The list of players from Xiangbei High School to participate in the winter selection tournament was submitted to the organizing committee of the competition as early as a week ago.

When the organizing committee reviewed the list of players, there was even a small episode.

Previously, Jinguji Martial Arts was banned during the Autumn National Sports period, and there was a lot of uproar in Kanagawa Prefecture, but then these voices also came to an end with Kanagawa Prefecture finally winning the national championship.

It's just that as the winter season is approaching, that matter was mentioned by the fans again, and even the fans of good things directly "rushed" to the Kanna County Basketball Association office.

This also reminded some leaders of what Jinguji Martial Arts said in front of the media back then.

Since you look down on neon basketball, don't play at neon, right?!

The leaders thought so and did so, so when the list of players from Xiangbei High School was submitted, these people more or less inquired about the list of players in Xiangbei through some channels.

When they learned that the name of Jinguji Martial Arts was not on the list of players, these leaders were also overjoyed.

If you do it in the winter, you will inevitably be criticized, and the influence of the martial arts of the forbidden Jinguji Temple of the Autumn Country is still there, and now if you do it again, I'm afraid there will be more people who pay attention.

Now that Jinguji Martial Arts is so conscious that he did not participate in this competition, this also saves the leaders a lot of thought.

As the competition day progressed, the training of Xiangbei High School was officially suspended.

The players are starting to recharge their batteries and prepare for the upcoming prefectural tryouts.

In the past two days, the competition group has also come out, and Xiangbei High School, as a strong team that won the national championship this year, naturally took a bye in the first stage of the competition as a seed.

And in Group A, where they are located, there is no strong team, and the strongest team may be the level of Wuyuan High School.

On the day of the opening ceremony of the Winter Trials, Martial Arts of Jinguji Temple appeared in the team wearing the red color uniform of Xiangbei High School. Unlike the usual standing at the head of the line, this year's competition, Jinguji Martial Arts stood at the end of the line.

The opening ceremony of the winter trials attracted a lot of media coverage.

As mentioned earlier, the Winter Trials is a large-scale event organized by many parties, and one of the leaders is Neon's second-largest media, the Asahi Shimbun.

The Asahi Shimbun's sports department will be covering the entire selection tournament in Kanagawa Prefecture. This kind of treatment is not available in all prefecture auditions.

The reason why I follow the prefectural selection tournament in Kanagawa Prefecture is simply because there are several players in Kanagawa Prefecture who have attracted national attention, and if you follow the report, you will not only be able to recover the cost of human resources, but also win a lot of attention!

During the opening ceremony, the media's cameras focused on the two teams of Xiangbei High School and Lingnan High School. When the camera swept over Xiangbei High School, the reporters found a strange thing, that is, the martial arts of Jinguji Temple, which stood at the top of the line in previous years, actually fell behind the back of the line.

The player standing at the head of the row was actually a short player with curly hair.

A reporter took out the information from his bag, and after reading it in a hurry, he recognized Ryota Miyagi.

Neon is an extremely hierarchical country, and it is a strange thing for Jinguji Takemichi, who is the captain, to stand at the back of the line on an occasion like the opening ceremony.

"Isn't that Jinguji martial arts? Isn't he the captain of Xiangbei High School? How do you stand at the back of the line? ”

"The one at the front is Ryota Miyagi from Xiangbei High School."

"What's going on?"

The reporters held back the doubts in their hearts until the end of the opening ceremony, and then found Xiangbei High School and others for a brief interview.

Through the interview, the reporters got an amazing news, that is, the captain of Xiangbei High School, Jinguji Takemichi, stepped down, and also learned that Jinguji Takedo will study in the United States next year.

That's amazing news for a pool of backwater neon basketball.

They had heard of the news of Jinguji Martial Arts going to study in the United States before, but at that time, the reputation of Jinguji Martial Arts was not as big as it is now, and there was no news before going to the United States, but now, Jinguji Martial Arts is no longer an unknown little person.

As the captain of the championship team, Takedo Jinguji, who is known as the No. 1 high school student, has a reputation in Neon that year that year as high school James in the United States.

It can be said that all eyes are on it.

At the same time, the reporters also learned the news that Jinguji Martial Arts would be absent from the winter trials, and a series of blockbuster news fell.

After the interview, the reporters left in a hurry to get ready for the report.

