On the 25th anniversary of the league, the golden rebound column was upgraded to the 25-year personality column. The column will take words as the carrier, through sorting out the past of the league, pursuing ordinary campus basketball, people with bright wisdom and extraordinary character will review the 25-year historical development and cultural inheritance of the league through their vivid stories. If you also have stories you want to share, go to the public account dialog page and choose “I want to play”-“Manuscript Collection” to contribute.

In this issue, we will focus on Zhang Chengyi, head coach of Beijing Sport University men’s basketball, telling his story and understanding CUBAL’s changes over the years.

01 the “incubator” of basketball talents is located in the west gate of Beijing Sports University. There is a famous memorial arch with the shape of “four columns and five floors”. The front is engraved with the school name and the back is engraved with the school motto-“Pursuing Excellence”, four gold characters float on the blue bottom, which is hard not to attract people’s attention. The Memorial Hall is not far south, which is the Dapeng Hall where the school men’s basketball training is located. The name of the museum is exactly the same as the school motto. In Dapeng Pavilion, four basketball courts are lined up, and the school men’s basketball occupies the innermost one.

The 48-year-old Zhang Chengyi stood at the edge of the field, spout several instructions from time to time: “shoulder, shoulder!” “Why is my forward so slow? Speed!” He likes to add a child tone behind “Feng”, which makes a furry voice. Have the texture of “The Northeast song-and-dance duet. Although he has already “run five”, he has only led the team to play CUBAL for 6 times so far, so his resume is not so brilliant.

When the team members drank water, Zhang Chengyi asked me doubtfully, “What are you talking about?” He probably didn’t think his experience was worth a book. Relatively speaking, he was more willing to tell the stories of the players.

As we all know, he brought out two CBA players, Liu Yi and Yang haoxiao, a center of 1.92 meters and a point guard of 1.81 meters-and was once a fat man of more than 200 jin. Zhang Chengyi often said that they were playing CBA on behalf of the national physical education major. In 2020, one was in the 10th order and one was in the 16th order. Both of them broke into CBA, creating the history of the North University.

Of course, his lofty feet are more than that.

“Xu Jiheng, do you know? My master’s degree is also an intern in my team. I worked as a video analyst in the national women’s basketball before and was transferred to the national men’s basketball after my good performance. My graduate student this year is going to take another one in women’s basketball, Su Wei vanadium, video analyst and translator.” Zhang Chengyi took pains to tell the names of the team members, and his eyes narrowed into a pair of crescent moon, “Xie Zhijie, the second team of national men’s basketball, Yang Tengfei, Chu Haoyang, three-person basketball national team U23 men’s basketball training team……”

There are even many college coaches, such as the head coach of the Capital Institute of Physical Education, Liu Xiaoxiao, the men’s basketball coach of Xiamen University, Guo Zihao, the head coach of the Sunshine Group men’s basketball of Xi’an Jiaotong University, and so on.

At the beginning of CUBAL’s establishment, the grand goal of “cultivating five kinds of people” was set. The subsequent practice proved that CUBAL trained not only five kinds of people, but almost became the cradle of all kinds of sports talents. The North men’s basketball is such a cradle and a rich mine for practice. Liu Xiaoxiao and Guo Zihao tried the role of teaching assistant or video analyst when playing basketball, which made them more powerful and were quickly entrusted with heavy responsibilities after entering the society.

In addition to the men’s basketball members of the school, students majoring in physical fitness, rehabilitation, sports news and so on in Beijing University also benefit from the school men’s basketball. So Zhang Chengyi told me, “playing sports and going to comprehensive colleges are not better than North sports. At present, there are not so many scientific researches that can be done. It is the most important to learn a skill in 2-3 years. If you play CUBAL again and have special skills, any school wants you.”

02 “there is no way to” five small “in I am” Zhang Chengyi said so much that he actually intended to advertise for himself. Although you are the highest institution in sports, the students of North sports university in the field of basketball have always been bad. Except that there is no “brand hard” of comprehensive famous universities, another disadvantage is that north Sports University does not have the enrollment qualification of high-level sports teams. If you take the single-recruit exam, there is a certain possibility of failure. High school athletes with high levels are often unwilling and unnecessary to take this risk.

