Chapter 8 - After Game (2/2)

Unlike Aone who balanced between offense and defense, Nakamura Taichi was an all offensive player and left defense to Kiyoshi Teppei, and his team.

Now coming to their ace, and most skilled player, future uncrowned king; Kiyoshi Teppei.

Kiyoshi is a powerful center with great technical skills. If he was, to put it another way, Kiyoshi was an efficient player with very less useless movement in his moves. He was quick under the post with a great sense of timing for jumping for rebounds.

He was the same height as Aone, standing at 184 cm tall, but Kiyosho Teppei was more agile and more powerful than Aone.

And, after rewinding the video multiple times, he concluded that Kiyoshi's current level of Right of Postponement gave him the same advantage as his God-Speed Impulse in post plays.

[A/N: This doesn't equate to the Right of Postponement and God-Speed Impulse being evenly matched. The current comparison is only for post plays, in future Right of Postponement will provide more in post plays, and God-Speed Impulse will excel in other fields of the sport.]

Shun knew that in the future, Kiyoshi's larger hands would provide more control in deciding plays in the paint, but he also knew that if he trained his speed and explosiveness more, he would be able to hinder Kiyoshi's 'impossible to predict' plays.

[A/N: Imagine Shun being like Tendo Satori (he is so cool) from Haikyuu reacting to plays with great reflexes, except Shun would not be guessing but analyzing.]

Shun switched off the video and proceeded to go to bed. Shun thought about day two.

Shun: 'Tomorrow, Teiko would be playing, but I don't think I would be able to go watch, the stadium is far away, and the coach wouldn't take any students. Well, at least I will have the video of their game.'

Shun closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.

What Shun didn't know was that he was not the only one reviewing others; Teiko, Shoei, and other schools were also analyzing the game of the champions.

Being a reigning champion or even a well-known team meant that there was a lot of data about you available, and people would try to make strategies to defeat with each game you play.

From all other team's perspective, this year's Tokiwadai was powerful; Otsubo Taisuke and Aone Takanobu had gained a lot of height and could easily muscle out most of their peers. Ishida Hideki, while not a particularly athletic player, had solid basic skills, and experience.

Then there was Mibuchi Reo, even though none of them knew about his 'special' shooting style, even without them he was a national level player and a terrifying shooter.

And last was the new rookie, Kageyama Shun. Even though it was only one game, most of them saw his performance for what it was, exceptional. Experienced coaches from middle schools and high schools, who were looking to recruit talented third-years, saw how he crippled Iwatobi's teamwork and scoring ability.

But what shocked them most was the last five minutes in which he used one pattern and was still able to score every single time. They didn't even know how to describe that.

Most people switched between moves so that they could trick the defense, but how do you define a player who was able to score using a single move repeatedly and continuously.

[A/N: Think about Kareem Abdul Jabbar's sky-hook shot or Allen Iverson's crossover. They used the same move so many time that it became their signature move and still, people were not able to block those moves even though they knew it was coming

Top 5 NBA Signature Moves - MixedTapeVideos: youtube.com/watch?v=57XVP8aRBXk

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