Yesterday was Chairman Yao's 41st birthday, Andi Ge also wrote a tweet, which indeed evoked too many basketball memories of youth, and last night also watched the Rockets game that year.
Only by watching the game of that year can you really understand a person's strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, as a fan who has experienced the complete process of Dayao draft, peak, trough, and retirement, you will feel the strength of that man very deeply.
I don't think I need to repeat this. Yao Ming entered the Basketball Hall of Fame, but did not send fruit baskets, and the security guards at the door did not stop him, all of which was deserved.
What are you going to talk about today? A brother asked in the message area: "In another 20 years, can there be another Yao Ming?" ”
Di Ge's answer to him was: It depends on God...
why?
Now this Chinese men's basketball team really needs thighs like Yao Ming to lead the team out of the darkest period. A superstar can change a lot of things.
Why can we reach the quarterfinals in the 2008 Olympic Games? The main reason is not because we have a world-class center Yao Ming? Do you want to say that the players in other positions are really much better than the men's basketball national players at this stage? I don't think so.
The fact is that in the years after Yao Ming retired, the men's basketball team lost its absolute dominance in Asia. If Dayao is there, in 2009, it will be haddadi to spread wild at the Tianjin Asian Championships?
So, I can understand the strong desire of the fans to see the next mega-giant emerge.
However, when China can have cross-era athletes such as Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, it really depends on whether they can get the favor of God.
Anyway, I think Yao Ming is really a player who is rare in a hundred years. What he was able to achieve was the result of a combination of factors.
First, talent.
The "hardware conditions" of 2 meters and 26 meters alone are already superior, thanks to his parents.
Dayao's father, Yao Zhiyuan, is 2.08 meters tall and a former Shanghai men's basketball center. His mother, Fang Fengdi, was the main center and captain of the Chinese women's basketball team in the 1970s.
In other words, Yao Ming is from an athlete's family, which is really an innate advantage. Parents have a profound and important impact on all aspects of their son's life, personality development, and attitude towards basketball.
Therefore, 2 meters 26 of Dayao won at the starting line at the beginning.
In addition to his height, his talent is also displayed in the feel. The Rockets' big center, who is responsible for technical foul penalties, says it all.
Now there are still people who question that if Dayao was in the small ball era, he did not have three points. What I want to say is that the feeling of his hands plus the degree of hard work can be practiced now...
This brings us to the second point, hard self-discipline.
In China, there are not many talented new stars who are more than 2 meters tall and more than 2 meters tall. However, few can be as disciplined and hardworking as Dayao.
Rockets trainers have said that Yao Ming is the hardest and hardest basketball player he has ever met.
When he first entered the NBA, Dayao played very badly, big bamboo poles, weak physical fitness, poor confrontation, need to increase muscle mass, so every time Yao Ming is gritting his teeth to increase the amount of training...
After spending about 2-3 years of hard training, the confrontation in the NBA really did not suffer at all, and the strength really went up. Yao Ming is talented, but if he doesn't have that strength, he can't beat it...
Regarding Yao Ming's self-discipline, just tell a little story:
Yao Ming retired in 2011, when he knew that at the end of his career as an athlete, he said: "I can finally eat fried chicken..."
After retiring from the army, he released himself and the president of the Basketball Association needed to socialize, so that he had the current female Zhaoyue, Yao Ming in the athlete era, and he was really extremely strict in diet.
The third factor, character.
Dayao is not the so-called "stupid big man", but a player with a very high IQ and extremely good at expression.
Looking at the history of Chinese sports, such athletes are extremely rare. His integration into American culture was an important factor in his achievements in the NBA.
At this point, the UAE and Dazhi are really much worse.
As an Asian athlete, going to the United States to play, you need to overcome not only the ability gap on the basketball court, but also your expression, your level of integration into the team, your communication skills.
In addition to his own strength and sense of responsibility beyond ordinary people, Yao Ming's emotional intelligence and eloquence are also recognized as superior.
Therefore, in order to mix in the NBA, mingle with the old blacks...
As for how outstanding Yao Ming's expression ability is, we can look at his speech when he entered the Hall of Fame, which is absolutely super high! Chinese athletes who can be so retracted freely, I can only think of Dayao...
The fourth factor, soil.
Strictly speaking, Dayao is really an athlete who was only trained in the NBA. What do you mean? If he's been playing in Shanghai, he can walk sideways in the CBA, which is right, but I don't think he can get to that level.
Yao Ming's real goal was still in the Rockets' years, really through training and high-level competition. At this point, we must acknowledge the credit of the Rockets in this process.
In other words, if Chinese basketball wants to have the "next Yao Ming", he must be an NBA player and constantly play high-level games.
Under the soil of the CBA, at the level of that game, it is impossible to cultivate players of Yao Ming's level.
Even if you have talent, playing in the CBA for a few years may be reduced to mediocrity, and in a short period of time, this will not change.
Yao Ming's 2 games with Ao Fat may be worth more than his one season in the CBA...
For example, now there are 2 NBA players in Japan, Yamura and Watanabe, aren't they all played in the United States? The Japanese league cannot be cultivated.
Back in Chinese basketball, the same is true. Although the state does not allow the classification of key classes now, Di ge still has to give an easy-to-understand example:
If you were studying in the ordinary class, you were very hardworking and smart, but was it unrealistic to ask you to go to Qingbei? To really get results, you still have to work hard to go to the key classes, where there is a better competitive environment, there are better teachers... The basketball world, too.
With that said, everyone may understand how difficult it is to have the next Yao Ming. Don't talk about Dayao, "the next UAE", we estimate that we have to wait for a long time...
It is necessary to combine so many elements at the same time, is it necessary to rely on the favor of God?