Successful transformation under pressure
When I first met him, he was very anxious and helpless. That was the first game of the CBA finals in 2002-03. After the preparatory meeting, all the players went on stage to warm up. In the visiting lounge at the home of Youngor Bayi Stadium in Ningbo, "Hagrid" involuntarily lit a cigarette. The cigarette was not finished in his hand, but burned out, because he kept smoking the cigarette holder unconsciously. Fortunately, the game didn't last long.
The second time I saw him in a hurry was before the fifth game of this year's CBA finals and after the preparatory meeting. He took the players to the venue and watched them warm up. He asked a familiar friend for a cigarette and went back to the lounge to smoke alone.
"The more you get to the key game, the more you feel that the time before the game starts is very long. I can't show my feelings. I have done what I should do, and the rest is providence. "
That's the sequela of excessive concentration. Speaking of these finals, he always laughs at himself with this sentence at the end.
In the men's basketball preliminaries of the 10th National Games, Hongyuan, who played for Guangdong, won all four games and successfully qualified for the first place in the group. However, Chen Haitao, who is the leader for the third time, feels that the burden on his shoulders is getting heavier and heavier. There is a simple reason. Guangdong men's basketball team not only undertakes the mandatory task of winning the gold medal in the collective project at the 10th National Games, but also serves as a banner of Guangdong Legion as a model team in different places, which is unprecedented in the previous two sessions.
Representing Guangdong in the first two National Games, the eighth National Games finished the task in the third place, and the ninth National Games finished the task in the fourth place, which seems to be one place lower than the scheduled goal. Coincidentally, it was the Jiangsu team that knocked them off the podium in the Ninth National Games. It's really four years later, and I can write a thick book.
"This champion is the most tired this year, mainly because of mental fatigue. Not only is the pressure multifaceted, but the process from starting a business to staying in an enterprise is a qualitative change. Now we can say that we have successfully transformed again. "
Turn the village into Locke Park.
Chen Haitao is currently the director of Hongyuan Group and the general manager of Dongguan Zhenxing Trade Development Company. At the age of 27, he became the general manager of Hongyuan Men's Basketball Club. At that time, Hongyuan men's basketball team was built by himself and his father Chen Lin. With the step-by-step development of Hongyuan Group, the stadium with strategic significance used when the team was built has given way to the "Hongyuan Building International Ballroom" which will be built soon after Hongyuan successfully defended the league title. This time, Chen Haitao simply moved out of the training hall: "This land definitely belongs to basketball. One day, when conditions permit, we will build a more beautiful stadium here. " Because it has witnessed everything that Hongyuan Men's Basketball Team has experienced in the past ten years.
From 1987, it was on this site that Chen Haitao and his father Chen Lin challenged the heroes from Dongguan on behalf of Huangcun Town at that time, which was quite like "Locke Park". Later, the level of competition in this venue became higher and higher, attracting more and more audiences. The reason lies in the participation of professional players, also known as "guns". Later, the nearest team can be invited to Guangdong, and even teams from far away Shaanxi participated, including some famous people. At that time, in professional teams, this kind of game was called "playing wild ball" and has been preserved to this day.
Seeing that the "water level" of the competition is getting higher and higher, Chen Lin and his son cooperated with Jilin team for the first time on 1992, and formed the earliest Hongyuan men's and women's basketball team to represent Huangcun Town in Dongguan National Games, and both won the first place in the men's and women's basketball teams. At the same time, they are also very famous in Dongguan.
1993- 1994, introduced by Guan Deyou and Li Qingshan, and imported from Li Chunjiang, Huang Yunlong, Zhang Yongjun and other countries. Due to the restriction of the mechanism at that time, Hongyuan could only participate in official competitions such as the Hong Kong Federation of Industry and Commerce Cup. Even so, "we successfully held the National Club Cup and won the second place." When Chen Haitao recalled this past, it was still difficult to hide the early heroism of the club. That year, Chen Haitao became the general manager of Hongyuan Men's Basketball Club at the age of 27. Previously, he had his own revitalization company.
1995- 1996 is the first season of CBA league. Prior to this, Hongyuan had to pass the low-level competition according to the normal procedure to advance to A, but the players who had already received high salaries simply shrugged off the level competition like B. At that time, Chen Haitao, 27 years old, did a lot of ideological work for players much older than him, which also made Hongyuan successfully compete with the then Air Force basketball team for A in the first season of CBA league.
