Will Jorjevic after the World Cup be the next Yanakis?

Today, the Chinese men's basketball team will usher in the final game of the World Cup against the Philippines, regardless of victory or defeat, the chance of going straight to Paris is very slim.

Not only do we have to win ourselves, but we also have to look at the faces of other teams, especially Japan, and we have to count not only on them losing to Cape Verde, but also on a big score to have a glimmer of hope. For them at home and having already taken out Finland and Venezuela in a row, this is almost a pipe dream.

Therefore, the absence of the Chinese men's basketball team from the Olympic Games for two consecutive times is almost a certainty. (No one really thinks that they can kill the European giants in the Olympic Games)

As a result, the fifth foreign coach in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team and Jordjevic, who has been questioned many times in this year's World Cup, will definitely encounter widespread discussion after the World Cup.

Purely from the role of coaches, there are many places worth discussing and even criticizing Qiao Shuai in this World Cup.

Including but not limited to:

(1) Too much emphasis on forwards and neglect of defenders in the selection of incoming players. As a result, the men's basketball team lacks quality both offensively and defensively in this tournament.

Not only gave up Allen Guo, who had the best individual assault ability among the guards, but also eliminated Fang Shuo, the only one in the team with projection attributes, at the last moment, but the line group in the game did not have much outstanding contribution except for Li Kaier.

(2) In the command of the specific game, many details were arranged and arranged, so that the Chinese men's basketball team failed in the first stage of the group stage.

In the first game against Serbia, he gave up early in the fourth quarter, allowing the team to achieve a net score of -42 and lose the initiative early.

In the face of South Sudan and Puerto Rico, the pressure on the core point guards of the two opponents, Carrick Jones and Waters, was insufficient, and finally let these two have 21 points and 6 assists (3 of 4 three-pointers) and 22 points and 6 assists (4 of 8 three-pointers), and the individual scoring and tandem organization are all opened, making the defense of the Chinese men's basketball team lose one over the other.

(3) In China's only inner line with a physical advantage, in the case that Zhou Qi did not play official games for most of the year, he gave Wang Zhelin too much trust, and ignored Hu Jinqiu, whose physical condition and technical characteristics are more suitable for international competitions, so that the Chinese men's basketball team had a high advantage in the first three games, but the inside attack was useless.

Only when the match against Angola was he forcefully corrected, Hu Jinqiu scored 20 points, but also made people sigh:

Wouldn't it be better to let him and Zhou Qi partner with the inside line early?

If it is a domestic coach who makes so many regrettable mistakes in such an important game, it is possible that he can be declared out of class before the game is over.

For Jorjevic, his creation of the Chinese men's basketball team may be completely over before it really begins.

Unlike Yunus and Dengward before him, he only took office last November and will lead the team to the Paris Olympics in just eight months, when the rules are already unfavorable for the Chinese men's basketball team.

In the past year of training and warm-up games, we can see the changes of the Chinese men's basketball team and the past.

It is no longer a blind "horn" and "diamond" to start, and then handed over to the inside line to play a hard chisel, but to see the inner line improvement and high changes that are more in line with the development law of international basketball.

But changing and improving this Chinese men's basketball team, which has been seriously derailed from world basketball, is not just in "months", our lack of outside projection ability, guard's sluggishness and hesitation in organizing offense, and inside players are still satisfied with many bad habits such as squatting under the basket and opposing defense.

It is not a national team manager, which can be solved by simply a few months of intensive training and European training.

While we are still marveling at Puerto Rico and Angola's high three-point shooting percentages and astonishing ball-carrying shooting skills, it is long past time to understand that these technical abilities are already necessary conventional weapons in FIBA's top competitions, not the high-level skills that only CBA foreign players should have.

The ability of the outside player to dominate the ball when holding the ball, the dry three-point play after the defender bypasses the block, and the ability to shoot in space except for the number five.

In the eyes of FIBA opponents, it should be a necessary skill for players in their position, but when it comes to us, it has become the housekeeping skills of star players.

