Basketball has long had unwritten rules: don't use your hobbies to challenge other people's professional jobs, deeply believed, professional and amateur, whether the starting point or the end point is very different, the huge gap buried in this, for the reasonable people, is indeed an insurmountable reality gap.
However, insurmountable means that there is still hope to jump by, even if there is only a glimmer of hope.
Perhaps, when you want to cross the past but don't have enough courage, you can listen to the story of The 99th Oftitude University.
At last year's CBA draft, the Nanjing Tongxi men's basketball team selected Yang Haozhe, a defender from Beijing Sport University, with the 16th pick.
For the melon-eating masses, the college draft into the CBA is not a novelty, and it is still a team that is obsessed with college players like Tongxi, and it is not fun to choose a traffic player to supplement the combat effectiveness while also increasing the exposure of the team.
Yes, although there is no influence like Peking University Zhang Ning and Shantou University Zhu Songwei, Yang Haozhe's traffic is definitely not bad, whether it is CUBA or variety shows, his enthusiasm is to absorb countless fans.
More people know him, including me, in "This! It's a dunk."
At that time, Yang Haozhe, who had just suffered a tendon fracture 2 months ago, was behind the team in the whole game, the three-point shot was not false, all kinds of high difficulties, one person scored 19 consecutive points (the score was 19-18) and completed the three-point kill at the last moment, leading the "leftover team" that had no chance of winning to complete the earth-shattering reversal.
Stars such as Jeremy Lin and Guo Allen at the scene were immediately praised, and Yang Haozhe has since exploded on the internet.
In this way, in the era of Internet star-making, basketball Internet celebrities have naturally become a label that Yang Haozhe can't tear off in recent years.
However, you don't understand that he wanted to use him as an Internet celebrity before, which is understandable, but you still only treat him as an Internet celebrity after you know him, which is a big mistake.
After the fire, Yang Haozhe neither lived under the aura nor actively sought any commercial realization, but was pragmatic and pragmatic, and through continuous efforts, he reversed the fans' impression of his Internet celebrities again and again.
You may not know that before the CBA, Yang Haozhe was only a substitute player in cuba most of the time, and before becoming a substitute for the CUBA varsity team, Yang Haozhe had no ball to play most of the time, and could only be a spectator sparring partner, and before becoming a water dispenser, Yang Haozhe had no half-cent relationship with basketball sports students.
In other words, from a specific point of view, Yang Haozhe is actually similar to many ordinary college students and ordinary basketball enthusiasts, the only difference is that he really dares to challenge others' jobs with hobbies, and he is still looking at the situation of no competitiveness.
Although under the influence of his father, Yang Haozhe was exposed to basketball at the age of 5, but in fact, they were all blind, graduating from primary school at 1 meter 5, graduating from junior high school with more than 1 meter 6, there is really no absolute static talent to speak of, not to say laughter, maybe you can beat Yang Haozhe in the same period.
It wasn't until he was admitted to the North Sports that Yang Haozhe finally had more opportunities to receive more professional basketball training, but in the first two years of college, he wasted time like many college students.
The daily diet is spicy, the work and rest are extremely irregular, and the heaviest time once soared to 95 kilograms, in his own words, it is the same state of life as a pig, and this cloud lasted until the sophomore year 3v3 was completely eliminated.
Yang Haozhe was fractured in his left ankle due to excessive stature in that game, and in order to give himself and basketball an explanation, the weight loss plan was forced to start.
Saying that it is forced, in fact, it has been loved to the point of madness, and for a long time in the next long time, Yang Haozhe is with basketball, enjoying the torture of loneliness.
Drinks, puffed foods, high-calorie foods are all quit, breakfast only drink porridge, lunch is a normal diet, dinner only eat eggs, beef, chicken breast, insist on running 4000 meters a day and self-discipline to go to the gym to punch the iron, which is no different from a professional athlete's special training.
Heavenly rewards diligence, it is also with this ordinary people difficult to adhere to the persistence, in only half a year, Yang Haozhe lost more than 30 pounds, which made his waist and abdomen strength, coordination, confrontation intensity all have a qualitative change, athletic ability to further transform.
Finally, he was competitive enough to play CUBA.
But this is not enough, non-basketball specialization he not only has to play CUBA, but also challenge the CBA.
People around him feel that Yang Haozhe is crazy, in order to chase his dreams, he resolutely chose to give up play, school and even love, before the slam dunk documentary, his predecessor had appeared in the column group interview, really, across the screen can feel Yang Haozhe's love for basketball from beginning to end.
In this way, this 23-year-old boy who originally wanted to become an ordinary physical education teacher accidentally became a CBA player, and that is, in just a few years, how much price was paid during this period is difficult for ordinary people to imagine.
Before Yang Haozhe entered the CBA, in fact, many people laughed at him behind his back, even if he entered the CBA now, he still did not get a lot of support and encouragement, and even he was directly scolded and cried by the Tongxi coach in the first training game, which also caused countless ridicule.
Indeed, the cruelty of sports competition has not been too much proof, like Yang Haozhe, can a half-way hard-working player really make a name for himself in a professional league where talent gathers?
As it turns out, it really can.
In the CBA physical test, Yang Haozhe, who was only 183, showed excellent bounce power, with a jump height of 104cm and a jump height of 84cm in situ, both of which ranked first among all players in the league.
And the speed of fast projection, but also let Yang Haozhe in a short period of time to adapt to the rhythm of the CBA, after the debut of repeatedly play their own offensive characteristics, once became a bench can not be ignored as a reserve force, there was a period of time with Xi due to injury backcourt emergency, Yang Haozhe is to seize the rare starting opportunity to play a good performance, to know that he is only a substitute in CUBA.
In the face of the CBA's many defenders who should play, Yang Haozhe also dares to shine his sword, excellent running position and smart playing style, which even makes people feel some curry taste.
In the middle of January this year, Yang Haozhe's state was even more fiery, first facing a new career high of 17 points in Guangsha, and then facing Xinjiang with 14 points to continue the firepower, playing consecutive double-double performances.
Just last month, Yang Haozhe angrily slashed a career high of 20 points in the face of Liaoning, which sits on the top guard group, once again justifying his own name, he does not believe in talent, only believe in giving.
Now with a stable average of 20 minutes per game, close to 7+3 data, What Yang Haozhe needs may just be more opportunities.
But the reality of competitive sports will not be merciful to his feet, in early April, Yang Haozhe accidentally fell on his feet when he landed on a defense, and for the first time in his basketball career, he sat on a stretcher, fortunately, after diagnosis, it was only a left tal bone contusion, and did not hurt the ligament.
After running wildly for so long, this ordinary person really should take a break.
I have to say that many of us, from the moment we like basketball, have touched countless successful dreams in the NBA and CBA, but in fact, in Yang Haozhe, we have seen the most real self.
To be honest, we have also left tears and sweat for basketball, but at the end of the story, it seems that we have to be studied and worked or life is the most realistic.
And Yang Haozhe, a varsity team known as "Peking University in the sports world" as a general student, also left his own inspirational footprints in CUBA, and finally ran for the CBA and was surprised to be selected, continuing to run on the road of chasing dreams.
Such a counterattack script is rare to see throughout CBA history.
As the ceiling of ordinary basketball people, Yang Haozhe is undoubtedly lucky, but still that sentence, real luck, often waiting for those who are entitled to enjoy.
Just as Yang Haozhe gave his No. 99 jersey the meaning: the largest of the jersey numbers is 100, and choosing 99 is to imply that you want to pursue perfection and never give up your efforts.