"Because football comes first, the professional understanding of basketball at that time was still very naive." When Chen Haitao said this, he meant something. In the first season of CBA, Hongyuan men's basketball team won the second place in the league with a group of retired former national players. Since then, the name "Guangdong Hongyuan" has spread like wildfire not only in football, but also in basketball. "That's it, I didn't feel satisfied at that time, because we all went for the championship." That's why Chen Haitao thought he was naive at that time.
After the 96-97 season, it will be the task of playing the Eighth National Games on behalf of Guangdong. "The mood at that time was very relaxed because we knew our own strength." Although Hongyuan finally completed the task assigned by the Sports Commission at that time, Guan Deyou, a veteran coach before the game, broke his achilles tendon, which directly led to his retirement. Chen Haitao vaguely felt the coming of the team's difficult situation.
I am most proud that the melon I planted is ripe.
Perhaps the most proud place for Chen Haitao in the 10-year league is the echelon construction agreement reached with Guangdong Institute of Sports Technology before this. Because of playing with a group of veterans for three seasons, Hongyuan finally reached the threshold of upgrading. In the 1997- 1998 season, Hongyuan saw some excellent basketball players such as Ding Wei, Tao Xiaogang and Ma Yukun in the use of domestic aid, and spent more than one million on this item, but the results were not very satisfactory. That year, the new forces Du Feng, Zhang Boyu and Huang Yong were enriched to Hongyuan Team.
"Watching them be transferred from the second team is like watching the fruits they planted mature." Since then, Hongyuan has never spent a penny on domestic aid. "The reason is very simple. I don't want to make a wedding dress for others. After all, it is your own child. Since they were chosen, there is no reason not to give them a chance. " When Chen Haitao made such a decision, the opinions of the whole group almost reached a high degree of unity.
According to the club's plan, the team's upgrade should be basically completed in the 1999-2000 season, and the team's ranking should also be guaranteed to wander between the fourth and fifth. Since then, Li Chunjiang's promotion has also been doubted by all parties, but Chen Haitao resisted the pressure.
During the 200 1-2002 season, the team's performance kept rising, and Chen Haitao remained calm all the time. "It's like being a great chef. When you have completed all the preparations as planned, the rest of the results can be imagined. "
Hagrid is the unity of chivalrous man and businessman.
Accurately speaking, Chen Haitao felt the real pressure and tension only when the new generation Hongyuan stood in the middle circle of the August 1st showdown again. 1995- 1996 felt the naivety of the finals atmosphere for the first time in the season, and after eight years, it has become a "genuine" responsibility and expectation. These may be the best footnotes of his nervous performance in the pre-match lounge.
"I didn't lose heart, but I was very angry and angry with myself, because I didn't completely instill in them the feelings and experiences of 1995- 1996 season and Bayi's competition for the third place in the championship. I don't blame anyone. " If 27-year-old Chen Haitao is still slightly green, then eight years later, he has become quite mature and steady in the basketball circle. On the night when he lost the championship two years ago, he spent a whole day in Ningbo with the players who called him "Hagrid" because he knew that at that critical moment, the recognition of the players was the best comfort for them. The biggest difference between Chen Haitao's two championships is the length of excitement, which may be unexpected to all those who don't know him, and everyone who knows him can understand, especially this year's champion.
"I am only happy for ten minutes to win this year. This is definitely not a humiliating gesture, because we have made several times or even dozens of times more efforts than others. These efforts can never be measured by money, and the result is natural. "
Hongyuan put aside the early investment in professional leagues. Today, their investment in the club is not the highest, but it is definitely the best in professional clubs.
The player's "Hagrid" is a mixture of a businessman and a knight. In order to buy the ideal car and house, he can do whatever it takes. He can mobilize his mother to cook old fire soup for the players; He can also break into a furious rage and reprimand a big guy who is more than two meters tall to tears; But that doesn't count. "Hai Ge, when you don't talk, it is the most terrible." This is their common feeling.
"I think, as a businessman, I am a person who pays attention to integrity; For players, I am an emotional person. " Chen Haitao said of himself.