No special effort was made to advertise this event, but Xu Jicheng had seen the content of Zhang Hao's interview.
Zhang Hao mentioned wanting to help the Chinese Men's Basketball Team make a mark on the world stage, but he didn't reveal his deeper sentiments, like paving the way for future players, during the interview.
Xu Jicheng felt a deeper and more complex emotion toward Zhang Hao, this big kid who just graduated high school at the age of 18. Thinking back to when he was 18...
All in all, this emotion is called respect!
Because such extremely difficult things might be expressed as dreams at certain moments, but they are never just talked about casually all the time.
But this kind of self-deprecating casual comment said in private, Xu Jicheng felt genuine respect for it. Combining his previous fondness, it elevated from admiration + expectation to respect!
