Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 30 (reporter Wang Jingyu, Cao Yibo) the first stage of the regular season of China men’s basketball professional league (CBA) from 2022 to 2023 is coming to an end. Some industry experts said that the league hopes to make the competition more intense and exciting by further improving the quality of penalty.
There are many new changes in the CBA league in the new season. Compared with the past, the penalty scale of referees has been adjusted. Some physical contacts that may blow foul before have no penalty, and the confrontation on the court is more intense than before, these changes have also attracted the attention and discussion of the outside world.
Lu Yongming, full-time deputy director of the referee committee of China Basketball Association, said: “China Basketball Association has always maintained close contact with the International Basketball Federation at all business levels. Before the start of the CBA league in the 2022-2023 season, in order to better make the standards and levels of Chinese basketball consistent with international basketball, after communicating with the International Basketball Federation, the Chinese Basketball Association comprehensively targets the standards of the International Basketball Federation. Since the beginning of the new season, the CBA league has only one standard of enforcement, which is the FIBA standard. With the progress of the league, both referees, coaches and athletes are deepening their understanding of the FIBA’s ruling standards through actual combat and actively adapting to it, making the competition more intense and exciting. The Commission of the Chinese Basketball Association is also correcting the problems in the ruling in time and making regular comments to make the standards and standards of the league ruling more consistent and stable.”
Du Feng, the head coach of China’s men’s basketball, said that the direction of the CBA league to encourage physical confrontation was right and in line with the development trend of international basketball. When he led China men’s basketball to participate in international competitions such as the FIFA World Cup qualification and Asian Cup, he clearly felt some differences in the penalty scale between domestic league matches and international competitions, this difference also brings some challenges to the Chinese team. What Du Feng felt most was that in international competitions, the referee’s contact with the body body and the blow penalty against the body were relatively loose, that is to say, the body confrontation was more encouraged. However, some foul actions on the hands are very strict and the tolerance is very low. This season, CBA league has made some adjustments on the penalty scale. Referees are still adapting and mastering the new scale, and athletes and coaches are also adjusting their cognition and adapting to the new scale.
“Personally, I think coaches and athletes should give more understanding and tolerance to referees during such a transition period. At the same time, we also expect the referee to distinguish encouraging physical confrontation from some bad movements, especially hand movements, when judging according to the new scale, avoid increasing the probability of athletes being injured because of some penalty that should be blown but not blown. After a period of time, the understanding of fouls and the scale of penalty reached the unity of cognition again. In this way, the adjustment of the referee’s ruling scale can play an expected positive role in promoting the development of the national team, the league and even the Chinese basketball.”
A senior referee expert said that the penalty scale of the International Basketball Federation has always been dynamically adjusted and changed, as has the penalty scale of the CBA league and the US league. From 2004 to 2008, the referee’s penalty tended to encourage confrontation, so the teams like Australia and Spain who paid more attention to physical confrontation at that time had good results. Later, the International Basketball Federation found that there was a tendency of increasing fouls on the court after the relaxation of the penalty scale, and advocated “clean competition” to adjust the penalty scale. In 2015, the International Basketball Federation once again reformed the referee’s work, requiring the referee to “clean up” some inappropriate actions in the competition, and severely punished for false falls, violations of sports ethics and technical fouls, in this way, the game is interrupted more often. However, the latest idea of “high quality without judgement” put forward by the International Basketball Federation aims to find a new balance point in controlling fouls and ensuring the smoothness of the game.
The expert said, judging from the situation of the domestic CBA league, the adjustment of the penalty scale for the International Basketball Federation in the past few years was relatively tight, and the foul was blown too fast, so that the number of average fouls in the game increased significantly, the game has been interrupted too many times. Now the penalty scale of the International Basketball Federation has a new orientation. After the referee gets the spirit of “high quality without sentencing”, there is a process of adaptation, which requires a period of running-in time. In the previous rounds of CBA, some referees hoped to blow the penalty after watching the whole process of foul, for fear of “blowing too much”. However, due to the fast pace of CBA competition and the conversion speed of attack and defense, some penalties that should be blown out have not been blown out. Some missed judgments may increase the risk of injuries to athletes, and it is understandable that the club has opinions. Objectively speaking, for the referee, it is not easy to break the existing habits and establish a new blow penalty “reflection arc” in the brain, which requires a process. With the progress of CBA league, referees will continue to move closer to “high-quality non-sentencing” instead of going back to the original scale contrary to this principle. The current situation is that there are some “low-quality non-sentencing”, which of course needs to be corrected. The referees are trying to find the balance between the control match and “high-quality non-sentencing.
(Xinhua News Agency)