Time is like a slow train, never stopping in everyone's memories.
In the northeast, every city may have a factory area as downcast as "Birch Steel", and on the edge of the factory, there must be a restaurant run by a laid-off sister. The home-cooked food for the salaried service public is the epitome of Northeast cuisine restaurants that are famous throughout the country for their large quantities. Under the current wave of bizarre short videos, even if you follow various food bloggers, there are only a few experts who can put Northeast cuisine on the table and recommend. I don't know when, the Northeast dialect and Northeast culture, which are widely imitated and paid tribute on the spring evening, are no longer popular throughout the country.
In recent years, many film and television dramas with the northeast as the background, the story often takes place in winter, creating the northeast very dark, depressing, and even dilapidated. Extreme environments are great for the story to unfold, but they can also make it easy for viewers to form "stereotypes" about a place.
In the northeast, in Liaoning, it is difficult to combine success with this region. They're not afraid of failure, they're a little afraid of success because they don't know what success looks like. The same is true of the Liaoning team, they have won 8 national runners-up, which is both unprecedented and difficult to come later. Fate sometimes doesn't seem like a joke, and he uses an almost torturous way to wreak havoc on Liaoning basketball. The humiliating title of "Millennium Two" is like a ghost, attached to the Liaoning team that has reached the final every time. At this time, Liaoning fans discovered that in fact, the matter of "if the heart is in a dream" is quite nonsense. It just so happens that failure and the injustice of fate are like dark clouds hanging over here. It's a simple thing to find out that they share the same fate as you, even the same failures, and it's hard not to lump this team down with yourself.
Although the finals swept their opponents 4-0, the process was not extraordinary at all. In the fourth game of the semi-finals between Liaoning and Guangsha, they were 1-2 down and had retreated to the edge of the cliff to equalize in Hangzhou. Yang Ming said: "We have carried great pressure and shouldered the expectations of Liaoning and even the entire northeast of our team, and everyone did not disappoint all the fans, thank all the fans for their support, and thank all the fans now." Luckily the game went on and we tried to play every game well. ”
There are no rhetoric, it's all caution. He knows the pressure he is carrying, and he also knows that as the head coach of Liaoning, defeat is not acceptable. There are too many failures experienced here, if even Liao basket loses, this is similar to Wang Xiang's birch steel collapse in "The Long Season", he is not a failure, he is a mentally destructive collapse.
In fact, everyone will have a question in their minds, what can represent the Northeast?
Is it a skit like who I don't lay off? The wave of layoffs brought about by enterprise transformation has swept through the three northeastern provinces. The province with the largest number of laid-off workers in the country is Liaoning Province, while the entire three northeastern provinces have 2.53 million laid-off workers, accounting for about 25.3% of the total number of laid-off workers in the country. Such a pain brought to the "eldest son of the republic" difficult to heal. This unspeakable pain is the scar and imprint of almost every Liaoning person and even a Northeaster.
So when Liaoning team lifts the supreme crown of the CBA championship at home, you can understand what head coach Yang Ming said: "We are not very successful people, or ordinary people want to change their fate of a benchmark or beacon." ”
Yang Ming didn't mention anything, but this sentence condensed a thousand words. From the beginning to the end of the season, he expressed himself like this, subtly and low-key and extremely cautious. Even if his various expressions on various occasions leave a lot of room for himself, in fact, he knows that once he fails, there is an abyss behind him. They must be careful.
Caution is not instigation. The Liaoning team showed a non-stubborn way of playing on the field, although they were not as aggressive on the field as Guangdong and Chouzhou, and this style of team defender was very aggressive defensively, and the scale of the referee was also a huge test. Liaoning is different from them, they are strong, but the rules. It's hard to see a long slump in the Liaoning team's game, playing in a well-behaved manner, and playing step by step. Winning also wins beautifully, and losing also loses badly.
Innate humor in the bones. After the finals, Allen Guo broadcast live on social media, inviting spectators who did not buy tickets to play in the stadium late at night. It's hard to imagine that this is unprecedented in any professional league in the world. No professional player reacts after winning a championship with "I haven't played enough". As a veteran who has been in the league for more than 10 years, this sense of humor and affinity is difficult to find a second one around the world. In the sports and entertainment industry, most public figures have a good relationship with the media and practitioners, and distance themselves from fans. Only Allen, his fans have a very good relationship. As for the relationship between the media and practitioners, he has only won one "Sports Weekly" MVP award for so many years.
A strong sense of belonging to hometown. Although professional sports are no longer homesick, the Liaoning team is the most special team. The composition of this team is very localized, and the composition of the children and soldiers has formed a unique cohesion for them in Liaoning and even the northeast. If it is not such a combination of personnel, it is difficult to form a echoing effect, in the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, in Beijing's Wukesong, in Shanghai's Oriental Sports Center, you can hear the loud and high-pitched "I love Liao basket". The distinctive regional characteristics have created a distinctive team style.
Now back to the question just now, what exactly can represent the Northeast?
I think everyone has an answer in their hearts. The Northeast is not the pale and desolate Northeast in most film and television dramas, and the banks of the Hunhe River are pregnant with their unique culture. The development of Shenyang is not as lonely as many people think, the K11 shopping mall diagonally opposite the door of the Olympic Sports Center is very avant-garde, and the northeast is not at all what it imagines.
"The Long Season" breaks people's oppressive and obscure impression of the Northeast, in fact, the Northeast is not much different from the city we live in in other seasons, with lush vegetation, babbling water, colorful street market stores, and all kinds of roadside stalls. Not everyone in the northeast is full of grass and rivers and lakes, and most of them are not big gold chains, small gold watches, three small barbecues a day.
The portraits of most people in the northeast should be forbearing, honest, and rule-abiding. After all, exaggerated images and things on the Internet are very few, but after all, most people's impression of the region comes from the Internet. Liaoning and Liaoning basketball have a bit of tragic heroism, they are not as cold and violent as many people remember, they are also eager to succeed, eager to use their victories to give a trace of comfort to Liaoning fans with scars in their hearts.
Looking back, the clouds cut off the way home; Looking back, the thorns are thick. Today's Liaoning men's basketball team, looking back, has gone through ups and downs. But whether the road ahead is bright is unknown. The economic strength of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta is not a day, and their strong siphon ability has been the main reason for the local brain drain in Liaoning. No Liaoning is not a bad thing for Chinese basketball, but it is not necessarily a good thing for Liaoning basketball. In recent years, the Liaoning youth team has no advantage in nationwide competitions, and the youth training fault makes them a little dazed. Han Dejun and Li Xiaoxu have won for a while, but it is obvious that they are at the end of their careers, and there is a question mark over whether they can rely on the second elder to dominate the inside next season. Competitive sports do not believe that the future will be better, and the most brilliant moment of the Liaoning team may be now.
The golden years can be looked back, and there are no years to go to. Leave a book "Champion Liaoning, Never Go Alone", no matter when, turning over the past, it is the best memory and story.
When you close the book, look ahead and don't look back.
6 years and 3 crowns, the story of Liao Basket should be recorded
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