In the just-concluded second finals, the Liaoning team defeated the Xinjiang team again and took a 2-0 lead. In this situation, it is not difficult to guess that the CBA championship is likely to be born in the Liaoning team again.
However, in this brilliant final, there are some details that have attracted attention. For example, the three giants of the CBA, Yao Ming, Qiao Shuai and Xu Jicheng, did not show up to watch the game. Does this mean anything? How has the CBA Finals changed? Where does it go from here? As sports journalists, we have to ponder these questions.
The one-sided CBA Finals, I have to say, this is the third consecutive year that the CBA Finals have shown a one-sided situation. Whether facing Zhejiang Chouzhou or Zhejiang Guangsha, as long as the Liaoning team advances to the finals, the final result is basically certain. Even the drama of Zhang Zhenlin angrily throwing clothes due to poor performance failed to stop the pace of the Liaoning team winning the championship.
In the lineup of this Liaoning team, the most eye-catching is undoubtedly the inside general Fu Hao. His "big saw" shooting posture lacks aesthetics, but its accuracy is impeccable. Coupled with the cooperation of deputy center forward Han Dejun, the inside advantage of the Liaoning team can be described as overwhelming.
In contrast, the performance of the Xinjiang team was a bit flat. Even if they showed good defense for a certain period of time, they repeatedly made mistakes at key moments, and key players could not perform at the level they should have. Even Edison Wu and MVP candidate Abdul Salamu on the inside did not show much anger and fighting spirit.
To be honest, this one-sided situation is a bit disappointing. As the CBA finals, it was supposed to be a top-level matchup that attracted national attention, but it was reduced to a "teaching game"-like result. This makes people wonder, what went wrong with the CBA? Why is there such a disparity?
In this CBA finals, there is another detail that people care about, that is, the three basketball giants Yao Ming, Qiao Shuai and Xu Jicheng did not appear to watch the game. For this situation, we have to guess why.
They may have anticipated the direction of the Grand Final. After all, Liaoning has won all of them in the finals for three consecutive seasons, and this advantage is obvious. For a national team coach like Qiao Shuai, perhaps he is already familiar with the performance of these players, and there is no need to deliberately observe them.
These three bigwigs may also be worried about the current state of Chinese basketball. Although Yao Ming is considered the "successor" of Chinese basketball, his coaching ability has also been questioned by the outside world after two consecutive Olympic cycles. At the same time, the Chinese Basketball Association may also be re-elected in the next session, and it is difficult to say what Yao Ming's future fate will be.
Whether it is for the CBA itself or the overall development of Chinese basketball, the absence of these three giants is undoubtedly an unfavorable signal. After all, CBA, as the highest level of professional league in China, should be highly valued by industry leaders. But the reality is that they seem to have lost the interest they should have in the CBA Finals.
Even if some players shine on the CBA court and become "stars", once they reach the national team, they often become "jokes". This phenomenon also illustrates a serious deviation in the philosophy between the CBA and the national team.
Some of the CBA's "star" players also tend to perform poorly in international competitions. This situation inevitably raises questions about the overall level of the CBA. After all, if some top players excel at home and fail to achieve anything on the world stage, then the level of competition in the CBA may not be very high.
Therefore, it is not difficult for us to understand why Yao Ming, Qiao Shuai and others are so alienated from the CBA finals. In their view, the CBA game may be just a game of "kids playing house", which is far from the real basketball career. It's no wonder that they would rather get out of the way than pay more attention to the affairs of "insiders" like the CBA Finals.
The one-sided situation in the finals reflects the lack of overall competitiveness of the CBA. The high concentration of resources allows one or two teams to be far ahead of other opponents, which undoubtedly makes the CBA lose the fierce confrontation it deserves. The contradiction between the CBA and the national team has also led to the sluggishness of the overall development of Chinese basketball. The lack of uniformity in the training model makes it difficult for the role of the top domestic players to really play, and this result is not worrying.