Sakuragi was punished with a three-game ban for his irrational behavior, and after receiving Haruko's text message, Sakuragi regained his strength. Train hard and prepare for your debut. The Jaguar team has started the journey of the new season and is about to usher in the first game of the new season.

I briefly introduced the general situation of the JBA during the Sakuragi draft before, and here we will take a closer look at the JBA League.

There are now ten teams in the JBA League: Hokkaido Lavender, Osaka Iron Horse, Tokyo Great White Shark, Fukuyama Flying Wave, Nagoya Ninja, Kagoshima Antlers, Aomori Green Python, Sado Island Radiance, Sendai Rover, and Sakuragi's Kobe Jaguar.

Taking Kobe Jaguar as an example, the regular season needs to play home and away games against five of the other nine teams, and then play three games each with the remaining four teams, two of which are two at home and two are two away, so a team has to play 22 games in the regular season, which is actually not much, so the three-game ban on Sakuragi is enough to see the severity of the league's punishment of Sakuragi.

At the end of the regular season, the four teams with the best results enter the playoffs, and only four teams advance to the playoffs, which more or less makes other teams less motivated to compete, so the JBA league is considering expanding the team, which may be completed as soon as next season. The four teams that make it to the playoffs play the playoffs according to the 1-4, 2-3 rankings, and the best of five teams will compete for the golden basket, which symbolizes the highest honor of the JBA!.

The first game of the new season will be on the road to challenge the mediocre Aomori Green Python, which is also the opening game of the new JBA season. When it was time to leave for the away game, Sakuragi decided to stay at the team base to train and not go with the team to the away game.

"Are you really not going with us, Sakuragi?" asked Coach Oki.

"No, I think time is very tight now, I have to step up my training, I have missed 3 games, and I have to give my all for the rest of the games!" Sakuragi seemed determined.

"Oh well. Seeing that Sakuragi was so determined, Oki gave up persuasion.

The strength of the Aomori Green Python team is indeed limited, the team has not cultivated top players in recent years, and the vision of the draft also needs to be examined, only the center Uchiyama Nagacho has a certain strength in the team, long braids, and huge weight is his trademark, and the level of other players is very average.

It should be the team's opening game of the new season, the Green Python team's home attendance is quite high, and there may be a large number of people who come to see the champion - Rukawa Kaede!

After a warm-up, the starters from both sides were ready to enter.

"In the first game of the new season, take out our spirit, still implement the team's style of play, first attack Akagi, Rukawa Kaede has a chance to shoot decisively on the outside, and the defensive end can be marked by man, okay, everyone show morale!" "321, Jaguar!" the team members shouted with their hands raised as usual, their fists together, and with great momentum.

Akagi and Uchiyama Nagatoshi prepare to jump the ball, and the JBA game of the new season officially begins, the first game of the new season of the Jaguar team, and the first game of Rukawa Kaede's career.

After the jump ball, the Jaguar team got the ball, Miyagi dribbled the ball across the half court, and immediately passed to Rukawa Kaede who came to respond, Rukawa Kaede did not hesitate after getting the ball, and directly dribbled forward with his left hand to break through, the green python team should also have studied this champion Lang, Rukawa Kaede just burst to the free throw line, and a player came up to wrap the clamp and block Rukawa Kaede's way, but Rukawa Kaede should have been prepared, just been trapped, the ball passed to the left 45 degree three-point line at the unmarked Mitsui hand, Mitsui got the ball and shot, the rhythm is quite smooth!

"Brush!"

The Jaguar team was led by Mitsui, which was also Jaguar's first goal of the new season.

"It's beautiful, Rukawa! This is JBA, let's do it!" Mitsui, who is considered a big brother, inspired Rukawa Kaede.

Coming back, the green python missed a mid-range shot by power forward Ryu Yagi, Akagi took the rebound and handed it to Miyagi, seeing that there was no chance of a fast attack, Miyagi turned the offense to the position.

Rukawa Kaede once again came out of the inside with the help of cover, and seeing that Rukawa Kaede was already at the three-point line and unguarded, Miyagi immediately passed the ball over.

Rukawa Kaede also did not hesitate to shoot three points!

But the ball didn't hit and hit the neck of the basket, it was a long rebound, Akagi stretched out his long arm to grab the rebound, and held the ball high in the air, Rukawa Kaede saw the emptiness of the inside line and suddenly inserted it inward, Akagi saw Rukawa Kaede inserted it inside, made a shooting feint, and passed the ball to Rukawa Kaede, Rukawa Kaede didn't dribble after getting the ball, and after taking a step, both hands buckled!

