In the blink of an eye, the time came to July, which many adults disliked the most, but students had been looking forward to for a long time.

Although the island is surrounded by the sea, in the hot summer months, the air is filled with hot and humid water vapor, which harasses everyone indoors and outdoors all the time. But what does this have to do with students who are caught up in the summer vacation spree? It's summer vacation!

In the future, summer vacation symbolizes the good life of 'air conditioning, wifi, watermelon', although the island country in the nineties did not have wifi, watermelon is not cheap. But at least the life of 'fan, ice cream, TV' can still keep everyone who still has summer vacation in a happy mood in the boring summer.

However, for some people who have summer vacation, but have dreams, summer vacation is not necessarily a 'happy' thing, at least these people have sour muscles and smooth skin in their bodies, which is what tells the brain.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"The national competition is not like a tryout, you can get a few days off, and then, on the hottest and most uncomfortable days of summer, there will be an extremely tough competition waiting for you every day."

"And as long as you lose, you will be eliminated, so you have to hold the attitude that every game is your final, to win every game, and the one who can fight to the end is the real winner."

"Look at your embarrassed appearance, this is the third day of the training camp! You look like you're too tired to do anything, what? Do you want to make it to the third day of the national tournament and then be eliminated and go home? ”

"Then I advise you to simply apply for withdrawal, anyway, you will be eliminated, what is the difference between being eliminated in the first game and being eliminated in the top 16? As long as you don't make it to the quarterfinals, no one will remember you anyway, and you can enjoy a few more days of your vacation if you finish early, right? ”

"Bastard! Yamamoto! What a look on your face! With your eyes closed and a look of enjoyment, you're fucking fantasizing about your vacation, aren't you! ”

"Keep your eyes open and go and see Mitsui and Akagi in Xiangbei and see how hard they work! Are you not ashamed? ”

Maybe it's because it's a holiday, and most of the students in the school leave school for vacation, Kenji Mizuno, who doesn't talk much on weekdays, is like a different person during the training camp. Completely let go of his throat, and use a different language every day to motivate everyone in the training camp in the stadium.

Today is the third day of Xiangyang's summer vacation, and it is also the third day of training for the basketball team to prepare for the national competition. Before this, Kenji Mizuno had never felt that Mitsui Shou and Akagi Goken, who had come to 'rub' the training, were so pleasing to the eye.

Seeing that all the Xiangyang players in the stadium were cheering up again and training hard, Kenji Mizuno smashed his mouth and stopped his 'encouragement', and thought to himself: Haneda Hikaru is right, there are a few people from other schools who train together for comparison, it can indeed promote training, well, not bad, not bad.

At this time, Kenji Mizuno completely forgot how he had refused the request of Hikaru Haneda and others two weeks ago.

At this time, it is the middle of July, and it is two weeks before the end of the Kanagawa Prefecture Championship, and the national competition in early August is also only two weeks away.

The time is tight, the task is heavy, the weather is not good, and the high-intensity physical training for two consecutive weeks is naturally not easy for this group of young players who are still 'children'.

All the players in Xiangyang, including Hiroshi Kobayashi, also realized why two weeks ago, when Xiangyang, who had won all three games, officially became the basketball champion of Kanagawa High School, the second- and third-year players in Hainan showed a relieved expression.

Because the pressure of being a champion is really great!

Last year's Kanagawa champion, Hainan won the title of the national quarterfinals in the summer, so if Xiangyang can't get the same results as last year's champion. Whatever the real situation is, the label of 'parallel import' is likely to be attached to Xiangyang, the new champion.

In two weeks, it's unrealistic to have a team fully master a new tactic. It doesn't seem realistic to have every player on the team make up for their shortcomings and develop new techniques, if not genius.

Then the only thing that can really strengthen the overall strength of a team is physical training. After all, the schedule of the national tournament is very tight, from the first game to the final final, except for a few seeded teams who can play the first game less, all other teams must maintain a daily frequency of one game, either eliminated or fight to the end.

In this kind of mental tension, no room for mistakes, and high intensity of 'back-to-back' schedules, in addition to the coach's reasonable arrangement, the players' physical strength, stability, and recovery ability are very important.

In the original book, the reason why the King of the Mountain can become the No. 1 team in the high school of the island country is not only due to a more luxurious lineup and a deeper heritage. The amazing physical strength of the players, who can use the amazing physical strength of the zone defense at the beginning of the second half after the intense first half, is also an important guarantee to ensure that the mountain king can dominate one after another.

Good physical strength is not necessarily a strong team, but the physical strength of a strong team must not be bad.

In the past, Xiangyang's best result in the national competition was only the top 16, and now it is to attack the top eight level, although there is not much competition during the period, but if you want to go so far, it is definitely not possible to have a little physical reserve.

Kenji Mizuno, as Shoyo's coach, is naturally very clear, so he attaches great importance to physical training in this last period. The rise of a team can rely on one or two talented players with excellent strength, but the maintenance of a 'king' team is definitely not something that can be achieved by relying only on one or two talented players.

Although basketball is a five-person sport, in middle and high school, it still depends on the feel of star players. So if the average player can't keep up with the pace of talent, that's fine, but at least make sure you don't lag behind in other areas.

The speed of mastering technology depends on talent, but physical strength is not so particular, as long as you are willing to practice and pay, sweat will not deceive people. This is one of the few 'good things' that geniuses and mortals are the same, and every effort is gained.

"Whoa—"

Kenji Mizuno glanced at the people who were declining in their training status, then glanced at the timer in his hand, and finally blew the whistle in his mouth.

"Rest for ten minutes, then continue."

The time of each training session will be controlled by Kenji Mizuno to 20-30 minutes depending on the condition of the players, and the rest time will be controlled. No matter how tired the players are, they are strictly controlled to less than 10 minutes.

Every training session is simulating the toughest game, squeezing the players' physical strength as much as possible, which is training the depth of everyone's physical strength. Giving only 10 minutes of rest is to train the players' recovery ability and make the muscles remember this time. You know, there won't be a break of more than 10 minutes during the official game.

"Mitsui, you wait and tell Akagi, collect some points during training, you guys are working so hard, I'm about to become a negative textbook."

Hikaru Haneda sat on the ground, legs stretched out, and while relaxing his leg muscles, he whispered to Mitsui Shou, who was also panting next to him and relaxing his muscles.

But in exchange for Mitsui Shou's disdainful eyes, although he didn't speak, but the eyes seemed to say: You are trash, Lao Tzu, who can't play in the national competition, didn't say anything, it's only been a few days, and you dare to call it hard.

"Hey! What kind of eyes are you, I'm thinking about your knees, don't you have a problem again before winter. ”

For Mitsui's white eyes, Hikaru Haneda tried hard to find excuses to try to cover up the past.

"Cut!"

'Kind' reminded, but in exchange for Mitsui's even more disdain, Hikaru Haneda could only use the last trick and open the topic: "Ah, don't talk about this." Speaking of which, how about that kid from Sakuragi Hanamichi? ”

"Sakuragi Hanamichi? Who is it? ”

Under normal circumstances, a tried and tested trick took effect again, but Mitsui Shou looked puzzled and didn't seem to know Sakuragi as a person.

"Huh? Didn't Akagi tell you? ”

"Nope"

“……”

"I think you kid is trying to get away from the conversation! Yes! Sure enough, your expression has betrayed you! ”

Haneda was expressionless, and turned his head to glance at Akagi, who was resting seriously and had no distractions. Then he looked at Mitsui Shou with meaningful eyes, and he didn't know what he had missed. Hikaru Haneda hesitated in his heart, should he tell this guy who was 'mocking' himself and didn't know anything?