If you want to say who is the best CBA defender in the active game, then Zhao Rui, the champion core of the Guangdong team, must be among them, with the achievement of holding three championships and his unparalleled personal ability, it is enough to make him stand out among the local defenders and become the most dazzling one.
But as we all know, Zhao Rui, who has now played a famous name, was not a youth player of the Guangdong team at the beginning, he was different from his teammates Hu Mingxuan, Xu Jie and others, and his growth originated from another basketball club in Guangdong Province, Dongguan Parkland.
Zhao Rui was sent to Dongguan Park Lane to study basketball since he was a child, spent most of his basketball career here, and also represented the club in the NBL League for many years, but because Zhao Rui's strength was not as radiant as it is now, his identity in the team has always been the third boss. So the question is, from the NBL three masters to becoming the core of the Guangdong team championship, what has Zhao Rui experienced in his career? Today we will explore this problem.
Zhao Rui was born in 1996 in an ordinary family in Daqing City, Heilongjiang, his parents do not have any sports background, but under the influence of the Chinese sports trend, they have an almost fanatical love for basketball, for this reason, they hope that Zhao Rui also loves basketball as much as they do, if he can make a living from it when he grows up. So when Zhao Rui was 5 years old, he was sent by his parents to the local basketball training center to learn professional basketball skills.
In 2006, when Guangdong Hongyuan team rose in the CBA, won three consecutive championships, and there was another team in Guangdong, Dongguan New Century Team, playing in the CBA, sun Qikai, who was also the owner of a local enterprise in Dongguan, Guangdong, was very envious, so he followed the practice of Chen Haitao and Liang Zhibin, the owners of the above two teams, and established a (the third in Dongguan) professional team, and named Dongguan Park lane team.
After the establishment of the team, Sun Qikai quickly recruited many professional players from Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Shandong to expand the team's lineup, and began to lay out the team's youth training system, because many of the main members of the team are from the northeast, so Sun Qikai simply set up his own youth training base in Heilongjiang to find more seedlings.
On February 10, 2006, Dongguan Park Lane officially passed the approval of the Basketball Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport and qualified for the NBL League, and their goal is to hit China's highest level basketball league , the CBA , within three years.
In the same year, under a coincidence, Sun Qikai found Zhao Rui in the process of talent search in Daqing, Heilongjiang, Sun Qikai was deeply attracted by the then 11-year-old Zhao Rui's skillful dribbling and stunning moves, so he immediately decided to bring the basketball genius back to the base camp in Dongguan, in a lobbying and persuasion, Sun Qikai persuaded Zhao Rui's parents to successfully bring Zhao Rui back to Dongguan. In this way, Zhao Rui left Heilongjiang, where he had lived for 11 years, and officially went to the southern city of Dongguan to pursue his basketball dream.
After arriving in Dongguan, Zhao Rui was assigned to the three teams of Park Lane to start practicing, during which he needed to overcome factors such as the weather and different living habits of the southern city, which Zhao Rui once said in the later Documentary on guangdong team winning the championship, and said that it was not easy.
In 2009, Dongguan Park Lane team reached the top of the NBL as desired, becoming the overall champion of the year, but because the CBA did not open the quota for expansion at that time, they did not get the opportunity to enter the CBA. With the increasing distance of the NBL competitive environment, after 2009, the strength of Dongguan Park Lane team began to decline, constantly missing out on the championship, but at this time they still maintained the league's top four results, and they still worked hard for the dream of entering the CBA.
At the same time, Zhao Rui, who was still in the third team at the time, was growing at an alarming speed. In February 2011, the 15-year-old Zhao Rui was promoted to the second team, and was favored by Zhang Yunsong and Zhang Cheng, members of the coaching team of the national youth team, and then entered the national youth team and served as the captain.
In 2012, the CBA announced that the same province can not exceed three CBA teams, Dongguan Park Lane in order to achieve the dream of entering the CBA, at the expense of the team's home relocation to Changsha, Hunan, and changed its name to Changsha Parkin to continue to play in the NBL, impacting the CBA.
In 2013, Zhao Rui was promoted to the first team and officially represented Changsha Park lane in the NBL League, which was the first time zhao Rui participated in a professional league in his career.
After playing the first season of his career, Zhao Rui continued to play well in the Asian Youth Championship, averaging 15.7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game at the 2014 U18 Asian Youth Championship; in the 2015 U19 World Youth Championship, Zhao Rui averaged 12.6 points and 3.7 assists per game, becoming the well-deserved core of the national youth team at that time.
In the following three seasons of 2014/2015/2016, Zhao Rui's growth became more and more obvious, but the team could not achieve good results because of strength, and the dream of entering the CBA was more and more distant, in the perennial conquest, Sun Qikai also led to an economic crisis in the team because of excessive investment.
In 2016, Zhao Rui could contribute 8.5 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game, and the team's role was second only to Jiang Junqi (averaging 15.8 points and 7.4 rebounds per game) and Gao Yan (averaging 13.5 points and 3.6 rebounds per game), becoming the team's three leaders.
