Live broadcast bar, June 2. Before that, Shen Zijie, a men’s basketball player in Shenzhen, accepted an exclusive interview with Xue Sijia, a reporter from Oriental Sports Daily.
Part of the content is as follows:
Being powerless, Shen Zijie had a feeling of “punching on cotton” on the court, followed by various query and criticism from the outside world.
This was not the first time that Shen Zijie was in the whirlpool of public opinion. Last season’s playoff against Shanghai, a quarrel between Shen Zijie and He Xining made him be at the forefront of the storm, the ending of the final elimination of the Shenzhen team magnified the quarrel at that time. In the eyes of the outside world, Shen Zijie is a happy player. This kind of playing style that never hides his inner emotions often makes people feel his reality, but it also makes people point the finger at his emotional management problems. “At that time, the outside world thought that if it weren’t for the quarrel between He Xining and me, we would be promoted to the top four. Because we were nearly 20 points ahead in the first game, but we lost in the end, so we posted various labels to me at that time.” In order to minimize the negative impact of those voices, Shen Zijie turned off the private letters and comments of all his social platforms, but was still inevitably forced to accept some information, fortunately, with the passage of time, he gradually learned how to shield the disturbance in this environment, “now he doesn’t care much about the voice of the outside world, more focus on the performance on the court and your own state.”
In the interview, Shen Zijie admitted his impetuousness without hesitation. The killing of Xinjiang team in the regular season of 2019, at that time, he was only 21 years old and felt the great attention from the outside world for the first time. This upsurge once lost him in the praise, “that killing had a great influence on me indeed, I have changed my mind a lot. I feel that I have become very important in the team at once, and I can even say that I have become a little arrogant. Looking back now, it is all a kind of growth and experience.”
Not afraid of failure, afraid of only the courage to start again. With the recovery of his physical condition, Shen Zijie finally found his familiar self in the third stage and played a high-profile performance in the playoffs, “I don’t think I have any extraordinary performance, I can only say that I have returned to a normal level.” According to statistics, Shen Zijie played an average of 26.8 minutes in the playoffs, with 18 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.3 cap data, almost supporting the no-fly zone of Shenzhen team by himself.