Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, said: Rich and noble do not return to their hometowns, such as jinyi walking at night. How many people have dreamed of returning home, such a plot is also a cool configuration even in the novel, and then a period of playing a pig and eating a tiger is really enjoyable.
The 21-22 CBA league schedule has begun to be revealed, and the preseason that will start in October has been first exposed, and it is interesting that when 6 cities compete for the CBA next season, Huizhou has quietly become the first city to start next season, although it is only a preseason.
In the CBA territory, Huizhou is well known by young fans because it is Xu Jie's hometown, born in Jiutan Lidong Village, Yuanzhou Town, Boluo County, Huizhou City, and is the first Huizhou player in the CBA. With the Guangdong men's basketball team re-ascending to the CBA throne, the Guangdong men's basketball team is truly native of the province, Xu Jie, the elf on the basketball court and his hometown, has been repeatedly mentioned by fans.
However, this time, Xu Jie could not catch the team bus back home.
The pre-season games held by huizhou division are only part of the CBA preseason, including 4 teams, Guangzhou Dragons and Lions, Qingdao Eagles, Shenzhen Navigators, and Tianjin Pioneers, so Xu Jie, who plays for Guangdong Hongyuan, will not have the opportunity to appear in front of his hometown fathers and elders. The preseason will begin on October 3-6, while the regular season will officially begin on the 16th.
Although he could not go home this time, in fact, before this, Xu Jie had already had two experiences of "returning to his hometown with wealth". The first time was in the summer of 2018, the Huizhou station of the International Youth Men's Basketball Yatras Series began on July 16 at the Peninsula Sports Convention and Exhibition Center in Huiyang District, Huizhou City, and Xu Jie appeared in front of thousands of hometown fathers and elders.
The 18-year-old Xu Jie was just a member of the Guangdong youth team at the time, and it was more than a month before he was confirmed to raise a team to play in the CBA. Atelas series has a total of China, the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania four youth teams to participate, Xu Jie was already the leader of the national youth backcourt at that time, his teammates are Wang Quanze, Guo Haowen, Jiang Weize, Shi Yanbo, Li Bairun, Jiang Haoran, Sun Xin and other players, Li Bairun, who plays for Shenzhen, should have revisited this summer, but not long ago he was claimed by Fubon and went to Ningbo.
Huizhou is not the first time to hold such a large-scale basketball event, as early as 2003, when the national youth men's basketball team composed of Yi Jianlian, Tang Zhengdong, Zhang Qingpeng, Yi Li and others played a warm-up game at the Huiyang Gymnasium with Guangdong Hongyuan, who had just jumped to the top of the CBA. After that, the national youth went to Greece to play in the World Youth Championships, coincidentally, 16 years later, Xu Jie and others once again challenged the World Youth Championships, and they actually went to Greece again.
In 2011, Huizhou once again held the Four Nations Youth Men's Basketball Championship, but that time the experience was not pleasant. After the 11th national youth lost in the friendly match in Huizhou, after the game, coach Fan Bin was furious in the locker room, and it was said that all the team members stayed in the locker room for a long time to train, and then punished the team members with running, which also caused Complaints from Wang Zirui, Luo Hanchen and others on personal social media.
The Guoqing "Blood Book Gate" eventually broke out, and Huizhou was the ignition of the long lead.
Guo Allen, Xu Tao, Li Muhao, Zhai Xiaochuan, Gu Quan, Ding Yanyuhang, Zhu Xuhang, Sun Tonglin, Luo Hanchen, Wang Zirui, Ju Xiaoxin, Wang Pu, Wang Zhelin, all the national youth players signed and issued a military advice, accusing the coach Fan Bin of malicious scolding. This incident caused a strong shock in the Chinese basketball world, some people lamented that the training method of Chinese basketball is still so backward, and some people bluntly said that the post-90s generation is too squeamish.
Except for Xu Tao, who only played the CBA for three years due to injury, and Wang Pu, a talented teenager who fell in Guangdong, the rest of the players have played their own piece of the world. Fan Bin admitted his mistake after the incident broke out and reconciled with the team members in a training session half a month later, and the team he coached in 2009 to win the Asian Youth Championship was still taken to Latvia to compete in the World Youth Championship.
In 2017, U16 Guoqing also came to Huizhou to play an exchange warm-up match, but only played with local teams. Xu Jie returned to his hometown in 2018 wearing the U18 national youth team jersey, at this time he is not unknown, as early as 16 years ago, he participated in the U17 World Youth Championship, and a year ago, as the main backcourt, he helped the Guangdong men's basketball team win the Youth Championship of the National Games and came to the fore.