Zhang Chengyi had to wait until the beginning of the school every year to know who the players were, and then screened out a little bit from these people. Or select talents from the Institute of Education and hope to copy more Liu Yi, Yang haoxiao and Chen Weiqiang, which is even more like a needle in the sea. Moreover, there are no preferential policies and no training subsidies for the men’s basketball of Beijing University, which further increases the difficulty of enrollment.

“In the first few years, I also recruited a recruit. Later, I had no choice. I didn’t go anywhere. Who will count it.” Zhang Chengyi said, “people all praise me for being ‘five Smalls’, but I am can’t help it ‘.”

Xie Zhijie and Lu Di are rare players who have been famous before coming. The former once had the reputation of “Hunan No. 1 high school student”. He studied in Mingde Middle School, a famous basketball school in high school. If Li Ke was not one of Bayi students, he was in charge of basketball youth training in north Sports University, it is impossible for him to be booked in advance. Lu Yi was the main force in Tsinghua attached to the top high school. He was picked up by Zhang Chengyi because the “market” fell due to the tear of the anterior crossed ligament.

The more common situation is that it takes two years to play basketball players with zero basis. It was hard to wait until the results came out. It didn’t take long for them to graduate. At present, milk, zulibuhar and negati on the team list are all like this.

However, it was such a group of small men who rushed to the left and right in CUBAL’s field, not only overturned the Giants again and again, but also changed the territory of the league after the 19th. The ending was fantastic, but the process was crowded. When Zhang Chengyi was frantically cut by Peking University for more than 30 minutes, Yang haoxiao was also shocked by his opponent’s self-doubt one by one. He sent a WeChat message to Liu Yi: “Brother Yi, I don’t want to fight anymore. It’s too shameful.” But after the emotional calm, they all chose to face the difficulties.

Yang haoxiao watched a large number of defensive videos of smart, holerdi and Van vlitt, summarized and digested them, and finally made himself a player with “the stability of defense is stronger than the stability of attack, later, he was beaten up by Jia Mingru No. 13 Middle School 12, but this level of frustration can no longer be a roadblock for him to rush to the professional stage.

03 The weak also had a way to survive. In 1988, Zhang Chengyi came to the sports school of north Sports University from Benxi, Liaoning province. He finished junior high school and high school here and successfully entered north Sports University. His parents knew very well that with his height of over 1.8 meters, it was difficult to find a school in Liaoning, where there were a lot of talents, it is a reasonable way out.

Basketball is like this. Absolute strength can certainly ensure standing at the top of the “food chain”, while the weak can also occupy a good “niche” through reasonable design “.

From the perspective of innate endowment, of course, the early men’s basketball of the North University was weak, the height was not high, and the attacking end also lacked absolute strength, so they used defense to make up for it. Most of Zhang Chengyi’s fire on the court was on the defensive end.

“Defense is the same as attack. There are many skills, but positive attitude is the first.” Yang haoxiao said. They have to run track and field twice a week, one aerobic and one anaerobic. Also practice treadmill sliding step, five-pointed star sliding step, all kinds of sliding step.

In the long run, north Sports University men’s basketball became a team rich in “physical monsters”. They played many reverse balls, which depended on it. The most recent typical case is the reversal of Civil Aviation University of China in the Northeast Division qualifying. Under the situation that the first three sections of the north Sports University were both passive, the last quarter launched a 22:9 offensive, and finally completed the reversal and went straight to the national competition.

Of course, we can’t forget the 1/8 final of the Northeast Division of the 21st League, the epic battle between the north Sports University and Shandong Agricultural University. At the last moment of the first plus time, the North sports university could still maintain high-intensity forced robbery, forcing shannong to make mistakes, which led to Chen Weiqiang’s three points. When the second time was added, a group of small people, relying on the bottomless blood trough, stirred the forbidden area of shannong upside down and grabbed the offensive rebound continuously. Liu Yi made up the basket to complete the anti-overtaking, and finally 114:112 wins and advances.

At Dapeng pavilion that day, I also saw a strange scene: during the confrontation training, they didn’t play 2, 3, 3, 4,4, but 3, 4,4 Anti-5 or even 2 anti-5! Its practical significance is that if you attack, it will definitely cause less local defense and more defense. Through this way, Zhang Chengyi exercises the team members’ awareness and ability of coordination and rotation. Yang haoxiao said that he learned “a very integrated defensive rotation system” in college, which was the key to his quick adaptation to CBA defense.

