In the fourth game of the CBA Finals, Liaoning won again over Guangsha, and the total score was 4-0 to win the second championship in team history, and the curtain of a season came to an end. The two sides will enter the field to greet each other, the towel-draped Guangsha core Sun Minghui and Liaoning players hugged one by one, on the 26th birthday, Sun Minghui's face is unable to hide the fatigue.
After running for a season, although Sun Minghui, who fought with Guangsha to the end as a single core, failed to create better results with the team, he had no regrets in the end of the fight, and he had given everything he had in a season of competition.
Can you still harshly rebuke Sun Minghui? Obviously not. From the regular season to the playoffs, this 1.86-meter defender has done too much for Guangsha. The team has no small foreign aid, and Sun Minghui takes on the responsibility of organization and breaks out at the offensive end at the right time. In the regular season, he played in 35 games, averaging 16.6 points per game and the third-highest assists in the country, and in order to give the team more room to operate inside, he developed three-pointers to a career high (averaging 2 three-pointers per game, 40.5% shooting from three-point range). In Guangsha's plan to train young players, Sun Minghui sacrificed his playing time and the number of shots, but he was willing to do so.
In the playoffs, Sun Minghui fought to the extreme. Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao have collapsed due to injuries, and as the only "single minority" left in Guangsha's "three youngsters", Sun Minghui played 348 minutes in the entire playoffs, ranking second in the league after Zhang Zhenlin (Zhang Zhenlin 353 minutes). But Sun Minghui, who has played the 7th season, is far better than the young Zhang Zhenlin in terms of physical consumption and injury wear. The defensive pressure and intensity of the face are also better than the "golden gold". But for the needs of the team, in order to fulfill the promise to the good brothers Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao to fight hard, Sun Minghui could only grit his teeth and insist.
In the semi-finals, Sun Minghui was already a huge consumption in the wheel war in Shanghai. After Hu Jinqiu was injured in the season reimbursement and Zhao Yanhao was injured in the third game of the series, Sun Minghui blasted out the strongest game of his career - 45 points and 7 rebounds (7 of 10 out of 3), behind the highlight of that game was that he struggled for 44 minutes and almost did not stop, and he was in the breakthrough. From the beginning of the playoffs to the end of the semifinals, Sun Minghui played at least 40 minutes in five games, and it is no exaggeration to say that he is Guangsha's yellow-skinned foreign aid. There is no reliable substitute, and even no teammate who can smoothly control the ball, it is doomed that Sun Minghui can only silently bear more, and he has also achieved what he calls "to be stronger".
In the finals, Sun Minghui played a total of 138 minutes and ranked fourth in the two teams. But he was injured in his left leg in the second breakthrough, and although Sun Minghui said he could still insist, head coach Wang Bo could not bear to consume Sun Minghui too much. But if it were not for the injury, Sun Minghui's playing time would obviously not have dropped in the third and fourth games, and it would not be surprising that it would be the first of the two teams (the highest Zhu Junlong 142 minutes). In the face of Liaoning, which has strong outside strength, Sun Minghui is helpless a lot of times, from foreign aid to local teammates, no one can share the pressure for him, and even after Daqiu and Zhao Yanhao, who entered the first team in the same year, were injured, he did not even have the object of conversation.
Rao is so, Sun Minghui still tries to deliver the best performance as much as possible. In the playoffs, he averaged 22.1 points and 7.1 assists per game, ranking second in scoring among local players, behind Wang Zhelin, and third in assists, behind Gao Shiyan and Zhao Jiwei. In the finals, he averaged 16 points per game, pushing Guo Allen to become the player with the highest score in the finals. At the same time, he averaged 2.3 steals per game, making him the player with the most steals in the Finals.
Whether it is offense or defense, Sun Minghui must ensure that he will contribute to the team as long as he plays. Sun Minghui, who almost single-handedly fought against Liaoning, also made many fans appear in front of the picture of "walking alone in the dark alley".
Four seasons ago, For the first time in Guangsha's history, Sun Minghui, who entered the third season of the CBA, played a total of 38 minutes in four games, not even as long as his first game of the season (43 minutes). Behind Guangsha foreign aid "braid brother" Fortson, Sun Minghui is just an ordinary substitute with few opportunities. Throughout the series, he shot a total of 9 times, in addition to defense, is simply to control the ball to the front court to Lin Zhijie and other big brothers to deal with, only when there is a vacancy, he can get one of the few opportunities to perform.
Today, Sun Minghui has become the irreplaceable core of Guangsha. No matter how tired and injured, he could only persist until the oil in the tank was exhausted. Therefore, when Sun Minghui led the team to fight with such a posture, the result was not so important to them who were seriously injured, but Sun Minghui's lonely and tough guy nature should be praised.
After the finals, Sun Minghui said that this was the first time he had celebrated his birthday at the same time as the competition, and the birthday of losing the finals was also unforgettable for him. He also said: "I have reluctance, I have pain, but I have no regrets." I will put the pain in my heart, will make me work harder, and I will take back what I have lost. The original intention remains the same, my heart remains the same! ”
The last time Sun Minghui said "unwilling" was that he was eliminated by Fujian in the first round of the 2019-20 playoffs (single-game elimination system), after that, Sun Minghui used this as a motivation to continue to break out, and he also became a top local defender from "the most progressive player". Now, Sun Minghui, who is once again unwilling to end the season, what kind of performance will he have in the future?