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A thunderclap on the ground.
Just when everyone thought that the Chinese men's basketball team would be unusually calm this offseason.
Suddenly, a media person revealed that Guangzhou team forward Cui Yongxi will decide to participate in the 2024 NBA draft.
According to what we learned from Choi Yong-hee's brokerage team, it is roughly as follows:
First of all, he will go to Orlando in the United States for personal training as soon as the CBA season ends.
Specifically, it is to strengthen the strength and then hone the personal technique.
Next, he will participate in the NBA Development League Player Training Camp as a way to get a tryout for Chicago United.
Then, through the arrangement of the American agent team, we will strive for the opportunity to get an NBA team to try out individually, including the opportunity to participate in the NBA team's summer league.
Seeing this, you can get two clear messages.
First, it seems to be a sudden announcement.
However, for participating in the NBA draft, Choi Yong-hee has done a lot of preparation work before, including the next series of work.
This proves that he and his team did not do it on a whim.
This is quite true.
As the saying goes: everything is foreseen, and if nothing is planned, it is wasted.
If you want to do something, you must make a preliminary plan.
It's a way to do things, but it's also an attitude.
To put it bluntly, participating in the NBA draft is not a playhouse, if you go without preparing anything, then you will inevitably encounter a lot of difficulties and setbacks, and it will not be so easy to solve them when the time comes.
Second, Choi Yong-hee is a player with a heart.
With his ability and talent, even if this year is a historic year, it is not so easy to run.
However, all this is nothing.
Born in 2003, he is only 21 years old this year.
The current Cui Yongxi is still very young, even if he works hard this year, the final result is still unsatisfactory.
It didn't matter, at least he tried.
We all say that there is a big gap between the Chinese men's basketball team and the world basketball, but how big is it?
I'm afraid I can't describe this just by saying it, at least the players can't feel it yet.
And if you take practical action and feel it yourself, it will be more "concrete".
Actually, it's not a good thing to say.
Even if it's just to go out and see things for a long time?
It's also much better than being stuck at home all the time.
For Choi Yong-hee, he may not have anything at the moment, but at least he still has time.
After such a summer arrangement, even if he returns to the CBA next season, he should know which direction he wants to work in.
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Speaking of which, many fans thought of Yang Hansen, the inside line of the Qingdao team who announced some time ago that he would not participate in this year's draft.
In terms of age, he is two years younger than Choi Yong-hee, and it should be said that there will be more time to take it out.
In terms of talent, he is visible to the naked eye to be better than Choi Yong-hee, and it should be said that the chances of being selected are much greater.
In terms of position, he is an inside player, and in the current environment where there is a lack of high-quality inside lines in the world, he is also more "popular" than Choi Yong-hee.
However, even if he occupies a multi-party advantage, he only lacks Choi Yongxi's "challenge" spirit.
Of course, there may also be fans who say that participating in the NBA draft is not as simple as imagined, and there are many difficulties and hardships to go through.
Needless to say, this is not to be said.
Not to mention impacting the NBA, just if you want to make a name for yourself in the CBA, for the current men's basketball players, they have to put in a lot of hard work.
But isn't all this the way it should be for professional players?
If you go down, this is work, if you go high, you will love it, and if you go higher, you will find that this is your mission.
Now the entire Chinese men's basketball team is in such a situation, and Ruiguo is not enterprising, just thinking about how to be stable and comfortable.
Unwilling to take on any point, unwilling to challenge anything.
So even if the Chinese men's basketball team is another 100 years, it will still be like this, and it will even regress more and more.
To put it bluntly, the Chinese men's basketball team does not rely on fans or the media, but on the current group of young people.
Only if each generation is not good at all, can we really make progress in the end.
Instead of every generation choosing the so-called "skipping".
I remember when I was in school, my teacher said something like this:
When you encounter a question that you don't know, you should think more about it in your leisure time, take a look at it more, and don't think about "skipping" as soon as you come up.
Let's ask, there are many problems you have encountered in your life, do you have to choose "skip" every time?
Therefore, it is not extravagant to expect Yang Hansen or Choi Yongxi to participate in the draft, so that they can be selected, or even gain a firm foothold, etc.
What the fans want is nothing more than the young players to be able to show that energetic spirit and show the attitude that a young man should show.
Fortunately, we still have Choi Yong-hee...