48 points! Set a single-game scoring record for an active CBA local player in the playoffs!
This is the 2019-20 CBA playoff quarterfinals, Wu Qian played against Liaoning team. On 15-of-27 shooting, he set a record of 48 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal, and only made one turnover. Although the Zhejiang team lost in the end, Wu Qian fought until the last moment, he was an excellent team leader, and he was a real lone hero.
After the game, his scratched arm was the truest portrayal of his game.
Love and pursue your basketball dreams
Wu Qian was born in 1994 in Cangnan County, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, where his father Wu Keli was a well-known local entrepreneur with good family conditions. But Wu Qian did not have the bad problems of the "rich second generation", he liked to play basketball since he was a child, and later when he talked about his feelings for basketball, he said: "When I was a child, I liked basketball for no reason, it was pure like. With such a pure love in his bones, gradually, Wu Qian's love for basketball became more and more intense.
Thanks to the basketball atmosphere in Wenzhou, wu qian has represented the school in various types of basketball events when he was still in elementary school, and has always had a good performance. After graduating from elementary school, Wu Qian met his enlightenment coach, Mr. Zhu Feng, at Lingxi No. 1 Middle School. After that, under the guidance of teacher Zhu Feng, his basketball skills continued to improve, and gradually emerged in junior high school level competitions.
At that time, Coach Zhao Maoyong of Wenzhou Sports School discovered that Wu Qian was a rare basketball seedling, so he directly found Wu Keli through Zhu Feng and expressed his desire to recruit Wu Qian. Wu Keli did not directly agree with or reject Coach Zhao Maoyong, but seriously asked Wu Qian's ideas. When his father asked if he wanted to play basketball or go to school, he didn't hesitate to choose the former.
In this way, in 2008, 13-year-old Wu Qian came to Wenzhou Sports School and opened the road of professional basketball training.
After coming to Wenzhou Sports School, Wu Qian initially felt that his life of training while attending classes was quite good, but gradually, he felt bored with this all-day life. Under the guidance and care of Coach Zhao Maoyong, Wu Qian gradually sank his heart, and his basketball skills also improved rapidly, only staying in the sports school for more than a year, and was recommended by Coach Zhao Maoyong to the Zhejiang Men's Basketball Third Team. This team is also called Zhejiang Sports Team, and Wu Qian entered the youth training system of Zhejiang Team.
In the Zhejiang Sports Team, Wu Qian has become more assiduous, and his confidence in making a breakthrough on the road of basketball has become more firm. The training hall has become his daily routine after daily training, his ball control skills are constantly improving, and his shooting skills are gradually improving, which has laid a solid foundation for him to become a pitcher with superb shooting skills in the future.
In April 2010, Wu Qian represented the Zhejiang Youth Team in the National U17 Men's Basketball League and helped the team win the national championship with 14 wins. This is the first time Wu Qian feels the honor and happiness brought to him by basketball, and it is also the best reward for his hard work in training for so many years. Later, Wu Qian recalled the feelings of this championship experience:
"When my parents talk to relatives and friends, they often proudly say ' my son won a national championship', and at that time I felt that I could win glory for myself, my family and the province by playing hard, and I had a sense of pride and pride from the heart. It was also at that time that I felt that I would never give up basketball in my life. ”
In July 2013, Wu Qian was selected for the national youth team and represented the national youth team in the U19 World Youth Championship. Although Wu Qian performed in this international competition, the experience of playing for the national team for the first time still planted the seeds of dreaming in the young Wu Qian's heart, thinking that he could once again wear the national team shirt to play for the country in the future. Then, with his excellent performance in the Zhejiang Youth Team and the National Youth Team, 18-year-old Wu Qian was promoted to the Zhejiang Men's Basketball First Team in the 2012-13 season and started his CBA career.
The opportunity comes to live up to the high expectations of the team
When he first arrived in the CBA, Wu Qian did not have many appearances in the first two seasons, averaging only 2.6 points and 3.2 points per game. At that time, Wu Qian knew that he was still far from being a good professional player. Although he often sits on the cold bench, his heart to appear is always hot. Wu Qian is eager to play, in order to make up for the gap between himself and the excellent players as soon as possible, he will choose to practice after the end of each day's training to enable him to adapt to the CBA league as soon as possible.
