Characters | Fan Ziming: I want to be CBA Jokic

On the 6th, Beijing Shougang defeated the defending champion Guangdong team with a huge advantage of 24 points. Fan Ziming was unusually strong on the inside, scoring 20 points while also grabbing 10 rebounds and 5 assists. "I felt like I had been holding back for too long, and the last two days I felt so bad that I was like being pressed into the water, and this game, I was finally able to catch my breath on the water." Two days ago, shougang lost to the bottom of the league after two extra hours, which was a very unexpected result in the outside world.

The big double-double with the Guangdong team is a microcosm and portrayal of Fan Ziming this season. If you are careful enough, you will find that Fan Ziming has become the team's top scorer, averaging 18.4 points per game, grabbing 8.3 rebounds and delivering 3 assists so far. These figures are the highest values of his career. "I don't notice if I'm the team's top scorer, I don't look at the stats, really, I think my mentality is a lot better than last season, I just don't pay attention to my performance. Last season, there was a time when I was particularly trying to prove myself, and I felt like I was coming to a new team and needed to help the team as soon as possible, to prove myself, to show my worth. But the more I think about it, the more I deviate too far from the target, and in a bit of colloquialism, I use it horizontally. ”

Fan Ziming spent two stages of competition last season to gradually find himself. During that time, he didn't play well, the data was bad, and the outside world also questioned him a lot, even insulted. "During that time, I just wanted to sleep, I just didn't want to open my eyes to face the feeling of the world." Fan Ziming once said this to the Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter.

But this season, Fan Ziming said that his biggest change is not the technology but the mentality. "You said that I shot so accurately, to be honest, I didn't expect this, I think my performance is also inexplicable." In fact, I have always been very strict with myself, I am quite accurate in my training, but sometimes the game cannot be played, but this season my game performance, especially shooting, is like training. At the same time, I feel that my biggest change is the mentality, as long as I am on the court now, I will not think about how to score, but whether I can grab one more rebound, send an assist to my teammates, even if it is a good defense, it is also something I want. ”

In addition to the adjustment of mentality, Fan Ziming also loves to use his brain, which is also an important reason for playing well. This season, the team used the double tower tactics of Fan Ziming and Li Muhao many times, but for Fan Ziming, this is a challenge. Although Fan Ziming also had the experience of playing double towers with an interior like Zhou Qi when he played in the Xinjiang team before, he was more often standing in a low position, rather than pulling near the free throw line to attack and shoot, leaving an inside space for Li Muhao.

"To be honest I used to play more of a five position, but after coming to the fourth position, I need to adjust. I would communicate with players in different positions, like with Brother Hao (Lee Mu Hao), and I needed to understand which area of the pitch he was in and how to have more chemistry with him. Not only that, but also the defenders, Fang Shuo, Liu Xiaoyu, what their offensive line is like, how to stand in a better position, etc., I think about these aspects every day. ”

Shougang head coach Yannis said of Fan Ziming this season, "He played very wisely, made the right choice on the field, and at the same time he was able to maintain the right mentality, I think he gradually became mature. ”

"If you had to choose a piece of personal data, which would be your most important?" The Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter asked Fan Ziming, and his answer was somewhat surprising, "assist".

"Assist?" "That's right, because I especially want to be an all-round inside player." He explained it this way. Fan Ziming told Beiqing-Beijing Headlines that his NBA idol is Jokic, who has no dead ends in technology and is incomparably comprehensive, well, finally understands why Fan Ziming values his assist data so much.

Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Song Xiang

Editor/Xu Zhao