The CBA free agent list is updated again, Shanghai player Wang Tong is impressively listed, and together with Zhai Yi, the two CBA dunk kings produced in Shanghai are now eclipsed and afraid to wander the rivers and lakes.
In the history of Shanghai Beach, there have been as many as 4 dunk kings, including 1 foreign aid and 3 local players, ranking first in the league. Dunk kings have always had a talent for flying, and there are achievements in the NBA such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, as well as people like Kenny Walker and Jeremy Evans.
In 2002, the harvest year of the Shanghai men's basketball team, Yao Ming's Oriental team finally ascended to the league throne, before that, Steven Hart won the dunk king on All-Star Night. The 4 participants that year were Guangdong Hongyuan Zhu Fangyu, Shanghai Oriental Hart, Shenzhen Runxun Alex Kakamo, Jiangsu Nangang Erics Skyles, yes, Lao Zhu also participated in the dunk contest.
Kakamo withdrew, Zhu Fangyu probably played soy sauce, two small foreign aides with a height of 193cm became the protagonists of that night's dunk contest, Hart stepped on the free throw line to jump dunks, the technique was shocking four, Alex responded with a 360-degree turn dunk, and the two finally fought to overtime. Hart and Alex shared the 2002 Dunk King Trophy, which is the only time in CBA history so far, and Aaron Gordon must not have thought of it more than a decade later, in fact, the Dunk King can also be tied.
More interestingly, Hart joined Jiangsu Nangang in the next season, while Alex joined Shanghai Oriental in the 03-04 season, and the two dunk kings exchanged owners. Alex has a strong ball and a strong score, it is said that the first "CBA Kobe" circulated in foreign aid is him, and he also joined the Rockets in 2003, and Yao Ming was a preseason teammate, but has not been able to stay in the team since.
Hart's excellent bounce not only won the dunk king, but also made a great contribution to Shanghai, averaging 18.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.4 steals per game in the regular season, and in the fourth game of the finals, Yao Ming turned over and failed to kill from mid-range, David Benvo made up the basket, Hart fell from the sky, and pointed the ball into the basket, and Shanghai thus broke the Bayi home streak and won the championship.
Yao Ming, Hart and others left after winning the championship, and Shanghai fell into a deep valley in an instant.
During this period, the dunk contest was completed by Hu Guang, who was the most legendary domestic dunk in the history of the CBA, the super spring man. On the evening of February 10, 2007, the All-Star Dunk Contest was held at the Meihu Stadium in Yiwu, Zhejiang, and on the evening of February 10, 2007, Shanghai youngster Xu Yong, who had only turned 18 years old a month and a half, appeared against Dong Junjiang of Zhejiang Guangsha and Shandong Golden foreign aid Helvy Ramizana.
Xu Yong's first buckle, after pulling the lever in the air, slammed his hands violently, stretched and light, and scored 49 points. In the second dunk, Xu Yong saluted Carter, turned around under the basket and dunked 360 degrees, like a dragon soaring around the world, flying for nine days, and scored 50 points. Two earth-shattering dunks allowed the young player Xu Yong to accept the dunk king, and also accepted the expectations of fans across the country.
In 2007, it was a pity that Xu Yong was unable to stage a peak duel with Hu Guang, who was unable to participate for some reason, but after the preliminary round, he performed a 360-degree turn and dunk on the spot. In 2008, Xu Yong participated in another dunk contest, failed to defend his title with two rounds of 90 points, and Hu Guang had left the CBA in the year of playing, and was also owed wages by Yunnan Honghe and could only make a living in the field.
The biggest if in the history of Shanghai basketball, and perhaps the biggest if in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, Xu Yong, who won the dunk king at the age of less than 18, was star-studded at the time, but no one thought that he appeared like a comet and slid across the sky in an instant. In the summer of 2007, Xu Yong represented the national youth in the U19 World Youth Championship, averaging 15.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game, facing the US men's basketball team, and slashing 22 points and 9 rebounds on the head of NBA draft hit Michael Beasley.
Xu Yong stayed in the United States as a teenager, and when he was studying in the United States, he also met many NBA celebrities, such as Bill Russell, Steve Francis and others. Amazing physical fitness, outstanding speed, coupled with a height of 203cm, Xu Yong is like Vince Carter on the CBA field, always working in the sky, violent but elegant.
