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On June 30, Beijing time, the third window of the FIBA World Cup qualifiers will officially start.
Among them, the Chinese men's basketball team faced the first opponent Australia at 4:40 p.m. on the same day.
This will be a major test for all the soldiers of the Chinese men's basketball team.
The official of the International Blue Federation made a countdown to the World Preliminary Tournament on the Chinese version of social media.
The "cover" character used this time is Xu Jie, a young player from the Chinese men's basketball team "post-00s".
To be honest, this really made many fans not think of it, and it made many Xu Jie's fans feel "flattered".
After all, in terms of Xu Jie's age and achievements, he is already very grateful to be selected for the national team, and he never dared to expect to one day be able to serve as the "façade" of the Chinese men's basketball team in FIBA.
However, since this time has been selected by FIBA, we will talk about the topic of Xu Jie's selection for the national team.
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Some time ago, the men's basketball national team announced the 14-man roster for the World Preliminary Round here, of which Xu Jie was listed.
And many fans of Gao Shiyan are very controversial about this.
Because when Wu Qian missed the game due to injury and the number of defenders was "loosened" to a certain extent, the national team urgently recruited defender players such as Gao Shiyan and Lu Wenbo to enter the training team.
As soon as the final list was announced, Lu Wenbo was selected and Gao Shiyan was selected.
At this time, Gao Shiyan's fans did not point the "spearhead" at Lu Wenbo but aimed at Xu Jie, believing that it was Xu Jie's existence that made Gao Shiyan finally fail to enter the national team.
Without Xu Jie, Gao Shiyan would have steadily entered the national team.
Also, Jilin defender Jiang Weize played well last season, but in the end he missed the national team roster, and even the training team was not selected.
Some fans also blamed Xu Jie.
Think: If it were not for the fact that the head coach of the national team is Du Feng, Xu Jie, who is the head coach of anyone else, would not have been selected for the national team.
Is this really the case?
First of all, Xu Jie can be selected for the national team and really "rely on" Du Feng.
However, this is inevitable for anyone to be a manager, after all, everyone is willing to use players who are more familiar with and more suitable for their tactics.
When Xu Jie was in the Guangdong team, the tactics arranged by Du Feng were more well executed, and the same was true after the national team.
In this way, when Du Feng selects people, he will definitely give priority to Xu Jie.
Secondly, all this is also based on the premise that Xu Jie and Gao Shiyan are in the same position, and the ability of the two is also between Bo Zhong.
Most of the fans should recognize, if Gao Shiyan is really much higher than Xu Jie's ability, Du Feng still chose Xu Jie and did not choose Gao Shiyan, then there is nothing to say, Du Feng is "nepotism", this is not right.
However, Gao Shiyan and Xu Jie's personal ability is similar, but Gao Shiyan's defense is better, and Xu Jie's organization and attack are better.
Each has its own focus, but it can't open the distance.
Therefore, from Du Feng's point of view, there is no problem in choosing Xu Jie to enter the national team.
As a fan of Gao Shiyan, there is no need to complain too much, many players in many positions in the national team have been controversial for a long time.
Because there are so many places, but there is indeed more than one player who can be qualified.
Being selected is really a double manifestation of strength + timing.
As for Jiang Weize's fans, there is nothing to complain about, last season he played well, especially in the playoffs, the three-point shot is really stable and fierce.
However, again, in addition to the national team's personal ability, it also depends on the tactical system, Jiang Weize is "strange" to Du Feng, and Du Feng is not sure that after there is not enough "ball rights" guarantee, can Jiang Weize, who is only an ordinary member of the national team, play like the performance in the Jilin team?
And Jiang Weize is not a player known for his defense.
Fans familiar with Du Feng know that Du Feng's coaching values two aspects the most.
The first is to "familiarize" himself with his coaching philosophy and system as mentioned earlier, and Du Feng must also be "familiar" with this player.
The second is defense, which is divided into defensive ability and defensive attitude.
Objectively and fairly speaking, Jiang Weize is still a little less interesting in these two aspects.
