Chapter 868

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yao Ming and Li Liang held a press briefing in the reception hall of the Grand Hyatt Hotel to introduce Li Liang's joining the Chinese national team to the major media.

This can be regarded as the biggest piece of news in the Chinese sports world before the Olympics.

Although basketball is only a sport and certainly won't win medals, as a collective sport with great influence, it has always received a lot of attention.

The so-called "three big balls" in China have always received high expectations.

It's a pity that in the past two years, except for the women's volleyball team, the three major goals have gone from bad to worse.

This year's men's basketball team competes in the Olympics, and young people are selected for the big list. The official claim is to "train young people".

To be honest, this statement has always been self-deception.

The Olympic Games is held every four years, and the most important basketball event is used to train young people, so why do you usually go?

This is equivalent to taking the college entrance examination, saying that it is for exercising yourself and for the next college entrance examination.

Then why can't you do better in the exam this time?

The lack of acceptance of collective projects in China can be said to be quite serious.

The elites cultivated by the old nationwide system are gradually fading away, while the young people cultivated by the new market-oriented system cannot take up the banner.

Those like Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi are all top players trained by the old system, and they showed their final brilliance in the 2008 Olympic Games.

After these people retired, Chinese basketball entered a "dilemma with Chinese characteristics".

Because China is a latecomer country in modern civilization, from a backward agricultural country to a modern country, it can be said that from top to bottom, it is learning from the advanced European and American countries while crossing the river by feeling the stones. The sports industry is no exception.

I won't mention football, it's annoying.

Basketball once dominated Asia, relying on the nationwide system.

Many people think that the national system is backward. In fact, the national system also learns from foreign advanced systems, that is, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

In the basketball world, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union also represent world-class levels, and they beat the United States in the Olympics.

The reason why the national system needs to be changed is not because of backwardness, but because the overall social environment and system have changed, the underlying foundation has changed, and of course the superstructure such as sports and culture must also change.

The aspirations of the Chinese people have always been lofty. As a big country, if we want to learn from us, we must learn from the best.

So football learns from Western Europe, and basketball naturally matches the world's number one basketball power, the United States.

However, the economic foundation, campus sports culture, and various supporting systems of the United States cannot be learned from China.

So in the end, it became four different things with Chinese characteristics.

On the one hand, the national system, the influence of the local sports bureaus are still there, each region is doing its own thing, and the youth training system is still an important blood supply mechanism, which is very similar to European clubs.

On the one hand, imitating the American commercial league to become the most important base for talent training and training, and imitating the United States in terms of tactics, competition system, and business model.

As a result, youth training has been affected by the social environment, and it is no longer possible to screen and select the most elite as in the past.

Like why the Bayi team was so strong back then, it was because the troops from all over the country were screened layer by layer, and all the most elite players were gathered together. Could it not be strong?

China is so big, with more than one billion people, and it is open to talent selection, but still can't pick out talents suitable for playing?

The problem is that under the market system, it is impossible to open up the challenge, and the foundation of youth training is affected.

However, China's commercial leagues feel a bit like imitation. Like the NBA, they play All-Stars and playoffs, and there is a so-called "draft" that is not worthy of the name.

China does not have a deep campus basketball culture and foundation at all.

It is basically a copycat version of the NBA, but the viewing and competitiveness are greatly reduced.

For the sake of record, the team always focuses on foreign aid and treats local players as engineers.

For this reason, the Basketball Association has also formulated various rules to limit the playing time of foreign players, and also distinguishes between "European and American foreign players" and "Asian foreign players".

In addition, in order to force each team to train local players, it was launched in a certain season. The playoff team can select two players from the teams that did not enter the playoffs to join the team (mainly members of the national team). Violating the rules of the market and making nonsense.

Another example is that because the national team is not good at breaking the press in a short period of time, and has been repeatedly disgraced by the opponent's press defense, so in a certain season, the team is required to use the full-court press in at least one quarter of a game. tactics.

This is no longer against market rules, it is fundamentally against the laws of basketball development.

This kind of commercial league is half commercial and not commercial. Most of the time, it is supported by the owner's basketball interest and the basketball enthusiasm of the fans, and it cannot form a big climate.

In terms of technology and tactics, it lags behind the world's advanced trends. It is rare to see any development and innovation in technology and tactics, and it stays in the development of foreign aid's personal ability and the struggle of will and quality.

To solve these problems, to be honest, without 20 to 30 years of development, it is unlikely to be effective.

This is not a problem of two people, nor a problem of players, it is a problem of "potential".

If the power is with me, everything will be fine, but if the power is not with me, there will be no power to return to heaven.

If it is up to one person to change the momentum, or eliminate the influence of the momentum, unless this person cheats.

Yao Ming can only be regarded as half-open, leading Chinese basketball to the glory of the first decade of the 21st century.

Now, here comes the real hacker.

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In the conference hall of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, it has long been crowded with reporters from all walks of life.

The table is full of various microphones, and the cameras under the stage are already in place.

Li Liang has long been used to this kind of formation. After all, he has seen bigger ones in the United States.

It is remembered that a few days ago, after the end of this year's finals, Li Liang was interviewed after the fourth game, which can be said to be unprecedented.

After all, he has completed four consecutive personal championships in the true sense (Cole's thigh hugging is not counted), making these four years a complete Bruce Lee era.

After Yao Ming took a seat in the interview booth, Li Liang took a sip of water, and the filming was already going on non-stop.

Li Liang took the microphone and said directly to the stage: "You can ask any questions you have, and I will try my best to answer them. Of course, I hope that your questions can be more professional. Don't ask fake questions and let me follow along." Empty words, you can ask more specific, and I will answer more specific."

Li Liang, a Western reporter, has seen a lot. Generally speaking, although American journalists have bad mouths and often make things difficult, their standards are indeed very high.

Don't ask questions like, "Did you win by strength?" "How's the weather today?" "Did you try your best just now?" Such brainless and boring questions.

Li Liang was also very afraid of answering this kind of question, so his opening remarks were straightforward, as a reminder to those reporters who are used to long-winded and empty words.

"Mr. Gan, do you have any psychological goals when you return to China to represent the Chinese team in the Olympics?"

The first reporter's question was quite professional, and the question everyone asked wanted to know.

Because Li Liang has always liked to set up a flag, everyone wants to hear what promise he will make this time in the national team.

"If you have a goal, you must first go further than the Beijing Olympics and strive to break through the Asian ceiling of the top eight. If you can win a medal, you will definitely strive for a medal. Another more important goal is to set some good standards for Chinese basketball. , bring some good habits."

Li Liang's words were a bit loud, which was his style, but when these words came out of his mouth, everyone felt that there was no problem.

The second reporter asked again, "What challenges do you think participating in the Olympics will pose to you? Compared with playing in the NBA."

This question is also quite satisfactory.

"The FIBA ​​rules are very different from the NBA rules, and I need to adapt. Some NBA players will indeed have symptoms of acclimatization when they come to FIBA. It doesn't mean that if they play well in the NBA, they will be invincible in the Olympics. Of course, I Personally, I think that with my playing style, the problem will not be too big. Maybe FIBA’s three-point line needs to be adjusted in the future.”

Unlike Yao Ming's Yao's humor, Li Liang's answer has always been Gan's arrogant, but he deserves it.

After answering this question, Li Liang reminded, "Don't ask these questions that give me a chance to brag, ask about details, details, you need to improve your knowledge level, you know?"