At the end of the year, a number of basketball competitions were held, including the Chinese Men’s Basketball Professional League (CBA), Chinese Women’s Basketball League (WCBA), and the Chinese University Student Three-to-Three Basketball League that fans are familiar with, as well as the 2021 National Men’s Three-player Basketball Super League. , The first youth CBA National Challenge and other newly created events.
From professional players to private players, from sports powerhouses to campus teams, from traditional events to emerging competitions, different player composition, participants, and game positioning target their respective target groups and enrich the Chinese basketball competition system.
The other side of the active basketball competition market is people’s attention to national teams. In the three-person basketball and women’s basketball games of the Tokyo Olympics, and the recent Men’s Basketball World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team performed well, but it is also clear that there is still a clear gap between Chinese basketball and the world‘s leading level. Faced with the lively scene of domestic competitions, many fans can’t help but have the question: How can the overall upward trend of Chinese basketball be reflected in the performance of various small events and various levels of national teams?
It is undeniable that the construction of the national team and the construction of the competition system are positively related to a certain extent: the higher the level of the competition, the greater the value of exercise, and the player’s ability can be improved accordingly. But the correlation between the two is also conditional. A team or a club can achieve leapfrog development from scratch and from weak to strong through large-scale investment, while the strength of a national team needs to start from grassroots basketball, and the foundation must be consolidated step by step. In other words, whether the competition can play the role of cultivating and selecting talents depends on whether the youth training mechanism is complete and the channels for talent promotion are unblocked.
Whether it is a professional league that requires clubs to have echelon construction, or the deepening of the integration of the two departments of sports and education, and the breakthrough of competition barriers, it is a positive change and innovation of the traditional talent training model. Through various methods, constantly surpassing the constraints of historical evolution and the real environment, the ultimate goal is to establish a pyramid-shaped talent training system that integrates the selection of reserve forces.
In this sense, when looking at the development of leagues and national teams at all levels, it is necessary to overcome performance theory, maintain concentration, and improve the competition system. The excitement will not only stop at the level of competitions. Chinese basketball will also gain a larger talent pool.
(Editor in charge: Wu Xiaojuan)