December.

As the winter trials approached, the heavy training tasks of Xiangbei High School began to gradually decrease, and were replaced by frequent intra-team practice matches.

Coach Anzay intends to use frequent intra-team practice matches to verify the results of the players' training in the past few months. Because it is preparing for the winter trials, the formation of the team practice match in Xiangbei High School is relatively fixed.

The middle school students who trained in Xiangbei spontaneously formed a group and became the sparring partners of the Xiangbei High School players.

Center Koichiro Nango, power forward Hanamichi Sakuragi, small forward Kaede Rukawa, scoring guard Katsumi Ichiro, and point guard Kiyota Nobunaga.

One of the biggest differences is actually Kiyota Nobunaga, because in the junior high school era, his grandfather trained him as a small forward and a scoring guard, and the main ability to cultivate is the ability to rush forward with the ball and cut without the ball, with Kiyota Nobunaga's amazing bounce, in the middle school arena, Kiyota's performance is often unusually bright.

However, after becoming a reserve at Xiangbei High School, Coach Anzai's training of Kiyota Nobunaga focused more on the position of point guard.

There are two reasons for this, one is that Xiangbei already has super scorers like Jinguji Martial Arts and Mitsui Shou, and among the younger generation, there is also an existence like Rukawa Kaede, and if Kiyota still plays small forward, it is impossible to have a chance to play. And the second reason is Kiyota Nobunaga's height.

Not even 180cm tall, even if Nobunaga Kiyota has a good jump, it is difficult to compete with players like Kaede Rukawa in the small forward position. There are no advantages, on the contrary, all are disadvantages.

With that in mind, Coach Anzay assigned Kiyota to the point guard reserve.

Fortunately, Kiyota Nobunaga's ball control foundation is very solid, and his speed is also quite good. What is lacking from him becoming a qualified point guard is the overall situation, vision, and passing ability.

These abilities have also improved greatly after he entered Xiangbei.

At this time, on the court of Xiangbei High School, it was a team practice match in Xiangbei.

The two sides of the competition team are teams formed by high school students and junior high school students.

On the high school side, Chiba Oishi plays the center, Satoru Tsunoda plays the power forward position, and the small forward is Konobu Kiyoshi, the scoring guard is Ryota Miyagi, and the point guard is Yasuda Yasuharu.

As the captain, Mitsui Shou and the main center Akagi Goken both stood on both sides of the court as referees, watching the game in the field.

At this time, it was only 5 minutes before the start of the game, and the score of the two teams came to 13:8, and the leading side was actually the national middle school team!

"Come on, play steadily, let's go first!"

In the middle of the court, Yasuda Yasuharu held the ball and advanced slowly, crossing the halfway line. The other players entered the national middle school position early before he crossed the middle line, which seemed a little disjointed.

The junior high school students used the man-to-man tactics, and the opposite of Yasuda Yasuharu was Kiyota Nobunaga. On the defensive side, Nobunaga Kiyota noticed a disconnect in the high school team, and Yasuharu Yasuda, who was holding the ball, and his nearest teammate were a few meters away, which was a very good chance for a tackle.

Even if the opponent passes the ball, such a long-distance transmission is easy to be stealed.

The opportunity appeared, Kiyota Nobunaga did not hesitate, and directly stepped forward to rob, obviously Yasuda Yasuharu from high school, in the face of Kiyota Nobunaga's compulsion, there was actually a little panic, and he hurriedly threw the ball out, for fear of being robbed by Kiyota. However, he was so flustered that he didn't notice the direction of his pass at all, and Rukawa Kaede was already eyeing him.

Rukawa Kaede saw the opponent's basketball coming out, and a lunge directly squeezed his body on Mu Dui Gongyan's body, and the strength of Rukawa Kaede of the third country actually surpassed Mu Dui Gongyan's strength by a lot, and directly seized the position, intercepted the flying basketball, and then quickly held the ball and attacked quickly.

At the moment of completing the steal, Kami Ichiro and Kiyota Nobunaga also started together, closely following behind Rukawa Kaede to support Rukawa Kaede's fast attack.

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On the high school students' side, the only one who has the ability to catch up is Miyagi Ryota on the outside.

Three against one in the frontcourt.

But Rukawa Kaede didn't have the idea of passing, and against the defense of Miyagi Ryota, he forced himself to cut to the basket and scored a layup. In the opportunity of three to one, Rukawa Kaede did not rely on passing the ball past Miyagi Ryota's defense, but relied on his own ability to score the ball, and neither Kami Ichiro nor Kiyota Nobunaga had much opinion on this.

Ryota Miyagi, who is chasing the defense, is much shorter than Rukawa Kaede, and in the face of such a defense, Rukawa Kaede's choice to play strongly is actually not a wrong choice.

With the basketball into the net, the score of the two teams also came to 15:8.

In the face of this group of middle school students, Xiangbei's fell behind by 7 points, and everyone felt that their faces were gloomy, and they were eager to catch up with the score.

