The 2003 season, when the team lost Ji-Sung PARK, who had been the pivot of the attack for the team, began with the troubles of the mainstay Teruaki KUROBE, followed by the utter disappointment in Jong-Su KO who was a star from the Republic of Korea and had been expected as a successor to Ji-Sung PARK, so that the team was not able to have a win, almost as if the remarkable results of the previous year had been a falsehood.
チームの攻撃の要だった朴智星を失った2003年シーズンは大黒柱黒部光昭の故障に始まり、朴智星の後釜として期待された大韓民国のファンタジスタ高宗秀は全くの期待はずれと、昨年の躍進ぶりが嘘のように勝ち星をあげられなかった。