The day after the first "Beijing Derby" of the season, the Beijing Men's Basketball Officer announced a touching news.
Zou Yuchen, the team's main center who retired due to injury, was eventually diagnosed with multiple ligament injuries and tears in the ankle joint. Beikong did not disclose how long Zou Yuchen will rest, but in view of Zou Yuchen's serious injury this time, his career is plagued by injuries, for this reason, even if Beikong has only 7 rounds left in the regular season this season, it is a critical period to impact the playoffs, for the sake of Zou Yuchen's health, it is still not ruled out that his season is reimbursed in advance.
This is Zou Yuchen's second injury this season. In the match against Xinjiang at the beginning of the season, he caused a strain on the back of his left leg during the confrontation, and was forced to leave the game after only 4 minutes of playing, and missed three games as a result. Nowadays, the North Control is full of injured soldiers, the team's internal line is injured one after another, in order to fill the team's internal line vacancies as much as possible, Zou Yuchen is as desperate as ever. Unfortunately, he was injured again.
Throughout Zou Yuchen's career, injuries and talent have accompanied him almost at the same time. Born in July 1996, the heavy inner line with a height of 2.06 meters but an arm span of 2.20 meters was born in the same year as Zhou Qi zeng Yuliang. Although not as bright as Zhou Qi from the national youth team to the national team, Zou Yuchen, who entered the CBA in the 2014-15 season, also proved himself with the rapid speed of entering the men's basketball training team in the first year and entering the national team's 12-man positive selection list in the second year. In 2015, Scott Rose, a foreign interior coach of the men's basketball team who has been in many NBA teams, said: "Zou Yuchen has great potential, and if he trains well, his future is unlimited." In 2016, Zou Yuchen first represented the Chinese men's basketball team in the Olympic Games, and gong Luming, then head coach of the men's basketball team, said that he "laid the basic framework for the future internal line organization", and FIBA columnist wrote bluntly that "Zou Yuchen will be a well-deserved star of the Chinese men's basketball team in the next decade". In 2017, he also went to the United States to prepare for the NBA... These are the results of his efforts, but they cannot hide his outstanding talent.
However, just when Zou Yuchen was helping to rise, the injury continued to "bar" with him. In the summer of 2017, Zou Yuchen, who finally withdrew from the NBA, took a tired body to play a warm-up game for the men's basketball red team before he completely collapsed the time difference after returning home. At that time, the men's basketball red team lacked people in the inner line, in order to help the team's Zou Yuchen fire line to play. Eventually, he was accidentally injured, resulting in a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee.
That was the first time Zou Yuchen was really seriously injured. In the 2015-16 season, he missed the second half of the season, but that time it was a fracture of his right foot, which is still far from injuries such as a torn cruciate ligament. But this serious injury did not bring down the young Zou Yuchen, who said, "I am only 21 years old, what is I terrible about." But a year later, Zou Yuchen, who had just recovered from his injury, was injured again, and he became confused.
After this, Zou Yuchen "hid" himself. He had lost all directions and fallen into boundless darkness, but in the end he survived. He no longer does anything to guarantee, just training steadily, constantly strengthening his heart. In the end, after a gap of 1064 days, nearly 3 years later, he returned to the game on January 19, 2020. However, in the more than two seasons since Zou Yuchen's comeback, injuries still find him every three to five minutes. From a tendon strain in the 2019-20 season rematch, to two injuries this season.
Seeing Zou Yuchen's persistence but encountering injuries again and again, many people can't help but sigh why fate is so unfair to this young man? Putting aside the factors of accidental injuries, Zou Yuchen's multiple injuries are actually related to his personality and playing style.
Zou Yuchen once commented that he was "relatively stubborn". As long as he is sure, no one can persuade him. In the summer of 2017, he did not listen to his parents and friends, insisted on fighting with a tired body, and was accidentally seriously injured. After being seriously injured, many people advised him to take his time, but he was too anxious and bent on going to the 2018 Asian Games for his country, so he rushed to catch up with the progress and increased his recovery. "My rehabilitator Lao Ye (Ye En, the national team rehabilitator) used to control my amount, and the last thing I took was what I wanted him to take me to practice." In past interviews with Tencent Sports, Zou Yuchen said this, and as a result, he was seriously injured again. After the comeback, Zou Yuchen is more mature, and he also controls himself on the field, but the personality of every ball must be contested and the experience of the Bayi style make the word "fight" become Zou Yuchen's habit, "I just dare to fight and dare to fight, and when I play, I will finish, it is very simple." ”
This fully demonstrates Zou Yuchen's professional spirit. However, after two serious injuries, Zou Yuchen's physical function has inevitably declined, and if he fights like this, his risk of injury is also increasing. This time, the ankle ligament was torn in many places, and it was also because he tried to cover it when he was repairing the defense that he accidentally fell to the ground.
On the other hand, Zou Yuchen's punching, lack of shooting and tandem play also determines that he is more at risk of injury. Mentor Wang Zhizhi once commented that he "has poor basic skills, hoping that he can practice basic skills", and former men's basketball coach Gong Luming believes that he "can't just fight, but also have wisdom, but also can connect." "As a 2.06m interior lineman, Zou Yuchen's height of playing center forward is a disadvantage, and the tough confrontation appropriately compensates for his height disadvantage, but also increases the risk of injury. After his comeback, Zou Yuchen lost weight, but his offensive range was still concentrated under the basket. This season, 77% of his shots have appeared in the box.
After the dissolution of Bayi last season, Zou Yuchen chose Beijing Control, and he is still eager to prove himself, "I don't want others to think that I am injured as if I was not as good as before, I still hope that people say that this person can be so good after being injured." "To this end, he is still very hard and hard.
But there are many ways to prove yourself, and if the temperament is difficult to move, then adjusting the style of play is a good choice. In the past, Gong Luming has repeatedly suggested that Guo Allen improve his passing, and now, Guo Allen's organizational progress is obvious to all, which does make his path wider and wider. Now, Zou Yuchen may also be like Gong Luming once advised him to "transform the fourth position and will be connected." If cosco investment and strategy can be improved, I believe that Zou Yuchen's career will be longer.