The Shanghai men's basketball team waited, and met another unique genius after Yao Ming.
In the 07-08 season, the 18-year-old Xu Yong averaged 18.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.3 blocks per game in the second year of the CBA, shooting 56.4%. Faced with Shanxi bombed 36 points, scored 35 points against Fujian, scored 25+ points in four consecutive games at the end of the season, sent 4 big pots when playing against the strong enemy Guangdong, and defeated the defending champion Bayi with 25 points and 10 assists.
It is a rare outside player in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, his talent is as amazing as his bounce, and his ceiling is as full of reverie as his dunk. However, his career is like a dunk contest, the first time to see the stunning debut, goodbye to regret the end, "spine malignant central osteosarcoma" let him completely bid farewell to professional basketball.
In 2005, Xu Yong was selected for the U16 National Youth League together with Zhou Peng, Han Shuo and others, and in the 2007 World Youth Championship, his teammates included Li Xiaoxu, Li Jingyu and Su Wei, who are still active in the league today, but Xu Yong has retired for 13 years. Talent is unfair to everyone, and fate is sometimes the same, and now Xu Yong works as a commentator and has also set up a sports training company, and the basketball world has never forgotten him, and he has never really left.
Five years after Xu Yong retired, another Shanghai player appeared in the dunk contest.
When Xu Yong ran to the CBA League, 12-year-old Zhai Yigang joined the Shanghai youth team, five years younger than his predecessors, and bravely advanced along the path of his predecessors. In the 2013 CBA All-Star Dunk Contest held in Guangzhou, Zhai Yi appeared in the final with Guangdong's Gao Shang and Shanxi's Tian Guisen.
All three were rookies in their first year, when the highest call for the title was noble, the national youth scoring king, quite famous, but his dunk level was really average, and the second dunk error only took 30 points. Zhai Yi and Tian Guisen staged a creative battle, Zhai Yi second dunk flew over the shoe car of sponsor Li Ning's logo, received a pass from teammate Liu Wei to smash the ball into the basket, and Tian Guisen chose to leap tangyuan in Yangcheng, and in the end, Zhai Yi won the dunk king trophy.
A year later, Zhai Yi and Tian Guisen reached the final of the dunk contest together, but the championship was taken away by Guangsha foreign aid Chris Johnson. Years later, Zhai Yi and Tian Guisen briefly worked as teammates in Shanxi, and now, he and Gao Shang appear in the league free agent list, with no ball to play, slightly embarrassing.
Gao Shang was once a national youth killer, but his performance was not satisfactory, Zhai Yi had never entered the national echelon before, but in 2014, when Gong Luming instructed a wide range of players, he entered the list of national training teams. Zhai Yi and Xu Yong's physical condition is relatively close, 199cm tall, excellent athleticism, but he is slow to improve in the attack with the ball, poor projection ability, and the defensive end is only with a passion, far from Xu Yong's sense of smell.
The similarity between Zhai Yi and Xu Yong may only be the dunk.
In the league, Zhai Yi's actual dunk can be regarded as the first gear, although his bounce speed, starting height and other talents are not as good as Xu Yong, but he makes a living in the air cut, is a very rare player who dares to do action, this kind of player who seems to have the temperament of the dunk king written on his forehead is relatively rare. Zhai Yi's career has also struggled with injuries, and in the 14-15 season, just as he continued to improve and returned from the national training team, he was unexpectedly reimbursed for the season.
That major injury completely sealed Zhai Yi's Ren Dou Ermai, and his performance was sluggish for the next three seasons, and he was finally sent to Qingdao after 6 years of playing for Shanghai. In the 19-20 season, Zhai Yi played the highest performance of his career under the guidance of Wu Qinglong, but he was injured at the end of the season, and he suffered another injury in Shanxi last season, so that now he has no ball to play.
The reason why Zhai Yi was released is precisely because Shanghai has born the fourth dunk king. In the 2016 dunk contest, Wang Tong and Guangsha Sun Minghui and Qingdao's Tang Hai joined hands in the final, Wang Tong's first dunk was a blockbuster, the air received the crotch under the hand change dunk, in one fell swoop, scored 49 points, the scoring referee Li Chunjiang guidance only gave 9 points, he then laughed that he may have taken the wrong card.
