The past year has been mixed for Chinese basketball. However, after opening the new season with the slogan of “dare to dream and dare to be”, the CBA version 2.0 has enabled many fans to regain the happiness of basketball.
Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, January 12 (reporter Zheng Zhi, Li Bowen) the past year has been mixed for Chinese basketball, but after opening the new season with the slogan of “dare to dream and dare to be, entering the CBA version 2.0 allows many fans to regain the happiness of basketball. Yao Ming, chairman of China Basketball Association and chairman of CBA Alliance, said in an interview during the All-Star weekend that he was still full of faith and hope for the future and did not rule out the possibility of CBA expansion in the future.
Full confidence in the future
The poor performance of the national team in 2019 is an unavoidable problem for Yao Ming.
“Whether you win or lose, the competition of the national team affects the hearts of hundreds of millions of people. There is no need to question it. The influence also exists and is also an objective fact.” Yao Ming said, “We need to do everything down-to-earth, recognize the facts, recognize the road, and then find ways to move forward.”
“We should carefully summarize the past, but we cannot turn it into an emotion for the future. We are still full of confidence and hope in the future.” He said.
“We all know that the national team members come from the league, so improving the quality of the league can help the national team.” Yao Ming said that improving the participation of domestic players in the league is the most direct help to improve the level of the national team.
Do not rule out the possibility of future CBA expansion
in the previous “2017-2022 CBA league competition plan”, the number of CBA teams has always remained at 20, it was once interpreted as “CBA will not expand troops in five years”.
“Just to clarify, what was announced at that time was a five-year competition schedule…… According to the existing team, you can’t formulate things beyond this quantity.” Yao Ming said, “We have never said how many years the CBA has expanded or how many years it has not expanded.”
If the army is expanded, will it lean to the Midwest? In this regard, Yao Ming believes that it should be done step by step.
“We can take some events there first, such as the development league competition, the Summer League including the Champions League competition to test the water, touch the situation and get familiar with the environment.” Yao Ming said, “We have to wait until the time is ripe.”
Train players and coaches in both ways
no matter the regular season or All-Star weekend, there are more and more young faces on CBA, which benefits from the emergence of new players in various clubs, and more and more alliances are linked with student players.
“A League needs constant fresh blood to join…… After all, no one can carry the years.” Yao Ming joked, “No matter your age or your figure, you can’t carry it.”
He said that they should create space and stage for these young players to shine and gain confidence. “I think the confidence reflected on the court is the foundation of all technologies and abilities. As long as they have confidence, they will grow up, to be the person they dreamed of becoming since childhood.”
Yao Ming also stressed that the training of coaches is crucial, because “the quality of coaches determines the success rate and height of athletes”. He believes that it is necessary not only to train the techniques and tactics in the field, but also to cultivate the overall quality of coaches outside the field.
Yao Ming listed the courses of a coach experimental class jointly organized by China Basketball Association and Tsinghua University in 2019: “The courses include psychology, communication, game, organization and management, etc, these courses, which sound like they have nothing to do with the basketball court, have won great praise.”