This year's CBA draft has undergone new changes, allowing grassroots players to participate in the CBA draft in their own name and impact their professional dreams. There are a total of 6 players registered in their personal names, in addition to Yang Zheng, who quit due to injury, and Zhong Xianchao, who quit for personal reasons, there are a total of four people left.
Zhou Rui, born in 1988, is the oldest of them. Zhou Rui, who has passed the age of establishment, has the first official opportunity to impact the CBA. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Zhou Rui, who has played basketball for nearly 20 years. Zhou Rui from Wuhan has loved to play since he was a child, and in his third year of high school, he began to emerge in the street ball circle with excellent physical fitness and personal skills. At that time, he also joined the Wuhan 313 basketball team.
After graduating from high school, Zhou Rui entered the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. "I was very weak when I entered the gym. To play basketball, you need to practice bouncing power, and then I'm short and my bouncing power is not very good. But with hard training and perseverance that does not give up, Zhou Rui's physical fitness is getting better and better, and his technology is becoming more and more refined. In 2008, he made a name for himself in the "Jingwumen" tournament, which also linked him to another important figure in the Chinese street ball circle, Wu You. Slowly, the saying of "Northern Wu You, Southern Zhou Rui" spread, and the two became particularly good friends in the continuous competition.
In 2011, he participated in the Sino-US Street Ball Match, dangled the street ball legend AO in the game, and won the MVP of that game, when some media called him "the new street ball king". Since then, he has also participated in various competitions, and has also shot advertisements for Nike and Adidas, and is one of the representative figures of grassroots basketball.
In the VAR World 3-on-3 tournament in Los Angeles in 2016, Zhou Rui's team was the only Asian team to reach the quarterfinals. Their opponents are the Russian team, the opponent is tall and strong, making the most of their physical advantages. And the audience also roared, thinking that Asian teams could not do it. "At the end of the 18th draw, I shot a three-pointer across a two-meter-one person, and the atmosphere suddenly changed. The ball was deep and moving. ”
In the same year, he also won the MVP of SOMECITY China and went to Japan to participate in the finals. In China, Zhou Rui faced the well-known Japanese street player K-TA and scored wonderful goals repeatedly. In the previous passerby king game, we also saw Zhou Rui's strength, accurate three points, solid technology, and tough breakthroughs.
In my impression, Zhou Rui is a very mature, extremely strong projection ability, physically strong small player. This time, he can participate in the CBA draft, not only for himself, but also for more grassroots players, which is a great encouragement.
In the course of the draft training camp, we also saw his outstanding performance in the intensity shooting, 11 of 13 three-pointers in 30 seconds, 11 three-pointers in a row. Seeing Zhou Rui, who is over 30 years old and wears braids, he is still the basketball teenager 20 years ago and has never changed.
"The biggest emotion that this training camp gave me was Zhou Rui, seeing that he would think of his own experience and have strong expectations in his heart, which may be the feelings of a small player." Lu Xiaoming, who is also a small player, also expressed his blessings to Zhou Rui.
"Some people say that so many people sour you on the Internet, saying that you can't play professional, short, old, you go to rub a heat, right? What I want to say is: if my goal is only to play professionally, then I am really the kind of person they say, I am in my thirties, how many chances of being selected I know better than anyone, but so what? This year's draft opened up grassroots players to participate, what a rare opportunity, don't try sorry for yourself. The main thing is that I love to play, and I have long made up my mind to make basketball my career, and when I am still playing, I will seize every opportunity to improve myself and see where my limits are. If I don't come I never know how big the gap between me and my profession is, and when I come I come I will treat myself as a professional player, even for a week. ”
Such a large paragraph was published by Zhou Rui on his weibo, I believe it can answer many people's questions. "Because I live neither in the past nor in the future. I'm only right now, and it's what interests me the most. For life will always be, and is only, this moment we are experiencing now. "The two sentences in "The Fantastic Journey of the Shepherd Boy" are for everyone, may you all be the shepherd boy in your own life, don't give up.