On November 24, 2019, Jia Mingru made his CBA career debut: against the Shanghai Sharks, played 7 minutes, made 5 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist on two shots, such a debut is not so amazing, but for Jia Mingru, this is the beginning of the "dream".
At the post-match press conference, Juan, then head coach of Guangzhou, gave Jia Mingru a high evaluation:
'The young player is not afraid of opponents, is very talented, has a wealth of offensive means, and I believe that he can get a foothold in the CBA soon."
As another player from school basketball, Jia Mingru is full of expectations for professional basketball. After his CBA debut, he wrote on Weibo: Please believe that the fastest road to success is the footprint left by every step.
Firm love, live up to the high expectations of the family
Jia Mingru was born in 1997 in a small village in Lishu County, Siping City, Jilin Province. His father is 1.88 meters tall, and although he is not a professional basketball player, he loves basketball very much and intentionally lets his son contact him when he is six or seven years old.
Later, when Jia Mingru explained why he chose No. 23 in college, he said very calmly that it was because his father liked Jordan, so he wore No. 23. It can be seen how deeply Jia Mingru was influenced by his father in his own stage of enlightenment basketball.
In middle school, Jia Mingru strengthened his belief in chasing his basketball dreams. In the third year of junior high school, he transferred to Changchun No. 6 Middle School, and quickly sat in the position of the main force of the school team with good basketball basic skills. In Changchun Sixth Middle School, he was already famous for not being satisfied with the status quo, he remembered his father's instructions and teachings, and every day was training, training, and non-stop training.
At that time, Jia Mingru was very envious of his teammates who could wear brand-name basketball shoes to train every day, and his mother was very distressed that he left home to play at such a young age to make a living, so she gritted her teeth and spent more than five hundred yuan from the family to buy him a good pair of basketball shoes.
Jia Mingru remembers very clearly, whenever he wore those shoes to play, he could feel the companionship and support from his family. Although Jia Mingru's parents did not know much about basketball, they gave him the greatest support, both spiritually and materially.
With his excellent performance in various middle school competitions, Jia Mingru has been appreciated by many professional coaches, and his fame among middle school students in Jilin Province has become more and more famous, and he has gradually attracted the attention of many top basketball universities across the country.
Jia Mingru, a senior in high school, faced with the choice of university, and finally he chose the Civil Aviation University of China, which had the best basketball atmosphere and invited him sincerely many times, among the three universities of Civil Aviation University of China, Northeast Normal University and Jilin University.
Choose AVIC University and become the star of Cuba
AvIC's basketball atmosphere ranks among the best in thousands of colleges and universities across the country, and it can be ranked in the top eight of Cuba all year round.
Coming to Tianjin and coming to the Civil Aviation University of China, Jia Mingru started his Cuba career. Unlike other college players, AVIC attaches great importance to Jia Mingru's potential, so Jia Mingru completed high school early and came to AVIC University to study preparatory department, which led to the story of Cuba in the next five years.
Jia Mingru, who debuted in the Cuba competition, did not live up to the high expectations of the school and his family, and in the first season of his freshman year, he scored 20 points off the bench in the national final four, becoming the first class hero of the team's victory and helping AVIC reach the national top 4.
Jia Mingru played a total of 63 games for the Civil Aviation University of China in his five-year Cuba career, averaging 15.1 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, including a two-point shooting rate of 54% and a three-point shooting rate of 40%, and was selected to the All-Star Team three times, ranking 7th in Cuba's all-time scoring list with a total score of 950 points.
In five years, Jia Mingru gave his best youth to AVIC University, led the team to win a national runner-up, reached the national top four four four times, and saved the team from danger several times. Although Jia Mingru did not realize his dream of winning the next championship for AVIC, such an impressive record is enough to amaze people.
"My youth has a lot of regrets, but it's exciting enough. Goodbye CUBA, goodbye Civil Aviation University of China, goodbye to my college days, goodbye youth, goodbye classmates! May the future be bright, and look back as it always is. ”
When he retired, Jia Mingru said.
Stunning CBDL, civil aviation fighters set sail again
In fact, as early as When Jia Mingru was still in his sophomore year, he had been "booked" in advance by the Guangzhou Dragon and Lions, and then Jia Mingru signed a filing contract with the Guangzhou team and submitted the filing materials for three consecutive years in accordance with the relevant provisions of the CBA.
This not only allows guangzhou team to lock jia mingru, a potential player, but also Jia mingru can also skip the CBA draft directly and directly enter the system of Guangzhou team, thus helping him adapt to the CBA league faster. This kind of operation can be described as killing two birds with one stone, which complements each other perfectly.
In November 2019, after graduating from university, Jia Mingru did not directly join the Guangzhou team, but was arranged by the team to the CBA Development League. At the beginning of the season, Jia Mingru followed the Guangzhou men's basketball second team to the CBDL.
In the first game of the development league, Jia Mingru showed a strong scoring ability when facing Nanjing Tongxi, which was dominated by young players. He played 40 minutes, shooting 12-of-24, scoring 45 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal, stunning the game. In six games in Yinchuan, Jia Mingru averaged 27.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.1 steals per game, becoming the scoring champion in the first stage of the CBDL that season.
Joined Guangzhou Dragon Lion and landed in the CBA
The excellent performance of the CBDL allowed Jia Mingru to quickly get a first-team call-up, and in the ninth round of the 2019-20 CBA regular season, Jia Mingru made his debut in the game between Guangzhou and Shanghai. But even if the debut is good, Jia Mingru, as a rookie rookie, did not get much playing time in the first season.
It is worth mentioning that in the game against Zhejiang Guangsha on December 27, Jia Mingru scored the second highest 23 points of the game with seven goals, which was one of the few highlights of his rookie season.
From a Cuba star player to a CBA rookie rookie, Jia Mingru has been trying to adapt to the intensity of CBA league games, and although he didn't have much playing time in his rookie season, Jia Mingru's efficient offense was impressive. His 5-year Cuba career has allowed him to play steadily and energetically, and he has always been able to maintain a high shooting percentage in limited shots, which is rare for a rookie.
"The mountain did not come to me, so I went to him."
This is a Weibo post updated by Jia Mingru after the first time in guangzhou team history to reach the playoffs last season. Guangzhou Dragon Lions is a very young team, for Jia Mingru, who has just entered the professional league, in such a young team, opportunities and challenges coexist.
We have reason to believe that in the near future, under the guidance of the new head coach Guo Shiqiang, Jia Mingru can become the core of the Guangzhou team's backcourt and even the team leader.