Last night, the Chinese men's basketball team narrowly defeated Bahrain by 1 point, saving a bit of face of the Asian basketball powerhouse, and one of the biggest heroes of this battle is a firefighter who cannot participate due to the infection of many players of the national team with the new crown, and temporarily made up for the first time to represent the national team - Jiang Weize.
The basketball road of the post-00s boy Jiang Weize can be said to be not smooth, accompanied by doubts along the way, and the main reason is shortness.
As we all know, basketball is an elderly sport, although there are many small people in the basketball world who have achieved good results, but in terms of overall material selection, height is one of the important measures.
In the selection of materials in the Chinese men's basketball team for more than 20 years, high defenders have always been the standard configuration, from Li Xiaoyong of 189cm, Guo Shiqiang of 193cm, Liu Wei of 190cm, and Guo Allen of 190cm.
The height of only 180cm, you can imagine how much cold eyes and neglect on the road to basketball.
If it were not for the fact that Sun Junhui, the head of the Jilin team, had discovered this talented teenager in the student competition, perhaps he would have inherited his father's business and worked as a worker in the forest farm in Yanji's hometown, and he would not have dared to have extravagant expectations for professional basketball.
Children of poor families know that they have to work twice as hard to get ahead, and since their height talent cannot be changed, they hone their skills, especially their ability to control luck and projection.
Through unremitting efforts, Xiao Jiang entered the national team and represented the Chinese men's basketball team in the U18 Asian Youth Championship and the U19 World Youth Championship.
But for the promotion to the professional first team, Xiao Jiang still experienced some challenges. Wang Han, the head coach of the Jilin men's basketball team at the time, said when talking about Jiang Weize: "At that time, the team had to select some young people in the second team to promote to the first team, this child was thin and small, and his body shape on the street was not as good as ordinary people, and he did not know the trade-offs. Just with the Beijing team to play two teaching games, but also to investigate him, the first game he was very nervous, did not play well, the second game calmly a lot also played their own characteristics. So in this way, Jiang Weize ushered in his own career.
Is the gold will always shine, Xiao Jiang quickly became the main rotation player of the Jilin team, and won the CBA All-Star Star Sharp Tournament MVP, and the skill challenge champion, is one of the main scorers of the Jilin team, and in the case of the CBA playoffs are generally not optimistic, eliminated the Beijing team, Xiao Jiang Juwei.
Since then, Xiao Jiang has also had the call to be selected for the national team, but the competition in the defensive line is particularly fierce, Liaoning Double Star, Guangdong Third Son, Two Zhejiang Sun Wu, Xiao Jiang has been habitually ignored. There are still people who use his height as a reason for not being selected for the national team, but what about Xu Jie, who is shorter than him?
Don't take the colored glasses to see people anymore, Xiao Jiang has a rare domestic defender's ability to hold the ball and shoot strongly, the speed explosion is top,The selection of materials is not for tactical service, but for scoring goals, for winning services, Xiao Jiang is with the strong solution scoring ability that others do not have, if it is not the national team multi-person infection, Xiao Jiang such a genius is afraid to be buried for many years.
The selection of materials should be meritocratic rather than nepotistic.