The calendar of 2021 has turned to the last page, because the Olympic Games and the National Games are rarely held in this year, so 2021 is a very important year for Chinese basketball, even if the Chinese men's basketball team failed to break into the Olympic Games, but the Chinese basketball people did not give up, they are still working tirelessly, in this cold winter, retaining the flame of hope.
With the defeat to Greece in the Olympic games on July 2, the Chinese men's basketball team, which lost two consecutive games, completely failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games. In fact, such an ending, after the end of the 2019 Basketball World Cup, has been doomed, but because the Olympic Games have been postponed to 2021, the feeling of despair is no longer strong, instead, it is hoped that the Chinese men's basketball team will play a spirit in the losing tournament, facing the two european and American teams of Canada and Greece, showing the momentum of the newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers.
The young men of the Chinese men's basketball team tried their best, because the gap in strength was still defeated, but fortunately, Zhou Qi, Hu Mingxuan and so on had a more eye-catching play. Therefore, the Chinese men's basketball team can also be regarded as having achieved the goal expected before the game.
Just when the outside world questioned that the Chinese men's basketball team had lost its position as the hegemon of Asia, they defeated the Japanese team four times in the Asian Cup qualifiers and the World Cup qualifiers, especially at the End of the Year World Preliminary Tournament, the Chinese men's basketball team risked the epidemic to fly to Sendai and won dignity with two big victories. It is worth mentioning that in the second match between the World Preliminary Tournament and the Japanese team, Zhou Qi did not appear because of the first game, but his teammates played a high level, everyone united as one, the wonderful scenes continued, not only won, but also made people's blood boil.
In the cultivation of talents, Zhou Qi, Hu Jinqiu, and Shen Zijie have gradually picked up the girder and slowly taken over the banner of Yi Jianlian. In addition, Guo Allen is becoming more and more mature, Zhao Rui is growing rapidly, Hu Mingxuan is making rapid progress, behind them, Yu Jiahao, Zeng Fanbo and other younger generations have also shown good potential, so the Chinese men's basketball team is still steadily advancing, making every effort to prepare for the World Preliminary Tournament and next year's Basketball World Cup.
This year, for the Chinese women's basketball team, it is full of regrets but does not lose confidence. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the girls won all three games in the group stage, and qualified as the first place in the group, especially the quasi-elimination of Australia and the defeat of the European strong opponent Belgium is exciting, so the outside world has given higher expectations to the Chinese women's basketball team, hoping that they can once again get on the podium since the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
However, contrary to expectations, the Chinese women's basketball team once led by double digits, and was reversed by Serbia in the quarterfinals, failing to break into the final four and finally ranking fifth. In the final of the Asian Cup that followed, the Chinese women's basketball team once again repeated the same mistakes, and was reversed by the old rival Japan women's basketball team, regrettably relegated to the second place.
However, the Chinese women's basketball team as a whole is still very young, Li Meng is in the year of playing, Yang Liwei, Huang Sijing, Wang Siyu, etc. are still young, Li Yueru, Han Xu, Li Yuan is only in their early 20s, after three years of growth, they will launch a strong impact on good results at the Paris Olympic Games.
The Chinese three-person women's basketball team composed of Zhang Zhiting, Yang Shuyu, Wang Lili and Wan Jiyuan was even more difficult to overcome thorns in the Tokyo Olympic Games, defeating France, defeating Japan, and the final champion, the United States, and finally won the bronze medal, which is the best result achieved by the Chinese women's basketball team in the Olympic arena since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The rise and fall of the league is closely related to the performance of the national team, and the lack of foreign competition, coupled with the influence of other factors, has affected both the CBA and the WCBA league: the continuous empty-court conference system has made the clubs miserable, the league attention has decreased, the club dividend has decreased, the number of sponsors has declined... Chinese basketball is struggling to move forward in this cold winter.
However, the Chinese Basketball Association and CBA have been working hard. Last season, the CBA has begun to open the audience in an orderly manner, allowing fans to return to the game, and in the second stage of this season, some games in the Changchun division have been difficult to find. As the situation improves, the third phase is not without the possibility of restoring home and away. In addition, Zhejiang, Beijing, Guangsha, Shanghai and other teams have the confidence to compete with Liaoyue, and the CBA has also ushered in the situation of the princes competing for hegemony, and while the game is becoming more and more exciting, more and more local players have the opportunity to emerge. The WCBA also quietly ushered in the finals of this season, and the two strongest teams, the Sichuan women's basketball team and the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team, will play a peak duel in a win-three game.
Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now stepping forward from the beginning, Chinese basketball at the trough is still constantly seeking, in this cold winter to set aside the wind and snow, looking forward to the arrival of spring. 2021 is about to become a thing of the past, the new year has come to the eyes of the world, and Chinese basketball people will continue to move forward and never stop.