Last weekend's CBA All-Star Game in Fujian, the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, Joordjevic, also returned to China from abroad, in addition to watching the CBA All-Star Game and inspecting some players, it is reported that Giordević also provided the basketball association with a training list of the Chinese men's basketball team. According to media reports, Yi Jianlian, the inner core of the Guangdong men's basketball team, is also on Qiao Shuai's list.
According to the news, Jordjevic and Yi Jianlian met privately during the All-Star Weekend, and the two sides had in-depth communication on the current situation of Chinese basketball and each expressed his own opinions. During the meeting between the two sides, Djordjević issued an invitation to Yi Jianlian, hoping that he would return to the Chinese team and play for the Chinese men's basketball team in the next Japan Men's Basketball World Cup.
Yi Jianlian is very looking forward to returning to the Chinese men's basketball team, after all, since playing the men's basketball World Cup on his doorstep in 2019, Yi Jianlian has not played for the country for more than three years. In the past three years, Yi Jianlian has also been affected by injuries and age, and his personal competitive status has declined significantly, and even after returning from a major injury, Yi Jianlian has changed his original style of play, more often looking for shooting opportunities on the periphery. But it does not mean that there is no oil in the current Yi Jianlian fuel tank, looking at the current domestic interior players, Yi Jianlian's ability still belongs to the top of domestic interior players, especially his competition experience, no domestic player is richer than Yi Jianlian. Therefore, if Yi Jianlian can return to the Chinese men's basketball team, it will not only improve the strength of the team, but also provide rich experience for the team's young players.
According to the revealed news, the plan of Jordjevic and the Chinese Basketball Association is that after the end of the CBA regular season this season, a training list will be announced to the public, and players who have not made the playoffs and are on this list will be trained in advance, and then other players will be selected into the training camp according to the depth of the playoffs. For Yi Jianlian, Jordjevic also gave some care, considering the age of the UAE and the physical exhaustion period after playing the playoffs, Jordjevic will give the UAE a vacation, and then join the team after the holiday.
The Chinese men's basketball team will undoubtedly participate in the men's basketball World Cup this time, which is undoubtedly to obtain a place in next year's Olympic Games. In the last men's basketball World Cup held at home, the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the Iranian men's basketball team when calculating the small points, and finally missed the ticket to the Olympic main event, and then the team lost to the Canadian men's basketball team and the Greek men's basketball team in the losing match, and finally missed the Olympic Games, and also ended the record of the Chinese men's basketball team entering the Olympic main game in a row. After all, if the Chinese men's basketball team cannot qualify for the Olympic main event in the World Cup, in the subsequent losing matches, in the face of strong enemies in Europe and the United States, the odds of winning the Chinese men's basketball team are almost zero.
For the World Cup trip of the Chinese men's basketball team, Jordjevic also knows how important it is for Chinese basketball, so the team definitely needs a veteran with rich experience in international competitions like Yi Jianlian to sit in order to stabilize the team's military heart. For the UAE, the World Cup trip of the Chinese men's basketball team may be the last national team trip of his career, I believe that the UAE will definitely set an example in the team, go all out in the game, fight for the last bullet on their body, strive to win more victories for the team, and help the Chinese men's basketball team regain the qualification for the Olympic Games.