Men's basketball defeat (1) | If the training is hard, he will jointly write a blood book, which is the current Chinese team
In the last game of the basketball World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team completed this embarrassing journey with an unswallowable blood collapse. Then came the more embarrassing situation: the men's basketball team set a record for missing the Olympics twice in a row. At the 2008 Olympics, the men's basketball team was exciting. Fifteen years later, Tencent's guest commentator Wang Shipeng said that he thought it was the beginning, but he didn't expect it to be the peak. In the past 15 years, the Chinese basketball scene has not been dull, seemingly prosperous and busy, but the final result is a big dream. What's the problem? To this end, we have specially planned this feature, which has been 15 years as a time dimension to analyze the mystery of the men's basketball defeat.
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Written by | Yu Ruiyin
Editor丨 Feng Xiao
Hu Weidong, 53, whose younger fans may not have appreciated its prestige as "Chinese Jordan," posted this video just hours before China's 89-107 loss to Puerto Rico: "Think of those weak days, you should know why you should start working early, sweat will not fail you." ”
Lao Hu did not intend to say the big reason, but used his unpretentious language to persuade the young people who were almost 30 years younger than him: "Shooting, breakthrough, passing, this basic basketball technique, must be practiced solidly." ”
Caption: Hu Weidong said that he was really polite.
The big guys, who are regarded as the champions of the men's basketball team, are almost all examples of the word "solid". Needless to say, Yao Ming, who let the world see the extreme of hard work and diligence of Orientals, is not so smooth in the NBA, and in the more than ten years since returning to the CBA, he has also consistently treated the professional attitude towards training games and the almost harsh self-discipline of the body. With Yi Jianlian's official announcement of his retirement late at night on August 29, the spirit of their time has finally become a treasure of history. The most valuable spiritual wealth of the Chinese men's basketball team was also lost.
Caption: Looking at Yi Jianlian's muscle lines at the end of his career, you can see how hard and self-disciplined he is.
In the summer of 2023, Manila has once again become the fall of the Chinese men's basketball team after 10 years. In this era of short videos, they know how to send fans a meme of national carnival. Materials include, but are not limited to: Zhou Qi made three free throws during the war against South Sudan, and Wang Zhelin couldn't put an empty basket during the war against Puerto Rico...
Since about 10 years ago, Mo began to emerge, and was pinned on the long history and tradition of China's big man, "big king" and "big devil", and this summer have become "Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Hatchlings", constantly refreshing our tolerance for the bottom line of professional players.
Caption: The upper basket does not go in, and Wang Zhelin is afraid that it will be difficult to make excuses for himself.
Did you really practice well?
Wang Zhelin, CBA regular season MVP; Zhou Qi, the only person who did not reach the final four of the Asian Cup last year but was selected for the best team - got to the international arena to get a tan, and it was immediately clear who was swimming naked when the tide receded. There is no need to compare with the Yao era, even in the Yi era, where the results are not ideal, African opponents have won steadily, and the top non-American teams can at least carry three axes, and now it has become a luxury. Even more annoying than losing is the basic skills and attitude that have no advantage over ordinary basketball enthusiasts. Don't say "you can do it", the fans can really put the empty basket in!
So here's the problem. From a brilliant peak on the men's basketball team in 2008 to the current 15 years, far superior to its predecessors in terms of technology, equipment, medicine, nutrition, etc., and enjoying a more diversified international development space (not necessarily the NBA, NCAA, G League, Summer League, Europe, Australia may be a destination), how did it become a laughing bag?
The voice of "nine questions" is still in my ears, and the impeachment of the blood book has a far-reaching impact
In 2007, Lithuanian Younas, then the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, desperately threw out nine questions (by the way, that one won) after a warm-up game against Senegal before the World Championship, known as "Younas' Nine Questions".
Among them, in addition to the torture of the basketball association, the league, the media and the entire system, there are these six directly thrown at the players:
Why are their stamina declining so fast?
Why do they always hesitate?
