On April 15, the third quarter of the 2021-2022 CBA Finals G2, in an attack, Zhou Peng accidentally slipped on his support foot when he landed, fell heavily to the ground and injured his head, and was immediately sent to the hospital.
Afterwards, Zhou Peng recalled that this time he was injured, he lost his memory for two days, and his brain was blank. The 33-year-old Zhou Peng has done his best in the game, which is indeed respected.
In the history of the CBA, Guangdong team has reached the finals 16 times and won 11 championships, while Zhou Peng has participated in 11 finals and won 8 championships. Only this time facing the old opponent, also their hometown team Liaoning men's basketball team, they finally failed to pass the semi-final hurdles.
As a small forward with a height of 2 meters 06, Zhou Peng is first-class in defense, very accurate in the middle distance, can shoot three-pointers, can hold the ball, whether in Guangdong or the Chinese men's basketball national team, Zhou Peng is the main force of iron.
Liao's basketball fans' evaluation of Zhou Peng may be both love and hate, polarized. Because Zhou Peng is a Liaoning native, and Zhou Peng, as a Liaoning native, is energetic as soon as he plays his hometown team, which makes Liaoning fans very depressed; and as a professional player, Zhou Peng's outstanding skills and excellent performance in the national team have also made many fans full of respect for him.
Regarding the year when Zhou Peng went from the Liaoning team to the Guangdong team, the anecdotal saying is that Zhou Peng was bullied by the old team members in the youth team, poured tea and water, and was beaten without saying a word. So who in the end bullied Zhou Peng and made him so difficult to let go?
This news was first written by Guangdong fans in Baidu Tieba a so-called analysis. Perhaps the person who wrote the article really knows this history, or Zhou Peng said to him that he has a nose and an eye anyway, and yang Ming and Li Xiaoxu are listed as suspects, on the grounds that Yang Ming was the captain of Liao Basket in his early years, and Li Xiaoxu was the second generation of the rich!
To say that you are bullied in sports schools is possible. After all, the children of the sports school are much more mischievous, and the management is not very standardized. Do you practice sports, it's normal to have a fight. Not to mention sports schools, there are many general schools. As a post-80s northeastern child, which one did not come from the "battle".
If you want to say that it is a player of the Liaoning Youth Team, this possibility is very small, and it is definitely not an ordinary person who can enter the Liaoning Youth Team, let alone those small hooligans who are not in the flow! In the history of Liaoning basketball, there has indeed been a brain drain, but I have never heard of anyone being run away? Why was Zhou Peng beaten?
Yang Ming and Li Xiaoxu have a good relationship with Zhou Peng, and there is a lot of interaction on the pitch or in private. After Zhou Peng was injured in the second game of this season's finals, Yang Ming and some players of Liao Basket also cared about Zhou Peng's injury for the first time. Therefore, to say that these two people bullied Zhou Peng in the past is indeed some nonsense.
And for that period of history, Zhou Peng never mentioned it. At the very least, zhou peng could not find any evaluation of the matter in the media. However, for the departure of Erpeng (Zhou Peng and Wang Shipeng) in that year, it did expose Liaoning's serious deficiencies in cultivating talents, the imperfect talent system, and the opaque mechanism for selecting and promoting talents. Later, in the handling of Zhou Qi's affairs, this was confirmed.
After many painful lessons, the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau and the Liaoning Men's Basketball Club have realized this problem. And it is gradually improving. Unlike many clubs, the Liaoning men's basketball team is one of the few teams in the system in China, and the institutional mechanism for many years may take a certain amount of time to change, but it has taken this step, indicating that there is progress.
Then again, the Liaoning men's basketball team has always been talented, or Zhou Peng's talent was not fully displayed at that time, and it was not prominent in the youth team. Guangdong Hong, who is in urgent need of talents, seized the opportunity and gave preferential conditions, not only preferential treatment, but also promised Zhou Pengbao to send him to the university! Therefore, it is not impossible for Zhou Peng to choose to leave Guangdong.
Whether in Guangdong or Liaoning, as a professional player, Zhou Peng's ability to conquer fans with excellent performances on the field is his greatest ability. As a Liaoning native, unlike Wang Shipeng, Zhou Peng has also shown a strong hometown complex many times.
In 2018, when the Liaoning team won the championship, Zhou Peng published a touching text on Weibo, and the feelings revealed between the lines also moved the fans. Zhou Peng also mentioned at the end that today's Liaoning (team) realizes the dream of the whole Liaoning, and also fulfills the dream of those of us who are sports in Liaoning.
Zhou Peng is 32 years old, and fans also jokingly call "old Zhou Peng". At this age, physical function began to decline, and he immediately faced retirement.
Whether those events were true or fabricated, at least Zhou Peng did not have any behavior to slander the Liaoning team in his hometown after he left Guangdong. Even if someone really bullied Zhou Peng that year, perhaps he had already let go. Confrontation on the field, that is Zhou Peng's profession, and only by working the field can we truly represent the spirit of sportsmanship and have the greatest respect for our hometown and fans.