After losing to Canada and Greece in the Olympic games, the Chinese men's basketball team missed the Olympic Games for the first time since 1984, and the domestic men's basketball team was also full of scolding. As the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, Du Feng is the first to bear the brunt, and the sound of Du Feng leaving class is almost all over the network. But to tell the truth, just to say that the Chinese men's basketball team against Canada and Greece these two games, the boys of the men's basketball team performed quite OK, the most important thing is that I saw a little surprise, that is, Du Feng is bringing Xiao Kuailing back into the national team.
First of all, I want to briefly explain to you the so-called little fast spirit, in the 1982 World Championships has been the king of the Chinese men's basketball team in Asia, returned home, 1 win and 6 losses, against European and American teams all lost. Qian Chenghai, the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team at the time, realized the physical gap between Asians and Europeans and Americans, when the world's strongest teams such as the former Soviet Union, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia had an average height of nearly two meters, while the average height of the Chinese men's basketball team at that time was less than one meter nine. Qian Chenghai, who was in pain, understood how Chinese should play basketball and summed up the Chinese basketball philosophy.
In fact, a simple point is that when fighting against strong teams in Europe and the United States, due to the physical gap, no matter the offensive and defensive ends, once they fall into the position war, the Chinese men's basketball team is very much at a loss. So Mr. Qian asked the Chinese men's basketball team not to fall into the position as much as possible at both ends of the attack and defense. First of all, starting from the defense, whether it is their own offensive success, or the shooting is not hit, or there is a mistake, everyone should not retreat at the first time, and directly organize a counterattack on the spot. This is the prototype of the whole field of tightness, and later under the improvement of Old Master Qian's disciple Jiang Xingquan, the whole field was forced out of the ladder, which is what people later said was 212 full field pressing.
Then when attacking, whether it is the starting line ball, the sideline ball or the success of the broken ball, the Chinese team gets the ball and launches a quick attack, often the other party has just shot the basket, and has not yet returned to its own half-court turn to fall into defense, the Chinese team has hit the ball to the basket to implement the attack. And the basketball concept at that time was still as close to the basket as possible when attacking, FIBA had not yet introduced a three-point line (the 1984 Seoul Olympics only began to use the three-point line), but due to the inferiority of the Chinese players, Qian Laozi required the players to carry out long-range strikes as far as possible once they fell into the position, and even at that time, the outside shooters of the Chinese men's basketball team had expanded the projection distance beyond the current three-point line.
What do you think? Doesn't it feel familiar to this tactic? Yes, this is the world's earliest small ball tactics, but at that time there was no small ball in the basketball circle, and the international community called the Chinese men's basketball team's playing style as Xiao Kuai Ling. In 1986, the Chinese men's basketball team coached by Qian Chenghai held the World Men's Basketball Championship in Spain, and the Chinese men's basketball team at that time, the highest in the main lineup was only a 2-meter-02 center like Wang Libin, with a weak internal line and a big gap with the strong teams in Europe and the United States. However, the Chinese men's basketball team is to use the playing style of Xiao Kuailing, successively defeat Puerto Rico, Greece and other strong teams, for the first time in the world competition with 24 teams participating in the top twelve, ranking ninth, so that people can see the dawn of the Chinese men's basketball team among the world's strongest teams.
After many teams began to emulate the Chinese men's basketball team's tight-forward approach, it forced FIBA to change the rules: an attack must be touched by at least two players, whether it is scored or not before a shot. This is the first and only time that FIBA has changed its rules because of the Chinese team. Later, in 2002, this rule was repealed. To tell the truth, until now, when I see many European and American strong teams using Qian Chenghai, Jiang Xingquan's master and apprentice to invent the little fast spirit and the whole field to beat the Chinese men's basketball team to a collapse, my heart is still a little sour.
