The Chinese men s basketball team reached the semi-finals again after 10 years, Wang Junjie scored 21 points and 8 rebounds! At the age of 12, he joined Hailiang s basketball team and the gear

On August 14th local time, in the quarter-finals of the 2025 FIBA Men's Basketball Team, the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team 79:71 and advanced to the semi-finals. Since the 2015 Men's Basketball Asian Championships (the predecessor of the Asian Cup), the Chinese team has reached the semi-finals again after 10 years. The specific scores in the fourth quarter are 25-24, 21-11, 18-20 and 15-16 (the Chinese team is ahead).

On the Chinese side, Hu Jinqiu made 11 of 15 shots, 23 points and 11 rebounds, Wang Junjie made 3 three-pointers, 21 points and 8 rebounds, Zhao Rui made 9 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Zhu Junlong made 9 points and 5 rebounds, and Yu Jiahao made 7 points and 7 rebounds.

It is worth mentioning that the youngest young player born in the 2005 in the team, Wang Junjie, who came out of Zhejiang Hailiang, can be regarded as the biggest surprise of the Chinese men's basketball team at present.

In the game against Jordan on August 9, Wang Junjie contributed two Golden Rooster independent jump shots, which amazed the whole game! FIBA officially cut a video for him. Many Chinese fans commented: I must have eaten too much coarse grain in the past few years. Unexpectedly, the men's basketball team has a No. 4 position that can hold the ball, shoot three-pointers, and be independent. Some fans also said: Wang Junjie is very independent.

In the Asian Cup group stage, Wang Junjie averaged 19.4 minutes per game, scored 11.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of 61.9%, ranking second in the team, and his three-point shooting percentage was as high as 55.6%...

Whether it is a strong inside attack, an empty cut without a ball or a long three-point shooting, he is very proficient in such an all-round fourth position, which is very rare throughout the history of the Chinese men's basketball team. He is the only national team player in the Chinese men's basketball team who has not been trained by the professional youth training system and has completely emerged from the basic education campus in the past twenty years. After several games, many fans were directly amazed by this young player who "came out of nowhere"...

The style is very unique? Growth is a "storage"

The industry commented on Wang Junjie's performance: his playing style and style are different from those of the previous national team members. He is an all-around wing with both shooting range, physical confrontation and rebounding, and has certain ball handling capabilities. The formation of this style is closely related to his growth experience.

Wang Junjie is the only player in the past 20 years who has not experienced traditional youth training, has no CBA experience, and has directed the list of the men's basketball national team from campus basketball.

The national players of the Chinese men's basketball team have basically come from the traditional youth training of sports bureaus or CBA third-level echelons in all dynasties. Wang Junjie's emergence has allowed the world to see the feasible path of campus basketball to provide qualified national players for the Chinese men's basketball team.

Wang Junjie's fate gears began to rotate when he entered the Hailiang basketball team at the age of 12.

"We can't unilaterally say that we discovered Wang Junjie, he (family) also came here." As a mentor who discovered Wang Junjie, Coach Mao Weilin said in a review of the situation where Wang Junjie was introduced.

In 2017, almost all the sources of Chinese basketball talents were still traditional youth training. Only 11 people were selected in the CBA draft that year, including only 3 college students who played CUBA. No one knows when campus basketball will rise, and Hailiang Education is also exploring and moving forward.

But that year, Hailiang's basketball team was formed with the support of "NBA China" and became one of the few school basketball teams in China at that time that had a complete echelon from elementary school to junior high school to high school. It was also that year that 12-year-old Wang Junjie came to Hailiang Education and started his non-traditional sports school path to campus basketball. Wang Junjie, who was still a child at the time, was able to do the hard work that made the coach sigh, almost making coach Zheng Bowen "forced to work overtime" every day to train.

Abstract sentence: Wang Junjie's best grades at that time was actually politics.

Talented and hardworking, who doesn’t like such a good seedling? During the years with Hailiang’s basketball team, as Wang Junjie himself said, “all the best”.

The career path of "customized models" is getting wider and wider

Previously, the coaching staff of Hailiang basketball team had trained outstanding players such as Ding Jinhui, Wu Qian, Lu Wenbo, and Wang Yibo. At this time, with his abundant resources, Hai Liang planned a completely differentiated path for Wang Junjie. In September 2019, he successfully landed in the NBA Global Elite Program and went to the Australian NBA Academy for training, becoming the fifth Chinese player to embark on this program.

won the championship in the 2020 National U15 game, scoring amazing data of 31 points and 19 rebounds in a single game, and was awarded the Most Valuable Player.

In the 2022-2023 season, the Naigao League play-offs made 13 of 24 shots, scoring 26 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, helping Hailiang Foreign Language Middle School to successfully advance to the national finals; in the third place, scoring 27 points and 22 rebounds, helping the team win the national third place historic title.

In 2023, he represented the Chinese team in the U19 World Cup, and he also partnered with young players such as Yang Hansen and Zhao Weilun. In that game, one of them was against Spain. In a strong opponent like Spain, Wang Junjie played an impressive game, hitting 4 three-pointers, scoring 21 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, and performed very well on both ends of the offense and defense. Since then, he has begun to enter the field of view of some viewers.

In April 2023, Wang Junjie, who is about to graduate from high school, did not choose to go to school in China like most high-level basketball players, but chose to join the University of San Francisco in the NCAA Division I league. You know, NCAA is the highest level of college basketball in the United States. From Hailiang to Australia and then to the United States, Wang Junjie finally embarked on the top "career" path. Life abroad was not smooth. It was not until he was frustrated at the University of San Francisco that Wang Junjie knew very well that what Hailiang taught him was far more than cultural knowledge and professional training.

"I just went abroad and encountered many difficulties alone, and some difficulties were unexpected. At that time, as a freshman, I had a bad mentality and often felt very confused and helpless."

It was at this time that the comfort and guidance of Hailiang basketball coach Zheng Bowen became his spiritual tonic.

keep running during the offense, assist in defense and fill in the position, actively create opportunities, play well for your peers, focus on playing ball, and focus on your mind. These earnest teachings engraved in DNA made Wang treat every training with all his might, and finally regained the opportunity to play in the game between San Francisco and Northern Arizona on December 21.

At the end of his sophomore season, his average time jumped to 20.1 minutes, averaging 6.3 points and 3 rebounds per game, and finally gradually became the main player of the team in the middle and late periods of the season.

In April this year, in the national men's basketball short training camp, Wang Junjie admitted, "In the future, he wants to strive to join the national team, and it is good to make a little more contribution to the national team." In June, his dream came true.

Chinese men's basketball coach Guo Shiqiang also recognized Wang Junjie's performance in the warm-up match. He said that Wang Junjie returned from overseas and participated in the training camp late. He integrated into the team faster and put in a lot of effort every day in training, and worked very hard, but there are still some places that need improvement.