It has to be said that the backwardness and sadness of Chinese basketball.

Under the condition that our basketball system is backward enough, the existence of the national team as the tip of the pyramid should have narrowed a certain gap through the support of high-level coaches and the tilt of resources.

However, in the eyes of many, a coach who has spent almost all of his career in European basketball giants and the Serbian national team has become a mallet that cannot even be seen by the spectators on the sidelines.

Here, let's ask ourselves, what is the purpose of inviting Coach Jordjevic?

Is it to lead the team to the Olympics, or to improve the level of the national team?

If it is the former, then he is doomed to failure, and the probability of the Chinese men's basketball team appearing in the Paris Olympics is infinitely close to zero.

But then again, with the technical and tactical ability shown by the Chinese men's basketball players in the World Cup this year, which coach in the entire earth dares to pat his chest and guarantee that he can complete this "impossible task"?

If the latter, is nine months too short?

In the current training time that has been dismembered by the professional league, how much time does Giordjevic have to instill his philosophy in his players and really improve their international playing ability?

Since the professionalization, whether it is the Chinese men's football team or the men's basketball team, the biggest problem in the construction of the national team is to always take the success or failure of a major competition as an important indicator to measure the correctness of the construction idea.

We all hate and fear failure, but we are never far from it.

The rise of a team often requires only one top star (such as Yao Ming and now Slovenia's Doncic), but the real improvement of this team often requires a whole team to persevere on the same path for several years to bear fruit.

The most successful coach in his mind, Yunus, has actually been running in with the team in 04, which led to the success of the Beijing Olympics.

Even so, the "nine questions" he left behind are still full of regrets and difficulties in the construction of the national team

But unfortunately, others haven't even had the same success as he did.

In this year's World Cup, we all marveled at the rapid improvement of basketball in the world.

But when it comes to the selection of coaches for the national team, it is still in the stage of discussing "domestic or foreign coaches".

Perhaps domestic champion coaches such as Li Chunjiang and Du Feng can use the original 70-point group of players with their familiarity with the players and the control of the relationship between all parties to 70 points.

But they couldn't raise the national team to 80 points or more.

And coaches like Djordjevic, Yunas and even Giannakis, who are seen as legends in Europe at the highest FIBA level.

When it comes to us, it is always impossible to get rid of questioning, criticism and even abuse.

Whether it is fans, players, spectators or even self-media, they are happy to point fingers at all aspects of the head coach, and even in the three-person tiger, it really affects the judgment of the top management of the basketball association.

With our national basketball level, where is the commanding height to blindly deny people?

The end result is that both sides are disgusted with each other's arrogance and ignorance, and then they scatter after losing a match.

Comparing the current Đorjević with the Yanakis ten years ago, so many coincidences were found.

Both were legends of their countries as players, with Giannakis dominating Greek basketball in the second half of the eighties, forming the "mythical backcourt" of European basketball at the time with another god, Garis, and winning the European Championship in 1993.

Not to mention the fact that in the eighties together with Kukoci, Divac, Petrovic formed the "golden generation".

In 1991, the two were named to the "Top 50 European Players" at the same time.

After becoming coaches, both led teams to dominate Europe, with Giannakis' Greek Golden Generation, then second only to Spain, and the 2006 semi-final Hammer Dream 7 team has become a famous game. He is also the first legend to win a European Championship as both a player and a coach.

During his leadership of Serbia, Jorjevic not only transitioned the team from Diodosic to the Jokić era, but also won the runner-up in the 14 World Cup, the 2016 Olympics and the 17 European Championship. He also became the only person in history to receive medals in these three events as a player and coach.

In 2008, the two became "50 contributors to European basketball legends"

Of course, the latest common denominator, they all suffered the most embarrassing failure of our careers here.

Also in Manila in 2013, the Chinese men's basketball team was reversed by 17 points by the provincial team, and finally missed the 14 World Cup in Spain.

Now here we have once again experienced first-hand the gap with world basketball, becoming numb while still maintaining arrogance.

And the unlucky Jordjevic will probably become the next Yannakis.