Sports Weekly: He scored 8 points in a row in the moment of life and death. Hu Jinqiu is really the magic needle for stabilizing the sea!

After receiving the MVP trophy, Hu Jinqiu stood in front of the interview camera. He let out a long sigh and looked up at the ceiling.

"Brothers did it." Hu Jinqiu tried hard to keep calm, "Oh, we finally reached the semi-finals and achieved one of our goals. Let's continue to work hard and work towards a bigger goal... I hope everyone will continue to work hard and leave no regrets for themselves."

79 to 71, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated South Korea and advanced to the semi-finals of the Asian Cup. This is the Chinese men's basketball team's final four in the Asian Cup after 10 years. In the last group stage, we lost to South Korea, but eventually fell into the conversation between eight and four and Lebanon. That time, Hu Jinqiu was unable to go out with the team because of a ruptured spleen. In the past three years, the Chinese men's basketball team has repeatedly failed in the World Championships, including the Asian Cup, the World Cup, and the Asian Games. When Hu Jinqiu was able to represent the team, we were still sliding to the bottom.

So when the Chinese men's basketball team takes revenge on South Korea's return to the semi-finals of the Asian Cup today, you can understand what this means for Hu Jinqiu.

This is a Chinese men's basketball team with stronger offense than defense and relatively weak inside. Zeng Fanbo and Zhou Qi were absent due to injury, and Yang Hansen focused on preparing for the NBA rookie season. The only centers of the Chinese men's basketball team are Hu Jinqiu and Yu Jiahao, and the number four positions are Wang Junjie and Zhao Jiayi. Li Xiangbo, as a supplement to the depth of the frontcourt, did not play in this game. As the starting center, Hu Jinqiu has no advantage in many teams, and he is not a center with top-level ability to protect the basket, but when he talks to South Korea, where his height is not outstanding, Hu Jinqiu played dominant power.

23 points team has the highest team, 11 rebounds team has the highest team (5 of which are frontcourt rebounds), and also sent a block and tried many times to interfere with the opponent's attack on the opponent's basket. Hu Jinqiu showed a performance like a white jade pillar in Qingtian. Whether it is the pick-and-roll ending, the conversion and follow-up to the board, or the attack and space-time cut and catch the ball at the basket, Hu Jinqiu can always put the ball into the basket in various ways. He scored 11 goals in 15 sports games, which is amazingly efficient. When the South Korean men's basketball team narrowed the score gap with the call in the second half, the Chinese men's basketball team was once chased close to the score and felt pressure. At the critical moment, Hu Jinqiu stood up again.

From 6 minutes and 42 seconds left in the fourth quarter to 3 minutes and 01 seconds left in the fourth quarter, within 3 minutes and 41 seconds, Hu Jinqiu took over all the 8-pointers of the Chinese men's basketball team and suppressed South Korea. The last ball was Daqiu's strong attack at the basket, and the opponent hit Hu Jinqiu's eyebrows with one elbow when he tried to block the ball, and blood was flowing down in an instant. Hu Jinqiu and Chinese men's basketball coach Guo Shiqiang signaled to the referee together, but after the coach challenged, the referee still did not add fouls. This scene is almost a microcosm of the second half of the Chinese men's basketball team - in the face of unfriendly calls, Hu Jinqiu completed the response with a strong goal.

"It's okay, it's all a trivial matter. As long as I can win, it doesn't matter what I do." Hu Jinqiu, whose eyebrows were pressed against the bandage after the game, didn't care about his injuries. All he cared about was victory.

In response to the exponential gap between the two teams' free throws (China's 13 free throws, South Korea's 26 free throws), Hu Jinqiu just said: "No matter what difficulties everyone encounters, they are not impatient or disrupt our mentality. Everyone tells each other to be calm, and everyone realizes that the ultimate goal is to win. No matter what tricks the other party uses to treat us, we must be calm."

Be able to ignite the whole team with a domineering goal in the fire, and be as stable as a rock in the face of adversity, Hu Jinqiu is not a tower with amazing talent, but the stable ending he polished with countless sweat and unreserved hard work on the court has become the stabilizing needle of the Chinese men's basketball team!

(Sports Weekly)