Chapter 507

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

Sure enough.

Hara Sawa had walked to the technical statistics table at the last moment, but the referee didn't blow the whistle to stop the match.

Although he had thought of this possibility, Tiandao still felt Hara Sawa 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 on the two teams, and it didn't have 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; only the coach on the sidelines 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 already complained too much, so they didn't lack him.

"Little Tian~ I'm very unhappy now; 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 Satsuki contacted him thinking of this.

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

"Really?!"

On the other end of the phone, Satsuki immediately became full of energy; where was there 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 and started picking out clothes to wear tomorrow.

The Winter Cup regional preliminaries ended.

There were three representative teams in the Tokyo area.

Kirisaki Daiichi, who advanced directly as the National Tournament champion, as well as Shutoku and Seirin.

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

The Kyoto area was still held 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 the only qualifying ticket for their respective regions.

Only the Tokyo area, where the competition was most intense, really had no choice but to eliminate one team.

And this time, it wasn't Shutoku that was eliminated, but Too; after entering the round-robin top four for two consecutive years, Seirin finally made it into the final knockout stage.

It is said that next year's National Tournament venue is set in Kanagawa, and the ticket battle will be even more intense.

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

Tiandao, as the team captain, went on a trip on behalf of Kirisaki Daiichi.

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

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

His personality had merged into one again; he probably wanted to apologize for what he had done.

Tiandao agreed and invited Haizaki to go with him.

"Ah? Why let me accompany you? Are you afraid of being beaten?"

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

Afternoon, three o'clock.

In a multimedia conference room at the Winter Cup arena.

Tiandao walked in with Haizaki.

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, sending someone who could speak was enough.

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 pomp is still as big as ever, Akashi."

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

To this, Akashi only responded with a smile. He said, "We rented a hotel nearby; we will all be in Tokyo until the Winter Cup ends."

As expected of you; even the words you say carry the smell of money.

"It 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 lottery first." Tiandao smiled and didn't say anything.