CBA All-Star weekend looks forward to the future in "slots"
It seems that every CBA All-Star game has something embarrassing for this professional league. This time, which ended in Qingdao on March 21, is no exception.
The Northern Star Team lost in the Star Game, but Zhang Zhenlin, who represented the losing team, won the MVP trophy, which made many fans feel uncomfortable. The MVP is usually won by the player with the most points on the winning team, but this time The selection criteria are the shouts of the fans at the competition. Therefore, some fans complained afterwards: "On amateurs, CBA is professional."
In the preliminaries of the slam dunk contest, there was also a ridiculous scene. The screen used for scoring in the game suddenly malfunctioned. Several guests had to compare with their hands or directly shout to rate the athletes.
But this is not the original intention of this All-Star Weekend.
This Qingdao All-Star Weekend coincides with the 25th anniversary of CBA All-Star Weekend. The organizer, CBA Company, strives to make this All-Star Weekend into an All-Star Weekend that combines feelings and expectations.
For this reason, the elements of tribute to the predecessors are reflected in all links of the All-Star Weekend.
Among them, during the halftime of the All-Star game, Yi Jianlian, Li Xiaoyong, Zhu Fangyu, Hu Weidong, Yao Ming, Liu Wei, Marbury, Guo Ailun, etc., representing the three best lineups of the All-Star Team for the 25th anniversary of the All-Star team, gathered together. The scene of this event has pushed the ambition of this All-Star Weekend to the top.
"Actually, this is very touching," Jiao Jian, a former Chinese men’s basketball player who has participated in all-star games for many times, told China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter: "Including the award-giving director Jiang (Jiang Xingquan) and Gong director (Gong Lu Ming), they are all people who have contributed to Chinese basketball. The current situation of Chinese basketball needs this kind of inheritance so that the new generation of players can continue to inherit the spirit of the older generation and the predecessors, and they can also let young fans go through this ceremony. Learn about the history of Chinese basketball."
Indeed, the current CBA league, and even the entire Chinese basketball, stand at a crossroads.
In the past more than one season, the CBA League under the new crown pneumonia epidemic has taken the lead in the rematch, but it has always been played in an empty game. This has caused fans, clubs and sponsors to complain.
The national team fell into the sand in the Men's Basketball World Cup, and the Tokyo Olympics has a high probability of not being able to play. In the next ten years, it will face a situation where there are not many world competitions to play.
Although the CBA League wanted to play the role of the basic role of Chinese basketball after the separation of management and management, the time was short and no obvious results were achieved.
This is why, CBA all-star weekend wants to create an atmosphere of inheritance, but it is somewhat weak.
Zhang Zhenlin, the busiest person on this CBA All-Star Weekend. He is featured in the Xingrui Contest, Dunk Contest, All-Star Opening Performance, and All-Star Race. It can be seen that this goalkeeper seems to be in line with the outside world's future of Chinese basketball. All expectations-bursting physical fitness, exposed but unassuming personality, and predictable strength to become a regular visitor of the Chinese men's basketball team in the future.
However, if you look at the players participating in the Xingrui Tournament and the All-Star Game, you will find that there are only a handful of players who have been labeled as promising for the future. Except for Zhang Zhenlin, there may only be young people who are visible to the naked eye and have potential. Shen Zijie, Qi Lin, Hu Mingxuan, and they still don't have many opportunities to show how high their upper limit is in the international arena.
Solving this feeling of powerlessness is certainly not a matter of day and night. The meaning of this All-Star Weekend is actually to release a signal to the outside world, and this is also an expectation-the CBA League will steadily promote the opening of fans to the game, and then At the right time, the home and away games of the league will be resumed, and this is also the appeal of players, fans, clubs, sponsors and so on.
"According to our current plan, starting from the fourth stage, the audience will gradually resume admission, because the scale of the venue is also different. Maybe this requires some local preparations, and we also maintain close communication with them. I believe that in the follow-up games, including in the finals, everyone is expected to see fans cheering for their favorite team on the spot. As for the restoration of the home and away games, we have conducted preliminary communication with various clubs, and everyone wants to see their own The team is playing in its own home stadium, and we are also making some pre-plans." said Meng Xiaoqi, the head of CBA's competition.
According to the reporter's understanding, it is not impossible to resume home and away games this season.
Of course, whether it is the long-term hope or the immediate return of fans to watch the game, the core of the CBA league is still the improvement of the overall level of Chinese basketball, as the director Gong Luming said when he presented the commemorative trophy to the All-Star representatives. , The sentence that seems to be "untimely" but points to the pain point: "CBA has passed through a glorious development stage in 25 years, and excellent players have continued to emerge in 25 years. Today we are happy on the domestic stage, and tomorrow we hope that we will be the same. Happy on the international stage, and high value.” Maybe that day, the slot on the All-Star Weekend will no longer be a slot, and Chinese basketball will be more confident and comfortable when facing other slots.
Our newspaper, Beijing, March 22, by wire
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Yang Di Source: China Youth Daily