Professional leagues are the foundation of the national team, only if the league is done well, can we send talents to the national team, and this truth applies to any country, any project, and any league. Then, as the top professional basketball league in China, the CBA's development directly affects the strength of Chinese basketball.
For now, since Yao Ming became the president of the Chinese Basketball Association, it is indeed a professional person doing professional things, and Chairman Yao's various initiatives are based on the good wishes of the CBA League for better development, and its results are obvious. However, any decision has its imperfections, and not all the choices of the Chinese Basketball Association have produced favorable results, among which there are many imperfections in the foreign aid policy and the draft system.
As two systems that the CBA League has been actively improving, the foreign aid system and the draft system have a profound impact on the CBA League. Nowadays, foreign aid plays a very crucial role in the strength level of a team and the overall trend of a game, which is based on the strong individual scoring ability of high-level foreign aid. Although the draft system has only emerged in recent years, it is foreseeable that after more than a decade, once the system matures, the draft will be the most important source of talent for CBA teams, just like the annual NBA draft.
So, in terms of the two systems of the development of the CBA League, what kind of impact has the trade-off of the Chinese Basketball Association in the past few years had?
First of all, look at the foreign aid system, which can also be said to be a foreign aid policy. Before 2010, the CBA has been implementing a double foreign aid policy, there is no limit to the playing time of foreign aid, and then the Asian foreign aid policy was born, and there is no limit to the playing time, but only the bottom five teams in the last season can have Asian foreign aid. During that time, domestic players competed with foreign aid for living space, and the gap between the two was not very large.
The real change is that after 2010, each team has introduced high-level foreign aid, most of which are one high and one short, one inside and one outside two foreign aid, these two people can control more than 70% of the shot and appearance probability, and the data statistics list has been dominated by foreign aid. Time to the 2015/2016 season, the Sichuan men's basketball team with the strong play of three foreign aid, forced all the heroes to win the championship, for a time caused a great controversy about the foreign aid policy.
The Chinese Basketball Association began to promulgate policies restricting foreign aid around 2015. At first, the Basketball Association only limited the playing time of foreign aid, promulgating a policy of 6 people in 4 quarters, and later further compressed in the playoffs, changing to 5 people in 4 quarters, and at the same time promulgating a single foreign aid policy in the last quarter. The craziest time for foreign aid restrictions was in 2019, when the Basketball Association announced that the foreign aid playing time became 4 or 5 times in 4 quarters, the difference between which was to see whether it faced the all-Chinese class team, and then cancelled the Asian foreign team.
The intention of the Basketball Association is very simple, to compress the living space of foreign aid and train domestic players. The result is, of course, the rise in the data of domestic players, but the corresponding data flow of domestic players has become soft-footed shrimp in international competitions, the most typical of which is Wu Qian of Zhejiang team.
The question is, in the case of the shrinking living space of foreign aid and the rising data of domestic players, why the performance of the Chinese men's basketball national team does not rise but falls, the 2019 World Cup group is out, and for the first time in history, it is not eligible for the Olympic Games. Why can't domestic players who benefit from the "foreign aid suppression policy" play at the level of the league with the national team?
Xiaobian clearly remembers that the "Wang Qizhu Eight", Zhang Qingpeng, Liu Wei and other people at that time were faced with a double foreign aid policy, and there was no intervention from the Basketball Association, they could still play an efficient level, and the national team could still overcome difficulties. Are the current players because of the help of the outside world, so that they can gain a natural advantage in the competition with foreign aid, and as a result, when it comes to the national team, when facing European and American players, how can they not play in the league?
In the editor's view, today's Basketball Association has indeed compressed the living space of foreign aid too fiercely, resulting in many domestic players not having the opportunity to confront foreign aid head-on. In fact, if it really returns to before 2010, the teams can use double foreign aid and have no playing time limit, which is not a bad thing for the development of the league.
First of all, the ornamental and competitive nature of the league has improved, and secondly, those players who can compete with the double foreign aid for time and ball rights are what the national team needs, after all, the national team only needs 12 people, assuming that each team has a double foreign aid present, then at least 3 domestic players play as the main force, 20 teams are 60 people, is it impossible to pick out 12 real players in these 60 people?
Let's talk about the draft system. To be sure, the draft system is beneficial and harmless to the CBA, and the future trend is that the source of people on each team shifts from all levels of echelon to draft, so that players can flow freely and the league can be truly commercialized. In addition, the draft system has allowed many players without background to see the hope of passing through the CBA League, although their level is far from being comparable to the players in the echelon, but in a few years, there will definitely be "China's Alstom" stepping on the CBA field.
However, the most important task of the Chinese Basketball Association is to improve the quality of draft players, like the current domestic college players and grassroots players are completely unable to compete with the echelon players, many clubs directly choose their own recommended players when drafting, completely through the field.
So, how to improve the quality of the draft? The more realistic way is to expand the scope of the draft, in short, to look abroad. It is certainly impossible to make the CBA draft global, after all, we are not the NBA, and most of the European and American foreign aides who come to the CBA League have entered the end of their careers, and there are more than thirty people, and it is not very funny to participate in the draft.
In the editor's opinion, the CBA League can start the Asian foreign aid policy again, and then expand the scope of the draft to all of Asia, of course, each team can only have one Asian foreign aid. That year, the Basketball Association was forced to abolish the Asian foreign aid policy, a large reason is related to the Sichuan team's three foreign aid to win the championship, but Haddadi such Asian foreign aid is unattainable, Iran out of a Haddadi is like China out of a Yao Ming, need to wait for many years, most of the strength of Asian foreign aid is not as good as the domestic team, after all, the Chinese men's basketball team is the Asian boss (except for Australia).
In fact, there is another advantage of expanding the scope of the draft to Asia, that is, to enhance the influence of the CBA league in Asia, we do not have the luxury of having the influence of the NBA, but it is not bad to become the first league in Asia. In the past, we always said that CBA teams operated at a loss, that is because tickets could not be sold, sponsorship fees were pitiful, and now, the introduction of Asian foreign aid to attract Asian fan groups is also a way to expand revenue channels.
If the Basketball Association is afraid of opening up even Asian foreign aid, then it shows that the competitiveness of domestic players is indeed not strong. If you want domestic players to compete with European and American foreign aid, then we must first affirm that domestic players can win over Asian foreign aid.