Live broadcast bar, June 8th, before that, Liaoning men’s basketball player Zhao Jiwei was interviewed by China News Network.
In the interview, Zhao Jiwei talked about the past season and the winning FMVP, and some of the interview contents are as follows:
In the tenth year of CBA career, Zhao Jiwei spent the longest season so far.
“From October 10 (2022) to May 15 (2023), a total of 7 months. 12 months a year, we played for 7 months, don’t you think it’s long?”
At this time, more than a week has passed since Zhao Jiwei’s “longest season. However, he still clearly remembered those key time nodes during the holiday.
This long feeling comes from the superposition of long-term battles in the past several seasons-reaching the finals for four consecutive years, which means that in the past few years, zhao Jiwei and Liaoning team repeated the game process of “from the season opening to the final.
“What I feel most is the competition system. More than a dozen teams in the hotel can meet each other every day and eat together every day. In this way, I slowly hit the last two teams, no one was hit, and the restaurant became empty.”
Of course, this also means that in the past few seasons, Zhao Jiwei and Liaoning teams, who were at the last moment, have always put themselves in the ranks of competitors who will eventually win.
In the just-past CBA Finals, Liaoning team won by sweeping for the second consecutive year, defending for the first time in young pioneer team history. Zhao Jiwei himself also became the most valuable player in the finals twice in a row.
On the night that the Liaoning team won the CBA champion of this season, excited Zhao Jiwei hugged Guo Allen beside him and kissed her cheek. This scene spread through the streets and alleys with the broadcast lens.
“At that time, everyone was very happy and didn’t think much about it. Later I saw a lot of screenshots, and things developed to this point, some ‘regret.” Zhao Jiwei joked.
It was said that the onlookers often only remembered the later “Gan”, but as a witness, Zhao Jiwei seemed to be more difficult to forget the previous “bitter”.
After winning the title of “MVP of the finals”, Zhao Jiwei had already compared Liu Yudong and Zhu Fangyu, becoming the third person in history to unlock this achievement. However, as for his personal honor, he himself looked very light, but he felt that “if he had the title, the feeling of winning the championship would be more wonderful”.
But speaking of the difficulties experienced in this long season, the pile parts made Zhao Jiwei remember deeply.
At the beginning of the 2022-23 season, Liaoning team suffered injuries. Zhang Zhenlin and Guo Allen were out one after another, and Han Dejun’s finger was broken.
“In the five starts, three can’t play. In addition, the foreign aid Morland has not come back yet. It is difficult to rotate rosters, and the personnel have not been neat. At that time, my burden and pressure were relatively heavy.”
The competition environment at the beginning of the season also made Zhao Jiwei spend a lot of energy to adapt. He described that period as “the most difficult period”.
“Six or seven people in the team were sick. I also played with illness and was not in the state as a whole. At that time, the mentality was really not very good, and the daily life was also very depressed. This feeling is fatal to players.”
The double test of body and mind is another source of the “long feeling. So looking back now, Zhao Jiwei described this season as “spent in the mire”.
How to get out of the mire? Zhao Jiwei’s answer was simple and crude. “There is no way to adjust, to tell the truth, it is just suffering. With a belief and a breath, it is really tough.”
He explained the belief that supported him as a sense of responsibility: “You can still play the game and you cannot choose to rest. For this team, we must insist.”
The deep understanding of “Long sense” lies in Zhao Jiwei’s participation in another championship season of Liaoning team with more important roles and greater responsibilities.
