After returning to China, Chai Wensheng, minister of the three-member basketball department of the Chinese Basketball Association, summarized the experience of the Asian Games.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 6 (reporter Lin Deren) China’s three-person Basketball Men’s team and women’s team won the double championship in the 18th Asian Games, which ended not long ago. After returning to China, Chai Wensheng, minister of the three-member basketball department of the Chinese Basketball Association, summarized the experience of the Asian Games. He said that in the future, he will continue to expand the selection of three-person basketball projects and strengthen the induction and research of project rules.
Regarding the performance of three-person basketball in the Asian Games, Chai Wensheng concluded: “There are three main points in experience. The first one is team formation mode. The lineup of this Asian Games, the challenge competition champion army of ‘I want to go to the Olympia’ was established as the base of the class, and excellent players were added from other teams. This model can take all aspects of the situation into consideration, for example, the working life of players, the game arrangement of local basketball associations and so on should continue to adhere to this form in the future. Secondly, mass basketball activities should be widely carried out. Big leagues, including social leagues, are also in full swing, which is helpful to us in expanding the selection of materials. The third is the guarantee and support of the General Administration, which provides necessary support for the national team to go abroad for training and competition, and also provides sufficient guarantee for the accumulation of team experience.”
Before the Asian Games, the three men’s and women’s national teams went to Serbia, Czech and other countries and regions to conduct pre-match exercises, and accumulated experience in playing tricks with the world’s top teams, it also laid the foundation for the team’s outstanding performance in the Asian Games.
Three-person basketball has a broad mass base in many regions of the world, but there are not many research results in high-end competition. Chai Wensheng said that in the future, the research on project rules will be strengthened in order to make greater progress.
“The International Basketball Federation collected a lot of data (studied) in 2016, and concluded that this project was an anaerobic sport, but our older generation of coaches thought it was still controversial, because the competition process is intermittent, some parts are anaerobic sports, but the players who are replaced are different from those on the court. In addition, no matter how special the research results are, there will be no more. Next year, we should further strengthen this research.” Chai Wensheng said.
There are great differences between three-person basketball and five-person basketball, from physical training to field skills and tactics. In addition, the coach is not allowed to direct the three-person basketball on the spot. All the technical and tactical problems on the court need to be solved by the athletes on the spot, which also increases the uncertainty on the court and tests the overall ability of the players.
Chai Wensheng said: “I hope more excellent players, including professional players, can participate in our project and train good players together, in the future, two or three teams may also exist at the same time to reserve personnel for the Tokyo Olympic Games. At present, there is no age limit for the three-person basketball project in the Olympic Games, so we plan to face all the people through multiple channels, choose the best among the best, and choose the national training team. After all, only with good materials and cooks can we make good dishes.”
Chai Wensheng said that there will be the U18 Asian Cup and the Youth Olympic Games next, hoping that the Chinese team can play its own level in these two competitions.