From a marginal player on the bench to a league assist king, steal king and first team, he is now one of the best point guards in domestic basketball today. He is Sun Minghui who constantly counterattacks!
He went to Hangzhou alone, became the captain, and led the team to win the championship.
When Sun Minghui was a child, his father was a basketball player and a point guard on the court. Therefore, Sun Minghui was influenced by his father from an early age and began to contact the sport of basketball.
At the age of 12, he was already in budding sports school, receiving more formal and systematic basketball training. Usually hard training and father's guidance, he began to show outstanding basketball talent at a young age, and later was favored by the Guangsha team that was looking for youth players, and since then he has left his hometown and come to Hangzhou alone to pursue his basketball dream.
After coming to Guangsha Youth Training, Sun Minghui trained hard day and night, calm and calm during the game, and his performance at that time surpassed that of many peers. Finally, Sun Mingwei was selected for the U18 national youth team, which was his first time to enter the professional team with the "national character".
Later, Sun Minghui participated in the 2014 Asian Youth Championships, and because of his outstanding performance, he was appointed captain, and there were also Zhou Qi and Zou Yuchen in the team at that time. After fierce competition, the national youth team easily won the championship without bloodshed, and Sun Minghui, as a point guard, showed a strong overall view and leadership ability.
Later, at the World Youth Championships, Sun Minghui regrettably lost, but he got further training to prepare for stepping onto a higher stage.
Step onto the CBA stage and shine all-star
After the experience of the international arena, the Guangsha team promoted the domestic "thunder three youngsters" Sun Minghui, Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao to the Guangsha first team, but Sun Minghui in the rookie season performed poorly and did not get a long playing time.
At this time, Zhao Yanhao and Hu Jinqiu have begun to emerge and handed over a good report card. Sun Minghui, who was on the bench, was not discouraged by this, and he still actively trained and waited for the opportunity to come.
Soon after, on the All-Star Weekend that shone with countless spotlights, Sun Minghui participated in both the Star Rui All-Star Game and the Dunk Contest. In the Star Sharp Race, he contributed 17 points, and with only 15.5 seconds left in the game, he decisively shot to win the three-point team and won the MVP. In the dunk contest, he easily won the championship with two full scores of 100 points, making the world remember this dunk king.
Unfortunately, the eye-catching performance of the All-Star Game failed to let Sun Minghui continue to shine after that. In his second season, he only averaged 3.8 points and 1.2 assists per game, and for Guangsha, he could only be a player outside the rotation lineup.
No one could have imagined that such a role player would pick up the beams of the Guangsha team in the near future.
The domestic version of Wei Shao, "lying into" the national team
After the 2017 season, it may be for many athletes to take a good rest and adjust. But at this time, Sun Minghui participated in four events at the same time: the National Games Qualifiers, the Warm-up Tournament of the National Olympic Games, the East Asian Championships and the CBA Summer League. He played 38 games in a month, and in this high-intensity and high-intensity competition, Sun Minghui was like an iron man, averaging 30 points per game.
In the game, he repeatedly tore the defense line to show the breakthrough speed, as well as blood-curdling actual dunks, fans called him "domestic Wei Shao". In the World Preliminary Round against the South Korean team, he scored 21 points in the first half of 100 shots, and received the title of "Anti-Korean Surprise Soldier".
Participating in high-frequency competitions, Sun Minghui finally paid the price. At the Suzhou Eight Nations Tournament on July 19, Sun Minghui collapsed on the field due to physical exhaustion. He was taken into the rescue room by ambulance, infused until the early hours of the morning, and then returned to the field the next day, contributing 27 points to the national Olympic team without reservation.
The day after Sun Minghui was hospitalized, he was recruited to the national team under the guidance of Li Nan, and Sun Minghui was lying on a hospital bed, but he really "lay down" into the national team. In the next two years, Sun Minghui continued to grow steadily.
Break the doubt, become a men's basketball team, and usher in his own era
In the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, zhou peng and Ding Yanyuhang, the two main players in the team, were plagued by injuries. Even though there were already four defenders in the team at this time, Li Nan's coach still introduced Sun Minghui, who was performing well in the league at that time, to the national team.
To know that Sun Minghui is also a defender, fans and the media said that they could not understand, and they questioned the strength of Sun Minghui's entry into the national team. In the face of doubts, Sun Minghui seemed particularly calm, because he knew that he would use data to break all this.
So he was ordered to be in danger in the game where the Chinese team lost to the Polish team and saved the team from the fire. In addition to effectively limiting the scoring of opposing players on the defensive end, he equalized with a life-saving three-pointer in overtime, detonating the whole field in one fell swoop and winning a glimmer of life for the Chinese team.
Facing the strong enemy Nigeria, Sun Minghui was ordered to start the game and send 9 assists in the whole game, which was a good tandem with the attack of the whole team. Although he failed to win, Sun Minghui's performance is still worthy of recognition. It is also the tempering of this World Cup that makes him more comfortable in facing the big scene.
After returning to the club from the national team, Sun Minghui played well in the league, with points and assists improving. Even if the CBA league falls into a shutdown, Sun Minghui still strictly demands himself, reasonable diet, daily training content, he did not put down.
After the start of the league, he used his tear-up defense and active scrambling to make his opponents very distressed at the defensive end. All the statistics reached a new career high, ranking ninth among local players in the scoring league, and being crowned the king of assists and steals. Finally experienced the baptism of the national team and the league, Sun Minghui, who had the courage to fight, ushered in a new era that belonged to him.
Keep a low profile and continue to break through yourself
From obscurity to national defender, Sun Minghui's transformation is not easy. The former CBA dunk king, who has experienced the training of the World Cup, ushered in an outbreak and came to the peak of his career. His performance is enough to become a good local player, and some fans believe that he has great hopes of surpassing Guo Allen and becoming the first point guard in China.
In the face of fierce discussion in the media, Sun Minghui looked very lightly. He said:
"As a professional player, you must do your job well, don't care about the voices of the outside world, if you don't play well, it is normal to be criticized by public opinion."
He also actively trained in the off-season, and his breakthrough lethality and resilience improved a lot compared with before. He hopes to help the team win the championship in the new season.
With the end of the first stage of the CBA League regular season, Sun Minghui led the Zhejiang Guangsha men's basketball team to an excellent record of 11 wins and 2 losses, ranking second in the league. You know, the current Zhejiang Guangsha team is an all-Chinese class lineup, such a perfect start, is expected to win the championship.
Sun Minghui was also selected for the 2021 national team roster in preparation for the World Preliminary Round. I believe that Sun Minghui, who is a low-key person and plays hard, will achieve good results in league and national team competitions in the future.