Chinese basketball has never lacked excellent interior players, from Mu Tiezhu to Wang Zhidan, Shan Tao to Bartel, Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, and now Yi Jianlian and Zhou Qi, generation after generation of Chinese giants have supported the inner line of Chinese basketball. Today we will talk about Shan Tao, the former main center of the Chinese men's basketball team.
The name Shan Tao is very familiar to many fans of the older generation, he was born in 1970 in Hebei Province to a basketball family, and his father Shan Yuchen is also a famous basketball player. Excellent external conditions allow Shan Tao to receive more formal basketball training from an early age, coupled with his own basketball talent is also very high, and soon embarked on the road of professional basketball.
Shan Tao was selected for the Chinese men's basketball national youth team with his outstanding performance at the age of 16, and was selected for the national team before the age of 20. He reached 2 meters 16 meters tall, strong and strong, his steps are not slow, and he is very skilled in all techniques, and soon became the main center of the Chinese men's basketball team, helping the Chinese men's basketball team to win the gold medals in the 1990 and 1994 Asian Games. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Shan Tao, who played as the main player in the interior, scored 22 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists in the match against Puerto Rico, which was a personal peak battle. In 1996, Wang Zhizhi and Battle began to rise, and Shan Tao gradually faded out of the national team.
In the CBA League, Shan Tao played from the 1995-1996 season of the CBA to the 2008-2009 season, and chose to retire at the age of nearly 40. Shan Tao has a high popularity among domestic fans, in addition to basketball reasons, his personality is also impressive, and many stories have happened to him.
Shan Tao briefly announced his retirement in 1999 and devoted himself to the management of the capital airport, and achieved good results and won the respect of everyone. Think of a 2-meter-16 tall and strong security guard appearing at the airport, and it is strange that the management work is not good.
Shan Tao also has a famous mantra, that is, "Oh, I'm here". On the field, if a player fouls him, he often habitually says "Oh, I'm here". In the 1994 Men's Basketball World Championship, the Chinese team played against the United States team, the opening Shan Tao and O'Neal jumped the ball, Shan Tao suddenly roared "Oh, I'm 艹", presumably shocked by this roar, O'Neal directly gave the ball to the Chinese team.
As a northern man, Shan Tao's temper is not very good, he is more impulsive, and he has had several clashes with people in the CBA arena, and there have been fights exposed. So people sent the famous sentence "Brave Shan Tao, oh I am" Iron-blooded, tough, and not accepting defeat has always been The label of Shan Tao, even after retiring, some people say that he is old and can't do it, he always replied: "Whoever says I can't do it will come to the stadium to single it out." ”
Shan Tao, who had been in full swing in the first half of his career, became extremely low-key by the end of his career, and the reporter could not find anyone to interview. Later, he explained the reason, he is so old, the media will not improve no matter how much reporting, should report more young players, so as to motivate them to train well. It seems that shan Tao, who is iron-blooded and fierce, also has a careful and thoughtful side.