Wang Ruize opened his coat, and a scar suddenly caught my eyes. The scar started from the ribs and stretched straight below the navel, almost dividing his abdomen into two, and more than 30 pairs of stitches were arranged on both sides of the scar, like a zipper, the bloody past should be sealed in his abdominal cavity forever. Eleven years ago, doctors from Jinan Qilu Hospital took out an orange-sized cyst from there, leaving this shocking scar.
The big scar that almost split his belly into two
Flush with the bottom of the scar, Wang Ruize has a depression on the right hip bone, which is strange and inexplicable. It was originally smooth, and a piece was cut off by the doctor to make up for the fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone of his right foot. He turned his right foot over to let me see the outer edge. Although it was wrapped by thick stockings, the narrow bulge was still clearly recognizable. Under the flesh is a steel plate used to fix broken bones.
For more than a season, he has been playing with steel plates. “It started to hurt. Now it’s OK. It’s no big deal.”
Laparotomy, bone cutting, steel plate rubbing with flesh and bone…… I stared at Wang Ruize, who was not smiling. Many bloody pictures rose up in my mind, and my sweat stood upside down. I asked him, “If you see yourself in the mirror, will you feel melancholy?” He tried hard to mobilize facial muscles and squeezed out a sincere smile: “I don’t care about these, and I can’t have no injuries in my sports career. This thing is OK. Men have a scar and there is nothing to look.”
This boy is indeed a cruel man, and his injury history is much more cruel than what is written above. The shock he brought me was even greater than the day I learned that Liu Yudong had taken out 11 broken bones in his knee. Of course, the most important thing is not what kind of injuries he has suffered, but no matter what kind of injuries he has suffered, he can always “revive” with full blood “. Otherwise, he will definitely not become the “strongest second round show”, nor will he become the local scoring king of Qingdao men’s basketball this season.
In the first 38 rounds of this season, he was the local scoring king of Qingdao men’s basketball, with a single score of 20 + reaching 7 games. In the 34th round, he scored 29 points in 6 out of 13 three-point goals, in the 37th round against Tianjin, he scored 28 points in 6 out of 11 three-point goals…… More and more people began to call him “the strongest second-round show”-after all, in the history of CBA, no second-round show has ever been the domestic scoring king of any team.
The second round show is a synonym that is not optimistic (especially in the context of CBA). However, Wang Ruize, who has no history of famous schools and has been destroyed by injuries, is creating the magic that belongs to the second round show.
Wang Ruize
01. Poker face at the draft conference
On July 29, 2019, the 5th CBA draft conference was held in Shanghai. The participation of Wang Shaojie, the core of Peking University men’s basketball, has attracted much attention from the CBA draft conference. It is widely believed that he will become the first college student player with real training value. Previously, the CBA draft conference was often ridiculed for its low yield rate, which was “east-to-East efficiency”.
Wang Shaojie, Sun Siyao, Yuan Tangwen and Guan Jian, when Yao Ming was about to pronounce the fifth name, Wang Ruize under the stage became nervous. He tucked the hem of the white shirt into his waist, ready to go on stage. Before the trial, Zhang Beihai, the head of Qingdao team, promised him that “I will definitely choose you”, while the Qingdao team was holding the sign No. 5.
But it was not him who was called the name, but the 29-year-old control Wei Lin Wei Han from Treasure Island Taiwan.
Wang Ruize waited anxiously. Yao Ming called out eight more names, and he didn’t call “Wang Ruize” until the fifth order in the second round “. So he got up and went on stage, leaving the famous photo-he had a cold face, which was in sharp contrast with Yao Ming, who was smiling like a flower. Later, I asked him why he didn’t laugh. He said, “I didn’t like laughing very much since I was young. Sometimes I think I am laughing. I still look at the photos very seriously. In fact, I am quite happy to be selected.”
Wang Ruize: Happy is written all over his face
In that draft, 16 people were selected, which refreshed the historical record at that time. In the past three seasons, there are only 7 people still in CBA, and Wang Ruize is one of them. As of the 36th round of the regular season this season, he can score 14.0 points 5.6 rebounds 2.5 assists 1.1 steals. The score data lists the 18th place for local players, while among the players born in CUBAL, he can rank the 3rd, second only to Zhang Ning and Zhu Mingzhen, it is slightly more advantageous than Zhao Baiqing and Wang Lanqi.
