After that, the two families didn't have much contact, and they met on the road and nodded hello.

However, Sakuragi got acquainted with the next-door neighbor without Suzuki's knowledge.

Suzuki happened to see it and asked, only to know that once Sakuragi fell while playing basketball and rubbed a piece of skin, this bastard didn't take it seriously, what should he do when he got up and continue to do something, but Hiiragi saw it, caught him, took out the potion gauze, and helped him treat the wound.

Suzuki came to the door later to thank him, and the two families moved around more.

Hiiragi's husband, Hiiragi Katsuhei, also works in the hospital, is a thin-looking man, not tall, and has a somewhat withdrawn temperament, but after a deep friendship, you will find that he is surprisingly very talkative.

Hiiragi Katsuhei was a well-known athlete in the county when he was a student, and his track and field record was unsurpassed for many years. But while participating in a college special admissions competition, he was struck down by illness and has been away from his athletic career ever since.

After getting married, Hiiragi Katsuhei pinned his sports dreams on his two sons, and entrusted the two sons to a friend to cultivate.

During the summer vacation last year, Suzuki met his second son, Yoshinari Hiiragi, at Hiiragi's house.

The kid wasn't tall, reaching 175cm, not as good as Sakuragi, who was three years younger than him, but his agility and speed were among the best of any player Suzuki had ever seen. Moreover, his seemingly thin and thin body is actually very powerful, and he does not have the upper hand at all in the one-on-one heads-up with Sakuragi.

And in the current formation in Xiangbei, only Maki and Ishii, who play the inside line, can compete with Sakuragi in strength.

However, technically, Sakuragi is no match for Hiiragi Yoshinari at all.

Hiiragi's adult ball is perfectly combined, and it is as if the ball is sticking to your hand. He learned a lot from street basketball, and the sometimes seemingly casual touch of the ball on the back of his hand and even on his arm was his way to excel.

Facing an opponent of this level for the first time, Sakuragi was a little overwhelmed and completely defeated.

But after only a few days, Sakuragi showed his strong adaptability and learning ability, corrected many small shortcomings in his movements, and gradually kept up with Hiiragi's rhythm.

And by the end of the holidays, when Hiiragi Yoshinari returned to school, Sakuragi already had a chance to score in front of Hiiragi.

In the original world line, Sakuragi often boasted that he was a genius, and in this life, his temperament was much calmer, although he was still cheeky and self-cooked, but he had never done anything to boast about.

However, the name of genius has been crowned on Sakuragi's head by more and more people.

Sakuragi doesn't say it, but in his heart he has always been complacent about it.

The appearance of Yoshinari Hiiragi let Sakuragi know for the first time what a real top-level basketball master looks like, and the stars on TV are too far away, but people can't see the gap.

After only two years of training, Sakuragi has reached the level of Lantau in terms of technique, and all kinds of means can make him proficient, and it is only necessary to temper the high-level competition. It's just that the level of competition in the country is still lower, and Sakuragi is like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and it doesn't play much of a grinding role.

But with Hiiragi Yoshinari in front of him, Sakuragi had no time to be complacent, found Suzuki, and asked for advice on how to continue to become stronger.

Sakuragi's level, placed in the current Xiangbei, is also enough to serve as a starter, but the well-informed Suzuki always has some way.

He got Sakuragi a pair of weight-bearing bracers, which looked not much different from those sold on the market, except that they were larger, but in fact they were stuffed with eight very small pieces of lead.

Although the initial bracer was only 0.5 kg each, it also had a great impact on Sakuragi's state, and it took him more than half a month to get used to the feeling in his hands.

Then Suzuki didn't give him a boost, but asked Sakuragi to remove the wrist guards and feel empty-handed again.

This was repeated three times, until Sakuragi had fully mastered the strength of his hand, and Suzuki upgraded the weight of the bracers to 1 kilogram each, which he had just changed this spring.

Suzuki, who returned to the office with the test papers, unexpectedly saw Sakuragi leaning against the wall at the door, raising his right index finger and playing with a basketball on the tip of his fingertips.

As the ace of the team, Sakuragi has the privilege of not participating in the daily training.

Lihai's coach has some connections with Xiangbei, Suzuki's predecessor Yukimura, after learning that Sakuragi left Lihai to train in Xiangbei, he opened the door to convenience and followed Sakuragi's convenience.

The two groups of people who have graduated, Taiga and Endo, were brought out by Yukimura. When he heard that his proud disciples could be on the stage of a national competition, Yukimura burst into tears and thanked Suzuki again and again, saying that when he left his job, the most guilty thing was to abandon these promising children.

Suzuki asked why Yukimura had jumped ship.

Yukimura admits that the admission of his precious grandson to this private school is an important factor. The fact that private schools are expensive and offer salaries that are much higher than those offered by public schools in Xiangbei is another important factor that prompted Yukimura to change jobs.

Hearing that Yukimura's grandson was also in Lihai, Suzuki's eyes lit up and he asked where he would go after graduation.

Who knew that Yukimura shook his head and smiled bitterly, but said that his grandson did not play basketball but played tennis.

Hearing this, Suzuki was speechless, and then the two reached a consensus on Sakuragi's training, as long as it was not the team's overall tactical training, Sakuragi could freely choose to practice in Lihai or in Xiangbei.

Neither coach had any doubts about Sakuragi's efforts.

Time is always the best medicine to heal the pain.

Even in the deepest part of my heart, the reason for playing has always been to go to the United States to find my mother, but the proportion of love for basketball has unconsciously increased to a level that cannot be ignored.

However, either way, it supports Sakuragi to ignore the hard and boring training and enjoy it.

"Yo, it's Sakuragi, why didn't you go directly to the basketball gym today?" Suzuki asked, putting the test paper on the table.

"The door is closed, and there's no one in the basketball arena." Sakuragi put away the ball and replied.

Suzuki sat back in his seat, patted his head, and sighed, "It's really old." I forgot to tell you, today is the club recruitment, Maki and Momoi are now in the corridor leading to the fifth campus on the right! ”

The corners of Sakuragi's mouth twitched, and he smiled at Suzuki's self-deprecation, turned around and went out, and said to himself, "I'll go over and help." ”

Suzuki had already buried his head in correcting the papers, and he didn't raise his head, he raised the pen in his right hand and swung it slightly, which was considered to be known, and when Sakuragi turned around and left, he hurriedly shouted: "I'll go to the basketball hall after I finish correcting the papers here." There is about an hour left. You talk to Momoi, it's almost time to close the stall, there's no need to drag it out. It's not how many people you recruit, it's how many people you can keep. ”

Sakuragi paused, listened to Suzuki's chatter, said "I know", and walked away again.