Chapter 239: Drawing Ceremony

"I don't understand the production team anymore."

"Seirin winning is predictable; after all, Tiandao said long ago that Seirin's potential is great and they are definitely not some small fry."

"In fact, it's true; a Seeing Seeing Kagami at the level of the Generation of Miracles, a strongest support Kuroko, plus a five-general Kiyoshi Teppei, although the outside line is a bit worse, they are also national-level players. This lineup is definitely a championship-level configuration."

"So I'm really not surprised that Seirin beat Touou, but this result is debatable! Does the director team really have to add scenes for Kuroko and forcibly arrange for Kuroko to execute the buzzer-beater?"

Fan Shi kept complaining in the live broadcast room.

"Could it be because Tiandao and the Generation of Miracles are too popular and overshadow Kuroko? So they left the final highlight moment for Kuroko?"

It's not that he's into conspiracy theories.

It's just that many manga authors have this problem.

They have a bias toward the characters they create.

Once an unexpected character becomes too popular and overshadows the protagonist, they will come up with some absurd operations, or even directly write the character out.

Fan Shi could now smell the scent of a shady operation.

Actually, if Kirisaki Daiichi lost to Seirin in the Winter Cup, Fan Shi could accept it.

After all, Kirisaki Daiichi already had an Inter-High championship, and Tiandao wouldn't have gained nothing if he lost.

Being able to snatch a championship from the protagonist's hands is already awesome!

But if every match is won in such a way, he can't accept it.

After all, Kirisaki Daiichi's lineup was strengthened again after winning the championship, and Seirin's configuration was already strengthened when they played Touou, but then it regressed when they played Shutoku. This is completely aimed at plot-killing Kirisaki Daiichi.

"Plot-kill?"

Tiandao looked at Fan Shi's complaints and chuckled.

Seirin's trump card is the second door of the Zone, and Tiandao is very clear about this.

He had already found a way to crack it.

Wanting to plot-kill him? Don't even think about it.

However, this production team is quite capable; Tiandao's popularity growth rate had already slowed down.

As a result, after they messed around like this, Tiandao found that his popularity growth rate had accelerated again.

Many viewers who understand basketball feel it's unfair and hate the director team for forcibly arranging for Aomine to be written out in such a way.

They now especially want to see Tiandao blood-crush Seirin.

"I will make your wishes come true; who told me to spoil my fans."

Tiandao turned off the video and answered the call from Momoi.

The little girl was unhappy because she lost the game, and her voice was sweet and coquettish.

"Xiao~ Tian~"

"Alright, I watched the match, I know what happened. What was your coach thinking at the end, why didn't he call a timeout?"

Compared to listening to her complaints, Tiandao chose to proactively throw out the question.

"Coach he... the reason the coach didn't call a timeout was that he wanted the players to handle it themselves..."

As expected.

Harasawa Katsunori did walk to the technical statistics table at the last moment, but the referee didn't blow the whistle to stop the match at that time.

Although he had thought of this possibility, Tiandao still felt Harasawa Katsunori was very amateur.

Including Aida Riko, neither team called even a single timeout during the final decisive stage of the match.

The outcome of the match was entirely decided by the 10 players of the two teams, and had nothing much to do with them as coaches.

Basketball coaches are not as important as football coaches, but that's only compared to football.

Many times, players playing on the court don't notice some things, and only the coach off the court can see them.

At such times, players need the coach to tell them how to adjust.

So today, the head coaches of both teams made Tiandao feel very unprofessional.

But it had nothing to do with him; as for complaints, Fan Shi and the audience had complained too much, and they didn't lack him.

"Xiao Tian~ I'm very unhappy now, and whenever I'm unhappy, I want to go shopping and buy some clothes."

Got it, so she was waiting for him here.

Tiandao thought for a moment; there was still some time before the opening of the Winter Cup, and he guessed Momoi also thought of this layer when she contacted him.

"Got it, I'll go shopping with you tomorrow."

"Really?!"

On the other end of the phone, Momoi immediately became full of energy; where was any depression?

The little girl was also starting to play tricks!

"Really."

"Hehe, then I'll go home to sleep first, come over early tomorrow."

After saying that, she hung up the phone to pick out the clothes she would wear tomorrow.

The Winter Cup regional qualifiers ended.

There were three representative teams in the Tokyo area.

Kirisaki Daiichi, who qualified directly as the Inter-High champion, as well as Shutoku and Seirin.

In the Kanagawa area, Kaijo looked down on all the mountains and qualified easily without encountering any opponents.

The Kyoto area was still guarded by the "King" Rakuzan, who took the ticket, while the ticket for Akita Prefecture was obtained by Yosen.

Once again, the teams where the Generation of Miracles were located all got their respective regional tickets.

Only the most competitive Tokyo area had no choice but to eliminate one.

And this time, the one eliminated wasn't Shutoku, but Touou; after entering the round-robin top four for two consecutive years, Seirin finally made it to the final tournament.

It is said that the venue for next year's Inter-High is set in Kanagawa, and the battle for tickets will be even more intense.

Before the Winter Cup started, there was also a drawing ceremony.

As the team captain, Tiandao went on behalf of Kirisaki Daiichi.

Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something and said to Haizaki, "Let's go together, Haizaki."

Akashi had specifically called a few days ago, saying he hoped to talk to Haizaki.

His personality had merged into one again, probably wanting to apologize for what he had done.

Tiandao agreed and invited Haizaki to go with him.

"Ah? Why do you want me to accompany you? Are you afraid of being beaten?"

Although he said that, Haizaki still agreed to go with Tiandao.

Afternoon, three o'clock.

In the arena for the Winter Cup match, in a multimedia conference room.

Tiandao brought Haizaki in.

They arrived relatively late; at this moment, the conference room was already full of team captains from all over the country, and some were coaches.

There was no hard requirement; anyway, just send someone who can speak.

Tiandao also saw Aida Riko here; she came alone.

"Over here, Tiandao, Haizaki." Akashi had arrived long ago, bringing his three Uncrowned Kings.

"Bringing three people with you, your show is still as big as ever, Akashi."

Before Tiandao could speak, Haizaki looked at Akashi with hostile eyes and spoke sarcastically.

To this, Akashi just smiled and said, "We rented a hotel nearby, and we will all be in Tokyo until the end of the Winter Cup."

As expected of you, even the words you speak carry the smell of money.

"Looks like you are well prepared."

"I don't want the myth of Rakuzan to end in my hands."

Akashi looked directly at Tiandao, with the posture of wanting to wash away the shame in the Winter Cup.

"Let's look at the draw first." Tiandao smiled and didn't speak.