At the end of last month, Du Feng led the Chinese men's basketball team to win two victories over the Japanese men's basketball team, and the total point difference between the two games reached nearly 50 points, in addition to the point difference, combined with the performance of both sides in the game, the gap was clear at a glance, and the Chinese men's basketball team occupied an overwhelming advantage.
However, it was these two victories that did not arouse the excitement of the media and fans, and Japan did not show too much disappointment in this score. The reason is simple: the Chinese men's basketball team has sent almost the strongest lineup, while the Japanese men's basketball team only participated in the second team, and more importantly, several overseas players who stayed abroad did not return.
Therefore, we win imperfectly, and the other side loses unconvinced.
Are foreign players really that important to the strength of the team? There's no doubt about that.
When Yao Ming played in the NBA, his own strength was naturally quite strong. A large part of the reason why the Chinese men's basketball team at that time was strong and Asia was invincible was that we had Yao Ming in the inner line, plus Wang Zhizhi, who had NBA experience. Even if they all retire later, the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team has declined, but it is still a strong team in Asia, but also because we have Yi Jianlian in the inner line, and although Yi Jianlian's NBA experience is not perfect, its strength is NBA level.
And now, as a playing star like Yamura, he has not returned to the Japanese men's basketball team, so Japanese fans are definitely qualified to ignore these two games.
Because of the above background, we ourselves are helpless: Why can't our CBA produce another NBA player?
The NBA strength of the players, indeed, did not appear. But to the Australian League NBL, there are two: Zhou Qi and Liu Chuanxing.
The two of them were able to go to the NBL, but they were also forced to do so. But this kind of "helplessness" is more of an interpretation, but it is a kind of willfulness.
After Zhou Qi's contract with the Xinjiang men's basketball team ended, he wanted to transfer to other teams. However, according to CBA rules, if the original team (Xinjiang team) can issue a contract with a maximum salary, then it has the right to renew the contract first. Zhou Qi's team considered its own commercial value, combined with the xinjiang men's basketball team's team building ideas, can not meet Zhou Qi's own wishes, so there is an irreconcilable contradiction with the Xinjiang club, and even once sued the basketball association. There are also many details in the middle, such as non-compliance with the contract, investors behind the Xinjiang men's basketball team and so on.
For a time, the media rushed to report and appeared on the hot search list several times. If Zhou Qi is unwilling to play for the Xinjiang men's basketball team, and the Xinjiang men's basketball team uses the provision of preferential renewal, and there is no violation of the law by both sides, then Zhou Qi is doomed to have no ball to play in the CBA. As the star of hope for the Chinese men's basketball team, at the same time, Zhou Qi does not want to waste a year of youth, under the combination of various factors, he came to the current NBL league and joined the Southeast Melbourne Phoenix team.
For Liu Chuanxing of the Qingdao men's basketball team, although there are not as many stories as Zhou Qi, the general reasons are basically the same. Since Liu Chuanxing joined the Qingdao men's basketball team, he has made rapid progress almost every year, and the data is getting better and better, and his role in the team is becoming more and more prominent.
This is such a factor, after the expiration of the contract, Liu Chuanxing's team also made a request for a salary increase to the club, but the Qingdao men's basketball team did not agree to his request after synthesizing his overall play and the specific conditions of the team. So he chose the same path as Zhou Qi, came to the NBL, and joined the Brisbane Bullets.
Here we need to make a simple evaluation, Zhou Qi and Liu Chuanxing are the hope of the Chinese men's basketball team. The talent of the two people is very good, especially Zhou Qi, who is already the absolute core of the men's basketball team, and is bound to succeed Yi Jianlian in the future and carry the hope of future Chinese basketball. Due to personal reasons, choosing to leave the Xinjiang men's basketball team and leaving the CBA is their own willfulness or their absolute confidence in their own strength, everything is still unknown.
Liu Chuanxing is only 22 years old, and his height has reached 225cm, which can be said that his conditions are still very good. But he is different from Zhou Qi, Zhou Qi is already the core of the team when he was in the CBA, and has NBA experience, so the basketball environment and the perception of the outside world are incomparable to Liu Chuanxing.
