Yesterday, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated its old rival Japan men's basketball team in the first game of the Asian Preliminary Round. Since neither team is the full main team, it is not very high from the gold content to the reference value.
In China, the main players such as the UAE League and Guo Allen did not play, while Japan's two NBA players, Yamura and Yuta Watanabe, did not play.
However, in the lineup of the Japanese men's basketball team, I met a familiar and unfamiliar face: Toki Ken Isaaki.
Tomitsuki is 1.67 meters tall, but he once played in the Summer League of the Lone Rangers, becoming the shortest player in the history of the NBA Summer League.
And the Japanese men's basketball team really has a tradition of short men making a name for themselves.
I wonder if you remember this person? Isamu Takuta, who was praised as "Jordan of Japan". Old fans will not be unfamiliar with this name.
He was the first man in Japan to land in the NBA and had been teammates with Nash at the Suns.
Although he is not tall, only 1 meter 75, but he, dribbling skills are very good, and has a very good passing ability, in the Japanese men's basketball team, he is called "Japanese Jordan".
However, due to physical talent and other reasons, his NBA experience was not successful, not only played 4 games, averaging 1.8 points, 1 rebound and 0.8 assists per game, and then he was cut.
In any case, The status of Tian Wo Yongtai in the Japanese basketball world is very high. He's in this country, really opening the door to the NBA.
With his throwing stones to ask for directions, then there was Yuta Watanabe and others who followed.
By this year, Tian Woyongtai is 41 years old and has gradually faded out of the national team.
When it comes to his national team experience, it is very interesting that Tian Woyongtai, who was at his peak, also released the bold words of "breaking the Chinese men's basketball team within 3 years".
At that time, the Japanese men's basketball team was not China's opponent at all.
The Chinese men's basketball team with Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi can still walk sideways in Asia...
But when we're regressing, it's undeniable that Japan next door has made rapid progress in recent years.
Their fast and accurate style of play, their emphasis on youth training, is really worth learning...