My mom asked me, "Is it because there is no money at home for you to go to school?" ”
I replied, "No. ”
My mother said, "If it's really because there's no money at home, my mother can borrow money, and you can smash pots and sell iron for you!" ”
This is the CBA 21-22 season regular season MVP Hu Jinqiu at the age of 15 and his mother's dialogue, a child who grew up in an ordinary working family, dreaming of improving family conditions through his own efforts, so he broke into the world of professional basketball without understanding.
10 years later, Hu Jinqiu, a former Korla boy, lifted the first regular season MVP trophy of his career with an average of 21 points, 7.6 rebounds per game and a league-first 73.1% shooting rate. You may have seen many inspirational stories of NBA players breaking out of the slums, but it seems that in another time and space, Hu Jinqiu's success may make you understand what is "spring breeze triumphant horseshoe disease, see all the Chang'an flowers in one day".
Guangsha reached the finals again after four years, but Hu Jinqiu's season has ended prematurely.
In the semifinals with Shanghai, Hu Jinqiu accidentally injured his spleen in the confrontation, and had to rest for 3 months after undergoing restorative surgery, and the MVP in the regular season had to accept the fate of season reimbursement. Although he was unable to go to the stadium due to injury, before the third match of the final, Hu Jinqiu informed the players before the match to dress for today's game and perform the duties of captain.
Before undergoing the operation, Hu Jinqiu was not worried about his own injury, but also knew that the CBA season would definitely not catch up, and he was considering the national team games in a few months, the Asian Cup and the Asian Games that would start in Hangzhou, the home of Guangsha. Conscientious and always putting team honors before individual honors, that's who he is.
01 Xinjiang teenager breaks into Jiangnan
The story of the Big Autumn Basketball begins with Korla in Xinjiang, as he said, "The Taklamakan Desert is my amusement park." Before the age of 15, picking cotton, climbing sandbags, wrapping fragrant pears, sprinkling wild in the desert with friends, swimming in the Tarim River, and the childhood life of daqiu was free.
It is said that "the children of the poor have long been home", although the family situation in the autumn will not be worried about three meals and food, but in order to supplement the family, parents will do odd jobs after work in the workshop. Da Qiu understood things early, did his best to share the farm work for his parents, and studied hard at the best Huashan Middle School in southern Xinjiang at that time, with a score of 692 points in the middle school examination, which was enough for him to choose an ideal high school and continue to chase his college dream.
Later stories are like the height of the autumn beyond the expectations of parents, 14 years old to more than 2 meters, from the dunes to the river, this autumn born children although not exposed to formal basketball training, but the life experience has forged for him a rare physical coordination of the big man. The autumn that was born without a golden key was favored by Xinjiang Guanghui, Tsinghua Affiliated Middle School and Zhejiang Guangsha at the same time.
Miao Shoushou, known as the "first scout of the CBA", found him in 2011.
Miao Shou played for Zhejiang Wanma in 2006, and was mainly responsible for the talent reserve, echelon management and construction of the youth team in Guangsha, and most of the young talents in Guangsha today are inseparable from him. A year before that, Guangsha had the best third-place regular season record in the team's history in the 2009-10 season and rushed to the semifinals, but was swept 3-0 by Xinjiang, which was in full swing at the time.
The frustration on the court was soon found by Guangsha under the court, and Miao Shoushou found him in the second grade of Daqiu Junior High School, when Xinjiang offered rich conditions, but Daqiu had longed to go outside to see it since he was a child. As a result, Tsinghua Affiliated High School and Guangsha, which won consecutive championships in CHBL4, became the final contenders, which was also a choice between the two paths of campus and professional basketball.
As a private club, Guangsha's echelon talent construction did not get the full support of the Sports Bureau at first, just like the original Guangdong Hongyuan, they took the road to first sign veterans of other teams, and then select materials from all over the country, and finally form their own talent system. Previously, the Taiwan media had exposed the story of Guangsha signing Lin Zhijie, unlike other clubs who picked and chose after the trial, Guangsha even skipped the trial directly, which showed its thirst for talents and excellent scouting work before signing.
Da Qiu and his parents were also warmly entertained by Guangsha, touring the West Lake, seeing the Lingyin Temple, talking about the future, depicting the vision, and finally, Da Qiu and his mother had a dialogue at the beginning of the article. Poor children are eager to contribute to the family as soon as possible and unload the burden for their parents, so they resolutely give up their studies, there is a way to wind and quiet, in 2019, Daqiu was escorted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and got what he wanted.
02 Guangsha Wizards show their skills
A team that is eager to try in youth training and a down-to-earth teenager with outstanding talent, fate's reward for Guangsha Club and Hu Jinqiu is to let them meet.