Why are their strength so poor that they can't always carry their opponents?
Why can't their bad habits be changed after being reminded again and again?
Why is Yao Ming not there, they are extremely unconfident?
Why are they so ignorant of every change in the arena that they keep asking me every time?
These questions, even today, sound extremely harsh, especially when raised by a foreigner. One stone stirred up thousands of waves, national sentiment was detonated, and some media put forward the "Nine Questions Younas" in the same format in reverse, and the debate cannot be described as fierce.
But over time, when people calm down, professionals in Chinese basketball circles also have their own reflections. There is a feeling that the times are different, and the talent development system that once operated efficiently is gradually unable to keep up with the temperament and habits of the next generation of players. The so-called "three from one" has become the most resistant training method for young players.
So, 4 years after Yunus's question, the sensational "Blood Book Gate" broke out in the Chinese basketball world.
Fan Bin, then the manager of the U19 national team, was impeached by 13 of his disciples in the form of blood letters. Such a large-scale "offender" and such a dazzling form are unprecedented in the history of Chinese basketball. The reasons why young players oppose Fan Bin include, but are not limited to: hitting and scolding players, training intensity. In the end, the incident ended with Fan Bin leaving class. Among the protagonists of these 13 "Blood Book Gates" are Wang Zhelin, the center of the current national team, and Allen Guo, who was shouted by many fans for missing this competition.
Caption: 13 U19 national youth players impeached coach Fan Bin in the form of a blood book.
In fact, the most embarrassing thing about the whole thing is that the public opinion at that time did not stand on Fan Bin's side, nor did it expand: "If the old one is too rough, what should the new one be?" ". The matter came to an end hastily under the instinctive feeling of sympathizing with the weak.
However, according to the recollections of insiders, it caused a serious problem that was not perceived by most outsiders: because the problem of basketball training strategy fermented into a conflict between seasons, many people expressed incomprehension, but they were shocked. "Who is Fan Bin? The person who came out of the old Bayi, in his basketball philosophy, practiced hard and tired, that is the most basic, because this is how he came back then, he was 'three from one' training. "So much so that when dealing with a new generation of players, many coaches don't know how to handle this sensitive and complex relationship.
The old method was sentenced to death, and no newer and better way was found. At that moment, the talent training of Chinese basketball planted a time bomb.
Looking back at the "Blood Book Gate" now, there are indeed problems with Fan Bin's coaching methods, but with their "loss of voice", the traditional hard work, hard work and execution of the Chinese men's basketball team have gradually disappeared. Ten years after the "Blood Book Gate" incident, Chinese basketball star Jiao Jian casually talked about the incident in an interview, saying: "I still remember the players who cast the blood book. When they became famous, they almost all apologized to Fan Bin. Unfortunately, Fan Bin has withdrawn from the national youth team. In the future, young players will meet such coaches again. It's not easy. Alas..."
The top-level design is innovative, and the bottom-floor is unchanged
With this sigh, we see that in each subsequent competition, the excitement and excitement flashpoints are becoming more and more thin.
So that in 2019, when we worked hard to host the basketball World Cup, what awaited us was not joy, but pain. That competition, so far, left the most impressive people, there are not too many positive moments, only Zhou Qi's mistakes, and Yi Jianlian's desperate struggle.
Objectively speaking, during this period, the top building of Chinese basketball has been repeatedly trying to solve the problem of talent training. In this competition cycle, the appearance of Zhang Zhenlin, Choi Yongxi and Zeng Fanbo (who left due to injury in the final rounds of screening) is the best proof. Because they show the diversity of the "millennial" Chinese players' career paths.
Zhang Zhenlin, born into a basketball family, went to the United States in high school and played all the way to the NCAA, and then returned to the CBA to feed the parent team; Zeng Fanbo, who benefited from the "Young Eagle Project" of the Beijing men's basketball youth training, went to the United States in high school, got an offer from the NCAA but eventually gave up and went straight to the G League, and returned to the CBA parent team after losing the draft; Cui Yongxi, from the Dongguan Basketball School to the U Series League, upgraded all the way to fight monsters, and finally met them in the CBA.
