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Chinese basketball needs more “Xinjiang miracle”
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On the evening of August 14, at the Foshan International Sports Culture and Performing Arts Center, when Pan Minghui appeared in front of the live broadcast of the CHBL National Finals, 4,000 kilometers away in Urumqi, his disciple, 39-year-old Li Jiashuang, was guarding the computer and burst into tears. This stocky Xinjiang man has 10,000 reasons to cry at this moment.
The full name of CHBL is “China High School Basketball League”, also known as “Nigao”, which is the highest hall in the minds of countless high school basketball players. With such a simple appearance, Pan Minghui has been gone for 29 years. “Playing with a wild card”, I didn’t expect him to take the Urumqi 101 Middle School (hereinafter referred to as 101 Middle School) men’s basketball team to a hole in the sky. In the national competition, the two giants Nanjing No. 9 Middle School and Tsinghua High School Affiliated Middle School were eliminated successively, creating this summer’s national basketball team. The most dreamy drama.
Players from Xinjiang 101 Middle School went from Urumqi to Guangzhou, and the geographical gap was not difficult to bridge. However, from Miquan No. 2 Middle School to the CHBL National Finals, it took most of a lifetime to fill the gap in basketball.
Let’s take another look at 51-year-old Pan Minghui: He is not tall, only about 1.7 meters tall. He looks like a teacher in any subject, except for the basketball coach; the newly shaved round inch doesn’t make him look full of energy. , because the gray hair obscured all the elements of youth; with a little restraint of entering the arena, he awkwardly responded to the microphone handed over by the reporter.
Pan Minghui said: “The child is happiest when he is admitted to a good university and finds a good job.” There should be half a sentence behind this. The team members who greeted the New Year during the Spring Festival came to the door, and he was “the happiest, happiest, The most exciting, except happy is happy”.
After the NBA-level naked-eye 3D opening show, MC called out a series of names, and Pan Minghui’s disciples appeared one after another. In front of the giant LED screen, under the dazzling spotlight, every vibrant face was a blooming flower, while Pan Minghui was Waving to the audience in the dark, like a speechless earth that nourishes flowers.
In 1993, Pan Minghui graduated from Changji Teachers College and was assigned to Miquan No. 2 Middle School as a physical education teacher. In the autumn of 2005, the trend of “combining Minority and Han schools and running schools in sections” came, and he was transferred to Miquan No. 1 Middle School along with the high school department of the school. Later, in 2008, Urumqi Dongshan District and Miquan City merged into Midong District, and Miquan No. 1 Middle School was officially renamed as 101 Middle School as we know it today.
Midong District is a suburban county in Urumqi—roughly equivalent to Miyun and Fangshan in Beijing. There are many farmers and herdsmen. The children there are simple and willing to endure hardships, but the sports foundation is too weak, and the same is true of consciousness and material. When Pan Minghui was in college, he was determined to train “promising athletes”, but this goal is not easy to achieve.
101 Middle School was located in the suburbs of Urumqi. At that time, Miquan No. 2 Middle School had only a few outdoor asphalt fields. It was extremely cold in winter. The team members had to go to the cafeteria every 10 minutes to bake their hands with radiators. On snowy days, Pan Minghui had to take everyone to sweep the snow first, then sprinkle a few bags of salt to get rid of the ice layer sticking to the ground. Without strength equipment, they practiced behind their backs. He didn’t even have a basketball, so he had to go to the trade city to buy it himself.
“At that time, the conditions were difficult, as now, there were too many instruments to be used up.” Pan Minghui said.
Another intangible difficulty is the information occlusion caused by the remoteness and lack of funds. Pan Minghui can’t study and communicate like coaches in the mainland. In the past 29 years, he has only gone out to participate in a study class. Before the popularization of the Internet, the major bookstores in Urumqi were one of the few channels for him to acquire basketball knowledge.
Based on my superficial understanding of Xinjiang basketball, Pan Minghui’s predicament at the beginning of coaching is something that almost all grassroots coaches in Xinjiang will encounter. In an era of economic distress, it was they who fought against all odds to continue the fire that led to the prosperity of Xinjiang basketball today. Jiao Engel from No. 101 Middle School, Kelan Baike from Corps No. 2 Middle School, Abdusalamu from No. 2 Middle School in Altay Area… There are not a few CBA players from Xinjiang who are active in basketball and have experience in campus basketball.
