Yao Ming once commented on Coach Qian Chenghai: "Mr. Qian Chenghai's biggest influence on us is not only his superb coaching skills, but also the courage he shows in the face of setbacks in life. ”
Qian Chenghai served as the captain of the national team for 11 years and the coach of the national team for 16 years, won 7 Asian championships for the Chinese men's basketball team, and also invented tactics such as "turning and jumping", "emergency stop jumper" and "full-court pressing", which have made indelible contributions to Chinese basketball and even world basketball.
Director Qian is an optimist, and when he lost his first leg by a malignant tumor in his later years, he laughed frankly: "I have a new leg." When he lost his second leg, he laughed and said: "What is sad? According to the doctor, you see that I have overserved my service!", laughing at life, he fought bone cancer for seven years, and died on April 24, 2008, at the age of 74.
At the memorial ceremony of Director Qian, leading comrades such as Cai Zhenhua, Yuan Weimin, and Li Yuanwei, coaches such as Li Qiuping, A Dijiang, and Min Lulei of the CBA, and basketball enthusiasts such as actor Zhang Fengyi and Marshal He Long's two daughters, He Xiaoming and He Liming, were present to bid farewell to Qian Gui and deeply cherish his memory.
Now that Qian Chenghai has passed away for 15 years, the story he left behind will still be passed on forever, welcome everyone to read the story of Qian Chenghai's guidance, and Kong Yiji, who does not like to steal books, appreciate the personality charm of Qian Chenghai!
01 Qian Chenghai's "Three Magic Weapons"
In 1934, when basketball settled in Shanghai, Qian Chenghai came into being, and a good story in Chinese basketball began.
Qian Chenghai began to contact basketball at a very young age, and was selected for the Guangzhou Zhongnan Navy basketball team in 1952, which was a major turning point in Qian Chenghai's basketball career, where Qian Chenghai, who was good at using his brain to play, was systematically trained and embarked on the road of professional basketball.
In 1954, Qian Chenghai was selected into the Navy Basketball Team of the Military Commission because of his outstanding performance in the Central South Navy Basketball Team, although he received formal training relatively late, but Qian Chenghai played smart, worked hard, and soon became an offensive and defensive athlete, leading the Navy Basketball Team to defeat the national runner-up Shanghai team many times, so in 1955 was selected as the national champion Bayi team.
At that time, the Bayi men's basketball team was on the east side of Tiananmen Square, because the court was open-air, and the snow had to be swept away first for every training, and the conditions were difficult, but it also created the excellent court style of the Bayi men's basketball team, and also made the Bayi men's basketball team a surprise in the history of Chinese basketball.
In 1956, Qian Chenghai, who performed well in the Bayi men's basketball team, was selected into the national team, in the friendly match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the former Soviet Union, Qian Chenghai, who was 1.82 meters tall, faced the former Soviet giants with an average height of 2 meters, and frequently threw the ball through the turn jump shot, scoring 30 points alone, and soon after, Qian Chenghai was recognized by FIBA as the inventor of the turn jump shot.
Qian Chenghai, who came to the national team, gave full play to his shrewd and dexterous side, and quickly became the soul of the national team, and served as the captain, and always played well in the face of tall foreign strong teams in domestic and foreign competitions, so he became the first batch of athletes in the country in 1957, and won many awards from Comrade He Long, then director of the Sports Committee.
In 1959, the Chinese men's basketball team with Qian Chenghai as the core successively defeated Hungary, the former Soviet Union and other teams ranked in the top three and four in the world, which made the entire world basketball world inspired, and Qian Chenghai also won the title of "National Sports Model" named after Comrade He Long, and Comrade He Long personally presented the award to Qian Chenghai.
At that time, the Chinese men's basketball team did not have an advantage in height, weight, and confrontation, but Qian Chenghai and others summed up the coping strategy: first, to implement full-court pressing, so that the opponent's big man would lose the other; second, to push the fast attack, taking advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold, to attack him unprepared; third, Qian Chenghai's invention of the emergency stop jump shot, so that the opponent's big man could not be guarded.
"Fast, rushing, jumping", these are the three magic weapons left by Qian Chenghai and other old-timers to the younger generations of Chinese basketball, but it is a pity that the descendants do not fight and insult the sages, but let the European and American teams get the first opportunity, use it handily, and set off a basketball storm.
