Yao Ming is helpless! The dismissal of the 56-year-old foreign coach was not intended to passively choose Guo Shiqiang to take over the chaos of the Chinese men's basketball team

An old naughty boy in the sports world

2024-06-09 14:03Published in Guangdong sports creators

In the end, the Chinese Basketball Association couldn't stand the poor results since Djordjevic took charge and chose to break up with the European coach. Qiao Shuai's name is no longer on the list of the Chinese men's basketball training team in mid-June, and CBA champion coach Guo Shiqiang will replace Djordjevic as the national team coach. At present, Guo Shiqiang is still waiting for the approval of the leaders of the General Administration, and once approved, he will officially take up the position of national team coach.

Due to the Basketball Association's regulations that the national team coach cannot concurrently serve as the head coach of the club, Guo Shiqiang will terminate the contract with the Guangzhou Dragon and Lions men's basketball team, and the two sides will break up peacefully.

Looking back on Djordjevic's one-year coaching of the Chinese men's basketball team, how bad is his performance in leading the team? Led the team to the Men's Basketball World Cup, lost all three games in the group stage, lost to Serbia by 42 points, South Sudan with 20 points, Puerto Rico with 18 points, won Angola by 7 points in the first game of qualifying, and lost to the host Philippines by 21 points in the second game, ranking 29th to refresh the worst record in team history, missing the Paris Olympics and the Paris Olympics qualifying round. Then led the team to participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the Chinese men's basketball team fighting at home was reversed by the Philippines by 20 points in the semifinals, missed the final, and failed to achieve the expected goal of winning the championship!

Entering 2024, in the second game of the first window of the Asian preliminaries, the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the Japanese men's basketball team away, losing to the Japanese men's basketball team for the first time in 88 years in the FIBA system at the Asian level and above.

These dismal results doomed Djordjevic to not continue to coach the Chinese men's basketball team, after all, the Basketball Association needs to see the national team produce results, and Djordjevic did not meet the established requirements.

In fact, it was also a mistake for the Basketball Association to choose to cooperate with Djordjevic, turning the time back to November 2022, when Du Feng coached the Chinese men's basketball team to 11 wins and 2 losses in the World Preliminary Tournament, successfully obtained the World Cup main match ticket, lost to Australia in the two games lost in the World Preliminary Tournament, and won all the other games against Asian teams. On this basis, the Basketball Association should have let Du Feng lead the team to the World Cup, and if he could not get a ticket to the Paris Olympics, he would consider whether to be taken over by a new coach. However, the Basketball Association finally chose to directly replace Du Feng in the middle of the fifth window of the World Preliminaries, announced that Djordjevic would take over, and change the coach before the World Cup.

Now Djordjevic has been coaching for less than 1 year, and the Basketball Association has returned to the local coach mode again, which seems to be slapping himself in the face, proving that the Basketball Association was wrong in choosing foreign coaches, which is funny.

It is worth mentioning that the coach of the Basketball Association, Yao Ming and Djordjevic, have a very good relationship, both of them have publicly stated that Chinese basketball needs to go through a long-term stage if it wants to become stronger, for example, let more young players understand how the European basketball system works, for which the Basketball Association has organized a number of short-term national team training camps in just one year, so that a large number of young players can enter the training camp to adapt to Djordjevic's coaching philosophy.

And now that Qiao Shuai has left class directly, Yao Ming's plan has directly failed, and all plans to integrate with the European basketball system have failed. At the same time, it was not Yao Ming's intention to choose Guo Shiqiang, a local handsome, to take over, he didn't want to return to the local handsome mode.

Guo Shiqiang's current situation is very similar to Du Feng in 2019, when the Chinese men's basketball team missed the Tokyo Olympics at home, Li Nan was gloomy, Du Feng took over the coaching of the Chinese men's basketball team at a time of crisis, led the team to play the Olympic qualifying round, and then qualified for the World Cup, but was finally replaced by the coach. I hope that Guo Shiqiang will not be the same as Du Feng in 3 years, tired and tired of coaching the team and being replaced by foreign coaches after getting the World Cup ticket, the Chinese men's basketball team can hardly bear such a toss, or try one way to the end, don't give up halfway.

Whether the Chinese men's basketball team can return to the top eight in the world cannot only rely on the replacement of one or two coaches, and the question that needs to be paid attention to should be how to improve the competitive level of the CBA league? Can the top domestic players stay motivated and go to high-level overseas leagues? Are there enough good coaches in the domestic youth training system? Some of the problems are obvious, just to see if anyone really wants to solve them.

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