Before we knew it, it was April 24th!
This year’s Kanagawa Prefecture competition is a few days later than last year, while the prefecture competitions in other regions have basically started earlier.
The county competition schedule was announced a few days ago.
Among them, since Lingnan was the county competition champion last year, it naturally became one of the four seeded teams. It only needs to play an eight-to-four game to directly advance to the joint finals. This is also a preferential treatment for the county competition seed teams.
In addition to Lingnan, the other three seed teams are Hainan High School, Xiangyang and Jinjiuwu.
Let me reiterate here, in last year's county competition, Buri was eliminated by Lingnan in the eight-to-four game, so it was not a seeded team.
The same goes for Xiangbei, which was eliminated by Xiangyang last year and also stopped in the quarterfinals.
For the four seeded teams, they all do not want to encounter Shohoku, Buri, especially Tsukutake.
The main reason why Lingnan doesn't want to do that is because Yuzhu "defeated" the Mountain King in last year's national competition and was suspended for two games.
In other words, Lingnan advanced to fourth place and the first joint final, and Yuzhu could only sit in the audience and watch.
For various reasons, the organizing committee naturally hopes that the stronger teams will advance to the joint finals, which is evident from the arrangement of the county competition schedule.
Among them, Lingnan is the face of Kanagawa. The organizing committee naturally does not want Lingnan to be accidentally eliminated in the eighth round, so the two powerful teams of Shohoku and Buri are placed in other groups.
Since Xiangbei defeated the Hainan High School in the winter divisional competition last year, and the Watanabe brothers from Buri graduated, the organizing committee is more optimistic about the Xiangbei team among these two strong teams.
Therefore, the organizing committee placed Xiangbei in Tsujiuwu's group, and placed Buri in the Hainan Affiliated High School group.
I heard that coach Gao Tou of Hainan Affiliated High School angrily broke several folding fans after learning the schedule, because in Coach Gao Tou's opinion, Hainan Affiliated High School had to fight a tougher battle than Xiangyang and Lingnan.
You must know that the schedule of the county competition is also relatively intensive, and it is easy for other opponents to learn more about Hainan and make targeted arrangements.
This is never a good thing for teams with similar strengths.
After the county competition schedule was released, the Shohoku team was naturally overjoyed, because their opponent in the eighth round and fourth round was Tsukutake, who was significantly weaker.
The Buri team had mixed feelings. They were disappointed that they were not assigned to the Jinjiuwu team, but they were also glad that their opponents were not Lingnan and Xiangyang.
In Buri’s view, Lingnan and Xiangyang are stronger than Hainan Affiliated High School.
Buri's Watanabe brothers have indeed graduated, but Hainan has also graduated Takamiya Motou, Ikeda and Hiroshi. Not to mention the eldest brother, the second brother, Buri has no hope of winning.
At nine o'clock in the morning, all Kanagawa teams gathered in the central gymnasium.
Before the first round of the county competition begins, there is naturally the opening ceremony.
Since it was the first round, there were not many spectators, and most of them were diehard fans of each team.
The teams stood in a row. As last year's county competition champion, Lingnan was located in the center, with Xiangyang and Hainan on both sides.
"Uozumi has grown taller again!"
This is the unanimous thought of all players and coaches present.
For the sport of basketball, height is a very important talent.
At 210 centimeters, it is very advantageous in high school leagues and is absolutely phenomenal.
At this time, Mu Shenyi and Fujima were afraid, but their eyes were full of fighting intent when they looked at Uozumi.
Like Uozumi and Mitsui, they also became captains of each team in their second grade.
Although the island nation is a country that pays great attention to qualifications, in sports competitions, strength is more convincing than qualifications.
There is a very strange phenomenon in Kanagawa's strong teams this year, that is, except for Buri, the captains of several other strong teams are all second-year players.
Many people present noticed this sign, which means that while Kanagawa's top second-year players are blowing out, it also means that the third-year players are not strong enough.
To be honest, among the third-year players, Nohara Koichiro of Buri seems to be the strongest among them, which is embarrassing.
Not to mention Uozumi, even compared to Mu Shinichi, Fujima, Mitsui and others, Nohara Koichiro pales in comparison.
I don’t know if Koichiro Nohara has become a top player after these few months of accumulation.
Soon, the opening ceremony began.
The opening ceremony is still the same as before, but the difference is that this time the player representative is Uozumi.
By the time Yuzhu came on stage to speak, the players in the audience were already looking at Yuzhu eagerly, because they had been standing for more than half an hour.
"Last year, Kanagawa achieved very good results across the country. I hope to continue our efforts and set new highs this year. By the way, because of my father's request, a round of advertising will be inserted here. If you are free in the future, remember to go to Uozumi Restaurant , there is a 20% discount, thank you!”
Uozumi said a few words casually. As for the advertisement that was inserted later, it was entirely at the request of Uozumi's father.
Ever since Uozumi's father learned that Uozumi had become the player representative in the county competition, he had set his sights on Uozumi. Under his words and deeds, Uozumi had to agree.
In fact, it is a good thing that the family business is good. Yuzhu can not only buy better sports equipment, but also have enough money to study in the United States in two years. Why not.
As soon as Yuzhu finished speaking, the players in the audience began to boo, saying that they would go there when they had time, and they just hoped that Yuzhu would come down as soon as possible.
"In response to everyone's strong request, I will say no more and declare the opening ceremony to be officially over."
Amid strong applause, Uozumi immediately ended his speech.
With the opening ceremony over, most of the teams have not left and they still have to go through the first round.
Only last year's top eight and top four teams have byes.
Since it was Saturday, Lingnan players did not have to return to school to study, and coach Tian Gang did not force them to do so and gave the order to disband at the gate of the gymnasium.
The Lingnan players all made a fuss, and Uozumi stood with Naito, Ikegami, Akagi, and Mitsui, and they were going to play a round at the nearby basketball court.
At the same time, Uozumi instilled Tsukutake's characteristics into Mitsui and Akagi, letting them know more about Tsukutake, lest they capsize in the gutter.
After all, Tsukutake is not a weak team, not to mention that they have many players who can shoot from long range. Once they are missed, the outcome is unpredictable.
Although Mitsui and others have watched several Tsukutake games, they have never played one and do not understand the details very well.
Just when Yuzhu and others were passing through an alley, suddenly, Yuzhu's ears moved slightly and he heard a faint scream, which seemed a bit familiar.
(End of chapter)
