Kobe Bryant, Yu Jia and Zhang Weiping
Many fans see the name "Zhang Weiping" and may suddenly forget who his owner is, because his nickname has swept the basketball circle, which can be said to be known to everyone.
Zhang Lili, Wei Ping Bryant, Zhang Zhi, etc. Which is not a well-known classic sports IP?
Zhang Weiping's commentary style is humorous and funny, fast talking, full of Beijing flavor, self-contained, fans while watching the game while listening to the commentary, whether it is right or not, but always feel that Zhang Guide is sitting next to you and nagging. His words do not have so many explanatory formulas and official words, but he can properly express his rich feelings and the dynamics of the stadium, and can also speak wittily and humorously.
And Zhang's classic commentaries, which are well known to fans, can even be written into a book.
At the 2010 World Championships, Sun Yue completed a steal in the competition, and Zhang Zhi seemed to be a good brother of Sun Yue, and then coaxed "Sun Yue, play him" with a slight ridicule on the side. Subsequently, Yu Jia, a senior commentator of CCTV, said, "Teacher Zhang's play with him will surely be called the amazing work of this World Championship!" ”
Sure enough, although more than ten years have passed, the stem of "Sun Yue, play with him" has endured and flourished for a long time.
When Yao Ming played for the NBA Rockets, Zhang Guidance often made a guest appearance on CCTV5 to explain, like most Chinese, Zhang Guidance is both Yao Honey and Fire Honey, every time in the commentary rocket team game, once the ball is not passed to the inner line of The Great Yao, Zhang Guidance will be anxious to say "Quick to Yao Ming, give ah, how not to give" or "to Yao Ming!" or "to Yao Ming!" Give it to! Oh, that's a good ball! If Yao Ming did not score, Zhang Zhi could also justify himself: "This ball is played reasonably, the ball is passed to Yao Ming, although it is not scored, but it should be played like that."
Therefore, Zhang Reasonable was born in the mantra of "reasonable" and "unreasonable" in these countless explanations.
And the most popular thing for fans should be Zhang's love for Kobe's bottomless, unprincipled, and unlimited, and there is a saying that "when he loves to a certain extent, he will do everything right." It seems that this sentence has been fulfilled here in Zhang Guidance.
There are also good fans who summarize Zhang's explanation of Kobe Bryant:
Kobe Scored, And Director Zhang would say, "Look at Kobe Bryant, how to play and how to have." Kobe Bryant did not enter, Zhang Guidance would firmly say "although not in, but you have to fight like this." If a teammate scores, Zhang must first record Kobe's contribution as "This is Kobe's assist." But what if a teammate doesn't make it in? This, this.
If the teammates make mistakes, Zhang Guide, as a commentator, will give the point of view in time, "These teammates are really in no state!" ”。 But when Kobe Bryant makes a mistake, Zhang May not have time to comment, and then enter the next link", "Come, let's see the winning audience".
In this way, "Wei ping bryant" became the first of many nicknames for Zhang's director, and it seems that there is no more classic and popular than this.
Since the 1990s, Zhang has been active at the top of the Chinese basketball circle, from CCTV's "Basketball Classroom", to the NBA and CBA game live broadcast commentary, special guests, from Xinhua News Agency's "Sports Express" "Watch guide" columnist, NBA time and space columnist, and then to Sohu website basketball columnist.
After decades of hard work, as well as professional and unique wonderful commentary, Zhang Has become a giant and elder in the Chinese basketball commentary industry, you can feel the happiness and excellent viewing experience in the game he explains, he is very professional and serious when he explains the game, but you can always feel a strong sense of funny, and from time to time you will laugh.
Zhang's state of "everyone wakes up and I am drunk alone" has become the reason why everyone loves him.
What may shock many young fans is that in addition to the success of commentary and writing articles, Zhang Coach was also quite accomplished in the player era, and his historical contribution to the Chinese men's basketball team and his position in the national team were unparalleled at the time.
Unfortunately, it was not the right time.
In the glorious 1970s, most chinese families did not have televisions, let alone mobile phones and computers. In the eyes of the vast majority of Chinese fans, Liu Yudong, Battle, Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming is the representative of Chinese basketball, but also the meritorious name of Chinese basketball, there is no doubt that the globalization of the Internet and the advent of smart electronic products have become the booster for these heroes to become superstars and get huge attention.
But before the 1980s, fans could only understand and pay attention to those who regarded international competitions as a mission and mission, but they made no less contributions and sacrifices than those who came after them.
Zhang Weiping, Wu Xinshui, Mu Tiezhu, Zheng Haixia, Kuang Lubin, etc. are all historical celebrities who have been so popular on the Internet. Therefore, leading to the mention of Mu Tiezhu now, the young man looked dazed, "Uncle Mu? Rockets? And when it comes to Director Zhang—oh, the narrator.
