Carry the stigma
At that time, in the 12th Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Iran by 18 points, and Yi Jianlian was humiliated by Haddadi. What really happened back then? After the Beijing Olympic Games, Yao Ming has stopped standing for the national team, and the Chinese men's basketball team urgently needs a second person to stand up and continue to lead the Chinese men's basketball team forward.
And the Yi Jianlian who once followed a group of big brothers was unanimously selected by everyone to pick up the burden of Chinese basketball. Everyone expects Yi Jianlian to take over the big banner in Yao Ming's hand, and people expect him to become Yao Ming, but he is not... Yao Ming is a man with his back to the basket and can be the center of the team's main offensive point, while the UAE League is a big forward with black physical fitness to play the number four position. But no one cares about such a difference, everyone only wants a second Yao Ming!
The first major examination belonging to Yi Jianlian was the 2009 Tianjin Asian Championship. In the 17 Asian Championships before that, the Chinese men's basketball team won 14 championship trophies. The Chinese men's basketball team was unshaked by the throne of the Asian Championships when there was still Yao Ming, and everyone was bound to win this game. And in the group stage, the men's basketball team beat india by 13 points, and the opponent did not dare to shout at all. The men's basketball team blew up Haskstein, beating Qatar 92:61 with an impressive result.
The Chinese men's basketball team seems to have no one to stop! The world is unpredictable, in the finals against the same Iranian team with a thousand-year history, Iran is not as big as our Tibet Province. But in basketball, they are like hungry wolves tearing at our throne at the Asian Championship, and yes, they have been eyeing us for a long time. Iran's gate Haddadi saw through the Intention of the Chinese team to transfer it out of the forbidden area, they are very clever, whether it is Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi staying at him on the outside line, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian at that time have a one-handed outside projection ability.
Hatefully, the UAE League came to the middle distance position, and Iran's Haddadi not only did not come up to defend, but even deliberately took two steps back to deliberately open the empty position, posing a gesture to the UAE At that time to let you shoot! It's like saying you vote, you can't vote anyway... Yi Jianlian's shot after a second of hesitation, the basketball that bounced out of the frame was really as bone-chilling as frost. Haddadi's sarcastic smile and the happy words in his mouth threw the self-esteem of the UAE league on the ground and trampled on it at will.
The UAE, the wordless leader of the Chinese team, was brutally humiliated. With the final whistle sounding, the Chinese team lost to Iran by 18 points. The supremacy of the Chinese men's basketball team in the Asian basketball world also collapsed with the loss of this game. Standing on the podium, Yi Jianlian hid his face with his hands and was embarrassed. Whether it is out of the sense of responsibility as the leader of the Chinese men's basketball team, or the sense of honor of fighting for the country, he deeply blames himself. But true leaders must go through such setbacks in order for the king to return!
Tenacity mission
14 years is the strongest Yi Jianlian I have ever met, he was brutally humiliated six years ago, and now the moment of revenge is finally coming. Changsha Asian Championship semi-final against Iran, the UAE League asked Haddadi, he raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of hatred. Yi Jianlian retreated and scored three points directly at the opponent's heart. Humiliated his already lead-filled legs with a steady mid-range shot. Kill each other's beautiful basketball dreams with a big hat!
As long as Yi Jianlian did anything in front of Haddadi, whether it was a jump shot, a violent dunk or an iron-blooded cover, he would stare at the Iranian who sneered at him in Tianjin 6 years ago and roared freely. When Haddadi was going to be unfavorable to Zhao Jiwei, the youngest defender of the Chinese men's basketball team, Yi Jianlian suddenly pounced. One pushed Haddadi away, shouting and scolding, and the murderous and body language in his eyebrows seemed to be able to draw a steel knife from his back at any time. At that moment, Haddadi panicked, and he began to spread his hands in an attempt to explain that there was no counterattack.
The big brother of the Chinese men's basketball team, he wants to protect his brothers under his wings, just like the big brothers in those years. Under the leadership of Yi Jianlian, the boys of the Chinese men's basketball team are fearless on the field and murderous. He slammed his one-handed battle axe through Bahrami and roared angrily at Bahrram, who had just shrunk beneath him. At that moment, Yi Jianlian was like a brutal warrior, and this battle of the UAE subverted our perception of him...
Not only is he training silently, but also the Yi Jianlian who will enter the venue in advance to do an hour of warm-up before each game, and the Yi Jianlian who does not say a word, and whether he wins or loses the game, he will offer 20+10+ performance. This night, he was extremely enthusiastic in the game, even crazy! After a decade of ups and downs in his career.
He finally opened the door of his heart, Yi Jianlian seemed to be much more talkative, although he still could not be as humorous as Yao Ming, still could not be as dark and afraid as Guo Allen. But he laughs more and talks more, but he will shout loudly when it is time to shout, scold when it is time to scold, encourage when it is time to encourage, and hold a cup when it is time to hold a cup.
Haddadi and the Iranian team, who gave Yi Jianlian the deepest provocation and humiliation six years ago, crashed into the muzzle of the gun, and finally the Philippines ... Yi Jianlian raised a finger high into the sky to announce that he had won the championship.
But the back is like stepping on the road of hell, losing the championship in 2009, losing five games at the 2012 London Olympics, losing manila in 2013... The Chinese men's basketball team fell into the abyss. But no matter how great the suffering and the deepest heavenly punishment, Yi Jianlian endured silently. Carry the Chinese team forward. Like Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Zhu Fangyu, Li Nan, Zeng Jin's teammates are retired and only he is still forging ahead!
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In the 2019 World Cup, when everyone was optimistic about the emergence of the men's basketball team, those unexplained mistakes, those sad backs, gave us a blow in the head. It turned out that there was only the UAE League left in the team, and the leader who had been questioned finally became the only big brother who could be relied on. The UAE Once wrote in the letter: "The place where the national team needs you to play for your life is the place where you have to give everything to help the fans across the country fulfill their dreams."
He has been fighting for his country for ten years, ten years, and who will dedicate himself for another ten years. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the uae's key CVTs sent the Chinese team into the top eight of the Olympic Games. At the 2010 World Championships, he averaged 20+10 rebounding kings and no. 1 in the scoring list. At the 2012 Olympics, he scored 30 points and 12 rebounds against the interior line of Spain's big and small Gasol. In the 2016 Olympic Games, he scored 25+6 against the American Dream Team, winning the highest score of a Chinese player since the two countries met between China and the United States.
After the World Cup, we finally began to praise Yi Jianlian, who had been ridiculed and insulted by the whole world. Is he finally the Yao Ming in our hearts? No, it was we who finally accepted the Yi Jianlian in our hearts. For me, every time I put on the national team uniform and went to fight for the country, the sense of honor and mission is the same as the first time, every time I put it on and step into the stadium, my heart is excited at that moment. It's a very strong sense of mission and honor.
The little brother who was once behind a group of big brothers has also grown into a big brother who is independent! Our expectations for him ranged from the initial hope to the final determination that he was Yi Jianlian and not Yao Ming. It's not that we recognize him as such, it's that we identify him in our hearts as the pillar of Chinese basketball today, the big brother of our Chinese basketball.