The 5th game window men’s basketball FIFA World Cup qualification is approaching, and the Chinese team will go to Tehran to face Iran and Bahrain. Two days before going to Guangzhou for training, China men’s basketball announced the big list of this expedition on 29th. Unexpectedly, the list of 17 people for training again caused a lot of controversy.
Sun Minghui, Zhu Junlong, Wang Zhelin, Ren Junfei, Zhao Rui, Hu Mingxuan, Xu Jie, Wu Qian, Lu Wenbo, Wang Yibo, Zhou Peng, Shen Zijie, Gu Quan, Jiang Weize, zhu Mingzhen, Ah Baidu salad Wood, Zhou Qi. Among them, there were 4 people in Guangdong, 3 people in Chouzhou and Shenzhen in Zhejiang, and 2 people in Guangsha. None of the Liaoning team, which tied for the second CBA record with Shanxi, played in the battle. Considering the identity of men’s basketball coach Du Feng as the coach of Guangdong team at the same time and the embarrassing performance of the Asian Cup, this lineup will naturally attract speculation, doubts and dissatisfaction from the outside world.
The more realistic contradiction lies in the fact that some players in this lineup did not perform well in the first stage of CBA: for example, Hu Mingxuan, who has already become the target of public criticism, scored only 7.9 points per game, with a hit rate of only 35%, ren Junfei also has only 6+6 performances. In the ending war killed by Zhejiang, Hu Mingxuan gained 2 points, 1 board and 4 mistakes in 4 shots (2 consecutive penalties before the final game), ren Junfei threw out a small bomb with 3 boards, 3 help, 3 breaks and 3 mistakes, which made Du Feng’s face black. However, veteran Zhou Peng also had only an average of 9 points and a hit rate of 37 percent in Shenzhen.
Even if it is the most core supporter, it may be difficult to be optimistic about Hu Mingxuan’s future national team performance now.
In addition to these three direct disciples of Du Feng, Lu Wenbo in Chouzhou, Zhejiang province cut 6 points and 2 boards in the first stage with 37 percent of the quasi-head (21 percent hit rate), wang Yibo of the same team received 6 points and 5 assists with a hit rate of 38% (hit rate of 12% in three points)… in Wang Yibo’s own words: “No matter what your personal strength is, compared with others, it is still insufficient.”
This kind of performance, entering the national training team, is somewhat embarrassing.
Lu Wenbo and Wang Yibo entered the training team. Yu Jiahao, Cheng Shuai, and Liu Zeyi, who performed better, did not enter instead.
In addition to personal performance, the shadow of injury has also been entangled in this training team. Sun Minghui’s shoulder and sleeve injury was suggested to be suspended for a month; Aludu salad Wood was absent due to injury; Shen Zijie also lost weight all the way, and was simply carried out of the field in ending war.
Sun Minghui’s shoulder has been wearing sports tape for a long time, and he is also injured
After Shen Zijie returned home, he was in poor condition due to thigh injuries. This time, the waist injury was even worse.
In contrast, those new people who were not included in the big list played a dazzling game in CBA instead: zhang ning was like a duck to water under the new version of the ship that encouraged confrontation, ranking sixth among local players with an average of 18 points in the game; however, the first game of his career contributed to the killing of Lin Yi, with an average of 17 points (higher than Sun Minghui). The third-point prospective star was 38%, which could not be seen as only 19 years old; In addition, Jiang Yuxing, who had a high voice, yuanshuai, Liu Zeyi, Zhu Xuhang, Zhang Fan, Tao Hanlin……… Looking at CBA data alone, they seem to be more qualified to be included in the big list than some people on the list.
This overly intuitive contrast between the front and the back again pushed Du Feng and China men’s basketball to the forefront of public opinion. However, when we look at this list of fans again, you can’t even figure out whether the national team has too unique vision to pick people or whether CBA talents with too strong hematopoietic ability are causing trouble to leaders.
Of course, Du Feng gave sufficient reasons for questioning the selection of candidates. First of all, although the fifth stage of the competition was held in November, the International Basketball Federation required that the list of entries be submitted before October 5th. Men’s Basketball received this notice from FIBA in September. “Therefore, when the list is brewing, the new CBA season has not yet begun.”
This statement is indeed very legitimate. After all, the FIBA asked for this. The Iranian team opposite announced the big list 10 days earlier than us. Considering that the training time of the national team in the future is only one week, and the CBA league has not started yet when the list is confirmed, the management of men’s basketball can only give priority to the old players who cooperate with tacit understanding and have experience in the competition at that time-you can say that this is empirical or not, it is better to stare at the wool. After all, they did not open their eyes, and it is even more futile to blame the FIBA for its problems in time management.