To be honest, it's sad indeed. In fact, as a young generation of basketball fans in China, we should pay attention to and remember the celebrities of the older generation who have contributed, rather than opening our mouths to Davis and shutting james.
Well, having said so much, many people will be impatient - where is Zhang's guidance excellent, and is it worth my flaunting?
That's not really bragging. When he was young, Zhang had a nickname called "Magician Under the Basket", and this nickname first appeared in foreign newspapers.
The NBA also appeared later a "magician", this is the Lakers star Johnson, the reason why it is called, because Johnson often unexpectedly send wonderful passes in the game, you have no idea how he stuffed the ball over, like magic.
And our Zhang guidance of the "magic under the basket" is because he often uses some back turns, fake actions, false swings, left and right bows, pick the basket, throw, hook and so on a series of dazzling offensive methods, the opponent simply can not predict the next step he will end on which side, Zhang guidance often in the defender flying in mid-air to save a space, the light layup score to complete the score.
His height was only 1.93 meters, the same height as Guo Allen now, but Zhang Zhizhi had always played a big forward (then called a two-center center), who was the first center at that time? 2 meters 28 Mu Tie Pillar! The height difference is 35 centimeters, and this reflects Zhang's unparalleled physical fitness and scoring ability.
So so "fancy", Zhang Guidance should be able to score a lot of points per game, right?
Yes, Zhang was the deserved scoring champion in the national team, and the 1978 World Championships were Zhang's fame battle.
The 1978 World Championships in Manila was the first Basketball World Championships that China participated in, and it was also the first World Championships in which Zhang participated, and Zhang was also the standard-bearer of the Chinese delegation at the World Championships.
The first game against the American strong team Brazil men's basketball team, the Chinese men's basketball team did not have half a point of strength, and finally lost 57 points at 97 to 154, the first taste of defeat, the unfavorable Chinese team suffered a blow, that game Zhang guidance only got 11 points.
In the second leg, puerto Rico China had the strength to win, but still lost the game by 3 points, and zhang zhizhi scored 28 points in this game. In the third game against European powerhouse Italy, the Chinese team suffered three consecutive defeats, and Zhang Zhizhi scored only 14 points.
After being eliminated in the group stage, it was time for the qualifying round to play South Korea (now South Korea) China for the first time, Zhang Zhi scored 30 points, played Czechoslovakia, Zhang Zhi scored another 35 points, and the next two games against Senegal and Dominica, scored 27 points and 32 points respectively.
After seven games, the Chinese team ranked 11th with 2 wins and 5 losses, which is the first time that the Chinese men's basketball team has played in the World Championship. Zhang, on the other hand, averaged 25.2 points per game, second in the world championship scoring list, behind the Czechoslovak player's 26.9 points.
Zhang's 25.2 points dominated the scoring record of Chinese players at the World Championships for a long time, until 28 years later, at the 2006 Japan Men's Basketball World Championships, Yao Ming broke Zhang's record with a slight advantage of 25.3 per game.
It is worth mentioning that until now, in the men's basketball world championship average scoring record, Zhang Zhi is still ranked third.
What needs to be explained here is that in the 70s, basketball did not have a three-point line, and the offensive time was also 30 seconds, so in this case, it was not easy for Zhang Tou to average 25.2 points per game, and it was not something that ordinary people could do.
In fact, in addition to his outstanding personal scores, Zhang also used to be the core of the Chinese men's basketball team to break the rule of the Philippines and dominate Asia for the first time. In the Asian Championships (known as the Asian Cup after 2015), Asia's top event, Zhang Weiping helped China win the asian championship in 1975 and 1977, and then led the team to win the 1978 Asian Games championship, completing the asian championship three consecutive championships.
It was also from that meeting that the Chinese men's basketball team began to establish its hegemony in Asia.
We did not find more game data, but in a 1977 essay to obtain the data of some players in the Asian Championship, the following figure is the data of the 9 games played by the Chinese team in that tournament, Zhang Zhizhi scored the first place of the national team in 180 points, and scored about 20 points per game, there is no doubt that he is the strongest offensive firepower of the national team, and he is also the well-deserved leader of the national team.
The reason why the Chinese men's basketball team was able to dominate Asia in the 70s was that Zhang zhi should be the first to do.
Not only that, but there was also an informal Sino-American basketball game worth mentioning, which was in 1979. At that time, the U.S. team, which was composed of all-American collegiate star players, came to China to play a number of friendly matches, including the Bayi men's basketball team, the Shanghai men's basketball team and the Beijing men's basketball team.
At that time, the Bayi team led by Mu Tiezhu twice defeated the American team and shocked the world basketball world, but unfortunately, Zhang Weiping's Beijing men's basketball team that played at that time lost the game 78-103, although the team lost, zhang Weiping played a crazy performance, one person scored 35 points, and there was no one in the American college star.
