basketball hero

Chapter 67 Starting from scratch

There are still 3 days before the Guangsha team will challenge the Yunnan Honghe team in an away game.According to the team's arrangement, now Qiantang trains for one day, and then flies to Yunnan.

Ying Xiong received a call early in the morning, which surprised him very much.After finishing the team training that day, he took a taxi to a restaurant in the city in the evening, booked a seat, and waited.

After a while, a middle-aged man with a height of 185cm appeared in front of Ying Xiong.As soon as the two met, it was a big hug. The friendship between each other needless to say.

The person who came was Ying Xiong's coach in Yuezhou No. [-] Middle School - Shao Ziqiang.Shao Ziqiang called Ying Xiong in the morning and told him that he was going to Qiantang to do business today and wanted to catch up with him.This scene happened when Ying Xiong invited Shao Ziqiang to dinner.

The two walked into the restaurant, and under Ying Xiong's guidance, they came to the table he had reserved before.

Shao Ziqiang looked at the dishes Ying Xiong ordered, and said with a smile, "Should it be just the two of us?"

Ying Xiong nodded.

Shao Ziqiang smiled and said, "I can't finish eating so many dishes!"

Ying Xiong said: "Coach, you helped me so much before, and now I am making money, so I should thank you very much!"

Ying Xiong's words made Shao Ziqiang very useful, so he stopped being polite and sat down generously.

Neither Ying Xiong nor Shao Ziqiang drank any alcohol, but just drank some freshly squeezed juice.Shao Ziqiang came here by car, and Ying Xiong basically didn't drink alcohol for training.

The two began to chat while eating.

Shao Ziqiang smiled and said: "Ying Xiong, you surprised me. I thought you would play in the youth team for a while. I didn't expect you to be promoted to the first team so soon."

Ying Xiong was a little ashamed, and said, "It's not because of your care, the coach, that I can go directly to the first team."

Shao Ziqiang shook his head and said: "I did say a few words for you, but General Manager Ye Xiangyu told me directly that if your level does not meet their requirements, you will not be allowed to join the first team. Don't doubt it." With the eyes of the manager of a professional basketball club, with your talent, it is impossible for them not to see it."

Shao Ziqiang's affirmation did not excite Ying Xiong at this time, and his tone was a little sad: "Even if I got into the first team, so what? I still don't even have the chance to come on the bench, let alone anything else." .”

Shao Ziqiang smiled, and then said seriously: "In fact, I have already guessed your current situation. Let's put it this way, if I were your head coach, I would not use you."

Ying Xiong was very surprised and said: "Why don't you use me, I perform very well in training?"

Shao Ziqiang shook his head and said, "You are not very clear about your current situation."

Ying Xiong thought for a while and said, "My current situation is that the coach doesn't trust me, my teammates say behind my back that I'm a related family, and I'm a newcomer. That should be all."

Shao Ziqiang nodded, shook his head again, and said seriously, "Ying Xiong, think about it differently. If you were the coach, would you use yourself? In other words, does the coach use your reasons?"

Ying Xiong fell into deep thought.

Shao Ziqiang said: "A rookie who has never played a professional game, this rookie is not humble enough, not active enough, his heart is higher than the sky, and he feels a little underappreciated. If I were a coach, I would not use you!"

It is really a word that awakens the dreamer.Yingxiong's previous troubles were all because he put himself too high.I always think that my strength is enough to get playing time, and I can't immediately change from the core treatment in the high school league to this fringe player who doesn't even know if he has a chance to play in garbage time.

Ying Xiong nodded and said, "Coach Shao, I understand, I understand what you mean."

Shao Ziqiang smiled and said: "With your IQ, you can't fail to understand these principles. Sometimes people are like this, and it is easy to get lost in simple things. As a newcomer, don't always be obsessed with playing time, but should calm down Come on, try to improve yourself. No matter whether you play or not, you must be like a sponge, learn techniques and tactics, and don't stop improving!"

Ying Xiong smiled and said: "I may have thought too highly of myself at the beginning, and felt that I should get a chance to play."

Shao Ziqiang said slowly: "In the basketball kingdom of the United States, there are so many NCAA universities, but not many people are finally selected by the NBA. There are many players who perform like stars in their school's basketball team, but not many people There is a chance to be selected. Similarly, although the cultivation of talents in the CBA is different from that in the NBA, it is mainly for the echelon of youth teams. But if you think about it this way, our CBA league has a total of 16 teams, and there are only a few hundred official players. To become an official player of a CBA team, it is impossible to be a mediocre person with no skills."

