Chapter 5

In some respects, it is indeed not wrong.

People come into contact with basketball at first, indeed because of love.

It's just that it's not feasible to always hold this pure idea.

Modern basketball, or the entire history of basketball, the court is a battlefield!

Whether it's a professional league or an international tournament, every game is a war.

For victory, players can use war stomps to hit people on the court, or use flying kicks.

In short, a real game is never pure.

Thinking about things, the bullet comments in front of him began to scroll again.

'Tendo Keigen?'

'What are you to Tendo Souji?'

'Pre-ordered, the first B-King of this work!'

'This guy looks so handsome, he almost threatened me; he must be an important character!'

'Wake up upstairs, your looks can only compare to Gian at best!'

Brain-dead netizens have a lot of fun.

Tendo Keigen felt that this show must have only aired the first episode, and the progress bar still had at least half left; it hadn't even reached the exciting part, and these B's had already started looking for fun for themselves.

Laozi hasn't even operated yet!

Enough idle talk.

After waiting for some time, Shirogane Goro came over with his assistant coach and the current team captain, Nijimura Shuzo.

"First of all, welcome everyone to the Teiko basketball club."

"As you can see, what our basketball club pursues is the philosophy of victory above all else."

Shirogane Goro pointed to the beam hanging above the gym, where the four big characters "Hundred Battles, Hundred Victories" were written.

But speaking of which, although Teiko is a regular at the national tournament, the number of national tournament championships they have actually won is not particularly large.

This has to do with the national tournament's competition system, which uses BO1 throughout, meaning a one-game knockout system.

Such a system is recognized as the most cruel and exciting system.

It's not almost, but every year there will definitely be upsets.

Even a stronger team might be cut down because of a sudden explosion of a team, or even the explosion of a player.

So wanting to win consecutive national tournament championships is a very difficult thing.

It requires not only strength but also luck on your side.

Shirogane Goro saw everyone's expressions become serious, realizing what kind of basketball club Teiko is, and then nodded and continued.

"We are a victory-ism team. Since it's victory-ism, the joining ceremony will speak with basketball."

"I won't arrange any physical tests for you now; if you want to get a position at Teiko, you can only rely on yourselves."

"Now, start group confrontation training. Those whose names are called form a team; your opponents are Teiko's second-string."

Shirogane Goro's arrangement was simple and neat.

Doing physical tests one by one is definitely not feasible because there are too many people.

If they tested everyone, they basically wouldn't have anything else to do today.

Whether it's a donkey or a horse, it'll be clear after a run on the court.

However, he had actually already remembered a few faces in his heart.

The one that attracted him the most must be Murasakibara Atsushi, who is young and already 190cm tall.

'Wow, so tall!'

'And a three-no!'

'Stupid and cute, is this guy really a junior high student?'

Shirogane Goro held the information in his hand and began to look forward to Murasakibara Atsushi's performance.

Murasakibara Atsushi has been a famous basketball genius since elementary school.

Because of his height, he was naturally spotted by the basketball club coach and pulled to play basketball.

Like the fat guy Morishige Wataru in Slam Dunk, children with this physique and athletic ability will be hailed as treasures in the basketball world.

Murasakibara Atsushi did not disappoint the teacher who expected him.

Standing out from the crowd since he was a child, when he arrived on the court, even if he didn't know much about basketball, he still caused a dimensionality reduction strike to his peers.

In the first year of contact with basketball, he very easily helped his team win the regional championship.

He is a true talent monster.

Soon, the grouping was completed.

Time is limited; Teiko cannot arrange a 40-minute game.

This confrontation match is only 20 minutes per game, adopting a 10-minute half-time method.

Tendo Keigen was lucky; he was assigned to a team with Kuroko, totaling 10 people.

Unsurprisingly, these people will each get 10 minutes to show themselves.

The grouping was completed, and after changing into training clothes, the game started, and several games were going on at the same time.

Tendo Keigen sat on the bench with Kuroko for the first 10 minutes, with the other five freshmen playing first.

Unsurprisingly, these freshmen who were temporarily put together were beaten to a pulp by the seniors of Teiko's second-string.

This doesn't make people feel strange at all.

What's more, Teiko's second-string is actually the reserve for the first-string.

Teiko's first-string, that is, the starters, only has a few people; the remaining substitutes will be selected from the players who perform well in the second-string.

In other words, these newcomers are facing the substitutes of the powerhouse Teiko.

This was intentional by Shirogane Goro, giving these newcomers a slap in the face so that these greenhorns would know what's what.

In just five minutes, the score became 16:4; the first-year students on Tendo Keigen's team only scored a mere 4 points in five minutes.

The strength was already inferior to the second-string, and there was no tacit understanding or cooperation; such a score difference is very reasonable.

'So weak, they were beaten 16:4?'

'Didn't you see the opening narration? Teiko is a powerhouse team; it's not strange to beat some rookies, right?'

'I'm looking forward to how Kuroko leads the team to reverse; according to the routine, it must be the teammates are CBA, and then the protagonist explodes to reverse, right?'

The dog-coin netizens guessed it almost right.

But the person leading the reversal today is not the protagonist.

Before developing his own misdirection, Kuroko is a pure rookie.

Wanting Kuroko to lead the team to reverse is completely overthinking.

The first half of the game soon came to an end.

Tendo Keigen was ready to play, but just as he got up, he found Kuroko's hands were shaking.

"Why do you seem so nervous, Kuroko."

"We're about to play, shouldn't we be excited?"

"I... I'm sorry, Tendo-kun, the seniors are all too amazing."

Kuroko knows his level very well.

His love for basketball, he asks himself, will not lose to anyone, but compared to who is weaker, he also doesn't think he will lose to anyone.

Tendo Keigen certainly knows, but he still confidently spread his legs, hands pressing on both knees to move his body.

"Just this little thing?"

"Hmm, doesn't Tendo-kun feel nervous at all?"

"Of course not!" Tendo Keigen said spiritedly, "Because I am the strongest!"

— Author's Notes —

PS: Here, here, went out in the morning and just came back.