It's the end of the year again, and it's five days away to welcome the new year. When 2023 is about to say goodbye, the Sports Department of Xinhua News Agency launched a special article on the year-end summary of the three balls, "More worries than joys, China's three balls are struggling to move forward". Among them, the summary of the men's basketball team pointed out the problems of the selection of coaches by the Basketball Association, the employment of men's basketball coaches, the all-round gap between the CBA league and the European and American leagues, and the lack of youth training.
Among the many criticisms, the most sharp and direct sentence in the Xinhua News Agency article is that the Chinese Basketball Association has taken a detour in the selection of the head coach of the men's basketball team in the last two Olympic cycles and paid the tuition. In fact, among the many problems of the national team, the biggest problem arises in the appointment of the coach, if the coach of the Chinese men's basketball team is selected well and correctly, he will not be unable to get tickets for two consecutive Olympic Games.
Yao Ming's establishment of two national teams, red and blue, is a joke in the Tokyo Olympic cycle. Choosing a coach is even more of a joke. At the beginning of 2017, when the coach was selected, the Basketball Association launched a competitive recruitment system for coaches to sign up spontaneously to compete for the election, instead of looking at the grass to plead with those senior coaches, and in the end only three people signed up, and one of them was persuaded to sign up. This comical operation is indeed worthy of Xinhua News Agency's comment today - "The Chinese Basketball Association has taken a detour in the selection of men's basketball head coaches in the last two Olympic cycles and paid tuition."
In 2017, it was definitely a mistake to choose Li Nan, who had not led the team to play in the league, had little experience and average ability, as the coach. In the last minute of the World Cup, he still led the Polish team, but there were two low-level mistakes in a row, and finally the victory was lost, which was the result of coach Li Nan's inexperience. If you directly appoint a senior coach to lead the team, maybe the World Cup held at your doorstep will directly get a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics.
In fact, the change of coach of the men's national basketball team in 2023 is also a bad time, if you want to change, you should change it early, and it is better not to change the coach on the spot. No matter how bad Du Feng is, he will not lose to the second team of the Philippines in the Hangzhou Asian Games. Djordjevic had big problems in employing and commanding, and failed to give full play to the level of the Chinese team. Many people say that whoever becomes the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team will win the second team of the Philippines and will not let the championship fall off the list.
Although the Xinhua News Agency article only mentions the Basketball Association, it is actually pointed at Yao Ming, the head of the Basketball Association, and criticizes him, that is, he is too willful in selecting a coach and has taken a detour. During Yao Ming's tenure, although the women's basketball team achieved good results, the men's basketball results were too bad. I don't know how Yao Ming felt after seeing the Xinhua News Agency article.