As the captain of the team, you need a strong sense of responsibility and need to play a benchmarking role for your players on and off the field. As the double captain of the Chinese men's basketball team and the Guangdong men's basketball team, Zhou Peng, who is over 30 years old, undoubtedly interprets the identity of "captain" to the extreme.
He was caught in the chinese basketball giants and won the scoring king in his youth
Zhou Peng grew up in Dandong, Liaoning Province, showing outstanding basketball talent when he was young, and according to the bone age test, his height may reach 208cm. 8-year-old Zhou Peng started his basketball career from Dandong Private Guanxing Sports School and was successfully selected by Dandong Sports School in 2004.
Since the 1980s, Liaoning Province has sent a lot of talents to the echelons of the Chinese men's basketball team, and it is also a "must-compete place" for the selection of young teams of CBA clubs. When Jiang Xingquan, a Chinese basketball giant, was in charge of the Xinjiang team, he came to Dandong City Sports School to select materials, and he caught Zhou Peng. However, Zhou Peng's parents felt that the child was still too young and were reluctant to let him leave home too far away, and politely refused the invitation of the Xinjiang team.
After successfully entering the Liaoning youth team, Zhou Peng's life was not too smooth. At this time, the Guangdong men's basketball team went north to select materials, Zhou Peng was favored by Zhang Zhenmin, the youth coach of the Guangdong men's basketball team, and Zhou Peng, who was already 15 years old, decided to go south to Guangdong to continue his basketball career.
After coming to the Guangdong team, Zhou Peng swept away the haze and was successfully selected for the Chinese national youth team. His super scoring ability allowed him to quickly gain a foothold in the Chinese national youth team, and at the same time, in the Guangdong youth team, he also grew into the top scorer in the team, winning the CBA Youth League and the Asian Youth Championship.
Zhou Peng, who has just emerged, is a scoring weapon, not only can use the breakthrough to attack the team, but also the occasional outside shot also makes the opponent invincible. In the 2006-07 season, Zhou Peng was transferred to the Guangdong first team with the title of "Youth League Scoring King". Just when the fans were looking forward to the birth of the next "Zhu Fangyu", the then Guangdong coach gave Zhou Peng a slap in the face...
Only by starting from defense can we stand on the team
Zhou Peng was promoted to a rookie season on the first team, and the Guangdong team has just risen. The combination of Zhu Fangyu + Du Feng firmly occupies the main front line position of the team, and the rise of Yi Jianlian also allows the Guangdong team to have more choices on the offensive end. Although he was the youth league scoring champion, there was no Zhou Peng in the offensive tactics of Li Chunjiang, the head coach of the Guangdong team at the time.
Li Chunjiang, who is good at using young players, is not for not giving Zhou Peng a chance, but he found defensive talent in this forward player with an arm span of 213cm, and he prefers to build Zhou Peng into a top 3D player in China - based on defense, killing opponents with three-pointers on the offensive end.
Young players often want to prove their ability by scoring points in games, after all, that is the visible contribution on the statistics table. Of course, Li Chunjiang understands their thoughts, but his "iron fist rule" is also famous in the basketball world.
"When I first entered the first team, Director Li almost gave me a death order not to score. To start with dirty work, I also complained at the beginning. After going through the Finals a few times, I realized that what can make you stand in the team is the defense, that is, the dirty work on the court. ”
Under the leadership of Li Chunjiang, Guangdong team has completed four consecutive championships since 2007, laying the foundation for the team's position as the hegemon of domestic basketball.
Become the top pillar in the alternation of old and new
With the gradual retreat of Du Feng and Zhu Fangyu, Zhou Peng became the main force of the Guangdong men's basketball team. At this point, he needs to contribute more to the team on the offensive end. Obviously, for Zhou Peng, who is the scoring king of small, this is undoubtedly lifting the "seal".
In the 2015-16 season, Zhou Peng's average playing time increased to 34.4 minutes per game, an increase of 10 minutes over the previous season. The increase in playing time did not reduce his efficiency on the court, and he averaged more than 2 three-pointers per game with 40.9% shooting, contributing 15.5 points to the team. You know, the CBA of that year gathered all kinds of big-name foreign aid, they can suddenly shoot, and Zhou Peng needs to deal with them on the defensive end. Therefore, it is not easy to throw such a hit rate.
In the following 2 seasons, the Guangdong men's basketball team began to face a painful period of alternating between the old and the new. As a representative of the mesozoic generation of the team, Zhou Peng's average playing time is more than 35 minutes per game, and he is almost an offensive and defensive catch on the court. It is his and Yi Jianlian's full cooperation that keeps the Guangdong team from falling in the alternation between the old and the new. Although it did not qualify for the championship, the team has always been guaranteed to be in the CBA Final Four.
Captain China, from top to bottom
As early as 2007, Zhou Peng was selected by Yunus to join the Chinese men's basketball team, but he has been a marginal figure in the national team during this period. Although he has been training with the team, he still regrettably lost the 08 Olympic list. With Zhou Peng playing a steady role in the league, he participated in the 2012 London Olympics with the Chinese men's basketball team.
After the London Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team began to enter a painful period of alternating between the old and the new. At the Incheon Asian Games, only two post-80s players, including Zhou Peng, accompanied the team, and Zhou Peng was appointed captain of the team. However, the Incheon Asian Games is not a good memory for Zhou Peng, especially the team's defeat in Japan, which almost made the Chinese men's basketball team fall to the bottom.
A year later, the Changsha Asian Championship became the road to redemption for the Chinese men's basketball team. The return of Yi Jianlian and Liu Wei gave the men's basketball team more confidence, and the then team coach Gong Luming still handed over the captain's armband to Zhou Peng. The Chinese men's basketball team has been soaring in Changsha, especially after the reversal of the victory over south Korea, the team's morale has reached its peak. Zhou Peng, on the other hand, frowned after the game, and his daughter, who was born 38 days ago, was undergoing treatment in the ICU because of her illness.
Gong Luming found Zhou Peng and almost "ordered" him to return to the family immediately: "You are the pillar of the family, and you must be by their side at this time." Zhou Peng flew back to Guangzhou, stayed with his daughter for less than 3 hours, and then flew back to Changsha quickly, because the team still had a game that night.
"I should come back, I belong to this collective. We are all working towards a common goal, and I must come back. ”
In the end, with the efforts of the whole team, the Chinese men's basketball team staged the drama of the return of the king in Changsha and regained its footing on the top of Asia. As the captain, Zhou Peng chose the country in the country and in the small family, which is also touching.
Children and daughters, the "daughter slave" in the mouth of the wife
After experiencing the critical moments in Changsha, Zhou Peng always felt that he owed his daughter too much. "The first thing he does when he wakes up every day is to ask if my daughter is calling me." In the mouth of Zhou Peng's wife Liu Mei, he is a complete daughter slave, "He is an eccentric daughter, and he has always said that his daughter only needs to be a little princess at home." ”
Nowadays, Zhou Peng is a complete son and daughter, but compared to his daughter, his son is not so "lucky".
"Boys just can't be too squeamish, and they should let him exercise more." I think he might grow to 220cm, definitely going to send him to play basketball. ”
Zhou Peng's extreme self-discipline is well known in the circle, and he never drinks when his teammates eat together. When the team was training in the United States, during the Christmas season, his Christmas dinner was avocados, bananas and vegetables.
Whether in the Guangdong men's basketball team or in the national team, Zhou Peng has served as the captain of the team, and he has also set a positive example for the players in the team with his own practical actions. Whether it is the sense of responsibility or the hard work on the court, Zhou Peng deserves the title of "Captain Of China".