Zhang, Zhu, Zhao, Wang, 3 Peking University and 1 Tsinghua University are all super giants of CUBAL. And what about Wang Ruize? His alma mater Nanchang University, the best score in young pioneer team history was only one of the top eight in China, and it was still in the “ancient” 2013. I am not the “only birth theory”, I just want to remind you that the birth of a team member means a lot of things, better protection, wider knowledge, more experience and most importantly, stronger confidence.
CBA always has a “strongest second-round show”, but people never think of the “Poker Face” on the draft day, let alone that he will be “strong” to today’s level. What’s more, the fifth metatarsal bone of his left and right feet has been broken, and the incision in his abdomen still bothers him so far, his slipped discs once made his toes and socks unable to stand up, and his right hip bone was missing.
02. Drifting to the South
In May 2010, Wang Ruize came to Rizhao city in Shandong province from his hometown, Shangzhi, Heilongjiang, and became a member of the local Dragon basketball club.
Shangzhi city is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Harbin city, named after Zhao Shangzhi, an anti-Japanese hero. It was called Zhuhe County before 1946. Zhao Shangzhi once fought against Japan in this ministry. Wang Ruize hoped that there was no basketball team and no basketball coach in middle school. Therefore, his departure was inevitable.
The old community where Wang Ruize lived in Shangzhi city
The coach who took him was Wang Jianting. The official website of the club showed that he was “the former professional player and the main defender in Heilongjiang province”. As early as when Wang Ruize was in the first grade of junior high school, Wang Jianting wanted to recruit him to Rizhao, because he was too young to make a trip until he graduated from junior high school. Wang Ruize likes playing basketball, and his study is not good, so he can only leave his hometown. Instead of chasing dreams, it is better to make a living. “There is no way to choose this road.”
When he left home, Wang Ruize suddenly realized that he had to mix himself up. “My mother raised me alone since I was a child. She has great hopes for me. If I can’t walk well, the situation in our family will not be improved.” Wang Ruize said to me.
The first explanation he gave was “persistence and suffering”, which might be a bit empty. He also mentioned the special family environment. He knew it was not easy for his mother to take care of himself and his grandmother, so he didn’t want to let his mother down. I interviewed many athletes and inevitably asked them about their motivation to play basketball. Some said it was for money, some said it was for dreams, and some said it was a step. Wang Ruize is different from them. He is for his mother, “mother is my spiritual support.”
Later, when Wang Ruize became famous in CUBAL and could earn some money through wild balls, he called his mother most of his income-and now it is the same. In addition to nba2g and live football, he has no special hobbies. He occasionally goes out for a meal and buys some shoes and clothes. His daily expenses are not large. He doesn’t need the money in his own hands, I feel more at ease with my mother.
Wang Ruize and his mother
03. The lifestyle of weeds
When did the cyst begin to grow in his body? Wang Ruize couldn’t figure it out. The only thing he knew clearly was that it was Saturday morning when he got sick. He fell down during the confrontation training and rested for a day and a half. He felt something was wrong after dinner on Sunday, then I can’t get up. Taking medicine and injections in Rizhao didn’t work. I had to go to Qilu hospital again. The doctor said, “I have to have an operation.”
He had never felt that his body was too strange before, but his stomach was a little bulging. He thought it was normal and did not realize that a cyst was growing himself quietly in his pelvic cavity. The cyst continued to “expand” the territory and finally dragged him down on the Saturday in May, 2012. At that time, he and Wang Jianting were negotiating to go to Shandong men’s basketball youth team for trial training. As he was ill, this matter was shelved and he returned to the club in September, the idea of taking a career has been completely dismissed. “practice well for two years and go to college.” He thought.
This operation left a scar on his abdomen and seemed to change some characteristics of his internal organs. After returning to the team, he had an extra problem and felt sick as soon as he played. “After the meal at 12 o’clock, it was over 1 o’clock in the afternoon, and the ‘waw’ vomited badly.” I went to the hospital for examination, but I couldn’t find out why. When he arrived at the university, this phenomenon mysteriously disappeared, and he made a comeback after playing CBA, so that he dared not eat before the game and did not dare to drink water during the game, so he was afraid to spit it out on the court.
Wang Ruize
As a bystander, I naturally feel that this matter is a kind of torture, the endless torture of blunt knife cutting meat, while the client Wang Ruize said, “I am used to it, anyway, for so many years, it doesn’t matter anymore.”
