Chapter 303: Years in the making
After leaving Kobe, Sakuragi and his party hurried to Hiroshima Prefecture, the prefecture where Fukuyama City is located. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There were no direct flights, so Sakuragi's team flew to Hiroshima Airport and then reversed to Fukuyama.
However, upon arriving at Hiroshima Airport, Sakuragi was stunned by the sheer number of media and fans who came to pick him up.
However, Sakuragi did not give an interview, but left the airport under the protection of airport security personnel.
Since it was already evening, everyone probably wanted to get to Fukuyama as soon as possible and rest early.
On the bus to Fukuyama, Sakuragi learned that his long-time best friend, Mu Du Gongyan, who was also a member of the Feilang team, also left the team in the previous transaction.
In this big deal, the Flying Waves team can be said to be the "big three": big money, big change, and big surprise.
The deal was as follows: The Waves sent small forward Takugawa Fujiwara and shooting guard Konobu Kiwa in exchange for Osaka Iron Horse small forward Kyle Simmons and shooting guard Slyer Kento.
After two big trades, the Waves team's starting lineup has changed more than half, which can be regarded as a complete reshuffle.
However, such a large-scale trade in the middle of the season, a big change, is really uncommon.
And the reorganized Flying Wave team also formed the trident of Kenji Fujima, Slael Kento, and Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Perhaps the Flying Waves are following the Antlers' team-building model and forming a trident lineup.
Although the people are already in place, they just don't know that these three people can cooperate together.
It stands to reason that the trident formed by the Flying Waves team has Kenji Fujima of the ball-control organization, and Slyle Jianren who shoots from the outside, and Jianren also has a certain ability to attack with the ball. There is also an inner line "meat grinder" Sakuragi Hanamichi.
It coincides with the trio of Kiyota, Ah Shen and Ah Mu.
However, the three have been teammates since high school, although college has been interrupted, but they simply know each other well, and the new trident of the Flying Waves is different, this is the first time the three have teamed up, although they may have crossed paths with the national team in the All-Star Game, but most of the time, they are still opponents.
But for Sakuragi, there is one person on the team that he knows quite well - Kyle Simmons.
Speaking of Simmons' first team in **A, it was Sakuragi's old club - Kobe Jaguars.
At that time, when Rukawa Kaede was on loan to CSKA Moscow, CSKA sent Simmons to the Jaguar team, so Sakuragi also had Simmons as a teammate for a season.
After that, Simmons did not leave **A, and moved several teams.
The reason why the Jaguar team sent Sakuragi Hanamichi away was to straighten out Rukawa Kaede and build it into an absolute "MVP", and the same is true for the Iron Horse team, sending away the equally powerful Slael Jianren in order to correct the "trump card" in the team - Nakariwan.
The Waves were able to make these two deals at the same time, and it has been years in the making.
In fact, the Flying Waves have always been a low-key presence in the league, they rarely play well in the regular season, and they rarely have any lace news that has made headlines.
They are not the favourites in the eyes of experts every season, but they are always a force to be reckoned with in the playoffs, so they will always be a force to be reckoned with.
The epic 2008-2009 season seemed like yesterday.
After winning the first championship in team history, the Flying Waves team was not satisfied, and their lineup was still very young.
Although Kenji Fujima is plagued by injuries, he can still play an all-star level performance, and Fujima's willpower is unimaginable to ordinary people, and the more difficult the moment, the more Fujima can show his super-god side.
There are also people like Fujiwara Takugawa and Kishu Konobu, these are all outstanding young talents, and when they won the first championship in team history, they made great contributions.
However, the results of the Flying Waves in recent seasons have not been satisfactory, and player injuries are one reason, and the other reason is that the players' mentality has changed.
Although they were still able to make the playoffs, compared to the season when they won the championship, their teammates didn't seem to be too motivated.
Some scorching games are often unwinnable.
Season after season, the Waves management decided to make changes to the team.
In fact, this "change" has been rooted as early as the season after the team won the championship and failed to enter the playoffs.
It's just that the team hasn't been able to find too good a chance to make a move.
And the two big deals reached by the Flying Waves team, the management of the Flying Waves, the biggest credit is the general manager of the team, who gave Kawaguchi the person who "broke the peace call" - Ehara Ishok.
A middle-aged man with a middle part, some buckteeth, and very prominent cheekbones.
In addition to the identity of the general manager of the team, Jiang Yuan Shiqiu has another identity, which is longer than the years that the general manager has been doing, and it should be said that he has been doing it longer than anything else, that is, his nephew.
Yes, he is the nephew of Waves head coach Hiroo Moriyama.
With his nephew as the general manager of the team and his uncle as the head coach of the team, the Flying Waves team is almost the team of the Moriyama family.
This kind of situation is really rare in **a, to be precise, only the Feilang team has such a relationship.
However, the owner of the Feilang team doesn't seem to care about these things, and the team owner rarely shows up, even if he even won the championship, he just hurriedly came to the court and lifted the "golden basket" and disappeared.
Usually, he didn't care about it, and almost put the management and decision-making power of the team in the hands of Jiangyuan Shiqiu.
Although Gangwon is a descendant of a "basketball family", he did not inherit his uncle's basketball talent, and although he also received professional training when he was a student, he soon became inadequate.
However, Gangwon has a good brain, especially in business management and mathematics.
It was also on the recommendation of his uncle that after graduation, Jiang Yuan joined the Flying Wave Team.
However, at that time, Hiroo Moriyama was not the head coach of the team, and Ehara was just an accountant.
However, Gangwon's business ability was soon discovered, and his career was quite smooth.
Junior Accountant - Organizer of the Team's Finance Section - Leader of the Coordination Team of the Finance Section - Deputy Chief of the Finance Section - Director of the Team Development and Training Committee - Deputy General Manager of the Team - General Manager of the Team.
Step by step, Jiang Yuan performed a boys' version of "Du Lala's Promotion".
Kenji Fujima, Konobu Kiki, both of whom were brought to the Flying Wave team by Ehara.
It can be said that Gangwon's contribution to the team is no less than that of the players who work the field.
This big deal, Gangwon has also been planning and preparing for many years, just for this moment.
This brand-new Flying Wave Team can be said to have been "incubated" by Gangwon.
In fact, before getting in touch with the Jaguar team, Ehara had already set his sights on the Osaka Iron Horse team.
However, unlike the Jaguar team, there are not too many contradictions within the Iron Horse team, the team is still in a relatively harmonious atmosphere, and the team is united in the hope of reaching the finals again.
As for the conditions for the two teams to reach a deal, one is that the Iron Horse team really wants Zhongliwan to be the master, and the second and most important reason is that the Flying Waves team has players in the team that the Iron Horse team has been interested in for a long time. (To be continued.) )