as to ensure the team's combat effectiveness in the Winter Cup, where the third grade is retired.

Xiangbei is a public school, and there is basically no place for direct promotion, and if you are interested in going to school in the third grade, you must quit after the summer competition. Barely leaving one or two, it seems that they can maintain the team's record, but in fact, it will affect the results in the coming year, or even two years.

Suzuki thought hard about who would go and who would stay, and finally selected 7 third-graders Akagi, Ki Twilight, Takeyo, Hotta, Mizuno, Shakura and Takasu, as well as two second-year students from Mori and Yasuda, and then gave the remaining three places to the first grade, namely Sakuragi, Rukawa and Mito.

Among the people who were eliminated, Ino in the third year, Tsunoda, Yamada, and Shiozaki in the second year, the strength was no worse than a few players who barely entered the main selection, but limited to positions and places, Suzuki had to reluctantly cut his love.

The 12-man selection, Suzuki's envisioned main lineup is center Akagi, power forward Mori, small forward Rukawa, point guard Sakuragi and scoring guard Wu Dai.

Because of Sakuragi's strength, he can control the backfield alone, Wu Dai's position is not stable, depending on the situation, both Shakura and Mu Twilight have a chance, and when Sakuragi is trapped, it is also quite possible to have a Mizuno by his side.

As for Takasu, his positioning is exactly the same as his height, and he is the fourth inside line under Akagi, Mori, and Hotta.

Yasuda was selected because of his versatility at the back line. Yasuda's style of play is quite calm, when he plays point guard, he can control the team's offensive rhythm in front of a quasi-ace point guard of Mizuno's level, and will not make mistakes under pressure, and when he is a scoring guard, he is also a passable three-point shot, and it is also a weapon that cannot be ignored.

Suzuki is not only focusing on the summer tournament, when Akagi's "golden generation" retires, Sakuragi will definitely have to take on more responsibilities in the Winter Cup, and at that time, having Yasuda and Mito, the two passable point guards, will undoubtedly make the team much more comfortable in terms of lineup.

After determining the main lineup, it is natural to contact various teams in the county to play warm-up games.

Last year, Xiangbei failed to break through from the county competition, but it was the top four in the county, and the position of the seeded team was retained, so that they could play a few fewer games and let the challenger show their hole cards first.

The performance of Xiangbei in the previous Winter Cup was actually okay, if it wasn't for Akagi's injury in the first game, they would not have lost to Lingnan and ended the year's schedule early.

It's just that when Akagi returned from recovery and there were two newcomers Sakuragi and Rukawa joined, all the powerhouses in the county regarded Xiangbei as a flood beast, for fear that they would lose their sharpness in the game with Xiangbei, and there was no enough team willing to play a warm-up match with Xiangbei for a while.

Suzuki was in the office, looking at Mizuno with a headache, listening to her report on the dilemma of only third-rate teams in the prefecture such as Fujimura, Hirai, and Shida, and a new school called Midorikaze agreeing to play a warm-up match with Xiangbei.

Waving her hand to assist Akagi in arranging training, and then after thinking for a while, Suzuki picked up the phone on the table and began to ask for help from the connections he had accumulated over the years.

The contact was not smooth, and the teams from other counties basically had no intention of coming to Kanagawa, only Tokyo's Izumi Zhenkan and Zhengbang responded that they were willing to play with Xiangbei, but Izumi Zhenguan was willing to move, and Zhengbang just wanted to wait for Xiangbei to come to challenge.

This result is thought to be due to Xiangbei's defeat of Xiude, who is on the same level as these two schools, the year before last.

After weighing it, Suzuki simply told Izumi Shinkan that Xiangbei would go to Tokyo, and then called Chengrin and Chengcheng, who said they didn't have time. This time, both schools agreed and were willing to take the time to compete with Xiangbei.

Tokyo is close to Kanagawa, and Suzuki didn't want to concentrate all the races on one weekend, which would reduce the quality of the races and make it more difficult to arrange the schedule, so he prepared for two weeks. In this way, coupled with the time required for daily training and pre-game adjustment, Xiangbei's preparation for this year can be regarded as a good arrangement.

When Suzuki returned to the basketball arena to inform the players of the two-weekend warm-up game, and asked them to tell their families to prepare early, the whole team was ecstatic and cheered.

Although the island country high school has three holidays and transportation is convenient, travel is still a rarity for these children with heavy academic loads, so even if it is just to go to neighboring Tokyo, everyone is interested, and no one says they don't want to go.

The trip to Tokyo was decided.

Attached: The list of 1990 Xiangbei college basketball teams

School name: Kanagawa Prefectural Xiangbei High School

Abbreviated name: Xiangbei High

Superintendent's name: Hirofumi Suzuki

The name of the main general: Akagi Tsuyoken

Back No-Player's Name-School-Year-Length--Position-Evaluation

4- Akagi Goken-3-200-C-A

5-3-181-SF/SG-C+

6-Wu Daiyou and -3-180-SG-C+

7-Tokuo Hotta - 3-191-C/PF-C+

8-Shintaro Mizuno-3-180-PG-B-

9-Hiroyuki Shakura-3-185-SF/SG-B-

10-Sakuragi Hanamichi-1-195-ALL-S

11-Rukawa Kaede-1-189-SF-A

12 - Mori Shouzaburo - 2 - 194 - C/PF - B-/B

13-Takasu Saburo-3-187-PF-C

14-Yasuharu Yasuda-2-165-G-C-

15-Yohei Mito-1-171-PG-C-