In the 2014-15 season, after two seasons of dormancy, the 20-year-old Wu Qian finally ushered in an opportunity. At that time, the Zhejiang team began to cultivate new talents, and the head coach Daniel Zhang Jun gave Wu Qian a lot of playing time and shooting rights, and encouraged him to let go and play on the field. Wu Qian also did not live up to the team's high expectations, averaging nearly 30 minutes per game, averaging 11.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game, and averaging 2.2 three-pointers per game, debuting as a shooter.
After this season that was very crazy for Wu Qian, his shooting skills on the outside line became more and more mature, and those difficult three-point shots gradually became his unique label. In the next two seasons, he sat firmly in the position of the starting main force, steadily improved his strength, and gradually became the new leader of the Zhejiang men's basketball team.
In 2017, with his outstanding performance in the league, Wu Qian was selected into the big list of the Chinese men's basketball team, and Du Feng, who was the head coach of the blue team at the time, paid great attention to him and let him serve as the captain of the blue team. Wu Qian, who was selected for the national team roster for the second time, gained a lot: while following the national team to compete in a series of high-level games to improve his basketball level, he also knew how to be a good team leader.
In the 2017-18 season, the former Zhejiang youth team head coach Liu Weiwei served as the head coach of the Zhejiang team, at this time Wu Qian has been regarded as the cornerstone of the team, under the guidance of coach Liu Weiwei, who focuses on cultivating newcomers, the Zhejiang team began to accelerate its own pace of play, which is not outstanding in physical confrontation ability and is good at outside projection, for Wu Qian, who is not outstanding in physical confrontation ability and is good at outside projection, the fast-based style is conducive to his own characteristics. Throughout the season, Wu Qian averaged 41.2 minutes per game, averaging 19.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 2.2 steals per game, all five basic statistics set a career high.
Record 49 points, league super scorer
"Not to erupt in silence, but to perish in silence."
This is what Wu Qian said after the 2018-19 Zhejiang team's victory over Tianjin.
49 points! Surpass the UAE League, become the first person to score in a single game, hit 10 three-pointers, and set a new career high! In the first quarter of the game, Wu Qian shot 7 of 8 from beyond the three-point line, slashing 24 points, and the whole game was like a god under the gods, slashing 49 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists. That night, Wu Qian, who faced all kinds of pressure, was relieved, as if he had opened a new chapter in his career, and it was also a testimony to his ten years of hard training.
Since 2019, The Zhejiang team has reached the playoffs for three consecutive years under the leadership of Wu Qian, although the Zhejiang team has not been able to make a breakthrough quickly, but the personal data of wu qian's playoffs has climbed step by step, from an average of 20.7 points per game to 33 points to 27.7 points, Wu Qian's steady progress makes this young and energetic Zhejiang team not to be underestimated.
Go ahead and be crowned regular season MVP
"He's an efficient scorer, he's the key core of the team, destroying the city and moving forward! As long as he steps on the field, he has nothing but victory! Congratulations to Wu Qian for being elected CBA Regular Season Most Valuable Player for the 2020-2021 Season! ”
This is the official CBA evaluation of Wu Qian's election as the MVP of the regular season last season.
Averaging 19 points per game plus a career-high 7.6 assists, he led Zhejiang to a regular season record of 41 wins and 11 losses, ranking third in the league, although there are some doubts, but it is indeed deserved.
So far in his career, a 48-point active local player playoff single-game scoring record, a 49-point active local player regular season single-game scoring record, the first MVP in the history of the Zhejiang team, such an honor is enough to make many players look back, but Wu Qian is not proud and complacent, but has been constantly trying to break through himself.
Dare to dream and dare to move forward! Along the way, Wu Qian's low-key and humble personality is the key to his continuous progress, and I believe that such a big boy who insists on love and is a little introverted can lead this energetic Zhejiang team to achieve new results in the CBA in the future and blow up the youth storm belonging to this group of young people.