Between the transition between offense and defense, Ryota Miyagi asked for the ball from Yasuda near the center line early. After the basketball started, Miyagi called a block, and then rushed forward with the ball under the cover of Kiki Konobu, and chose to throw in the face of Sakuragi Hanamichi's defense in the middle distance.

Although Miyagi's mid-range shooting level has improved, the shooting percentage is still impressive when he is not in the open position.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's defense gave Miyagi Ryota a lot of pressure, the throwing was inaccurate, the basketball collapsed directly out of the basket, and the rebounding ball was also quickly rushed back to the basket Sakuragi Hanamichi was held in his hand.

"Hahaha! I'm a genius! ”

Sakuragi Hanamichi, who won the rebound, shouted excitedly, and then ignored Kiyota Nobunaga, Rukawa Kaede, Kamiichiro and others who wanted the ball, and he was a big forward and advanced directly with the ball.

His actions were beyond everyone's expectations, and Tsunoda and the others didn't check for a while, and they were actually quickly crossed by Sakuragi Hanamichi, and they could only chase Sakuragi's back.

And Miyagi and others on the outside line also chose to return to the court quickly as the junior high school students got down, ignoring Sakuragi, who was in possession of the ball.

Hanamichi Sakuragi, who was dribbling the ball, crossed the midline and approached three points, ushering in Chiba Oishi's uplifted defense, and was forced to slow down. But when it came to this, Sakuragi Hanamichi still had no intention of making the ball, and after a short dribble to adjust the rhythm, Sakuragi actually chose to make a strong breakthrough by himself.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's breakthrough technique was trained by Jinguji Martial Arts, although Martial Arts led Sakuragi to train for a lot of time, but more time Martial Arts allowed Sakuragi to practice basic dribbling.

As for the breakthrough technique, Martial Arts only taught Sakuragi Hanamichi to break through with one hand, and then corrected the four-different three-threat breakthrough that Sakuragi learned from Haruko.

Relying on the digging technique, Sakuragi Hanamichi is able to increase his speed to the maximum in a split second. The faster and more explosive the player, the greater the threat of digging and breaking through!

And the explosive power of Sakuragi Hanamichi .....

"Huh?! This kid, so fast!

！ Chiba Dashi just blinked his eyes, and Sakuragi Hanamichi's figure actually disappeared from his eyes, with the ball, came to his side, and before Chiba could react, Sakuragi Hanamichi had already crossed Chiba Dashi's defense, directly invaded the basket, and went to the basket near the basket.

"Don't think!" Satoru Tsunoda under the basket saw Sakuragi Hanamichi trying to make a layup, and directly raised his arms to try to block, but his bounce was too much worse than Sakuragi, even if he jumped with all his strength and raised his arms high, it was only to Sakuragi's forearm position, and it was not a threat to Sakuragi's layup at all.

When Sakuragi made a layup, he lowered his eyelids slightly in mid-air, and he actually glanced at Satoru Tsunoda, stopped looking at him, and successfully sent the ball into the basket.

"Roar~~~"

Sakuragi, who had scored a goal and fell to the ground, happily hammered his chest, and then quickly returned to the defense with his teammates. Kiyota Nobunaga originally wanted to talk a few words about Sakuragi, but he didn't expect Sakuragi to score a goal, and this situation made Kiyota have to swallow back the words that came to his mouth.

He didn't expect that Sakuragi Hanamichi, a layman, would really break through Chiba's defense and score the ball in one dragon.

"Ho ho ho

"Sakuragi-san, the technique of layups is getting more and more proficient."

"That digging step breakthrough, it's also quite beautiful!"

"Such a breakthrough technology requires strong explosiveness and high proficiency."

"When I usually train, I don't see Sakuragi-san training this technique, but it seems that after the training, Sakuragi-san is also working hard in private."

Coach Anzai, who was on the sidelines, smiled with relief when he saw Sakuragi's goal. Ayako, who was sitting on the side, glanced at the happy Coach Anzai, and also showed a knowing smile.

For more than a month, it is no secret that Coach Anzai opened a small stove for Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede in Xiangbei High School.

The rest of the players want to say that they don't envy it, it's fake, but they don't have the courage to beg Coach Anxi to open a small stove for them.

It was Mitsui Shou who once cheekily went to Coach Anzai, but Coach Anzai's answer to Mitsui Shou was: "You already have a mature style, and in terms of technique, I can't give you guidance anymore." ”

This made Mitsui Shou disappointed a lot, but also secretly happy. Coach Anzai's words are not perfunctory, Mitsui Shou is very clear about this. What Mitsui Shou has to do at this stage is to keep practicing and thoroughly integrate all the abilities he has mastered! The guidance that Coach Anzay was able to give him was more about the way he played.

However, after Mitsui Shou cheekily asked Coach Anzai for guidance, Coach Anzai also realized that his partiality seemed to be too much, and then announced to the players that after the team's normal standard training time, interested players can stay and practice.