Zhang Chengyi always said to the team members, “it is fate for us to get together. We all want to do something. Then let’s take basketball as a career.” In the 19th League tournament in the first cry, they were only the 9th and 20th in the northeast region. They reached the 6th in the northeast region and successfully promoted to the top 24 in the country, and then created young pioneer team history in the top 16 in 2020, finally, it was the fifth North district last season-if they didn’t meet Tsinghua in advance, they would probably go further. Like a snail, Zhang Chengyi and his team climbed up a little bit and moved closer to “excellence.

04 after haofengli won puerto rico in the first battle of the tokyo olympic games in women’s basketball, xu limin, then head coach, publicly expressed his gratitude to the men’s basketball of the north sports university: “they have paid a lot for us and imitated it very much, every detail is in place.” This leads to a special friendship that is not widely known-the preparation cycle of Tokyo Olympic Games. The men’s basketball of north Sports University has been silently playing the “imaginary enemy” of China’s women’s basketball, serving as a ladder for the latter’s revival.

As a matter of fact, as the first independent institution of higher physical education in New China, in a complete sense, North sports adults have never avoided the heavy responsibility of “building a strong country and serving the overall situation”, “for China’s sports cause, international Olympic sport made outstanding contributions and won numerous honors.” Training for Chinese women’s basketball is only one of them.

Sparring is not an easy thing. The team members of the North University have to show their strength again. “loose, the coach of others will not do it”, and they have to master the heat to avoid hurting the hands of the country with too much action. Not only imitate the tactics of potential opponents, but also imitate technical actions. “Your imitation object is used to picking baskets with your left hand, so you can’t use your right hand.” Zhang Chengyi said.

In 2021, during the critical period of preparation, with the strong support of leaders at all levels of the hospital and the school, Zhang Chengyi directly led the team to enter the State Sports General Administration, where he stayed for 3 months. The team members should not only follow the training rhythm of women’s basketball, but also cannot completely leave their own training. The training intensity can be imagined.

In order to simulate the opponent in all directions, Zhang Chengyi had to recite the tactics of the potential opponent every day. There was no training hall in the athlete apartment, so he took the team members to practice on the road, “We can’t delay the training women’s basketball the next day.” In the long run, he was familiar with the tactics of many world strong teams. In order to imitate more like, the team members even changed the back number to the number of their imitation objects. In order to prevent the number from falling off, a group of seven-foot men still worked as needlework in the dormitory. Speaking of this, Zhang Chengyi’s eyes narrowed into a pair of Crescent again.

(In the national Olympic women’s basketball coaching staff)

It was completely closed for 3 months, and it was also 3 months when the physical and mental pressure broke out, but it was worth it. From 2018 to 2021, he accompanied a whole generation of people who had retired from the North University of sports for men’s basketball years. However, in three years, Zhang Chengyi and his team members traveled at the forefront of the world basketball, thus broadening their horizons, the tactical system has been enriched. In 2019, Zhang Chengyi also followed the famous handsome Wang Guizhi for one year in the Olympic Games women’s basketball, and was approved by the senior coach of China Basketball Association in the same year. This was also an experience that benefited him a lot. If there is a colleague, he ridiculed: “You accompany the training, and the result is that you have been trained.” This is not entirely an empty word.

Zhang Chengyi didn’t have much resources directly, but he was particularly good at “borrowing power”, not only by the power of China women’s basketball, but also by the power of others in the North University. Assistant coach Zhu Feng didn’t have any allowance, but he was willing to help Zhang Chengyi after finishing his job. Before, Zhang Chengyi also asked the students in the physical fitness class to help him with his physical fitness and asked a doctoral student from Taiwan, China to be a defense coach. Therefore, this substantial “commander Polish Rod” has a small coaching staff.

At the end of the training on the day of the 5th CBA of the university, Xie Zhijie happily used the revised paper. Zhang Chengyi saw at a glance that there was a “three-line table” that was not standardized enough, I told the core defender who had been targeted by many scouts to go back and change. This is CUBAL. Players and coaches have two identities without exception. In addition to the daily work of the team and the master’s course, zhang chengyi also guided the papers of four undergraduates. If there were no special circumstances, he would hold meetings every week and listen to them report the progress, some suggestions will also be given.

