The new season of the CBA white paper is coming again, more detailed and richer, especially the origin of the players that many fans care about is clear and clear, compared with last season, Shandong has replaced Liaoning's top position.
Earlier last season, when the league first published its white paper, Liaoning became the leader of the 34 provincial-level administrative regions with 50 registered players in the nationality of the league. This time, the number of Liaoning players increased to 51, and Shandong, which ranked second last year, broke from 40 to 54, which is also the only two provinces with more than 50 registered people.
Among the new Shandong players, only Ma Xinxin played for Shandong, and the others were Shanghai Guo Haowen (last season's white paper did not include Bayi, who had just withdrawn), Beijing Luan Licheng, Tongxi Liu Dong and Guan Ning, Tianjin Xie Lishi, Shanxi Jia Hao and others, and Ningbo contributed to the main Hao, Li Wenhao, Xiao Tian and others at one time.
There are so many young people in Shandong, why do they still have a set of CBA's historic aging lineup?
Now the problem is very clear, look at this group of players who have just joined the CBA, many of them are from cuba, or through the draft. Compared with the past, the professional youth training system of the Shandong men's basketball team has a sharp decline in the mining and attractiveness of talents, for them, the professional youth training path is not the only choice to continue the basketball dream, and the youth training system must make more changes.
To show a more benign and healthy youth training culture and solve the worries of parents and children, we can better attract potential talents to join, but today's Shandong obviously does not have these conditions. Even if Shandong is still the top talent province in Chinese basketball, where are the young people of the Shandong team? Will Ma Xinxin and Duan Angjun be flag bearers?
As the old saying goes, liaoning is no army, and although it fell to no. 2, Liaoning is still the most important part of the CBA. There are 19 teams with at least 1 Liaoning player this season, and outside the Liaoning men's basketball team, the two teams with the most Liaoning players are Jiangsu's two teams with 4 players each, and Zhejiang Jinniu is the only team in the league without Liaoning players.
Although there are no Liaoning players in Zhejiang, it is not without Liaoning elements, and head coach Liu Weiwei is a newcomer to Liaoning Fu, who has been playing in Zhejiang since the player era, and this rising Zhejiang is almost composed of his sons and soldiers. The leading figures of the last two generations in Zhejiang, Ding Jinhui and Wu Qian, are both from Zhejiang.
Liaoning also has a large brain drain, but in the past decade or so, several groups of players have been retained in a row.
This season's Liaoning is the team with the simplest composition of the entire CBA 20 teams, except for Guangdong Lu Zijie, Heilongjiang Cong Mingchen, Shandong Zhu Rongzhen, the rest are all from this province. Liaoning is naturally also the team with the largest proportion of local players in the league, and the smallest proportion, the only player in the 20 teams who does not have a provincial origin player is Shanghai.
The Shanghai men's basketball team has no Shanghai players, and the only Shanghainese in the CBA is Zhu Songwei of the Sichuan team. In the past three years, Shanghai has been recruiting and quickly forming a rising team, with players from 14 provinces across the country, and Beijing after Zhou Yixiang's departure, the team with the most source provinces for league players.
Perhaps this can also explain why in the past many years, the Shanghai men's basketball team has been sluggish for a long time, and the withering of local basketball talents may also be one of the important reasons. Shanghai has been accumulating strength for a long time and is currently ranked second in the league, but if it is to remain in the ranks of strong teams for a long time, the integrity of the youth training system is indispensable.
As an example, the Guangdong men's basketball team has never been the majority of Guangdong players, and at present, only Yi Jianlian, Xu Jie, and Zhao Jinyang are from Guangdong, and the youth training coverage is all over the country. There are a total of 15 Guangdong players actively in the league, 6 of whom are in Fujian, including Liu Xucheng and Fang Weibo of Hongyuan Youth Training, Ou Junxuan of Dongguan Basketball School, and Li Yiyang and Zhuang Zhan of Guangdong Campus.
Speaking of which, the brain drain and the decline in club records are the most obvious in Jiangsu. Today, jiangsu's two CBA teams are in the bottom of the league, and the outflow of Jiangsu players is extremely serious, and only 7 of the 26 remain in Jiangsu and the two teams. Zhejiang next door has the most powerful poaching, with as many as 7 Jiangsu players, and other famous Jiangsu stars have also played for other teams, such as Shenzhen Shen Zijie, Beijing Control Zhang Fan, Shanghai Yuan Tangwen, Qingdao Zhang Chengyu and so on.
