Live Bar April 14, 2019 Former Peking University player and current Shanxi player Zhang Ning posted a long article about his two years in the CBA. The article is titled "Zhang Ning | Self-reflexiveness after knowing inadequacy, self-improvement after knowing difficulties. The full text is as follows:
On the afternoon of April 10, 2022, it was the day after our Shanxi team ended the playoffs of this season.
Open! The room was dark, but in a trance I could see the harsh and warm light coming in from the curtains, and I was used to taking a nap when I woke up so heavy and tired, and there was no stimulation of the brain and body as if it was about to be on the eve of the war, at this time, my commander- my brain always conveyed a signal to me, and this signal was inspiration or impulse, always telling me that I could not stop! Can't stop! Can't stop!
Then, I got up to drink water, dressed and shoes to go to the toilet, accompanied by the sound of slippers dragging to the balcony, the moment I opened the curtains, ah! So comfortable, Nanchang this warm light shines on the face, soft, warm, too comfortable! It was so comfortable! Because the first thing I woke up today was not to think about how to deploy before the game, not to think about how to prevent Chen Yingjun today, nor to think about how to limit Brother Alan! He scored 40 points last game! It's been a long, long time since I've been so comfortable! Until an ass sat on a chair, a swing of tea cloth, a small pot, a lid bowl and this golden master cup so put it, the water grunted so burned, Wen Ge gave me such a bubble of white tea, the computer opened, OK! Everything is ready, and now I'm going to start closing my eyes and reminiscing about these two years.
First of all, please forgive me for my impulsiveness or the excitement of the team to achieve good results, I just don't want to stop! As a result, there is no game now, and the holiday has begun, the coaches and teammates have left the hotel in the competition area one after another, and each of them has returned to a warm home, and in the short term, the body does not have to prepare for this high-intensity battle, but the head melon can not stop! Thinking can't stop! Just use this time, summarize and summarize carefully, think about this way, plan and plan how to go to the future, heck, think about it, it's painful and comfortable!
As I'm listening to "The Sea of Stars" at this moment: "Cross the sea of people, don't stop, and look forward to it now..."
When the first round of the playoffs is over, when it finally beats Guangzhou! Why use finally, because I played two games with Guangzhou in the first season and played two games in the regular season this season, a total of four games, we all lost, I lost to William's Guangzhou team, and many interested friends were also interested in discussing William's love and killing situation after tea. We both met as early as 2012, when I was promoted to Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School, and William also immediately entered Beijing No. 4 Middle School, when we were both the No. 34 swingers of the team, every attack and defense was the two of us, I now especially like to defend foreign aid, and I have been defending foreign aid, very challenging, that's why! As early as 10 years ago, as early as the middle school era, William was the existence of foreign aid in the eyes of our middle school students, and everywhere we went, we said that there was a small foreign aid in Beijing, and I would think of small foreign aid, right? Well, I'll meet him! At that time he was a flexible little black fat man, and basket, because he was really a little black fat man when he was a child, and I clearly remember one game when he attacked me to defend me and elbowed William's stomach, and very clearly heard William call out a oops! Very childish kind of Oops, not the rough Oops of the old masters! It's the kind of gentle one, heck, what are you doing touching me! That's how it feels! You can imagine, hahahahahahahaha
In the first year of high school, I made William's offensive foul and switched the ball when the team was behind, we were absolutely equal to the game, entered the extra time, and finally we won the Second Middle School in Shijiazhuang, sending William's Beijing Fourth Middle School out, and in the last year of high school, it was facing William's Beijing Fourth Middle School to play at home! And this year, my Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School was killed! Sent out, this time, I watched William's Beijing No. 4 middle school reach the finals! At that time, we had already begun to fight each other to the death.
