I believe that when I mentioned Battle's absence from the 2008 Olympic Games, there must be many old fans who came in to see what was the reason, after all, there was no official reasonable statement about this matter at that time, and fans generally believed that Battle was not eligible for the Beijing Olympic Games for personal physical reasons, so is this really the case?
Everyone knows that the Chinese men's basketball team in 2008 is recognized as the strongest generation, although we are still at the level of the top eight, but it is undeniable that the team is the strongest in the history of the men's basketball team, after all, there are only a few national teams in the world that can play back and forth with the American Dream 8 team. At that time, the 12-man roster of the Chinese men's basketball team was: Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian, Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Lei, Li Nan, Wang Shipeng, Sun Yue, Liu Wei, Chen Jianghua, and Zhang Qingpeng.
You know, in the year that Battle was eliminated by the men's basketball team, he averaged 17.4 points, 13.9 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 1 block per game in the CBA, and although he was 33 years old at that time, he was still at his peak. Moreover, the Beijing Olympic Games are a competition at the doorstep, and no one will voluntarily give up such an opportunity to show themselves. It is worth mentioning that it was also from the beginning of the lack of national team in 2008 that Battle completely left the national team and has not appeared in the international arena since then.
Then, fans and friends will ask, what is the reason why Battle failed to become a player of the 08 golden generation? Now listen to what I have to say:
Reason 1: He did not know how to cherish the opportunity, offended Yao Ming, and became a negative teaching material
There is no doubt that Battle's physical fitness and talent are recognized as the ceiling of the center, but he is a man who single-handedly knocked down O'Neal, and he has NBA qualifications and CBA MVP honors. Veteran fans know that as early as the training of the men's basketball team at the 2004 Sydney Olympic Games, Battle was the most senior big brother in the team at that time, and he was still more active in his early training. When Battle won the competition with Tang Zhengdong, the bus began to slacken off completely, often lazily in training on the grounds of injury, and even repeatedly absent from training.
Battle's passive slack made Yao Ming, who had a strong sense of responsibility at the time, very dissatisfied. Yao Ming even said his own classic quote: "The national team does not raise a master, if you want to fight, you will train well, and if you don't fight, you will get out!" "The reason is that Battle thinks he is a strong faction, and the national team must bring himself, so when training, he hangs himself." Yao Ming felt that being a big brother would bring bad young players, so he was openly intimidated, and then he did not take him, and indeed there was nothing wrong with him.
This is also because our internal line was fighting a rich war, even if there was no bus, there were pillars such as Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, and Yi Jianlian. Now, for example, how powerful is Zhou Qi's off-field demon, it really came to the international competition: the head coach, the national team, the General Administration of Sports, who dares to say no?
Reason 2: The three great walls of China are gathered together, and Battle is indeed inferior to Yao, Wang, and Yi
To be fair, the core reason why Battle lost the 2008 Olympic men's basketball team was because the Chinese men's basketball team did not lack centers at that time. It should be known that there are three major fronts in the inner line, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian, and he does not have an advantage no matter who competes with him, so Battle's defeat belongs to the normal survival of the fittest.
And the habit of our Chinese men's national basketball team is to pass on the help, the old, the middle and young, to ensure that there are experienced veterans in the lineup, there are players at the helm who are at the peak, and there are young and powerful young players who can be expected in the future to ensure follow-up training. Wang Zhizhi is the role of a veteran, Yao Ming is a peak star, and Yi Jianlian has also entered the NBA at that time, becoming the center with the most development potential. The three of them gathered together, and naturally there was no place for Battle.
In general, Battle was once an inexplicable existence, how much we miss the Chinese men's basketball team, so talented, so that even Battle could not enter the national team list!
Reason 3: Battle's tactical play is no longer suitable for the national arena
Old fans know that At that time, Battle's playing style was actually not suitable for the international arena, as he grew older, his speed has slowed down, fast attack and counterattack can not keep up, the pace has also become slower, in the CBA, although it can still kill four parties, but the national arena has become a burden in the team system.
In addition, Battle's attack is mainly based on low-back singles and outside involvement projection, the defensive end is basically shrunk under the basket, but in the international arena, the pace of attack and defense conversion is much faster than the CBA, Battle's defensive loopholes will be infinitely magnified (in fact, the finals of Xinjiang and Guangdong in those years have been exposed), and Battle's offensive end power is not as dominant as Yao Ming, so both offensive and defensive ends are not suitable.
Compared with Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming, Battle's strength is not dominant, and for Yi Jianlian, he is old, has poor mobility, and relatively rough technology, and will naturally fail. In that era, the Chinese men's basketball team had Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian enough, they are the future, is the hope, Battle will eventually be slapped on the beach by the back wave.
In summary, Battle's peak period but farewell to the experience of the national team, both the reasons for his own personality, but also the reasons for the decline in strength, basketball is still a youth meal after all, competition is inevitable, as a person who goes down the mountain, he did not lose to the opponent, but lost to time!