Because the men's basketball team in the 2023 World Cup is only ranked 29th, the men's basketball team will miss the qualification for the Paris Olympics again after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
It is not difficult to find from the new men's basketball 26-man training list that the vast majority of them are young players, and the only NBA player Li Kaier was not selected, which may also be based on the long NBA season after giving him sufficient rest and recovery!
In addition, with Djordjevic's resignation, the head coach of the men's basketball team will be temporarily served by Guo Shiqiang.
In order to achieve the purpose of "training by competition", the men's basketball team will participate in a series of warm-up games, the specific arrangements are as follows:
On June 26 and 27, they fought against the Macao Black Bears in China;
In early July, he rushed to Melbourne, Australia to play against the Australian national team;
From July 7th to 10th, they will participate in the NBA Summer League in Sacramento, USA, against the Kings, Hornets, and Spurs respectively, and then they will go to Las Vegas and the Development League team and the free agent mixed team for 3-5 internal games!
The men's basketball team, which is in the stage of reconstruction, urgently needs to accumulate experience in the competition, and it is gratifying to be able to get training, but some people are happy and some are worried! These three are destined to be "disappointed", especially the last one!
First place: Choi Yong-hee! There is a high probability of missing the opportunity to play with the men's basketball team!
Cui Yongxi, as the only Chinese player participating in the 2024 NBA Draft, has completed separate tryouts for the Nets, Grizzlies, Jazz, and Pacers 4 teams so far, and will receive back-to-back tryouts from the Trail Blazers and Knicks on June 20 and 21.
Recently, the NBA officially released the schedule, and the opponents of the Chinese men's basketball NBA Summer League California Classic are the Kings, Hornets and Spurs!
Obviously, these NBA teams have no intersection with Choi Yong-hee, and to a large extent, they will not be the teams represented by Choi Yong-hee in the summer league, so many fans expected that the scene of Choi Yong-hee against the men's basketball team would not appear, which has to be said to be a big pity!
Second place: Djordjevic! I had no choice but to leave class with a poor record, and I couldn't fulfill my promise!
Earlier, according to a number of European media, the Russian men's basketball team will go to China for a friendly match in June, and Russian men's basketball coach Lukic also admitted that he has reached an agreement with Chinese men's basketball coach Djordjevic to lead the Russian men's basketball team to China for two or three friendly games!
According to the published schedule, Russia is not listed, and the most important thing is that Djordjevic will not be able to attend the appointment!
The once highly anticipated coach expected to prove himself in the NBA Summer League, but had to face the gap between reality and ideals.
On the international basketball stage, the Chinese men's basketball team needs not only high-level coaches, but also a tactical system that is in line with national conditions and can stimulate the potential of players!
Third place: Yao Ming! Failed to keep Djordjevic, and the attempt to "Europeanize" failed!
For Yao Ming, the chairman of the Basketball Association, who has always advocated "Western-style sports", he is very helpless about Djordjevic's departure and stay, and he himself hopes to give Djordjevic more time and opportunities, in order to lead the Chinese men's basketball team out of the trough. However, the decision-making of the higher-level leaders made Yao Ming have to take care of the overall situation!
The dismal record of the men's basketball team does not give him much capital to fight for reason, the 29th place in the World Cup, the bronze medal in the Asian Games, and the loss to Japan in the Asian preliminaries, there is a bottom line for fault tolerance, who can wait endlessly? Between reality and the future, it is clear that many people will choose the present, and who can guarantee that Djordjevic will succeed in counterattacking?
Cui Yongxi's so-called "frustration" is more similar to a joke, but Djordjevic's dismissal and Yao Ming's helplessness are the grim realities faced by the men's basketball team, and it is these realities that make us more clearly aware of the problems of the men's basketball team!
Losing is not terrible, finding a way to break the game is fundamental, slumping, getting by, and gradually forming a losing mentality is the most terrible vicious circle!