Even worse than Jiangsu is the talent province without CBA teams.
There are 8 provinces with more than 20 active players, and Hebei, Heilongjiang and Henan do not have CBA teams. Henan has 33 players, Jiangsu and Shanxi have 4 each, the predecessor of the Shanxi men's basketball team is from Henan, and the youth training is now inextricably linked. There is a Henan credit shop old wine in the NBL, Jiang Yuxing is from here, and this season has contributed 3 players to the CBA: Cui Xiaolong, Jia Hao, and Lu Junhu.
Hebei has 32 players, 7 of whom play for Tianjin, which is also considered to be the principle of proximity. In the NBL, There is Hebei Xianglan, and Tianjin's foreign player Kenny Burton this season averaged 45.7 points per game that year, and was elected the league scoring champion. Prince Qi, who came out of Xianglan, is currently fighting with Xi and is a crooked shooter.
In contrast, although Heilongjiang also has 26 players, but there is not even an NBL team at present, Heilongjiang Fengshen was punished by the Basketball Association in 2015 for unpaid wages, and then disappeared from the basketball world. Active Heilongjiang players, Zhao Rui, Cong Mingchen, Zhang Dayu, Liu Zeyi, Zong Zan, Zeng Fanbo, Ding Haoran, Liu Lipeng, Zheng Zhun, Wang Ruize, etc., have various positions, if they really form a team, it is really very strong.
If it is worse than miserable, there are even more tragic, Tibet, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, Hainan, Macao 6 provinces directly do not have active CBA players. Hong Kong has Xiao Jianxun joined Shanxi through the draft this season, but later injured, and Taiwan has 5 players, and it is basically the main level.
A total of 5 provinces narrowly escaped the embarrassment of hanging zero with 1 player, Hong Kong Xiao Jianxun, Jiangxi Liu Yutao, Guizhou Li Muhao, Yunnan Baidi, Shanghai Zhu Songwei. Inner Mongolia, which has always been considered by many people to have a low sense of existence, actually has 9 players including Xu Xin, Dong Hanlin, Wu Zihan, Wu Tingjia, Wang Xu, etc. Battle has vigorously developed basketball in Inner Mongolia and may continue to improve in the future.
In this regard, Xinjiang is a model.
This season, the number of Xinjiang players has reached 23, which is the first time that Xinjiang has exceeded 20, and just half of the teams in the league have Xinjiang players. In addition to the 9 players of the team, there are also people like Shandong Ding Yanyuhang, Guangdong Malik, Shanghai Kelan Baike, Tongxi West Relijiang, Guangsha Hu Jinqiu and so on.
The development of basketball in Xinjiang is stepped, starting from the Xinjiang Flying Tigers men's basketball team breaking into the CBA in 2002 to the 09-11 three consecutive years of the finals, which is the first stage, to make a name for itself, and the accumulation of basketball culture has greatly improved the fertility of talent soil. After winning the youth league championship in 2014 and then winning the CBA championship in 2017, Xinjiang's youth training system has become increasingly complete, which is also an important foundation for them to remain among the strongest teams in the league since then.
By the way, there are also some players whose place of origin has changed, or which is different from the public impression. Born in Xinjiang, Hu Mingxuan is an Anhui national, He Xining from Jinan, Shandong Province, is from Beijing, and Fang Shuo, a veteran of the Beijing men's basketball team, is from Ningbo, Zhejiang. In addition, netizens have always said that Liu Yi in Shandong and Li Tianrong in Shanghai look very similar, and the two are indeed from Henan, perhaps a hundred years ago there was really a blood relationship.
The announcement of the player's place of origin is not to let some fans open a map cannon and play regional discrimination, but actually to observe the CBA powers and the Talent Pool of the Chinese men's basketball team. There are many problems hidden under the place of origin, how to improve the quality of youth training in provinces with large talents to retain talents, how to attract talents at the two levels of league and youth training in provinces with relatively scarce talents, how to carry out basketball exchanges and the exploration and training of potential talents in developed and backward areas, etc., the task is heavy and the road is long.
Qilu is proud of Shenzhou, and there is no Liao, no army. The wind rises in Beijing and Guangdong, and the sun rises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The people in the middle are easy, but the road in the west is difficult. Looking at Xinjiang, basketball should be like this.