Chapter 1 Two Years
"Give me some spirits! Hurry up and hand out flyers! What does it look like to be lazy! In the midst of the noisy voices, a high-pitched female voice suddenly sounded.
Although the tone is very polite and somewhat arrogant, it still can't cover up the speaker's originally soft and pleasant voice, and it doesn't give people a bad feeling, but instead attracts people to involuntarily follow the sound and look for the source of the sound.
Suzuki held a stack of test papers, stood at the entrance of the path, looked at the basketball club recruiting new seats, smiled faintly, and after staring at the increasingly mature demeanor, he turned his head and walked towards the office building.
There is no need to bother, Suzuki firmly believes that this year's recruitment results will be better than last year's.
Because, the time has come to 88 years, and the prosperity of Kanagawa basketball in the original world line has come!
Thanks to the blessing of the Xiangyang Dynasty, campus basketball is booming in Kanagawa Prefecture, not only in universities and colleges and universities, but also in junior high schools and elementary schools.
At last year's prefectural junior high school competition, Suzuki was invited to watch the competition as the supervisor of the school that led the team to participate in the national competition.
This is a small benefit that Minami Tara gave to Suzuki, so that he could get in touch with the good seedlings of the country in advance.
However, even with the advantage of foresight, when Mitsui Shou was confused, Coach Anzai woke him up.
Seeing this, Suzuki gave up his mind of competing with Anzai for Mitsui.
Even if Coach Anzai claimed that he would not take the initiative to recruit players, Suzuki himself knew that no matter what aspect, Xiangbei could not compete with Xiangyang.
In the summer of the year before last, after Shoyo won the championship for a second time, the three main forces of Atsushi Shihara, Shogo Ashizaki and Osamu Igarashi retired. However, Shoyo's third grade was not all clean, and the two substitutes, Yuji Kondo and Masaki Shimizu, remained to participate in the Winter Cup in the winter.
These two people, plus Okazaki Hama, Miura Ranmaru, and Shoichiro Rainbow Forest, although their strength has declined, they still maintain the prestige of Xiangyang, and under the command of Coach Anzai, they fought and won successes, and finally reached the top, achieving the achievement of summer and winter.
On the other hand, in Xiangbei, after the withdrawal of Dahe, Miyahe, Yoshino, and Lantau from the department, only the first and second grade lineups remained, and they reluctantly passed the same strength in the Winter Cup qualifiers, and finally fell under Wu Yuan.
Takeshino, who originally did not have a third-year player, is the only team in Kanagawa Prefecture whose strength has risen instead of falling.
However, Kotaro Hayama still did not cross the mountain called Shoyo after all, and they failed to get a ticket to the Winter Cup. This year's Winter Cup is still played by Xiangyang and Lingnan.
Lingnan, who won the semi-finals in the summer competition, once again achieved good results in the semi-finals. They were ultimately defeated by Jinshan Merchants.
The loss of Kanayama Commercial, which only lost Kamakura, was negligible, and as early as the summer competition, the rookie Honda showed that it was no less capable of scoring than its predecessors. Kamakura's departure only made Kanayama's bench a little thinner.
However, Jinshan's consistent style of attacking and defending lightly makes them unable to see a chance to win against a team of equal strength and a super center forward of more than two meters.
Although they couldn't open up the difference, Xiangyang's lead in the final made their victory undoubted.
The decline in Xiangyang's strength made the rest of Kanagawa ready to move, and they strengthened their efforts to introduce players from other prefectures.
Hainan, which had been silent for a whole year, brought back from Tokyo the MVP of the junior high school of the year, Seishiro Akaji.
Subsequently, at the county competition, the newborn Hainan surprised everyone.
The emaciated-looking point guard, with his elusive passing and ubiquitous interception, nearly toppled the dominant Xiangyang in his first year of high school.
Of course, another newcomer who joined Hainan at the same time as Akaji, Liang Chuanshensi, who is 198cm tall, also contributed to it.
The connection of the two newcomers, one inside and one outside, directly forced Lingnan, who was in the top four in the country, to the point of going to the play-offs.
Lingnan's miss also had reasons for underestimating the enemy.
In order to prove their strength, they went all out in the competition with Xiangyang the day before, but in the end they lost by a slight disadvantage of 1 point.
Lingnan, who was seriously injured, hid many of the main players in the next day's game. Coach Taoka completely forgot that just two years ago, the team in front of him was still a well-deserved giant in the prefecture.
In the first round, Tian Oka underestimated Hainan who defeated Wuyuan very reluctantly, and then was naturally beaten out of Hainan with a full head.
After replacing all the main forces, Tian Gang found that even so, Lingnan was powerless.
Akaji, who is in the first grade, has the upper hand in a direct conversation with Kuroko in the third grade, and the honor of being the best in the country does not help this duel in any way.
Fortunately, after the defeat to Hainan, there was a one-week buffer.
Lingnan adjusted his mentality, and in the last game, defeated Wu Yuan, who had also lost two in a row, and squeezed into the last train to Osaka.
In this year's county competition, the most disappointing is probably the martial arts garden led by Kotaro Hayama.
They won all the way and overthrew the guard team Xiangbei in their division, but they failed to win even one game in the county competition.
The lack of heritage is the main reason why they have failed again and again.
When other teams continue to have newcomers pouring out, and star-level players are fighting in groups of threes and threes, they can only bully Xiangbei, which is also poor, just by relying on Hayama and Tsuda to still be the same old-fashioned two-person turn.
The retreat of Dahe and others has created a huge vacuum in the lineup of Xiangbei. Among the four, three of them are the absolute main force of the team, and the other is also a player who often participates in rotation, and their departure can be said to make Xiangbei unprecedentedly weak.
As the team's first height, the only player with a height of more than 1.9 meters, Maki had to stand in the center position even if he was more suitable for playing as a striker.
The big forward is Aoki, and after a year, his height has risen a little more, but it is only equal to last year's Taiga.
The inside substitutes are Matsuoka in the third year and Ishii Nu, a newcomer in the first year. Both are 182cm tall.
Imai who plays as a small forward, his replacement is Yanagisawa.
The two positions of point guard and shooting guard undoubtedly belong to Endo and Mizuhashi. However, the two of them did not have a suitable replacement.
Abe's height is still a big problem, Kuroda's skills are very limited, and the other two newcomers, Yoshihiro Sakai and Asahi Kawabe, just like Yanagisawa and Kuroda last year, can't even rotate when they encounter important games.
Without enough good players, even if Suzuki can play his tactics to the fullest, it won't help.