Yao Ming, who became the NBA champion in 2002, is not only the NBA's China height, but also the roof of Asia. Two years later, Ha Shengzhen followed Yao Ming into the NBA, and the long-awaited South Korean media finally found the direction of touting.
"Blow up Yao Ming" is not a slogan, but more of a result of Korean variety show exaggeration. The story began in 2003, at the U19 Greek World Youth Championship, Heshengzhen, who was not yet 18 years old, played for South Korea, and when facing the Chinese national youth, under the joint blocking of Yi Jianlian and Tang Zhengdong, he contributed 21 points and 14 rebounds, beating the UAE League until he graduated from the crime, which was considered to be a famous battle.
Ha Seung-jin averaged 11 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game in the World Youth Championships, and was transferred to the South Korean adult national team before the start of the 2003 Men's Basketball Asian Championship for his outstanding performance. At this time, South Korea's national youth coach and assistant coach of the national team, Kang Yijun, praised ai tu, saying, "The 18-year-old HaShengzhen is stronger than the 18-year-old Yao Ming at that time." ”
That should be the first time there was a direct contrast between Hasheng Town and Yao Ming, that is, from this point on, a year later in the 2004 NBA Draft, the 221cm tall Hesheng Town was selected by the Portland Pioneers in the 17th pick in the second round, 19 years old soared, the Korean media was not lonely, began to forcibly put the then Asian first center Yao Ming, but also in front of The hesheng Town a mountain first with his mouth down, spread to the country, there is a chapter "Hesheng Town threatened to blow Yao Ming".
Where did Hesheng Town think about it, the inspirational story that originally challenged Yao Ming to prove himself turned into a crazy punch in the face after the big words.
Yao Ming's first meeting with Heshengzhen was in the final of the 2003 Asian Championship, where Dayao slashed 30 points, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks, and the Chinese men's basketball team successfully defeated South Korea 106-96 to win the championship. The 18-year-old Xiaohe finally had the opportunity to play against Yao Ming, although there was a beautiful dunk, but in less than 4 minutes, he was punched out by Yao 4 fouls and was fiercely repaired.
Two years later, Hasheng was already playing for Portland, and on March 31, 2005, the two met for the NBA for the first time and again played directly on the court. The result was another bullying game, at this time, Dayao, who had entered the NBA's top center ranks, scored 29 points and 7 rebounds, while rookie Xiaohe played 15 minutes, shot 0 of 6, grabbed 4 rebounds, ate 4 fouls, and scored 0 points.
Hesheng Town has played against Yao Ming a total of 4 times in the NBA, adding up to 5 points, which can be said to be a blow once, and there is no room for fighting back. His NBA career was also unsuccessful, averaging just 6.9 minutes and 1.5 rebounds in 46 games in two seasons, and his NBA journey came to an end after being traded to the Bucks by the Blazers in the summer of 2006.
Back in the Asian arena, Hesheng Town still had to fight Yao Ming. In the semi-finals of the 2005 Asian Championship, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated South Korea 93-49, setting a record for the largest point difference since the confrontation, Heshengzhen only got 6 points and 2 rebounds, and he needed to face in addition to 24 points and 15 rebounds of Dayao, and there was more to grow up in the UAE League, the two faced him with consecutive dunks, playing can be said to be faceless.
Not only Dayao, Hesheng Town will face any of the main internal lines of the Chinese men's basketball team after that.
In the 2006 Asian Games, Yao Ming did not play, and his last meeting with Hesheng town was in the NBA regular season in March of this year. Without Yao Ming, opposite Hesheng Town is his opponent in the youth period, the UAE League, and the old and strong Wang Zhizhi. At the Doha Asian Games, Ha Shengzhen played well, facing China with 16 points and 16 rebounds, only 2 of 10 free throws, while the young UAE League scored 18 points, 14 rebounds and 3 steals, and the men's basketball team won South Korea without any danger.
Four years later, at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, Ha Shengzhen met again with the Chinese men's basketball team, and it was another final match since 2002, and the South Korean team played very well, but Wang Zhizhi turned the tide in the last moment and turned the situation around by himself. Hesheng Town, who lost the game, could not hide his sadness and could not help but cry, so after threatening to beat Yao Ming, he had another legendary story of being beaten and cried by Dazhi.
Later, Dazhi once mentioned this past, because South Korea implemented national military service, and HaShengzhen, as an athlete, did not catch up with the super high and overweight exemption rule at that time, and did not win the asian games gold medal, so after losing again, he thought of going to military service, which made him sad and tearful. Because of his military service, he also missed the 2013 Asian Championship.