Pan Minghui has rich sports experience. He practiced short track speed skating first, and turned to basketball after the ice rink was gone. Having participated in many different sports, he can not only teach basketball, but also track and field and winter long-distance running. Under his leadership, Miquan No. 2 Middle School has flourished in various sports, and basketball ranks second in Changji Prefecture. With his excellent results, Pan Minghui was awarded the school’s “Special Contribution Award”, which was a 15-gram gold medal made of pure gold. .
Since then, Pan Minghui has established his own work style. “7:30 in the morning, 4:30 in the afternoon, 10:00 in the evening.” Li Jiashuang said, “For more than 20 years, as long as there is no particularly serious reason, he stands on the basketball court on time every day.” Sometimes the players are lazy. , begged Li Jiashuang to ask Pan Minghui to drink, but failed. Sometimes I saw Pan Minghui drinking and went to drink, but he came back after the evening training. After training, he still stared at everyone and went to sleep as usual before leaving quietly. Even the outbreak of the “new crown” epidemic could not stop him from training, because he would seal himself off with the players.
It’s hard to imagine that one person can maintain this pace of life for 29 years. Li Jiashuang complained: “I originally wanted to be an assistant coach for him after graduating from college, but I stayed for a month and then ran away. He doesn’t rest all year round, he has no other life, and the salary is low. I can’t stand it anyway.”
In recent years, as Pan Minghui got older, his body sometimes couldn’t keep up with the rhythm of his thoughts. Last year, he fainted in the stadium, and only after a checkup at the hospital did he find that he had severe high blood pressure and diabetes. The doctor asked him to be hospitalized for observation. He couldn’t let go of the team members, so he sneaked out for training with a blood pressure monitoring device on his back, and then returned to the hospital to report when he was done. Speaking of this matter, Pan Minghui laughed happily: “I think it’s fine, so I went.”
After this year’s CHBL National Finals, he went to Chongqing to visit his daughter who he hadn’t seen for two years. I advised him to take this opportunity to stay in Chongqing for a few more days. He said, “No, I have to get the baby to the arena when I go back. , the next doll will have a competition.”
High schools in county-level cities want to win the autonomous region championship, thinking about how difficult it is. With students and funding at a disadvantage, it took Pan Minghui 13 years just to climb the mountain of Changji No. 2 Middle School. In 2006, he led the high school team to participate in the Xinjiang competition for the first time, the most important annual competition in Xinjiang. The registration fee and the 5,000 yuan for travel were sponsored by a friend who opened a restaurant.
And after piercing this layer of window paper, what he needs to face is the Second High School of the Corps and the No. 1 Middle School of Urumqi, two top schools that are top-notch and can be called “Tsinghua and Peking University of Xinjiang High School”. In order to make up for the gap in the source of students, the principal Shao Xiaolin suggested that he recruit students across Xinjiang and start building echelons, so as to recruit talents as soon as possible.
Shao Xiaolin is a key figure in the history of the 101 Middle School men’s basketball team. During his tenure as the principal, the first thing he did when he woke up in the morning was to watch training, and then he went to the cafeteria to buy a pancake and put it in his pocket to inspect the teaching building. Before retiring, he built a training hall and a 15-seat minibus for the men’s basketball team. These two things are still in use today. Shao Xiaolin never married. He devoted all his enthusiasm to No. 101 Middle School. It was because of his strong support that the men’s basketball team of No. 101 Middle School rose rapidly.
Principal Shao Xiaolin In 2009, Shao Xiaolin retired and the baton was handed over to the current principal, Gao Lina. In line with the principle of “good support and good inheritance” of the traditional basketball project, she has provided a lot of policy support and material help for the men’s basketball team: a two-person player dormitory, and a dormitory for six main players. The living allowance of 300 yuan/month also solves the problems of water, electricity and gas for the “athlete’s stove”. Every time in Xinjiang, she has to be there to cheer for the team. In Pan Minghui’s view, this is the key to maintaining the dominance of the 101 Middle School men’s basketball team in Xinjiang.
