The three have fulfilled the dream of generations of basketball players
——The story behind the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Team’s first top league championship
The Shanghai women’s basketball team finally won the top league championship
Zhang Zhiting (right) made 7 of 7 shots in the final
Yesterday at 2:40 pm, the Inner Mongolia Stadium. After the referee’s whistle, Xu Weimin’s heartbeat soared from 60 to 131. This is the start time of the WCBA Women’s Basketball League three-player finals. At that moment, the reason why his heart rate rises sharply is because the Shanghai Women’s Basketball team is only one step away from making history, and it is impossible not to be excited.
21 to 14, in the end, the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Team won and successfully won the team’s first championship in the history of the top league! Xu Weimin, the director of the Basketball Center of the Shanghai Competitive Sports Training Management Center, immediately ran down from the stands of the stadium and joined the Shanghai women’s basketball team celebrating in the venue. “After so many years, the Shanghai women’s basketball team finally has its own top class. It’s really not easy to be a league champion!”
Call the wrong timeout
Before entering the final, the Shanghai three women’s basketball team took a roller coaster. In the regular season, the Shanghai three women’s basketball team lost only one game and entered the quarter-finals as the second place. Unexpectedly, the first game of the knockout round played a heartbeat. The opponent in this eight-to-four match was the Shandong team, who played particularly well and dragged the game into overtime. According to the regulations, the player who takes 2 points first in overtime will advance. After the Shandong team scored one point first, Zhang Zhiting made the opponent foul and got two free throw opportunities for the Shanghai team. As long as two free throws were made, the opponent could be eliminated. However, she only hit one of the two free throws and the ball fell to the Shandong team. The Shanghai team is in danger of being killed. Unexpectedly, at a critical moment, the Shandong team made a fatal error. The team had no chance to time out and called a timeout. As a result, the Shanghai team got a free throw opportunity and Pan Xuemei won the opponent on the free throw line.
In fact, in the fierce competition, almost no one noticed that the Shandong team violated the timeout. It was Li Yingyun of the Shanghai team who caught this detail and immediately communicated with the referee. After the game, Li Yingyun explained that because she has played many games on behalf of the three-player national team, she also knows the rules better. “There will be no automatic time-out in the overtime of three-player games, so I guess it might None of the Shandong players noticed this detail, so they made a mistake.”
Broken heartache
Back in October 2012, Xu Weimin just went to the basketball player center of the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education at the time to take part in training, and thus became attached to the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Team. In the past eight years, the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Team has won the second-level club championship and also won the third place in the WCBA league, but it has never won the top league championship, which makes him regret to this day.
In fact, in the past few seasons, the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Team did not have the chance to win the championship, but the luck was not so good. Either the foreign aid was injured or the local main force was injured. In the end, they were helpless. The feeling was heartache. . “In the 2017-2018 season, we introduced the WNBA No. 1 pick Stewart and Taiwanese player Peng Shiqing. We had hoped to go further that season, but we didn’t expect that Stewart was injured by an accident and finally won third place.” Recalling previous seasons , Xu Weimin is like a treasure, “Going forward, in the 2013-2014 season, we also won the third place. At that time, the first two games of the semi-finals were tied with the Beijing team, and Huang Jing was injured only for 10 minutes in the third game. Unfortunately, I lost and failed to make the finals.”
An insider who experienced the 2017-2018 season Shanghai Women’s Basketball was blocked by the Beijing team outside the finals revealed that he would never forget what the Beijing team coach Xu Limin said to the Shanghai Women’s Basketball coach Liu Peng at the time. Then, “I was on the sidelines at the time and heard him say to Liu Peng with my own ears, “You are still young!”.
In the three seasons after that, some of the league opponents paid a lot of money to sign in, and the Shanghai Women’s Basketball team vigorously cultivated new players, so they lacked the ability to impact the championship in the five-a-side competition. But this year, Xu Weimin saw an opportunity to win the championship, because in the context of the Chinese team’s qualification for the three-person basketball event of the Tokyo Olympics, the new season WCBA added three-person basketball league, which also gave the Shanghai Women’s Basketball team the hope of winning the championship. You know, Xu Jiamin, the head coach of the Shanghai three women’s basketball team, is also the head coach of the national team, and players Li Yingyun and Zhang Zhiting are also members of the national team. This team composed of them as the team does have a chance to make history.
The joy of dreaming
This year’s Shanghai three women’s basketball team carries the hope of generations. Once a member of the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Team, Wang Yingni retired early due to injuries. After finishing college and even after working for a few years, she still failed to give up her feelings for the team. She decisively seized the opportunity to return to the Shanghai Women’s Basketball team as the team leader. It has been 8 years. Xu Jiamin is also a former Shanghai women’s basketball player. She has never tasted a championship in her career. She puts her dream on coaching. Veteran Huang Jing also retired, but later chose to come back. The reason she still insists is that she hopes to play more of the role of passer-by and to witness the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Championship as a member.
The dream is as strong as it is, and there is so much joy to realize the dream. “Who are we? Shanghai!” “What are we? Champion!” After the game, the Shanghai team gathered together and shouted slogans to celebrate. Due to the closed competition, there are no fans in the Inner Mongolia Stadium, and the huge stadium looks empty, but the warm atmosphere in the stadium remains undiminished. In the final, Zhang Zhiting, who made 7 of 7 shots, was so tired that she collapsed on her chair. Everyone took turns walking over to give her a high-five. Wang Yingni was so excited that she hugged the hero and kissed her. Later, Xu Weimin greeted the team to take a group photo to commemorate this precious moment. Everyone shouted for the head coach Xu Jiamin to stand in the middle, but she resolutely gave the C position to the players and stood aside, “Today this champion, It is the reward for the hard work of the players for so long.”
From the quarterfinals to the championship and runner-up finals, yesterday the Shanghai three women’s basketball team played a total of 3 games, which is undoubtedly a huge test for the players’ physical fitness. You know, Zhang Zhiting, Li Yingyun, and Pan Xuemei, who participated in the three-player league, are also the main players of the Shanghai Women’s Basketball Futsal team. They play almost every day. It is really not easy to stick to it. “Five-a-side and three-a-side games are played together. How to allocate the physical fitness of the players is a big test. The coaching staff detailed the player’s playing plan to each game. It cannot be used too hard in a five-a-side game, nor can it be used in three It was used too harshly in the humanoid game, and both sides were considered reasonable, and neither side was delayed.” Wang Yingni said.
The championship is won, but the journey is not over yet. Next, the Shanghai women’s basketball team will continue to fight in the five-a-side competition and strive to go further.
Special Correspondent Li Yuanchun (Hohhot from our newspaper today)
Related Links
China three-man basketball event
■The three-person basketball event was officially included in the Tokyo Olympic Games sequence in June 2017
■This year is the first time that China WCBA Women’s Basketball Three-player League has been held
■In June 2019, the Chinese women’s basketball team won the three-person basketball World Cup, which is the first world championship in Chinese basketball history
Three-player basketball rules
■Scoring rules: For shots within the two-point line, 1 point is awarded for each shot; for shots outside the two-point line, 2 points for each shot; 1 point for each free throw shot
■Game time: 10 minutes of regular time (net time), if one side scores 21 points first, it will automatically win; a tie at regular time will enter overtime, and the player who scores 2 points first in overtime wins
■Time-out rule: Each team can request a 30-second time-out when the ball is dead
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