Playing weak teams is not necessarily without benefits, and South Korea is by no means ridiculously weak.
Just last year's Asian Cup, the same Zhou Qi was absent, in the first group game, South Korea's naturalized foreign aid Luo Jianer exploded 25 points and 14 boards, after a basket single Fu Hao scored, Luo Jianer's humiliating action is still fresh in my memory, that game, in the case of untidy personnel and full injuries, the Chinese men's basketball team was finally defeated by South Korea 93-81.
Coming to the Asian Games and meeting South Korea again in the quarterfinals, the Chinese men's basketball team has only one mission - revenge! Regarding the national team competition, there is a common bottom line: first, you can't lose to the provincial team, and second, you can't lose to South Korea. There is no need to repeat the historical reasons for this, so there is naturally no need for pre-match mobilization at all about this game.
Sure enough, at least so far, since Qiao Shuai took charge, the Chinese men's basketball team has finally played the most hearty game.
Zhao Jiwei is a genius passer, Hu Jinqiu is a rare air cutting master in China, the blocking and dismantling cooperation of the two makes the South Korean team defenseless, even if the South Korean team focuses on the inside line, Hu Jinqiu can also find offensive opportunities between electric flint, mid-range, back play, basket, empty cut... Eighteen martial arts are proficient.
Hu Mingxuan and Du Runwang two role players also performed very brightly, Xiao Hu's chasing three points and European steps over Luo Jianer is a classic, if Du Runwang is not troubled by fouls and rests for a long time, where will 16 points be his limit? Of course, there is a passionate story behind the many fouls:
At 2 minutes and 50 seconds in the third quarter, when the South Korean team broke through on No. 23, the referee blew a foul on Zhao Jiwei, but No. 23 did not stop the attack, but clamped Zhao Jiwei's left arm and jerked - this is an extremely dangerous move, Zhao Jiwei immediately used the color to pull in the opposite direction, and the South Korean team No. 23 almost did not fall.
This scene happened right under Du Runwang's nose, the fierce general from Guangdong was angry, glared, and rushed up to prepare to fight with the South Korean team No. 15, and later, the king and the referee persuaded Du Runwang away, which avoided the escalation of the conflict.
Later in the post-match interview, Du Runwang said: "When you go out on behalf of the national team, you must show a tough side, including the coaching staff, including the usual Du coach instilled in us that we have to 'bully' people on the field, and we can't let people 'bully'"! While saying Du Runwang, he raised his chin, and his voice was really cute.
The reporter asked again: "Was you angry at that time?" ”
Du Runwang smiled and said: "No, no, I won't be very angry and won't be very high, after all, I have also played in the league for so many years, and I won't be very high!" ”
Of course, the most explosive performance has to be Zhang Zhenlin!
Don't look at the only 9 points, but definitely scored a perfect score fare! After a ball arc dangled the defender, three steps and two steps of one-handed tomahawk chopped Luo Jianer, who also stared back at Zhang Zhenlin for a while, he seemed to can't believe that there are players with this talent in Asia and China! Zhang Zhenlin's partition button can also be regarded as revenge for Luo Jianer's humiliation of Fu Hao.
The reason why many players broke out and finally won in this game is naturally the tacit understanding of offensive and defensive cooperation, the defensive end of the individual defensive ability to lay the foundation, supplemented by tacit smooth rotation to fill the position, playing the vast majority of Asian teams (except Lebanon or Japan) almost do not have to worry too much about unlimited defense changes leading to misplacement, misalignment is not threatening, then, tactical running is greatly reduced.
In contrast, the men's basketball team's offense is the most eye-catching.
Statistics show that this men's basketball full-court frame singles and back singles add up to only 6 times, conversion offense, blocking and dismantling cooperation and empty cutting are the most important offensive methods, I always think that the number and efficiency of conversion offense can best reflect the effectiveness of Asian teams' tactical cooperation, which may not be the case for European and American teams, because European and American players, especially American players, have strong singles ability and can complete a lot of one-on-one heads-ups in the front court.
The reason why the American "dream team" in history is strong, the defensive counterattack is definitely the number one hero, and the United States still fights like this. Asian players are limited by their athletic ability and cannot improve their anti-counter-efficiency through their individual abilities, then, conversely, if Asian teams play well in anti-counter-defense, it is mostly the reason why the team is well-trained and cooperative.
The men's basketball team converted offense 21 times in this game, which is the most conversion offense in all the past 20 games, including the World Qualifiers, Asian Cup, Asian Games and World Cup, since Qiao Shuai took charge, and the conversion offense scoring rate of 1.38 is also the highest in 20 games.
As we can see, the men's basketball team's awareness of catching mistakes and attacking quickly is stronger (at the same time, the awareness of defending against fast attack is also enhanced), including the center, the first thing they think of after getting the ball is to advance the ball to the front court. In the World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team rarely plays fast attack, and even with fast attack, in the case of more play and less play, often busy mistakes, the main reason is still no tacit understanding, on this game alone, the timing of passing and the choice of personal attack have been significantly improved, for a moment, it feels that the men's basketball team plays a bit like the women's basketball team, the ball is quickly conducted, the personnel run in an orderly manner, and the entire offensive link is much smoother.
Of course, what is certain is that, at least so far, if South Korea is replaced by a European team, the men's basketball team's tactical coordination and conversion offense cannot play so well, it is clear that the quality of the offense often depends on the quality of the defense, adults play children, who is O'Neal.
However, although playing a weak team is easy to get lost, easy to make people unable to see the status quo, just like playing in the lower leagues for a long time, it is easy to not adapt to the high leagues, but in some necessary times and at certain stages of growth, the value of playing some weak teams is not only to enhance self-confidence This kind of humble thing, human growth needs a process, children play if in the stage of laying the foundation, facing adults who are not at all in the same magnitude, then, Many of his technically correct moves may unconsciously degrade in failure after failure, at least not evolve.
The maturity of many technical actions is in the defeat, success, failure, success in real combat ... If there is only failure, then how can evolution come from?
Qiao Shuai really coached only 8 months (the first game in February), the real instillation of Europeanized tactical system is also only 8 months, at the same time, in these 8 months, the men's basketball team encountered the vast majority of opponents are European teams far beyond their own strength, as a result, if we scale, those correct basketball concepts have not been played, to the World Cup, when the real knife and gun, the men's basketball team can no longer play, both lost their traditional inside-based positional warfare tradition, can not play Qiao Shuai's European basketball system.
The advantage of playing South Korea is that the Chinese men's basketball team can find some European basketball feeling, and basketball should be played like this. As for the future, I believe that they will gradually explore and gradually find the feeling of playing Korea in a stronger team, so gradually, there will always be a time to reap the benefits, which is undoubtedly a long process.
And importantly, never forget the feeling, even discard.