Five years ago, for the first time, I heard the little Tiger’s “out of nothing”. There was a lyrics in it, “out of nothing is the way of life of weeds”. In the past five years, I have often thought about a question: what is “the lifestyle of weeds”? It was not until I heard Wang Ruize’s story that day that I had the feeling of finding the answer.
From May 2010 to March 2014, Wang Ruize has been staying at the Feilong basketball club. This club is affiliated to Rizhao sports bureau and can represent Rizhao to participate in various basketball competitions at the provincial level and above. But in fact, the two sides do not rely on each other. Strictly speaking, it is neither a sports system nor an education system-the team members have no school status in Rizhao. Therefore, there are only a few regular competitions that Wang Ruize and his teammates can participate in. The folk competitions in Rizhao city are the main battlefield for them to test the training results.
There is no indoor stadium in the club. No matter it is cold or summer, it is outdoor for three exercises a day. If it is rainy, Wang Jianting will take everyone to the seaside to “pull physical fitness”. Wang Ruize doesn’t like to “pull physical fitness”, I feel boring, but I won’t be lazy. He is the only one who takes half a day off every Sunday to shoot on the court. Although the material conditions are not good, he does not think that he is shorter than the children in traditional basketball schools and regular sports schools. “our level is no worse than theirs, because we practice systematically.”
At that time, the conditions and conditions of Feilong club were relatively simple (the picture came from the official website of Feilong Club)
Most of the time, it can only be trained on cement ground (the picture is provided by Wang Ruize himself)
Now he asked Wang Ruize what impression he had on Sunshine. He had already said it was not clear, probably because he was too young and shy to travel to this “Oriental Sun City” after playing basketball “.
There are probably two ways out for the players, one is to find a job by virtue of basketball skills, and the other is to take an examination of the university. Famous universities dare not even think about it. The schools that Wang Ruize dared to apply for the examination are limited to the level of Shandong Institute of Physical Education. Fortunately, he didn’t pass the culture class in the first year, otherwise he would have no chance with CBA completely, because the mountain did not participate in CUBAL. The next year, Wang Ruize was taken by Wang Jianting and met Liu Jian, head coach of Nanchang University men’s basketball, who came to Shandong for enrollment in Linyi.
This became a turning point in his basketball career.
04. Southeast Leonard
Liu Jian went to Rizhao to recruit students before, mainly looking at the “middle school champion team” such as Rizhao No. 1 Middle School and Rizhao No. 4 Middle School. The Feilong basketball club is obviously not on his radar. When Wang Ruize appeared in front of him, he looked up and down and found that although Wang Ruize “didn’t say anything”, his eyes were firm and he revealed his desire to play, he immediately said in front of several coaches, “This child doesn’t need to watch, I must ask him.”
Facts have proved that Liu Jian’s vision is indeed poisonous. He chose a team-building core for the men’s basketball of Nanchang University and a flag character of Young Pioneer team history.
Coach Liu Jian and Wang Ruize
When I first arrived at Nanchang University, Wang Ruize didn’t like to communicate with others. “I didn’t do well, I didn’t practice well, and I felt angry.” Even in the face of Liu Jian, I cherish the words as gold. Once, after training, he was shirtless, and the scar on his stomach startled Liu Jian. Liu Jian asked, he just said vaguely that he had an operation and refused to make it clear. Its initial introversion can be seen.
“I told him that you can’t do this. You have to communicate with the coach to know where your problems are and to cooperate better.” Liu Jian told me that he always enlightened Wang Ruize in this way, whether in college or in CBA.
Change is indeed happening. At least from my experience of contact with Wang Ruize, although his voice is still gloomy, as a talker, you must always stick your ears up, to hear every word out of his mouth. But he can talk about it completely, otherwise I won’t get so many details related to him.
Wang Ruize CUBAL has only played two national competitions in 5 years, and the two experiences are not very good. In the junior season, they defeated Shantou University in the key qualifying match in the Southeast Division, marched into the top 6 of the Southeast Division and participated in the national top 24 competition this year. As a result, Wang ruizawa was suspended due to a leg injury, nanchang University was shaved and lost 53 points in 5 games. In the first season of the research, Wang Ruize suffered a fracture of the fifth metatarsal in his left foot and missed the partition match. However, he magically returned in the play-off match and led the team to the top 32 in the country. Under the new system of double defeat and elimination, they only insisted on three games and declared out.