Pan Minghui, who just started recruiting students across Xinjiang, has no connections. He only has to work hard. Every summer vacation, he and his colleagues drive 2,000 to 3,000 kilometers to run a “circle” of the Taklimakan Desert, where talents are transported. Adi Lijiang, who has been an assistant coach since 2012, once ran with Pan Minghui once, “I have been on the road for more than ten days, and finally I was so tired that my waist was almost unable to straighten.” Pan Minghui is also tired, and sometimes he thinks, “Just this year Can’t go out.” But every time I couldn’t help but run out.
On the way to recruit students, whenever the morning light fades, Pan Minghui is heading towards the place where the five-star red flag flutters, and portable navigation has not yet emerged. This is a coup for him to identify the direction of the school. Even nightfall could not interrupt his journey, because at that time, he might be rushing to lobby to the homes of his favorite students. Jiao Engel, who now plays for the Tongxi men’s basketball team, was brought to Urumqi from Tori late at night.
At that time, Jiao Engel was already 18 years old, more than 2 meters tall, and his basketball foundation was almost zero. Pan Minghui saw that his family was in difficulty, so he took it away “as soon as his brain became hot”, and when he left, he promised his father to bear the burden of his life in Urumqi. the corresponding fee. “At that time, I didn’t think that I could use him in the game, but I just thought about training a good sports school that can at least get admitted.” Pan Minghui recalled.
But later, Jiao Engel’s development far exceeded expectations. He not only was admitted to Xinjiang University, the highest institution in the autonomous region, but also became the first CBA player produced by 101 Middle School with the sixth overall pick in the first round in 2020. Therefore, Jiao Engel can’t forget the day when Pan Minghui came to Tuori No. 1 Middle School – on the morning of September 5, 2013, that was not only a day that completely changed his destiny, but also that he finally didn’t have to feel inferior because of his height and could straighten his back. A human day.
There is also Lutubula of the Xinjiang Men’s Basketball Team, and Buren Batu, who partnered with Jia Mingru in the backcourt at the Civil Aviation University of China. They were brought back from the grassroots by Pan Minghui so tirelessly. Their lives have also undergone earth-shaking changes. After the men’s basketball team of 101 Middle School advanced to the CHBL National Finals, Lutubra updated his Weibo, saying that Pan Minghui was the one who made his life “connected with basketball”.
“Like a teacher, like a father” is probably the highest compliment for a Chinese coach. Many times, such a statement is out of courtesy, but in Pan Minghui’s case, I have no doubts about the true feelings contained in this statement. Recruiting non-local students to Urumqi means leaving the shelter of their families, and Pan Minghui will give them a new home. “People put the dolls in our hands, and we are responsible for them.”
In order to make the team members’ lives more comfortable, Pan Minghui has been “alleging” to the outside world over the years: beef and mutton sent by friends who are engaged in real estate, Chinese herbal medicine sent by friends who run pharmacies, and meals sponsored by some bosses for poor team members … A pair of strong hands pushed the 101 middle school men’s basketball team out of Changji, out of Urumqi, and finally into the vast world east of Xingxingxia.
In 2006, the year he started recruiting students across Xinjiang, Pan Minghui applied to Shao Xiaolin and built a stove in the boiler room with a cauldron on it, creating an “athlete’s stove”.
The young players eat at Coach Pan’s house. When the players are tired from training or 15 days before the game, he will buy beef bones and beef to stew. After training, the players will have hot beef bone soup and beef soup to drink. Later, the “athlete’s stove” was relocated several times and came to the basement of the school canteen, where there are freezers, meat grinders and three barbecue troughs provided by the school. Dozens of children feasted. There are three sheep when you buy them.
“Athlete’s Stove” doesn’t run every day, but Jiao Engel ate dinner at Pan Minghui’s house for three years. Dunton has a lot of meat, “I don’t have this condition at home.” Jiao Engel said. He was shy by nature, and Pan Minghui’s lover kept feeding him until he was full. Several years have passed, whenever he thinks of the Hui people ball soup made by his wife, he still can’t help drooling.
“We basically let him eat all the meat in our family.” Pan Minghui joked.
