In fact, when Li Xiaoxu just returned in the preseason, he wanted to write an article about Li Xiaoxu, but he was lazy all the time, and he was delayed. But after watching a few games, I couldn't help it. To tell the truth, before I wanted to write Li Xiaoxu may be because of the feelings, but now I am really subdued by Li Xiaoxu, don't look at li Xiaoxu's data in a few games, but what is brought to the Liaoning team is far more than the data reflected.
If I had to choose one word to describe Li Xiaoxu, I could only come up with one word—magic. He started playing in the CBA at the age of 15 and became the youngest player in CBA history, the first post-90s player, magical. At the age of 26, he became the CBA's all-time frontcourt rebounding king, magical. Having experienced a ruptured Achilles tendon and torn cruciate ligament, the two most feared injuries of athletes can still return to the field, miraculous. That's all well and the most amazing thing is how he knew the rebounds were going to fall there.
I think many people are familiar with Li Xiaoxu's biography, and even some fans know more than me, so I don't take up too much space here. Let's say that Li Xiaoxu experienced injuries, physical tests before the season in 2016, suffered a major injury with a ruptured Achilles tendon, and suffered a major injury such as a cruciate ligament tear in 2020. It can be said that these two injuries are nightmares for an athlete, and any kind of injury may destroy an athlete.
But Li Xiaoxu is a small strong who can't die, the Achilles tendon is broken, the rest is back after a year, the cruciate ligament is torn, rest for another year, and it comes back. To be honest, when Li Xiaoxu's cruciate ligament was torn, I even thought that Li Xiaoxu would retire. Because he started with a ruptured Achilles tendon at the age of 26, came back, injured, came back, injured, and just played eight games before he suffered another cruciate ligament tear, by this time he was 30 years old.
In those four years, he has not played a full season, and more than half of his time has been spent in injuries, which can be said to be from the double suffering of body and mind. You know, this should have been the best four years for athletes, which is the so-called peak period. However, Li Xiaoxu's peak period has been fighting against injuries, and it is hard to come back, and it is this kind of serious injury, at least to recuperate for a year, which is even more mentally than physical.
Here we want to briefly explain why injuries such as ligaments and Achilles tendons can almost ruin your career, because in addition to losing some of your motor ability, the most important thing is that the body structure and changes have occurred, and some of the muscle memories you have developed before have not worked, so you not only have to re-develop some muscle memories, but also forget a lot of previous muscle memories. Coupled with psychological factors, many athletes will be devastated after suffering such injuries.
Moreover, everyone knows the situation of Li Xiaoxu, that is a real rich second generation, and there is really a mine at home. He doesn't need to make money by playing at all, and if his family is happy, he can even buy an NBL team to play by himself, which can also continue his love of basketball, so I stand in the perspective of a person who gave up his sports career because of injury, and I really can't think of any reason why Li Xiaoxu will stick to it.
I remember a senior saying to me: But all the athletes who can succeed are not ordinary people, they are crazy. Maybe only this sentence can explain the reason why Li Xiaoxu can come back after experiencing Achilles tendon rupture and ligament tearing, if it is an ordinary person, he may have left a long time ago, but Li Xiaoxu is not an ordinary person, he is a crazy person with a side head and a tail, so he can come back.
But these are not the most magical places in Li Xiaoxu in my opinion, as we all know, although Li Xiaoxu is also a relatively comprehensive four position when he was young, but the most brilliant place is rebounding, "domestic magic beast" and "rebounding monster" is synonymous with Li Xiaoxu's peak, the domestic rebounding king for several consecutive seasons, what is more terrible is that more than 40% of his rebounding data is frontcourt rebounding, and at the age of 26, Li Xiaoxu became the CBA historical frontcourt rebounding king.
But at that time, you see Li Xiaoxu grabbing rebounds, more or rely on his physical conditions, whether it is height, arm span and other physical static conditions, Li Xiaoxu is the top existence in the fourth position, bounce and speed is also the top existence among the yellow race, and there is also the existence of heavy tank Han Dejun, so many people think that Li Xiaoxu is more prominent in rebounding.
That now Li Xiaoxu, after experiencing two major injuries that were enough to ruin his sports career, really did not run fast, jumped not high, and can really be said to have lost the athletic ability at his peak. But from his recent games, his rebounding ability is still very strong, although Yang Ming should still be controlling his playing time, but in the few playing time, he can always grab some incredible frontcourt rebounds.
The reason why it is strange is because it is not so much that the frontcourt rebounds are grabbed, but rather that they are picked up. He is no longer like the blood-pumping rush of his youth, but like a boss, wandering around, and then the basketball just fell to the position where he wandered past, effortlessly brushing a frontcourt rebound. That kind of rebound grab, even if you're watching the ball alone, you'll be surprised and shout out "How is he there?" ”
And careful friends may find that although the Liaoning men's basketball team has reached the finals in the past two seasons where there is almost no Li Xiaoxu, they have suffered losses in rebounding in most games, and more are still relying on steals to get back more balls. But after Li Xiaoxu returned this season, although Li Xiaoxu's rebounds contributed in each game were not too much, the total rebounds of the Liaoning team were greatly ahead of the opponent, as if as long as Li Xiaoxu was there, the ability of teammates to grab rebounds was blessed.
This may be the legendary rebounding consciousness, in fact, rebounding is also a talent, although it is said that relying on hard work to grab more rebounds, but there are some people, even he himself can not say why, but he just knows where the ball can bounce. It may seem mysterious to say, but if you play a lot, you should know what I'm talking about, and sometimes steals are a truth.
Li Xiaoxu is this kind of person, he just has this magical ability, this man who has run the word magic throughout his career, after giving up an Achilles tendon and a cruciate ligament, he can still continue this magic. Maybe he's the legendary lunatic.