Even in Wang Ruize’s senior season with the best personal status, Nanchang University only won the 12th place in the Southeast Division. However, in that season, he could contribute 26.5 points, 9.2 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 1.3 steals, and in the face of Zhejiang University, he also scored the highest score of 36 points in his career, “the first small forward in the Southeast”, the nickname of “Southeast Leonard” began to shout on the rivers and lakes.
Southeast Leonard
The team’s performance is indeed average, but Wang Ruize has never relaxed his requirements. “We have been here for so many years, not to mention how good the ball is, at least he has not been lazy in all training.” Liu Jian said that as soon as he came out of his office, he could always see Wang Ruize practicing there alone, “Ruize knows what he wants.”
A while ago, Liu Jian went to Qingdao to watch two games at home. Wang Ruize accompanied him to dinner at night and went to practice as usual the next morning. Liu Jian was very pleased to see that his disciple did not change his original heart.
One year in the men’s basketball preliminary of the Universiade, the Jiangxi team with Nanchang University as the base had only 9 players, and there was no inside line. Liu Jian had to arrange Wang Ruize, who was 1.98 meters tall, to play from No. 2 to No. 5, “He is very tired, but he hardly complains about anything on the court. How our coach arranges, he will play, and he can always finish the task well.” Liu Jian said, “I have to thank other coaches for not asking him.”
Wang Ruize has extremely high requirements on himself. Even during the fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone of his left foot, he did not delay going to the gym, so he has a strong muscle. This muscle is an important reason why he won’t fall Leeward CBA. Eight abdominal muscles are embedded in the abdomen, just like a pair of good armor.
This tendon is really a real person who has been trained (although the mirror is a little dirty)
05. The fifth metatarsal bone and lumbar disc
With the passage of time, Liu Jian felt more and more that Wang Ruize had the ability to play CBA and planned to recommend him to CBA club. At this time, Wang Ruize’s left foot had an accident. According to his memory, it was “a little painful” at the earliest, but he could play again after a few days of rest. He did not know that the fifth metatarsal bone of his left foot was accumulating the load quietly and finally collapsed suddenly at the end of 2018.
The fifth metatarsal bone is the outermost of the five small long bones that make up the sole of the foot. In my opinion, one of the major features of the fifth metatarsal fracture is that it is easy to relapse. GE Zhaobao in Shanxi men’s basketball and Zhang Ru in Inner Mongolia Women’s basketball have all encountered this situation, and the course of disease has exceeded one year. However, Wang Ruize didn’t understand these at first. Instead of having surgery, he still walked around wearing protective boots. Later he realized that every landing of the affected limb might aggravate the injury.
Wang Ruize left foot fifth metatarsal fracture
It must be said that Wang Ruize was indeed “gifted”. This “creation” method not only did the injury not deteriorate, but gradually improved-although the film always showed a crack in the bone. He went to Jishuitan Hospital, which is good at orthopedics, and the Third Hospital of North medicine for consultation. The doctor told him, “if it doesn’t hurt, just fight like this. It’s okay. It’s not necessarily so easy to have an operation.” As a result, Wang Ruize started rehabilitation training, and he went out for the 2019 play-off game less than a month later, with a round face and 66 points in three games, helped the team reach the top 32 in the country.
In order to help Wang Ruize hit CBA, Liu Jian passed a large number of his competition highlights in the university to Zhang Beihai, the general manager of Qingdao team. He always had the habit of editing competition videos, this subordinate is on the big market. Meanwhile, Liu Jian also introduced Wang Ruize’s personal and family situation to Zhang Beihai in detail. The reason why the latter dared to promise to choose him after two training classes was because he had done enough homework in the early stage.
Qingdao team sent a thank-you letter to Nanchang University at that time.
After entering CBA, Wang Ruize’s fifth metatarsal bone of his left foot was always fine, but his right foot began to ache faintly. He didn’t take it seriously. Or in other words, he didn’t dare to take it seriously, “it’s hard to perform better, and it’s hard to feel that the coach is consciously using you and paying attention to you. I’m afraid that once I ask for leave, it will make the coach feel that I can’t hold on and suffer.” As a marginal person’s sense of insecurity, he must seize every small opportunity, so he insisted on a little injury and illness. Until I can’t hold on any more.