Pan Minghui’s family of three, who are no different from ordinary people, plus a giant Jiao Engel, this is really a magical combination. When Jiao Engel was full of food and drink and strolled in the school family courtyard with the fruits given by his wife in his pocket, he would never feel like an outsider, “Mr. Pan really took me as half a son to support.” Jiao Engel sighed with emotion Say.
Jiao Engel and Pan Minghui, the coach and his wife, take good care of the young people who have left their hometowns. Everyone here has eaten their meals. Su Lide of Hubei University of Technology’s men’s basketball team told me that he likes the stewed meat, braised lamb chops, beef bone soup and noodles from Pan Minghui’s house the most. Speaking of noodles, on the evening when the men’s basketball team of 101 Middle School won the CHBL West Championship and returned to Urumqi, what they received was the noodles made by the teacher.
“When I was in the first year of high school, my resistance was very poor, and I was especially prone to colds and fever.” Su Lide said, “One time my wife took me to the hospital for injections, and she stayed with me until three or four o’clock before returning.”
Various small details in life have allowed Pan Minghui and his disciples to establish a relationship that goes beyond ordinary coaches and players. During the Spring Festival, the disciples who wish to pay New Year wishes to break the threshold of his family. Li Jiashuang remembered that one year, one of the team members drank too much and had to kowtow to Pan Minghui. Seeing him kowtow, the others fell to their knees instantly. Come.
Just imagine, how could a team so created have no combat effectiveness?
In 2010, the 101 middle school men’s basketball team won the national championship for the first time. In the following 12 years, they have won this honor 8 times in total. Except for the years that were suspended due to the epidemic, they almost achieved a monopoly. They have also built a 3-level echelon, and the team members have been trained since the sixth grade, achieving sustainable development. Therefore, Pan Minghui especially thanked Gao Haijun, the principal of Urumqi No. 98 Middle School where his junior high school team is located. It was his enthusiastic acceptance that allowed the 101 Middle School men’s basketball team to have a steady stream of reserve talents.
“No one can shake the status of 101 Middle School in the next five years.” Li Jiashuang, the man who owns a horse farm, said boldly, “Xinjiang basketball really depends on our Midong District.” Yes, 101 Middle School is not only the only high school men’s basketball team In Xinjiang, even the men’s and women’s basketball teams in the junior high school are the same. In Xinjiang, Dugu is already seeking defeat, so Pan Minghui naturally turned his attention to the mainland.
Once upon a time, Xinjiang’s campus basketball was almost a system that operated independently of the mainland. Unlike the Xinjiang men’s basketball team, they did not have strong financial support, and naturally there was no way to go out and bring in. The grassroots basketball coaches in Xinjiang, in a state of close isolation, lifted their basketball to the same height as the mainland.
In 2009, Pan Minghui led his team to participate in the CSBA for the first time and won the fifth place, which shows that they already have the strength to compete with the top mainland teams. “We won the fifth place again in 2020, and we won the ninth place a bit more.” Pan Minghui said, “The dolls come out to play less games, and it is easy to lose the chain in key games.”
“Come out”, but it’s easier said than done to come out from Xinjiang?
During the peak tourist season, the direct flight from Urumqi to the eastern city is often two or three thousand, and Pan Minghui’s team simply cannot afford it. In order to save money, they had to buy connecting flights that took longer. According to Adilijiang, in extreme cases, the entire team even sat in the waiting hall overnight. But even for the transfer flight, the money reimbursed by the school is far from enough. Most of the team members are not wealthy. Pan Minghui tried not to let them pay, and asked friends to sponsor some of them. Not to mention the scattered expenses.
Because of this, Pan Minghui and his team members cherish every opportunity to come out to the game. They always take the opportunity to stay in the mainland for a while and find more teams to communicate with, so as to save the cost of a round trip. As for the issue of housing, they are very capable of handling it, and it is a common thing to “remain under the fence”.
In 2019, Pan Minghui led the team to Changzhi, Shanxi to play the “Basketball Cup”, and lived in the old dormitory of the men’s basketball team of Taiyuan University of Technology for a period of time. In order to help them save money, the team leader Ren Jinjun also gave them a canteen meal card. During that trip, the men’s basketball team of 101 Middle School played against many famous basketball schools in Taiyuan, and gained a lot. Last year, the CSBA originally scheduled to be held in Changchun was cancelled. He simply took the whole team to play for more than 40 days at a friend’s house in Haidian, Beijing, in order to learn skills with the Shougang Youth Team and some universities in Beijing.