In 2012, 15-year-old Hu Jinqiu began to receive professional basketball training, and ju Haifeng, the head of youth training, let him practice from the basic skills of shooting, almost from scratch. Being able to endure hardships is the most overlooked of all the talents of Daqiu, people can't determine their height, but they can give everything.
Just a year later, at the U16 Asian Youth Championship held in Tehran, a big Chinese man averaged 20.6 points and 12.9 rebounds per game, leading the national youth to win the championship in 9 games, and that person was Hu Jinqiu, who was just emerging. He was like gold falling in the desert, the water of the Tarim River only washed away a layer of sand, and the raging waves of Hangzhou Bay knocked open the shell and finally sparkled.
Diligent and clumsy, Daqiu's talent was quickly cashed in on the court, he and Zhao Yanhao, who joined at the same time, became the 97-level twin stars of Guangsha, and in 2014, the two joined hands to play in the U17 World Youth Championship. In Dubai, surrounded by deserts, Hu Jinqiu seems to have returned to his familiar place, averaging 17.4 points and 12.3 rebounds in the world's scouting attention (the second in the tournament), and continuing along the star path of the previous two-time scoring champion Guo Allen and rebounding king Zhou Qi.
The famous Hu Jinqiu has since been regarded as the future of Guangsha's rise, and later at the 2015 U19 World Youth Championships, Guangsha's three youngsters gathered together.
Sun Minghui in 1996, Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao in 1997, the three came to Zhejiang from Jilin, Hebei and Xinjiang respectively, and Guangsha finally waited for the starlight after several years of painstaking youth training. At the World Youth Championship, Hu Jinqiu continued to play steadily, averaging 13.7 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, and 45 points in a single game in the warm-up game caused heated discussion.
At this time, Hu Jinqiu also encountered a career bottleneck, rising step by step in the past three years, but his advantage in the field was getting smaller and smaller, and the data continued to decline. Sure enough, Daqiu's rookie year is not as adaptable as Guo Allen and Zhou Qi, averaging only 5.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game, entering the league from the youth team in the first two years of his career, and in high-intensity competitions, he is still relatively thin and weak, and he has repeatedly hit cramps in the game.
Hu Jinqiu on the pitch has not yet reached the time of the big kill, but he is not in a hurry, in the past few years, his life has changed too much, he believes that as long as he moves forward steadily, everything will come to fruition. Outside the stadium, Da Qiu saved money to buy a suite for his parents in the urban area of his hometown of Korla, and in addition to the boring training life, he met and fell in love with Wang Lu of Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, and the two met and waited for her to graduate from college to get a license to get married.
The private lives of Chinese basketball stars are not as chaotic as in the NBA, but there are also many peach news stories, after all, most of them are also millionaires, which are better than ordinary working-class people. Hu Jinqiu's girlfriend was originally an athlete of the Zhejiang swimming team, the two met by chance, had similar interests, flowers and horses, and went straight to the end of the world.
Hu Jinqiu and Wang Lu, who are now less than 25 years old, gave birth to twins after marriage, and he also plans to settle down in Zhejiang and buy a house to live with his parents. From the poor boy who was bent on changing his fate many years ago, to the winner of the double harvest of career and family today, it is really enviable.
03 The male lion roared
Back on the pitch, as Hu Jinqiu said in an interview, he has long looked away from weight, fattening varies from person to person, and what he has to do is not to stare at this corner, but to use all advantages. As a result, in the third season of his career, he averaged 32.5 minutes per game, contributed 19.7 points and 8.7 rebounds per game, shooting 67.9% from the field.
People sent jianghu nicknamed "domestic cake king", it is this season he broke out, Guangsha won the regular season championship with 31 wins and 7 losses, setting a record in team history, and Hu Jinqiu became a candidate for the regular season MVP. In the final vote, he overtook Yi Jianlian with a slight advantage and ranked second.
In the semi-finals, the top two of the MVP vote met, Ding Yanyuhang and Hu Jinqiu, two young people from Xinjiang came out of the arena to face off. Hu Jinqiu and Guangsha laughed to the end, the first series in the history of the CBA playoffs played seven games, daqiu averaged more than 40 minutes per game, and many years later, he also followed in Xiaoding's footsteps and became the second MVP in CBA history to come out of Xinjiang.
The young Hu Jinqiu and Guangsha, who paid tuition fees in the finals, were ruthlessly swept by Liaoning.
