He was missing this time

End the domestic warm-up journey, the Chinese men's basketball team took 14 players to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the host of the Asian Cup. Although they won all the wins in four warm-up matches and their performances at the inside and outside are also refreshing, most people are still cautious about the prospects of the Asian Cup of the Chinese men's basketball team. After all, the current competitive situation in the Asian basketball world is no longer different from the past. Whether the Chinese men's basketball team can still be regarded as the "first echelon" remains to be tested. What's more, this time, they still attacked with a residual team: Zhou Qi, Zhao Jiwei, Zhao Weilun, Zeng Fanbo, Zhang Zhenlin, Cui Yongxi... Many former main players or semi-main players were absent due to injuries.

Of course, compared to the absence of a group of wounded soldiers, Yang Hansen's absence is gratifying, and even made many fans shout the slogan "The Basketball Association has finally made progress." The reason is very simple. The lessons in the past were so painful that people still imagine what height they could reach if Yao Ming did not have heavy national team tasks. More importantly, even if the Chinese men's basketball team is full of wounded soldiers and the inside staff is short of insiders, the Basketball Association chooses to return Yang Hansen, which is understandable. Even the Trail Blazers announced that Yang Hansen was absent from the follow-up game of the summer league, he also said that "the team has always supported international players in playing for their respective national teams." In this case, the Basketball Association was able to finally "suffer from the pain", which indeed reflects its progress in management philosophy, athlete training mechanism, communication model, etc.

Perhaps some people think that the current Asian Cup has long been decoupled from the Olympic and World Cup qualifications, and it is no big deal for the Basketball Association to make a "smooth favor". But in fact, this Asian Cup is the first competition faced by the Chinese men's basketball team in the new Olympic cycle, and the results are also an important KPI (key performance indicators) for this team. What's more, the U19 men's, women's basketball and women's basketball national teams that played some time ago were not ideal. If we follow the past thinking, the Basketball Association would definitely "increase" the Chinese men's basketball team - if it were not for a change in concept, the word "letting go" would not be so easy to say. Don’t forget that in the past, Yao Ming had to attend the warm-up match just to sell a few more tickets...

This time, Yang Hansen’s absence may mark that Chinese basketball will completely bid farewell to the old model of “the first in the match mission” and turn to the scientific path of “driven the competitiveness of the national team with player development.” If the Chinese Basketball Association can institutionalize and normalize this time, and even realize the "invitation system" of the national team, it will have a profound impact on the internationalization of Chinese basketball talents. Reporter Teng Da