Urumqi 101 Middle School 101 Middle School men’s basketball team is no longer a lonely boat, because they have found a good anchorage in the mainland. The process of crossing Haibo is their ambitious journey. However, there is one door that didn’t open to them until last year, and that is CHBL. This competition does not have a Xinjiang division, but it has always been a stage that Pan Minghui and his team members dream of. In 2021, they did everything possible to win the “wild card” qualification, and they almost pulled the capital giant Beijing No. 4 Middle School down in the quarter-finals in the first try.
The absence of the two main players, Ansar and Yuan Zhaoyao, can make a difference. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the moment when the men’s basketball team of 101 Middle School amazes everyone is not far away.
In the 2021-2022 season of CHBL, Pan Minghui and his disciples made a comeback with wild cards. On July 14, they defeated the traditional strong team Baotou 33 times, won six games and won the championship in the Western Region, and entered the national quarter-finals with an average victory of 30.5 points per game.
Urumqi No. 101 Middle School has a brute force that is not afraid of tigers. The men’s basketball team of No. 101 Middle School was caught off guard by hitting the mainland tyrants. In the national quarter-finals, they have successively eliminated Nanjing No. 9 Middle School, which has trained many CBA players, and Tsinghua High School, a super giant with 14 championships in 2015, and advanced to the national finals with their heads held high. In the semi-final with Tsinghua High School, Yang Hulong scored 25 points and 16 rebounds in 4 of 6 three-pointers, making people remember his sentence “Tomorrow let you see the sons and dolls of Xinjiang”.
Why did Li Jiashuang cry before the decisive battle with Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School? From “Changji Prefecture can’t be beaten” to standing on the national-focused arena, no one among the disciples knows better than him what Pan Minghui has experienced in the past 29 years. At only 51 years old, her hair has turned white. “When I went to school, he didn’t have a few white hairs on his head, and he was very energetic. Now he is so sad when he looks at him.” Buren Batu said with emotion.
Urumqi 101 Middle School and what did he get in return? It is almost 100% of the basketball team’s enrollment rate. Among them, there are many who have been admitted to prestigious CUBA schools, such as Ansar from Peking University, Yang Wenhao and Ye Lidos from Xiamen University, Jin Hao from Ningbo University… The list is long and still growing.
Facing Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School, the men’s basketball team of No. 101 Middle School was restricted. In Xinjiang, they can make many teams unable to even send the ball with one move. However, on the stage of the national finals, “they have solid basic skills and can easily break it for you.” Li Jiashuang was blunt. But few people seemed to care about losing that night, because for 101 Middle School and Xinjiang Basketball, they were already the biggest winners before the opening whistle.
On the night of the CHBL final, the fans were boiling, “very excited and surprised.” Wang Xiaoming, a senior fan in Xinjiang, said that he usually doesn’t pay much attention to campus basketball, and he never thought that this school from the “marginal area” would be able to set off such a scene. Big storm. The group of coaches is also boiling, and hundreds of congratulatory messages have been posted, many of which are their direct competitors in Xinjiang.
“There are too few opportunities for children in Xinjiang. I am sincerely happy for Teacher Pan and No. 101 Middle School,” said Wang Haixiang, the head coach of the men’s basketball team at No. 2 Middle School in Altay.
To a certain extent, Pan Minghui and his disciples roared at CHBL on behalf of Xinjiang campus basketball. They once again proved that the west of Xingxingxia is a fertile field for basketball that does not lose to any inland province. When Pan Minghui faced the microphone handed over by the reporter, he was not standing there alone, looking over his shoulder. Behind him were mountains that he was eager to climb. In the process of catching up, he also became a high mountain.
After losing to Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School, Pan Minghui listened to Yuan Zhaoyao’s summary in the locker room. Under the influence of various emotions, he burst into tears unconsciously. It was the first time in ten years that Adili Jiang saw Pan Minghui cry with his own eyes, just in response to the special day of August 14, which was enough to be recorded in the history of 101 Middle School and Xinjiang basketball.
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