However, from the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, Wang Zhidan, who was 2.18 meters tall, was selected for the national team, and later after the emergence of shan Tao and Ji Minshang, the speed of the Chinese men's basketball team at both ends of the attack and defense began to decrease, but once the score was pulled apart, it would still change back to the small lineup and start to use the tactics of small kuaisling again. In this way, both the height and the use of tight and fast attack tactics in a specific time period have also allowed the Chinese men's basketball team to enter the most brilliant time period. In 1994, the Chinese men's basketball team reached the quarterfinals for the first time at the 1994 World Championships in Toronto, and reached the quarterfinals again at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
But also at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team ushered in two bigger men who were better than Wang Zhidan, Shan Tao and Ji Minshang, Wang Zhizhi and Battle, especially Yao Ming, who came out of the world at the 1997 National Games. These three excellent centers have also been called the "Great Wall of Mobile" by the domestic media. The three of them are indeed the pride of Chinese basketball, and in 2001 and 2002, the three have also entered the NBA, the highest temple of world basketball.
But it is also because of the rise of these three people, coupled with the reform of the basketball system in 1995, the selection area has shrunk rapidly. The style of the local sports bureaus has suddenly changed, the basketball selection has all begun to target the big man, and even many provincial sports bureaus have added a height of more than 180 to the criteria for selecting u15 junior teams. Looking back now, it is ridiculous, if it was really according to this standard before, then celebrities like Gong Luming, Sun Fengwu, Adi Jiang and so on may not be able to play, and they will barely count them as 180 when they reach adulthood, and they will have to wear shoes and then measure.
After seeing this situation, Qian Chenghai and Jiang Xingquan, who had already retreated to the second line, both came out to speak, and Old Master Qian said: "If everyone blindly chooses big men in this way and does not pay attention to the training of small ones, even if these big men are exhausted in the future, they will not be able to achieve good results." Jiang Xingquan also said: "Now that the basketball teams of factories and mines, hospitals, and troops at all levels have stopped, we can only select materials from the sports schools in various provinces and cities, and if we do not pay attention to basic training, we may have no one to choose from in the future." As a result, because of the existence of the three major centers, the Chinese men's basketball team is in a state of false prosperity, no one pays attention to what the two old men said, and finally after the three major centers have faded out of the national team, what the two old men said at that time came true. The performance of the Chinese men's basketball team has fallen off a cliff.
In the past two seasons, Du Feng has picked up the tactics of Xiao Kuailing in guangdong team, and this style of play has also allowed Guangdong to achieve three consecutive championships again. This year, Du Feng also wants to bring this kind of small fast tactic back to the national team, so he also deliberately found Guo Shiqiang, who is better at full-court pressing and three-guard play, and let Guo Shiqiang return to the national team to help him train the players. We say that in the CBA, the best at using the whole field is the four teams of Guangdong, Liaoning, Zhejiang and Guangzhou, and 9 of the 14 players brought by Du Feng this time are from these four teams, and in the final 12-man roster, in addition to the four internal players, the 8 players of the front guard line are all from the three teams of Guangdong, Liaoning and Zhejiang.
At this time, there may be friends who say, are you not talking nonsense? Guangdong Liaoning and Zhejiang are the top three teams in the CBA last season, and it is normal for these teams in the national team to have many people. Then let's take a look at the tactics of the Chinese men's basketball team in the last six games, in these six games, Du Feng has all used the tactics of pressing the whole field and attacking quickly, and it has also played a good effect. You know, since the 2004 Olympic Games, in the past ten years, and at the 2015 Changsha Asian Championships, Gong Luming's guidance and leadership have used this tactic in the Chinese men's basketball team.
However, if Du Feng insists on using this tactic in the national team, the scope of his selection of materials will be even smaller, and the tactics of Xiao Kuailing seem to be disorganized, but the requirements for tactical literacy are very high. Whether at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the cooperation between teammates is even more demanding than falling into the position, because all the coordination is done at high speed. And this tactic is also very demanding on endurance, even Guangdong, Liaoning, Zhejiang, the three players who often use the whole field, when facing European and American players, there is a situation of physical weakness in the fourth quarter, not to mention the players of other teams.
That's why I said that if Du Feng wants to re-promote Xiao Kuailing in the national team, there is still a long way to go. Before the batch entered the adult team in large quantities in 2005, the Selection Range of the Chinese Men's Basketball Team was originally small, and if you use ordinary tactics, you can also choose from all the CBA teams. But if you want to use the Little Fast, the players you choose to defend can only choose between the teams that often use full-court pressing. But I would like to say that if I can make the decision, I really want to give Du Feng a little more time, because Xiao Kuailing is indeed the only magic weapon for the Chinese men's basketball team against European and American teams, and I really want to see our players chasing the butts of European and American players to play fast attacks.