Yang Yi, a well-known basketball commentator, once talked about a phenomenon, Yang Yi believes that in the field of modern basketball (China), there is a clear trend, most of the children in the age group of 12 to 15 years old, there is no significant basketball talent children have given up, but the remaining talented children are not all persevered
Yang Yi bluntly said that these parents have money and resources, which directly determines that their children have more choices than other peers, so these children are most likely to persevere
Yang Yi also deliberately took the CBA as an example, he claimed that among the Chinese basketball players 10 or 20 years ago, almost all of them were from ordinary families, but now most of the young players in the CBA are a group of people with very superior family conditions, Yang Yi bluntly said that although this reflects more unfairness, but on the other hand, the economic strength of parents does determine whether children can give it a go and chase their basketball dreams without scruples, and Gong Juntong, the son of Gong Xiaobin, a famous basketball player in Shandong who has recently become popular, is the best example
Why Gong Juntong has suddenly become popular in the near future, on the one hand, Gong Juntong inherited his father's excellent basketball genes, he was only 15 years old and reached a height of 2.08 meters, and performed well in the top AUU league in the United States, helping the team to win all the way, and Gong Juntong also won the championship with the team last year
On the other hand, because Gong Juntong's family conditions are very good, he is currently studying at Bishop Montgomery High School, one of the five largest private high schools in Los Angeles, USA, and more importantly, due to the resources of his family, Gong Juntong is now being trained by former NBA champion player and two-time NBA block king Ibaka, so Gong Juntong is the group of Chinese children who can persist to the end and chase their dreams without scruples
Fifteen-year-old Gong Juntong is currently studying at Montgomery Bishop High School in the United States, which is a famous private high school in Los Angeles, the school is not only rigorous and beautiful, but also the first batch of Google Reality Teaching pilot schools in the United States, with an annual tuition fee of 53,500 US dollars, which is equivalent to about 380,000 yuan! More importantly, Montgomery Bishop High School has a long reputation in basketball, and in the past 40 years, Montgomery Bishop High School has won a total of 40 league championships
So Gong Juntong, who has a height advantage since he was a child, has made rapid progress since he came here, and won the championship with the team last year, in this year's American AUU League, the last two games Gong Juntong's scores were 12 points and 4 assists and 11 points and 6 assists, Gong Juntong has made great progress at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, in addition to having excellent footsteps under the basket, the defensive end is sending out big hats one after another, judging from the videos exposed on social media, Gong Juntong's singles characteristics under the basket are very similar to Wang Zhizhi in his youth, frequently using his feet to complete offensive scoring, and more importantly, Gong Juntong has practiced an excellent passing ability in the summer
Different from the traditional center, Gong Juntong can not only send wonderful assists under the basket, the baseline and the top of the arc, he even used the hook to score key goals to help the team drag the game into overtime, and finally help the team successfully win, which is a difficult type to see in our domestic center position, and even now there are American scouts who claim that Gong Juntong should develop towards Jokic!
In addition, Gong Juntong also began to receive training from Ibaka in private, so if he continues to work high passing and basket footsteps, he is only 15 years old now, and there is a high probability that his height will exceed 2.10 meters in the future
Gong Juntong is what Yang Yi called "a gifted child whose family can absolutely support", especially Gong Juntong's father Gong Xiaobin, as a legend of the Chinese men's basketball team, Gong Xiaobin has excellent footwork skills under the basket, as early as this year's Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame speech, Wang Zhizhi revealed that he was proud of his one-to-one step technique in the past, which was actually learned from Gong Xiaobin
So in the future, Gong Xiaobin's son Gong Juntong must be better than him, first of all, Gong Juntong's height has surpassed his father's, and secondly, in addition to inheriting his father's skills, Gong Juntong also received more professional professional basketball training in the United States.
Editor: Tang Bohu