Original title: The Chinese men’s basketball team opens a short training camp to train young people and increase the thickness of the talent pool.
Beijing Daily (Reporter Chen Jiakun) In the absence of preparation tasks for the Paris Olympics, the Chinese men’s basketball team is currently organizing a short-term training camp at the Qingdao Guoxin Basketball Training Base. The short training camp focuses on young players and aims to increase the talent pool of the Chinese men’s basketball national team.
Last year, the Chinese Basketball Association attempted a short training camp. This short training camp is not long and is mainly aimed at young players. The short training camp allows these players to learn more about the technical and tactical system of the national team and accept more advanced basketball concepts. At the same time, the national men’s basketball coaching staff further inspects the players in this way to reserve more young players for the national team.
According to the list announced by the Chinese Basketball Association, the players selected for the short training camp are basically young players, including Yang Hansen, Wang Haoran, Zhao Weilun and others who participated in the U19 World Cup last year. It also includes players who have landed in the CBA through the draft in the past two years. Players such as Chen Guohao, Zou Yang, and Wang Lanyi have outstanding performances. Among this list of 14 people, 11 are born after 2000. Two players who are playing overseas were also selected for this short training camp. 20-year-old Li Xinyi plays in the American College Men’s Basketball League; Zhao Weilun, who was born in September 2005, is the youngest in this short training camp and is currently playing in the Serie A. Potency.
Regarding the purpose of holding this short training camp, Chinese men’s basketball coach Djordjevic said that it is to more intuitively evaluate the level of selected players and their desire to compete for the national team, expand the scope of young players worthy of consideration, and also to consider If there are any surprises in the rotation of the main players of the national team, such as injuries, the players in the short training camp can have the opportunity to understand the technical and tactical system of the national team, so that they can be supplemented in time when needed. Djordjevic introduced four selection criteria, namely whether they conform to the technical and tactical system of the national team, performance in domestic and foreign leagues, past performance in national brands and short training camps, and whether they are strict with themselves on and off the field.
Guangzhou men’s basketball head coach Guo Shiqiang did not appear on the coaching staff list this time. Djordjevic gave an explanation, “In the past year, some coaches and staff were almost in a state of continuous rotation between the club and the national team, such as Assistant coach Guo Shiqiang just finished his league duties two days ago. “According to him, this short training camp mainly focused on inspecting new players and fully communicated with team members. Individual personnel need some time to rest and recuperate. The best condition to welcome this summer’s training camp, external competitions, and external training tasks. He said: “We express our understanding and support, and look forward to a short adjustment and we will continue to fight side by side.”
During this short training camp, the Chinese men’s basketball team will have two internal games with the Macau Black Bears of China. The Black Bears will compete with a lineup including 6 to 8 foreign players.
This year is an Olympic year, but the Chinese men’s basketball team has missed the Paris Olympics. The main task this year is to participate in the Asian Cup qualifiers. In this men’s basketball Asian preliminaries, the Chinese men’s basketball team is in the same group as the Mongolian team, Japan team and Guam team. In the two games during the first window of the Asian preliminaries in February, the Chinese men’s basketball team defeated the Mongolian team 80-49 at home and lost to the Japanese team 73-76 away from home. The games in the second window will be held in November. The Chinese men’s basketball team will have a warm-up match with the Australian men’s basketball team this summer, and then go to the United States to participate in the summer league.