Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 24 (reporter Wang Jingyu) “this time we won the championship by ‘careful’. We still need to be sober. Tsinghua University is still better than us in men’s basketball.” Gong Jianlin, the director of physical education department of Guangdong University of Technology, said in the upsurge caused by winning the championship.
In the national finals of the 25th Chinese College Basketball League men’s first-class league, the Guangdong University of Technology team met with Tsinghua University team for the second consecutive year. After a 3-point reluctant defeat last year, the team of Guangdong University of Technology successfully reversed this time when it fell behind 9 points in the second half of the fourth quarter, winning the first championship in young pioneer team history, it also broke the monopoly of Peking University and Tsinghua University on the champion of this competition for 7 consecutive years.
Relevant personages of China University student Sports Association said that Chongqing University of Arts and Science broke into the top eight in the country last year and Guangdong University of Technology won the championship men’s basketball this year, non-Double-class colleges and universities that are not dominant in enrollment can also achieve excellent results in college students’ league matches, providing successful samples for similar colleges and universities, this is a good thing for the development of campus basketball and talent cultivation.
Gong Jianlin said that although the Guangdong Industrial University team lost only 3 points in last year’s final, they knew very well the gap between the team and Tsinghua University in terms of comprehensive strength and bench depth, in the process of winning the championship this year, their mentality was very flat. The reason why we finally get different results depends on all kinds of efforts based on learning from opponents.
“First of all, Chen Guohao was the last time they participated in the college league in several leading player. The internal motivation was very strong. We still made up for the disadvantages in enrollment through hard training as before and paid close attention to physical fitness. Secondly, the players are full of tenacity in the game. If it is not like this, they will not come back if they fall 9 points behind in the fourth quarter. Third, the mutual trust of this team is very good. Zhou Zeyuan once cramp, but he insisted on playing in the fourth quarter, playing a key role and showing team spirit. In addition, our coaching team is also seeking new changes in command.”
The team of Guangdong University of Technology entered the finals for two consecutive years, and the performance of Chen Guohao, the core player in the team, was crucial. On the night of winning the championship, he scored 30 points and 10 rebounds alone. With Chen Guohao, Lu Jianhao and Gao Yufeng graduated from undergraduate courses and left the college league match, can the Guangdong University of Technology team continue to write glory?
“The role of Guohao in the internal line is really hard to be replaced. It is not easy for us to enter the finals next year, but we believe that we will remain in the forefront and will not slide to places that everyone can’t see.” Gong Jianlin said.
Gong Jianlin’s confidence in the future comes from the excellent basketball tradition of Guangdong University of Technology. In the era when young players from professional teams were allowed to participate in the college Super League, the team of Guangdong University of Technology had worked closely with the Guangdong Southern Tigers club. Zhu Fangyu, the general manager of the team’s winning Hongyuan club, and Du Feng, the head coach, were present to watch the match and congratulate. Guanggong is also one of the colleges and universities with the best basketball atmosphere in the country. The annual college basketball league matches are divided into regular season matches and playoffs from October to April of the second year. When there are many people, more than 80 basketball courts in the school are full. Gong Jianlin has always believed that after all, high-level athletes are a minority, and sports and education are more important for all and everyone.
“Even if the team’s performance declines, we will pass on good things such as the technical and tactical characteristics, hard work, tenacity and energy of Guanggong.” Gong Jianlin said, “We still don’t have an advantage in enrollment, but this is only one aspect. The key lies in people and hard work.”
Like when he won the runner-up last year, Gong Jianlin repeatedly expressed his respect for the men’s basketball of Tsinghua University and the sports tradition of Tsinghua University. In his view, it is normal to win or lose in the competition field, while the inheritance of campus sports culture has more profound influence.
Relevant Persons from the China University Sports Association said that whether it is a well-known college such as Tsinghua University and Peking University, or a relatively ordinary college such as Guangdong University of Technology and Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, their efforts and success are rich in the ecology of college basketball league. Diversified development modes and increasingly fierce competition are expected to make the league develop in the direction of flourishing flowers and make the league more energetic, more prosperous.