This time, I'm afraid it will cause some waves again, Kanagawa Prefecture's prefectural competition, but there are many spectators from other prefectures who came to watch the game, if they knew that Jinguji Martial Arts would not play, these people would definitely shout "refund".

After the opening ceremony, the first round of the Winter Trials began in the afternoon.

However, in this first round of the game, there were few spectators, and most of the participating teams were watching the game, in order to get a sense of possible opponents.

As for Xiangbei High School, they did not ignore the opponents they would face next because of their own strength.

At the suggestion of Ryota Miyagi, all the players came to the spectators to see the strength of their opponents who were in the same group as them. Ryota Miyagi was somewhat nervous as captain for the first time, and he showed a certain importance to any opponent.

He didn't want to let his team get into trouble because of his negligence.

If that's the case, does he still have the face to continue to be the captain of Xiangbei High School?

The team that is in the same group as Xiangbei High School is a high school called Shenhetai, and their opponent is Dabei High School.

The winners of these two teams will become their opponents in the second stage of Xiangbei High School.

At this year's IH, neither team made it to the top 16 in the prefecture, and their strength was actually very weak.

In a few months, these two teams did not complete the so-called "metamorphosis", and after a game, the two teams made more than 20 mistakes, which is very much in line with the level of the "Neon High School Basketball Team".

On the stands, Jinguji Martial Arts dozed off boringly, this game showed him confused, and the degree of professionalism was not even as good as that of the village BA.

But unlike him, the other Xiangbei players all looked excited, and even Caiko and Haruko were still over there with a notebook to record the game data of the arrowheads on both sides.

The martial arts who looked serious were speechless.

These players in Xiangbei are too nervous, they are obviously experienced veterans, and they still have such a posture in the face of such an opponent.

What Martial Arts didn't know was that it was because of what he said to Sakuragi Hanamichi and others that day, "I will be in the rest area, watching you." "It's what makes Sakuragi and the others so nervous, and the nervousness of several of them is also passed on to the other players.

That's why the team is in this atmosphere now.

However, although Jinguji Martial Arts was boring to watch, he still accompanied the players to finish watching the ball, and when he got up to leave, Sakuragi and others and Miyagi Ryota gathered around to discuss the countermeasures of the game, and Martial Arts looked at the positive Sakuragi and others, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

"Don't worry, martial arts senior."

"Sakuragi-san, they will definitely work hard!"

Just when Martial Arts fell behind the team and looked at Sakuragi and the others who were discussing fiercely, a glutinous voice came from behind Martial Arts, turned his head to look, and saw Haruko looking at Jinguji Martial Arts with a smile on her face, and said with relief.

"Well, Haruko, Ayako is already a sophomore in high school this year, and next year, the team will ask you."

"Sakuragi, this kid is easy to float, don't you always give him a good look!"

Lowering his head and glancing at Haruko who walked to his side, Takeshi said with a smile. Hearing this, Haruko covered her mouth and chuckled, waved her hand, and said, "Sakuragi-san. He's a genius. ”

"He doesn't need me to say anything."

Takeshi looked at Haruko and saw sincerity in the other party's eyes. It seems that Haruko really thinks Sakuragi Hanamichi is a genius from the bottom of her heart.

Seeing Haruko like this, Martial Arts couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

Sakuragi, this kid, don't look at people tall and big, in fact, his heart is like a child, with Haruko by his side, on the road of basketball, Sakuragi Hanamichi should not go astray.

The girl's longing is chicken blood for an adolescent boy like Sakuragi.

Two days later.

The third day of the Winter Trials came to the third day, and the first round of eliminations was completed in two and a half days. Unlike the back-to-back format of national tournaments, winter tryouts in the county tend to have plenty of time to rest.

And it was on this morning that Dabei High School, which won the first stage of the competition, met the opponent they were most unwilling to meet, Xiangbei High School.

"Beep-"

In the stadium, with a long whistle, the players of Xiangbei High School entered the court one after another to warm up.

Some time ago, the media broke out that Jinguji Martial Arts would not participate in the winter tryouts, and I thought it was "fake news", but when the audience saw that Jinguji Martial Arts did not take off his coat in the warm-up stage and moved the place, they realized that the news was true.

For a while, the stands became noisy, and some spectators in the front row were a little close to the rest area in Xiangbei, and shouted directly towards the martial arts: "Come on, Jinguji martial arts!" I came to Kanagawa to see you play! ”

In the face of the shouts of the audience, Takemichi only glanced at the stands in surprise, then showed an apologetic smile, and then turned his head back to the warm-up players.

