The Chinese men's basketball team's performance in international competitions is getting worse and worse, from the top eight in the Olympic Games in 2008 to the current consecutive Olympic games, the world ranking of the Chinese men's basketball team has also slipped from 9th to 28th at its peak, and even in Asia, it is not as good as Japan, and it is no longer the hegemon of Asia.
For this reason, the Chinese Basketball Association is eager to help the national team regain its competitiveness, and in order to be in line with the FIBA game, the Basketball Association began to promote the reform of the CBA league, hoping to change the game time to 10 minutes per quarter, that is, a game will be shortened from the original total of 48 minutes to a total of 40 minutes, which will be a standard for FIBA games.
The reason why the Basketball Association is so reformed is related to the chairman of the Basketball Association Yao Ming and the men's basketball coach Djordjevic, Qiao Shuai once suggested that the CBA league should be benchmarked against FIBA games, and the only high-level professional league in the world that can play 48 minutes a game is the NBA, and all the top leagues in Europe are 40-minute games. Qiao Shuai believes that less game time allows players to focus more on the game and at the same time be able to get into the game faster, and if you want to win, you must play every round well.
Obviously, Qiao Shuai's suggestion was adopted by the Basketball Association, and the relationship between Yao Ming, the chairman of the Basketball Association, and Qiao Shuai has always been very good.
Objectively, it is a reasonable reform to comprehensively benchmark FIBA games and keep up with European basketball, after all, the CBA league does not have the same high level and spectacle as the NBA, and 48 minutes of game time is too much, but 40 minutes of play can make players more engaged in the game, and at the same time adapt to FIBA game standards in advance.
However, the CBA league has been professional for more than 20 years, and suddenly compressing the game time will damage the interests of the CBA league sponsors and major brands, and reduce the publicity time for displaying products, which will be a big problem. At present, the major CBA clubs are in a loss-making model, and the influence and commercial value of the league are not enough, if a large number of sponsors leave because of the reform of the league time, it will be a big harm to the major CBA clubs.
It's just that from the basketball level, the CBA league needs to be on par with European basketball, and improving the level of league competition is the top priority.
The progress and success of European basketball is obvious to all, the new World Cup champion is the German team, and Spain, Serbia, Slovenia and other European teams are the world's top teams.
On the whole, compressing the CBA league game time to 40 minutes is a reform that needs to be realized, but it needs multi-party coordination, CBA needs more healthy competition, and competitive sports need continuous competition to be able to improve, always making the situation easy for players, and there will be no excellent players!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)