At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yao Ming and Li Liang held a press conference in the reception hall of the Oriental Grand Hyatt Hotel, introducing Li Liang's joining the Chinese national team to major media.

This is the biggest news in the Chinese sports industry before the Olympics.

Although basketball is just a event and definitely won’t win medals, it has always received a lot of attention as a collective event with significant influence.

The so-called "three major balls" in China have always been highly anticipated.

Unfortunately, except for the women's volleyball team, the other three major goals in the past two years have been getting worse.

This year's men's basketball team is competing in the Olympics, and those selected for the roster are all young people, and the official claims are mainly about "training young people".

To be honest, this statement has always been self-deception.

The Olympics are once every four years, and the most important basketball event is used to train young people. So what do you usually do?

This is equivalent to taking the college entrance examination, saying that it is to train yourself and for the next college entrance examination.

Then why can't you do better this time?

The problem of not accepting collective projects in China can be said to be quite serious.

The group of elites trained by the old national system gradually faded away, but the young people trained by the new market-oriented system could not take over the banner.

People like Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi are all top players trained by the old system and have shined their last glory at the 2008 Olympics.

After these people retired, Chinese basketball entered a "difficulty with Chinese characteristics".

Because China is a latecomer in modern civilization, from a backward agricultural country to a modern country, it can be said that from top to bottom, it is learning from the advanced European and American aspects while feeling the stones across the river. The sports industry is no exception.

I won’t mention football, it’s annoying.

Basketball once dominated Asia, relying on the national system.

Many people think that the national system is backward, but in fact, the national system is also learning from advanced foreign systems, that is, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

In basketball, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union also represent world-class standards, but they have defeated the United States in the Olympics.

The reason why the national system needs to change is not because of backwardness, but because the overall social environment and system have changed, the underlying foundation has changed, and of course the superstructure such as sports culture has also changed.

The Chinese have always been ambitious. As a big country, if you want to learn, we will learn the best.

Therefore, learning from football in Western Europe, basketball is naturally benchmarked against the United States, the world's largest basketball power.

But China really can't learn the economic foundation, campus sports culture, and various supporting systems of the United States.

So in the end, it became the four-dimensional appearance of Chinese characteristics.

On the one hand, the national system and the influence of local sports bureaus is still there, and all localities act independently, and the youth training system is still an important blood supply mechanism, which is very similar to European clubs.

On the one hand, imitating the American business league has become the most important base for talent training and training, and imitating the United States in all aspects such as tactics, competition system, and business models.

As a result, youth training has been affected by the social environment and is no longer possible to screen out layers of the elite like in the past.

Why is the Bayi team so powerful back then? It is because the troops from all over the country screen upward layer by layer and gather all the elite players together. How can it be stronger?

China is so big, with more than one billion people. If you openly select talents, can you still not pick out geniuses suitable for playing basketball?

The problem is that under the market system, we cannot open up the choice, and the foundation of youth training will be affected.

The Chinese business league has a bit of a sense of imitation, like the NBA, plays all stars, plays the playoffs, and has so-called "drafts" that are not worthy of their name.

China does not have a deep campus basketball culture and foundation.

It is basically a copycat version of NBA, but the ornamentality and competitiveness are greatly reduced.

In order to achieve the record, the team always takes foreign players as the core and treats local players as engineers.

For this reason, the Basketball Association has also formulated various rules to limit the playing time of foreign players, and also distinguished between "European and American foreign players" and "Asian foreign players".

In order to force each team to train local players, it was launched in a certain season. Playoff teams can choose two players from teams that have never entered the playoffs to join the team (mainly members of the national team). This is a weird rule that violates market rules and makes a fool of itself.

For example, because a national team is not good at breaking tight presses for a short time, and is repeatedly ruined by the opponent's tight pressing defense, it is required that the team use full-game tight pressing tactics in at least one quarter in a game.

This is no longer a violation of market rules, it is simply a violation of the laws of basketball development.

This kind of commercial league is half business but not business. It is often supported by the boss's interest in basketball and the fans' enthusiasm for basketball, and cannot create a big climate.

In terms of technology and tactics, it is even more behind the world's advanced trends. It is rarely seen that there are any developments and innovations in technology and tactics, and it is stuck in the development of foreign aid's personal ability and struggle for will.

If you want to solve these problems, you will be very unlikely to be effective without 20 to 30 years of development.

This is not a problem of two people, nor is it a problem of players, it is a problem of "straight".

If the momentum is in me, everything will be fine. If the momentum is not in me, then there will be no power to turn things around.

If you have to rely on someone to change the trend or eliminate the influence of the trend, unless the person cheats.

Yao Ming can only be considered half a cheater, leading Chinese basketball to the glory of the first decade of the 21st century.

Now, the real cheating person is here.

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The conference hall of Oriental Grand Hyatt Hotel has long been filled with reporters.

There were a variety of microphones on the table, and the cameras under the stage were already in place.

Li Liang has long been used to this kind of formation, after all, he has seen even greater experiences in the United States.

It was recorded a few days ago, after the finals of this year, Li Liang was interviewed after the fourth game, and the situation was unprecedented.

After all, he has completed a four-game winning streak in the true sense (Kor's kind of person who holds his thighs does not count), making these four years a complete Blues-Li Time.

Following Yao Ming in the interview seat, Li Liang took a sip of water and was still slapping the bottom.

Li Liang took the microphone and said directly to the audience: "You can ask any questions you have, and I will try my best to answer them. Of course, I hope your questions can be more professional. Don't ask fake questions and let me speak empty words. If you can ask more specific questions, I will also answer them more specifically."

Western journalists Li Liang have seen a lot. Generally speaking, although American journalists are foul-mouthed and often make things difficult for others, their level is indeed very high.

I won't ask anything, "You won by strength, right?" "How is the weather today?" "Did you try your best just now?" Such a brainless and boring question.

Li Liang was also afraid of answering such questions, so his opening remarks were straightforward, reminding those reporters who were used to long talks.

"Mr. Gan, do you have any psychological goals when you return to China to represent the Chinese team in the Olympics this time?"

The first reporter asked a question that was quite professional, and everyone wanted to know the questions.

Because Li Liang has always liked Li FG, everyone wants to hear what promises he will make in the national team this time.

"If you have a goal, you must first go a step further than the Beijing Olympics and strive to break through the top eight Asian ceiling. If you can win medals, you will definitely strive for medals. Another more important goal is to set some good standards for Chinese basketball and bring some good habits."

Li Liang's words were a bit big, in his style, but when he said this, everyone felt that it was fine.

The second reporter asked again, "What challenges do you think will be for you in the Olympics? Compared with playing NBA."

This question is pretty normal.

"The rules of fiba are very different from the rules of the NBA, and I need to adapt. Some NBA players will indeed have symptoms of being unacceptable to the local conditions when they come to the FIBA. It is not that if they play well in the NBA, they will be invincible in the Olympics. Of course, I personally think that with my playing style, the problem will not be too big. The three-point line of fiba may need to be adjusted in the future."

Unlike Yao Ming's Yao's humor, Li Liang's answer has always been arrogant in Gan's arrogance, but he deserves it.
Chapter completed!