"Of course I can beat Yao Ming one-on-one, singles are no problem"
In 2002, when Battle participated in an online program on Sina, the host threw the question of a good netizen to Bartle, and the Beijing Shougang center did not hesitate to answer the singles without thinking.
Of course, he finally added a sentence, and he has no problem singles at present.
That year in the CBA, Yao Ming played 5 seasons, among them
99-00 season 21.2 points, 14.6 boards and 5.3 blocks
00-01 season 27.1 points 19.4 boards and 5.5 blocks
01-02 season 32.4 points, 19 boards and 4.8 blocks
And it set a string of records that were almost impossible to break: 13 hats in a single game, a season shooting rate of 72.1%, an average of 40+20 or more in the Finals, and 21 shots in the Finals.
Just such a Yao Ming, who hit in the CBA to reduce the dimension, in fact, when facing Battle, really can't take advantage, and in the face of Battle's score has dropped significantly, while Battle's data has not changed much.
At that time, Yao Ming also said that Battle singles, he can risk 4, but the remaining 6 he can score.
Therefore, Bartle, who was in his prime at that time, had the courage to burst Yao Ming, who was still slightly immature.
Battle is a power center that is rare at home and even in the world. In the NBA game that year, only O'Neal and Battle had a strength value of 99 centers.
And Battle, as a power center, has never been a stupid big one. It's the kind of center who has the body but also plays with his brain. He is more comprehensive than Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming, with back-to-back play, strategy, excellent passing skills, delicate hands, and three-point shooting. The only drawback is that he has a slightly worse pace and a slow pace, and this slowness is the biggest reason that limits his development in the NBA.
Battle joined the Beijing team at the age of 15 and became the focus of the Beijing team at that time. After seeing Battle's growth, Wang Zhizhi's mother, who was once a member of the Beijing women's basketball team, felt that Dazhi basically had no chance in this team, so she let Wang Zhizhi join the Bayi team, and she was once relegated to security by the Beijing team. From this side, we can also see the strength of Battle.
In the years in Beijing, Battle and big brother Shan Tao became the CBA's most terrifying internal line combination. Through his excellent performance in the national team, he has successfully attracted the attention of NBA teams.
Compared with Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming's difficult road to the NBA, the bus to the NBA was strongly supported by the Beijing team. Almost all smooth sailing. The bus did not introduce Battle through the draft, but directly through the Transfer of the Nuggets. In the 2002 CBA Beijing Derby, the Guang'an Stadium in Xicheng District was full, in front of the former big brother Shan Tao, he cut 32 points, he waved goodbye to all the fans on the scene, and held up the Denver Nuggets No. 27 jersey, and the song of "Mongolian" sounded on the court, all of which was a heroic march for China's second warrior to embark on the NBA journey.
Battle wears a Nuggets jersey to bid farewell to Beijing Shougang
On the road of the three major centers to stay in the Ocean, Beijing Shougang is the most supportive of Battle, there is no obstruction, there is no high buyout fee, and the Nuggets also paid a transfer fee of $400,000 in accordance with the NBA regulations. After the bus returned from the NBA, it got rid of Beijing's contract and joined Xinjiang through a one-year break, which deeply hurt the Beijing team.
There is a small episode that before the bus goes to the NBA, it participates in the CBA North-South Star Confrontation. Before the game, the Basketball Association was ready to award the MVP to Battle. However, in the end, the calculation was not made, and the Northern team lost. But in the end, he gave the honor of MVP to Battle, who became the only player in CBA All-Star Game history to receive an MVP. The reason is that the Basketball Association feels that he is going to stay in the ocean and it is necessary to take this honor.
After entering the NBA, he joined the team as a transfer player. Battle started from the second game. Become the first player among Chinese players to start. He made 15 starts in 28 appearances that season, averaging 5.1 points and 3.6 rebounds in 15.1 minutes per game, which is actually not bad as a newcomer.
In fact, with Battle's strength on the offensive end, he can be a rotating player in the NBA. But in the NBA he's infinitely giving you amplifying your shortcomings where you are. Battle's slowness is infinitely amplified in the game. Defensive mistakes can only be compensated for by committing fouls again and again. So the next year, the Nuggets sold him to the Spurs. And the reason why the Spurs want him is also very simple, let him imitate O'Neal, let Duncan and Robinson simulate attack and defense in training, so the Spurs career, for Battle, is more of a sparring role, but the rewards are also very rich, he became the first Chinese to win the NBA championship ring. The ring is said to have sold for between $800,000 and $1.5 million. The price was far more than Battle's transfer fee that year.
A rare photograph of the Spurs career on the court
The third year, Battle was sold to the Raptors again. There were no achievements, and the only thing left was the photo of O'Neill knocking down O'Neill with one hand. That photograph still hangs in Battle's home.
