Luo Jian told the reporter that the rival vasaki High School, who won 42 points in the Affiliated High School of Tsinghua University, was not a weak brigade.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 13th issue: it is hard to find the victory of “Dugu Qiubai” in China to go to the United States
— 12 years in Tsinghua attached high school men’s basketball to find the gap
Yu Sihui and Wang Jingyu
at the end of 2019, on the Internet, a “Tsinghua affiliated high school failed miserably! The news of losing 42 points to the 178th high school in the United States triggered a heated discussion among netizens. As the overlord of the 12th championship in 13 years in China, is there really such a big gap between the “Dugu Qiubai” Tsinghua affiliated high school in China and American high schools? With such a question, the reporter interviewed Luo Jian, director of the office of “majongban” of Tsinghua affiliated high school.
Don’t know how big the gap is if you don’t go out
“don’t know how big the gap is if you don’t go out.” Luo Jian told reporters. Luo jian, who was in charge of “ma ban” for many years, was a witness of the exchange process of tsinghua affiliated high school men’s basketball to the united states. He did not deny the huge gap between chinese and american high school basketball, but also pointed out that the news on the internet was not accurate. Luo Jian told the reporter that the rival vasaki High School, who won 42 points in the Affiliated High School of Tsinghua University, was not a weak brigade.
“This school is very strong, and we will not pick weak teams to play when we go to America.” According to the reporter’s verification, vasaki High School currently ranks No. 1 in Utah men’s basketball. According to the US today (USAToday) website, the team ranked No. 10 in the United States at the end of last season. This team is also an “international column” with student players from Mali, Canada, Brazil, Slovakia and other countries and regions, li Xinyi, a former member of Tsinghua affiliated high school who went to the United States for further study through the “elite plan” of the Chinese Basketball Association, was also among them. Due to the large number of high school basketball events and different processes across the United States, the so-called “No. 178 in the United States” is only an instant ranking, which does not reflect the true level of the team.
Following this competition, Luo Jian introduced to the reporter the origin of the men’s basketball exchange competition between Tsinghua affiliated high school and the United States. In 2007, Tsinghua affiliated high school men’s basketball won the National Championship of Chinese high school men’s basketball league for the first time. They were invited by sponsors to go to Hawaii to participate in the Iolani traditional basketball invitational tournament. It was in this competition that Luo Jian saw the gap between Chinese and American high school basketball for the first time.
“We knew there was a gap before playing, but we were still surprised when playing, and the gap was particularly large. At that time, Tsinghua affiliated high school relied on high-intensity defense to oppress its opponents in China, while in the first game in the United States, we were overwhelmed by our hands.” Luo Jian said.
The affiliated middle school of Tsinghua University, who realized the gap, went to Hawaii to participate in this basketball invitational tournament every year after 2007. “There were several years when the sponsors of domestic competitions changed, we didn’t get the chance to go to Hawaii, but we will go at our own expense.” But for more than ten years, Tsinghua affiliated high school has only won a local American high school team.
Luo Jian said: “I have won by luck for so many years. I was very lucky that time. The best situation in other games was to lose 18 points. Most of the time we all know that we can’t play, but just like the slogan of our basketball team, ‘the ball can lose, but we can’t give up ‘.”
From “Dugu Qiubai” to “find masochist”
The competition experience that seems to be “looking for masochist, it is very precious in Luo Jian’s eyes. Luo Jian said that the Hawaii Invitational tournament is a very good exercise opportunity, and such an opportunity is not easy to find in Tsinghua affiliated high school in China. According to Luo Jian, with the men’s basketball strength of the high school affiliated to Tsinghua University, it can “break the wrist” with many college teams in China, and it also has a victory and defeat with local sports schools, club echelon and national U series echelon of the same age. Going to the United States, Europe and other places to exchange and participate in the competition is to further find gaps and improve strength.
At the same time, the interesting competition system of Iolani’s traditional basketball invitational tournament is also one of the important reasons for attracting Luo Jian and Tsinghua attached high school to actively participate in the competition. According to Luo Jian, a total of 16 teams participated in the invitational tournament, which was divided into upper and lower regions. The first competition was similar to the “grading competition”. The winner entered the strong upper half region, which was mostly a high school in the United States, the losers entered the second half of the area with poor strength. The basketball level in Hawaii is quite different from that in the United States, so this area is mostly a local high school in Hawaii. The teams in the first half of the district played a single loop, and the teams in the second half of the district played a single elimination, and decided to win the championship in the respective half of the district. This competition system not only ensures that teams with weaker strength can have the chance to play against strong teams, but also does not lose every game. Luo Jian told the reporter that the affiliated high school of Tsinghua University had a good record in the confrontation with the teams in the second half of the district, and almost every time it entered the final. After losing to vasaki high school in the first “grading competition” this year, Tsinghua affiliated high school won two consecutive games in men’s basketball and entered the final. In the final, it only lost with a weak disadvantage.
