Keiji Koshi received advice from Tominaga Keio[Photo]= Basketball King
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On May 18th, Under Armour's Currie Brand contract player Tominaga Hiroo (Indiana Mad Ants) held a shooting clinic for high school students at “livedoor URBAN SPORTS PARK” in Tokyo. Among the participants were Keiji Koshi (from the Ryukyu Golden Kings U15), who was about to study in the United States.
Koshi, one of the leading players in the B League U15 generation, is 16 years old, born on May 6, 2009. Starting in August this year, I will be studying abroad at the Concordia Lutheran Schools of Omaha in Nebraska. Although he is small at 165 cm tall, he is a promising player with extraordinary scores, and he crosses the sea with a big goal, saying, “I want to prove that I'm going to become a player for the Japanese national team and that I can become an NBA player even with this height. I always think about becoming a player who gives hope to small players.”
In the question corner within the clinic, Tominaga discusses his concerns that the ball's rotation axis tilts and the shot is bent. When pointed out the snap and the angle of his right arm, his dominant arm, he immediately made a correction, and Tominaga said, “That's right. If you can hit straight, your accuracy will improve. If you continue doing that,” and “But I think it's more important to keep up with a form that's easy to hit, rather than taking shots that are difficult for me to hit.”
After the event, Koshi recalled, “I'm very glad that I had a new experience,” and commented on Shoot, who received advice, “There's a time before I go to America, so I'd like to practice hard.” “When you go to America, each shot is important, and I think it will also determine whether or not you will be selected as a member depending on whether it comes in or not. As Tominaga said, I would like to feel the weight of your first shot with a sense of the weight,” he said enthusiastically.
On this day, Tominaga stood in front of the high school students, and said, “There are things that can only be obtained at that time,” he went to the United States after graduating from high school, and became an ace at the University of Nebraska, the NCAA Division 1. Regarding the recent trend of increasing numbers of players from Japan who are trying overseas at a young age, he said, “I am happy that there are more and more high school and junior high school students going to America. I think that as more and more people go, it will be easier for the next generation to go, so I hope that more players like that will increase.” He hopes for the rise of the next generation of stars who have experienced the real world.