However, the daily training in Xiangbei has been very heavy, and the vast majority of players have no energy and physical strength after a day of training, so they stay and practice.

Therefore, Coach Anzai's small stove class is only a few more junior high school students, as well as Akagi, Mu Dui, and Miyagi. As for Mitsui, although he doesn't need the individual guidance of Coach Anzai, he will still stay to practice shooting when he has extra strength, or help act as an assistant coach.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's single assault is just an accident, and the main offensive system of Kunakanaku is the medium- and long-range attack that revolves around Rukawa Kaede and Katsumi Ichiro.

In today's game, Rukawa Kaede shot many times in the middle distance or near the three-point line, as for Kamiichiro, it was more of an empty three-pointer, and when there was no such opportunity, he chose to give Rukawa Kaede and let Rukawa Kaede play.

Defending Rukawa Kaede is Mu Dui Gongyan, facing Mu Dusk, who is nearly ten centimeters shorter than himself, Rukawa Kaede just keeps using emergency stop jump shots, and Mu Dui Gongyan doesn't have a trace of temper.

Rukawa Kaede and Kami Ichiro have a high hit rate, not to mention the high school students' internal strength, which is also much higher than that of high school students. Nango Kuichiro is not left behind in the face of Chiba Oishi, the main power forward in Xiangbei, and even relies on his excellent athleticism to faintly suppress Chiba.

As for the alignment of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Tsunoda's group, it was a one-sided crushing.

Whether it is height, strength, athleticism, etc., Sakuragi Hanamichi crushes Satoru Tsunoda in all directions, and he is often able to find Tsunoda when he is stuck in the basket.

Sakuragi has been playing for nearly eight months, and in terms of the level of grabbing boards, he already has the quality of the top power forward in the prefecture, and even if he looks at the whole country, he can also rank first in the team of high school students.

The pace of progress is staggering to everyone.

A player like Satoru Tsunoda is no longer Sakuragi's opponent.

Even if Akagi Goken came to the court to stare at Sakuragi in person, he could only rely on experience and strength to deal with Sakuragi, and he might not be able to suppress Sakuragi Hanamichi in the competition for rebounds.

The offense has Rukawa Kaede and Kami Ichiro, the inside line and rebounds have Nango Koichiro and Sakuragi Hanamichi, and Kiyota Nobunaga, although the sense of presence seems thin, has repeatedly pressed Yasuda and made the opponent make mistakes, and at the same time, he himself has also made 0 mistakes.

As the game progressed, the junior high school team began to widen the difference, and the speed of the score was very fast.

When Coach Anzai saw this scene, he realized that he might not be able to play a training match if it continued like this, so when the game was 10 minutes into the game, he replaced Yasuda and Tsunoda, and sent Akagi Goken and Mitsui Kotobuki.

So far, Xiangbei's lineup on the field can be said to be the strongest lineup in Xiangbei today.

But even if Mitsui Shou and Akagi Goken played, it was still quite difficult for high school students to chase scores. Akagi's arrival has indeed strengthened the inside line, but in the competition for rebounds, Kunaka is not false at all.

And although Mitsui Shou filled the outside offense of high school students, Rukawa Kaede, who was opposite him, became slippery, and from the beginning of the lone wolf single, he began to share the ball.

And driven by Rukawa Kaede, Kami Ichiro is getting better and better, and Kiki Koyan, who defends him, can't prevent Kami Ichiro's three-point shot at all.

For a while, Xiangbei, which was replaced by the strongest lineup at this stage, was only on an equal footing with the middle school students, and there was no way to quickly chase the score, so he could barely maintain the score difference.

"These middle school students are really amazing!"

"Rukawa Kaede, who is not inferior to Captain Mitsui, Sakuragi Hanamichi and Nango Koichiro, who compete for rebounds with Akagi-senpai and Chiba-senpai, shooters who can't even be guarded by Kiki-senpai, Kami Ichiro, and Kiyota Nobunaga, who has no mistakes in the face of Miyagi's seniors' pressing."

"It's really hard to imagine that these middle school students can go back and forth with our Xiangbei election."

"Fortunately.... In the coming year, these people will be able to join Xiangbei. ”

Yasuda Yasuharu, who returned to the field, wiped his sweat with a towel, sat on the seat and sighed.

"Yes! That Sakuragi Hanamichi is really growing too fast, how long has it been since then? I felt like I couldn't stop him. ”

"Such a guy has been playing for less than a year."

Satoru Tsunoda squinted his eyes and agreed, with a prostrated look on his face, and Sakuragi's alignment, although it didn't take long, but it drained his strength.

The discussion of the players fell on the ears of Coach Anxi, and in this regard, Coach Anthy also smiled and did not speak. But in his heart, he sighed heavily, the team of high school students lacked the martial arts of Jingu Temple, and his strength had dropped by more than a grade.

According to the current strength of the team, it may be difficult to qualify for the winter trials.

Without the martial arts of Jingu Temple, how can you cross the mountain of Lingnan High School?

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