Then we went to Peking University together to start our university life, we fought together in cuba three consecutive championships are vividly remembered, William's status in my heart is really high, very high, for two reasons! Everyone may not know, first, at that time, I applied for Peking University from Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School in Hebei Province, and William applied for Peking University from Beijing No. 4 Middle School, for the score line, everyone should know the gap between Hebei and Beijing score lines, and William's academic performance is particularly good! At least in our small circle, it is very, very good, so he gave me the guaranteed place to enter Peking University! The first place is Shao Jie, whether in terms of strength and talent is beyond doubt, I am the second place, William's ability and talent must be in front of me, but it is like this William chose the exam, at the same time Xiao Qi and Sharp Kai mentioned that the five of us were admitted to Peking University, this one thing alone, maybe I have a human affection in this life! So, this is the interaction between us and Me and William in Guangzhou after everyone saw us playing games in Guangzhou, in my place I don't want to go to the CP to stir up news, but my real psychological feelings; secondly, it is that the two of us have diametrically opposite personalities, really the existence of ice and fire, everyone knows my later playing style problems at Peking University, the core playing style of play, playing without passing, playing alone, etc., in fact, my basic skills are very poor, which is why I have been looking for Han Dao training, my passing skills are also very poor. During college, I often played the ball carrier to break through, like William Shaojie, they all endured my excessive head, playing the ball is not calm, when I began to hold the ball, William never maliciously complained about me in college, complaining that I did not pass the ball, but William also had a small temper, but just a few times when William lost his temper, I was particularly guilty, but at the same time I was particularly sober, because I knew his personality, if I could make William start to lose a small temper, it would mean how bad I was at that time! That's it, William endured me along the way to college, which is why William has a very high status in my mind.
After defeating William's Guangzhou team, when you can stand out of the second round to play against the Liaoning team where Lungo is, there is nothing to be unwilling, just like the slogan when I came to Shanxi at that time, "Jin" I can, do my best to "Jin". I just want to give an account for myself, for my family, and for each of us, and not to live up to the people I love and the people who love me. Friends and relatives also continue to send congratulations, congratulations to the Shanxi men's basketball team to reach the quarterfinals, congratulations to Zhang Ning playing better and better, I replied to them sentence by sentence, but also encouraged myself, telling myself that this is the result of always insisting and being supported, there is no persistence and support where the results come from, thank you for your silent support behind the scenes.
On the eve of the draft
Thinking back, we came to March and April 2020, when the epidemic had just broken out, William and I were preparing for the draft and the last CUBA, at the training base of The Han Guide in Changping, Beijing (our secret little base, haha), in a half-court arena that is not even a standard venue, the venue is very small! Not even the bottom corner three-point line! Here there are three people (Han Dao with a full beard, William with hair that can lay eggs with birds, and Zhang Ning, who has ambitions, haha) Not only William, we are both working towards a new goal, I felt that Han Dao was also silently resisting, as for what to resist, it gave me the feeling that Han Dao and William were both preparing for the draft, all thinking of proving themselves, in order to break the doubts of the outside world, Han Dao poured everything he had, paid, put all the love and all the feelings on us, I still deeply remember the passer-by king competition in May of the same year, after a breakthrough in Tianjin in the second stop, the dunk was successful, which was the skill or move we had been training during that time, after the game, Han Dao sent me a video, Han Dao cried and shouted NB, as if venting the unwillingness in his heart.
In May I decided to go to the competition, not only thinking about training, I need to fight, I need to compete to test the results of training, and then I will go to Changsha to play the king of passers-by, the game lost! In front of my good brother (UZIS manager Yang Xiaoru, UZIS headquarters in Changsha) to put it bluntly, he blew out the cowhide, saying that I would rather play passerby king, absolutely no problem, definitely can win, at that time, many fans may also think so, thinking that I will definitely play casually. In fact, it is not, and at that time I thought that it was to test the recent training results of the Korean guide, at that time we also did a great psychological struggle, because the psychology of participating in this kind of competition is very strong, I am considering winning the championship, or thinking about testing technology, thinking that if the test technology is the mainstay, I will definitely not take the most sure way to win the game, if I lose, everyone can see the hilarity, after doing the ideological struggle, the Korean guide we still decided to test the training effect, if you are afraid of failure now, How to face failure in the future career path, how to face failure in the future life, but in the game I tried to use the move 1 move 2 move 3, mistake! Physical exertion! Give your opponents a chance to slowly lose the game! Let everyone see the jokes, jokes about our previous training methods, jokes Han Director as a basketball trainer is like a circus coach, and I am like...
Not long after I went to the second station in Tianjin to compete, we were not convinced, we wanted to find face, but we still had to resolutely test the purpose of the training results, otherwise the first stop would be lost in vain, but this time Tianjin station was obviously better, and finally lost in the final, at that moment a topic came out, the impression of the outside world is that Zhang Ning is too heavy, the technique is rough, the lateral movement is too slow, to the professional arena to meet the small fast spirit of the defender or even the defense of small foreign aid can not be defended at all, absolutely will be a step over! We have all these Han directors in mind, and the only thing we can do is to practice !!!
