A new season of sports
After the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the Japanese men's basketball team in the Asian Cup qualifiers, there will be no more international competitions in the next 9 months, and the contract between the Chinese Basketball Association and Djordjevic will end in August this year, so now the Chinese Basketball Association has started the selection of the next men's basketball head coach in addition to the busy CBA league, but in the nearly 7 years that Yao Ming has been the chairman of the Basketball Association, there has also been a new situation in the Chinese Youth Basketball League, which he has always attached great importance to. This not only made Yao Ming publicly bombarded by former national team players, but also made it difficult for years of youth training results to be effective.
Recently, in a group match of the 2024 National U14 Youth National Basketball League held by the Chinese Basketball Association, there was an exaggerated score of 107:8! The two sides are Daqing Sports School and Heilongjiang U14 team, and finally Daqing Sports School defeated the Heilongjiang U14 team with a disparity of 99 points, after the game instantly aroused the attention of the entire basketball circle across the country, on the one hand, Heilongjiang U14 team, the highest score is only 2 points, and on the other hand, this is the seventh year that Yao Ming has vigorously supported the national campus basketball, and even the basketball ** people said bluntly after the gameHow can this game help the children?
Speaking of Yao Ming's "Little Basketball Campus Plan", which is an important part of his vigorous reform of Chinese basketball since he took office in 2017, due to seeing the success of the NBA Business League and the entire American basketball system, Yao Ming hopes that the future talent pool of Chinese basketball is not only limited to the past local sports schools, or the training institutions of several CBA clubs, he hopes that Chinese basketball will take root in the campus like the United States, So that a steady stream of basketball young talents can be born from the campus, so since he took office, several major provincial cities in the country have begun to hold "campus basketball leagues", the whole plan is called the "Little Basketball Development Plan", and it still starts with primary school students.
In fact, Yao Ming's idea is still very good, because in the past, almost all of the Chinese basketball professional players were from various local sports schools or several clubs' own youth training schools, which caused such a thing as the disconnection of Chinese basketball talents, so although there are many people who play basketball in our China, there are very few who can go professional, which can be seen from the number of registered Chinese professional basketball players, so Yao Ming's thinking is correct, to expand the number of Chinese basketball reserve talents, You need to start with the campus, and the United States is very mature at this point.
Therefore, the whole "Little Basketball Development Plan" is to start with primary school students, screen middle school students, and vigorously support college students who are playing CUBA, we can see from the CBA draft in recent years that there are more and more college players who can be selected by CBA teams from CUBA, so Yao Ming's whole idea and idea is right, but the difficulty is that the national conditions of China and the United States are different, this point, the well-known basketball commentator Yang Yi talked about his views in his radio program very early.
In Yang Yi's view, it is not difficult to let the children on campus play basketball, and the children are very happy, but how many people can really play famous and stand on the professional basketball stage? This is a very real and cruel employment problem, and in the eyes of countless parents, instead of squeezing the "professional basketball" one-plank bridge, it is better to let their children go to college and find a job after graduation, which is very different from the United States, because in the United States not only the NBA basketball league, but also the ABA, the Drew League and even various communities have for-profit basketball leagues.
By the way, I would like to mention an interesting story about the Guangdong Hongyuan men's basketball team, in 2018, the Guangdong men's basketball team selected Wan Shengwei from Peking University at the CBA draft conference, and was selected by a champion team like the Guangdong men's basketball team, which must be the dream of countless CBA rookies, but Zhu Fangyu revealed an interesting story about the selection of Wan Shengwei later, Wan Shengwei went to the Hongyuan club to report after being selected by the Guangdong men's basketball team, but before Zhu Fangyu could speak, Wan Shengwei first said this sentence to him:"Mr. Zhu, to be honest, the professional team doesn't matter to me, but if you want me to be here, I will definitely work hard, if I don't want to be here, I still have a lot of things to do when I go back.
Zhu Fangyu claimed that the memory of this conversation is too deep, because no one has ever said such a thing to him, in fact, I want to tell you a current situation when I talk about this little story, as a cuba player selected by the Guangdong men's basketball team, Wan Shengwei understands that the signboard of his alma mater, Peking University, is superior to the path of Chinese professional basketball in terms of employment prospects, work experience and future development space, so other students who can hardly play, let alone stand in the CBA league, How will they choose this real social problem?
So in today's poor Chinese basketball performance, youth basketball is still out of gear, the former Chinese men's national basketball team player Ma Jian, finally couldn't help but spray the Chinese Basketball Association and Yao Ming, Ma Jian wrote on social **, the current Chinese men's basketball team has encountered a historical low, in addition to missing two consecutive Olympic Games and losing the men's basketball World Cup, now even Chinese Taipei, the Philippines, and Japan can lose, although the reasons for the loss are many, but the core is caused by the lack of efforts of these domestic basketball practitioners.
Ma Jian bluntly said that although there is a problem of interest distribution at the level of the professional league and the national team, as professional basketball people, we can only be reborn by our own redemption! And Ma Jian also claimed that the future of Chinese basketball is not just by shouting slogans and expressing determination, but to establish the correct basketball values and beliefs, we need to learn and understand the laws of basketball in a down-to-earth manner, and then work hard, and finally Ma Jian even directly named the Chinese Basketball Association, claiming that maybe our Chinese Basketball Association is in a quagmire, but Chinese basketball should not stop moving forward!
Personally, Yao Ming, who has rich experience in the NBA, is right in his thoughts and ideas, but there are too many things that are beyond his ability, he has the ability to reform the CBA league, he has the ability to intervene in the national team, but he can't make basketball really enter the campus on his own, at least at this moment, it can't be changed, as Yang Yi said after the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup, the basketball skills and personal abilities of our domestic children under the age of 10 are far beyond Europe, but it is regrettableMost children will "retire" at the age of 12, because compared to their future studies, basketball is just a part of life, so Chinese basketball can not change the "separation of sports and education", so when can basketball really enter the campus like the United States? Quite simply, when professional basketball, like a mature industry, can create more jobs, then there will naturally be more participants, and more talents will be born, instead of just shouting slogans and expressing determination to let students play with ideals and beliefs, as is the case now, regardless of whether they have enough bread to eat in the future.
Editor: Tang Bohu.