According to Luo Jian, this invitational tournament also sets some rules for high school students, for example, the competition is only in the first half, the 9th/10th/11th fouls in each half run “1+1” (if the first penalty fails, the defensive side can directly rebound and fight back), in this way, the laggards have more chances to narrow the score difference, and the probability of adding time and killing is very high in the competition.
Luo Jian also mentioned an interesting phenomenon, “over there, the rules do not say that joint defense is not allowed, but if you guard joint defense, the opponent will not attack. Since there is no time limit for attack, the opponent will always fengshui ball in midfield. We had to change the strategy of adult peering, but it couldn’t be prevented.” Luo Jian said that these rules mean encouraging individual attack, fast attack and counterattack, which is very suitable for high school students and makes the game particularly exciting.
The gap is not only in the stadium
luo jian’s experience of leading the team to the south and north for many years made him realize that the gap between chinese and american basketball is not just in the stadium. “The gap is comprehensive and comprehensive. Besides techniques and tactics, sports culture is also a very important aspect. In the United States, parents drive their children everywhere to participate in various competitions on weekends. It is possible that the basketball match is over and the children will rush to the next venue to participate in baseball games, rugby games or other competitions, sports have been integrated into the life of local people.” He mentioned that in the United States, there are so many excellent coaches at the grass-roots level that many grass-roots coaches can explain some basic movements, and most of the things taught by grass-roots coaches are relatively standardized, this shows that the United States has a unified plan for basketball teaching.
Luo Jian told the reporter about such an unforgettable experience: “We once played in the United States in women’s basketball and lost nearly 30 points in 5 minutes in the fourth quarter, but we didn’t want to give up, since going abroad for exercise, we must achieve the purpose of exercise. We asked pause to arrange the tightening tactics. The 5-minute tightening was very risky and very tired. The girls recovered more than a dozen points with a lot of jumping to save the ball and falling to the ground. When the audience left, the American parents stood up and gave applause. They all gave their thumbs up and shouted ‘China ‘. Losing the ball is also encouraged by this. This is an experience we have never experienced in China. It is an interpretation of the spirit of sports. I think this is sports culture.”
Campus basketball talents also need “Elite model”
with the development of the times, more and more parents of potential basketball seedlings choose to let their children develop in ordinary schools, traditional sports schools have encountered great challenges in the enrollment of sports schools.
Luo Jian said that the practice of male women’s basketball in Tsinghua affiliated high school over the past ten years has proved that the road of cultivating high-level basketball talents by combining sports and education is feasible. In the process of carrying out campus sports, the school should not only strengthen the universal education for all students, but also cultivate and improve the interest of most students, it can also cultivate a small number of “sports elites” into high-level sports talents.
According to Luo Jian, the affiliated high school of Tsinghua has sent many players to major universities, national U series echelon and clubs for more than ten years. From Zhong Cheng and Han Xu, who have already been based in CBA and WCBA, to Wang Shaojie and Sun Siyao, who were selected in the draft last year, as well as Luo Haoyuan and Li Xinyi, who were selected in the National Youth U16, facts have proved that Tsinghua attached Zheng is on the right path of talent cultivation. Although there is a huge gap between China and America in high school basketball, there is still hope for the future.
“Popularization and improvement are not contradictory. In order to cultivate high-level talents in competitive sports, I think it is still necessary to “Elite model”. The Road of Tsinghua affiliated high school can go through.” Luo Jian said.
Luo Jian believes that the biggest advantage of cultivating sports talents on campus lies in the growth environment of all-round education and all-round development. He gave an example of Ma Jiaying, a women’s basketball member of Tsinghua University.
Ma Jiaying was born in a basketball family. His father, Ma Yongzhong, as the leader of Guangdong Southern Tigers men’s basketball, once struggled with whether to let Ma Jiaying enter Hongyuan’s training system to specialize in basketball or send his children to the Affiliated High School of Tsinghua University, take part in basketball training while reading.
“Ma Jiaying’s father talked to me. One year after she went to school in the Affiliated High School of Tsinghua University, Ma Jiaying went back to get together with the peers of Hongyuan. Her speech and behavior were very different, the vision is also wider, which is the power of education and environment.”