The results of the penalties of the Shanghai men's basketball team and the Jiangsu men's basketball team have finally been made public, but in this penalty result, we can clearly feel that the coaches are taking the blame for the club. There are two major loopholes in this penalty result. First of all, judging from the penalty results, our basketball association is characterizing this game as a negative game, which is different from the traditional match-fixing that everyone understands, that is, the basketball association believes that these two games are negative games led by coaches and general managers, and there is no so-called benefit transmission problem. So the two head coaches, Li Chunjiang, the head coach of the Shanghai team, and Li Nan, the head coach of the Jiangsu team, were eventually sentenced to five-year and three-year bans, which is a relatively big impact for the two coaches.
For the club, the penalty was only to cancel the results of the season. But to be honest, especially for the Jiangsu team, this season's game has been played, and it doesn't make any sense to punish him and cancel the results. And for the Shanghai team, after this trouble, even if they retain the qualification for the playoffs, with their current morale and state to play Shenzhen, can they still win? It's just the difference between playing two more playoff games and two fewer playoffs. Now it is better to give the players a holiday in advance, which can be regarded as letting the players stay away from right and wrong, adjust well, and play well next season's game.
At present, the basketball association has determined that this game does not have the kind of profit-shifting match-fixing that everyone thinks, which is a negative game led by coaches. But there are very serious problems here, in addition to the two coaches who were banned for five years and three years respectively, the general managers of the two teams, the general manager of Shanghai, was banned for three years, and the general manager of Jiangsu was banned for five years, there are two very important doubts here. First, since it was the coach who led the result of the negative game, why did the general manager also impose such a big penalty? After all, how to play the game, how to arrange the employment of people has nothing to do with the general manager, why should the general manager be brought together?
Second, the punishment for coaches is heavier for the Shanghai team, why did it turn around after the manager? What does Shanghai's manager ban for three years and Jiangsu's economy ban for five years? Hint that the biggest problem with this ball is actually the biggest manipulator of the Jiangsu team? I think the changes in these two details are worth thinking about. This is enough to show that in fact, the basketball association and the general bureau may have found out the real big fish behind this game, or the real mastermind behind it, but there is no way to punish him, so let the coach come out to back the pot, and then take the opportunity to push the game as a negative game, rather than the so-called match-fixing that everyone says has profit transmission. Otherwise, it would be unreasonable to punish the general managers of Jiangsu and Shanghai, and the general managers of Jiangsu were punished even heavier.
From the perspective of the coach, it is determined that the problem is greater on the Shanghai side, but from the manager's point of view, it is determined that the problem is greater on the Jiangsu side, so the general manager of the Jiangsu team is given a greater punishment, which obviously does not make sense. As for what is behind it, I estimate that the fans will probably not know the results of this investigation, unless there is a third-party supervision agency or discipline commission like the Football Association anti-corruption can come in, otherwise it is impossible to find out something else.
Let the people of the basketball association check their own members, and in the end, the result of the investigation is definitely not for the purpose of finding out the truth, but for the purpose of how to calm this incident, how to calm the people's emotions and keep the people they want to protect, which is the ultimate purpose of the basketball association to make this punishment.