Slam Dunk: I'm the Glasses Brother

One day in the winter of 1992, "The winter trials are about to begin, come on everyone." Mitsui, Akagi, and Mugure all came to the basketball stadium to cheer for the new generation of Xiangbei.

In fact, the so-called winter trials are far less popular than the summer national competition. The players are either high school seniors who failed to prove themselves in the summer national competition, or first and second graders who are running in after the high school seniors left the team. New Xiangbei uses the winter trials as a training ground, while Hainan and Ryonan also choose to run in the lineup. As for Xiangyang, because they missed the opportunity to perform in the national competition, all the third-year players will stay in the team this time.

Under the leadership of the new captain Tokuo Horita, Shohoku won all the way. In the semifinals, they defeated Shoyo 84:75, and in the finals, they defeated Midori Wind High School 78:67 to break out of Kanagawa. In the winter national competition, Shohoku met its old rival Sanno Industrial in the semifinals. After losing the championships of the summer and autumn national sports consecutively, although Sanno Industrial had Zebei studying in the United States, in order to regain the glory, all other players stayed on the team. Sanno's strength is still stronger than the new Shohoku team. In the end, Shohoku was eliminated by Sanno 71:79. After Shohoku was eliminated, Sanno invited Sakuragi again, but was still rejected by Sakuragi. In the third and fourth place finals, Shohoku defeated Hakata Corporation 74:62 and won the third place. Although they did not win the national championship, winning the third place is also a satisfactory result, and the players have all experienced good training. This laid a good foundation for achieving good results in the future.

In the spring of 1993, at the Tokyo University basketball gym, new players on the basketball team introduced themselves.

"Hello everyone, my name is Kogure Konobu, I graduated from Kanagawa Shohoku High School, I am 187cm tall and I play point guard."

"Hello everyone, my name is Akagi Takenori, I graduated from Kanagawa Shohoku High School, I am 202cm tall and I play center."

"Hello everyone, my name is Mitsui Hisashi, I graduated from Kanagawa Shohoku High School, I am 189cm tall and I play shooting guard."

"Hello everyone, my name is Hasegawa Kazushi, I graduated from Kanagawa Shohoku High School, I am 193cm tall, and I play small forward."

After graduation, Muguro and his two friends came to the University of Tokyo as promised, and Hasegawa Kazushi, after studying hard, was also admitted to the University of Tokyo. The four of them worked hard for the revival of the University of Tokyo. It is also worth mentioning that Muguro's girlfriend Mizuta was also admitted to the University of Tokyo.

In the summer of 1993, the finals of the National High School Students Competition were held.

"Come on, Xiangbei!" The cheers from the audience had already filled the entire stadium before the game even started.

The new generation of Xiangbei, led by captain Katsumi, began the journey of defending the title. After the winter selection, Xiangbei's first and second year players quickly matured. Xiangbei's main force is: center Nakajima Ryo, power forward Sakuragi Hanamichi, small forward Fukuda Yoshitaka, shooting guard Katsumi Ichiro, point guard Mito Yohei, and the bench is also enriched by Konosuba Hiroaki, Kiyota Nobunaga and two good first year students. Xiangbei has won all the way and easily qualified in the group stage, eliminating Urayasu Commercial in the round of 16, Daiei Gakuen in the quarterfinals, and Midori Wind in the semifinals. It met another Kanagawa team Ryonan (which defeated Aiwa Gakuen in the semifinals) in the final, while the former champion Sanno Industrial was eliminated by Midori Wind in the quarterfinals.

"Last year, under the leadership of our predecessors, we defeated Sannoh and won the historic championship. Winning a championship is certainly gratifying, but the greater honor is to win consecutive championships. We must continue the glory of Xiangbei. Come on!" Captain Kemei said

"Come on! Win the championship again!" The new generation of Xiangbei players shouted in unison

"Come on everyone!" Mugure, Mitsui, Akagi and Hasegawa walked into the locker room of Xiangbei. In the final, Mugure and the other four took a special leave to come to the scene to cheer for their former alma mater.

At the beginning of the game, Xiangbei took the lead, with captain Kemei hitting a three-pointer, but Ryonan was not to be outdone. The reason why Ryonan made it to the finals of the national competition was that thanks to the outstanding performance of the ace Sendoh, his skills have reached the level of perfection, and his strength can be called the best in the country. He can score 23.3 points per game, which seems insignificant, but this is based on the fact that he was slacking off throughout the group stage and averaging only 15.7 points per game. Under his leadership, Ryonan held on to the score tightly, and the game was extremely fierce. However, Xiangbei finally relied on its stronger bench strength to defeat Ryonan 84:73 and defended the title again. The winner of the competition MVP was Sakuragi Hanamichi, who averaged 24.3 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game.

"Kumure-senpai, we won the championship, you have to work hard too." After winning the championship, Katsumi sent his blessings to his predecessors

"Let's watch us," the four players of Murasaki were also full of fighting spirit. However, in the college basketball world, the four players of Murasaki who had achieved excellent results in high school were still a little immature. In the quarterfinals, they met Japan's number one Fukasawa Sports University in advance. Although Murasaki did not lose the duel with the starting point guard of Fukasawa Sports University and scored 15 points and 7 assists, Japan's number one center, senior student Sugiyama Shota, and junior shooting guard Akema Nobutaka taught Akagi and Mitsui (Coach Moriki boldly promoted the three to the starting lineup, while Hasegawa had to sit on the bench because the captain of the University of Tokyo was a small forward with good strength) a good lesson. The two were suppressed, Akagi only scored 6 points and 5 rebounds, and although Mitsui scored 13 points, he only made 8 of 3 three-pointers, which he was good at. In the end, the University of Tokyo was eliminated by Fukasawa Sports University 69:83.

