CUBA All-Star Game Settles in Chongqing Slow News Dialogue "Chongqing No. 1 High School Student"

Upstream News Chongqing Evening News Slow News Reporter Zhao Yingji Text/Video Qian Bo Figure

Tomorrow (13th) at 6:30 p.m., the Jiangnan Gymnasium in Nan'an District will usher in a blockbuster sports event - cuba All-Stars will land in Chongqing for the first time, and 24 top players from Cuba participating schools such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Jilin University, Guangzhou University of Technology and other CUBA participating universities will show their skills and style in Shancheng.

Before the official match, today (12th) afternoon CUBA all-star players Li Weihao, Wang Jiayi, Zhang Zihan, Chen Guohao, Luan Licheng and Wang Lihao went to Eling No. 2 Factory to participate in the opening of the landmark of Cuba Chongqing No. 2 Factory and the meeting of star players.

Upstream News Chongqing Evening News Slow News reporter interviewed Wang Junhao from Chongqing College of Arts and Sciences, who told the story of his step by step from "Chongqing's first high school student" to a cuba star player.

Wang Lihao interacted with his hometown fans

Not a tall All-Star

At two o'clock this afternoon, in a café in the Second Factory of Eling, the reporter met Wang Junhao, a CUBA star player who was about to participate in the event, who was from Yongchuan District, Chongqing City, graduated from Chongqing Experimental Middle School in high school, and is now studying at Chongqing College of Arts and Sciences. With his outstanding scoring ability in the 2020 Cuba National Championship, he was given the opportunity to participate in the Cuba All-Star Game.

Professional basketball players are generally more than 1 meter 9 tall, but Wang Yuhao from Yongchuan District of Chongqing City is not conspicuous in height, the net height is only 1 meter 84, and he belongs to the shorter one among the cuba star players who attended the event that day.

Being selected to the CUBA All-Star team with such a height, Wang Mahao naturally has his superiority. A CUBA staff member revealed: "Don't look at Wang Lihao's height is not high, but he is very sharp in his breakthrough and has a stable three-pointer. He became a major player in liberal arts colleges in his freshman year, participating in the Cuba National Tournament for the first time last year, and achieved a stunning average of 17.7 points per game. ”

Wang Mahao's game diagram

Hearing the on-site staff's praise for himself, Wang Lihao was a little shy: "Last year was my first time playing the Cuba National Competition, which was my dream all along, in order to achieve this goal, when I graduated from high school, I directly chose the Liberal Arts College." On the one hand, this is the college in my hometown, and on the other hand, only in such a team, I have more opportunities to play. So when it really came time for the opportunity, I was both nervous and excited. I remember playing Inner Mongolia Normal University in the first game of the national tournament, when I shot 5 3-pointers as soon as I went up, and finally it seemed to score 23 points, which made a good start for my CUBA national career. ”

"First high school student" was not easy to come by

In the promotional video of the Cuba All-Star Game, Wang Pinghao was introduced as "Chongqing's first high school student", how did this domineering nickname come about? Wang Lihao explained with a smile: "The nickname of 'Chongqing No. 1 High School Student' should have suddenly appeared in my third year of high school. Because in the year of my junior year of high school, I helped the team defeat Chongqing No. 1 Middle School for the first time in a municipal competition, which was also the first time that the experimental middle school won the Chongqing championship in recent years, so some alumni gave me this nickname, haha. In fact, I was able to win the championship at that time, and I alone could not do it, thanks to the help of the coach and the efforts of my teammates. ”

In the famous basketball anime "Slam Dunk Master", the male protagonist Sakuragi Hanamichi is from a basketball rookie, through the devilish training of Coach Ansai, becoming the core of the team and becoming the key to the miracle of Shonbei Middle School.

As a post-00s, Wang Lihao said that he had not seen "Slam Dunk Master". However, the reporter found that his growth experience and Sakuragi Hanamichi have a lot of similarities: in 2015, because of his outstanding stature (1 meter 81 in junior high school), he was recruited into the school team; but because the basic skills were very poor, he could not play for half a year, and the coach specifically let him practice dribbling, passing, pace and other basic skills; later, step by step, from not being able to play the ball, to the substitute player, to the main player, and finally became the core of the team.

Speaking of the most impressive thing about his high school basketball career, Wang Lihao frankly said that it was related to his "old rival" Chongqing No. 1 Middle School: "In the basketball circle of Chongqing Middle School, Chongqing No. 1 Middle School has always been the hegemon. I went from junior high school to experimental middle school, and every time I played the final in a municipal competition, I would meet them. When I was in junior high school, due to the strength of Chongqing No. 1 Middle School, in order to protect me and avoid the mentality after losing, the coach of the competition let me give up the duel with No. 1 Middle School after the team qualified for the national competition. I deeply understand the helplessness and pain in the coach's heart, so I have been holding my breath for three years in high school, that is, to win a Chongqing No. 1 Middle School. In the end we did it! In October 2018, we won their 6 points in the 2018 Chongqing Middle School Basketball Competition and won the final championship! ”

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The future has not yet considered playing CBA

With his senior year beating Chongqing No. 1 Middle School to win the Chongqing Municipal Basketball Championship, Wang's road to the college entrance examination was smooth - he directly took the high-level athlete exam of the College of Arts and Sciences, and then successfully entered the college that is also famous for basketball.

This also allowed Wang Tomaha to win the support of his parents, who told reporters: "I began to contact basketball from the second grade of primary school, when my body fat rate was a bit high, I was a small fat man, playing basketball purely to lose weight. I didn't expect to fall in love with basketball later, so I invested a lot of time and energy, my parents saw that I basketball has always been out of the grades, did not affect my studies, never stopped me from practicing, has always been very supportive of my playing. I think the best way to convince parents to let you participate in a certain sport is to play grades. ”

Being able to become the main force of the varsity team in the first year and becoming a cuba star player in the sophomore year, Wang Lihao believes that in addition to luck, it is more important or hard work: "Basketball is mainly based on practice, and it is born without practicing for three days. We don't have a game now, we practice one day, 2-3 hours a day; Before the game, I will practice twice a day. Only by sweating more often can the game shed less tears. ”

The first time to be selected for the CUBA All-Star team, it is a good opportunity for Wang Lihao, if he can increase his confidence and get more attention through this game, then there is hope for the future through the CBA draft and enter the professional basketball world.

However, Wang Lihao still kept calm about playing professionally: "I have not considered playing professionally in the future, after all, I still have a certain gap compared with Zhu Mingzhen and Li Weihao, who are cuba star players." I am now majoring in physical education, and I want to become a physical education teacher after graduation. ”

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