This week, Fan Ziming accepted an exclusive interview with The Beijing News reporter, reviewing the unforgettable half year in his career. The process was difficult, but there were gains.
Summer and autumn
From scratch, you have to fight with your opponent for only one month.
On last May, Fan Ziming was selected into China’s men’s basketball training team. Although he failed to enter the FIFA World Cup qualification list, he was able to train with the top players in China for more than a month, but there was still a big improvement, “(National training team) this place can promote people’s growth. I cherish this opportunity very much.”
Later, China suffered from injuries and attrition overseas in men’s basketball. Fan Ziming, who had just returned to Shougang for more than a week, was urgently called up by the national team. Zhai Xiaochuan and others also went to Jakarta, Indonesia to participate in the Asian Cup men’s basketball. On July 20 last year, China ended its competition mission men’s basketball. Large troops went to Europe to practice. Fan Ziming, Zhai Xiaochuan and other five people embarked on a journey back to China.
At that time, due to restrictions such as immigration policies, after several waits, we found the channel of Xianfei to Hong Kong. At the beginning of last August, Zhai Xiaochuan and others successively ended their isolation and returned to the team, leaving only Fan Ziming who was left alone. Shougang has changed a lot during the off-season, but Fan Ziming cannot run in with the whole team. During the journey, he was already too busy, “the hotel alone changed to 9. Later, I chose the hotel to read the introduction. This gym is better, so I chose this one. I went for a run and did some training within my power.”
On August 24 last year, Fan Ziming finally entered Sichuan. “I can be called up by the national team. Although the process is very tortuous, this is the first intercontinental competition in my life. It’s really painful to pay, but I still think it’s worth it.” He said.
After the isolation ended in early September, Fan Ziming immediately returned to the team and joined the training class the next morning. Usually, after more than three months of summer training, the last month is the sprint preparation stage. Fan Ziming described this stage as a process of “from 70% to 100%. “I started from scratch, starting from reducing fat, restoring body shape and ball feeling.” If you want to catch up with the progress in a month, Fan Ziming “can’t wait to break the time into eight pieces”.
In every training class, he would arrive half an hour earlier, first with the teaching assistant to practice the basic skills of physical fitness and small skills under the basket. On the third day of returning to the team, Fan Ziming took part in the confrontation; When returning to the team for a week, he played a teaching match with the team. “It is hard to run and jump, and it also bears the risk of injury, but there is no way, the time is too tight.” The young man just wants to chase as far as possible.
In the first stage of the CBA regular season, Fan Ziming played 8 games. Except for the last game against Jilin team for 26 minutes, the rest of the appearances did not exceed two sessions-he was indeed not at his best.
Fan Ziming said that the more this happens, the less difficult he can be. For this reason, he always implies that “I am confident when I enter the competition area. I want to play the best season (2021-2022) at the very least, you must have the mentality that you can fight with your opponent even after practicing for a month.”
Severe winter
No fever was found again, but sleep was “stolen”
Despite the hard energy on his scalp, Fan Ziming still could not accept the personal performance of the first stage, and he was looking forward to adjusting through the window period.
In his view, the problem still lies in the physical aspect. Only the technical action of making up the foundation and carving into muscle memory can be used. Therefore, strength, physical fitness and diet control have become his focus in adjourning. As for being familiar with Shougang’s new system play, it is not a problem for Fan Ziming, “there are many teams and coaches who have experienced before, and they can understand what the coach wants faster, this is my advantage.”
After the start of the second stage, he scored 13 points and 7 rebounds against the Guangdong team in the first 8 shots, and then gradually became the inner pillar. In the 10 games in last December, Fan Ziming contributed 15.2 points and 6.6 rebounds. In fact, in the late stage of the competition, he suffered from headache, dizziness, insomnia and other symptoms. He was in poor health, but he still had to bite his teeth and stick to it.
Since mid-to-late last December, there has been a large area of virus infection in the competition area. Each team has several rounds of difficulties that cannot gather together the list of 12 People’s Congress. The most difficult team has only 6 people rotating. Shougang was greatly affected by this wave of injuries. In the last four or five rounds, the number of employees was seriously reduced. The injury list could contain a starting line-up, including Tian Yuxiang, Lifu, Qiu Tian and other main forces; Zeng fanbo continued to cough, raymond is burning, even if it is not suitable to participate in the competition, because the team is really short of people and can only be on top.
Fan Ziming had been employed overseas before, but this time he also failed to avoid it. “My symptoms are better, and I don’t have a fever.” However, insomnia tortured him almost to collapse. “when it is good, he falls asleep at two or three o’clock in the morning and can sleep for a few hours. When it is bad, he can sleep at four or five or six o’clock in the morning.”
If the game is in the evening, he can take a nap; Once he meets the morning and afternoon games at 11 and 15 o’clock, the mental and physical fatigue caused by insomnia makes him unable to participate in the competition, I had to ask the coaching staff for leave. At this stage, Fan Ziming missed the match against Nanjing Tongxi at 15 o’clock on December 23 last year and against Sichuan at 11 o’clock on January 4.
“If I can insist, I still have to insist. If I am in a good state or not, it is a victory to be on the court.” Fan Ziming is also the one who “can’t hurt the fire line slightly”. “If (state) can be better, it would be better to help and contribute more to the team.”
Spring
I don’t want to miss one of the last 14 rounds of regular season matches.
This Spring Festival, Shougang rarely put a complete vacation, is to let the generals get good physical and mental recovery.
Less than half a month from the third stage, Shougang’s preparation has entered an intensive rhythm, Fan Ziming also entered the “small Sprint” stage set by himself, “the last 14 rounds of regular season, I don’t want to miss a match. Play well and put aside first. I want to devote all my energy and concentration to play my best every game.”
I haven’t played the main away game in the past three years, and it is inevitable to go out for the away game. The boat and the off-site factors, Fan Ziming is not worried about this, “I am a person who will have inexplicable confidence, I don’t know where it came from. I believe that no matter where the game is, it can play well.”
Of course, the most anticipated is the home game. Like the CBA players who have changed the court in the past three years, Fan Ziming finally saw the fans in the last stage of the regular season when he joined Shougang in the third season. At that time, he stepped on the floor of the home court, was surrounded by the cheer sound of the Yamamoto tsunami, and even had exclusive music and celebration after the goal. He couldn’t wait for this. “I have imagined such a scene too many times.”
Over the past two years, Fan Ziming often went to Wukesong business district for dinner and friends. When passing by the stadium, he always mentioned, “Look, this is my home court in the future and our home court in Beijing.” The home preparation of Shougang club is also advancing non-stop, actively discussing with the operators of Wukesong Stadium and striving to continue the battle in this lucky place of Beijing basketball.
Welcome the first home court after the epidemic with “excited heart and trembling hands”, which will come true in the spring of March. The heart is as big as Fan Ziming, and he also admits that when seeing fans, he will be a little nervous.
“I hope the fans in Beijing can support me more.” When he said this, his mouth rose and there was light in his eyes.
(Text/Beijing News reporter Liu Chen)