Therefore, for the sake of safety, this time Jiang Weize was not recruited to enter the training team, but the national team also noticed Jiang Weize, so Jiang Weize was selected to the national men's basketball team "second team" first.
It can be seen that gold always shines.
In addition, Jiang Weize is a player born in 2000, and now he is only 22 years old, if he can play a good performance in the "second team" this time, he will enter the "first team" in the future.
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Then let's talk about why everyone is prone to "questioning" Xu Jie?
First of all, it is because Xu Jie's body shape is too close to ordinary people.
About 178 cm tall, 73 kg weight.
Indeed, it is really too close to many of our fans, and even many fans are taller and stronger than Xu Jie.
In this way, everyone will feel that why can he play in professional leagues, or even enter the national team to play international competitions?
Is it possible for him to achieve such achievements as Xu Jie?
Fans who think like this are not wrong, it is true that Xu Jie's appearance is too unlike that of playing basketball.
However, at this time, everyone may wish to diverge their own "reverse thinking", a player who does not look like playing basketball can finally reach a very high height, which just shows that he is more powerful than those who look like basketball?
Because Xu Jie was already working on a job that he didn't seem to be "good at".
Secondly, Xu Jie's personality is too "docile".
Due to his relatively young age, coupled with the fact that he has always been in the training system of the Guangdong team, the head coach he met in the first team was Du Feng.
Because of their young age, the teammates in the team are older than themselves, and many times what they can do is "obey".
Secondly, the system of the Guangdong team also requires "obedience", saying that you are not doing the right thing, you will be finished if you seriously correct it, and you must not think of resisting and arguing.
Du Feng said what Zeng Fanri, Du Runwang, Hu Mingxuan, and Xu Jie were like, but they never dared to "confront" in person, in addition to Du Feng's absolute authority in the team, there is also a point that the culture of the Guangdong team is like this.
Including Zhu Fangyu, the first thing he stressed after becoming general manager was that the players should absolutely obey the arrangements of the head coach on the field.
Therefore, slowly, Xu Jie developed the personality of silently "digesting" and "bearing" many things by himself.
If Xu Jie is not such a personality, but a player with a very distinct personality, or even a "temper", maybe everyone will think about whether they really misunderstand him.
However, even if he does not say a word like this, whether right or wrong, he does not respond, then everyone will feel that what they say is right.
There is a saying about it: People are good and people are deceived, horses are good at being ridden.
In fact, if you pay attention to the guangdong team's game, as well as Xu Jie's previous performance in the national youth team, or his performance after entering the national team, you will understand that he is worth a national team place.
The last 3 championships of the Guangdong team are exactly the first three seasons of Xu Jie entering the first team, and as a "rookie" Xu Jie has made mature performances beyond his own age too many times.
Everyone is most familiar with grabbing those crucial frontcourt rebounds, or doing it in the long-term rulin, which is why his nickname is "Xu Zhongfeng".
When he was in the national youth team, he and Guo Haowen were the veritable "thighs" in the team, but the attention of the national youth team was too low, and Xu Jie's style of playing was too simple and unpretentious, so he did not have the fame of Guo Haowen.
And to the national team, take the second game of the World Preliminary Round against the Japanese men's basketball team, Xu Jie played nearly 20 minutes, shot 8 times, hit 5 goals, of which the three-point shot was 6 of 3, the shooting rate reached 50%, and he got 13 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.
Although the Japanese men's basketball team is not a strong team, the World Preliminary Tournament is not the top international competition.
However, after all, it is also an international game, and how many players who are famous among domestic fans are "greatly discounted" when they perform in international competitions.
As a 21-year-old Xu Jie, who was born in 2000, it was really very good to be able to play such a performance.
I believe that it is precisely because xu jie has such a performance that it has won the attention of FIBA, and there are 2 days left in the countdown to the third window of the game, and Xu Jie is used as the "cover" character on the poster.
However, after seeing this cover, I still have to say to FIBA: We are very happy that you can use the photo of Jay Tsai, but next time can you choose a "beautiful photo"?