Today, the Chinese women's basketball team also announced the women's basketball squad for the qualifiers for next year's Paris Olympics, and the list may not be very controversial, because most of the players are highly overlapping with the players who participated in the World Cup. Of course, there are still some changes in individual positions, but the core players are not very changeable.
In addition to the players, arrangements such as the coaching staff, including some functional personnel, have also attracted everyone's attention, among which we see that Wang Fang, vice chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, who has just been promoted to a department-level cadre and a national first-class inspector, is still the leader of the Chinese women's basketball team. I think this arrangement is normal, but it is also somewhat unexpected. Why?
In recent years, the position of the leader of the women's basketball team, after Yao Ming stepped down, was basically held by Wang Fang, including the World Cup Cup, Asian Cup and Asian Games. But why are there still some surprises?
Because now the men's basketball team has determined that there is no way to participate in next year's Paris Olympics, in this case, Yao Ming, as the leader of the Basketball Association, is also likely to follow the Chinese women's basketball team to the Paris Olympics, but if he is not ready to lead such an important game as the Olympic qualifiers, it means that in the Paris Olympics next year, once the Chinese team successfully advances, there is a high probability that he will not follow the Chinese women's basketball team to the Olympic Games. At present, in the field of Chinese basketball, apart from the women's basketball team, there is nothing worth Yao Ming to worry about. 3x3 basketball. No matter how prosperous you are, your influence will not work at all. Whether it is at home or abroad, the influence is quite low, and it is not even as influential as table tennis and badminton. Therefore, it is impossible for Yao Ming to be the leader of this kind of team and follow them to the Paris Olympics. The Chinese women's basketball team is the only team that is likely to have Yao Ming as the leader.
As we said, now that Wang Fang has been selected to serve in this Olympic qualifying tournament, it is impossible to say that the women's basketball team will be replaced by Yao Ming after reaching the Olympic Games. In order to avoid suspicion, Wang Fang will definitely follow the Chinese women's basketball team to compete in the Paris Olympics. In the process of hitting the finals of the Tokyo Olympics last time, Yao Ming led the Chinese women's basketball team to Europe to play the Olympic qualifying match, and encountered some special circumstances at that time. In Serbia, due to some local policy problems, we had no way to stay in the local area for more than a week, and Yao Ming arranged for the Chinese women's basketball team to return to China relatively smoothly in this more than a week. This time, the Olympic qualifiers were replaced by Wang Fang, which is also a well-deserved choice.
In any case, I hope that the Chinese women's basketball team can perform smoothly in this qualifier, because the current Chinese basketball team can indeed not withstand the toss. According to the normal point of view, the Chinese women's basketball team will definitely be able to enter next year's Olympic Games through the qualifiers, and we will wait and see what the finals of next year's Olympic Games will look like.