Hubei Daily all-media reporter Guo Xiaoming
It was officially launched in Wuhan on April 23, the huanggang qualifiers opened on the 24th, and the Xiantao qualifiers opened on the 26th... The 2021 Hubei "Rural Commercial Bank" Cup Men's Basketball League (hereinafter referred to as the Provincial League) has been fully launched in Jingchu Dadi. Shen Fu, secretary general of the Provincial Basketball Association, said: "This event aims to provide the most professional event experience for the majority of amateur basketball enthusiasts in our province, cultivate more enthusiast groups, and thus consolidate the foundation of Hubei basketball system, with the ultimate goal of improving the overall level of Hubei basketball." ”
The opening match in the stadium of the Military Games
The opening match on April 23 was played at the Hongshan Gymnasium, which has always been regarded as the holy land of basketball in Hubei and hosted the men's basketball competition of the 2019 Military Games.
The two amateur teams in the opening game and the nearly 6,000 spectators in the stadium enjoyed everything that can be seen in the men's basketball game of the Military Games. The person in charge of the Hongshan Gymnasium revealed: "Even the national flag hanging above the venue is the standard set during the Military Games. ”
In the opening match, law enforcement referees Chen Long, Wang Chenming and Liu Lian are all state-level referees with professional game law enforcement experience; although the players are all real amateur players, there is no shortage of top masters who have retired from professional teams, and even former national players like Wang Lei who have participated in the Beijing Olympic Games. But even such a player, did not expect a provincial amateur league will pour in many media "long guns and short cannons", on behalf of the Wuchang team to play in the former CUBA player Luo Zhihao was finally pushed to the media to speak, fortunately he is not afraid of the stage: "Most of the players participating in the league come from all walks of life, can hold such a venue as the Military Games, while attracting so much media to pay attention, it is indeed very difficult, I hope that our league will be better and better in the future!" ”
Amateur leagues are not "amateur"
The opening match in Wuhan has attracted a lot of attention, and the treatment of qualifiers held in various places is also extraordinary. In Xiantao, the local basketball association used the best referee team of Xiantao to play the first day of the game in the only air membrane basketball hall in the province; in Xiangyang, the game was arranged to be held in the main hall of the Xiangyang City Gymnasium... Professional timers, wooden floors, basketball hoops, tech tables, and even billboards are all professional.
This is only the qualifiers of each city and state, in the next two months of the qualifier stage, each city and state district or send a champion team, or select the best team, select the best of the best, select their own representative team to participate in the subsequent home and away regular season and even the playoffs, the finals of the competition, and this is also the first time in the history of Hubei amateur basketball to adopt a home-and-away format. "Starting from the playoffs, we will also have a formal post-game press conference, everything is against the requirements of the professional league." Shen Fu said, "Although the provincial league is only an amateur event, what we are pursuing is to make all athletes feel like they are playing in a professional league." ”
This year's provincial league will be the largest and largest amateur basketball event in the history of basketball in our province, with more than 7,000 athletes and more than 300 teams expected to participate; including referees and staff, more than 10,000 people will participate. Wang Chenming said: "This not only means that basketball fans in the province participate in it, but the majority of grass-roots referees will also have a large number of practical opportunities, which is of great help to improve the overall level of basketball in our province." ”
Source: Hubei Daily