The Nishinomiya Storks built the foundation of their team around a slogan that hearkens back to another time.

¡°Determination action¡± lumped together is their slogan. Separately, each word is about the act of doing something. Combined together, the words sum up what first-year bench boss Kensaku Tennichi realized the team¡¯s identity needed to become.

Considering it an inspirational phrase, Tennichi gleaned it from a former Panasonic Super Kangaroos teammate, George Puou, from the early 1990s in the old JBL.