At this time, I stopped typing on the keyboard, picked up my mobile phone, looked at the training video of March and April 2020, and found Han Dao! Sent a text message to Han Dao in the past: Han Dao, I want to write something, I hope to get your help, you recall, March 2020, William and our training time, now recall that period of preparation for the draft, what is your real feeling?
After a dinner time, it is estimated that Han Dao has finished his training class.
Han: I don't believe in what they say about the law, the law is used to break, I don't believe that there is only one training system that can train the best players! Doubts will be broken, and I will fight I want to punch these people who question my thoughts in the face! This was the dream I had the most when I was younger, and I especially hope that you and William will be able to fulfill the unfulfilled dreams of our group!
I especially want to make you impossible into possible! From I can't do it, to I can't do it for the time being! My more real thought is that I am grateful that there are a few good players who are willing to let me train and apply these training skills I have learned to them! I really fucking want to make history! It's not that I want people to remember me... I just want to say to myself that I contribute to basketball! Special thanks to Zhang Ning and William for letting me train, so that I have more motivation to stick to this cause! Finally, learn from Zhang Ning! After watching Zhang Ning play! Work has power. I hope that our teaching will also be like Zhang Ning playing on the field! College Basketball Cheers! Chinese basketball come on!
Me: Can you briefly explain what the so-called "laws" refer to?
Director Han: The quality of college player training is not as perfect as the youth training system of professional teams! College players will not play a major role on either team! Zhang Ning is relying on his body to play dribbling and shooting can never work... If you are not talented enough to rely on hard work is useless! These are the laws I hear.
Director Han, thank you, you have worked hard.
These are some of the little ideas in Han Dao's heart, Han Dao is an extremely thoughtful person, and he has inspired me in many ways, now let's return to a topic! Zhang Ning was overweight! In addition to the fact that there was no particularly strenuous aerobic training during the epidemic period, in fact, my physical training coach and I have long-term plans.
Sacrifice the present and look to the future
This is the result of my communication with the physical coach Duan Ge before the draft, Duan Ge is also a professional athlete, although he is not a basketball player, but also as a professional athlete, the athlete's physical fitness! Especially the body! body! body! Absolutely the most basic, all technical minds etc are built on the basis of the body.
Our plan is to gain muscle, enhance the maximum weight capacity of my muscles, increase my muscle latitude, from head to toe, in the process I supplement a lot of protein, physical training time is from March to June, when looking for Han guide once a day to practice skills, find Duan Brother to practice physical fitness, with the efforts of this time, my basic bench press rose to 120KG, squatting legs rose to 250KG, when the heaviest weight is 105KG, my strength has been comprehensively improved, at the same time, Endurance, explosiveness, and especially speed have definitely been greatly affected, and it doesn't matter, our plan is to have the ability to fight first! At that time, I remembered the most important sentence of Duan Ge, when you get to the professional arena, start to play all over the country to fly all over the country, or play the competition system for a long time, you will find that you don't have a lot of time to do big strength training to maintain your own strength, you can only do some small strength to maintain during the game, and then the time increases, and the continuous consumption of the game will find out! You will get thinner and thinner, your strength will slowly fall, and your risk of injury will become greater and greater! It doesn't matter if your strength falls, because everyone is the same, but if your base is large, you will also have a certain basic force to protect you, so that you can be physically energetic and avoid injuries, everyone looks at these two years, think back, it is true, whether it is my ability to resist! Or the maintenance of physical fitness! Even the control of injuries! All confirmed our plan at that time.
I also found Duan Brother and asked him to think back to the days of that year, Duan Brother was particularly funny, like pistachios, but when he really wanted to express his true feelings, he! Excuse me! Hahaha.
Brother Duan: In my opinion, physical training is far simpler than basketball training, the causal relationship is more distinct, as long as you pay in the right way and method, there will be a return, those four months of 2020 are very honored to make progress with you, only feel that time passes too quickly, from coaching around you to cheering for you before becoming TV, as if it is not very real, but proud, you take the train to the club to report the day does not seem to be long past, but in fact, it has been two years, see these two years of your progress, from the heart for you to be happy, May you get better and better in the CBA in the future, complete your goals, and cherish every day in front of you.
This is Brother Duan, very cute Brother Duan, thank you, Brother Duan.
Well ~ I don't know if you like what I share and write, but these are indeed my true feelings, every word and every sentence is, if you like to be interested, you drink tea and chat about the day to see, if you look uncomfortable and don't like it, you should watch a hilarious sweep over the line.