Since the old method does not work, try more new methods.
However, most of these efforts are seen at the top-level design level, and the problems often go to the execution below, but are deformed by various problems. This situation has always been the norm in Chinese basketball.
A reporter who has deeply followed the Adidas basketball training camp (NBA superstars such as Kobe Bryant and Maddie were discovered from this training camp) told the author:
In the process of following the team, he found that a talented young player of the 90s had a partial eating problem. At team dinners, he was not interested in energy- and protein-rich foods, but only in ice cream cones. Once I came back from a meal, my hands were full of ice cream. In sharp contrast, the international coach who was rationed to the team at the training camp at that time - German basketball star and former NBA supersonic forward Schramff.
Even though Schramf had been retired for many years at the time, he maintained good professional habits throughout the meal. Vegetable salad without sauce and chicken and fish are Schramff's dietary components.
Caption: Schramf was known for his self-discipline as a player.
Subsequently, the reporter chatted with the Chinese coach who led the team, talking about this topic, "Professional players are so uncontrollable, will it not be good?" The coach shook his head to show helplessness: on the one hand, he could only give his own advice, but with little success, "What can I say?" Can't play, can't scold, he's not a player I brought out, don't listen..." The coach can only almost get the meaning, because "anyway, with this talent, I can also play in China." “
As the coach said, the player did eventually make it to the CBA, but he did not make it to the national team for the rest of his career. From the perspective of talent, there is indeed a gap between his talent and Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and even now Zhou Qi, but being able to enter the Adidas training camp can also prove his potential from the side. And the training model, training methods, medical security, and resource investment of this era are far better than the Yao Yi era, but why can't his potential be explored? It's a shame to say.
And the coach's words "not the players I brought out" are also thought-provoking. Because it involves the least professional aspect of professional sports – factions. Put this small detail to the maximum, and it will become the problem of "favoring Guangdong gang" that was criticized when Du Feng coached the national team. Why? I didn't bring it out, so I can't move!
Millennials mostly lie flat, and King Zhou Qi continues to tragedy
In the study of sociology, people are divided into generations, and different generations have different mental outlooks. People born between 1981 and 1996 are known as millennials. On this generation, there are quite a few labels. And the one that is often mentioned recently, called lying flat.
Although sports is a field that should not lie flat, the Chinese men's basketball team, which is dominated by millennials, always shows such characteristics.
Zhou Qi has several photos on the Internet that are very popular, in addition to the picture of buying egg scones back then, the others are pictures of him holding a small barbell. But for these, no matter what the Internet says, he doesn't care.
Caption: Zhou Qi made the "dough door"
A media person in the basketball circle said that Zhou Qi is a person who is not very good at competing with himself, in other words, he does not care about many things, does not care, and even deliberately pretends to show it, he is unwilling.
When preparing for the World Cup in 2019, there was an open class of the men's basketball team in Beijing and went to a lot of media, after all, it was the process of preparing for the competition, and the media was very concerned, so many people went there. That player has not seen the media for a long time, and the time to show the media is very limited, and some players will also be a little careful, such as I practice for a while, shoot more, so that I can take more shots, and when writing, there can be a report of "so-and-so plus three points", which is still quite a plus.
However, Zhou Qi will definitely not be like this. Even when he saw that some players were still practicing at home and did not leave the training ground, he stood at the exit and shouted at the stadium: "XX, it's almost there, the media won't come or see you to practice." At that time, there was laughter at the scene, but this was Zhou Qi.
"If you have experienced the Internet violence in 2019 and experienced the huge negative reaction after the broadcast of the variety show, in this session, for many people, it must force a force: I have to work harder." To play well, I have to roar, I have to vent, I've been waiting for four years! The media person said, "But in this game, Zhou Qi's state is not good, but he is still calm as water, and even Waters used the ball through the crotch, and his face is expressionless, do you understand?" Very incomprehensible. ”
Caption: Laughing obliviously on a talk show also pushed Zhou Qi to the forefront again.
