Planning

With the retirement of the veteran players and the handover to the new captain as the starting point, the entire Miuradai team entered a new training rhythm.

Although Wu Yufei had promised Coach Harada that he would come to the gym every day until graduation to help train the players,

in order to help the new captain, Uehara Jun, establish his authority among the players as quickly as possible, Wu Yufei stopped directly giving orders to the team after the captaincy handover ceremony. Instead, he first discussed all his ideas with Uehara Jun, who would then make the arrangements.

Furthermore, under the strict demands of Wu Yufei and Coach Harada, none of the players could continue calling Wu Yufei "Captain." They had to address him by name, while calling Uehara Jun "Captain."

At first, the players were naturally quite uncomfortable with it. After all, Wu Yufei had been their captain from the moment each of them joined the team and had led them for so long. Being forced to change how they addressed him so suddenly inevitably felt awkward.

But all of this was so Miuradai could continue dominating Japan's high school basketball scene in the new year, so Coach Harada implemented a Spartan training regimen and held every player to extraordinarily strict standards.

Time moved into mid-February.

After a full half month of adjustment, the players finally began to get used to the new rhythm, and they had largely corrected how they addressed Wu Yufei and Uehara Jun.

One ordinary afternoon in mid-February.

Inside the Miuradai High School Basketball Gymnasium, everyone was carrying out their routine training according to schedule.

Uehara Jun was leading all the players through training, while Wu Yufei was personally coaching Uesugi Ryunosuke.

Although Uesugi had not yet graduated from ninth grade, he had officially