The "stepping" action on the women's basketball court
A women's basketball league that almost no one pays attention to is on the hot search for regrettable reasons: the team members are seriously injured and fall to the ground in urgent need of medical treatment, but they lie on the floor for 20 minutes, and the ambulance has not yet arrived; what caused the player to be injured was a stepping behavior that violated the spirit of sportsmanship, and this situation also has to cause thinking: In order to compete for victory, can we really do whatever it takes?
Feet, the death of the players
Due to the impact of the epidemic, this season's WCBA in the form of a closed tournament system in Chengdu, Sichuan, it is worth mentioning that this year's league has a special team to participate, that is, to prepare for next year's World University Games (FUSC) United Team, and this accident occurred in the team's match with the Jiangsu women's basketball team on the evening of the 5th. At that time, the game was in the fourth quarter of the game, Jiangsu women's basketball team No. 16 Sun Li shot a three-pointer on the right side, and Gu Yi hitomi, the 21st of the University Students United, stepped forward to save. Only to see Gu Yi hitomi's right arm raised high at the same time, the right foot also directly reached under Sun Li's body, causing the latter to step on the back of her foot when she landed, and Sun Li's wailing was immediately heard from the empty arena. Because of this injury, the live broadcast of the match stopped, and the score of the two sides stayed at 67-42 (Jiangsu team scored first) - it is reported that Jiangsu team strongly protested Gu Yiyi's foul behavior, and the game ended early.
Jiangsu team Sun Li full sports map
Eventually, Sun Li was diagnosed with ankle dislocation, three fractures, and ligament tears, a serious injury that could affect her career. Being injured or even seriously injured by the opponent's foot is not uncommon in the basketball arena, from the NBA to the CBA there is a precedent, Kobe, Leonard, Carter and other superstars have been deeply affected, and Bowen, Pachulia and other people have also become the evil man spurned by everyone in the NBA because of this dirty action, and Carter even chased Bowen because of this. In the CBA, there are also many players who have been injured because they were paded, and Yi Jianlian, Sun Minghui, Zhao Rui, Li Gen and others have been victims.
Stepping on the feet can be regarded as the dirty action of the stadium that players are most afraid of, because this action is easy to cause fractures and ligament tears, which are major injuries that will directly affect the player's career. As we all know, after the ligament tear, the competitive state of players will decline sharply, and treatment and rehabilitation also need to spend a lot of financial and material resources, so many players are talking about discoloration. As for why the foot pad is more harmful than elbow strike, blindfold and other actions, it is because when the player jumps up and shoots, almost all of his attention is focused on the basket, and when shooting, he pays attention to the following action of the fingers, and there is no time to detect the situation on the ground before landing, once the foot is on the opponent's foot and loses balance, the weight of the body will be pressed on the ankle, which will cause serious injury.
Severely punish and purify the atmosphere
The reason why Gu Yiyi's foul on Sun Li caused great controversy after the game was whether her behavior was deliberately hurtful, and why she did not pay attention to the injury of her opponent after causing the injury, which involved the professional ethics and sportsmanship of the players. It can be seen through the TV broadcast footage that at that time, the ball Gu Yi Hitomi pounced out of the box to defend, obviously unable to defend in place, but her right foot still reached forward, directly causing Sun Liwei's foot injury - that action, and the Warriors' Pachulia pad The Spurs Leonard was the same. It is worth mentioning that after Sun Li was injured and fell to the ground, Gu Yiyi did not have any apologies, but continued to organize the attack with the ball, and after the game was interrupted, she did not come forward to comfort the injured, but was caught by the camera saying and laughing on the bench.
Gu Yi hitomi Full sports map
For a series of performances of Gu Yiyi, the person directly responsible for Sun Li's injury, Jiangsu women's basketball team Hu Xinyu and other team members also made accusations on personal social media: "I believe that Gu Yiyi, the No. 21 women's basketball team of Beijing Normal University, has also played a lot of games, and will not know that shooting jumping up and stretching out his feet will cause injuries to the players, right? Knowing that you can't do it is deliberately hurting people. Balls are character! Has the opponent been injured without even apologizing? What about the minimum responsibility? The night before, the WCBA official also issued a fine, determining that Gu Yiyi's behavior violated the spirit of sportsmanship, and made a notice of criticism to her, an individual fine of 5,000 yuan, a five-game suspension, and gave a notice of criticism to the FUSC United team, with a fine of 10,000 yuan.
Gu Yi hitomi spoke after the game
For the WCBA's fine, netizens did not buy it, thinking that the punishment was too light. Indeed, for the dirty action of stepping on the foot, which can easily lead to serious injuries to the player, it should actually be severely punished. Because of the great damage of the foot stepping action, the 2018-2019 CBA League specially issued the "CBA Company's Letter on the Handling of the Recent Defensive Players' Foot Injury Action in the League", which pointed the finger at this dirty defensive action. At that time, the CBA required all referees to impose strict penalties for foot extensions — at least fouls that violate the spirit of sportsmanship, and in serious cases and consequences, directly punish fouls that disqualified from the game.
Whether it is the CBA or the WCBA, players are the league's most valuable asset, from the player's point of view, both to protect their own health and not to harm the health of opponents. In addition to winning or losing, there is respect, rejecting the "dirty action" of the court, and every player should start from me and lead by example. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Li Yuanchun)
Voice-over: Respect for opponents
Competitive sports encourage athletes to be brave enough to challenge and do their best to pursue victory. But the pursuit of victory is not the same as abandoning sportsmanship, but also needs to respect the field and respect the opponent.
Remember when the Shanghai men's basketball team foreign aided Abuserai? In a game against the Liaoning team, after he shook guo allen who covered himself, he took the initiative to give up the opportunity to play "2+1" in the upper basket, but instead grabbed Guo Allen's jersey in the air to avoid the latter from being injured by losing his center of gravity and falling to the ground. Yabuselle's work ethic and sportsmanship have also been widely praised, and he has been called "the warmest foreign aid in the CBA".
In fact, in the CBA arena, there is no lack of heart-warming moments. For example, in a Zhejiang derby, Sun Minghui of the Guangsha team hugged Wu Qian, who had lost his balance because of the layup, to prevent the latter from falling and injuring. In a match between Guangdong and Beijing, Xu Jie immediately withdrew his foot after sticking a shot from the opposing player to prevent his opponent from being put on the ground. In a game in the 2019-2020 season, Xinjiang's Klan Baike immediately reminded his teammate Revkatijiang to apologize to the opponent after he accidentally injured his opponent.
Coincidentally, NBA star Carter, who is often "cared for" by his opponent's dirty actions, fell to the ground and injured his waist after a defensive Warriors player's McCaw. This was Carter's inadvertent mistake, but when he saw McCaw seriously injured and carried off the field, he had tears in his eyes, and even the Warriors players came to comfort him later - Carter never thought of deliberately hurting others, even his opponents, which is the best portrayal of professionalism. (Li Yuanchun)