Because of the outstanding performance of Qian Chenghai and others, Chinese basketball has entered the first peak, becoming a sport that is not less popular than table tennis, and has been highly valued by the superior leaders, at the state banquet in 1959, Marshal He Long, who is in charge of sports, introduced Qian Chenghai to Premier Zhou like this: "He is the captain, he is a party member, when there is a difficulty on the court, he can solve it when he goes up." ”
In the era when Qian Chenghai and others dominated the basketball world, the information media was not developed, and we could not trace Qian Chenghai's basketball career in depth, but it was highly appreciated by many great sages and recognized by FIBA, which shows the high level of basketball of Coach Qian Chenghai.
Moreover, the techniques created by Qian Chenghai when he was a player such as turning jump shots, emergency stop jump shots, full-court pressing, and hitting the ground are still widely used and are still the mainstream of basketball.
As a disciple of Qian Chenghai, Director Zhang Weiping once commented on Qian Chenghai: "To this day, he is the best core defender in our country, and his passing is really incomparable." ”
02 Coached the national team for 16 years and summed up the golden rules
When he was a player, the men's basketball team did not participate in official international competitions, so Coach Qian Chenghai's skills had nowhere to show, but after officially becoming the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team in 1972, Coach Qian finally had a stage to display his talents.
In 1974, when the Chinese sports delegation returned to the Asian Games, Coach Qian led the Chinese men's basketball team to play a good performance when it first appeared on the international stage, winning a bronze medal and winning high praise in the Asian basketball world.
Although he did not win the championship, Qian Chenghai was not discouraged, because he always remembered Premier Zhou's earnest teachings to Premier Zhou when he reported to Premier Zhou when the men's basketball team lost in 1961: "What are you laughing at? There is no general who does not lose the battle? Victory and defeat are commonplace, and it is impossible to lose the battle." "
In 1975, Coach Qian led the Chinese men's basketball team to make a comeback in Bangkok, Thailand, when it was very hard, because of the lack of experience in the game, was bullied by South Korea (South Korea), they used a variety of ruthless moves to sneak attack our center Zhang Dawei, and some South Korean expatriates even got out of the fight, but this still could not prevent the Chinese men's basketball team from winning the first Asian championship and starting the journey of dominating Asian basketball.
From 1972 to 1988, Qian coached the men's basketball team for 16 consecutive years, winning five Asian Championships (1975, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1987), two Asian Games titles (1978, 1986), and also led the team to the ninth place in the World Championships in 1986 (when 24 teams participated).
Under the command of Qian Gui, the men's basketball team has become a "small and fast" team, and at the same time created the prototype of modern run-and-bomb tactics "chasing the opponent's butt and beating", it is with these two tactics that the Chinese men's basketball team was able to achieve the ninth place in the 1986 World Championships, refreshing the best record in the history of the World Championships at that time, and only the eighth place in the 1994 World Championships can be compared to it.
After that competition, the president of FIBA called the Chinese men's basketball team "the smartest team in the world", and foreign media also sent telegrams: "The Chinese men's basketball team has made a historic breakthrough in the world basketball arena, which is the dawn of the oriental basketball world." ”
At that time, there was no need to hand the ball to the referee after the foul, so Qian Gui this tactic of chasing the ass made the tall European and American teams unable to adapt, and the Chinese team had already thrown the ball into the basket before the big man turned around, so that he had to send a small lineup to play with the Chinese team.
In 1987, Qian Chenghai was elected as the chairman of the coaching committee, specifically introducing the tactics of "chasing the ass and beating", but he didn't expect to fall for the opponent's tricks, and they immediately revised the rules of basketball: after the player is fouled, the ball must be handed over to the referee, and the referee can only launch an attack after the referee returns the ball to the player.
Qian Chenghai is also the first coach to be in line with the NBA, he led the men's basketball team to the Bulls, Cavaliers, Pacers, Nets, Knicks, 76ers, Bullets (the predecessor of the Wizards) and other NBA teams in friendly games from September 24 to October 27, 1985.
Coach Qian Chenghai's on-the-spot adaptability is very strong and very smart, so he has cultivated a group of equally smart players, Zhang Weiping, Daniel Zhang Jun, Sun Fengwu, Gong Luming, Wang Libin...... Each of these players played like a human spirit, with great spirituality, and most of them later held important positions in the Chinese basketball world and achieved good results.
In terms of employing people, Qian Chenghai guidance is also eclectic, employing people without doubt, in-depth understanding of every player, high trust, and very good at mobilizing the enthusiasm of players, as early as the seventies began to implement the responsibility system, through the division of tasks, so that everyone understands their responsibilities, find their own value, and use the method of professional managers to manage the team, extremely advanced.
