1 minute 36 seconds, Gao Shiyan left 45 degrees high difficulty three-point shot, hit!
54.8 seconds, Gao Shiyan middle distance, hit! And cause fouls!
In the final moments of the game, he single-handedly led the Shandong team to defeat the Xinjiang team and successfully advanced to the top 4.
This was Gao Shiyan's final performance in the playoffs against Xinjiang last season, killing the game with a key mid-range 2+1, and he shouted "My Time" excitedly after scoring. When the camera swept past coach Gong Xiaobin, the previously serious Runaway King smiled.
After three years, the Shandong men's basketball team once again reached the playoffs top 4, this time the protagonist is not MVP Ding Yanyuhang, but the fastest improving player Gao Shiyan.
There is a kind of "talent" called suffering
Gao Shiyan was born in 1996 in Fengcheng, Liaoning. Fengcheng is a small city with typical northeastern characteristics, although it is not large, but Fengcheng's basketball culture is very outstanding. For example, Li Xiaoyong, a former member of the national team, a famous player in the Liaoning men's basketball team and a winner of 3 assists in the A League, is a Fengcheng person.
Unlike many professional basketball players, Gao Shiyan does not have a family "basketball gene". His father was a basketball enthusiast, and when Gao Shiyan was very young, Gao cultivated his interest in basketball. Although Lao Gao tried his best to make Gao Shiyan like basketball, he was not cold about basketball at that time, and only had a fondness for running.
In order to practice running, Gao Shiyan always got up early and walked to school. In the winter, Fengcheng was more than ten degrees below zero, or even twenty degrees, and Gao Shiyan never complained. In school, whether it is a normal training or a competition, Gao Shiyan is always so serious.
"Can endure hardships", this is a sentence that the coach who has taken Gao Shiyan often hangs on his lips, it seems that these three words are engraved in Gao Shiyan's bones, transformed into the source of his continuous progress in the future.
Lao Gao wants Gao Shiyan to continue to develop on the road of basketball, thinking that he can one day become a professional player, and Gao Shiyan has gradually become interested in basketball. In 2005, as a loyal fan of the Liaoning men's basketball team, Gao Shiyan, who was only 11 years old, came to his long-awaited basketball school as he wished.
Here, Gao Shiyan practiced his skills hard and trained very hard. After every day after training, when others were resting, Gao Shiyan found a place to practice silently, which gradually became a habit of his hope for basketball school.
Meet the nobles and save your basketball career
Gao Shiyan's efforts allowed him to grow up rapidly in Panpan Basketball School, and his solid basic skills and tenacious training laid the foundation for him to become a defensive tough player in the future.
In 2010, with a good performance in panpan basketball school, Gao Shiyan came to the Liaoning Junior Team, and as soon as he entered the team, he began to prepare for the training of the 2013 Liaoning National Games. The training of the youth team is very boring and tiring, in addition to completing the training on the pitch every day, there is a lot of physical training, and many people are overwhelmed by it. However, Gao Shiyan is actively adapting to this kind of training, perhaps because of his track and field skills, so that he can always complete the training task better than other team members every time.
As we all know, the youth training system of the Liaoning men's basketball team is the top level in the country, and has trained a large number of outstanding professional players, including many national players such as Guo Allen, Zhou Qi, and Zhao Jiwei. Although Gao Shiyan at that time had been narrowing the gap with others through the efforts of the day after tomorrow, his unsalient basketball talent and the huge competitive pressure around him made his situation before the National Games more and more difficult. In the end, on the eve of the Liaoning National Games, Gao Shiyan missed the final big list and was eliminated.
In the face of failure, Gao Shiyan was both sad and helpless, and no matter how hard he trained, he could not go to the end, and the talented Liaoning men's basketball team could not give him a chance to prove himself. Just when he almost wanted to give up his basketball career, Guo Shiqiang gave him the opportunity to be reborn.
Guo Shiqiang, who had just returned to China not long ago, re-organized Gao Shiyan into the Liaoning Youth Team and encouraged Gao Shiyan not to give up. After that, under the guidance of Guo Shiqiang, Gao Shiyan continued to train hard every day, making a little progress, and finally stayed in the big list of the National Games, and together with Zhou Qi, Zhao Jiwei and others, helped the Liaoning team win the championship of the youth group of the National Games.
In November 2013, Guo Shiqiang re-appointed as the manager of the Liaoning men's basketball team, and Gao Shiyan was not conspicuous in the Liaoning men's basketball team with a large number of talents in the defensive line. However, it was Guo Shiqiang who in 2015 to transfer Gao Shiyan, who was still in the youth team, to the first team.
Gao Shiyan did not live up to Guo Shiqiang's trust, and in the first team he became the team's third choice in the defensive line, and was a substitute for Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei. Gao Shiyan does not need to take on the heavy responsibility of scoring, nor does he need to do a good tandem team, he needs to do what he is best at defending, and every game he will be guided by Guo Shiqiang on the defensive end.
