After the Storm of the World Preliminary Round stranded in Europe, the Chinese women's basketball team finally returned to China to complete the necessary isolation process. The players also finally got a rare opportunity to reunite with their families. After a brief rest, they will soon assemble to prepare for the next World Cup and the Hangzhou Asian Games. During this precious holiday of "busy sneaking around", a message came from the WNBA, which made Li Yueru, the main center of the women's basketball team, become the object of everyone's hot discussion. And for the question of "whether to go abroad to play ball", everyone's opinion seems to be difficult to unify.
At noon today, many portals and accounts simultaneously exposed the news that the Chicago Sky team signed a contract with Li Yueru in the WNBA League, and the specific transaction progress is actually unclear at present. But we can see from what team manager and coach James Wade said: "Now we are figuring out how and when she can come over", Li Yueru may be quite a long way from actually playing abroad.
What are the benefits of playing abroad? At present, it is actually an advantage: compared with our domestic league, the level of the WNBA may be higher, and the young Li Yueru will get a higher level of experience opportunities to improve his various skills again. Both individuals and national teams will benefit a lot. Still, it's probably the only thing that's attractive. In terms of personal income, Li Yueru will not make much money because of playing abroad. What we need to know is that the salary of the WNBA is not very high, and about $100,000 is already a relatively large contract. A superstar like Li Yueru, it should not be a big problem for us to get a million contract in our WCBA. Calculated only from the perspective of personal income, it may not rise but fall.
In addition, there is a real problem in front of Li Yueru, that it is impossible to play in the WNBA for the time being. Leaving aside the WCBA's training and games, the national team schedule alone is quite intensive. The World Cup and Asian Games are held in September. In order to have a perfect performance on the stage and at the doorstep of the World Series, the women's basketball team will start closed training very early. It is impossible to play abroad for a short period of time.
Finally, there is one of the biggest uncertainties - even if Li Yueru really went to play in the WNBA, it would not necessarily be much progress immediately. In fact, Han Xu, another center in our country, has had the experience of the WNBA, although the momentum created at that time was not small, and it was known as a talent. The WNBA also gave a high evaluation when it came to the draft, but when playing, Han Xu's chance to play was limited. Of course, for a center like Li Yueru, who has already played and has a certain reputation in the world, the treatment in the team is definitely stronger than that of rookie rookies. Even so, it was Li Yueru who adapted to the whole team, not the whole team to adapt to her. Just like Zhou Qi, who played in Australia this season, it has now become a scene of "riding a tiger". In the team is tepid, obviously the strength of the coach is not to give you tactical status. Then the referee will also target you openly and covertly, making you play very badly, and you can't make it strong!
In the same way, if there is no full status in the team and always treats her as a blue collar, Li Yueru may be difficult to make rapid progress. Coupled with the fact that Li Yueru, who is not familiar with the land, does not understand the language, and has a relatively large weight, is not suitable for the amount of training there? and the impact of the pandemic. Li Yueru probably should really be cautious about this olive branch thrown at him! In summary, my personal opinion is: the current Li Yueru is very suitable for the style of our Chinese women's basketball team, Li Yueru is also very hard and self-disciplined, with the national team training can continue to make progress, temporarily down-to-earth in the country is a more secure choice.