“SLAM DUNK” love talked about by B Leaguer
The fourth: Kei Igarashi (Gunma Crane Thunders)
“SLAM DUNK” was announced as a movie in January this year and will be released next fall. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1996, and is still a hugely popular manga. We asked B Leaguer, a man who loves basketball and “SLAM DUNK”, to talk about such a work again.
The 4th is Kei Igarashi (41 years old) who transferred to Shintenchi Gunma Crane Thunders as the oldest player in the B League this season.
Kei Igarashi of the Don Pisha generation enthusiastically talked about “SLAM DUNK”
――When did you first read “SLAM DUNK”?
“I started minibuses in the 5th grade of elementary school. Originally it was an athletics club, but my hometown Niigata has no athletics competition in winter due to snow, so I help the basketball club with a small number of people during the winter. When I wasn’t really attracted to basketball, I started reading the work from a casual conversation with my friend, “‘SLAM DUNK’ is an interesting manga,” and it was exactly Sakuragi (Hanamichi). ), I feel like I started to like basketball little by little from an amateur state. “
――Igarashi, born in 1980, is exactly the “SLAM DUNK generation”.
“That’s right. When I was a student, NBA and street basketball were popular, and there was an unprecedented basketball boom. Of course, I was influenced by the NBA, but Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson were too great to imitate. I think I was influenced by “SLAM DUNK” set in a Japanese high school. However, dunk shooting is not easy, so I tried using the jumping box crossing board. I myself am a junior high school student. Around that time, I was most addicted to “SLAM DUNK”, and I was influenced by Sakuragi and even wore Jordan VI. “
–Did your experience overlap with “SLAM DUNK”?
“It’s a famous scene, but there was a scene where Mitsui (Hisashi) said to Anzai-sensei,” Anzai-sensei … !! I want to play basketball … “.” SLAM DUNK “is mys. A lot of strong characters will appear. I think I was the same. When I was a high school student, I couldn’t see the surroundings so hard.
At the inter-school athletic meet in my second year of high school, I continued to play alone and the team lost. After the inter-school athletic meet, I wasn’t allowed to participate in the team practice for about a month. I really wanted to play basketball, so I went to the PE instructor’s office every morning to clean it, waited for the teacher to come, and kept asking “Please let me participate in the practice”. You can understand Mitsui’s lines painfully. A month later, I was finally allowed to participate in the practice, but if I continued the competition without that period, I would have misunderstood and became a tengu and stopped growing, and I think I would have quit basketball somewhere. “
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