In the 9th round of the regular season of 2020-2021, Qingdao played against Tongxi. Wang Ruize actively fought and ran as usual. On that day, his hand was very smooth and he scored 8 points in the first three shots. At 2 minutes 47 seconds left at half court, he tried to bypass Moore Terry’s cover to chase the West heat River. His right foot kicked the ground suddenly, and he couldn’t get up on the ground at that time.
Wang Ruize’s right foot fracture
Fracture of right foot
This time, he had an operation at the suggestion of the team doctor. Instead of walking around in protective boots, he lay in bed for 2 months, if it’s a little better, just use a car to walk. He still went to the gym to practice upper limb strength, and then waited quietly for the recovery of his right foot. Just when he was finally able to walk by himself and felt that the day of returning to the stadium was not far away, “the waist is not working”.
In fact, before his right foot was injured, he had a relatively serious waist injury, but he had been sticking to it all the time. This time, obviously, he couldn’t hold on. He cheated his heart, but he couldn’t cheat his body. He sat on the sofa and plotted to me: “From the left ass to the foot anesthesia, the toe cannot be lifted.” Because he was slipped discs, he couldn’t even take care of his newly-grown right foot. He could only manage his waist while waiting for his right foot to recover.
When Wang Ruize returned to the basketball court with the steel plate in his feet, nine months after the injury, the Qingdao team was preparing for the 2021-2022 season.
06. Light of the second round show
Just when Wang Ruize stayed in bed, his two-year rookie contract also expired. At this time, it was obviously a big bet to renew the contract with him, which was whether he could return to the peak. Fortunately, Zhang Beihai was right. After returning, Wang Ruize could not see the impact of injuries at all. He not only worked hard in almost the season, but also contributed 9.1 points and 3.0 rebounds in the game, becoming an indispensable top soldier in the front line of Qingdao team.
During the off-season last year, the Qingdao team made a big change of blood. Liu Weiwei, who was famous for being good at training the youth army, took the lead. He put forward new requirements to Wang Ruize: be confident and dare to fight.
In this Qingdao team, the players born after 1999 accounted for more than half. Wang Ruize, who experienced only three CBA seasons, unexpectedly became the fourth “old” local player. But with Liu Weiwei’s support and confidence, he began to take responsibility voluntarily. “Obviously I feel more daring to play this season.” Wang Ruize said, “before taking the ball, first find foreign aid and old players, and then squat at the bottom corner. Now when I get the ball, I think, ‘Give it to me, I will fight, and I will fight if I can’t get in ‘.”
The change of mentality brings immediate effect. This season, Wang Ruize shot up to 11.3 times, with a single score of 20 + reaching 7 games. More and more people like this undead second round show. CBA talent show has been held for 8 times, and one hand that can pick the big beam in this team can be counted. Wang Ruize, who comes from “double non” colleges and has never been in the top 16 CUBAL nationwide, is one of them.
“Have you ever thought about how high you can reach without these injuries?” I asked Wang Ruize.
“It may be better without injuries. I am not sure whether it is good now, because my technology and ability are limited.” Wang Ruize thought for a moment and said, “Oh, this thing, you have to persuade yourself after being injured. You can’t be immersed in depression all the time. Your mentality is also an important factor in recovery. What’s the use of depression? It’s already like this. Why do you make yourself unhappy?”
On the day of the talent show, he came to Shanghai alone from Nanchang without the hugs of relatives and friends, the company of agents, and the attention of the media. Now, he has established himself in CBA. He still doesn’t like to laugh, but he is learning to laugh more. He always said that he was lucky: he was lucky to be chosen. He was lucky not to have a big injury such as a broken leg. He was lucky not to relapse after the injury recovered……
Liu Jian was very happy for Wang Ruize, “at least he is worthy of his efforts over the years.” Wang Ruize said, “it doesn’t mean how good you are when others praise you. It can only be said that your school is not very famous either. It is very surprising for fans to be able to play like this in CBA.”
Not long ago, after the CBA league resumed its main game, he took his mother to Guoxin Stadium to watch the ball. When he introduced his home court to his mother and led his mother to look at the huge portrait hanging on the dome, he must be extremely proud. He told me that when he saw the videos and photos about him on his mother’s social media, he could always imagine the smile when his mother pressed the send button. “Show off with others,” My son is promising.”
Wang Ruize had a happy smile on his face.
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