Although he didn't have much playing time after being promoted to the first team, Gao Shiyan has been playing diligently. Even if a game is played for only one minute, he will devote himself to the defensive end.
Go north to Jilin and emerge
In the 2016-17 season, Liaoning lost 1:4 to Xinjiang in the semi-finals and missed the finals. In the offseason, the Liaoning team loaned Gao Shiyan to the Jilin team, even if it was still in the northeast region, but this was the first time Gao Shiyan left the Liaoning team that cultivated him and was like home, and it was inevitable that there was reluctance and sadness in his heart.
In the first two seasons of Liaoning, Gao Shiyan averaged only 0.7 and 0.8 points per game, considering that he averaged less than 4 minutes per game, which does not mean that he is a marginal player.
In the season of Jilin team, Gao Shiyan served as the team's starting point guard, on the basis of maintaining elite defense, Gao Shiyan ushered in an outbreak at the offensive end, averaging 9.8 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.9 steals per game, and was selected into the national blue team training list coached by Du Feng. By then, one of his feet had already entered the national team.
That season, the scene of Gao Shiyan cracking the corners of his eyes and fighting bloodily with tape became the most representative moment of his basketball career.
Go south to Shandong and usher in a breakthrough
After playing for one season in Jilin, Gao Shiyan was recalled by the Liaoning team, and he played steadily for the next two seasons, especially on the defensive end. Whenever the team is in trouble, he will always stand up on the defensive end and blow the horn of the team's counterattack with a beautiful steal.
In the 2019-2020 season finals, Liaoning lost 1:2 to Guangdong and did not win the championship. Shortly after the end of the finals, Gao Shiyan was once again loaned to Shandong by the team, and at the same time exchanged for the inside player Zhu Rongzhen, this time for a two-year loan. At this time, Gao Shiyan can already stand alone, and he is no longer the reluctant child he was three years ago, and he needs a chance to prove himself to start a new chapter in his career.
After coming to the Shandong team, Gong Xiaobin's coach attached great importance to Gao Shiyan, gave him absolute ball rights and a lot of playing time, and let him take on the heavy responsibility of connecting the team and becoming the commander of the team. At the beginning of the season, Gao Shiyan seemed to be completely activated, and with an average of nearly 40 minutes of playing time per game, he scored 20+ points several times, and did a good job in organizing the attack, and it was completely impossible to see that he was a newcomer who had just joined the team.
On November 6, facing his old club Liaoning for the first time, he scored 21 points and 6 assists, and scored a deadly three-pointer in overtime against a defender. A month later, Gao Shiyan once again faced Liaoning's career-high explosive stats of 35 points + 17 assists, and once again hand-bladed the old owner. In the regular season, Gao Shiyan averaged 12.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, 7.1 assists and 2.8 steals per game, winning the Most Improved Player of the Season Award, which is the best compliment for his season.
Selected for the three-person basketball national team, breaking the doubts
In the summer of 2021, Gao Shiyan was selected for the training roster of the three-man basketball national team and began training for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Three-person basketball is a new challenge for Gao Shiyan, who has never been exposed to three-person basketball, which is very strange to other team members.
Although there were many difficulties at the beginning, the fierce strength in Gao Shiyan's bones that could bear hardships made him overcome various difficulties little by little. With his excellent performance in training, Gao Shiyan was finally selected for the four-man roster of the three-man basketball national team and accompanied the team to the Tokyo Olympic Games.
On the day he traveled to Tokyo on July 19, Gao Shiyan posted a small long article on Weibo, concluding with the following:
"Now that we are about to embark on the Olympic Games, it is the country that has nurtured us, given us the best guarantee, and it is our obligation to serve the country, and it is our supreme glory!" I wish us all the best in the Olympic Games! Glory for the country! ”
In Tokyo, the three-person basketball national team did not have a good record, and Gao Shiyan's performance was also relatively bad. The height disadvantage and the instability of projection make Gao Shiyan a target targeted by opponents on the field. For a time, all kinds of public opinion pressure pointed at him. In the face of criticism from media reporters and fans, Gao Shiyan did not choose to escape, but proved himself to everyone through practical actions.
After finishing the schedule of the Tokyo Olympics, the three-person basketball national team began to prepare for the 2021 Shaanxi National Games. On the stage of the National Games, after a series of competitions, Gao Shiyan helped the Olympic United team finally win the gold medal and prove himself again on the three-person basketball court.
We see in Gao Shiyan's body the extraordinary of an ordinary player.
From a conscientious defensive tip to a rank in the first line of control, the pain and tiredness of this are probably only clear to Gao Shiyan himself.
As Yang Ming, the current head coach of the Liaoning men's basketball team, said: "Leaving is for a more perfect return." ”
Even though there is still a big gap with other national players, Gao Shiyan has been trying to catch up. I believe that one day, Gao Shiyan will bloom again!