Beijing, April 4 (Reporter Li He) Entering the final four, which is the goal of the three-man women's basketball team participating in the Paris Olympics previously proposed by the Chinese Basketball Association. Getting a ticket to the Paris Olympics is naturally a prerequisite for achieving this goal.

So, the question is, the Chinese three-man women's basketball team wants to enter Paris, how many steps in total?

Rhythm: Three steps

"In the first step, we will reach the top three in the world and directly qualify for the Paris Olympics; The second step is another chance to play the qualifying round in 2024, and the team with the highest points ranking (FIBA) will finally have a chance to participate in the qualifying round; We may have another chance, and if we finish in the top few places in this year's [three-a-side basketball] World Cup, we will have another chance. ”

Chai Wensheng, executive director of the National Team Construction Committee of the Chinese Basketball Association and leader of the three-man basketball national team, introduced the "road map" for the Chinese three-man women's basketball team to enter Paris.

Three-person women's basketball training. Photo courtesy of the Chinese Basketball Association

Such a step-by-step "three-step" arrangement design is naturally designed to create the greatest possibility for the Chinese women's team to enter Paris under the existing three-man basketball points rules and system of FIBA.

There are eight spots in the women's three-man basketball event at the Paris Olympics. To put it simply, three of them can be earned through Olympic points – as of November 8 this year, the three highest-ranked countries and regions in the world will have direct access to Paris; The remaining 3 places will need to be determined through the qualifying round. During the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Chinese men's and women's three-man basketball all qualified through the FIBA three-man basketball points ranking.

After the Tokyo Olympics, FIBA revised its international points calculation rules, reducing the total points of the top 100 individual players in a country or region from the Tokyo Olympics cycle to calculating the total points of the top 25 players.

"This point (rule) is really quite difficult for us. Everyone knows that our top players, whether men's or women's, are in the league. 25 People (rules) For us, there are certain difficulties in selection and level, and we also overcome difficulties and use the resources that we can use now. ”

Chai Wensheng, Executive Director of the National Team Construction Committee of the Chinese Basketball Association and leader of the three-man basketball national team. Photo courtesy of the Chinese Basketball Association

Team: Four-way soldiers

In short, this change in points rules means that the Chinese team needs more high-level players to actually participate in the points tournament and play well.

To this end, the Chinese team has already begun to deal with it.

"The top players are in the league, and recently we also recruited students from Peking University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology to prepare for the points tournament." Chai Wensheng introduced.

The team that previously won the women's third place in the three-man Asian Cup was led by young players. The Chinese team sent players Zhang Jianping, Zhang Lingge, Chen Yujie and Zhang Yi, a youth army dominated by young players under the age of 23. In the end, they won the third place in the Asian Cup in Singapore.

"The student players are Chen Yujie, Zhang Yi has just come out of school, Zhang Lingge has just finished the WCBA League, Zhang Jianping also participated in the U21 National League last year, and we have brought together some student players and some young players with three-man basketball experience to form such a lineup. The Asian Cup is still relatively high in points, and the goal for them is to finish in the top three and finish on the podium. Chai Wensheng commented.

Chinese three-man Asian Cup women's basketball team. Screenshot of the FIBA website

This is just a small step for Chinese women's three-man basketball to "grab points" during the Paris Olympic cycle. In order to impact the Paris Olympic ticket, the Chinese three-man women's basketball team has basically set up four teams: the national three-man women's basketball team, the U23 national three-man women's basketball team, the U21 national three-man women's basketball team and the three-person women's basketball team, which will divide the troops into four ways and strive for points.

Among them, the main task of the U23 and U21 national teams is the national league, which will hold six matches each in Rizhao and Handan in June. "These six races are also quite high, and we will try to get better results in each race." Chai Wensheng said.

In addition, the U23 national team also has the task of participating in the Beach Games and the U23 World Cup.

Data map: The picture shows the Chinese team Wan Jiyuan in the game. Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang

The first task of the national three-man women's basketball team is to participate in the World Cup in Israel. Until then, they will compete with the three-man women's basketball team in Wuhan on May 5 and 6 in the FIBA Women's Basketball Series (WS). "This is the first WS race in the world this year, and it is also one of the three WS races held in China, which is the competition with the highest points for women." Chai Wensheng introduced, "The domestic WS also has Xiong'an Station and Yichang Station, when the U7 national team will participate with the three-man women's basketball team. ”

The three-man women's basketball team is a commercial team formed to "grab points" and is an important team that plans to earn points through WS games. The team was registered with FIBA under the name 'Sichuan Yuanda' and consisted of 5 Chinese players and 1 French foreign aid.

"This French foreign player is a player who is ranked high in the world, commercial leagues allow cross-border combinations, and we also hope to make reasonable use of FIBA rules to improve the team's strength and strive to achieve better results and higher points in the WS series." Chai Wensheng introduced.

Wang Lili, the core of the national three-man women's basketball team, was interviewed. Photo by Li Hyuk

Adjust: "Follow the task"

Referring to the goals of the Paris Olympics, Wang Lili, the core of the national three-man women's basketball team, also started from points: "We must first hit the points of Olympic promotion, this year is a very critical year for us, first we go to play the World Cup, and then the WS points competition, which is actually a challenge for our new team, but I think it can also be turned into motivation." ”

Wan Jiyuan, who once competed in the Tokyo Olympics, also said: "Step by step, go to more competitions to gain experience, and finally complete the goal." ”

Wan Jiyuan was interviewed by the media. Photo courtesy of the Chinese Basketball Association

Xu Jiamin, the head coach of China's three-man women's basketball team, said frankly that in the face of a series of important events such as this year's three-man basketball World Cup and Asian Games, the pressure and challenges of the team are great.

"Our training is as close to the game and beyond the intensity of the game as possible, compresses the time as much as possible, makes each training link more rigorous, and increases the training intensity per unit time as much as possible, and the players will feel more pressure on training." Xu Jiamin introduced the recent training.

Xu Jiamin, the head coach of China's three-man women's basketball team. Photo courtesy of the Chinese Basketball Association

She also pointed out that the training of the three-person basketball project should be "relatively concentrated, streamlined, and the training is more targeted", but this year's competition task is more special, requiring 25 people to play for the country at the same time and obtain national points, so "the task is here we have to adjust the overall plan, anyway, follow the change of the task, self-adjustment." ”

Talking about the ultimate direction of this series of efforts, Xu Jiamin said: "No matter which stage and cycle, our starting point is high or low, our goal is always the same, that is, to impact our best results. (End)