Black Basketball Tyrant of the Basketball Court

Since the last holiday, everyone quickly returned to training, striving to make further progress before the start of the national competition. Time quickly came to the start of the national competition during training.

The opening ceremony of the national competition

With the opening ceremony, it was announced that the national competition had officially started, and all 32 teams from across the country that had entered the national competition gathered at the Tokyo Stadium.

Teikou Middle School, as half the host, came to the scene very early because of its proximity.

After feeling the overwhelming popularity and attention of the national competition, several "young people" from the first grade of the country became more determined to win the championship.

As teams from various regions entered the venue, Captain Hongcun introduced some of the old faces or strong teams from the national competition to everyone about what he knew and which teams they needed to pay attention to.

Shiraishi also saw many familiar faces in these teams, such as the remaining members of the "Five Untitled Generals", Imayoshi Shoichi, Kasamatsu Yukio and others.

And similarly when Di Guang and the others were observing the other teams, the other teams were also observing the Di Guang and the people.

Thanks to Teiko's big score wins in every game and Tokyo media's unstinting praise, coupled with Teiko's being one of the top four teams in the country last year and last year's ace Nijimura Shuzo being only in his first year, this year he is not as good as most. The team's ace was promoted to high school as well.

Therefore, in the eyes of others, Di Guang is undoubtedly a powerful opponent for the championship.

Except for Uesaki Middle School, which had already played against the Emperor, the other teams had begun to subconsciously doubt whether the media had exaggerated when they saw that most of Teikou's regular players looked relatively immature.

After a series of tedious opening ceremony procedures, the opening ceremony soon came to an end when each team completed the drawing ceremony.

The schedule for the same national competition was also announced quickly. After watching the schedule as he wished, Shiraishi also learned about the schedule and saw the situation of several teams he was paying attention to.

The 24 teams in the national competition are divided into four divisions, and the top four teams from the four divisions will form the semi-finals for the final competition.

In other words, the teams before the semi-finals must maintain a winning record without the possibility of failure.

However, the teams that were in the same division as Teiko and that caught Shiraishi's attention were Kirisaki Daiichi Junior High School, which had Imayoshi Shoichi and the 'villain' Hanamiya Makoto, and Masahiro Junior High School, which had become one of Tokyo's top three defensive players in the high school world. Because among them there is a little bald guy who is always smiling-Tsukawa Tomoki.

Thinking of the bad character of Hanamiya Makoto in the original work, who was a little afraid of Imayoshi Shoichi, a man with narrow eyes and a dark belly, then the current leader of Kirisaki No. 1 Middle School should be Imayoshi Shoichi.

And now it's not like the situation where Hanamiya can really force the coach to leave in high school. With a coach, Hanamiya really shouldn't have the courage to do something blatantly. It should be the position of the ‘five generals without a championship’ obtained by virtue of his own ability.

Although the two teams will only meet when they compete for first place in the division, Shiraishi asked Momoi to collect information on them because he had seen Hanamiya play and felt that he was good.

Soon after completing the opening ceremony process throughout the morning, the organizer announced the end of the opening ceremony and wished each team good results in the following competitions.

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The various teams that finally made it to the end of the opening ceremony were quickly targeted by the gathered media. As the favorite team to win the championship, Teiko Middle School was undoubtedly blocked by many media and asked questions.

Except for Akaashi and Shiraishi, who are from two major financial groups respectively, the freshmen who participated in the national competition for the first time this year naturally couldn't accept the novelty of being surrounded by the media, so they were hesitant to answer questions when they visited.

Under such circumstances, Shuzo Nijimura, the team captain, and the team's platinum coach naturally became the two people who were asked the most.

When the media asked Coach Platinum that this year’s regular team has many first-year faces, did he want to give up this competition just to allow the first-year freshmen to adapt to the atmosphere of the national competition in advance.

Coach Platinum also nonchalantly expressed his ambitions to the media present and his optimism for many first-year students:

"For every team participating in the national competition, they have only one goal, and that is to receive the award on the highest podium, and our team at Diguang is no exception."

"And the reason for leading so many first-year students into the competition is naturally because they are stronger than most of their seniors."

"It can be said that they are the most talented group of people I have encountered in so many years of working in the industry, and with them, Teikou this year will be the strongest team in so many years."

"Even our goal is no longer a national championship, but to achieve three consecutive national championships, a dream that has never been achieved by any team."

After hearing Coach Platinum's answer, the media turned around and asked Captain Nijimura Shuzo what he thought of these new teammates and whether they could live up to the reputation of Coach Platinum.

Naturally, Hongcun would not disagree with the coach. After all, as a teammate, he has the most intuitive understanding of the potential of this group of people.

Therefore, he not only supported Coach Platinum's views but also openly admitted that he could not win against any of them last year.

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After the report of this interview was released the next day, a huge earthquake was caused in a small area, and more and more people paid attention to the Teikou team.

After all, the strongest power forward in the country last year personally admitted that the people who were not as good as him were all freshmen, which means they still have two years to stay in the country to grow.

If they win the national championship this time, then the call to win three consecutive Platinum Coaches National Championships may no longer be a luxury.

The other teams that also participated in this competition were either disdainful, excited, or solemn after seeing the reports.

But there is no doubt that they all began to pay attention to Teikou's games and try their best to collect video records of Teikou's games.

Because this time the Teiko people who were widely reported out of the circle also appeared in the eyes of college coaches who selected the next players for their teams in the national competition.

Even if they still need to stay in junior high school for three years to complete their studies, it means they have more time to observe and can choose a player who suits their team to strengthen their team.

And if their talent is as reported, they may not be able to introduce a first-year player who can become an ace player to their team to avoid the team's lack of success.