[ It's a teaching game, it's fine to do it on purpose. He'll start playing her seriously once she can overcome the teaching "levels." But if he starts off with impossible challenges, she's not going to learn and she's not going to become a good opponent for either himself or Akashi. It'd be like asking her to shoot a 3-pointer from the end line her first day on the court. ]

They threw their match against Shutoku by only putting in second string because they thought it would be easier to take Seirin down than us in the preliminaries and lost to both of us because of that reprehensible behavior. Even without the referees taking notice, they paid the price.

[ And that's basketball justice. ]