Yesterday told the story of the new post-90s player Han Xu entering the WNBA, but when it comes to meaningful players in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team, you will not be unaware of Miao Lijie's name, and today let's take a look at the story of Miao Lijie, the national player of the women's basketball team.
Since the establishment of the women's basketball team, Miao Lijie has always been one of the most outstanding outside players, and has led the Chinese team to create countless brilliant times, among which the most special commemorative is the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Chinese team to reach the final four. In that competition, the Chinese women's basketball team created the best olympic results in the past 16 years, and Miao Lijie himself won the championship scoring championship with an average contribution of 17.9 points per game. After that, the women's basketball team never reached that height again. In this way, after several ups and downs, Miao Lijie also gradually grew into the core of the generation of the Chinese women's basketball team.
Miao Lijie has had the personality of a boy since he was a child, and under the influence of his family, Miao Lijie has developed a strong interest in basketball. Due to his dedication and talent in basketball, Miao Lijie was selected for the national team in 1997 at the age of 16. From the Asian Championship champion, the Asian Games champion, and then to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to create the best result of the Chinese women's basketball team in 16 years, Miao Lijie is one of the participants and witnesses. As the saying goes, the soldiers who fight iron in the camp and the water, but here in Miao Lijie, it is the soldiers who fight the water in the camp.
The head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team has been constantly changing with the league, but only Miao Lijie has always been that fixed number, and for such a great athlete, it can be said that no amount of praise can be exaggerated. Mach, the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, once commented on Miao Lijie: "She is a good example for Chinese basketball, and Miao Lijie has shown the world the level of Chinese basketball. ”
At the 1998 World Championships, the Chinese women's basketball team fell behind Sun Shan, and the following year's Asian Championships they ended in fourth place in a defeat, and also lost the qualification for the Sydney Olympic Games. In the key battle, Miao Lijie and Chen Bing even lost the penalties that determined the fate of the key, and this fiasco also became a trauma that Miao Lijie had been difficult to heal in his heart. In 1999, Gong Luming, a returnee, led the Chinese women's basketball team to taste the guts and opened the climb of the Chinese women's basketball team from the trough to the peak. After Miao Lijie also won the sixth place in the Chinese team at the Nanjing World Championships in 2002, Miao Lijie also became the core of the Chinese team. However, the Chinese women's basketball team, which was in the ascending stage, suffered a heavy setback two years later, and the Chinese team was suppressed by the New Zealand team at the Athens Olympic Games and eliminated outside the quarterfinals.
In order to be able to play at the Beijing Olympic Games
Can be shamed before the snow, Miao Lijie began a new four years of hard work. In 2005, Miao Lijie joined the American Women's Professional Basketball League and became a member of the Sacramento women's basketball team, with which he won the championship that year. The experience of breaking through in the WNBA allowed Miao Lijie to broaden his horizons and see the world's highest level of women's basketball league. The arrival of "foreign coach" Mach is also helping the Chinese women's basketball team to gradually integrate with the world, although they ranked twelfth at the 2006 World Championships in Sao Paulo, Miao Lijie and the Chinese women's basketball team were not discouraged, and their goal was the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
In 2009, Miao Lijie announced the news of his retirement from the national team on his personal blog, but due to the needs of the country and the reluctance to basketball, after the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, the 2011 World Championships in Japan, and the 2012 London Olympic Games, Miao Lijie has been insisting and has been leading the Chinese women's basketball team to move forward. 16 years of national team career, so that Miao Lijie has no regrets. But only in terms of personal honors, a chinese women's professional league championship ring is missing.
On March 22, 2011, Beijing time, in the fifth game of the 2010-2011 WCBA Finals, the Shenbu women's basketball team defeated the Guangdong women's basketball team 65-64 at home, and won the WCBA championship for the first time with an aggregate score of 3-2. Miao Lijie's consecutive attacks in the last minute became the key to Shen Bu's victory in this game. The Shenbu women's basketball team has also become the third team to win the championship after Bayi and Liaoning in the history of the WCBA in ten years, miao Lijie has played 33 times this season, averaging 33 minutes per game, and contributing 23 points and 3.3 rebounds per game to Shenbu.
After winning the competition, Miao Lijie cried with joy, and this moving moment was not only very emotional. Miao Lijie spent time witnessing the "bloody rain" of the women's basketball professional league, from the regular season most valuable player to the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player, from the three-point king, the assist king to the scoring king, Miao Lijie won all the personal honors. However, it was an era when Liaoning and Bayi took turns to sit in the village, Miao Lijie in the Heilongjiang team has always had no chance of winning the championship, after the 2008 Olympic Games, miao Lijie, who is nearly 30 years old, is facing the "torture" of retirement, but Miao Lijie finally persevered out of the desire for the championship.
In 2009, Miao Lijie joined the Shenbu women's basketball team, her goal is only one, that is, to win the long-awaited championship in Shenbu, but in the 2009-10 season, the team lost to Henan in the semifinals, and the temporary stranding of the dream inspired a greater fighting spirit. In the 2010-11 season, the Shenbu women's basketball team passed the hurdles, Miao Lijie let the fans see a veteran who is very eager to win, she can fight until she can cramp, she can score crazy, and she is countless times to turn the tide. Whether on the field or off the field, Miao Lijie can be described as a model for the whole team of the Shenbu women's basketball team. Honor always belongs to those who never give up, and Miao Lijie's dream of winning the championship in his ten-year league career has finally come to a successful end.
In 2014, Miao Lijie officially announced his retirement and became the head coach of the Shenbu women's basketball team, this time Miao Lijie really left her beloved arena. After the merger of the Shenbu women's basketball team and the Bayi women's basketball team, Miao Lijie did not continue to serve as the head coach of the team. Instead, he served as the head coach of the People's Liberation Army Youth Team and concurrently served as the head coach of the Chinese national U15, taking root in youth training, cultivating more young talents for the Chinese women's basketball team, and making his own contributions to Chinese basketball.