However, in the end, it is still just a star of hope, Xu Jie did not cause much of a sensation when he returned home this time, he scored 13 points in the game, and after the national youth completed the warm-up task, he went to Thailand to prepare for the Asian Youth Championship. In the 2018 Asian Youth Third Place Scramble, the national youth and the Philippine narrow road met, Wang Quanze scored 27 points, Xu Jie contributed 18 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds, and only 1 mistake, the national youth snatched the U19 World Youth Championship tickets.
Back to Huizhou to compete, another year later.
In August 2019, Xu Jie and his hometown of Huizhou met, and this time it was finally the CBA. In fact, Huizhou is not the first time to intersect with the CBA League, as early as the 08-09 season, Guangdong Hongyuan had set up a second home stadium in Huizhou Stadium. On January 9, 2009, the first experience of the CBA at Huizhou Stadium was the hot derby, perhaps the most interesting Dongguan derby in history.
Du Feng, the two coaches who later coached Xu Jie, took the team's highest 25 points, but only 1 of 7 of three points. Xu Jie's coach in the youth team Qu Shaobin was actually already hanging up the exemption card at this time, he and Chen Jianghua, who was absent from the game, talked happily off the field, and more than a month later, the 23-year-old officially announced his retirement, turning all the regrets of his career into the enthusiasm of coaching young players, and a few years later, he met Xu Jie.
Years later, Guangdong played guangsha at home in Huizhou, and "Death" Smarsh Parker made his first appearance in front of home fans, starting for the first time, 28 points and 8 assists, and a small test. In the four games in Huizhou, Guangdong won all the games, which was the heyday of the Hongyuan Dynasty, and the 9-year-old Xiao Xu had not yet begun to receive formal basketball training, but perhaps, some seeds had already been planted in the heart.
When the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup was about to start, Guangdong Hongyuan and Guangzhou Dragon Lions came to Huizhou to play a warm-up game. At this time, Xu Jie had just returned from the U19 World Youth Championship, and a little earlier, Xu Jie, a first-year rookie and only 178cm tall, performed an incredible performance in the CBA Finals, scoring 14 points on 5 shots.
In the basketball hall of Boluo County Sports Center, Mr. Xu made a cameo appearance at the real home.
Due to the World Cup, none of the four stars in Guangdong were in the team, and Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie became the leaders of the team. Xu Jie came off the bench and was not afraid to play in front of his hometown fathers and elders, hitting two three-point shots in the first quarter. In the last quarter, he played again, and Guangdong played a small squad that was quite familiar in the league.
Guangdong, who was behind in the whole field, let go of a fight before the final, Xu Jielian scored two three-pointers, Huizhou boy put a fire in his hometown, the scene was completely ignited, but unfortunately, he finally failed to turn the tide with 18 points and lost to Guangzhou, which had foreign aid.
Until returning to the CBA, Xu Jie in the 19-20 season continued to improve, sending 30 assists in 18 games at the beginning of the season, while 0 mistakes, the little age has a big general's wind, which is breathtaking, and the name of "Master Xu" is really shouting in the jianghu. In the finals, Guangdong without Marzan Brooks allowed Xu Jie to take on a lot of organizational tasks, winning two games, he averaged 8.5 assists per game, terrifying.
Speaking of hometown, not long ago, NBA star Luka Doncic returned to Slovenia and renovated the outdoor field where he played as a child. In the NBA, we can often see stars giving back to their hometown and alma mater, and there is no doubt that the stars are the pride of their hometown and the best fuse that ignites the enthusiasm of basketball in their hometown, and they can set a visible example for basketball teenagers in their hometown.
CBA players' hometown feelings will never be lighter than NBA players, many of them have also made a lot of efforts for the development of basketball in their hometowns, but the land of Shenzhou, a vast territory, cities are not only thousands, there are so few cities with CBA teams or CBA players.
The CBA in the 2.0 era has been working hard to expand the basketball market and enhance the influence of the league, and it is time to start from these aspects, looking for the connection between each city and the CBA, so that the spark that players have ignited will burst into a fire.
Xu Jie's hometown in recent years in basketball is a leap forward, almost every year will introduce or hold some good basketball events, in 2020, Xu Jie also became huizhou basketball promotion ambassador, the city's basketball atmosphere is really hot and abnormal. Now, the CBA preseason games officially settled in Huizhou, I am afraid that there are many considerations, and many years later, the audience of these games will give birth to the next professional basketball player.
The Guangdong team has always had unwritten rules for players to return to their hometowns to invite guests to the east, and really combined wealth and return to their hometowns, and Xu Jie, who failed to return home, invisibly saved another stroke.