Even after his retirement, Coach Qian Chenghai still put forward many insights into Chinese basketball, and he put forward many insights in the 90s:
"If Chinese basketball no longer attaches importance to grassroots training, it will definitely suffer a big loss in the future!"
"Don't just pay attention to cultivating the big ones and not pay attention to the small ones, in another 10 years, there will be no good little ones, and you big ones will be tired to death!"
"You can't become a world strong team by relying on the outside line alone, only when the inside line is strong, and the combination of inside and outside, can you finally become a world strong team. ”......
It is a pity that none of the golden rules of Qian guidance have been effectively implemented...... It is really worthy of the spirit of the money to guide in the heavens.
03 Qian Gui is a spoiled wife and a fanatic, and he is also an optimist
Director Qian and his wife Zhang Xiaoxia met at a masquerade ball in 1955, when Director Qian was still a young member of the Bayi men's basketball team, and Zhang Xiaoxia was already the main player of the women's volleyball team.
At that time, love was simple and simple, the general courtship method was "knitting sweater tactics", Qian Gui's response has always been very fast, knowing that Zhang Xiaoxia had a good impression of herself, she immediately went to buy wool and asked Zhang Xiaoxia to help knit sweaters, and then frequently came to try sweaters and change sweaters.
At that time, love could not be talked about casually, and there must be a letter of introduction, but because Qian Chenghai had dropped out of school in his early years, and Zhang Haixia had always been a good girl, Zhang Xiaoxia's leaders did not agree to open a letter of introduction, but Qian Chenghai and Zhang Xiaoxia were very firm, and finally moved the leaders.
But both of them are athletes, and they don't see each other a few times a year, so most of them can only send lovesickness through Hongyan's affection, and sometimes Qian Gui has to write several letters a day, and teammate Lu Changxin makes fun of him: "You wrote a letter just now, why did you write it again? Where did you get so many love words?"
After getting married, Qian Chenghai has always taken care of Zhang Xiaoxia with his heart, every time he goes out to play a game, he must buy gifts, as long as he takes the initiative to cook at home, when eating fish, Qian Chenghai always gives the fish in the middle to his wife, and eats the fish tail full of fine bones, Zhang Xiaoxia has a toothache, Qian Chenghai boils porridge early in the morning every day, and personally brings it to the bed......
Zhang Xiaoxia often blames her husband: I'm not a child anymore, why do you want to take care of it so carefully......
And Qian Chenghai always responded with a smile: "There's no way, what you live is hard work, and you won't enjoy happiness." ”
Zhang Xiaoxia has always been very curious, Qian Chenghai is obviously from a merchant family, why can he do any rough work and fine work, and Qian Chenghai did not hide it, and said the tragic experience of his son, it turned out that Qian Chenghai's biological mother died early, and later the family was in a downturn, and his father married a stepmother and treated him badly, often bullied him, forced him to do all kinds of rough work, and even let him wash his feet......
But the tragic experience of his childhood did not make Qian Chenghai distorted, he has always been strict with himself, lenient with others, maintained an optimistic character, and laughed at life all his life.
In 1985, the Chinese men's basketball Asian Championship 5 consecutive championships were ended, and the players all got off the plane with black faces, but Qian Chenghai was full of smiles, and when he saw his wife Zhang Haixia coming to pick him up, he quipped: "You never took me when I won the game, but you came when you lost."
Because of the loss of the championship, Qian Gui received a lot of letters of condemnation from fans, one day, team member Wang Haibo came in with a letter of missing corners, Qian Chenghai asked him why he was missing a corner? Wang Haibo said hesitantly, this is a curse...... I'm afraid you'll be angry.
But Director Qian laughed: "You, you, you! If we lose the game, we are not allowed to be scolded? We represent the country, and if we lose, the fans will not react at all, and they will be indifferent.
In 2001, Qian Chenghai was diagnosed with bone cancer, when the doctor amputated his leg and told him that there was only one year left in his life, Qian Chenghai was still smiling and optimistic about life, when his family wanted to help him from the wheelchair to the seat, Qian Chenghai insisted, he said: "Don't treat me as a patient, look down on me." ”
Later, during chemotherapy, because Qian Chenghai had a large drug reaction, the doctor suspected that he did not take the medicine according to his weight, and Qian Chenghai joked with the doctor: "Are you not good at math, I didn't take the situation of my two legs into account, right?"
