After a group of third-year players such as Mitsui Shou and Akagi Goken announced their retirement, with the support of Coach Anzai, Jinguji Martial Arts also successfully took up his post and became the new captain of Xiangbei High School.

At the same time, Ryota Miyagi, who is in the same second year as Martial Arts, was also named the vice captain. It's just that Miyagi Ryota, Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede went to participate in the youth training camp, and they weren't in the stadium.

Therefore, for the time being, he has not yet ascended to the throne, and today's training in Xiangbei will be fully responsible for the martial arts of Jinguji Temple.

Today is the first training after the reorganization of Xiangbei High School, the third-grade players have announced their retirement, and a few players in the first and second grades also went to participate in the youth training camp, so the number of the entire team in Xiangbei today is much less.

At the side of the stadium, Mitsui Shou and Akagi Gangxian, who were wearing regular clothes, sat on the bench and watched the training of Xiangbei players. Coach Anthy also sat with several of their retired players, holding tea in one hand, quietly watching the players train.

"Time flies!"

"In the blink of an eye, the summer of our people is coming to an end!"

Akagi Gangxian looked at the sweating Xiangbei team members in the aura, hugged his hands in front of his chest, and couldn't help but sigh softly. It's a wonderful feeling to sit on the sidelines and watch the juniors train, and after the identity change of Akagi Goken, I don't know why when I watch the players train, there is always a faint urge in my body to start playing.

He still hasn't completely transformed his identity.

Akagi's words resonated with Mitsui Shou and Kiki Konobu and others, although it was a planned thing, but when they announced their retirement, they still felt a little reluctant.

"Everyone grows, and we can't be high school students forever."

"Xiangbei High School, it's up to the martial arts to them, we have our own way to go."

Mitsui sat on the sidelines and watched the training of the players for a while, then picked up his bag and prepared to leave. When Akagi, Mu Du and the others saw that Mitsui Shou was about to leave, they all looked at Mitsui Shou strangely.

"Are you leaving so soon?!"

"Don't you look at it for a while?!"

"Anyway, you are also the former captain of Xiangbei High School, don't you see if the captain of the martial arts is up to standard?"

"If he doesn't know anything, he can also ask for advice on the side."

Seeing that Mitsui Shou was about to leave, Mu Dugong immediately called out to stop the other party.

However, Mitsui Shou didn't mean to stop because of Mu Dui Gongyan, he turned his head slightly, looked at the court with his spare eyes, and then replied to Mu Dui Gongyan:

"There's no need, martial arts he's not a rookie."

"Xiangbei High School is in his hands, I am very relieved."

"Besides, isn't there Coach Anthy here?!"

"I still have things to do, I'm going to the United States in a while, and I have to do a lot of preparations."

"You'll come and see me off then, right?"

Mitsui Shou smiled and said to Akagi Goken and Mu Du Gongyan and the others, although Mitsui Shou was full of smiles at this time, but his smile was really a little too bitter.

"Well, it's coming!"

"When you go to the United States, can you write a letter to us?"

"This time apart, if you want to see each other again in the future, I'm afraid it will be very difficult!"

A gentle smile appeared on his face, and he also stood up, walked in front of Mitsui Shou, and said to Mitsui Shou.

"Well, of course."

"We'll have a chance to see you, watch TV!"

Mitsui Shou said with a smile, his tone full of confidence in himself.

When Akagi Gangxian heard this, he didn't mock Mitsui Shou, he and Mitsui Shou had been arguing for more than two years, and it was time to separate, and Akagi was also full of thoughts for a while.

Seeing Mitsui Shou's appearance, Akagi Gangxian couldn't help but kindly remind: "It's not the same over there as here, Mitsui, you have to take care of yourself." ”

"Don't be too proud, maybe you're here at the ace level, but when you get there, you have to be humble."

Akagi Tsuyoken, who has a steady personality, said earnestly. If Mitsui Shou had heard something like that in the past, he would have retorted to Akagi and said, "Can you educate me too?!" Something like that.

But today, after hearing this, Mitsui Shou nodded and responded, "I will." ”

"Goodbye, I'll be here before I go."

With that, Mitsui Shou walked up to Coach Anzai, bowed deeply to Coach Anzai, and said, "Coach Anzai. Thank you for taking care of you all these years. ”

"I'll take my leave."

Coach Anzai looked at Mitsui Shou in front of him, and a gentle smile appeared on his old face, and he slowly stood up, Coach Anzai patted Mitsui Shou's arm, and said with a smile: "Well, I will work hard in the future!" Mitsui. ”

"I'm looking forward to seeing you on TV!"

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't do it, the most important thing in playing basketball is to be happy."

"Also, Mitsui, we must not ignore the training of basic skills, this is the foundation, the foundation of everything!"

