On Christmas Eve on the 24th last weekend, there were 2 games in the NBA T1 League that day. One of them was the Tainan Taigang Falcons vs. Taoyuan Yongfeng Clouded Leopards. Unable to play, but there is still a highlight on the court, that is, the “little four” Su Yijie, who just resigned as the general manager of Yunbao, returned to the court as a starter. Although Yunbao lost 96:105 in the end, Su Yijie’s performance Fans all over Taiwan were amazed, scoring 17 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds, it was like sitting in a time machine and seeing his performance in his heyday.
But fans who have only recently started to pay attention to the basketball world, you may not know that Su Yijie was one of the “Four Juniors of the Asian Youth” back then!
Su Yijie, who was born in 1987, happened to be experiencing the era when Michael Jordan was popular all over the world, so since Su Yijie was only 5 years old, he would watch the game with his family in front of the TV. Since then, basketball has become his favorite sport up. Su Yijie, who has been fond of basketball since he was a child, joined the basketball club since elementary school, but he is also a very smart kid. He was even a student in the gifted promotion class in junior high school. He would play basketball with his classmates in their spare time to relieve stress. His family members also support him in cultivating basketball as a “hobby”.
In the third year of junior high school, Su Yijie finally mightn’t hold back the enthusiasm in his heart, and participated in the Mayor’s Cup of Keelung City. His wonderful performance on the court was recognized by Gong Jianneng, then chairman of the Keelung Basketball Association, and Fu Mingren, the coach of Zhengbin Junior High School. Actively want Su Yijie to enter a famous high school basketball school. Even though his family strongly opposed Su Yijie’s “eating basketball” at the time, he did not hesitate to cause a “family revolution” and he wanted to realize his dream no matter what he said. In the end, under the help of Gong Jianneng and Fu Mingren, Su Yijie entered HBL high school basketball The powerhouses in the League One team forced the high school to officially embark on the road of basketball.
Su Yijie, who did not receive formal basketball training before high school, was originally extremely talented and talented. After being trained by a coach, he even shined in the HBL arena. Ball genius”. At that time, Su Yijie was not only good at handling the ball, but also faster than other people of the same age. With sensitive fake moves, Su Yijie often played around his opponents on the court. Not only is he excellent at the game, but he can also become the “commander” on the court. He knows how to “play the ball” and can analyze it better than any player. His head and superb skills make him highly relied on by coaches in the team, and he has also accumulated a large number of fans.
At that time, one of the most famous players in Qiangshu High School was Chen Shinian. He was a big hit in HBL. He was once named the best point guard in HBL and the most valuable player (MVP) in international high school basketball games. Su Yijie, who plays the same point guard position as his senior Chen Shinian, will naturally be compared. However, following Chen Shinian graduated, Su Yijie not only successfully succeeded Chen Shinian as the “best point guard”, but also his passing vision and offensive rhythm. Even the on-the-spot reaction is not inferior to the senior Chen Shinian, and even combined with Su Yijie’s own tricky ball, copying the ball and fast break “all-round style of play”, he has become Qiangshu High School’s star player and the key to victory.
Although Su Yijie’s best ranking in HBL was only 4th during the three years of Su Yijie’s study in Qiangshu, Su Yijie’s personal strength overwhelmed everyone. He was selected into the 2004 Asian Youth Cup team when he was a sophomore. Among the 12 members of the team that year, except Jian Jiahong, Zuo Congkai, Zheng Renwei, and Su Yijie, who were sophomores, the other 8 were all sophomores, so the 4 of them won the “Four Juniors of the Asian Youth” It’s called, the performance that year was very exciting, not only shocked the Japanese team, but even entered the playoff with the Chinese team, and finally finished fifth.
Su Yijie is not only so good, he was invited to participate in the “NIKE ASIA CAMP” training camp organized by the leading sports brand for two consecutive years during high school. He actively attracted Su Yijie to join with the “full scholarship”. Unfortunately, even with the scholarship subsidy, the burden of living expenses abroad is huge. In the end, Su Yijie gave up the opportunity to travel to the United States because of his family’s financial conditions. He joined the Taiwan SBL Super Basketball League following graduating from high school. .
Su Yijie, who used to wear the No. 4 jersey and was nicknamed “Little Four”, still wore the familiar No. 4 jersey following joining the SBL Daxin Engineering Team. He has been greatly reused by the team and has a record of playing in every game. Not only is Su Yijie not afraid of tigers when he was born, but he also seized the opportunity and performed quite calmly. The best rookie king, he took the next season to a higher level and won the league assists king with an average of 5.7 assists per game.
In the next few years, Su Yijie played for the Taiwan Cloud Leopards (now Fubon Warriors) and Taiwan Beer, and also played for the Xinjiang Guanghui Team and the Foshan Dragon Lions Team of the Chinese Men’s Basketball Professional League (CBA). Won the assist king, the best five and other honors. Until 2016 when he returned to his old club Daxin once more, Su Yijie not only achieved the 1,000th assist in his career that season, but also became the fourth player following Chen Shinian, Wu Yongren and Chen Zhizhong. So far no one has achieved 1,000 assists, and Su Yijie averaged 4.25 assists per game in his career At the same time, it is also the statistic with the highest assists per game among the four players. At the end of the season, he also led Daxin to the championship. In the following season, Su Yijie even achieved the first triple-double record in his career. With 21 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 1 steal, he became the seventh player to create this record following 15 years of SBL.
In 2019, 32-year-old Su Yijie posted on the social platform that he was “tired and tired” of his 15-year basketball career. He resolutely retired. Even following the former Yunbao head coach Wang Zhiqun resigned this year, Su Yijie also served as the acting head coach for a while, and became the “Four Heads” in the fans’ mouths from a young age. Surprisingly, in October this year, Yunbao suddenly officially announced that in the new 2022-23 season, Su Yijie, as the general manager, will also serve as a player at the same time, which surprised the senior fans who missed him.
Su Yijie, who only spent 3 days in training following resigning from his position as the general manager of Yunbao due to Howard’s recent game incident, returned to the professional basketball game at the age of 35 following 3 years, and realized what many netizens said “” Tell you to always A to come out and call” this sentence.
Su Yijie played a total of 33 minutes in the T1 debut as a starter. Although he is a bit “fat” in his middle-aged figure and his running speed is not as good as before, Jiang is still old and hot! Relying on the accumulated game experience in the past, Su Yijie personally contributed 17 points, 6 assists, and 4 rebounds. The points he scored were the highest among the local players in the team. In his youth, he personally gave a shocking education course to the young defenders of the two teams. Even the ball critics mightn’t help shouting: “What kind of general manager!? Just come back and play!” Although in the end Cloud Leopard still Lost, but Su Yijie’s wonderful performance makes it hard to believe that he has retired for 3 years!
For a professional player, as long as there is no training for 3 months, 3 weeks, or even a few days, it will have an impact on the state of the court. Although Su Yijie has been out of the battlefield for 3 years, relying on his innate basketball talent and accumulated experience, it seems that the time of not playing for these 3 years does not exist. Next, let us expect him to use his passing skills and The strongest player in Taiwan’s basketball history defeated his opponent in Warcraft Connection!
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