Chinese men's basketball coach Djordjevic will make his debut next week
The pressure of the competition is not small, what is Yangshuai's coup?
The Chinese men's basketball team, which has been training in Shanghai recently, is about to embark on a journey again.
On February 23, the Chinese men's basketball team will start the sixth window of the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup Asia Pacific qualifiers. The opponent is the Kazakhstan team. Three days later, the Chinese men's basketball team will also face the Iranian team.
Prior to this, the Chinese men's basketball team had already qualified for this year's World Cup in advance during the fifth world preliminaries window.
Although there is no pressure to qualify, but because this is the official debut of the new coach Djordjevic and the new Chinese men's basketball team, it has attracted much attention.
Reporter Feng Zihan
Ten years later welcome Yangshuai
The last foreign coach of the Chinese men's basketball team dates back to the Greek Janakis 10 years ago.
In 2013, the Chinese men's basketball team was defeated in Manila. After the team fell into a trough, the Chinese men's basketball team has experienced three local coaches: Gong Luming, Li Nan, and Du Feng.
At the critical moment of preparing for the Men's Basketball World Cup, the "foreign coach" was once again used, and the team looked forward to regaining glory.
Djordjevic has a rich and successful resume. As a player, he was the core of the Serbian national team's backcourt.
After retiring and becoming "Joe Shuai", he has successively coached top European clubs such as Milan in Italy, Panathinaikos in Greece, Bayern Munich in Germany, and Fenerbahce in Turkey. Race runner-up.
In 2008, Djordjevic was named "Europe's Top 50 Contributors" by the UEFA Champions League.
In addition to the high level of coaching, the Chinese men's basketball team also values Djordjevic's multicultural experience, which can help the team broaden their horizons.
"I think that if the Chinese men's basketball team follows his path, it will gradually connect with the world. There was a period of time before that we were derailed from the world, but now with the connection point of Djordjevic, we can This gives us a chance to get back on track," said Liu Wei, assistant coach of the Chinese men's basketball team.
In less than two weeks of the "Joe Phase I" training camp, the team has practiced nearly 30 sets of tactics, and will arrange a lineup of different personnel combinations every day, striving to find the most suitable match in the shortest time.
And the next two world preliminaries are a good opportunity for Qiao Shuai to test the players and get in touch with the team.
"I can't promise to win these two world preliminaries, but we will definitely go all out. I understand everyone's expectations and enthusiasm for us, but we must be 'fully charged' before we start, so we not only need to do it physically Get ready, and at the same time be mentally prepared." Regarding the upcoming debut of himself and his disciples, Qiao Shuai was very low-key.
Young and tall are the characteristics
Although Qiao Shuai's coaching style and characteristics need follow-up games to be understood by the outside world, it is not difficult to see from the current training list that the coach from Serbia prefers young and tall players.
There are a total of 18 Chinese men's basketball team training, including Zeng Fanbo, Cui Yongxi, Jiao Boqiao, Cui Xiaolong, Zhu Mingzhen and many other young players.
Regarding the appointment of young people, Qiao Shuai joked: "Don't be too surprised, there will be some new names in the next team training camp."
From the perspective of height, in the entire roster, only Zhao Jiwei and Wu Qian are under 1.90 meters tall, and the other 16 players are all "big-sized" players in various positions.
You know, in the 2019 World Cup, the average height of the Serbian men's basketball team led by Qiao Shuai reached 2.06 meters. "Higher, faster, stronger" has become a "hard lever" for Serbian candidates.
During the training process, Qiao Shuai is still a "detail control".
When the team was conducting tactical drills, Djordjevic stood in the middle of the court, looked back and forth at the tactical movement of each player, and shouted instructions on attacking and passing from time to time.
When a player runs a wrong tactic or the tactic is not executed properly, Djordjevic will let the player start from scratch.
"Even if it is 0.1 second slower, the opportunity may be gone." Wang Zhelin said that Qiao Shuai is very meticulous about every movement, whether it is attacking or defending, or even how to do a small movement, turn left, Still turn to the right, this pursuit of details makes everyone highly focused during training.
The pressure of the World Cup is high
For this "updated" Chinese men's basketball team, the pressure in 2023 is really not small.
After the world preliminaries, their important tasks include the Men's Basketball World Cup in August and the Hangzhou Asian Games held at their doorstep in September.
The World Cup to be held this summer will be the first and toughest test for the Chinese men's basketball team.
In the last Men's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team at home only won one victory, failed to qualify from the group stage, lost the opportunity to go straight to the Tokyo Olympics, and ended the record of nine consecutive Olympic Games.
The record of this year's Men's Basketball World Cup will determine whether the Chinese men's basketball team can go straight to Paris.
According to the current strength and preparation time of the Chinese men's basketball team, if they want to directly get the Olympic tickets, it will be quite a challenge.
The chemical reaction of coaches and players, as well as improving the technical and tactical level of the team, are all problems that need to be solved urgently.
In addition to the difficulties that the team needs to overcome, from a horizontal perspective, on the way to the "best in Asia", the Japanese team will become an opponent that the Chinese men's basketball team needs to be wary of.
As one of the hosts, they may have a very good grouping, and the blessing of Hachimura Rui and Watanabe Yuta, two active NBA players, will help the Japanese men's basketball team become more competitive.
After the World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team will continue to fight in the Asian Games.
As the champion of the last Asian Games, coupled with sitting at home, the Chinese men's basketball team naturally hopes to successfully defend their title in front of their hometown.
Faced with the pressure of "assessment", Djordjevic admitted frankly that the team needs to have a sense of urgency, but it should not be too anxious.
"When climbing a mountain, you can't just look at the top of the mountain, but focus on every step in front of you. Just like what I asked in the training class, it's better to be late than early." He said.
Qilu Evening News