Characters

• Hanamichi Sakuragi ( Power Forward ) ( Self Proclaim Genius )

• Kaeda Rukawa ( Small Forward )
• Hisashi Mitsui ( Shooting Guard )
• Akagi Takenori ( Center ) ( Team Captain )
• Ryota Miyagi ( Point Guard )
• Mitsuyoshi Anzai ( Coach ) ( #1 Player ) ( A.K.A White Hair Devil)
Hanamichi Sakuragi
Rukawa Kaede
Hisashi Mitsui
Ryota Miyagi
Akagi Takenori
Inoue Ayako
Akagi Haruko
Coach Anzai
 INTRODUCTION
• Hanamichi Sakuragi, entered the Shohoku High School in Kanagawa.
So this Sakuragi guy was dumped by 50 gals in his previous
school. When he went to Shohoku High, He met Haruko Akagi, and
Fell Head Over Heels In LOVE with her. so in order to please her, he
stayed back after school to practice SLAM DUNK with her. Haruko
taught him how to dunk the ball in the hoop. Instead of succeeding.
he knocked into the hoop. Even though he did not succeed, Haruko
was convinced that he would be a great help to the basketball team
if he joined. . Later, Sakuragi found out that Haruko liked this guy,
Kaede Rukawa 
 RISING ACTION
• Sakuragi was HEART-BROKEN when he found out about it. Few days
later, a group of gangsters from their school couldn't stand Sakuragi
& co.'s arrogance, asked them to go to the roof-top of their school to
fight it out. When Sakuragi & co went there, they saw the gangsters
lying flat on their face and this cool-looking guy standing in front of
them. The guy was Rukawa, he was the guy Haruko likes. Haruko
saw Sakuragi talking/arguing to Rukawa. She gets worried that he
might tell Rukawa that she likes him. She rushes to the roof-top and
saw Rukawa bleeding and assumes that sakuragi got into a fight
with him.
• so she screams at Sakuragi that she will not speak to him again Well poor
Sakuragi, if his heart wasn't TOTALLY broken before that, it is now. He sure
didn't take it easy.The poor guy even tried to jump off the building. Later
Haruko found out that she had misunderstood Sakuragi. he wanted to
apologise to Sakuragi, but only after school. Before she can apologize, Sakuragi
got into a fight with the captain of the Basketball team!!! They arranged an 1-
on-1 in the school gym. Haruko found out about it, and turns out that the
captain of the basketball team is her brother, TAKENORI AKAGI !!! Poor
Sakuragi who know practically nothing about basketball, couldn't even touch
the ball. When Sakuragi pulled down Akagi's pants, Akagi was so angry, he
swore that he was DEFINITELY going to kill him. Sakuragi saw Haruko in the
crowds and thought she was there to encourage him. 
 CLIMAX
• In the end, Sakuragi won. When he found out that "the gorilla" was
actually Haruko's brother, he begged to join the basketball team.
After some wheedling and begging, he joined the SHOHOKU
BASKETBALL TEAM! After joining the team, ayako, the basketball
team manager, taught him all the basics of basketball. He improved
tremendously only after a month of learning. Just after he mastered
most of the basics, Shohoku was to have a match against Ryonan,
the top 3 Best Basketball team in Kanagawa for High School.
Because Akagi was injured during the match, Sakuragi was sent up
to replace him. He was to guard Jun Uozumi, the 2m "Giant Gorrila"
Captain of Ryonan.
 FALLING ACTION
• Sakuragi was so nervous, he couldn't focus. After some butt-kicking
from rukawa, he amazed everyone by his quick actions. Akagi came
back later, Sakuragi was made to guard AKIRA SENDOH, the star
player of Ryonan. Because of his lack of experience, Sakuragi did not
manage to guard him well. Rukawa was then sent to guard him
WITH Sakuragi. However, Shohoku lost, a score of 87 to 86. Later,
Hisashi Mitsui, a gangster who actually was part of the Basketball
team, rejoined the team. fter that, Shohoku went on to competing
in the Inter-High competition. Sakuragi improved rapidly at the
same time. He also overcomed many problems he had. Shohoku
won the B-team champion over the SHOYO players.
 RESOLUTION
• After competing with othe teams such as Kainan (88 - 90) and
Ryonan (70 - 66), Shohoku won one of the entries to the National
Competition. However they lost in their third match after defeating
the Champion for the previous years, SANNOH! Sakuragi hurt his
back during the competition against Sannoh. After the match he had
to rest for a while.