Rookie Yang Haozhe: I hope to one day fight for Shougang 丨 Interview

CBA Nanjing Tongxi defender Yang Haozhe hopes to fight for Shougang in the future. Photo/Osports

At the end of this season's CBA regular season, Nanjing Tongxi guard Yang Haozhe began to train independently as soon as he returned to Beijing. Recently, he was interviewed by a reporter from the Beijing News at the training hall to talk about the growth and harvest of the CBA as a college player. Through a season of study and precipitation, the rookie from Beijing Sport University has clearly defined the direction of efforts for next season. Talking about his feelings for his hometown team, he looks forward to fighting for the Shougang men's basketball team in the future.

Produced by the Beijing News Sports Channel

丨 Rookie pressure

At first, I couldn't even keep up with the training

From the draft meeting on August 21 last year, when yao Ming, chairman of the CBA League, read his name to the end of the final round of the regular season on April 13 this year, walking the first year of his career, Yang Haozhe went from being in the cloud to being down-to-earth. When the team returned home from vacation, he also turned out the classmates from elementary school, "It said that I wanted to play in the NBA." "When I was young, I may have been childish, but the goal of trying to impact the CBA was established in the first year of the 2015 draft," I introduced myself in the college English class, I said I hope to play CBA after graduation, and our classmates still remember it. ”

Yang Haozhe admitted that at that time, he was more thinking about it, because he had just entered the university and had not even entered the varsity team, and if he wanted to enter the varsity team, he had to lose weight first. In 2018, Yang Haozhe, who is already famous in CUBA, participated in a basketball variety show and gained a lot of traffic and recognition. Since then, he has thought, "Since you can get a foothold on the university platform, why not try to reach a higher platform?" However, the dust has settled at the draft, and Yang Haozhe's career prospects are not optimistic. Commenting on the "choice of an Internet celebrity" and "mascot" on the Internet, he chose to turn a deaf ear and focus on moving from playing student ball to the intensity of confrontation in the professional arena.

Just arrived at the Tongxi team to report, Yang Haozhe could not even keep up with the training. Although the physical strength and strength are not bad, the "rookie" still feels the pressure when entering the higher platform. "Teammates, including coaches, have great expectations of rookies, have some comments and criticisms, and then the pressure is greater." Yang Haozhe admitted that experienced professional players have learned to dissolve this psychological burden, and he often has to carry such pressure, and the performance of training and competition will inevitably be affected.

Therefore, in his view, compared with the progress of technology and tactics, the growth of mentality is a more meaningful harvest of the rookie season. Overcoming the jerkiness of the first stage, Yang Haozhe began to adapt to the CBA from the second stage, gaining an average of 20 minutes of playing time per game, "Mentally, if you overcome that level, then slowly play your own characteristics." ”

2020 is indeed the CBA draft year, Zhu Mingzhen, Zhu Songwei and other college players "first year" into the main rotation lineup, the same as the North Sports University Liu Yi with the Shandong men's basketball team into the top 4. Compared with them, Yang Haozhe started late in the CUBA period, and it is more difficult to gain a foothold in the CBA now. But he said that he was only in the middle of the middle of a group of up-and-coming rookies, "Judging by the overall comprehensive strength, I feel that I still have a long way to go." ”

丨 Rookie season

The biggest takeaway is the change of mindset

This season, the Tongxi men's basketball team has updated the lineup in a large area and introduced many college players. Yang Haozhe and Jiao Engel, who is also a "first-year student", exchanged experiences with each other, in his words, a state of "mutual progress and mutual encouragement". In the process, Yang Haozhe was even luckier - he received a lot of help from his roommate Wan Shengwei.

"The game is back and he will analyse every ball of ours. He doesn't look at the places where he plays well, he talks more about how many small mistakes I made in these rounds, how to deal with such details, he will tell me one link at a time. For example, the first time you played badly, and then the next day said, you see today is a lot better than the last time, but you still have something to do. As he adjusts to the CBA, such one-on-one coaching has become less and less, and the two roommates are now more about reviewing each other's strengths and weaknesses.

