Refereeing progress is destined to be a long process.
On February 19, the clubs of the CBA League received the "Notice of the CBA Company on Adjusting the Official Interview on the Sidelines after the Game" issued by the China Basketball Federation Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the CBA Company).
The notice stipulates that starting from the third phase of the CBA regular season on March 6, the official interview session on the sidelines will be adjusted to only interview the head coach of the winning team in the game, and the head coach of the losing team will no longer participate in the official interview on the sidelines after the game.
Interestingly, not long before the notice, the WCBA team Wuhan Shengfan White Crane Women's Basketball Team officially released the "good news", saying that it would award 100,000 yuan to its own player Ding Yike and other players to show their dissatisfaction with the referee on duty in the previous game.
Since the launch of the Chinese Basketball Professional League, the issue of referees' law enforcement capabilities has been repeatedly discussed, and fans don't understand, why does the head coach have to shut up when the ball loses?
Not exactly "shut up".
Check the official ** bulletin board of the CBA company, there is no above-mentioned notice on the Internet, and it is still a penalty letter.
China Newsweek learned that the above notice is an internal notice issued by the CBA company to various clubs, but there is not much confidentiality.
The notice also requires the head coaches of each team to strictly abide by the league discipline system and not make illegal remarks when interviewed by officials.
According to today's broadcast practice, the broadcaster broadcasts the CBA game live, and the head coach of the home and away teams is interviewed after the game, which is an important channel for the outside world to understand the information, details and interpretation of the game.
Theoretically, since the interview form is conducted immediately after the game, the parties can convey the most intuitive feelings and the most vivid expressions to the outside world, which is a beneficial improvement for the communication and promotion of the league.
The reason for the issuance of such a notice, a person close to the CBA company told China News Weekly that this move is because the CBA has caused a lot of complaints about the referee in recent years, and some extreme remarks and doubts have formed a so-called "interview scene", which has rapidly expanded with the help of social ** communication effect, causing controversy among fans of various teams, and social ** has become a "miasma" and is easy to cause negative public opinion. Perhaps, CBA companies also have the consideration of further serving sponsors and creating a good brand communication image. ”
So far in this season's CBA League, many coaches such as Guo Shiqiang, coach of Guangzhou Dragon and Lion Basketball Club, Zheng Yonggang, coach of Shenzhen New Century Leopard Club, and Zhu Shilong, coach of Fujian Xunxing Club, have been officially punished by CBA for publicly questioning the referee in an interview after losing.
In addition, many club head coaches used "connotation" and "yin and yang" in post-match interviews, suspected of expressing doubts about the referee's law enforcement level.
The "art" of the CBA head coach's post-game interview. Screenshot of the image.
In this regard, the above-mentioned interviewees believe that the CBA's move only reduces a channel for voice, slightly weakens the connection between the first time after the game**, fans and the game, but it is impossible to silence all coaches. If the manager has an idea, he can still elaborate and express it in the post-match press conference.
It's just that the post-match interview session of the losing coach was canceled, but he still had to attend the post-match press conference, which may be to give the losing side a calm time, and some impulsive words blurted out after the game, maybe he didn't want to say it when he waited until the press conference. ”
Bonus for not fighting back".
On February 19, just before the CBA company issued a notice to the clubs, Wuhan Shengfan White Crane Women's Basketball Club updated its social media and awarded 100,000 yuan to its own player Ding Yike and other players with the title of "Good News".
The "good news" said that in the 29th round of the WCBA regular season on February 17, the Tianjin women's basketball team, which won only one game this season, played the art of "Chinese characteristics" basketball punishment to the extreme by the referee on duty and U2 assistant referee Shen Daolin, and defeated Wuhan Shengfan by 2 points with a 2-point advantage by setting a "record" of 43 free throws in the WCBA 5-year "record".
The last 2 of the gameIn 2 seconds, after Ding Yike was hit in the face, it was commendable that he fell to the ground and couldn't fight back, avoiding another fight in the Chinese Women's Basketball WCBA League and maintaining the image of Chinese basketball.
In this game, three main players of Wuhan Shengfan White Crane team were sent off for a total of five fouls. Tianjin set a five-year record for 43 free throws in the WCBA, while Wuhan only had 23.
The team knew that the result of the game could not be changed, so it was forced to launch a "can't fight back award" to encourage players who fought hard outside. I hope Ding Yi is fine, and I hope that Chinese basketball will get better and better.
