white king of black basket

“Dad, what are you looking at?”

When she was still young, the cute Reiko Aida used to ask her father, former Japanese national player Keitora ‘Keita’ in the gym.

“… Reiko, I’m watching them play—old friends ask me to help analyze their team tactics and development plans. ”

At this time, the basketball player who was once a big man showed the appearance of a stupid father, and hugged his baby daughter with a smile.

“Huh?” At this time, Lizi, who already had some rudiments of the ‘Eye of Data’, frowned and looked at the figure that kept going back and forth on the basketball court, and there was some puzzlement in her childish voice: “But that kind of thing, dad, you can see it at a glance, right?” Body data or something…”

And after hearing his daughter’s cute inquiry, Aida Jinghu also chuckled and explained without hurry: “Reiko, it’s not so simple to look at the specific situation of a player, right?” ”

“The strength and flexibility of the body are often not directly proportional, and the weaker people may have their own characteristics, and things like ‘ball sense’ are completely impossible to determine without watching the game in person.”

“Reiko, don’t let your talent cloud your eyes, and don’t just focus on observing the current physical condition of the players!”

With such words, Aida Jinghu’s hand pointed to a certain person who was not very conspicuous in the arena!

“It’s like that person, his current data can only be regarded as ordinary, and his performance is not very outstanding, but Reiko…”

In his voice, there was unquestionable confidence: “He is the person who will achieve the highest in the field now!” ”

“… Why? And Lizi, who was still young at the time, was still confused.

“Because… What is hidden in his body is far more powerful than what he shows! ”

And just about 2 years after that game, that player really became a famous ace of a club in Japan, as Keitora Aida said!

And since then, Reiko has deeply learned one thing, that is, in the observation of players, the current physical condition may be the best basis for judging the strength of most players.

However, in the observation of certain players, potential is the most important key factor!

Those gifted people called ‘geniuses’ never follow the path that ordinary people should take!

So before they mature, any form of estimation and speculation about them… It’s all pointless!

Because they are getting stronger all the time than they were the last second!

But fortunately, there are very few such deviations from common sense….

So little that it almost non-existent!

Even the ‘Rigid’ Nemuya Nagayoshi who he met before, and the ‘Yasha’ Reiyo Shibu seen today, although the potential in them is indeed extremely huge, but after all, they are the kind of ‘talent’ that Riko can understand and observe!

However, the boy who appeared in front of Reiko now…

‘Sogo Shirai, a small forward who is 185 tall and weighs 70KG, is friends with Mitsui Kasamatsu and was also one of Teiko’s students in the past. ’

In the past, he had never joined any club, and it was only this year that he joined the basketball club of Hakusan Academy with Mitsui Kasamatsu and directly became a regular player, the details of which are unknown. ’

In the absence of video recording and attention in the qualifiers, this level of intelligence could already be considered quite in-depth.

But now it seems that … This is completely meaningless!

Because compared to the analysis of the team, the existence of this guy named Sogo Shirai… It is the biggest threat and incredible!

“Can’t see…”

Mumbling incredulously in her mouth, Reiko Aida swallowed lightly with a mouthful of spit.

Yes….

Even if you focus your attention to the limit, even if your brain is almost overloaded, but… She still couldn’t see even the slightest bit of the white-haired boy’s physical limits!

Or, in his body….there is no such thing as a limit!

“Reiko, how to arrange the tactics?”

And just when Riko was distracted due to Sogo’s presence, a middle-aged man came to his side and asked, and Hinata Shunpei followed him and looked at Riko with doubtful eyes.

“Oh, Mifune-sensei…”

The visitor was none other than Mifune-sensei, who supervised the basketball department of Hideaki Academy when it was founded.

So Reiko finally eased her mind slightly, and after nodding slightly towards the middle-aged man, she turned her complicated gaze to Hinata Shunpei.

“Shunping…”

But even if she has always had good eloquence and good reaction to things, she is still a little poor at this time.

She didn’t know what to say: just say that this competition may be lost?

That’s a little too deflating.

“What’s wrong?” And Hinata Shunpei, who was originally sharp and energetic, seemed to have noticed her abnormality, and the eyes under the glasses looked at her with some doubt.

What’s wrong?

What else could it be.

This competition, you may lose!

“No, nothing… The tactics are just to deal with it as before, and then…”

“Do your best, go win!”

After thinking about it again, Reiko finally said such a sentence.

Rather than telling the players in advance about the fact that they lost, letting them experience a real game for themselves may be the way to really grow them.

Despite that process… Maybe not too pleasant.