Kaede Rukawa scored the first goal of his career, and since the opening game, Kaede Rukawa has been quite active and released his talent.

"There is no doubt about Kaede Rukawa's individual ability, and compared to his scoring ability, I hope he can connect the whole team and revitalize the whole team like the first assist!" Oki analyzed.

Jaguar did not resist much throughout the game, and in the end, the Jaguar team won the first game of the new season with a 108-91 away victory over the Aomori Green Python in the first game of the new season.

Rukawa Kaede played 28 minutes and got 21 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals.

"How does it feel, Rukawa Kaede, the first game of the JBA, did a good job!" In the locker room after the game, Miyagi praised Rukawa Kaede.

"It's okay, I just don't know how the game is going over there. "It seems that Rukawa Kaede has already put his mind on another game.

The race in Kaede's mouth was the highlight of the first day of racing that began immediately after the Jaguar game.

A strong conversation between last season's JBA champion Sendai Rovers and Nagoya Ninjas.

As last season's champion, the Rover's strength is undoubted, although the hero of the championship is also the interior giant Maruyama Kojiro, who won the championship and won the Most Valuable Player in last season's finals, left the team to study in the United States, but the Rover still has Akira Sendo, who can be called the league's No. 1 scoring guard, high-quality rookie Yohei Mito, a strong defensive inside, and an alumnus of Sendo, Afuku, whose strength should not be underestimated. And the inside line of the ninja team over there, Takano Thunder, it seems that he was indeed injured by Sakuragi and did not play, but the comprehensive strength of the ninja team is still very strong! Especially point guard Ishii Yanfeng, while scoring 32 points in the game, he contributed a game-high 16 assists, but how to Nai Xiandao Akira ushered in an explosive game, the whole game Xiandao two-point shot 13 of 20, 3 of 7 three-point shots, free throws 8 of 9, cut 49 points, and 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 6 steals of the terrifying data, in one fell swoop led the team to 98:93 to win the opening game without danger and defend the home honor!

There were only two games on the first day of the game, but Xiandao and Rukawa Kaede contributed wonderful performances and led their respective teams to a good start!

Maybe the two of them are also fighting in secret, because sooner or later, the two will stage a fateful battle.

Sakuragi witnessed all this in front of the TV at Jaguar's training base, and Sakuragi, with his fists clenched, couldn't wait to play now, because in Sakuragi's eyes, his ability was on par with the strength of Sendo and Rukawa Kaede! But all Sakuragi could do now was train, keep training, and be ready for his first game.

After playing the first game, the Jaguar team did not return to Kobe, but went to the next away game, Osaka! to challenge the team there, the Osaka Iron Horse!

The Osaka Iron Horse is also a team that has been glorious in the past, and now the head coach of the Jaguar team, Kazushi Oki Ichishimoto, was the main player of the Iron Horse team when he was a player, and helped the team win one and only JBA championship. You know, in the history of the JBA, only four teams in the history of the JBA, Sendai Wanderers, Kagoshima Antlers, Hokkaido Lavender and Osaka Iron Horse have won the championship. (The Tokyo Tower team has won 9 JBA championships, but after the team management was not operating well, the team changed hands and became the current Tokyo Jaws, so it is believed that the Tokyo Jaws and Tokyo Tower are not the same team) So the Iron Horse team still has some heritage, and the team has a good forward combination: slam dunk king - Nakaliwan, and Japanese-Brazilian mixed race - Sleier Jianren, this pair has a strong impact, facing the lack of Sakuragi Jaguar, Iron Horse vows to defend the home honor.

Entering the second match day, other teams finally appeared, and the most surprising game was the Kagoshima Antlers' 128-86 victory over Hokkaido Lavender by 42 points.

Antlers

No. 4, Makikochi 32 points, 16 rebounds, 4 blocks, No. 6, Tadaichiro Kami 18 points, 5-of-6 three-pointers, No. 10, Nobunaga Kiyota 15 points, 10 assists.

"So you're all here!hahaha, that's great, it's perfect to make your debut in your genius career!" Sakuragi watched everything in front of the TV, because the first game of Sakuragi's comeback was Jaguar's return home against Kagoshima Antlers!