Although Liu Chuanxing has improved every year in the Past Few Years of the Qingdao Men's Basketball Team, the data has not reached that surprising point. Last year's best form, only 9.7 points and 8.3 rebounds, basically a regular internal data, not the core, and Wang Zhelin, Shen Zijie is far behind, not to mention compared with Zhou Qi. And what is more fatal is that Liu Chuanxing's shortcomings are also prominent, slow movement speed, weak confrontation, poor physical fitness, easy disconnection in attack and defense speed, and poor offensive means.
However, Liu Chuanxing still chose to leave the Qingdao men's basketball team. So what about their level after arriving in a foreign country?
At present, the NBL league has been carried out for 3 rounds, and Zhou Qi's Southeast Melbourne Phoenix team has a record of 3 wins, tied for the top spot with the Illawarra Eagles, and Zhou Qi's role is becoming more and more important. Especially in the last game, it cut the horror data of 22 points, 10 rebounds and 7 blocks, which laid the team's main position in one fell swoop. And the teammates are also increasingly admiring this big man from the East, and they get along with each other happily.
Liu Chuanxing's Brisbane Bullets team did not have such good results, ranking 7th with 1 win and 2 losses, and Liu Chuanxing's playing time was not guaranteed. He averaged only 5 minutes per game and couldn't score a shot, only 0.7 points. There was no point in the last game, only 1 rebound was grabbed, and it ended dismal.
You may blame the manager for not giving him a chance, but that's just one of the reasons. Why should the head coach give you a chance, it is certain that your strength does not meet the requirements of the coach, and the usual training level is not high, then the official game is destined to be a spectator. In addition, the tactical style of the Brisbane Bullets is very distinct, that is, the attack and defense conversion is very fast, in this system, Liu Chuanxing can not find his own positioning, just needlessly running back and forth, doing blocking and demolition, typical marginal roles.
If this is the case for a long time, then it is also reasonable that Liu Chuanxing will be abandoned. Think about the scene in the Qingdao men's basketball team last season, and then compare the current dilemma, I don't know how Liu Chuanxing feels.
In addition to Zhou Qi and Liu Chuanxing, let's take a look at Zeng Fanbo, who also made a lot of noise some time ago.
This summer, the contradiction between Zeng Fanbo and the Beijing men's basketball team once reached an irreconcilable point. In the end, the two sides reached a settlement with the efforts of all parties, and this season Zeng Fanbo went to the NBA Development League to play, and if he cannot be selected by the NBA team next year, then he will return to the Beijing men's basketball team and play in the CBA League.
Zeng Fanbo, 18 years old, is considered to be the best young player in China. With a height of 2 meters 11, the performance of athletic ability, frame guard, and three points is very good, and it can also be said that the talent is very good, and it can be said that the talent is very good, and it can be said that it is a small Zhou Qi.
If such conditions are placed in China, then it is definitely a future star, as long as there is a lot of practical experience, then his growth rate will be very fast, just like Zhang Zhenlin of the Liaoning men's basketball team, entering the men's basketball national team is no longer a dream.
However, Zeng Fanbo chose to stay abroad, everyone has dreams, we must respect, but can not recognize their actual situation, it is very difficult to say. The above excellent personal characteristics, after the development alliance, almost no advantage.
The height of 2 meters 11 is really good, but only 90 kilograms of weight, even the defender can single you with his back. In addition, no matter how good his physical fitness is, in front of those young players in Europe and the United States, it is not worth mentioning at all. So far in the league, Zeng Fanbo's performance is not good, averaging only 4 points per game, in order to show personal ability to develop the league, it has come up with such dismal results, I believe that in next year's draft conference, Zeng Fanbo is difficult to be selected.
Zhou Qi must be the pillar of the future Chinese men's basketball team, Liu Chuanxing was once unanimously optimistic, with Yao Ming's shadow, and Zeng Fanbo represents the future of the Chinese men's basketball team. We all want their game to get better and better, not only for themselves, but also for the future of the men's basketball team. Fans have spoken out on social platforms more than once: you must play your own strength, because when you go abroad, you represent the image of the Chinese men's basketball team.
The fans have high expectations of them and are a spur. I don't want them to be discouraged, just to make substitutes or marginal people for others, more is the core, so that the team and opponents dare not ignore themselves. Since you were willful and chose to break with your old owner, you must have this capital to prove yourself in the new owner. Otherwise, not only will the old club be sad, but the fans will also shake their heads.
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