Yang Ming said this in the locker room after Liaoning men's basketball team won the second CBA championship in team history.

In the summer of 222, Yang Ming will celebrate his 37th birthday. At this time, the fans suddenly realized that the once engaging teenager, now the first handsome guy in CBA, will be in the fourth year in a blink of an eye.

On the eve of the G4 final, Yang Ming accepted the last interview before winning the championship. In this interview, there is no filter, and the lens is very close to Yang Ming's face. Many fans exclaimed, why are Yang Ming's bags under his eyes so deep? Why are dark circles so obvious?

Obviously, years have not spared Yang Ming. Less than two years after taking over the coach of Liao basket, Yang Ming experienced the vicissitudes of life visible to the naked eye.

From being promoted to the first team in 24 to leading the team to win the championship, Yang Ming devoted his youth to Liaoning basketball for 18 years. You can deny his ability, but you can't deny how valuable his talent, sacrifice and persistence are.

When you mention Yang Ming, you have to mention Yang Ming's mentor, Jiang Xingquan, who is now 82 years old.

In 24, Jiang Xingquan was the head coach of Liaolan, and Jiang had a good eye for pearls, and two young talents were promoted from the youth team, one was 19-year-old Yang Ming, and the other was Li Xiaoxu who was not yet 15 years old.

In the rookie season, Yang Ming showed excellent talent. On November 17th, 24, Yang Ming scored 7 points and 2 rebounds against Henan, and got the first point of his career.

In the following two seasons, Yang Ming hit a new high in his career. Only in the second grade, Yang Ming handed over the data of averaging 13.2 points, 2.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.4 steals per game.

Young fame, extraordinary talent, especially unique throwing, became the label of Yang Ming. Soon, Yang Ming in the rookie season was selected by the national team and entered the training list. Since then, Yang Ming has also represented the national second team in the 27 Asian Championships. If all goes well, Yang Ming should have a place in the national team.

however, injuries will come soon.

On March 1th, 26, he played away against Shougang in Beijing, which was a battle that Yang Ming's career could go down in history, and it was also a battle that directly led to his almost precipice-like decline.

Before the game, Yang Ming was diagnosed with scaphoid fracture of his left hand. However, at that time, the Liaoning team was short of defenders, and this game was very important. Yang Ming resolutely played with injuries.

Beijing was a CBA giant at that time, and the star player was Bater. In that era when the inside was king, what the Liaoning team lacked most was excellent inside, and it suffered losses in the inside almost every season. This was a run-in game.

However, in that game, Yang Ming made four three-pointers with a broken wrist, and shot inside again and again against Bater. Beijing fans were anxious, from the initial audience booing to the later Beijing scolding.

In the fourth quarter, after Yang Ming made two free throws, he put his left hand to his ear. Instead of bowing to the boos, he responded sharply with the boos of tens of thousands of home fans. In this game, Yang Ming scored 35 points in a single game, creating a famous scene of "raising his hand to listen to Beijing's scolding and breaking his wrist to show off the capital".

Although the Liaoning basketball team overthrew Shougang in Beijing away from home, Yang Ming played with an injury, which directly affected his career. That season, Yang Ming scored 4+ in a single game twice. Unfortunately, debut is the peak.

Due to injury, after the 27 Asian Championship, Yang Ming was selected into the China men's basketball training list for three times, but he never played for his country again. After 212, Yang Ming never entered the national team training list again.

Ten years ago, the Gemini of Liao Basketball was Yang Ming and Zhang Qingpeng. After Zhang Qingpeng left the Liao basket, Yang Ming finally became the core of the team.

Although Yang Ming's middle and long-range shots have always been unsatisfactory due to his wrist problems, his ghostly passing, iconic throwing, attacking the basket like carrying explosives and biting defense are impressive. In the 211-12 season, Yang Ming averaged 6.5 assists per game, creating a career high.

After 215, with Guo Ailun firmly in the main force and Zhao Jiwei rising, Yang Ming gradually retired to the third guard, but Yang Ming had no regrets. During this period, more than one team dug Yang Ming with high salary, but Yang Ming gave up the temptation of high salary and always stuck to the Liao basket.

On April 22nd, 218, Yang Ming finally won his first championship trophy. Originally, Yang Ming planned to retire, but Zhao Jiwei was seriously injured. So Yang Ming resolutely gave up retirement and played for another year.

In an interview, Yang Ming said half jokingly that he would not join the championship team even if he moved in the future. The reason is very simple. He doesn't want to be an obstacle on the way to the championship.

One person, one city, Yang Ming sticks to his promise. Liao Basketball held a retirement ceremony for Yang Ming's jersey, which was completely sealed on the 12th. This is the supreme honor of a player, and it is also the recognition of his Yang Ming by the team and fans. At the retirement ceremony, Yang Ming's eyes were red.

After retiring, Yang Ming became the vice president of Liaolan. This job is relaxed and happy. But Yang Ming was not happy for long.

In the 219-2 season, after the epidemic came back, only four games were played, and Guo Shiqiang was dismissed. Yang Ming quickly took over as coach, but because he didn't have a coach's license, he had to give it to Martinez, and he stabilized his morale on the bench.

That season, Li Xiaoxu was reimbursed, He Tianju came back from a serious injury, and Wang Huadong started. Team Liaoning used Mayo as a single foreign aid against weems+Ma Shang's Guangdong King Bomb. It was so difficult that the Liaoning team still dragged the finals to the final and won the runner-up.

In 22-21, Yang Ming ushered in his rookie season as a coach. The joining of Zhang Zhenlin and Fu Hao has further enhanced the paper strength of Liaoning team. However, compared with national team coach Du Feng, Yang Ming in the rookie season is still a little immature. In the last five minutes, Yang Mingqi lost a game in overtime, and Liaoning was the runner-up.

Yang Ming was drowned by the overwhelming abuse and the sound of class ending. It is said that Yang Ming took the initiative to resign, but was retained by Li Hongqing. Because Li Hongqing knows that only big brother Yang Ming can make Guo Ailun and Zhao Jiwei, Han Dejun and Li Xiaoxu, Zhang Zhenlin and Fu Haoyan, who have strong backgrounds, do what they want. Only Yang Ming can control them.

So we can see that Guo Ailun and Zhao Jiwei, no matter who plays as a substitute or who is put on the bench, are not at all dissatisfied. Zhang Zhenlin's defense, Fu Hao's no ball and three points, the progress in the new season can be seen by the naked eye. Molander, who is eccentric, can now be dead set on Yang Ming. This is Yang Ming's personality charm.

On the tactical level, Yang Ming completed the upgrade of the Liao basketball system, which made the team's play completely different from that of Guo Shiqiang. In this season of winning and not losing, Yang Ming's change needs great courage.

In terms of training new people, Zhou Juncheng, Wu Changze and Yu Zechen rose in succession, and Cong Mingchen ushered in the second spring. In the case of frequent injuries to the main players of other teams, there are more and more people who can play in Liao basketball. It's not so much that Liao basket won a championship as that Yang Ming took precautions and everything came naturally.

This season, the Liao basket was reborn from the fire, and Yang Ming also completed the phoenix nirvana!

Perhaps from the tactical point of view, there is still a gap between Yang Ming and many domestic champion coaches. But Yang Ming is the only one who can twist the Liao basket into a rope.

two years, one CBA champion, one CBA runner-up and one National Games champion, isn't that enough?

So, don't say that whoever takes the Liao basket can win the championship, which is a blasphemy against Yang Ming's adherence to the Liao basket for 18 years.