皆様こんにちは！！！ライフフォースカイロプラクティックのシュンです。

今回は先週末に行われたキングス対信州の試合を見に行った試合をお話しします。

今シーズン初観戦となる試合で、序盤から緊迫したゲーム展開で3Q終わって信州が3点リードとワンプレーごとに歓声と指笛が鳴り響き、4Q残り2分で67対79で信州が12点リードとなった展開から岸本選手の3本の3PとハードなDFで一気に3点差まで詰め寄り残り1分を切った所から松脇選手の同点スリーで追いつき、更にヴィックロー選手のバスケットカウントで勝ち越し最後は岸本選手のレインアップで試合は83対79でキングスが勝ち4連勝としました。この試合は8000人を超えるお客さんが集まっていて信州ブースターの方も沢山駆けつけていてどちらが勝つかゲーム展開も読めず中々見ることの出来ない大逆転劇に最終盤は思わず渾身のガッツポーズが出ました。

そして試合後には2008-2017までキングスの大黒柱として優勝にも何度も導き、現在キングスのACをしている

マクヘンリーACの永久欠番セレモニーが行われ、かつてのハイライトや元キングスの選手からのビデオメッセージなどを見ると改めてマクヘンリーコーチの偉大さやキングスに来て何度も優勝に貢献してキングスファンからも凄い愛されている事が分かる瞬間でした。

僕も2012年頃からキングスを見ていて今でも当時マクヘンリー選手のプレーは印象的でした。学生時代にキングスを観戦しに行くと友達に言うとマクヘンリー選手どうだった？などと聞かれるくらいキングスといえばマクヘンリー選手って言うくらいの凄い認知度だと改めて感じました。

桶谷HCも言ってて印象に残る言葉がキングスのHCとして観たいと言ってたのが印象的でぜひ僕も将来みたいなと思いました。

西地区7連覇と2年連続の日本一出来る様に全力で応援していきます。

Hello everyone! ! ! This is Shun from Life Force Chiropractic.

This time, I would like to talk about the game I went to watch last weekend between the Ryukyu Golden Kings and Shinshu Brave Warriors.

This was my first game I attended this season, and the game was tense from the beginning, with Shinshu leading by 3 points at the end of the 3rd quarter, with cheers and whistles ringing after every play, and with 2 minutes left in the 4th quarter, Shinshu led by 12 points, 67-79. Kishimoto’s three 3-pointers and hard defenders quickly brought the lead to three points, and with less than a minute left, Matsuwaki caught up with a tie-breaking three, and Wicklow’s basket count led to the team winning the game at the end. With Kishimoto’s offensive push, the Kings won the game 83-79, making it their fourth consecutive win. More than 8,000 people had attended this match, and many Shinshu Warriors fans were in attendance as well making it difficult to predict who would win, the final stage had people both teams fans cheering their teams on as hard as they could.

After this hard fought game the Kings had a jersey retirement ceremony for current Assistant Coach of the Kings Anthony McHenry. He was a mainstay for the Kings from 2008 to 2017 and he helped bring many memorable moments to Ryukyu Kings fans. During the ceremony many of his highlights along with words of his former teammates were played throughout the stadium. It was clear through the ceremony and the reaction of the crowd that McHenry was and still is loved by many Ryukyu Kings fans for his contributions on and off the court.

I have been a Kings fan since 2012 and I still fondly remember McHenry san playing for the team, when I was still a student I would mention the Ryukyu Kings and all my friends of would mention McHenry, it was obvious the impact that he has had on many fans of basketball here in Okinawa.

Head Coach of the Kings Oketani also stated that he would one day like to see the possibility of McHenry becoming the head coach of the Kings, and that is an idea that I would also love to see happen.