On August 24, 2006, the Chinese men's basketball team played against Slovenia in the final group stage of the World Championship. With 6 seconds left in the game, China trailed by 2 points 75-77 and did not pause...
Liu Wei served in the backcourt, Wang Shipeng received the ball and dribbled all the way to the 45-degree area outside the three-point line on the left side of the frontcourt, jumped, shot, and the ball entered the whistle...
This is undoubtedly the brightest moment of Wang Shipeng's career, and as a result, the name Wang Shipeng has left its own mark on the history of Chinese basketball!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > go south to Guangdong and pay the "price of blood"</h1>
As the golden generation of the Guangdong men's basketball team, Wang Shipeng is a native of the north. At the age of 15, he dreamed of joining the Liaoning men's basketball team and fighting for his hometown. However, due to his thin physical fitness, he was abandoned by the Liaoning team. Fortunately, he was excavated by Zhang Zhenmin, an official of the Guangdong men's basketball team, and went south to Guangdong to start his basketball career.
When he first arrived in Guangdong, the difference between life between the north and the south became the first problem facing Wang Shipeng.
"I've always lived in Liaoning and have no concept of mosquitoes at all, and I don't understand why my teammates are hanging mosquito nets."
On the first night after joining Guangdong, Wang Shipeng paid the "price of blood".
After gradually adapting to life in the south, Wang Shipeng began to painstakingly polish his basketball skills. At that time, the Guangdong men's basketball youth team would have a fixed time every week to observe the training of the first team, and seeing the training conditions of the first team, Wang Shipeng secretly decided that he must play the first team as soon as possible.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > bloody man, a rookie who is not afraid of challenges</h1>
The Guangdong men's basketball team has always attached importance to the cultivation of young players, and in the 99/00 season, Wang Shipeng was promoted to the first team together with Zhu Fangyu. Wang Shipeng, who was wearing the No. 14 shirt at the time, did not quickly become the main force of the team like Zhu Fangyu and Du Feng. The first game of his career in the CBA was against the King of August 1st Team.
"The first game was to play with the big brothers of the Bayi team, and my first layup was covered by Li Nan."
Despite living in the south for a long time, Wang Shipeng still retains the bloodiness of the northern Hanzi in his bones. In his usual training, he often confronts the old players in the team, and he believes that in the confrontation with the masters, the ball is the fastest. Similarly, in the game, in the face of the long-established big brothers, Wang Shipeng is not soft, whether it is Hu Weidong, Sun Jun, or strong foreign aid, he dares to face it.
After 5 years of CBA playing, Wang Shipeng gradually occupied the position of Guangdong team's main scoring guard. But at the time, he was still slightly vague about his positioning, in his own words:
"I do everything on the pitch, but I'm not that good at everything."
This also allowed him to play the role of a supporting role in Guangdong's first CBA triple crown. For Wang Shipeng, who tried Tobe Bryant as an idol, he aspires to be the protagonist of the stadium!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > "if you want to fight, play the first foreign aid"</h1>
In the 2010/11 season, the Xinjiang men's basketball team, which lost to Guangdong in the finals, struggled to sign the scoring machine Quincy Dolby from the NBA Kings. Dolby didn't disappoint the team either, leading the team to an impressive 37-1 record in the regular season. He averaged 32 points per game, and his explosive scoring ability was daunting for many CBA teams.
That year, the Xinjiang team also waited for the old rival Guangdong team in the finals as promised. In the first game of the finals, Dolby slashed 53 points to help the Xinjiang team win the game without bloodshed. In the second game, Guangdong team once trailed by 18 points, and Dolby was still brave, scoring 20+ points through the half game.
In the second half, Wang Shipeng led the Guangdong team to open the counterattack mode. Wang Shipeng frantically output on the offensive end, all kinds of unreasonable three-pointers, coupled with the breakthrough of holding the ball, led the team to quickly equalize the score. Moreover, when Zhou Peng and Zhu Fangyu were unable to limit Dolby on the defensive end, Wang Shipeng took the initiative to ask for help in the second half and shouldered the responsibility of defending the "first foreign aid".
Under Wang Shipeng's close defense, Dolby lost in the second half on the offensive end and scored only 8 points. After losing Dolby's powerful scoring point, Xinjiang was blocked continuously on the offensive end and eventually lost the game. Wang Shipeng scored 32 points in the game, and it was from this game that the Guangdong team began the Jedi counterattack.
In the end, Guangdong team defeated Xinjiang 4-2 and completed the triple crown again. Wang Shipeng won the MVP of the finals that year by virtue of his outstanding performance in the finals, averaging 22.7 points per game and shooting 44.4% from three points.
There is no doubt that this time he became the protagonist of the finals.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > kill Slovenia is a classic and a metamorphosis</h1>
Of course, going from a supporting role to the stage of the protagonist is not achieved overnight. After experiencing the 2006 death that went down in history, Wang Shipeng completed a self-transformation.
In 2006, Yunus recruited Wang Shipeng to the national team to prepare for the World Championships, and at that time, the outside world was not optimistic that Wang Shipeng could stay in this national team. After all, a group of veterans represented by Zhang Jinsong and Li Nan are still the first choice for the national team.
"The less favored you are, the more you want to prove yourself."
The training session prepared by Yunus was notoriously arduous, when in order to train the players' endurance, the players had to do 5 full-court retracement runs in 1 minute. Wang Shipeng and other teammates struggled to survive the "Devil Training Week", and Wang Shipeng, who was still a young player at the time, often found veteran Zhang Jinsong for one-on-one challenges after training.
Chances are left to those who are prepared, and in the life-and-death battle against Slovenia in the group stage, Wang Shipeng hit the most important goal of his career. Few people know that in the first 39 minutes of the game, he lost all 6 shots, but at the last moment of the game, he carried the team on his back...
"My personality is not to be afraid of responsibility, no matter how many goals I have lost before, I am convinced that I will shoot the next goal."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > foreign war insider, China Kobe Bryant</h1>
After the baptism of the 2006 World Championships, Wang Shipeng was completely reborn, not only helping the Guangdong team win the championship in China, but also handing over beautiful report cards in international competitions many times. Especially after Yao Ming retired, Wang Shipeng fully released his power on the offensive end.
At the 2010 World Championships, he averaged 2 three-pointers per game, 40 percent, and at the 2012 Olympics, he averaged 2.6 three-pointers per game, or 61.9 percent.
It is worth mentioning that in the 2012 Olympic Games against the Australian team, Wang Shipeng scored 7 of 10 three-pointers, making his opponents sweat.
Wang Shipeng has reached the top with the Chinese men's basketball team and has also fallen to the bottom. In the final of the 2009 Asian Championship, The Chinese team lost to the Iranian men's basketball team.
Fortunately, Wang Shipeng fell and could still get up. A year later, in the quarter-finals of the Asian Games, China and Iran met again, a match called revenge by Chinese fans. In the game, Wang Shipeng scored a game-high 20 points. 13 seconds before the final game, he received a pass from Sun Yue and a three-point shot through the heart, helping him to seal the victory and successfully avenge the Iranian team.
Because he repeatedly scored key goals in the World Series, Wang Shipeng was also jokingly called "China Kobe" by fans.
Without Guo Allen's gorgeous style of play, nor sun Yue's explosive physical talent, Wang Shipeng has been recognized by fans step by step with his tenacity and the hard work in his bones. I believe that no matter how many years have passed, when looking back at the moment when Wang Shipeng killed Slovenia, all Chinese basketball fans will be in tears, of course, including Wang Shipeng himself...