"There is no road in life, every step counts." The road ahead is full of unknowns, but always as enthusiastic as the first day. After the finals, Daqiu used this passage to motivate himself. Guangsha had high hopes for him, and after entering the first team, for a long time he was in the same dormitory as captain Lin Zhijie.
In 2019, hu Jinqiu, who was only 22 years old, became the new captain of Guangsha after Lin Zhijie left, and that year he averaged two double-doubles per game for the first season of his career. The general manager of Guangsha was replaced by Miao Shoushou, who discovered three youngsters, but the team changed 6 foreign aides in his first year in office, and at the end of the rematch, it was still the all-Chinese class.
As the captain, Daqiu is also trying to try more options, shooting the most 31 three-pointers of his career this year, and the overall shooting percentage dropped to 63.3% after three consecutive years of improvement. From eating cakes to needing to become the main attacker, Daqiu's career has undergone subtle changes, and Guangsha's record has fluctuated for two consecutive years, and although Daqiu's score has soared, his efficiency is not as good as in the past.
At the national team level, Hu Jinqiu did not get more attention, and after a long training camp in the summer of 2019, he finally missed the men's basketball World Cup. After several years of league grinding, this young man was questioned that his independent offensive ability was not enough, his playing style was single, and his physical confrontation that could not grow up was still at a loss, and his career was like that of Guangsha, which inevitably ushered in a trough after the peak of the finals.
04 When the crown comes to sleep
"Walking off the field, I shed tears more than once. This experience will always be preserved in my memory, inspiring me to continue to work hard and show a different self on the field in the future. "Chinese basketball needs the efforts of our generation."
Hu Jinqiu finally realized his dream of wearing the national team shirt again to compete in international competitions, and at last year's Tokyo Olympics, Daqiu played as a member of the Chinese three-person men's national basketball team. In a relatively unfamiliar field, Daiaki tried his best, and in 7 games in Tokyo, he single-handedly scored 65 points of the team's 106 points.
Although Hu Jinqiu, who tired of memes, failed to prevent the embarrassing defeat of the Chinese men's basketball team, he also won the praise of everyone. The experience of the three-man men's basketball team has been very fruitful for Hu Jinqiu, and the faster-paced three-person arena extremely tests the athlete's anaerobic ability and has higher requirements for the speed of the player's action connection.
In the past few years, Daqiu has encountered bottlenecks, the offensive mode has not changed much after the scoring improvement, the efficiency has recovered slowly, and the three baskets have fully released his advantage. Back in the CBA, he's moving faster than ever, especially when it comes to connecting offense after some catches, and many of the catches that the inside line simply can't handle are often converted into points by him.
This season's Hu Jinqiu swept away the relatively sluggish efficiency of the previous two years, setting a career high with 73.1% shooting. In the 7th year of his career, Daqiu, who has experienced hundreds of battles, is already a stable captain in the Guangsha squad and a trustworthy veteran, but his most outrageous statistic this year is not even shooting.
When Wang Bo directed a big hand to turn Guangsha into the second smallest team in the league, as the number one barrier in The Guangsha position, in the continuous internal confrontation and defensive tasks, Daqiu reduced the average number of fouls per game to the lowest 1.1 times in his career. He's only made four of the last four playoff games, and he's the most amazing big man in the league, a big man who barely sees mistakes.
The breakthrough performances of Hu Jinqiu and Guangsha eventually won the favor of the regular season MVP.
From leaving Korla, Xinjiang, in 2012 to becoming the regular season MVP, Hu Jinqiu has achieved a wonderful career with 10 years of hard work. Inside and outside the stadium, Da Qiu is a winner in life, but the finals are like his demons, when he spent 4 years and Guangsha to re-enter the door, the dream was shattered.
Guangsha, without Daqiu, played very hard, and Sun Minghui could no longer find a passing point that could hit a fatal blow after blocking and demolition, and could only play for a while, staring at the opponent's center, and then solving the battle by himself. "I will desperately fight for you, for this collective, as far as I can." Sun Minghui used such a belief to replace Hu Jinqiu to complete the goal of leading the team to the finals, and Guangsha had already had a tragic momentum before he fought.
In the finals, Guangsha will face Eric Moland, Han Dejun and other internal lines, and Fu Hao, the former national youth inner partner of Daqiu, is full of life. Zhao Yanhao also suffered an injury in the last game, and now he is still in the hospital for observation, if Guangsha Sanshao really goes to the second, how will the weight of that Wang Ding be measured.
Life is only true because of shortcomings, life is more exciting because of shortcomings, Huazhang belonging to Guangsha and Hu Jinqiu has just begun to write, and the inspirational story of teenagers will wait for a full-text climax, as long as you look at it, it will eventually appear.