"If you are not familiar with life, communicate with your teammates a lot, European and American players have an outgoing personality, and you don't have to be humble when you encounter problems, on the basketball court, strength is everything."

Coach Anzai was originally also a taciturn character, but at this time, looking at the tall Mitsui Shou standing in front of him, he couldn't help but become more talkative.

Coach Anzai vaguely remembers that when he first met Mitsui Shou, his impression of Mitsui Shou was just a teenager with a beautiful shooting posture, nothing more.

Mitsui Shou, who first entered Xiangbei, was only in his early 170cm height, but now, Mitsui Shou's height has exceeded 190cm.

Coach Anzai wanted to pat Mitsui Shou on the shoulder, but found that the other party had grown a lot taller.

Obviously, he has watched Mitsui Shou grow up all these years, but it is only now that Coach Anzai has noticed that Mitsui Shou is already so tall.

It's a wonderful feeling of being a child.

"Well, I'll remember."

"Goodbye, Coach Anthy."

Mitsui Shou nodded, said goodbye to Coach Anzai again, and walked towards the door of the arena after speaking.

In the middle of the court, Jinguji Takemichi, who was arranging for the players to carry out a two-on-one attack, also noticed that Mitsui Shou seemed to be preparing to leave.

Raised his eyes and looked at Mitsui Shou.

Sensing Takemichi's gaze, Mitsui Shou didn't mean to disturb Takemi, smiled and beckoned to Takemichi, and then left the arena.

Not long after Mitsui Shou left, Akagi Goken and Konobu Kiki also sat for a long time and left the stadium.

As Mitsui Shou said, they can't always be high school students, and they have to look forward.

Both Konoyan Mu and Chiba Oishi plan to take the college entrance examination route, and the pressure to go on to higher education is actually very heavy, and from this summer vacation, they need to start preparing for the college entrance exam seriously.

Even Mu Twilight and Chiba have signed up for so-called tutorial classes and sprint classes outside of school.

As for Akagi, his brain is already very useful, although he is a player on the basketball team, but Akagi Gangxian's academic performance is also very good, whether it is taking the physical recruitment route or the literary recruitment route, Akagi is not empty.

He's a less stressful third-grader.

The departure of the third-year players did not attract too much attention, and most of the first- and second-year players in the stadium did not realize that it would be difficult for them to play and train with Mitsui Shou and them in the future.

Compared with the third-grade players, the first- and second-year students are still very immature.

It was August.

The midsummer sun tore the coat of the earth, and the greenery and vegetation in the Xiangbei campus were killed by the sun.

In the afternoon, the stadium in Xiangbei is like a steamer, even if all the windows and windows of the stadium have been opened, the environment in the stadium is still quite "stuffy".

"Squeak."

The sound of sneakers rubbing against the floor kept coming from the stadium, and in such a hot summer, the players of Xiangbei High School were still carrying out heavy training.

The retirement of the third-year players did not make the state of the Xiangbei players fluctuate.

On the contrary, because of the departure of the third-grade players, the training of the first- and second-grade players in Xiangbei has become more and more hard.

What does it mean for a senior player to retire?! It means that there is a vacant position!

This is an opportunity for first- and second-year players who barely have a chance to play!

In the Xiangbei Stadium, a practice match within the team is underway.

Wearing a yellow training uniform, the team led by Nobunaga Kiyota, in addition to him, there are Ryumasa Oda in the first year, Satoru Tsunoda in the second year, Tetsushi Shiozaki in the second year, and Kentaro Ishii in the first year.

As for their opponents, they are a team led by Nango Koichiro and Kamiichiro, the team's point guard is Yasuda Yasuharu, a sophomore, and the players in other positions are all sophomore players from Xiangbei.

In the second grade of Xiangbei players, only the two people who are really outstanding are Jinguji Martial Arts and Miyagi Ryota.

The level of the rest of the players is actually not worthy of the name of "national hegemon". The first-year players are very talented, but it's clear that they're all a little too young.

During the team's daily training, Jinguji Martial Arts can clearly feel that the team's strength has been downgraded!

"Pass! Pass!"

In the middle of the court, Kiyota Nobunaga, who quickly entered the front and back with the ball, quickly passed the ball to Tetsushi Shiozaki on the side after getting close to the three-point line, and after the ball, Kiyota Nobunaga quickly cut into the inside line, and shouted at Tetsushi Shiozaki who was holding the ball.

Tetsushi Shiozaki's ball speed was a little slow, and he didn't cooperate very well with Nobunaga Kiyota, who had already entered the basket before Tetsushi Shiozaki passed the basket.

While Kiyota slowed down to receive the ball, there was no room to choose the way to attack, and when he looked up at the basket, Nango Koichiro's big hand was already covering Kiyota's face.

