On May 1, Beijing time, the Chinese Basketball Association issued an announcement: it plans to invite foreign referees to referee the remaining CBA playoffs this season.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused heated discussions among many fans.
First of all, the questions about CBA referees have indeed emerged in an endless stream for so many seasons.
Among them, the most questionable is the issue of "fairness", whether it is caused by the limited level of its own business or there is indeed some unknown content behind it.
These are all unacceptable to the fans.
However, the regular season was barely enough, after all, results and results are not so important.
However, when it comes to the playoffs, it's a different story.
It is very possible that a single blow may directly change the fate of a team for a season, or even the pattern of the entire league.
In view of this, how to change this situation has become an urgent matter.
Secondly, now that the Chinese Basketball Association has come forward, it has directly used the fastest way, that is, to hire "foreign referees".
When they arrived, they were unfamiliar with all the teams and players who participated.
Then they can make "judgments" on the field to the greatest extent according to the actual situation of the current game
In this way, we can avoid some "unfriendly" speculations that everyone generated when there were some relatively outrageous penalties in the game.
Speaking of which, some fans may say, why are there still some outrageous penalties after inviting these "foreign referees"?
The reason is very simple, because this time the referees invited are all recommended by the Asian Basketball Federation.
As we all know, the overall level of the entire Asian men's basketball team is basically at the bottom of all continents.
Correspondingly, the level of its referees is also not flattering.
To put it a little arrogantly, the "foreign referees" who came this time are not necessarily higher than these CBA in terms of business ability.
Aside from anything else, the number of games in the entire CBA is still guaranteed, which can be regarded as exercising some of the abilities of our local referees.
Looking at the number of places recommended by the Asian Basketball Federation this time, a total of 3-4 are planned.
This completely shows that the "foreign referee" enters the door this time, and the meaning of more layers is not the so-called refereeing to participate in the CBA playoffs.
Instead, the Chinese Basketball Association invited people to come in and deepen the exchanges between us and the Asian Basketball Federation through this "beginning".
In other words, let these referees of the Asian Basketball Federation and our referees strengthen an exchange.
In recent years, the performance of the Chinese men's basketball team has continued to decline, and if we look at various international competitions, we can't find any referees.
That's a hassle.
After all, we have really been unpopular in international competitions for so many years.
Fans even uttered the phrase: home is like away, and away is like a "graveyard".
In the final analysis, this is because there are no "own people" in the referee team.
On the other hand, if we had our people, the overall situation would be much better.
Don't underestimate the blowing penalty again and again, or the same sentence, sometimes the referee is a little "relaxed" a little.
For the whole team, the morale and confidence is completely different.
Therefore, this time the Chinese Basketball Association really bothered for the entire Chinese men's basketball team.
I hope that our local referees can cooperate well with these "foreign referees" and learn from each other, at least we can't lose our own face on our own turf.