At present, there is no evidence that Mingpeng is stronger than Hainan, and if the overall record is considered, Hainan is a better party.
First of all, Mingpeng is not the champion team of the "Slam Dunk Master" plot year, and the champion team is likely to be a subsidiary of Hakata Shangda that is not depicted in the manga.
Inoue: But the champion is not depicted, it is a team that has never appeared...
Okada: A team that didn't show up?
Inoue: Yeah... Wouldn't it be annoying if a famous friend won the championship?
Okada: Yes!
Inoue: Relying entirely on talent, isn't it annoying for such a player to win the championship, I think so.
According to the original "Slam Dunk Master", there are five teams that directly qualify in the first round of the national competition: Sanwang, Hakata, Hainan, Mingpeng, and Luo'an.
And the original work explicitly mentions:
1. Maki Shinichi's Hainan finally took the runner-up, then the champion is the team in the right half of the zone.
There are two seeded teams in the right half, Mingpeng and Hakata. Since the famous friend has been rejected, the champion is likely to be Hakata. This is also in line with the "prototype theory" of Fukuoka Daiho's victory after the japanese 1990s was able to oem the high yingou overturned the ship.
2. The star big love and last year was still a final four team, and the plot year was probably due to the record problem (defeated by the famous friends, and perhaps other defeats) led to the loss of seed qualification. The seed qualification of the famous friend may come from love and harmony.
Sanno, Hakata, Hainan, and Mingpeng are most likely the four teams with the best record in the plot year. Luo An is probably the fifth, and in the plot year it is likely that he was defeated by Hainan in the Battle of Eight into Four (assuming he did not overturn the ship in the gutter).
3. After Xiangbei defeated the Mountain King, he lost to Aihe in the Battle of Sixteen into Eight.
If Aihe did not overturn the ship in the battle of eight into four, then Hainan should have defeated Aihe in the final battle.
That is to say, Hainan defeated Aihe, the top four team, and Luo An, the quasi-final four team, on the way to the final.
And the best hypothesis is that Mingpeng's national competition road only defeated About eight or quasi-four Daiei, and the eight finals Changcheng, and finally lost to Hakata in the final four, and the record stopped at the top four.
(Hainan's trip to the national tournament is actually harder than most people think — it's considered easy because the schedule in Xiangbei, in the same county, is too nightmarish.) Even if Xiangbei and Shanwang end up together, the difficulty of Hainan's schedule is similar to the difficulty of Hakata and Mingpeng)."
So I bet on Hainan to win.
Off-topic, why is the drama year champion Hakata? Because "Slam Dunk Master" is based on the Japanese High School Summer League + Winter Trials. Yamano's prototype, Noh Daikoku, was the hegemon of Japanese high school basketball in the 90s, and he won more than half of the summer league + winter selection in the 90s. And in the few races that have rolled over, the champion of the season has a prototype in the SD.
The situation of the Japanese high school basketball winter selection in the 1990s is as follows:
Winter Selection
The situation of the Japanese high school basketball summer league champions in the 1990s is as follows
Xia Lian
It can be seen that in the summer league + winter selection in 90-96, the several sessions that can oem high (Sanno Gonggao) did not win the championship are as follows:
90 Summer League, the school that won the championship that season was Kyoto Ronan High School (SD's Loan High School)
92 Summer League, the winner is Tsuchiura Japan (SD in the Tsukimura no. 1)
In the winter election of 1992, the winner was Aichi Institute of Technology Famous Denki, which has the "treasure of Japanese basketball" Goku Furuta, who is also a famous friend of Mori Shigehiro
In the winter selection of 93, the winner was Fukuoka Ohori (Hakata)
94 Winter Election, Daisho Gakuen (Ōei)
In addition, the summer league and winter selection championships are all won by Noh Daiko (Sanno).
So in summary, it is known:
Champions are not famous friends
And the team that has not been described (excluding Daiei)
Is the right half of the team (excluding Loan and Tsukimura first)
Then the champion of the drama year is most likely to be Fukuoka Daiho, who won the winter election in 1993, that is, the Hakata Shangda affiliate.
Note: Inoue did not mention who the champion was, and "the champion is Hakata" is just a conjecture, but this is more likely.