Guangdong new signing Tang Jie said: CBA, I am back!
Sun Yansong, who joined Fujian, said: Riding the wind and waves will sometimes be left to those who are prepared!
In December 2017, the Chinese U18 national youth men's basketball team announced an 18-man roster in preparation for the next year's Asian Youth Championship in Thailand, and Sun Yansong, a player of the Zhejiang youth team born in 2000, was listed. The kid who grew up in Changchun, Jilin Province, had been groping in the Zhejiang echelon for more than 4 years, and he was eager to unleash his basketball talent.
At the same time as Sun Yansong, there are several major stars after the 00s, Guangdong Xu Jie, Bayi Guo Haowen, Jilin Jiang Weize, and there are also some players who are trying to play the rotation, Guangsha Ji Zhuohe Permit, Guangzhou Li Yanzhe, Shenzhen Zhao Yiming, Jiangsu Jiang Haoran, Sun Xin, Guo Yuzhou, Ningbo Li Bairun and so on.
The national youth is the place where young geniuses gather, and that is the beginning of a story.
At the 2018 Mannheim International Youth Basketball Invitational, a big man with a height of nearly 206cm and swinging on the 3-4 position appeared in the national youth, Sun Yansong scored 13 points in the first game against Italy, 19 points and 8 rebounds in the first victory over Egypt, and also had 11 points and 7 rebounds against Turkey in the final game, averaging 13 points per game.
Subsequently, he appeared in the 12-man roster of the U18 Asian Youth Championship, although his position was affected by the arrival of Wang Quanze, averaging only 10.8 minutes per game, but with a height of nearly 206cm, he still averaged 2.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game.
This national youth did not have a big man with a height of more than 210cm at the time of the competition, and Sun Yansong's height was very close to several of the team's internal lines, but in fact, he was a 3-4 swing man, similar to Zhou Peng and Zhang Zhenlin. In his short appearances he was well-rounded, but at the same time there were 2 fouls, and the confrontation in the same position was his weak ring, after which he lost the 2019 World Youth Championship squad.
In the first 3 seasons of the CBA, he only played 6 games, 38 minutes, and gradually disappeared from the public eye. There have always been many stories of the fall of national youth geniuses, not only in China, but also in the basketball environment of the United States, there are many national teenagers who stand out from a group of talented stars and even cannot play in professional leagues.
Coincidentally, Tang Jie is also the one who has been forgotten.
In 2016, tang jie from the southern army was successfully selected for the 12-man list of U18 national youth, and he was also joined by Guangdong Hu Mingxuan and Du Runwang, Zhejiang Wang Yibo, Cheng Shuaipeng, Zhang Zhiyuan, Foshan Fan Ziming, Wang Zixu, Beijing Tarek-Garniyou and others.
At that time, Tang Jie was heavily guided by Fan Bin, and he even gave Tang Jie the three-point opportunity in the last 11 seconds of the key knockout round, but unfortunately, Tang Jie lost the shot and the national youth lost the crucial game. Since then, Tang Jie's teammates have entered the CBA, but he can't get through to the CBA because the parent team is only an NBL team.
Under the premise that Fujian intended to sign him but needed to play in the youth league for two years, he decided to go to the NBL alone, and two years later, he participated in the CBA draft as a wuhan contemporary player, and finally was selected by Fujian with the 13th pick in the first round. Tang Jie unexpectedly became popular in Fujian, not because of his outstanding performance, but precisely because he missed two years, and there were many strange scenes when adapting to the game.
In his two-year CBA career, Tang Jie worked very hard, and he averaged 3.6 points, 1.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists in his first season into 6.1 points, 1.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists in the second season. However, outside the CBA system, Tang Jie's free body did not bring him good news, and last summer, many teams tried him out, but none of them looked at him.
For a long time in the CBA, player communication was relatively closed.
From the national youth to the CBA, and then lost the opportunity in the competition, Tang Jie and Sun Yansong are both in danger of ending their careers, taking a step back and saying that as long as there is no team at the beginning of the season, they will lose at least one season without the ball. Tang Jie has faced even worse situations before, without the CBA draft, he even has a very difficult time stepping into this threshold.
Living in an era of CBA change, they were lucky enough to get the chance to continue their careers. CBA draft, player transfer window, although the CBA because the vast majority of players from the club's own team youth training, so can not achieve free transfer like the NBA, but the league is committed to promoting player exchanges, the two young people finally joined the new owner in the window period.
