The exciting electronic whistle echoed on the basketball court, which also represented the official end of this practice match.
Amid the heavy breathing and disbelieving eyes of the Izumikan group, the score on the scoreboard was fixed at 86:61.
Lost by a huge margin of 25 points.
This has never happened in previous games between the two teams.
Then the players from both sides saluted each other, and then Zhengbang's people sent the Izumi Hall players to the parking lot and returned.
On the driving bus, through the reflection of the glass, I could see the Zhengbang players returning to the basketball gym in the rear, still maintaining a neat and orderly queue. The coach of Izumi Hall couldn't help but secretly sigh.
“I really don’t know whether it is good or bad for ordinary high school students to be born in this era!”
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"Keep training!"
The Zhengbang players who returned to the basketball hall were not happy because they defeated Izumi Hall. Instead, they immediately threw themselves into new training.
It is already late September, and the Winter Cup qualifiers will start in early November.
Although Zhengbang and Luoshan won the top two in the summer national competition, they did not need to participate in the qualifiers to directly obtain the quota for the Winter Cup national competition.
But in recent times, as the qualifiers are approaching, everyone in Zhengbang not only does not feel relaxed at all, but feels that the pressure on them is increasing.
This pressure does not come from the competition, but from the heavy pressure of the word "champion".
Just as Izumi Mankan's coach Kamiya Masakichi said before, the fact that Masakuni was able to beat Izumi Mankan, one of the "Three Kings of Tokyo", by 25 points today without Akashi Asuka not playing today is not just because of his strength.
But the two teams now have completely different things to shoulder.
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In the blink of an eye, it’s early November.
Seirin High School.
With the return of Kiyoshi Teppei and Kagami Taiga's return from overseas special training, the new Jorin Basketball Club not only made up for the shortcomings in the interior, but also greatly increased the basic quality of each player during the summer vacation.
"Oh~~The left hand is basically fine now!"
"Ah! Even if I eat with my left hand recently, I don't feel any incongruity anymore."
In front of the gate of Seirin High School, Kagami Taiga was spinning the basketball easily with his left hand. Seeing this scene, Shinji Koganei on the side suddenly made a surprised sound.
Although the Kagami Taiga last semester was not weak in strength, most of the time he relied on his rough feel and technique to play.
Let’s not mention the defensive end for now. The offensive end can be said to be quite stable except for dunks. The rest of the offensive skills are a complete mess.
The left hand is a major flaw in itself.
But now, after a whole summer vacation and two months of hard training before the start of school, he has obviously made up for this loophole in himself.
"Mokichi, you've been feeling weird since just now! Did anything good happen to you today?" Hinata Junpei looked at Kiyoshi Teppei with a smile on his face and couldn't help but wonder.
"(**) Oh? Is there any?" Muji Teppei had no self-awareness.
"Well~~Maybe it's been too long since I've played a game, so I'm a little excited now!"
"Please, please don't let your guard down today. I'll leave Shirorin's basket to you to protect." Hinata Junpei patted his forehead, obviously there was nothing he could do about Kiyoshi Teppei's character, so he could only say helplessly.
"Ah! Don't worry, leave it to me!~~ヾ(o｀o)!"
Everyone: "·······"
Ah, this~~ I’m still a little uneasy after all!
After a while.
Aida Reiko arrived, looked at everyone and said, "Is everyone here? It's almost time to leave."
"no problem!"
"Okay, then let's set off! Get back what belongs to us!"
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At the same time.
Xiude High School.
A larger burnt wood carving of a raccoon was placed in the open school bag. Midorima Shintaro was sitting on the bench, carefully wrapping his fingers with bandages.
"Hey~ Xiaozhen, are you ready? The seniors are already gathering!" Takao Kazunari poked his head out of the door and shouted.
"Come right away!"
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At the same time.
Tonghuang High School.
"Oh~~ Qingfeng, did you come very early today?"
In the locker room of Kiroh High School, Imayoshi Sho just came in and saw Aomine Daiki had already changed his clothes and was waiting inside. This sight made him feel a little surprised.
After all, if according to past habits, Aomine can arrive within ten minutes after the official start of the game, it will be considered very 'on time'.
"Of course, after all, I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I must defeat that guy this time." Qingfeng grinned, and his eyes showed a cold light like a wild beast hunting.
Imayoshi Shoichi: "·······"
"Ahem~~ What's that, Qingfeng. Although it's a good thing to have fighting spirit, I need to remind you that due to the special situation this year, Zhengbang, as the champion of the summer national competition, does not need to participate in the qualifiers. If you want to meet
If we go to Zhengbang, we have to wait until the official competition at least."
Qingfeng Dahui's eyes froze for an instant, and then he turned around stiffly like a robot, widened his eyes and said: "...Ha???"
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The size of the Winter Cup qualifiers is much smaller than the summer national competition.
But this does not mean that competition has become less difficult.
Because the rules of the Winter Cup Tokyo Regional Qualifiers are to select two teams from the top eight teams in the summer national competition qualifiers last semester.
The qualifier rules for other regions are also similar.
Although the process has been shortened, even the teams participating in the qualifiers are basically teams that have achieved results in the summer.
There are only two rounds in the entire Tokyo District Qualifiers.
First knockout round.
Eight into four.
Second round robin.
Four into two.
Because it is held on the weekend, the entire qualifying competition will last approximately two weeks.
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Any team that can reach the quarterfinals of the Tokyo qualifiers is naturally not a weak team.
So the first round of knockout rounds has just begun, and the audience can already feel an unusually pungent smell of gunpowder permeating the air...
The first battle between the two sides was between Kiriou and Izumikan.
"By the way, I heard that at the beginning of this semester, you had a practice match with Masakuni?" Before the game started, Imayoshi Shoichi suddenly asked with a smile.
"What's wrong?" Izumikan's point guard is a rare bad-tempered person, but he is not usually so violent. But for some reason, just seeing Imanoshi Shoichi's appearance, he felt an inexplicable rise in his heart.
A ball of fire.
It was as if his body's instinct was reminding him: 'Those squinting eyes don't look like a good person!'
"It's nothing, I'm just curious, in your eyes, who is more powerful, us or Zhengbang?"
