Director of the General Administration of Sports visited the Chinese men's basketball team Deputy Team Leader: The World Cup should go all out to successfully complete the task
On August 21, Beijing time, the Chinese Basketball Association officially released an article, revealing that Gao Zhidan, director of the General Administration of Sports, went to Shenzhen last night to watch the warm-up match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Serbian team and visited the whole team. After the game, Director Gao and his entourage visited all members of the national men's basketball team and put forward expectations and requirements for the Chinese men's basketball team to participate in the World Cup and strive for the qualification of the Paris Olympics.
Director Gao said that as one of the "three big balls", basketball has a wide audience in the mainland, and the men's basketball team has attracted the attention and love of the broad masses of the people. All national men's basketball players stand on the field shouldering the expectations of the party and the people, and must do their best to live up to the support of the people of the whole country.
At the same time, Director Gao said that as long as the Chinese men's basketball team builds confidence and shows a tenacious fighting style and a courageous and fearless attitude on the court, everyone will give affirmation and support to the national men's basketball team. As a team of collective projects, everyone must unite and work hard to achieve excellent results.
Regarding Director Gao's message, Guo Zhenming, deputy leader of the Chinese men's basketball team, said: "The team should resolutely implement the spirit of Director Gao Zhidan's speech, always remember the responsibility on their shoulders, and the team members should satisfy the party and the people through their hard work on the court." For the upcoming men's basketball World Cup and competition for Olympic qualification, we must go all out and successfully complete the task. And the players also expressed their determination to win through loud slogans.
Director Gao did not specify "excellent results", and Guo Zhenming, deputy leader of the men's basketball team, did not explain in detail the specific criteria for "successfully completing the task".
However, in view of the fact that the Olympic Games are extremely important to the Chinese men's basketball team, and even to the three major balls, and the Chinese men's basketball team has missed the Olympic Games in the last World Cup, and it is the first time in the team's history that it has missed the Olympic Games, for this reason, the "excellent results" and "successful completion of the task" of the Chinese men's basketball team in this World Cup definitely refer to the Paris Olympics.
In order to change the "chicken" nature of the World Championship a few years ago and attract more big-name stars to participate, FIBA chose to postpone the World Championship that should have been held in 2018 by one year to 2019, and renamed the World Championship as the World Cup, with the aim of making the basketball World Cup a special competition with extraordinary influence like the Football World Cup. The postponement from 2018 to 2019 is also to avoid the Basketball World Cup and the Football World Cup being held in the same year, thus being completely suppressed by the Football World Cup.
In addition, in order to avoid the chicken nature of the basketball World Cup, FIBA abolished the previous rule that the Olympic Games were qualified by continental championships, and instead directly produced 7 Olympic qualifications for the World Cup (the Olympic host locked in another 1 place early), and the remaining 4 continued to be produced through the Olympic Games.
However, the reform did not work well, and the U.S. team still did not send big-name stars to participate. In this World Cup, more big stars such as Jokic and Alphabet Brother were absent from the World Cup.
For the Chinese men's basketball team, the only purpose of participating is to go directly to the Olympic Games, which requires the Chinese men's basketball team to become the best Asian team in the World Cup. Because the difficulty of losing the Olympic Games is far more difficult than the World Cup, once it misses the Olympic Games in the World Cup, it is even less likely for the Chinese men's basketball team to participate in the Olympic Games.
Now, for the first time in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, naturalized players have been introduced, but can the addition of Li Kyle and the coaching of the famous coach Jordjevic help the Chinese team return to the Olympic Games? No one knows at this time.