With the establishment of the new national team, the Chinese women's volleyball team has also officially entered the Paris Olympic cycle. Although the Tokyo Olympic cycle has become history, the shadow of the defeat of the Chinese women's volleyball team cannot be dissipated for a long time. The tears and unwillingness of the players, the disappointment and regret of the fans, will be fixed as a moving picture, encouraging the Chinese women's volleyball team to continue to struggle. Taking the Tokyo Olympic Games as a mirror, women's volleyball head coach Cai Bin emphasized the concept of overall volleyball and focused on creating an effective lineup.
So what can the Tokyo Olympics learn from? The answer is that there are at least two aspects that deserve serious reference from the newly established Chinese women's volleyball team. On the one hand, it is a lesson for success, and on the other hand, it is a lesson for failure.
Let's look at the successful lessons first. Looking back at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the best women's volleyball team is neither the Serbian women's volleyball team with Boskovic nor the Italian women's volleyball team with Egnu, but the American and Brazilian women's volleyball teams with few stars. The United States and Brazil women's volleyball team is the champion and runner-up of the Tokyo Olympic Games, although these two teams do not have any players with particularly strong scoring ability, but the strength of the players is relatively balanced, and the players take care of each other, making the team run very smoothly. Players support each other, and the combination is a good overall attack and defense. In particular, the U.S. women's volleyball team played its overall advantages in the Olympic Games particularly well.
The success of the American women's volleyball team gives a very good reference for the newly established Chinese women's volleyball team, that is, the Chinese women's volleyball team can not have good stars, but it cannot have a good overall. The selection of players should not only be based on unilateral ability, but also consider whether it is in line with the style of the overall operation of the team. After Cai Bin succeeded as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, he paid attention to the overall volleyball, and the style would move closer to the "golden generation" period of the Chinese women's volleyball team. The "Golden Generation" is characterized by a balance between speed and attack and defense, which requires players not only to have the ability to speed up, but also to be technically comprehensive. Cai Bin now also needs such players to form a national team and realize his own tactical concept.
Look at the borrowing of failure. The Chinese women's volleyball team relied too heavily on star Zhu Ting at the Tokyo Olympics, so that when Zhu Ting was injured, Lang Dao did not dare to easily change people. At that time, Zhu Ting's attack and defense were all inefficient, resulting in the Chinese women's volleyball team losing the first three games, and the group was eliminated. In the last two games after replacing Zhu Ting, the Chinese women's volleyball team won all of them. This gives the Chinese women's volleyball team a wake-up call, that is, the selection of players should not only look at fame, but also look at the actual combat effect.
These two references tell us that while the star is important, it is more important for the team to be able to hold the group collectively. This can't help but remind people of Li Yingying. In the case that Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning temporarily do not return to the team, Li Yingying is the current famous star of the Chinese women's volleyball team. However, although Li Yingying's offensive ability is quite strong and her passing ability is also good, she saves the ball, connects the ball, and moves at a general speed. That is to say, Li Yingying's speed-up ability is not strong, which is contrary to the overall speed-based lineup style that Cai Bin wants to create.
During the Lang Ping period, Li Yingying led the substitute lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team to compete in some competitions with her strong offensive advantage, but the results were very poor. At the same time, Gong Xiangyu also led the substitute lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team to participate in the past league, but relied on the overall advantages of speed acceleration and attack and defense to defeat the powerful Italian women's volleyball team. This proves once again that the players are compatible with the overall style of the team, and the results achieved will be very different. It is said that Li Yingying is the main force of the new Chinese women's volleyball team, but she also needs Li Yingying to quickly raise her speed, otherwise her main position is not stable. After all, Egnu is so strong that Italy, which relied on Egnu, won the sixth place in the Olympic Games. And even if Li Yingying is as strong as Egnu, how many places can the Chinese women's volleyball team get in the case of accommodating Li Yingying's strong offensive ability and ignoring compatibility? Do not forget that our goal will always be to raise the flag and play the national anthem.