As for the reason why no one of the Liaoning team participated in the competition, Du Feng also gave convincing reasons-Guo Allen was injured + punished, Zhang Zhenlin did not fully recover, zhao Jiwei, who has been involved in the rotation, has been tortured to Weibo to expose himself to fatigue and weariness, which is an objective problem. In fact, besides Liaoning players, Du Feng and the coaching staff also thought of more people, but Guo Haowen was in the United States (later his ankle was broken), while Zeng fanbo had been injured all the time, it seems that it is not a safe choice to bet one month in advance on his recovery.
Considering the changes in the general environment-the selection of men’s basketball changed from recruitment to invitation and the impact of the epidemic on the sports environment at home and abroad, every time China men’s basketball goes abroad to compete, it has become an extreme test: it is not only the FIBA Arena under increasing pressure, but also the onlooker. The intensive schedule is also a kind of torture to the players’ body and mind. After the international competition, they returned to the country and were isolated. Then the domestic league started to play. After the first stage, they pulled out to participate in the competition… just like in the minefield, it is not normal for no one to ask for leave.
Du Feng could not be more clear about this: “In the last two and a half years, they have been almost non-stop from the league to the national team. They have been physically and mentally tired when moving to the domestic and foreign venues, very difficult.”
To be fair, since 2019, China’s men’s basketball seems to have lost some luck, injuries, fatigue and urgent timetable every time, let men’s basketball not be able to choose the best-we don’t even remember the last time when China men’s basketball was able to compete with the strongest lineup of all employees. However, the dramatic appearance of all living beings after the opening of CBA made this long-drawn-up big list even less convincing.
Jiang Yuxing and Zhang Ning are the most vocal among the lost Pearl
At first glance, the problem of the front line that has been criticized for three years seems to have eased. Zhu Mingzhen, Gu Quan, Zhu Junlong and Ren Junfei are the main forwards of their respective teams, among them, Zhu Mingzhen and Gu Quan are still the main three-point players (Gu Quan’s three-point hit rate even reached 50%), and China men’s basketball finally had a choice other than three defenders.
However, Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei did not fight, and the backcourt choice of men’s basketball became more and more confusing. The number of backcourt combinations of Sun Minghui, Zhao Rui, Wu Qian, Jiang Weize, Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie is enough to rub Mahjong, but Hu Mingxuan’s status has fallen to the bottom, wu Qian, who was once highly expected, failed to prove himself in FIBA, and his positioning with Jiang Weize in the team seemed to be too homogeneous.
Wu averaged 17 points in previous games this year, but the hit rate was only 38.6%.
Now Sun Minghui was injured, and Zhao Rui was carried out of the field four days ago. The only two drivers on the guard line had problems, and the pressure returned to the front of the remaining defenders. Today, when the defenders are more and more important, can they really carry the ball power and pressure? In the face of the high confrontation of the West Asian people, can they successfully fengshui ball the half-time, instigate the attack, throw in the three-point goal spread by Zhou Qi and Wang Zhilin? This is the biggest problem facing men’s basketball.
However, what is more worrying is that Wang Zhelin still did not improve his reckless play in Shanghai, zhou Qi couldn’t even get enough playing time in Melbourne Phoenix-if they were in poor condition (if Shen Zijie didn’t recover at the speed of light, they didn’t even have a substitute), the old Hadadi didn’t take advantage of it, can China men’s basketball find a breakthrough from other positions (from the last window, the match between Kazakhstan and Bahrain seems a little hanging?) At that time, if you lose to any other opponent, I am afraid that the public opinion will make men’s basketball look further at the men’s football team.
However, rules are rules. Even if there are many doubts about the current candidates of the national team, the young talents who have played in the new season can only wait until the next window to have the chance to prove themselves.
The good news is that the performance of Iran, the main rival of men’s basketball, was not stable before. In the last window, they all dared to lose Kazakhstan, which was not naturalized. It seemed that it was not so difficult to deal. Besides, in the remaining four games (2 against Iran, 1 against Bahrain, and 1 against Kazakhstan), the Chinese team basically locked out places as long as they won two games, so no matter how ugly they played, you can’t finish the outgoing task, can you?
No matter what, let’s wish China men’s basketball a happy good luck this time and go smoothly. After all, the folk reputation of men’s basketball in China today is already very fragile. I’m afraid it will be difficult to stand up to the trouble of failure again……
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