1994 Summer College League Finals

"Come on, Tokyo University; come on, Murasakibara! Akagi, Mitsui, and Hasegawa seniors!" Shohoku High School, which won the national high school league championship again, came to the scene to cheer for the University of Tokyo under the leadership of captain Sakuragi.

1993 Autumn National Games. Kanagawa successfully defended the title of Autumn National Games again. Sendoh won the MVP. The winter selection national competition was held in Kanagawa. Kanagawa had two places, so Xiangbei had a much easier chance to enter the national competition. Therefore, Xiangbei only used this winter selection as a training match. There was only one cross-country player in the third grade, and only Kiyota was the main player in the second grade. The new captain and vice-captain Sakuragi and Mito Yohei did not participate in this competition because they went to Tokyo University for special training. They gave the opportunity to the substitutes and first-year players. Xiangbei still made it to the national competition, but was eliminated by Aiwa Academy in the quarterfinals of the national competition.

Although there was only one outstanding new player joining Xiangbei High School in the third year, this new player made up for Xiangbei's weakest position - center. Sakuragi, who became the captain, had long lost his past frivolity. After several competitions and special trainings, Sakuragi's technical ability has earned him the reputation of being the best power forward in high school. Xiangbei this year was somewhat similar to the Spurs in the NBA. 198cm Sakuragi, 186cm Kiyota and 182cm Yohei formed the Xiangbei version of the "GDP" combination. With the assistance of first-year center Sasaki Yong and second-year shooter Nitta Guangyuan, although the bench was much weaker than before, with only two people available, Xiangbei's strength was still ahead of other teams. The only other teams in Kanagawa that could threaten it were Midorikaze with Rukawa Kaede as captain and Ryonan with Koichiro Nango as captain. However, these two teams were defeated by Shohoku one after another. Shohoku and the two teams entered the national competition together. Ryonan was eliminated by Sanno Industrial in the quarterfinals, and Midori Wind once again met Shohoku in the semifinals. Although Rukawa Kaede tried his best to score 41 points, two fists could not beat four hands. Shohoku still relied on its strength to defeat Midori Wind 91:77 and entered the finals. The opponent in the final was the former king Sanno Industrial, which eliminated Aiwa Academy with Mori Shigehiro.

Sanno Industrial has experienced a revival this year, and its captain is none other than Mikio Kawata. At this time, Mikio Kawata is 213cm tall and has successfully lost weight, with his weight down to 117kg. His skills are no longer the same as when he was in the first grade. He is very skilled in hook shots and turnaround jump shots under the basket. Vice-captain Ono Tadayoshi is the team's leading scorer. In the semifinals, when Mikio Kawata and Mori Shigehiro were tied, it was because of Ono's performance that Sanno finally eliminated Aiwa 95:85. There is also a freshman in their starting lineup, and this freshman is Mizuhara Masaru, the MVP of Kanagawa Junior High School last year. By digging up the MVP of Kanagawa, Sanno can be said to have let out a small sigh of relief from being suppressed by Kanagawa in recent years.

In this game, although the new center Sasaki Yu had no advantage over Kogata, the competition in the interior was evenly matched because of Sakuragi's presence. In the forward line, Kiyota and Ono were also tied, and the final winner was Mito Yohei. No one in Sanno could deal with the vice-captain of Shohoku. In the end, Shohoku won the national championship again with an eight-point advantage of 90:82. Sakuragi Hanamichi, who scored 28 points, 14 rebounds and 4 blocks in the final, won the MVP again. At the MVP award ceremony, he solemnly announced that he would join the University of Tokyo after graduating from high school. This time he brought Shohoku to cheer for his future school.

The University of Tokyo also had important reinforcements this year. Ryonan's Sendoh led the team to the national quarterfinals. Akizuki High School's ace Tomoki Uemon enriched the lineup of the University of Tokyo. They made it to the finals. Their opponent was the king led by the No. 1 shooting guard in the Japanese university class, Nobutaka Akima - Fukasawa Sports University. The University of Tokyo, with center Akagi, power forward and captain Hayato Sugita, a senior, small forward Takashi Kodama, shooting guard Mitsui, and point guard Mugure as the main players, fought fiercely with Fukasawa Sports University. The game was extremely intense. In a blink of an eye, the game was at the last minute and 21 seconds. The University of Tokyo was behind 71:72, but Akima made a key three-pointer in this round. There was only 1 minute left for the University of Tokyo, and Coach Moriki called a timeout.

"For the first ball, we'll try to get two points. This attack will be handed over to Mitsui or Sendoh. After the goal is scored, you will start pressing on the spot and try to defend this ball. If you defend it, we'll do the second ball. Akagi, you move to the outside to cover Mitsui. Mitsui, they will definitely strengthen their defense against you, so the last attack will be ended by Murasaki. If we fail to defend against Shenzhen University's attack, then we'll foul on the spot. We'll foul their center and make him shoot free throws. We must pay attention to the protection of rebounds. Do you understand?" Coach Moriki made arrangements.

"understand!"

"Okay, everyone, come on"

"There is one minute left. Tokyo University will definitely make some moves from the outside. Mitsui is their top scorer from the outside. Mingjian, don't give him any chances to shoot from the outside. Although Sendoh is only a freshman, he was able to score 10 points in nearly 10 minutes as a substitute. His strength is not bad. Kawamura, you have to pay attention to him. As for Murasakibara, he missed all three three-pointers in this game. His touch is not very good. Kuwajima, you can focus your defense on his breakthroughs. Don't let him get rid of you easily. We are in the lead, so there is no need to rush to attack. Kill time and there is no need to rush to attack. We just need to succeed once. Come on, everyone!" Coach Tangze was also making arrangements.

The timeout is over and the final decisive battle begins!