Helpless, Kiyota could only pass the ball back to the outside, but his pass was seen through by Kami Ichiro and was directly tackled by Kami.

"Humph!"

"You pass the ball like this, it's better to give me the ball directly!"

Kamiichiro sneered, and then quickly advanced towards the front court with the ball, Kiyota Nobunaga didn't care about throwing the pot for a while, and hurriedly chased after Kamiichiro.

However, the place where he started was too inside, and Nango also saw Kiyota Nobunaga's intentions and deliberately stuck him.

When Kamiichiro counterattacked quickly, Kiyota Nobunaga was unable to organize an effective defense at all. The rest of his team couldn't catch up with Kamiichiro at all.

With Kamiichiro scoring the ball on a layup, the score of the yellow and blue teams came to 16:33.

The yellow team led by Kiyota Nobunaga was crushed to death by the blue team led by Kami Ichiro and Nango.

"Damn!!"

Kiyota Nobunaga saw that the opponent had scored again, grabbed his hair in annoyance, adjusted his headband, Kiyota Nobunaga ran to the bottom line, picked up the ball and served at the same time, and said to the late Shiozaki Tetsushi:

"Senior Shiozaki, can you go out a little faster, be decisive."

"Give me a little bit of advance so that if I get the ball near the free throw line, I can also watch the opponent's defense."

"When you get the ball under the basket, it's easy for the opponent to see through the offensive intention."

"The bleached monkey is taller than me, there's no way I'm going to fight him!"

"Our center is not as good as the opponent, we have to run and shoot!"

Kiyota Nobunaga didn't have the consciousness of his junior, and as he spoke, he sent out the ball, and after entering the field, Tetsushi Shiozaki passed the ball back to Kiyota Nobunaga, nodded silently, and ran towards the front court.

Tetsushi Shiozaki didn't have anything to refute and said to Kiyota Nobunaga, but others did.

The center of the yellow team is Oda Ryumasa, and when he heard that Kiyota Nobunaga actually threw the pot on his head, he also said in an unhappy tone:

"What does it mean that the center is inferior to the other side?!"

"Which center can grab the rebound?!"

"Kiyota Nobunaga, you've been holding the ball for too long!"

"Pass me more, I get the ball, and our team's score will naturally be higher!"

"It's not very difficult for me to get through Nango Koichiro's defense, at least, it's much better than you attack blindly with the ball!"

Oda Ryumasa said angrily, not giving Qingtian face at all.

Maybe it's because the weather is hotter, and the players are a lot more irritable than before when they play, Kiyota Nobunaga didn't have a good temper, but now it's hot and tired, and the score is still pressed by the opponent, so he has a belly full of fire.

At this time, when he heard that Ryumasa Oda, a "marginal person", dared to speak back, he immediately became angry:

"You're a center and don't know what you're supposed to do?!"

"It's been a game so far, how many rebounds did you grab for our team?!"

"Can I count them on one hand?!"

As he spoke, Kiyota Nobunaga stretched out his left hand and gestured at the other party with five gestures.

Oda Ryumasa didn't pick up either, and said to himself: "It's because you wasted the opportunity!" I've had several empty seats, why don't you pass it?! ”

Kiyota Nobunaga was even more angry when he heard this, and said angrily: "Vacant seat? You call that a vacant seat too?! ”

"You can't shoot as well as I do, do you think you can shoot better than me?!"

"Even if I shoot against the defense, my shooting percentage is higher than yours!"

"You figured out your positioning, do you deserve to get the ball in the middle distance?!"

The young man was angry, and Kiyota Nobunaga and Oda had already become tense in a few words, and the other players on the field also looked at the two of them for a while.

Training was paused.

Oda was about to reply when the voice of Jinguji Martial Arts came from the sidelines.

"Shut up!"

"It's all like shit and you're embarrassed to quarrel?!"

"Is there a difference between and?!"

"You two, let's take a break."

"Go flush and keep your minds calm and think about your own problems! Think it out and then train. ”

"Now, come down at once!"

Kiyota Nobunaga and Oda Ryumasa both heard the voice of Jinguji Martial Arts, subconsciously closed their mouths, glanced at each other, and walked off the court hatefully. Ryumasa Oda went to the rest area and sat on the bench, and Kiyota Nobunaga walked directly out of the arena and went outside to take a shower.

After changing the two players, Jinguji Takemichi glanced out the door, then glanced at Oda Ryumasa, ignored the two, and continued to train.

When the old and the new are replaced, there will always be problems of one kind or another.

But fortunately, Jinguji Martial Arts has enough prestige and ability to suppress all the players, and Xiangbei will not be chaotic under his leadership.

(End of chapter)