"Men's Basketball World Cup?"
Xin Guotao's invitation is undoubtedly a very important thing for Zhao Feiyang. When he was playing for the Sharks, he had always thought about playing for the national team. Unfortunately, he was too humble at that time and didn't even have the chance to enter the national team preliminaries.
Now that he has finally become famous and has been invited by senior figures in the Basketball Association, it seems that his expectations are about to come true.
"Let's do this! I will give you the answer when the season is over. Now I want to focus on the next game... playing for the country is what I have always expected..."
Zhao Feiyang did not agree directly, and Xin Guotao did not urge him. Instead, he advised Zhao Feiyang to prepare well for the game.
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Feiyang's memories gradually became clearer.
Although he has never played for the national team before, there are many people in the team who have not tried out for the national team. Some teammates will also tell some things as anecdotes in daily training chats. From these aspects During the communication, Zhao Feiyang knew a lot about Xin Guotao.
Xin Guotao is an old man of the Basketball Association and has been working in the Basketball Association for many years.
The person who was in charge of the Basketball Association was not him, but someone else.
The level of that head was pretty good. He at least held scientific concepts and followed professional rules for the development of the league. However, that head later retired, and it was this opportunity that Xin Guotao took over. He rose to become the head of the Basketball Association.
From a God's perspective, his appointment is not a good thing for the Basketball Association.
At the beginning of taking office, he was eager to prove his ability and wanted to prove his leadership through the national team's performance in international competitions. To this end, he did not hesitate to reduce the number of domestic league games and let the domestic league make way for the national team, and all players also played for the national team. National team match services.
Such a move resulted in a significant reduction in the league schedule, and also left young players who were not selected for the national team without a ball for most of the year.
In addition, he is also relatively conservative in the training of young players.
At a certain Asian Championship, a certain foreign coach invited by China realized that Chinese basketball had reached a stage of alternation between the old and the new, so he selected a large number of young newcomers and tried to train them through international competitions so as to prepare them for future replacements. lay the foundation.
As a result, at the last critical moment, Xin Guotao, who had no long-term vision or did not care about the long-term results, strongly asked Yang Shuai to lead a group of veterans to fight.
Among the participating teams that year, the Huaxia Men’s Basketball Team was one of the oldest teams.
Although they succeeded in winning the championship, it also led to a lack of training for that group of young players, which led to a collapse in the subsequent Olympic games.
He treats the players like this, and he has no patience with the team's head coach.
Xin Guotao was crazy and superstitious about domestic coaches at first, but later pushed a domestic veteran with insufficient qualifications to take the coaching position of the Chinese men's basketball team. As a result, the men's basketball team's record was disastrous.
So Xin Guotao made a 180-degree turn and continued to spend heavily to hire famous foreign coaches to coach the Chinese men's basketball team. There is nothing wrong with choosing a famous coach, but Xin Guotao really has no patience. In less than five years, the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team has changed four head coaches.
At first, they learned from Europe, then from the United States, and then they didn’t know what to learn. The confusing style and system made the Chinese men’s basketball team continue to get lost. Not only did it lose its own style, but it also led to the defeat of so many games.
Of course, what attracts the most attention is not just this, but the issue between him and Wang Zhizhi.
When Wang Zhizhi went to play in the NBA, Xin Guotao was in charge of the Basketball Association.
Being conservative, he is very "ruthless" in dealing with some matters. He does not care about the players' personal thoughts, but pays more attention to letting the players obey the arrangements of the national team. If they do not obey the arrangements of the national team, then this player will be "Pricking the head" means "disobeying discipline".
At that time, Wang Zhizhi communicated with Xin Guotao after the season, hoping to temporarily stay in the United States to play in the summer league, so as to win a contract for himself.
Wang Zhizhi did not say that he would not return to China to play games, but frankly admitted that some games such as the Stankovic Cup would not come back! The Stankovic Cup is completely a warm-up game, which is not necessary for a player of his level.
NBA games are so big. After playing a season, you have to come back to play games of all sizes. If you also play warm-up games, how many players can withstand such intensity?
Wasn't Yao Ming's subsequent retirement a hidden danger of injuries caused by too much intensity in the game?
Let alone him, even if LeBron James plays so many games every year, I'm afraid LeBron James' iron body may be scrapped early.
There was no problem with Wang Zhizhi's communication at the beginning, and Xin Guotao also agreed. However, who would have thought that Wang Zhizhi's problems would suddenly become bigger due to the media's random hype.
In this situation, Xin Guotao not only failed to support Wang Zhizhi, but also stood up and expelled Wang Zhizhi from the national team, instantly accusing Wang Zhizhi of being a "traitor".
Also because of Wang Zhizhi's problem, NBA teams did not want any unpleasant things to happen with the Chinese Basketball Association, so no team dared to sign a contract with Wang Zhizhi, causing Wang Zhizhi to eventually return home lonely.
Later, it was Xin Guotao who temporarily stepped down and another leader came to power, which resolved the "grievance" issue between Wang Zhizhi and the Basketball Association, allowing Wang Zhizhi to return to the China Men's Basketball Team.
Now that head has left the Basketball Association and Xin Guotao has taken office again. It also coincides with this time that the older generation of players such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi have retired.
It can be said that the Chinese men's basketball team has entered the post-Yao Ming era.
Xin Guotao's appointment was naturally based on performance. His philosophy has always been relatively conservative, and he will not pay too much attention to the future of the men's basketball team, but will be too obsessed with the present.
Such thoughts are not surprising.
For some people, they don’t care that much about the development of a particular sport. After all, they won't stay in this position forever.
However, as long as their butts are still sitting on that chair, they will continue to think of ways to tap every possible potential. Even if they exhaust all their talents in advance, they will not hesitate to achieve the best results during their tenure.
Achievements are closely related to yourself, but basketball is not, and neither are the players.
This was the reason why Zhao Feiyang did not agree immediately.
There are still several months until the Men's Basketball World Cup, and Zhao Feiyang is not too worried about the future at this time.
The next day comes quickly.
The New Orleans Arena was packed with people, and Zhao Feiyang entered the locker room early. Here, he met LeBron James and others.
However, when he took the initiative to greet other players, he discovered that the atmosphere in the locker room was a bit strange.
LeBron James pulled him aside and said, "Man, these guys are not easy to deal with...Although you won the MVP of the rookie game and the three-point contest championship, there are still people here who think you took away your rightful Their location….”
