In the middle of the week, Rukawa went to Kitamura General Hospital again, but he didn't pounce. The nurse told him that Mizusawa had not undergone surgery and had been discharged from the hospital.

Rukawa didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that Mizusawa's condition had improved and he didn't need surgery, until a week later, when he passed through Haruko Akagi and learned from her best friend Akane Mizusawa that his brother had gone to the United States for treatment.

Rukawa wanted to find out the details, but Akane Mizusawa was also vague, only knowing that it was a well-wisher who sponsored a sum of money for Mizusawa Ichiro's treatment.

Rukawa's mouth was tight, and this incident did not cause any waves.

There are not many people in the team who know Mizusawa, and several of the first-year students have more or less played against Tominogaoka led by Rukawa, and several of them went to watch the prefectural junior high school finals together, but the two sides in the finals were the traditional powerhouses Yokota and Tachikai.

Kitamura and Funogaoka, which were rampant in the first two years, have long been eliminated with the graduation of several main forces, and their strength has been greatly damaged.

If Rukawa had told him about this, Sakuragi would have been able to tell him what had happened, but Suzuki was just low-key and didn't deliberately hide it. In addition, Mito, who knows Suzuki's net worth, may be able to guess from the clues that it was Suzuki's hand.

However, Rukawa soon ran out of time to care about this matter.

Now the top priority of the Xiangbei basketball team is the final exam.

Although Principal Gao Chang is very supportive of the basketball team's activities and exempts team members from attendance, test scores are hard indicators and must be passed.

Suzuki himself is a classroom teacher, and he usually runs some small stoves, and the academic performance of the team members has always been passable, even if there are so many scholars. There are only a few people whose grades can't go up, but fortunately, they can barely get past it with a temporary cramming and a surprise attack, coupled with Suzuki's intercession.

Suzuki originally thought that this year's exam would be able to pass at a low altitude as before.

Who knows, someone in the team gave him a big surprise.

You only need to pass more than half of the 7 courses to participate in the IH competition.

However, Rukawa only passed 2 grades. Except for modern Chinese and English, all his other courses are red lights!

What's even more speechless is that Rukawa's learning attitude has also become a big problem, disrupting the classroom several times, making the teachers have a very bad impression of him.

This made Suzuki want to intercede for him, but there was no way.

Now there is only one way in Huashan - the make-up exam.

In desperation, Suzuki cut the team's training time, and asked Akagi, Mu Dusk, Mizuno siblings, Inoue Ayako and others to take turns staring at Rukawa and helping him review. As a companion, there are also Hotta and Daisu, who are attached to the three gates, and Maori, Shakura and Takami, who are one or two of them.

Under Suzuki's teaching, Sakuragi's grades are quite good, but he didn't make a lot of noise like the original world line.

After the concerted efforts of the whole team, the scumbags finally extinguished all the red lights and obtained the qualification to participate in the national competition.

Then came the long and short preparations.

To say that it is long, it is more than a month between the end of the make-up exam and the holding of the competition.

Short-lived, it means that these days pass without stopping day by day, and it is really not enough for the players who have gained a lot of practical experience in all aspects after going through a difficult round-robin tournament and gaining a lot of practical experience.

During this time, in addition to the intra-team competition and the practice match with Oda Kiri, Xiangbei only played a more formal practice match.

The visitor was Meitomo Industries, a traditional powerhouse in Aichi Prefecture.

The team has often appeared in national tournaments with a second-place finish in Aichi Prefecture in previous years, but has never made it past the first round. This year, they are Aichi's new champions, and after stepping on their old rival Aiwa Gakuin for the first time, they turned their attention to the whole country, and they used competition to train for the final preparation before the national competition by challenging the strongest teams in each region.

Kanagawa, the area with the highest level of college basketball in the island country, is naturally a place they will not let go.

In fact, when they came to Kanagawa, they didn't come to Xiangbei at the beginning. Initially, they contacted Xiangyang, Hainan and Lingnan, the three teams that went to IH last year.

It's just that Xiangyang is not in Kanagawa, they went to Shizuoka to train with the local top brand Tsuneko, and Lingnan also went to Tokyo to play practice matches, so they put the second and third games in Kanagawa in Midorifeng and Xiangbei respectively.

For this unexpected warm-up match, Suzuki's attitude was indispensable, but when he got the results of the first two games against Hainan and Green Wind, he couldn't help but pay no attention to it.

In the face of Hainan, which is dominated by Mu Shenyi, and Green Wind, where Mike Okita is in charge, Mingpeng still played a winning record. Although these two games, the famous friends have not won much, 1 point against Hainan, and only 4 points against Green Wind, but victory is victory, and winning 1 point is also winning. can win Hainan and Green Wind, at least it shows that the strength of famous friends is not below Lingnan.

Suzuki made a point of calling Takatou to ask for details about the race.

Gao Tou didn't hide anything, and explained his observations and thoughts to Suzuki in detail like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

seems to be a little unconvinced to lose, and Gao Tou bluntly said that in terms of overall strength, famous friends are not as good as Hainan, but their internal strength is too strong, and they completely hit Hainan's life, which makes Hainan hate.

Takaotou especially reminded Suzuki to be wary of the first-year newcomer Mori Shigekuan, calling him a center forward who may be comparable to Atsushi Shihara in the future.

Gao Tou said with some remorse that if he had another game, he would definitely let Mu try to make a foul from the beginning and get him out of the game as soon as possible, even if he couldn't achieve this goal, he wouldn't let him play so unscrupulously.

At the end, Takatou said to Suzuki that in fact, as long as there is a person in the inner line who can carry Mori Shigekuan, it is not enough to be a famous friend. There is Chimu in Xiangbei, and it should be relatively easy to fight famous friends.

After hanging up the phone with Takatou, Suzuki dialed the landline of the Green Wind Big Boat Coach again.

The famous friends in the mouth of the big boat are a little different from what Gao Tou said. In addition to No. 15 Mori Shigehiro, he believes that the players worth noting are their captain and vice-captain, No. 4 point guard Yuki Tachikawa and No. 5 second center Keiichi Nishimura.

Suzuki thought about the lineups of the two teams, but he also understood why Ofune and Takato's focus on famous friends was different.

Hainan's weakness is the center, and their power forwards Netakeya and point guard Mu are both first-class or even super-first-class players, so they are only impressed by Mori Shigekuan.

And Green Wind's center Taka Guang is a notch stronger than Hainan center Takasago in terms of confrontation, but their two positions of power forward and point guard are weak points, so Tachikawa, Nishimura, and Ofune, who have been brought by Gao Tou casually, will care very much.

There is one thing in common, Ofune also believes that famous friends can create some trouble for Xiangbei at most, and they are not Xiangbei's opponents.

Based on the descriptions of the two coaches, Gao Tou and Big Boat, Suzuki had a preliminary impression of the famous friend. The inside twin towers plus an excellent point guard are similar to Xiangyang when Ziyuan was still there.

That year was the first time in more than ten years that Hainan missed the national competition, and Gao Tou naturally remembered it.

It's no wonder that Takatou compares Mori Shigekuan with Atsushi Shihara.

However, even if Xiangyang regrouped back then, Xiangbei now has the confidence to win. It is no longer the time when the Big Three alone can dominate the world, and as long as there is a weakness in the lineup, it will be fully exploited by the opponent.

Famous friends, let you become the first stepping stone for Xiangbei to go to the country!