In the same situation, this competition is repeated on Wang Zhelin.
As we all know, Wang Zhelin is a very good person, has a good temper, and is also very good to the fans, especially if he can joke with the fans. Wang Zhelin's most circulated picture on the Internet is the GIF where he angrily scolds the referee, and every time he has something, you will definitely see this picture, of course, this time. Wang Zhelin also enjoys some of the "benefits" brought to him by this picture, whether it is traffic or transmission, it is a hit, which shows his "good".
Correspondingly, there is also a video circulating on the Internet, Wang Zhelin once in the away game, the home team fans scolded him, but after the game, there are still fans looking for him to sign, he will still be satisfied, and even ridicule with the fans, "Did you scold me just now?" ”。 But what if you change to another player and give you an autograph? Don't even think about it.
These episodes all reflect the lying flat of Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin. "Not ruthless enough, not ruthless enough for yourself, even less ruthless to many things. Wang Zhelin is called "Grandma Wang" by fans and can only abuse vegetables in the CBA, it is not accidental, they can't fight tough battles, can't play high-level international competitions, it's by no means one-sided, it's all reasonable. “
Civil war insiders sit on fame and fortune, relying only on talent and exquisite self-interest
It seems that Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin are like day and night. Day never understands the darkness of night, and Zhou Qi's generation will never be able to imagine and accept the ascetic practice of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.
But objectively, this has no loss for Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin. Because as long as they are not abroad, such a degree of effort can still allow them to reap the fame and fortune of their predecessors. The value of the CBA and the players themselves has been continuously mined and packaged, many previously unimaginable new formats have emerged, coupled with the inflation factor in the past 15 years, with the same talent and effort, it seems easier for players to make money (not necessarily by playing), and there are more temptations.
Caption: In the era of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian breaking into the NBA, there was not so much hustle and bustle, and everything was pure.
Zhou Qi, who swapped owners with Zhao Rui, currently holds a 1-year maximum salary contract, and according to the salary ceiling of CBA companies, the maximum current maximum is not more than 6 million yuan, of course, this is only an income. After the defeat of the men's basketball team at the doorstep in 2019, Zhou Qi not long posted a joint promotion between him and an Internet financial platform on social media, and finally deleted the post after being sprayed madly. However, as the top of the current men's basketball team, commercial endorsements have not been damaged, and this year it has become the spokesperson of an overseas takeaway platform. As a result, the point that fans paid attention to when they left messages under the post was - is the 180 million signing fee real?
This is a harsh condition that Zhou Qi's team allegedly set when Xinjiang and Beijing teams negotiated a deal this summer. There is also a number, that is, Zhou Qi promised to play the 2025 National Games for the Sichuan men's basketball team, up to 6 million yuan in exchange for the registration of the Sports Bureau, which is equivalent to the one-year cap of the CBA top salary contract.
Of course, the above amount has never been confirmed by Zhou Qi's camp. It is natural for athletes to maximize their value in the limited golden age of sports and strive for the best possible contract to support themselves and their families. But the premise of everything, you have to be a qualified player, right?
The soap opera "Where to Go XX" is staged every summer. It's just that this summer, this drama makes people particularly sad to watch.
epilogue
A figure turned away, taking an era with him. In 2019, when Yi Jianlian was hanging in the air during the curtain call of the national team, so sad that it almost made people cry, I used the title "We will finally say goodbye to Yao Ming like Yao Ming".
When this day finally comes, what makes us more painful than the reluctance to say goodbye is the bleak present. One door closed, but the other was delayed.
Whether it is the 15 years since 2008 or the 4 years since 2019, the lovely Chinese fans have given this year's men's basketball boys enough trust, patience, waiting, and even at the bottom of the most desperate bottom, they are scolding and standing up.
In the summer of 2023, when the blind box is opened again, we seem to be able to accept what strange flowers bloom. I'm afraid, it's empty.