However, Zhao Rui's excellent performance did not help the team to get good results, coupled with the CBA announced that it would not consider expanding the army in the next 5 years, under the superposition of various pressures, Sun Qikai decided to give up the dream of impacting the CBA and disband the team. But before disbanding the team, Sun Qikai also found a way out for the players, when his most important players were Zhao Rui and Zeng Fanri, who refused the high salaries of various teams and introduced zhao Rui and Zeng Fanri to the Guangdong team that was at a loss in the CBA at the time.
Du Feng, who was the coach of the Guangdong team at the time, attached great importance to Sun Qikai's introduction, and he personally led the team to Changsha to investigate Zhao Rui and Zeng Fanri, and after a conversation, Du Feng immediately decided to sign these two players.
In the summer of 2016, the Guangdong team officially announced the signing of Zhao Rui and Zeng Fanri, zhao Rui officially started his CBA career, together with Zeng Fanri, to help Sun Qikai realize his unfulfilled dream - to compete in the CBA and win the championship.
In 16-17 years, as a rookie, Zhao Rui played 47 games for Guangdong team, averaging 8.1 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 24.9 minutes per game, and helped Guangdong team reach the finals again after 4 years, but unfortunately they lost 0-4 to Xinjiang and missed the championship. After losing to Xinjiang, Zhao Rui left sad tears on the field.
In that year, Zhao Rui showed his outstanding physical talent on the CBA field, and for the first time, people appreciated the performance of this explosive defender who combined American and Chinese play.
Because of his outstanding personal ability during the season, Zhao Rui was favored by Li Nan, the coach of the Chinese men's basketball red team, after the end of the season, and was selected for the final roster.
In the 17-18 season, due to injuries, Zhao Rui only played 30 games for Guangdong team, averaging 10.1 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game, averaging double figures for the first time per game, and his outstanding performance also allowed him to sit firmly in the position of the team's starting scoring guard, but this season Guangdong team lost to Liaoning in the semi-finals, and once again missed the championship.
In 2018, Zhao Rui won the gold medal at the Asian Games for the Chinese men's basketball team and contributed 16 points, 6 assists and 3 rebounds in the final, helping the team to defeat Iran 84-72.
If the first two seasons of his career were a necessary stage for Zhao Rui to grow up, then in the next 18-19 season, it was the period when he reaped the rewards.
Throughout the 18-19 season, Zhao Rui played 40 games for Guangdong. In the average of 25.7 minutes per game, he got 11.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists, including 40 points, 5 rebounds, 10 assists and 5 steals in the game against Xinjiang on November 4, 2018, helping the team to win 129-127 in overtime, this game Yi Jianlian and foreign aid Weems were absent due to injury, Zhao Ruili suddenly shot outside and sent an assist at the last moment to let Meng Duo shoot a goal that hit the whistle, playing the highest performance of his career.
This season, under the rise of Zhao Rui and the growth of defenders such as Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie, Guangdong swept Xinjiang with a big score of 4-0 in the finals, and lifted the championship trophy again after six years.
In 2019, Zhao Rui was selected into the Chinese men's basketball team and competed in the Men's Basketball World Cup with the team.
In the 19-20 season, Zhao Rui continued to play the role of the team's core defender, playing a total of 42 games throughout the season, contributing 13.7 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists, helping Guangdong to play a 44-2 record in the regular season, and defeating Liaoning 2-1 in the finals to defend the championship.
In the 20-21 season, due to the injury of team leader Yi Jianlian, Zhao Rui was designated as the new leader by the team, and he also played his due role. Throughout the season, Zhao Rui played 51 games for Guangdong, and won 11.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game, helping the team to reach the finals again, in the finals he contributed 18 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game, carried the team's offensive banner in the absence of Ma Shang and Yi Jianlian, and restricted the play of Liaoning's Zhao Jiwei, Guo Allen and others on the defensive end, successfully helping Guangdong team win three consecutive championships.
After winning the championship in the 20-21 season, Zhao Rui returned to the old site of Dongguan Park Lane Club, found Sun Qikai, and personally gave one of his own championship rings to Sun Qikai, saying that without Sun Qikai, there would be no who he is today.
This season, Zhao Rui continued to take the lead and became the vanguard of Guangdong's goal of achieving four consecutive championships, averaging 13.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, becoming the most powerful helper around Du Feng.
This is Zhao Rui, from the NBL team three bosses, to become the guangdong team's championship core, Zhao Rui's career has always been associated with words such as "hard work" and "hard work", if there is no unyielding belief, his career will not achieve so much, if there is no determination to be ruthless to himself, he will not become one of the best players in the CBA today, he is the most inspirational existence in the CBA, he is worth learning from many people.
Of course, throughout Zhao Rui's career, he can achieve today's achievements, he needs to thank two people the most, one is Sun Qikai, the person who discovered and cultivated him, can be regarded as the Bole of his career, and the other is Du Feng, the head coach who gave him the opportunity, these two figures, in Zhao Rui's career, play the role of a bright light, leading him to the other side of success.
But Bo Le and the people who appreciate himself are always the people who open the door to his career, and Zhao Rui can achieve today's achievements, relying more on his personal efforts, so he has become one of the best defenders in the CBA, which is a well-deserved result.
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