The 12 teams of the CBA playoffs are finalized! Yao Ming made a major statement, and the suspense of the Chinese men's basketball team's change of coach was revealed
The 2024 CBA playoffs schedule has been finalized, and the 12-in-8 playoff game is scheduled for April 10, which also means that there is not much time left for the 5th and 12th teams to prepare. With the Tongxi men's basketball team losing to the Liaoning men's basketball team at home, this also means that the 12th-ranked Shanxi men's basketball team has locked up the CBA playoffs. In this way, the 12 teams that will enter the playoffs ahead of schedule this season have been finalized, they are: defending champion Liaoning men's basketball team, Xinjiang men's basketball team, Zhejiang men's basketball team, Guangdong men's basketball team, Guangsha men's basketball team, Shanghai men's basketball team, Shenzhen men's basketball team, Qingdao men's basketball team, Beijing men's basketball team, Guangzhou men's basketball team, Beijing men's basketball team and Shanxi men's basketball team.
Before the playoffs, Yao Ming, the head of our basketball association, was interviewed by the media, and he still hopes that the CBA league can bring more exciting games to fans. In addition, Yao Ming talked about the problems related to the Chinese men's basketball team's failure to participate in the Olympic Games for two consecutive years in an interview with Yu Jia. Yao Ming summarized the performance of the Chinese team in last year's Men's Basketball World Cup, and he believes that it is expected that the Chinese men's basketball team will not achieve satisfactory results, and the Chinese men's basketball team also lacks a qualified leader.
Yao Ming said: I still know more about this group of men's basketball players, their usual training, including the state of the CBA league, when we know enough about the level and state of these players, and then we are comparing them to the world dimension, then we will not feel that the World Cup results are very strange. In the 2019 World Cup, we missed a good chance to go straight to the Olympics, we lost the opportunity to play against strong teams, young players did not get training and we needed to gain experience in the competition.
The Chinese men's basketball team will participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games after the 2023 World Cup, Yao Ming said: We all remember the night of the loss, we need to think with pain, we need to run towards the goal we work towards, and move forward with all the Chinese basketball people who care. At the same time, Yao Ming said that if the Chinese men's basketball team wants to catch up with other opponents, then our young players must dare to take a brave step and actively go to overseas leagues to experience.
Yao Ming's statement is obvious, the intensity and competitiveness of our CBA league are not as strong as overseas high-level leagues for the time being, which leads to a phenomenon that after Yi Jianlian's retirement, our men's basketball team does not have a real leader, and we will also fall into the dilemma of being leaderless in some games. Therefore, there are only two ways to change this phenomenon, first, to strengthen the intensity of the CBA league and increase the opportunities for national players to play international games, and second, to encourage and support more young players to play in overseas leagues.
Yao Ming also cited the example of the women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team has done a very good job, such as the women's basketball team Han Xu, who flew back and forth last summer to play games, which made her very tired and worried about her health. Therefore, we need to do a good job to meet everyone's confidence in the contracted players to go out to play, and also to meet the needs of them to come back to play games and win glory for the country, including the guarantee of the players' own condition.
Therefore, in Yao Ming's view, the failure of the Chinese men's basketball team to enter the Paris Olympics is not a problem of the head coach alone, but the unsatisfactory strength of the entire men's basketball team. Therefore, the Basketball Association led by Yao Ming will not consider changing the coach for the time being, but will continue to observe Qiao Shuai. It depends on Qiao Shuai's performance in leading the men's basketball team and international teams to play warm-up games in the summer after the CBA season, and whether he can dig out more Cui Yongxi and Yang Hansen.
In addition, I personally want to give Yao Ming a few suggestions, we need a competitive league, the first suggestion, Yao Ming can consider inviting international referees to adjudicate the CBA, our players have developed the habit of not being blown hand fouls in the league, but they have been blown numb in the international arena;
The second suggestion is that the pattern of the CBA league championship this season has not changed much, and at present, it is still more likely that Liaoning, Guangdong and Zhejiang will win the championship. The competition at the top of the league is not strong enough, the bottom teams of the league are messing around, and the Ningbo and Sichuan men's basketball teams are able to create the shameful data of 26 consecutive defeats and 20 consecutive defeats, and these teams have long given up on hitting the playoffs. Therefore, I personally hope that Yao Ming can consider reforming the CBA league and implementing a relegation system, and can consider promoting the NBL champion team to the CBA league, and letting the teams at the bottom of the league or not enough points be relegated to play in the NBL league. The survival of the fittest is the key to enhancing the competitiveness of the CBA league.