Qian Chenghai's open-mindedness and optimism surprised even doctors who had experienced thousands of surgeries and were deeply impressed by him.
2004 is the third year of Qian Chenghai's cancer, but also his 70th birthday, his disciples Zhang Weiping, Gong Luming, Sun Fengwu and others, as well as the Beijing Basketball Association, the Chinese Basketball Association many celebrities have come to celebrate, the old man is very optimistic, his wife Zhang Xiaoxia said with tears: "In the past 3 years, I have never seen him worried. Regardless of his condition, he has been tenacious and optimistic. ”
In 2006, Qian Chenghai's condition deteriorated, the cancer cells spread, and he had to amputate his other leg and his weight dropped to 30 kilograms, but he still used laughter to infect the people around him.
With his extraordinary open-mindedness, Qian Chenghai lived optimistically for seven years after being sentenced to death by doctors, and passed away at 2:45 a.m. on April 24, 2008.
04 The memorial service was star-studded, and the history of basketball will forever be famous
Director Qian Chenghai had two major regrets when he was dying, the first regret was that he could not see the last side of his two sons before he died.
The two sons are the pride of Qian Chenghai, every time he mentions his son, he always smiles, because of his height, he did not let his son play basketball, he said: "Basketball has developed to their time, the requirements for height continue to increase, according to the height estimate of our husband and wife, they cannot grow close to 2 meters, so from the beginning it was decided to let them study hard." ”
The two sons did not disappoint Qian Chenghai, they were admitted to a good university, and after graduation, they both went to the United States for further study, and finally stayed in the United States to work, shortly before Qian Chenghai's death, the two sons had just returned to China to visit, and after seeing that their father was unharmed, they returned to the United States to work, and immediately booked a plane ticket to rush back to China after learning that Qian Gui was critically ill, but unfortunately, they still failed to catch up to see the last ......
In 2007, the 73-year-old Qian Chenghai became the consultant of the men's basketball team, just like experiencing the Beijing Olympics at home, but I didn't expect that I couldn't wait until the last day.
On the day of the memorial service, the traffic leading to Babaoshan Cemetery was extremely congested, and the roadside vendors discussed: "Yo, why are there so many big men!"
Indeed, on that day, almost all the leading figures in the Chinese basketball world and even the sports world arrived, Cai Zhenhua, Yuan Weimin, Gong Luming, Zhang Weiping and a series of sports celebrities, as well as Marshal He Long's two daughters came to mourn and deeply cherish the guidance of Qian Chenghai, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and other national team cores also expressed their condolences to Qian Chenghai.
Gong Luming, who has led the men's basketball and women's basketball teams to achieve good results, mourned Coach Qian: "Anyone who knows the history of Chinese basketball knows that Coach Qian's death is a big loss for Chinese basketball. ”
At the memorial service, everyone cried silently, among which Qian Gui's New Year's "driver" (actually a taxi driver, Qian Gui has been beating his car), and even cried bitterly in the mourning hall, and his wife saw the video and said vigorously: "Your father is still here, why are you like this?"
Almost all of his life has been dedicated to Chinese basketball, and has made great contributions to Chinese basketball, his wisdom, open-mindedness, optimism, positivity, and serious spirit is a valuable asset, whether it is a basketball fan or not, we should remember such an old man.
At the start of the second round of the 2019 CBA playoffs, Yao Ming, chairman of the Basketball Association, presented Du Feng with the CBA's first "Chenghai Cup" (Best Coach in the Regular Season) award to commemorate Qian Chenghai's indelible contributions to Chinese basketball.
At the award ceremony, Director Qian's wife Zhang Xiaoxia also congratulated Du Feng through VCR: "Thank you to the Chinese Basketball Association for naming the Best Coach Award as 'Chenghai Cup', which is an affirmation of Director Qian's contribution to Chinese basketball during his lifetime. Congratulations to the winners for winning the first 'Chenghai Cup', and hope that the CBA League will get better and better. ”
In April 2023, the Chinese Basketball Association held the first induction ceremony of the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame, and Director Qian Chenghai became a special tribute figure of the ceremony, and Director Qian Chenghai will never be forgotten!
As Gong Luming said: "Whether it is in basketball or fighting against illness, Mr. Qian is always bringing hope to the people around him." ”
Qian Chenghai guides a life of chic and always smiles, I hope everyone can also be chic and smile all their lives!
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