The Paper's trainee reporter Hu Jie
Yang Shuyu, Zhang Zhiting, Wan Jiyuan, Wang Lili (from left to right).
When the three-person basketball officially appeared on the "Hall of Elegance" from the street, the girls of the Chinese three-person basketball left a strong mark on the Stage of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Olympic bronze medal, this is the Chinese basketball since the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, after 30 years to stand on the Olympic podium.
20 days later, when the members of the Chinese three-person women's basketball team were interviewed by the surging news reporter, the girls still stood on the podium holding hands with their hands.
Putting the honors on the past and revisiting the entire Tokyo Olympic cycle, head coach Xu Jiamin said: "We have achieved a certain amount, but we are not satisfied with these, and we can do better after that." ”
For the spirit of the women's basketball team, the girls' understanding is as follows: "Put the national honor in the first place, and it is stronger when it is strong." ”
After getting the bronze medal, the girls hugged each other and cried.
"Bronze Medal, Not Satisfied"
"We also started the three-man basketball program in 2018, taking our first national team to participate in international competitions in three-person basketball." In the view of head coach Xu Jiamin, although it is the same basketball project, three-person basketball is a completely new field.
In China, whether it is the entire team or the coaching staff, there is no experience to learn from, it is "crossing the river by feeling the stones". How to have core competitiveness in international competitions requires the whole team to summarize while preparing for the battle.
However, fortunately, at that time, the outside world did not put too much pressure on the three-person basketball, and more was to choose support.
In 2018, the Chinese Basketball Association set up a three-person basketball tournament in China, the champion team can form the core team of the national team to go to the Asian Cup, the Shanghai women's basketball team led by Xu Jiamin successfully broke through, formed the first three-person basketball national women's team, after absorbing outstanding athletes from other provinces and cities, this team debuted and won the runner-up of the Asian Cup.
"Later, we have also been using this idea in the preparation, integrating the benign competition within the team into the conventional preparation, and also enriching the basis for material selection." Xu Jiamin explained this to the surging news reporter.
Three-man women's basketball coach Xu Jiamin.
On the basis of the masses, the three-man basketball women's basketball team is far weaker than the men's basketball team. In order to prepare for the Tokyo Olympic Games, last season's WCBA League deliberately added a three-a-side basketball program to expand the selection range. Among them, Han Xu, Li Yueru and other national players have participated in the three-person basketball game.
During the period, the achievements of the three-person women's basketball team are also quite prominent - the 2018 Asian Games champion and the 2019 World Cup champion, which give the three-person women's basketball team more experience and confidence.
The repeated polishing of the lineup also made Xu Jiamin realize the core competitiveness of three-person basketball, "First of all, it is more aggressive, younger and more impactful on the court; secondly, it is necessary to have a more comprehensive personal technology in attack and defense ability, including extreme confrontation ability and anaerobic exercise ability." ”
On the stage of the Olympic Games, the three-man women's basketball team confirmed that the previous experience was feasible with a bronze medal.
However, in the eyes of the team, the Olympic bronze medal is not the end - Xu Jiamin told the surging news reporter: "We have achieved certain achievements, but we are not satisfied with these, and we can do better after that." ”
Wang Lili could not hide her tears.
"We still have room for improvement"
Whether it is Xu Jiamin or the members of the three-person women's basketball team, the most said word is the word "summary", which may be the "dissatisfaction" in Xu Jiamin's mouth.
When asked whether there is still room for improvement in Chinese three-person basketball, wang Lili, the "big sister" in the team, replied very firmly: "I think we still have room for improvement, because we are relatively young now, although there is a gap with the world's strongest teams, but there are also our strong points." ”
How young is the Chinese three-man women's basketball team?
Of the 8 three-player women's basketball teams that participated in the Olympics, only 2 of the 32 players were post-00s – Yang Shuyu and Wan Jiyuan of the Chinese team. Both were born in 2002, and Wan Jiyuan is still a college student.
"Three-person basketball is a high-intensity, anaerobic combination of a sport, the requirements for athletes are very high, a moment of judgment and adjustment is more important." Wang Lili introduced the characteristics of three-player basketball in this way.
This means that the accumulation of experience on the three-person basketball court needs time to precipitate.
Handsome Yang Shuyu.
However, the two young players still handed over a satisfactory answer - the two scored a total of 64 points in the group stage, accounting for half of the team.
Although the performance is not inferior, in the process of talking with the media, Wan Jiyuan will always find his own shortcomings first: "I am not too good to hold the ball, especially when I break through with the ball, the time of the force is not good, and the ball will bounce off." ”
In the interview, Yang Shuyu also used the words that Wan Jiyuan said - "down-to-earth".
After all, as Wang Lili said: "There is no eternal winner in the arena, and it is necessary to remain competitive in the future, and everyone has the most desired goal in their hearts to impact the gold medal." ”
Wang Lili and Yang Shuyu roared.
"We have the dreams of too many people"
The moment of winning the bronze medal in the victory over France still makes the three-person women's basketball captain Zhang Zhiting remember it vividly.
"One is four people hugging each other after the victory over France, and the other is four people standing hand in hand on the podium. I had been highly nervous before, but finally I released my emotions and made it unforgettable to stand on the podium through hard work. ”
As the most senior player in the team, Zhang Zhiting has worn the robe of the Chinese three-person women's basketball team since the 2018 Asian Cup. She also knows best the persistence and sacrifice of the three-man women's basketball team.
How much you paid for the Olympics, only the players know.
Late at night after the game, the head coach and the players sat around and said a lot of "confidant words", and Zhang Zhiting was interviewed with red eyes: "This bronze medal is a recognition of our years, we have shouldered the dreams of too many people. ”
The dream here is that there are those who can't go out with the team due to injury. Compared with the 2019 World Cup winning lineup, the three-person women's basketball team has undergone a major blood change, and there is a lot of helplessness in such a blood change - Wu Di underwent surgery because of the meniscal cyst in his left knee, and Jiang Jiayin was accidentally injured in the preliminary round of the National Games, diagnosed with a torn forte ligament.
Behind them, there are several lost team members. Xu Jiamin once sighed with tears: "Once the team members talked to me and cried, their consciousness is really quite high." Such a good player, but I could only take four in the end. “
Zhang Zhiting in the game.
"We also have the spirit of women's basketball"
The consciousness in Xu Jiamin's mouth is the calmness of the team members.
Wu Di, who did not go to Tokyo, faced the camera and said: "What you gain is what others lose, and what you lose is what others get." As long as the Olympic Games Chinese three-person basketball gets good results, no matter who goes, it will be the same. ”
And when the three-person women's basketball team stood on the podium, Jiang Jiayin sent a Weibo: "Maybe this is the spirit of three-person basketball." The women's volleyball team has the spirit of the women's volleyball team, and we also have our spirit. ”
Zhang Zhiting said that she later learned that Jiang Jiayin wrote these words in tears.
In that game, the women's basketball girls who stood on the podium took out a jersey that had been prepared for a long time, which had the names of all the three-person basketball training girls written on it - on the court of Tokyo's Qinghai City Park, they hung medals and held jerseys to take a group photo with Yao Ming.
Just under every name worth remembering, this group of women's basketball girls also wrote a sentence - "The country has us!" ”
When the problem of the spirit of the women's basketball team was thrown to the youngest Wan Jiyuan, she said very seriously: "We have also been following the pace of the women's basketball predecessors, putting the national honor in the first place, having the courage to challenge the opponent, and playing a stronger style when it is strong." ”
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