So, there is no doubt that Director Zhang was successful when he was young, and if he were to put it in the present, he would be a superstar, but who would have thought that Director Zhang would later become a famous basketball commentator, and who could have imagined that Director Zhang, who is now funny and humorous in front of the TV, used to be a stadium BUG that defeated the invincible hand in the world.
There are no unprovoked successes, and there are no unprovoked failures.
Maybe we only see the success of Coach Zhang in both player and commentator positions, but we don't know the hardships and efforts he has put in.
Take basketball, for example, the reason why Zhang Can play a second center at a height of 193 is actually because his physical fitness is too good. Mention the strange word Chinese flying man, can catch up with the song Tao, who entered the national team in 1984 and was later selected as the "China Good Man List" because of his passion for charity for 30 years, he has a height of 208, and his head can be flush with the basket when dunking.
If he can be called a Chinese flyer, then Zhang Zhi should be the first generation of Chinese flyers.
Zhang's vertical jump reached 100 centimeters, and during training, he easily staged difficult technical actions such as aerial relay, two-hand buckles, and large windmills. In the words of an old fan, "Zhang Weiping of that meeting is actually the most similar to the later NBA Barkley, although the height is not high, the outside line has an outside line, the inside line has an inside line, the physical fitness is outstanding, and the inside line can rampage." ”
The reason why Zhang Can do this is that the secret is only hard training.
It is said that Zhang often trained with weightlifters, and at that time there was no professional training, only "full squat, bench press, hard lift", when his maximum squat weight was 200 kg, and the hard lift weight also reached 160 kg. Even though Zhang coached at the age of 37 and served as an assistant coach of the national team, no one in the whole team could beat him in the bench press at that time, and when he returned to China at the age of 50 to work at IMG (International Management Group), he never lost the wrist with a large number of CBA players.
Zhang's physical fitness is shameful, and this is the foundation of Zhang Weiping's ability to be small and broad on the court, scoring like a probe, obviously, his super athletic ability is not born, but through a little training.
Zhang once published an article in the People's Daily on May 22, 1983, entitled "Hard Work Makes Up for My Deficiencies", which had a very interesting description:
"There is a Chinese saying: stupid birds fly first. My physical condition is not good, and I can't solve the problem by relying on the unified training sessions in the team, so I can only redouble my efforts. I set myself the task of practicing strength for half an hour after each training session. Strength training is very boring and tiring, and the body has to bear a great load intensity. I remember after a large exercise training class, I was so tired that I didn't want to take a step. Still practicing strength? I was lying on the floor, my mind fighting.
At that time, I really wanted to take a hot shower and rest. But then I think about it, isn't this breaking the rules you have set? Practicing less may have little impact, but once this kind of thinking grows, practice less today and practice less tomorrow, you will have to abandon your previous achievements! Every time you bite your teeth, your body is one point stronger, and every time you add a lesson, you take a step towards standing firm in the three-second zone. Thinking of this, I climbed up with a bone, it was really strange, my body was not so tired, and my steps were much easier. ”
After retiring from the army, Zhang also had a hard time in the United States, while working part-time in the university librarian, but also working as a trainer in the college team, in his own words, "The job is to carry an ice bucket, sit on the edge of the driving range, and whoever has an injury rushes up to deal with it for others." There are also foot bindings for athletes, and whoever has an injury will go to care for whom. The job only pays five thousand five hundred dollars a year, which is an unbelievably low wage. ”
Later, he also worked as a market researcher in Tsingtao Beer, and at the same time made money by teaching basketball, in short, it is these rich experiences that allow Zhang to talk in front of tens of millions of viewers, and his success is inseparable from the hard work behind the glory.
Today, Zhang Is still active in the forefront of the commentary competition, the latest dynamic in his personal network account is still August 23, commemorating Kobe Bryant's happy 43rd birthday video, in the copy he wrote a poem "Acquaintance is not yet eighteen, fledgling Peter Pan, more than twenty years often accompanied, happy birthday black mamba!" ”
The times are changing, the players are changing, but Zhang Guidance will never change, as long as he opens his mouth, our youth and nostalgia will never grow old, although Zhang Guidance is old, but his voice accompanies our green years.
And now, in addition to those stars on the pitch, it is time for us to re-examine the position of Zhang Director in our hearts, at least in my opinion, why is he not the kind of superstar worthy of our study and pursuit?
Maybe he is the most successful and popular domestic commentator, maybe he is a super scorer who is blinded by the light of the commentary career, or maybe Zhang Coaching itself is the real body of success, and the commentary and basketball are just externalized.
Learn from Zhang Guidance, may Zhang Guidance always be happy.
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