A showdown of forces
After that, Battle returned to the CBA after losing several NBA trials. Throughout his short NBA career, after entering the high-level league, his strengths were diluted, his shortcomings were infinitely magnified, and the next year he transferred to the spurs, a strong team that aspired to win the championship, if he was in the weak team of the NBA, mixing a substitute center position, maybe he could play for a few more years, and when he went to the NBA, he was more than 26 years old, and there would be no team to train him. But no matter what, the bus can be on the stage of the NBA, which also proves the strength of China Mobile's Great Wall.
After returning to the CBA, Battle is still an important killer for the Shougang team. He was absent for the entire season in 2006-2007, when he and his team applied for treatment in the United States, and with the idea of playing in Europe, the club agreed and even paid for the treatment. Battle's name is not on the season's registration form and he has not renewed his contract with the club. But unexpectedly, the next year, as a free agent, he directly signed a contract with Xinjiang, and Shougang did not react and lost the mainstay of his own internal line.
He helped Xinjiang Guanghui reach the Finals three times, and he himself won the regular season Most Valuable Player three times, but he could not get back a championship trophy. In the finals against Guangdong, the bus was completely suppressed by Su Wei, and Su Wei became a veritable "bus parking lot" and became the reputation of the most successful center of the Su Wei CBA.
In the years that the bus was in the CBA, his comprehensiveness on the offensive end was fully demonstrated, especially his assist ability, and Xinjiang's attack was basically initiated by him. He is 11th on the CBA total assists list, while the top ten are all defenders.
At the national team level, the bus is almost as a core player, with the national team receiving all the honors, the Asian championship, the world's top eight. The most regrettable thing is that he did not participate in the Beijing Olympic Games.
Here you may think of the contradiction between Yao Ming and the bus. We may be able to find the answer to this matter in the book of Li Yuanwei, director of the Basket Management Center. In the 2004 Olympic Games, Battle used a waist injury as a reason, often training lazy or directly absent, after the 04 Olympic Games defeated Spain, the contradiction between Yao Ming and Battle broke out, Yao Ming accused Battle, and Battle did not buy the small character Yao Ming, directly used you to fight back, the two also formed a beam. As time went by, Yao Ming became the only core of the men's basketball team, perhaps because of this unpleasant experience, Battle never passed the national team again.
In fact, this kind of thing happens when players accuse each other, and Yao Ming, as the core of the men's basketball team, has a strong sense of responsibility and competitiveness. It's no secret that buses will be lazy. But it would be too far-fetched to take such a quarrel as the reason why buses can't get into the national team.
The strongest Chinese men's basketball team in 2008
Let's look at the 12-man roster for the 2008 Olympic Games: Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, Chen Jianghua, Li Nan, Liu Wei, Sun Yue, Du Feng, Wang Lei, Zhang Qingpeng. This year the bus is already 33 years old, and from these 12 people, you can see it. Yao Ming is the core center of the iron strike, Wang Zhizhi can play 4 to 5, Yi Jianlian to play 4, when no one really plays 5, Yi Jianlian can also play the No. 5 position on top. Yi Jianlian, as the most outstanding representative of the young generation, is impossible to be replaced, and the front guard line behind, except for Wang Lei, may be replaced, who else can be replaced by buses? Besides, Yao Ming accused Battle of being for the benefit of the team, if Battle is extremely important to the team, how can he kick the bus out of the team? After all, yao Ming, the Olympics at home, wants to break through the best results of the top eight.
At the end of his career, Battle suffered from severe diabetes, and after leaving Xinjiang, Battle joined the NBL, and because of his physical fitness, he did not meet the requirements for participation, and the Basketball Association also gave him the green light. In 2015, at the age of nearly 40, Battle held his own retirement ceremony at the Wukesong Basketball Stadium, and his 25-year professional basketball career came to an end.
When he retired from the army, the bus was emaciated due to diabetes.
After retiring from the army, he got a bus, drove a sports company, acted in movies, and then served as the chairman of the Inner Mongolia Basketball Association, under which Inner Mongolia had the first WCBA women's basketball team, and won two championships in 20 seasons and 22 seasons. Battelle has won the championship twice in just 4 years. It is hoped that the bus can continue to contribute to Chinese basketball.
After dragging and dragging ink for more than half a month, I finally finished writing the story of China Mobile Great Wall. For our old fans, the era of having three major mobile Great Walls is happy, we caught up with the end of the 94 golden generation, caught up with the peak of the three mobile Great Walls, and the Chinese men's basketball team has also broken into the top eight several times under the efforts of these 2 generations. At the time of writing, the Chinese Basketball Association had just released the shortlist for China's first Basketball Hall of Fame, Wang Zhizhi and Battle were on the list, and Yao Ming did not participate in the first selection because of the rules. I hope that the new generation of fans can remember the great achievements of the old players, and also hope that the current men's basketball players will be ashamed to forge ahead, accumulate thick and thin, and break into the world's top eight again. (End)
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