At the 2011 Asian Championships, Ha Seung-jin played China for the last time against China in the South Korean national team, or in the semi-finals. At this time, the UAE League has become the pillar of the men's basketball team, he scored 17 points and 12 rebounds, and pressed 4 points and 6 rebounds of Hesheng Town to help China reach the final again. Although there is no Yao Ming, Heshengzhen still can't win in front of China, and he has not had the opportunity to play in the following competitions, and the 2015 Changsha Asian Championships also withdrew due to injury.
The cowhide bragged by the South Korean media has finally become the laughing stock of HaSheng Town.
In fact, Hesheng town is not a repulsive player, and most of the memes related to him on the Internet today are not from his mouth. In 2003, when he first played Yao Ming, he said: "I am very happy to be able to play against Yao Ming, and I can also buckle one on his head, which really makes me almost crazy." The only time he said yao ming couldn't beat him was playing PS game consoles.
By the time Yao Ming retired, he always mentioned Dayao in an interview, always lamenting Yao Ming's strength, and retiring was really a loss of Asian basketball. Interestingly, people who don't understand hesheng town think that Heshengzhen is like a stupid big man, but in fact, he and Dayao have good language skills, very organized thinking, and after a season in the NBA, he can also cope with it in English interviews with Chinese media.
As The first South Korean player to break into the NBA and the only NBA player to date, Ha Seung-jin's performance is not as bad as the public thinks. As the second generation of basketball, Ha Seung Jin although the contact with basketball is relatively late, but it quickly received attention, his father has been operating on his business since then, from the time of Suwon Three Day Commercial High School graduation, South Korea's two famous men Yonsei University and Korea University with auction competition, and finally Yonsei University spent nearly 500,000 US dollars to compete for him, even into the NBA is also a pre-contract brokerage company, opened the door.
What level of player is Hasheng Town?
His two seasons in the NBA were unsuccessful, with only one game scoring in double figures, the final game of the 04-05 rookie year. Facing the down-and-out last season's Western Conference champions, Ha Sheng town scored 13 points and 5 rebounds, and scored a key counter-goal in the final 2 minutes, and the big man wrote a sharp stroke in the kobe Bryant news, as if to help the media sit firmly in that sentence, "No Shaq, no playoffs."
After leaving the NBA, Hesheng town did not return home immediately, in the 06-07 season, he joined the Development League's Anaheim Arsenal, but only averaged 2.8 points and 2.7 rebounds per game there, but in the 2007 Asian Championship, he averaged 17.2 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1 block per game. In the 2008-09 season, he returned to the Korean KBL League and was signed by the Jeonju KCC Aegis team with the first pick.
In the Korean domestic league, Ha Seung-jin played like a fish.
In his first season back in South Korea, Ha Seung-jin won the championship with Jeonju, and the following year he did not play well due to injury, that is, he shed tears in Guangzhou because of the loss of the championship. In the 10-11 season, Hesheng led the state to the Finals for the third consecutive year, and averaged 16.8 points and 9.2 rebounds per game, won three consecutive games after falling behind 1-2, and successfully won the FMVP, which should be the peak of his basketball career.
However, in the summer of this year, the South Korean media criticized Ha Seung-jin as only able to dominate the domestic league, and the desire to win in the international arena was not strong, and it was impossible to help the South Korean men's basketball team win honors. Coupled with the fact that he had to serve in the military a year later, and encountered injuries in the twilight of his career, he finally failed to go further, and after a few years of persistence, he ended his career in 2019.
Ha Seung-jin is an absolute alternative in the history of Korean basketball, his huge figure has always been incompatible with the style of the Korean men's basketball team, and although he did not dominate Asia at the peak of his career, he was also a closely focused inner star. However, South Korea has no experience in using heavy interior lines, and the offensive ability of Hasheng Town is too poor to reach the top in Asia, and Xiaohe, who was killed by the Korean media, finally left only one classic old terrier after another.
After retiring from the army, HeshengZhen lived a very dashing life, as mentioned above, he was by no means a big fool who was not good at words, but on the contrary, he had the same humor as Yao Ming. He followed in the footsteps of his predecessor Seo Jang-hoon, entered the Korean entertainment industry, and now also runs YouTube sharing videos, thinking about his rather tortuous and legendary career, but he has really accumulated enough talking points.
Not many people in the basketball world are remembered, and with the passage of time, The town of Hesheng can still be mentioned often, but it is also a different achievement.