Chapter 115

After passing the regional preliminaries, Bai Shui had already become a fairly mature team, yet in their battle against Teiko, Bai Shui also exposed numerous flaws.

Especially in the players' basic abilities, they were clearly lacking by far more than a little.

Therefore, if they wanted to perform well in the upcoming All-Japan Tournament, improving their basic abilities was of utmost importance.

Next was the players' technical skill level.

Undoubtedly.

Currently, aside from Yukimiya Kazuma, the rest of Bai Shui's players, while not bad in technique, clearly lacked any skills that would make people's eyes light up.

Thus, although a month of special training had already been confirmed for the summer vacation, compared to the workload they needed to complete, the time was still slightly tight.

"Now I will outline the general plan for this month."

Shin Matsuzaki walked to the front of the group, and the basketball club members immediately fell silent: "For the next month, we will gather at the gym every day at eight in the morning for basic ability training for all members, lasting until noon."

"Then, from two to five in the afternoon, physical training."

"Finally, we will play a practice match in the evening."

"Gulp!"

As soon as Shin Matsuzaki finished speaking, the excitement on everyone's faces vanished instantly, and a bad premonition rose in their hearts.

Perhaps because they were too excited, many players in the basketball club almost forgot that they had come here not for a vacation, but for training.

"Doesn't that mean we have to train for eight hours a day?"

"Isn't that natural? I am already prepared."

"I suddenly feel a bit scared!"

Hearing everyone's murmurs, Shin Matsuzaki's expression did not change at all; after all, since everyone had arrived, what else could they do but train?

After briefly explaining the future training plan, Shin Matsuzaki closed the folder in his hand, and a slight smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Alright, the general plan is like this; it might be adjusted later according to the situation. So next..."

"The intensive training camp officially begins."

"Let's go all out!"

Training officially began.

Since they had decided to aim for conquering the nation, the training plan for the camp naturally could not be compared to the basketball club's usual activities.

The purpose of the camp was completely focused on improving strength.

Therefore, even with just the first passing drill, everyone felt an intensity completely different from before.

In the past, passing was basically done in pairs, passing to each other; the main purpose of this method was to enhance ball sense and proficiency, but this training was completely different, with everything conducted for the purpose of practical combat.

One person controls the ball under tight defense and passes it out, while the other must shake off the defense and successfully catch the ball; the key point is that the defense group includes the permanent presence of Yukimiya Kazuma.

Thus, for the following period, the entire basketball gym was basically filled with constantly repeating similar sounds.

Slap~

Intercepted!

"Next!"

Slap~

Intercepted!

"Next!"

"Next!"

"Damn it, I didn't feel it before when we were teammates, but this guy's defense is too terrifying."

Liang Huayin, who had just been defended by Yukimiya into a panic, sprinted a lap around the gym, wiped the sweat from his face, and spoke.

"Indeed, Senior Yukimiya, who led us all the way to second place in the preliminaries, is truly too strong." Chunri Yuji, his face covered in sweat, also chimed in.

With the start of this training camp, everyone suddenly realized that, unknowingly, the strength gap between Yukimiya Kazuma and the other team members had already widened so much.

Up to now, under Yukimiya Kazuma's defense, except for Liang Huayin who could successfully catch a few balls despite his interception, no one else had succeeded even once.

Not to mention when Yukimiya defends the passer; under his defense, most people cannot even control the ball.

Yukimiya Kazuma first assisted his teammates in training; this part was also part of his physical training for him, which happened to align perfectly with Yukimiya Kazuma's own plan.

In 'normal training', the only aspect that improved Yukimiya the most was physical fitness; other attributes certainly did not improve as much as in 'meditation training'.

The morning training focused mainly on technique, the afternoon on physical fitness, and the evening on practice matches, but for Yukimiya Kazuma, the morning and afternoon were reversed.

When helping teammates practice technique, he was doing 'normal training' for physical fitness; when teammates practiced physical fitness in the afternoon, he was practicing technique in 'meditation training'.

However, according to Shin Matsuzaki's statistics, no matter what the training was, Yukimiya Kazuma always had to do at least half again as much training volume as the others.

Such astonishing training intensity, let alone the team members, even he, as the coach, felt his heart race with fear, worried that Yukimiya Kazuma might accidentally require emergency medical attention on the spot.

Several times, Shin Matsuzaki wanted to interrupt Yukimiya Kazuma's training.

However...

When the training ended.

Shin Matsuzaki saw everyone lying on the ground, exhausted with hollow eyes as if they were about to break down, while Yukimiya Kazuma, after a lunch and a nap, was fully restored on the spot, so he gradually gave up the thought in his heart.

One could only say that a monster's constitution cannot be compared to that of ordinary humans.

At the end of a day's training, in the evening, watching Yukimiya Kazuma eating frantically, everyone inexplicably felt an extremely oppressive sense of urgency.

Everyone silently solidified a thought.

Train!

Absolutely do not lose to this monster!