Chapter 37: Slam Dunk: Opening Template Kise Ryota Chapter 036
And all this is thanks to Aida Hikoichi's sister Aida Yayoi.
Since she saw Kenichi Uesugi's amazing performance at the basketball hall in Ryonan that day, she went back to write the manuscript overnight and directly guaranteed the editor-in-chief with her career the next day before publishing the magazine.
In the next few days, Kenichi Uesugi carried out special training according to the requirements of Shigeka Tanaka every day.
Sometimes Shigeka Tanaka would ask him to increase the amount of training appropriately, but Kenichi Uesugi was exhausted. However, after these days of high-intensity training, Kenichi Uesugi seemed to feel that his
physical fitness had improved. He thought he should be able to hold on for a while longer when he uses perfect imitation in the future.
Early after the match with Xiangbei, Kenichi Uesugi checked his system experience value. It had reached 38%, and there was not much left to start the perfect imitation. Kenichi Uesugi was extremely looking forward to it!
Soon, the opening day of the county competition came. According to the competition system, all 64 teams
participating in the county competition in Kanagawa Prefecture will be divided into 4 regions. The top 4 teams in the county competition last year will become the seed teams in these 4 regions. They have the qualification to enter the top 8 directly. In other words, they only need to beat the strongest team in each region to directly advance to the finals of the county competition. And Ryonan, as one of the top 4 last year, naturally also enjoys the same rights.
However, even though there were no matches in the early stages of the schedule, Tanaka Shigeichi still brought the Ryonan players to the scene to watch the game. After all, blind training does not necessarily lead to good results. You still need to properly understand your opponent.
For Tanaka Shigeichi's decision, the happiest person was Uesugi Kenichi. He had been tortured by Tanaka Shigeichi these days and finally had a chance to take a break. Faced with many matches starting on the same day, Tanaka Shigeichi chose to watch the match between Shohoku and Miuradai. Although Shohoku lost miserably to Ryonan in the practice match a few days ago, Tanaka Shigeichi still recognized their strength.
Led by Kenichi Uesugi, the Ryonan team came to the front row of the audience. As soon as they appeared, they immediately caused quite a stir.
"Wow! That seems to be someone from Ryonan!"
"Yes! I heard that there is an amazing talent in their team, even better than Sendoh!"
"Yes, yes! I heard about it too, it seems to be that yellow-haired guy!"
Soon, Kenichi Uesugi became the target of criticism from the audience. This made him, who never liked to be high-profile, feel a little embarrassed! And Shigeichi Tanaka, who was sitting next to him, sighed in his heart,
"I should have stopped Yayoi Aida's report earlier. I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing!"
Shigeichi Tanaka has always been pursuing a policy of hiding his strength, so as to give the enemy a fatal blow at the most critical
moment. Now Ryonan's main opponents in the national competition are Kainan and Shoyo. Originally, before meeting them, Shigeichi Tanaka did not intend to expose Kenichi Uesugi's trump card. But now, all this has gone to waste. Not only has the trump card been exposed, but even Kenichi Uesugi has become the target of everyone's criticism.
"I should have stopped Aida Yayoi earlier. I thought she was here to see Hikoichi. How could I forget that she was a basketball reporter!"
Thinking of this, Tanaka Shigeichi turned around and looked at Hikoichi. Hikoichi was taking out a pen and paper to take notes, looking at the coach's slightly resentful eyes. He was a little bit at a loss for a moment.
"Did I do something wrong to make the coach angry?"
The game on the court was about to start. Shohoku's opponent was called Miuradai. They won many games in a row in the county competition last year until they met Hainan in the end and lost the game. So they didn't take Shohoku, which was eliminated in the first
round last year, seriously. Not only Miuradai, but even most of the audience watching the game on-site were not optimistic about Shohoku. After all, Shohoku had never achieved any good results in history and was just beaten by Ryonan recently; it was normal that they were not recognized by the audience.
The game started soon. As soon as Shohoku's players came on the court, everyone in Ryonan found something wrong. Rukawa Kaede, the ace player of Shohoku, was pressed on the bench. Tanaka Shigeichi was also very puzzled about this.
"Is it possible that Coach Anzai is also hiding his strength?"
Only Kenichi Uesugi knew the truth of the matter.
"Rukawa Kaede and his friends were punished by Coach Anzai for fighting and cannot play!"
"Ah! So that's how it is!"
"Hey! How did you know?"
Yinyi, who successfully caught the key point, asked. Kenichi Uesugi had no choice but to lie.
"Oh! I have a junior high school classmate in Shohoku. He told me!"
"So that's how it is!" Yinyi said thoughtfully.
Ignoring Yinyi, Kenichi Uesugi continued to introduce everyone in Ryonan.
"Not only Rukawa Kaede, but also the number 7 next to him is called Miyagi Ryouta, and he is the starting point guard of Shohoku!"
"Yes, I was surprised that he didn't come to the last practice match!" The speaker was Uekusa. As an opponent who had played against each other last year, he was very familiar with Miyagi.
"The one with number 14 is called Mitsui Shou, and he was the MVP player in junior high school!" Kenichi Uesugi introduced calmly. Although the title of MVP is very intimidating, it has no value for Kenichi Uesugi now. After all, with his current strength, even Mitsui in his undefeated period would find it difficult to resist.
Everyone in Ryonan was shocked by his words.
"MVP!"
"Then this guy should be very strong!"
After listening to Kenichi Uesugi's words, Yuzumi finally remembered his memory of Mitsui Shou.
"Yes, he is the junior high school MVP Mitsui Shou. I didn't expect that he would appear in Shohoku after disappearing for so long!"
"Now it seems that Shohoku's overall strength has improved a lot!"
Tanaka Shigeichi's face also looked a little ugly.
"It seems that there is one more team competing for the national competition this year!"
"However," Tanaka Shigeichi looked at Kenichi Uesugi, "We have him, so we don't have to worry about it!"