On the other hand, this season's assist Wang Xi Relijiang also gave Yang Haozhe a lot of experience and help to yang Haozhe, who is also a defender. Huo Nan, the general manager of the club, also often talked with the rookie, teaching methods such as writing training notes, "From the relatively naïve mind of college students to the gradual adaptation to this league in the third and fourth stages, Huo always gave me a lot of advice along the way, not only playing, but also bringing me a lot of inspiration from being a person." ”

Three meetings with Liaoning, from 9 points to 13 points, and then to a career-high 20 points in 45 minutes, has also become the epitome of Yang Haozhe's debut season progress. The first time against Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei, he felt a huge gap with his predecessors. And with the continuous self-upgrading in actual combat, the young man realized, "When facing the national team defender, I still want to try to play my own characteristics, don't be afraid." Because on the same platform, we are facing a ball, we must play our own characteristics, try to limit the characteristics of the other party. I also learned from the active defenders of the national team that they have this professional attitude and love for basketball. ”

丨 Hometown complex

I hope to fight for Shougang in the future

At last year's draft, Yang Haozhe was selected by Tongxi Club with the 16th pick in the first round, which was previously traded from Beijing Shougang Club. As a Beijing child, Yang Haozhe was connected with the team he loved since childhood at the beginning of his career. Tongxi and Shougang played each other for the first time this season, and Yang Haozhe was absent due to a back injury. The second leg on March 13 was the first time in his career that he had competed with a home team. Before the game, he also sent a circle of friends: "Shougang fans for more than ten years, fight for feelings today!" ”

What kind of feelings are they? It was Marbury who joined Shougang and achieved three crowns in four years with the team, while Yang Haozhe was still a junior high school student who cheered excitedly in front of the TV. "At that time, watching the game at night, my mother asked me why I was on my knees watching. Every time it's intense, it's like you're playing. I love this team very much, and when it comes to really facing this team, my mentality and feeling are still different. ”

Playing 16 minutes in the starting game, he had 5 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, which is an explanation for years of feelings. Career just started, and the fate with the Tongxi men's basketball team is not finished, Yang Haozhe also has a "final expectation" - "I hope to fight for Shougang one day".

In the second year of Yang Haozhe's junior high school, lao Ma went to the school to do activities, he pretended to have a stomachache and left the classroom to find Marbury to sign. Later, because there were too many onlookers, I was sad that I couldn't get the signature. An idol of his youth, he is now a person he often meets in the elevators of hotels. Not only that, Yang Haozhe faced the North Control men's basketball team three times this season, scoring 13 points, 10 points and 8 points respectively, and had the opportunity to show in front of idols. He said that when he stepped off the field, the old horse was very kind, but in his heart, the old horse was the hero.

丨 Career Goals

Transition from a point guard to a point guard

From being selected by the Tongxi team to playing 45 times in a season, averaging 6.9 points and 2 assists per game, Yang Haozhe most wanted to thank the club management and the team for giving him enough time and space to "pay tuition", "If you think differently, maybe another player comes to the Tongxi team, and can also play like me, I may not be so bright when I go to other teams." ”

So this 24-year-old young man, even if the team is on vacation, does not dare to slacken off, maintains independent training, and continues to improve when he returns to the team: two or three times a week, shooting 2 hours a day, sometimes meeting with classmates and friends, or receiving guidance from trainers. According to this schedule, he returned to Beijing for less than 20 days, and every day was very fulfilling.

After the May Day holiday, the Tongxi men's basketball team will start the preparation for the new season. Yang Haozhe plans to carry out personal transformation on the basis of further running-in with the team. "My playing style is still relatively one-sided, that is, it is a scoring guard, and there are fewer positions. I hope that through the precipitation of this season, after going back to the offseason, I will strengthen my control of the field, including the awareness of the overall situation, try to do one and two next season, try to control as much as possible, reduce the possession time of XiRelijiang, let him play more without the ball, shoot, and improve my ability to play one (number position). ”

From the beginning of his entry into the CBA, he paid attention to learning the style of the best number one in China. The young man does not want to get narrower and narrower on the road to the second position, "Next season hopes to bring more help to the Tongxi team in running the ball." ”

Beijing News reporter Liu Chen

Edited by Wang Xichong Proofreader Liu Jun

Source: Beijing News