Ying Xiong said, "Then what the coach means is that I don't have the qualifications to play in the CBA yet?"

Shao Ziqiang shook his head and said, "That's not what I mean. Ying Xiong, it's not that you're not strong enough, but your strength is not enough for a coach to use you. In other words, you don't have the ability The ability to really change the game. So, you need to keep working hard! Come on!"

Ying Xiong suddenly realized: "I understand, coach!"

Shao Ziqiang smiled and said: "As for your teammates saying that you are a related household. That is very simple. What you have to do is not to argue with them, but to show your strength and let your actions speak for itself. Whether you are a related household or not?" !"

Shao Ziqiang continued: "So the most important thing now is to get playing time, otherwise you will have no chance to prove yourself. According to your emotional intelligence, I believe you can handle the relationship within the team well."

Ying Xiong smiled wryly and said, "I thought it would go on smoothly, but I didn't expect to fall into trouble at the beginning of the season!"

Shao Ziqiang said with a smile: "Smooth sailing is sometimes not a good thing for a professional player. Taking setbacks as an opportunity to improve oneself is the strength of a great player. Ying Xiong, let's play as a mentor. , I hope my words can help you. I once said that your stage is not in the high school league. And here, CBA, is your stage. And I believe that in the future, your stage will be more than this—— Big! What you should do at this time is to achieve 4 characters - start from scratch!"

"Start from scratch?" Ying Xiong was slowly digesting what coach Shao Ziqiang said to him.For him, this period of time is very critical. If he continues with this mentality, it seems that it is only a matter of time before he is sent down to the youth team.Coach Shao Ziqiang, as a well-known domestic basketball expert and his former coach, his words are of great reference value.

Back at the players' dormitory at night, Ying Xiong took a shower and lay on the bed, thinking carefully about what he should do next.

Early the next morning, Ying Xiong got up early and greeted everything that came next with a positive and sunny attitude.The team flew to Yunnan by plane and will challenge the Yunnan Honghe team away.

At the Yunnan team training ground, the Guangsha team organized team training.Ying Xiong worked very hard in training, and stayed to practice shooting after training.His change caught the attention of the team's coaches and teammates, and everyone was surprised.

The Yunnan team is also having a hard time.Like the Guangsha team, they also lost 4 games in a row.So in this game, one of the two teams will definitely end the losing streak.The two teams at the bottom of the standings are about to start a "losing streak stop battle"!
Unlike the newly promoted Zhejiang Guangsha team, the Yunnan team has a higher heart!Obviously the strength is mediocre, but before the start of the season, they put forward the lofty goal of "guaranteeing eight, competing for six and making four", but a series of losing streaks made them shut up quickly.

This game was broadcast live on CCTV5. Both teams wanted to perform well in this nationally broadcast game and strive to gain more attention.

In the shooting practice before the start of the game, Ying Xiong arrived at the field early, passing and picking up the ball to his teammates.In his view, as a rookie, this is something that must be experienced.A newcomer, without qualifications, no matter how powerful and famous he was before, it is only limited to the locality.In the CBA, in the professional team, unless there is a glorious experience in other professional teams, otherwise, no matter how great the past is, it means nothing to others.

The Guangsha team's starting lineup is: Zhang Weigang, Zhang Nan, Jia Nan, Ma Chao, and Gabor Monet.

The Yunnan team's starting lineup is: Yu Junkai, Yin Zhiyong, Cui Yu, Chen Zhaosheng, Wilfred Risby.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides launched a confrontation, and soon the battle was tied at 6:6.The strength of the two teams is close, and the fight is also a back and forth, and the score is very anxious.

Ying Xiong was on the bench, not idle.Whenever a teammate scores a goal, he will actively applaud; if a teammate scores a beautiful goal, he will stand up and cheer; , Ask the assistant coach for advice.He's trying to fit in with the group, trying to fit in with everyone and not lose motivation because he's not playing.

In the end, the Zhejiang Guangsha team lost to the Yunnan Honghe team in this "bottom of the list" battle, ushering in a 5-game losing streak.The Yunnan team ended their embarrassing 4-game losing streak after winning this hard-fought campaign, and also got a chance to breathe.

In this game, Ying Xiong still didn't get a chance to play.But he was still very active in high-fiving his teammates, encouraging them, and applauding their hard work.

Ying Xiong wants to "start from scratch", that is, to forget all the glory and experience in the past, remember that he is a rookie, train hard, get along with his teammates, watch more videos to study tactics, and wait for his own opportunity.He believes that his own opportunity will definitely come in the not-too-distant future!

(End of this chapter)