If you don't fight back, you won't be able to win back." Figure: Wuhan Shengfan Professional Basketball Club's official Weibo.
After the release of the "good news", a person close to Wuhan Shengfan White Crane Club told China News Weekly that on the one hand, the team investors are more characterful, and on the other hand, the team does not want to question the referee's decision after the game, but also hopes that the outside world can pay attention to this matter, so it has adopted a more "nonsensical" approach.
Some fans believe that compared with criticizing the referee after the game and being fined, Wuhan Shengfan White Crane awards are softer, and can directly benefit the players, and can also attract discussion and empathy from the whole society, and the 100,000 yuan bonus has spent tens of millions of communication effects.
As for what happened in the game, the above-mentioned person said that if the review was carried out through a professional referee, the misjudgment and omission that were not conducive to Wuhan Shengfan White Crane Club on the spot would definitely be significantly more than the opponent.
There will always be physical confrontation in basketball games, and the referee's judgment also has professional barriers, specific to each case of blowing penalties, it seems to be no problem to take it out alone, but if you compare it on the scale of the whole game, the number of fouls committed by the two teams is disproportionate, which is very problematic. The person said.
The level of referees needs to be improved urgently.
Regarding the current level of law enforcement of professional basketball referees in China, all interviewees told China News Weekly that almost all the controversial penalties in the Chinese basketball arena today are not suspected illegal and criminal behaviors such as "collecting money and blowing black whistles", but more because of the referee's weak professional ability.
A high-level basketball referee not only needs to accurately capture fouls, violations and other actions between lightning and fire, but also needs to have a good "ability to control the court" to maintain the fluency of the game. This is a great test of the referee's "heat", if some blowing penalties are inconsistent, it will objectively give the two teams "arch fire", which may lead to the normal game out of control.
And for a referee to finally achieve an improvement in the level, it takes a lot of game blowing to achieve it. In recent years, Chinese basketball referees are facing the replacement of the old and the new, and many veteran referees with qualifications have gradually faded out of the front line due to age and other reasons, and have begun to transfer to the positions of technical representatives and referee lecturers.
After some young referees "take up their posts", they do not have much experience in refereeing under the home-and-away system, which leads to the fact that the experience of blowing penalties on the spot and the ability to resist pressure are "unable to keep up", which eventually leads to frequent controversial judgments.
A member of the CBA's team management told China News Weekly, "This season, especially after losing the World Cup, there has been more and more controversy about referees, and it is stronger than before. ”
There has even been a situation in the CBA where the management of a certain team rushed into the referee's lounge after the game to ask for an explanation because of dissatisfaction with the penalty.
Because the referee has a strong professional barrier and is a closed "small circle", he is unable to speak out publicly due to his professional attributes, so he is at a disadvantage on the field.
Basketball commentator Yang Yi revealed that last year, the Chinese Basketball Association organized players, management, and general managers of various CBA teams to play "friendly games" together, and everyone took turns to be referees, hoping to use this way to make all parties achieve "empathy and understanding".
In Yang Yi's view, it is difficult for many parties to empathize due to their different positions and demands. "Players, coaches, and bosses can only be said to be 'amateur cameos' as referees in friendly matches, in their understanding, the refereeing level of full-time referees should be higher than that of players and coaches, and CBA teams have record goals, and the competitive pressure is also very high. ”
China News Weekly learned that in the face of the problem of improving the level of referees, the Chinese Basketball Association recently organized a number of FIBA referee lecturers to teach Chinese referees, and related training activities will continue to increase in the future.
FIBA referee experts give lectures to Chinese referees. Figure Chinese Basketball Association.
At the end of last year, Lu Yongming, deputy director of the adjudication committee of the Chinese Basketball Association, publicly stated that CBA rules and referee penalties need to be fully benchmarked against FIBA standards, and the referee promotion and relegation system will operate and be normalized in the future. According to Lu Yongming, the Chinese Basketball Association has invited a number of FIBA referees to monitor the CBA league and give a monitoring report to Chinese referees.
Recently, FIBA Secretary-General Zagris also publicly mentioned that Chinese referees need to gain more league law enforcement experience and closer international exchanges in order to reach a higher stage.
This is bound to be a long process. Zagres said.
Author: Ye Zhufeng.
*: China News Weekly.