The warm-up time is almost twenty minutes.

After the warm-up, the players from both sides returned to the rest area and the coach made the final arrangements.

"Martial arts, it's up to you to coach these few games, and you can participate in it, I believe in your ability!" Coach Anzai said with a smile towards the martial arts of Jinguji after many players in Xiangbei returned to the rest area.

With the approval of Coach Anzai, Wu Dao did not twist, nodded directly, slowly stood up from his seat, looked at the players in front of him, and said:

"In the past few days, I could see that you are very serious about today's opponents, or rather, you are very serious about all opponents."

"But no matter how much attention is paid to it, we also need to make reasonable arrangements so that the right players can deal with different opponents!"

"In today's game, I think the starting players can make some adjustments, so that the younger, less experienced players in the past, can exercise more."

"Yasuda Yasuharu, Shiozaki Tetsushi, Sora Chetani, Oda Ryumasa and Sakuragi Hanamichi, the five of you, as starters, go face Dabei High School!"

After speaking, Jinguji Martial Arts looked at Coach Anzai on the side, and noticed Martial Dao's gaze, Coach Anzai nodded slightly and expressed his approval.

And the players also saw Coach Anzai nodding, and the players who didn't get the chance to start sat on their seats one after another, and the starters gathered around Martial Arts, waiting for Martial Arts' instructions.

"Center, Oda Ryumasa, Sakuragi, you play power forward, and at the same time take on the task of attacking, Yasuda plays point guard, Shiozaki small forward, and Sora Kitani you play point guard."

"Let's not talk much about tactics, just play according to the usual training!"

"Do you understand?"

As soon as Wu Dao's words fell, Sakuragi and the others roared directly.

On the side of the court, the referees on the referee's bench were also attracted by the movement in Xiangbei, and they turned their heads to look over.

"The momentum of Xiangbei is very strong! He is a national champion of IH. ”

Looking at the imposing Xiangbei High School, even the referee couldn't help but glance at Xiangbei, on the other side of the court

The players of Dabei seem to have been taken away from their courage, and the players are all depressed one by one, facing Xiangbei High School, the game has not yet been played, and they already feel frustrated.

With the referee's whistle, players from both sides began to enter.

The players of Dabei saw the more familiar figure of Sakuragi Hanamichi in the starting team of Xiangbei, and several other players in Xiangbei felt very unfamiliar.

Turning his head to look at the Xiangbei bench, he found that several famous players were sitting on the bench, which made the players in Dabei can't help but be excited.

And when the players settled in the middle circle, the players in Dabei found that there was a short man in the team in Xiangbei who was less than 160cm tall.

's thin appearance is very easy to bully at first glance, which makes the Dabei players, who were still a little lost, happy.

With such a Xiangbei high school, they really don't necessarily have no hope!

Although there is a national-level big forward like Sakuragi Hanamichi to lead the team, but after all, he is just one person!

"Beep-"

After a long whistle, the basketball was thrown high into the air by the referee, and at the same time as the basketball was in the air, Oda Ryumasa also jumped with it, accurately grasped the timing of the jump ball, and moved the ball towards the backcourt.

Ryumasa Oda in the first grade has just reached 190cm tall, and although his height is like Sakuragi and Nango, he is also an advantage in the face of the center of the general school.

The basketball fell directly towards the backcourt of Xiangbei, and was held in the hands of Yasuda Jingchun, and when the basketball started, Yasuda Jingchun's eyes quickly swept over all the players, and then threw the chess directly to the front court.

Sensing Yasuda's pass, Dabei's players were all stunned, and they didn't expect Yasuda Yasuharu to pass the ball like this, because they didn't see anyone going to the front court at all.

Everyone swept towards their half court while running back, and they actually saw a thin figure wearing a No. 15 jersey, already standing on the edge of the three-point line, holding the ball in one hand.

"Is that the dwarf? When?! ”

Without waiting for the Dabei players to return to their defensive positions, Che Gukong had already received a pass from his teammates, but simply adjusted his posture and shot directly with a three-point shot.

In the stunned eyes of the crowd, the basketball directly crossed the half court and accurately fell into the net, making a crisp sound.

"Whew!!"

(End of chapter)