Speaking of “The combination of sports and education”, Zhang Chengyi was called a pioneer. In 1996, he graduated from North Sports University and was appreciated by Ma Jiaying, the then head of Beijing men’s basketball, and became a CBA player. In the 1997-1998 season, he killed Jinan troops in the second individual match, contributing to one of the few highlight moments in his career of CBA. It has been eight years since Bai Jing, the recognized “CUBAL first person to enter CBA”, completed the first CBA show.

Zhang chengyi stayed in beijing men’s basketball for 5 years. The experience of this professional league has accumulated a lot of experience and opened up a way for him to devote himself to college basketball in the future. His biggest regret is that there are too few regular competitions that he can participate in in the four years of college, only the national sports academy cup once every four years. If not, he thought that he might achieve higher achievements in CBA.

In 2005, Zhang Chengyi returned to his alma mater under the recommendation of his friends. In another two years, he became a formal employee. At this time, he had two in thirty.

(Lead the team to the Super League)

During that time, his main job was to assist the famous coach Dong Zhiquan in managing the sports school. Under the sponsorship of Xinjiang Guanghui, they cultivated a group of CBA players in Changchun, Li Baijin, Zhang Shu and so on, that’s all. Since the North sports university did not participate in CUBAL, Zhang Chengyi won the best result before the Battle of the CUBS Super League in 2013, only the national sports college basketball championship in 2008.

With the joining of CUBAL in 2016, Zhang Chengyi finally got the opportunity to show his ambition. When he was a student, he was deeply suffering from the “hard to find in the first race”. He cherished the opportunity to participate in the competition and kept a high degree of concentration all the time. In just a few years, the certificate and trophy he led the team could almost fill the showcase in the corridor of China Basketball Academy of North University. “I took all these.” He waved his hand and pointed at the showcase.

06 Master Zhang Chengyi was not qualified as the head coach at the beginning. His master’s course “on-the-spot command skills” was full of his failure cases. There was a game, he said, “never forget it.”

It was a basketball match between departments. With the last minute left in the regular time, his team was 7 points ahead and seemed to be invincible. He called off the last pause. Back on the court, on a sudden change in the situation, his team members did not take the ball and spent time, but “contributed” to a layup to hit the iron. The opponent took advantage of the situation to fight back and hit the layup. Then there was a full press on the spot, breaking the pass and throwing it into a three-pointer. At this time, Zhang Chengyi had not suspended, and he could only watch the team reversed.

After that, he always left a pause at the critical moment for a rainy day. He wrote this case into the course, just to make students who are interested in becoming coaches less detours.

Liu Xiaoxiao’s team just played CUBAL for a short time, and his performance was not good and he was not clear about everything. This once made him “unable to see hope and where the future lies”. Zhang Chengyi is a good person to talk to and ask for help. From writing lesson plans to career planning, Liu Xiaoxiao is willing to talk with him. Now, he also tries to get out of negative emotions and solve some problems practically. After all, it was also very difficult for Zhang Chengyi to start.

As for Yang haoxiao, the reason why he still keeps close contact with Zhang Chengyi is that he has retired for three years and still loves to run to school when he has nothing to do, except for the teacher-apprentice feelings during the player period, to a large extent, the latter, like him, is also a “ball fool” who always likes to think about basketball “.

Once, Yang haoxiao watched the national game Men’s Basketball FIFA World Cup qualification and found that the defensive arrangement of Qiao erjievich’s “weak side on-line defense, strong side rotation” was very wonderful, take a screenshot of Zhang Chengyi’s “case” immediately “. When his teammates heard it, they asked him, “it’s not good for you to talk like this, just like teaching people to do things.” Yang haoxiao told him: “No, it is purely an equal exchange between teachers and students.”

This has one thing in common with the teachers and disciples, that is, they are thirsty for knowledge, for fear that they cannot keep up with the development situation of the international basketball arena. This is a very important mentality in the process of the development of the men’s basketball of Beijing University. Like swallows, they went to great pains to build nests from various places and finally had a foothold in CUBAL. You know, they were the team with the shortest time to compete in CUBAL among the top eight in the North District last year.

Different people have different interpretations of school motto. Xie Zhijie said that the pursuit of excellence is to “bite the past tooth elevator” when running the track and field “. Yang haoxiao said that the pursuit of excellence is his back number, “the biggest number on the basketball court is 100. I like the feeling of being close to perfection but always a little worse, so I chose 99.” Zhang Chengyi’s duty is to lead them to realize their imagination of “excellence.