Monday, Kanagawa Center Gymnasium.
Hua Hua Hua~
Even before entering the stadium, you can hear the enthusiastic cheers of the audience outside.
At this moment, the Winter National Championship swearing-in meeting has begun, and many teams are gathering in the stadium.
Different from the summer national competition, the winter national competition consists of representative teams from 47 regions, the previous championship and runner-up, and an extra quota (host), with a total of 50 teams participating.
In addition, there are only two seeded teams in the Winter National Competition, which are the last championship and runner-up, unlike the four seeded teams in the Summer National Competition.
This means that the Winter National Competition is divided into two groups, each group has 25 teams, and the seeded teams have byes in the first two rounds.
In the last winter national competition, Sanno Industrial won the championship, and the runner-up was another 'rich' team, Hakata Shoudai Affiliated.
Before the pledge meeting started, Lingnan had already received the winter competition grouping list.
Among them, Lingnan was placed in the first group, and the seed team in the first group was Sanno Industrial.
Perhaps considering Lingnan's strength, the Winter Games Organizing Committee did not allow Lingnan and Sanno Industries to meet in advance.
Only when Lingnan becomes the top two in the group will it be a showdown with Sanno Industrial.
In addition to Lingnan and Sanno Industry, the first group also includes Lingnan's old rival Aihe Academy.
As for another old rival, Toyotama, it is a pity that they did not win the spot for the Winter National Competition, but Daiei Academy led by Jun Tsuchiya.
Ever since Coach Kitano was fired, the Toyota Basketball Club has been in a state of turmoil.
Not surprisingly, coach Jin Ping took over.
Coach Jinping is miserable. Coach Kitano has a great influence in Toyotama, but Toyotama's players took out the anger of Coach Kitano's dismissal on coach Jinping. This is a pain for coach Jinping.
The Toyotama players led by Nan Lie, Kishimoto and others not only disrespected Coach Jinping, but also acted in a submissive manner and did not take him seriously at all.
As a result, Toyotama inevitably fell into 'turmoil'.
When Toyotama was in turmoil, Daiei Academy took this opportunity to defeat Toyotama and successfully won a spot in the winter competition.
This is also the main reason why Toyotama did not enter the Winter National Competition.
Daiei Academy was assigned to the second group, and Kanagawa runner-up Buri High School was also in this group.
In the stadium, 50 teams have assembled.
Even though this is the first time Lingnan has participated in the Winter National Competition, as one of the most outstanding teams this year, its location is very close to the center.
To the left of Lingnan is Sanno Industries, and further to the left is the Hakata Shougang University affiliate. As the only second seeded team, they are the most central team.
It must be said here that, like the summer national competition, "Basketball Weekly" evaluated the 50 selected teams.
Among them, Sanno Industries, which has the highest rating, is also the only team rated AA.
As for Lingnan, it is evaluated as an A+ level team. Also an A+ level team is the Hakata Shougang University affiliate.
Compared with the summer national competition, Lingnan's evaluation can be said to be a step further. This is not only related to Lingnan's performance in the summer national competition, but also closely related to Yuzhu's personal ability.
If Lingnan players were not generally weak, perhaps Lingnan would also be rated as an AA team.
"Basketball Weekly" believes that Lingnan and Hakata are also the only two teams that pose a huge threat to Sanno Industries.
As for the A and A-level teams, there are teams such as Daiei Academy, Aiwa Academy, Luoan, Buri, and Jimbo University affiliated with Toyotama.
As Buri entering the country for the first time and also the runner-up in Kanagawa, their experiences with Shohoku can be said to be completely different.
This has something to do with Buri's background, and it also has something to do with rising to the top by stepping on Hainan Affiliated High School.
Although it was Xiangbei who defeated Hainan Affiliated High School, Xiangbei was defeated by Buri. In a sense, it is not Buri > Hainan Affiliated High School.
In addition, Buri is different from Shohoku. Although they have never played in a national competition, Buri's Watanabe brothers have been selected for the Autumn National Sports Competition for three consecutive years.
Regarding the strength of the Watanabe brothers, "Basketball Weekly" has a high evaluation, believing that both Masao Watanabe and Masayasu Watanabe are among the top five or even top three in their respective positions, even if you look at the country.
From Uozumi's point of view, this evaluation is not overestimated. Looking across the country, there are very few insiders who can match the strength of the Watanabe brothers. There are only Uozumi, Kentaro Sakurai, Nohisuke Suzuki, Taro Aso and Hiroyuki Takeshita. .
As for Akagi, Ikeda and Hiroshi, they are not as good as the Watanabe brothers for the time being.
At this time, basketball manager Harukami Liting stood in front with a wooden sign. The other Lingnan players lined up according to their team status, and the reserved position was still behind the captain Yusaku Ozawa.
Uozumi and Kashima Fengshuang were very close. They looked at each other in unison, and they could see the strong fighting spirit in each other's eyes.
"Yuzhu, I look forward to competing with you Lingnan again!"
Kashima Fengshuang subconsciously wanted to shake hands with Uozumi, but when she thought of the painful scene last time, she retracted her hand.
"Each other!"
"Yuzhu, before you face off against our mountain king, Lingnan, please don't capsize in the gutter."
The speaker this time was Kentaro Sakurai, who was parallel to Uozumi. His eyes looking at Uozumi were full of anger.
Whether it was the summer national competition or the autumn national sports, he suffered a big loss at the hands of Yuzhu and was crushed on both offense and defense.
Uozumi looked down at Kentaro Sakurai, pretending to be contemptuous and said: "To each other! Kentaro Sakurai, I am looking forward to our duel with you again!"
"hateful!"
Kentaro Sakurai looked unwilling, but he didn't say harsh words this time.
To put it simply, he didn't have the confidence to defeat Uozumi.
In order to defeat Uozumi, Kentaro Sakurai has been training hard in the past two months, but due to his talent, his progress has not been very great.
He is not just a fish, he can also use his potential points to improve his talents in various aspects.
The limited improvement in strength caused a serious lack of confidence in him.
Uozumi was too lazy to look at Kentaro Sakurai, and then looked at the other players of Sanno Industries.
"This guy has grown taller again!"
Uozumi's eyes focused on Kawada Masashi. Judging from the visual inspection, even if Kawada Masashi is not 185 centimeters tall, he is probably not much different.
As for the other Sanno Industrial players, there hasn’t been much change in appearance.
Soon, the gathering time was over, and the chairman of the Winter Competition Organizing Committee began to speak on stage.
It was still the same old mandarin and clichés. Yuzhu listened boredly until the moment it was finished.
As the champion of the last winter national competition, Kashima Maple Shuang spoke on behalf of Sanno Industries.
He went on stage to say something as a matter of routine, and then left the stage directly. This move once again won the cheers of the players and the audience.
Soon, the winter competition swearing-in meeting came to an end.
The first round of competition will also begin subsequently. Except for the two championship and runner-up teams that received byes, the remaining 48 teams will be assigned to different venues to compete, including the Lingnan team.