In the second dunk, Wang Tong took the ball from the head of the on-site staff, and then folded his hands in the air to easily complete the dunk, this time he scored 50 points, and won the dunk contest with 99 points like his predecessor Xu Yong. Wang Tong and Xu Yong are about the same height, but Wang Tong is thinner and lacks explosive power, but fortunately, his movements are smooth and his elastic speed is outstanding.
In 2019, Wang Tong put on Xu Yong's jersey at the dunk contest.
After winning the dunk king, Wang Tong was then sent to australia's NBL league to hone, missed the dunk contest due to injury in 2018, and in the 18-19 season, Wang Tong performed well, averaging 7.2 points and 4.5 rebounds per game in 18.6 minutes. The 2019 dunk contest has become Wang Tong's stunning masterpiece.
The first buckle of the preliminary round, Wang Tong received the floor rebound ball, the air windmill smashed the buckle, the first attempt seemed to let people see the figure of Carter, tried four times, did not change the action, and finally succeeded. In the second buckle of the preliminary round, he changed into Xu Yong's jersey, reproducing the 360-degree split buckle of the senior's bottom line that year, and advanced to the final with full scores.
That dunk, Wang Tong completed it in one go, like a big river descending the ocean, like an autumn wind rolling over the fallen leaves, it was a dashing and smooth high-difficult dunk that was extremely rare to see in the CBA League, and he was indeed the closest dunk to Xu Yong. It's just a pity that before the final, he was injured in the warm-up and did not appear on the final, maybe he also prepared more dunks, and it was too late to play.
The middle finger was fractured in the distance, and Wang Tong was injured for two months in the best season. Before that season, Shanghai gave up Zhai Yi and turned to support Wang Tong, but he did not expect that after that, his performance did not advance and retreat. Last season, he played only 12 games for Shanghai, which he gave up in the offseason.
Like Zhai Yi, Wang Tong had not cultivated his projection skills, and what was more troublesome was that his confrontation ability had never been raised to a good enough level. In the modern basketball world, the front line does not have the ability to shoot is an extremely terrible situation, physical fitness is explosive, can fly good buckle, many times can not be compared to the cannon turret that can complete the fixed point three-point projection.
The Shanghai men's basketball team seems to have a tradition of front guard, dunks like clouds, in addition to Xu Yong, Zhai Yi and Wang Tong, who won the dunk king, like Wang Sizhang, Gu Oak, Li Gen and others have good dunk ability. However, in addition to outstanding physical talent, more skill and effort are needed in the professional arena to gain a foothold.
Look at Tang Caiyu and Liu Lipeng, who broke out in Xinjiang in these two seasons, and then look at He Siyu in Tianjin, Wang Ruize in Qingdao, and Zhu Mingzhen in Guangzhou, if you only talk about physical fitness, Zhai Yi and Wang Tong's running and jumping ability is definitely one level higher, but they can't play now, and these players can even sit firmly in the starting lineup. It all stems from their adaptation to modern basketball, step by step under the 3D positioning, excellent projection ability, coupled with a hard defensive attitude, they can win the favor of the coach.
Shanghai's dunk tradition continues, and although it won't be seen next season, it won't be long before Lee Hongquan will also enter the CBA. This 198cm tall violent buckler, with superior physical condition and excellent running and jumping ability, Li Hongquan also has to go to the NBL like Wang Tong. After Wang Tong returned that year, his dunk ability improved significantly, and Li Hongquan should also go to another level in physical ability.
In addition to Li Hongquan, Guo Haowen, who is more than 2 meters tall, has a very strong desire to dunk in the game, he has been training in the United States for a long time this year, and next season will be his first full season in Shanghai, which is worth looking forward to. Another newcomer, Lee Tim Wing, who has been in the Australian NBL League, is a 190cm tall defender who also likes to wreak havoc on the basket.
There is Hart and Xu Yong in the front, Zhai Yi and Wang Tong in the back, and Shanghai's next dunk king is also on the way.