In the world of slam dunk, in an unknown baseball field in Kanagawa Prefecture.
"Swish~"
"Swish!"
He had already made 300 three-pointers today. This body's shooting touch was excessively good. He had only taken a few shots, and the accuracy was probably around eighty percent. This was even with his accuracy being affected by fatigue later on.
Although it was only training accuracy, for a teenager about to enter High School, it was absolutely excellent.
No wonder in the original story, even after wasting two years, he could still sink three-pointers like crazy when the team needed him. The phrase "Mitsui Hisashi in Despair" was not an exaggeration.
That's right, this young man who just finished his three-point training was Mitsui Hisashi from slam dunk. Of course, he wasn't the original Mitsui Hisashi; at this moment, Mitsui Hisashi had been replaced by a person named Sun Fan.
Sun Fan's previous life was just an ordinary civil servant with a small hobby.
He was ordinary because he truly wasn't special: studying, graduating from university, taking the civil service exam, getting married and having children—a typical person's life.
His hobby was basketball. Sun Fan, who grew up in the south, was taller than average from a young age. Later, after watching the anime slam dunk, he fell in love with basketball.
With his height advantage and decent basketball talent among ordinary people, he became the star player on the street courts.
His success on the street courts even sparked the idea of playing professional basketball in Sun Fan.
So, in the year he entered High School, Sun Fan joined the school's basketball team. However, during his time on the team, Sun Fan completely realized that he was only someone who could excel on the street courts.
After joining the basketball team, Sun Fan, who was 1.86 meters tall, was assigned to play point guard. After all, if he played shooting guard, he would be too short, and with poor defense, he would easily become a target on the court.
But as a point guard, Sun Fan, who had never received formal training since childhood, was too poor in both ball-handling fundamentals and passing vision and technique.
Helpless, Sun Fan could only train hard first, improve his skills, and strive to get playing time.
Subsequently, Sun Fan witnessed what a true basketball genius was. Among the new students who joined the basketball team, there were also people like Sun Fan who had not undergone formal training.
But even though they entered the basketball team at similar skill levels, the other person's training wasn't even as diligent as his, yet they could quickly improve based on their talent. Soon after, they could enter the team's rotation, and by their second year of High School, they were starting.
Compared to their progress, Sun Fan's progress was like a snail's crawl.
Finally, even though Sun Fan insisted on training diligently every day, it was only in his third year of High School that he truly became a main rotation player for the team.
After the blow from the High School basketball team, Sun Fan completely gave up on the path of professional basketball. He no longer participated in the school's basketball team in college, but continued to excel on the street courts.
Later, after starting work, because he passed the civil service exam, he actually had more free time. (Mainly because Sun Fan had no desire to climb the corporate ladder; he simply completed his duties every day.)
Therefore, even after starting work, Sun Fan would go to the street courts to play whenever he had time.
Until one day, on his way home after playing basketball, in order to save a little girl, he was hit by a large truck, and then he somehow inexplicably transmigrated into Mitsui Hisashi in slam dunk.
The time he transmigrated was exactly the day Mitsui Hisashi had just led his team to win the Middle School Basketball League championship.
That day, Mitsui Hisashi made the winning shot at the last moment, securing the championship. This made Mitsui Hisashi extremely excited, and to celebrate the victory, Mitsui Hisashi actually stole his father's sake to drink.
As is well known, although Japanese sake does not have a high alcohol content, because it is only fermented and not distilled, it contains more impurities, making it easy to get a headache after drinking and having a strong aftereffect.
Furthermore, sake has a sweet and sour taste, which can make people lower their guard and inadvertently consume too much alcohol, leading to intoxication.
And so, Mitsui Hisashi got himself drunk, and then, unfortunately, he missed a step while going down the stairs, did an invincible cartwheel, hit his head, and died young.
Then Sun Fan took over Mitsui Hisashi's body. When he woke up, he was already in the hospital, with bandages wrapped around multiple parts of his body, with the most on his ankles and head.
Subsequently, Sun Fan sorted through the memories in his mind. After learning the cause of Mitsui Hisashi's death, he was somewhat amused and exasperated, and couldn't help but lament that Mitsui Hisashi was truly unlucky.
What made Sun Fan most speechless was that after he transmigrated, he also had to take Mitsui Hisashi's place in enduring a good scolding from his parents... And by the time Mitsui Hisashi (from now on, he will be uniformly referred to as Mitsui Hisashi) had recovered from his injuries, only one month of summer vacation remained. It's worth mentioning that Coach Taoka Moichi of the Ryonan Team in the original story had visited him in the hospital and invited him to join Ryonan.
However, after careful consideration, Mitsui Hisashi still refused.
As for the reason, it was naturally not Rukawa Kaede's reason of being close to home, nor was it the original Mitsui Hisashi's reason for Coach Anzai.
The main reason Mitsui Hisashi refused was that slam dunk was the anime that guided him into the world of basketball in his previous life, and this anime primarily revolved around the Shohoku Basketball Team as the main storyline.
Now that he had transmigrated into Mitsui Hisashi, how could he be willing to let the original plot team be missing a protagonist? How could he be unwilling to personally experience that past emotion?
After Mitsui Hisashi recovered from his injuries and experienced his current body's basketball talent, while astonished, he also resolved not to waste two years like the original Mitsui Hisashi, which led to him, a Middle School MVP from Kanagawa, seeing the Kanagawa High School League dominated by two outsiders.
So, he immediately used his three years of proper basketball training experience from his previous High School life to create a training plan for his current self.
Since his transmigration did not follow the common web novel trope of transmigrators having a golden finger (Mitsui Hisashi tried; no matter if he silently chanted or shouted out loud, no system, golden finger, or old man appeared; Mitsui Hisashi's heart ached at the time), Mitsui Hisashi could only rely on himself to become stronger.
Considering that he had just recovered from his injuries and it was not suitable for overly intense training, Mitsui Hisashi's training plan had a relatively small training volume, mainly focusing on physical fitness, ball handling, and shooting.