Du Feng is the current men's basketball coach, not the main responsible coach! But the commander in charge of the men's basketball team to turn around for Chinese basketball!
On November 28, Du Feng led the Chinese men's basketball team to a 106:73 victory over Japan to win the world preliminary round. This victory gave the sluggish Chinese basketball a shot in the arm! At that time, Du Feng was an abandoned player of the Xinjiang Sports Team, but now he is a young marshal of the men's basketball team! How did he accomplish the counterattack? Let's review the stormy life path that Du Feng has traveled.
Du Feng was born in Xinjiang in 1981 and has loved basketball since he was a child. Due to his thin stature, his physical strength was poor and he was eliminated by the physical team. I remember a TV show many years ago when Du Feng talked about how after being eliminated, the canteen masters refused to let him eat, which was a big blow to Du Feng, who was only fifteen years old!
After Du Feng lost the opportunity to play, he entered Beijing Sport University to study. However, Du Feng always had a basketball dream in his heart, and he practiced basketball hard in addition to studying. Half a year later, when he heard that the Guangdong Hongyuan Youth Team was recruiting coaches, Du Feng followed a teacher south to Guangdong to apply. Who knew that Du Feng was recruited as a player by the youth team, which was exactly what Du Feng wanted.
Du Feng recalled in an interview: "When I had no ball to play, I once doubted my ability, but after entering the Guangdong youth team, I found that I was the best, and later when I entered the national youth team, I was still the best. ”
In 1997, at the age of 16, Du Feng began playing in the CBA, when the rookie was basically a "water dispenser administrator" in the first season of his career, and he symbolically lit up in the game and grabbed only a rebound.
It was only in the third and fourth seasons that it improved slightly, averaging about 10 points per game. However, after four seasons of tempering, the slender Du Feng has undergone a qualitative transformation. The Hui lad, known as the "Rib Trapeze", was about to take off.
In the 01/02 season, Du Feng averaged 19.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, and further 23.7 points and 8.3 rebounds per game in the 02/03 season. However, this was only a small test, and in the 03/04 season he delivered a more perfect answer. Du Feng averaged 21.2 points and 8.8 rebounds per game and led Guangdong to win the championship for the first time, and he was also named the MV.P of the finals. At this time, Du Feng has grown into a hot star in the CBA. At the same time, he became the most admired player of Yunas in the national team.
Subsequently, Guangdong won two consecutive championships and achieved three consecutive championships. Due to the general return, Bayi's strength increased greatly, and in the 06/07 season, it defeated Guangdong to regain the championship, shattering Guangdong's dream of four consecutive championships. After only one season of ups and downs, the Guangdong team made a comeback, winning 4 championships in a row, laying the foundation for a rock-solid Guangdong Dynasty.
At the beginning, Du Feng came to be a coach, who knew that he was a star. Since 2008, the Hongyuan team has let him play while playing and also serving as an assistant coach, and the management is deliberately cultivating him. In 2012, Du Feng retired due to injury and has been a coach full-time ever since.
Du Feng, who came out of Xinjiang, has never forgotten his hometown, and he is also sincerely happy when Xinjiang basketball has made great progress. He also returned to Xinjiang to open a basketball training camp and brought a boy who was just as thin as he was back to Guangdong to be carefully trained. Did Director Du think of himself and feel pity for him? Tough on this kid outweighs the rest of the young players in the squad. Kung Fu pays off, he also dares to fight like Du Feng did back then, and also copied the myth that Enshi won the MVP of the finals, this child is Hu Mingxuan.
Du Feng scolded the young players
Of course, it is not only Hu Mingxuan who is scolded, Zeng Fanri, Xu Jie and others are scolded like a common thing. Du Feng's harshness is well known in the CBA, and perhaps this is one of the reasons why he became the head coach of the national team. This Iron-Blooded Sect Leader also has a benevolent side. The Guangdong team won the championship, and Du guided the airlift of mutton from Xinjiang to Dongguan to reward the three armies, and the mutton pipe was full. After the wild victory over Japan last month, Du Zhi once again airlifted mutton from his hometown to treat the national team soldiers, which is the warm side of Du Feng.
Du Feng has a gentle wife, her name is Ma Chenfei, a former national swimmer who retired early due to injury. He is now the director of the Center for Weightlifting and Wrestling Judo at the General Administration of Sport. Mother-in-law Yao Ying is the coach of the national swimming team. The old man, Ma Wenguang, is even more remarkable, breaking the Asian record for weightlifting 18 times and the national record 56 times when he was an athlete. After retiring as a coach, he is now the secretary general of the International Lifting Federation.
Du Feng was abandoned by Xinjiang, did not give up his basketball dream, and insisted on working hard all the way to become the coach of the national team. His success does not depend on luck, but on the result of persistent efforts, and on the result of non-stop struggle! The current Chinese team, the coach Du Feng is young, the players are also young. Of course, youth is the cost! Young has power! There is hope when you are young! The young Chinese men's basketball team is moving forward on a road full of hope! Moving forward!