The fall of the national youth generals is always affected by different internal and external factors, just when Sun Yansong entered the CBA season, Zhejiang traded Zhu Xuhang, and since then has an excellent front. That position is exactly what Zhejiang expects of Sun Yansong, Zhejiang piled up manpower in the 3-4 position, in addition to Zhu Xuhang, Lai Junhao played the longest career average of 24.1 minutes per game, Zhejiang also selected Wang Zailu from Guangsha with 10 picks in the first round, he also played 20.2 minutes per game.
Sun Yansong eventually sat on the bench in the 18-19 season, only completing the registration, but did not play for 1 minute. Subsequently, he participated in the National U21 Youth Basketball Championship in 2019, averaging 31.2 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, and even 52 points in a single game, and averaging 20+ per game in the development league. In the physical test, he jumped out of the team's highest 356CM height, and he did have very good potential.
The rapid rise of Zhejiang has also made Sun Yansong's chances of making mistakes and growing sharply, compared with famous players such as Zhu Xuhang, his shortcomings in terms of confrontation intensity, handling ability and defensive position judgment will continue to be amplified in training, and he has not entered the normal rotation of the team for 3 seasons. Seeing that the good years are going to be exhausted in a strong team, it is good that now he has transferred to Fujian, as he himself said, this will be a turning point in his career.
Tang Jie's opportunity was also not easy to come by, and he could be said to have done his best in the First Battle of Guangdong at the National Games.
With 35 points and 9 assists, Tang Jie has never had such a good game in his career, and his eyes are full of desire for basketball, and it is this cherishing of opportunities that makes Guangdong see the shining points in him. Tang Jie and Sun Yansong have actually trained with the team since the first stage, but due to the rules of the league, they can only register until the window period before the third stage.
Two depressed young people have found a new owner, and they are not the only ones who are trying to pursue their dreams. Sun Yansong's national youth teammate, Li Bairun from Shenzhen, was initially sent by Shenzhen to Tongxi for two seasons, but he still could not play the rotation when he returned to Shenzhen last season, and was sent to Ningbo this season, averaging 11.2 points, 2.3 rebounds, 4 assists and 0.9 steals per game, and shooting 38.6% from three-point range, which is also his rare opportunity.
Tang Jie's national youth teammate Wang Zixu, who played for Beijing Point for the previous two years, had few opportunities, joined Tongxi last season, playing better and better, this season he averaged 6.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. In the match against Guangsha, he broke through Zhao Jiayi with the ball from the outside and directly completed the barrier, as if to say that his career was not over.
Trees move to death, people move to live, the CBA is still trying to find a mechanism for normal communication between players, and the fall of genius is of course related to personal ability, but some of it is also related to team style, personal positioning and the way the coach is used, and changing a team may be a new student. Liaoning's former coach, Gao Shiyan, could hardly get more opportunities in this team, but other teams performed very well, as well as Zhu Rongzhen in Shandong, Ou Junxuan in Shanghai, and so on.
Rebirth is at hand, but the road must be tough.
Sun Yansong joined Fujian, it seems to have gone from the top four to the bottom of the team, but fate will not easily open the back door for you. Fujian's main forwards Huang Yichao and Chen Linjian, although the height is not enough than 2 meters, but the style of the ball is very distinctive, Chen Linjian a three-point hand is not to say, Huang Yichao is a well-known desperate sanlang, these seasons three points are still very stable.
On the bench, Liu Xucheng, who was not satisfied in Guangdong, has performed very well recently and seems to have gained the trust of the coach. In the third stage, Wang Yixiong returned to say that he had to play the 4-5 position swing, and he also had a competitive relationship with Sun Yansong. This is the problem in front of him, Sun Yansong does have a comprehensive skill, good physical fitness, but in the end it is still dependent on performance, he has to exchange potential for data.
From no ball to join the 11 championships, Tang Jie's life experience is even more ups and downs, and the challenge can also be described as crazy. His former rivals in Fujian were Jiang Huai, Liu Huanyu and other league fringes, and now, he will have to compare with three national-level defenders.
Tang Jie's good news is that he went to Guangdong to delete the complicated and simple, do not need to hold the ball too much, what is needed is clear execution, the coach will formulate a strategy according to his strengths, and he must complete it without discounting or even redoubling his efforts. Sun Yansong is doing addition, he wants to show his various skills in Fujian, release his talents, and seek an opportunity to stand firm, Fujian gave him a 4-year long contract, which is trust.
The road is full of thorns at the foot, there is no time to hesitate, jump, if you can't break the cocoon into a butterfly, you will be covered in blood.