In July, I successfully got my university diploma and bachelor's degree certificate, the last CUBA was delayed until August, and later everyone knew that William and I lost to the quarterfinals, and the last CUBA passed in a flash!
In this way, the undergraduate degree is even a successful graduation, and everyone listens to my CBA life.
8th pick from the 2020 CBA Draft, Zhang Ning
On August 21 of the same year, I have had a new slogan since then! I can do my best to do my best. Since then, "Jin" has taken root and sprouted in my heart, and I thought in my heart, Zhang Ning! I'm going to start breaking the question, I'm going to start proving myself, I'm going to prove myself on the CBA stage, and from this day on, I'm going to mess with him!!!
On the set of little gossip, everyone must want to know the 8th pick, whether it has any impact on me, and whether I will not be unwilling! What do you say! Friends who know my personality will definitely know that I TM's unwillingness! I'm not reconciled! I'm not reconciled! I said I didn't want to be a champion! Do you believe it? Who wouldn't want to be an athlete?
Initially, I told myself, no matter which team I go to, do what I have to do, start from scratch, start from the most basic, just like I started playing, just like I was a freshman in high school, just like my freshman year! But it was at this time that God made a big joke with me, and I went to Shanghai for a trial before the draft! At that time, Shanghai's signature was probably in the 4th place! Although I want to be a champion, but I also know that my own ability is not enough, if I am the club management, I am the head coach, I will also choose my good brother William, including I had a returnee inside player that year, everyone must know the scarcity of big players in the interior, but also have the ability to have experience outside the inside players, so they should be in line with the front, I was thinking about Shanghai No. 4 signing and drama, who knows, a few days after the trial, the CBA draft draw, Shanghai team drew the champion! You can imagine how complicated my heart was at that time! I seem to have a chance to be a champion again! However, after I calmed down, I considered that no matter what aspect of the Shanghai team considered it, the signing position of the champion would not be considered on me, and I was very clear in my heart, and I comforted myself that in addition to the first sign, it was more important to go to a team that liked me and gave me a chance. But how to comfort myself, I am still so unwilling in my heart! After that, all kinds of opportunities, I came to "Jin", came to our Shanxi, this place that is willing to give me a chance, at this point, my No. 8 jersey, I think you can also think of it, when you see me wearing the back of the No. 8 jersey, you should see two words - unwilling!
It's never anyone's emotions that torment you, it's your fantasy expectations.
Short story documentary set
On September 21 of the same year, I passed my first CBA physical test and began to work with a certificate. But just the day before, September 20th, I got engaged! Beijing Chaoyang District Blue Harbor, that was my first date with Sister Dou, December 25, 2015 to September 6, 2020 exactly 1717 days, September 6, that day I proposed! I secretly proposed to Sister Bean, and only my college roommate, my eldest brother, and the most important friends of my life knew and were present. At that time, whether it was the proposal I designed or the engagement family banquet on the 20th, I didn't say it to the outside world, because it was in the end of the draft, and the outside world must have been very sensitive! Parents also especially do not understand why I just finished the draft and just graduated from college to choose to propose, get engaged! They didn't understand it at the time, but I always remember that I made a promise to my girl, we agreed, no matter where I go after graduation, I don't even know if I can impact the professional arena, we all have to get two certificates together, that is, the graduation certificate and the marriage certificate, this is our agreement, so that at that time it was really a practical reason that I could not fully get the certificate, but I said that I asked for marriage and engagement, and Sister Dou agreed! Agreed when I had nothing! You can imagine how much a girl sacrificed, and in order to cheer me up in order to give me confidence, to put it bluntly, to maintain my machismo and my so-called self-esteem as a boy! Playing that, I really had to see Sister Bean fall asleep after I looked at her sleeping face, I silently shed tears, because I was not confident when I didn't know if I could give this girl a good future, so, after she fell asleep many times I looked at her and silently shed tears, I was also surprised that I met so quickly in my life, met the right person, it was so good! All right! harvest! harvest! harvest! Without stopping, it's time to write a love and emotion novel!
As for my life and family, my personal concept is to start a family, start a family first and then establish a career, and rush to the workplace and the battlefield without hesitation or thought. Men who give up on love, nothing will do well.
dream! The place I'm going to is a dream, as for how to get there? rush!
Shanxi men's basketball team, I'm here!
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