Li Kael is finally here! The strength of China’s men’s basketball will usher in a new promotion, and behind domestication, the way of training Chinese basketball talents is more open and diversified.

I hope that this door of domestication of Li Kele can help us open up a wider basketball world.

Luwen/Edited by Liu Jintao/Li Luyuan

Finally official Xuan! Welcome Li Kael home 」!

On July 24, it was reported that the Chinese Basketball Association officially announced that with the promotion and support of all parties, Li Kele had acquired Chinese nationality this morning and met Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, will play the upcoming 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Li keel became the first naturalized player in China men’s basketball. This is a historic moment for Chinese basketball. Next, he will fly to Europe to join with Chinese men’s basketball.

Yao Ming took a group photo with Li keel and his mother Susanna (source: China Basketball Association)

His mother also came to China to travel with Li Kele this time to witness this important moment. It is reported that Li keel is expected to stage the first show of the national team in the “international unity cup” competition held in Shenzhen on August 20.

After the public training session of Chinese men’s basketball a few days ago, coach Joe Evich said bluntly: “Li keel is a very valuable player who can help the team. Yogueta can finish the process on time, will join the team as soon as possible. 」

The mood of the fans has long been impatient. As early as three months ago, the news trend of Chinese basketball centered around Li Kele. All kinds of news kept coming out, and the officials announced the incident, especially on the day when Timberwolves were eliminated, many messages have appeared on major social media, and even some wolf fans are not so sad to speak out.

In fact, how much the public expects the official propaganda of domestication, and how urgent it is to improve the strength of men’s basketball.

The defeat of the Basketball World Cup in 2019 made the fans depressed. The first time that the Olympic Games were missed in 37 years was a historical blow to Chinese basketball. Now after another competition cycle, fans are eager to regain the Olympic qualification men’s basketball.

In addition, at the second meeting of the 10th China Basketball Association member Congress and the second meeting of the executive committee on July 4, Yao Ming said when talking about improving the competitiveness of the national team, attacking the right to participate in the Paris Olympic Games is the top priority of the Chinese Basketball Association this year. The top priority is China men’s basketball. The team aims to impact the qualification of the Paris Olympic Games in the men’s basketball World Cup.

You know, the situation of this basketball World Cup is complicated and severe for men’s basketball. Previously, in the FIBA FIBA 2023 men’s basketball World Cup draw in early May, China men’s basketball was in the same group as Serbia, Puerto Rico and South Sudan. Although there were opportunities, it was hard to say it was safe.

2023 basketball World Cup group (figure Source: FIBA official website)

At the same time, the preparation time for men’s basketball is also very tight. Last season, the CBA playoffs just decided on the top four, and the national team has already started the assembly training. After finishing the training in Qingdao at the beginning of July, men’s basketball quickly started to go to Europe for training.

At present, there is not much time left for coach joorevich. Therefore, when the World Cup preparation time becomes more precious, Li Kelle returned one day earlier, and the running-in of men’s basketball is more than one point. Judging from the lineup of men’s basketball, even with Li Keel’s return, he may not be able to win the lottery. Only by doing his best can he strive for opportunities and achieve the goal of returning to the Olympics more promising.

Returning home to seek roots, a unique story of domestication there are many naturalized players in Chinese sports, but Li keel is the most touching player among them.

Li Kele is the first round of the year of the talent show in 2014. He has been involved in the legendary coach Popovich baby for 4 years. He has 206 height, 220 arm show, long arms and long legs, and has the ability to hold the ball and broad vision, it can be said to be a full-scale front line in the new era.

“Carl Anderson is not very talented, but he is a very good player. He is smarter than most people on the court…… Even if he doesn’t score much, he will make everyone better. 」 Popovich baby once commented like this.

As early as Spurs, Li keel won the “essence of human peristalsis” of jianghu Ya. This season, he scored 9.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5 assists in the forest Wolves team, it can be said that it is very in line with Joe Shuai’s needs and men’s basketball’s demands for the front line.

In the summer of 2018, Li Kele accompanied his mother to return home to worship ancestors (figure Source: Li Kele Weibo)

More importantly, Li Kael is the most suitable candidate for national identity in the category of domestication.

This sense of identity is shared by fans and Li keel. In terms of blood relationship, Li keel once went back to his hometown to recognize his ancestors in 2018, so he won this name, “My mother spent countless time and energy looking for family members far away from China. We once worried about whether our relatives in our hometown would accept us, but all we finally got was enthusiasm and warmth. This “afrodeezia” is of great significance. It allows me to find where my root is and how deep it is. I can understand that my root is in China, I was greatly touched. 」

“Afrodeezia” comes from the influence of his mother, which undoubtedly reflects Li Kael’s family culture and atmosphere, even the concept of Chinese education, which is also a very rare point in lineage domestication.

Li Kele found relatives and obtained Chinese names (figure Source: Li Kele Weibo)

Earlier on April 7, Yao Ming, the chairman of the Basketball Association, said that he was open to this when answering the question of domestication at the Chinese basketball media day event, and emphasized three key points: conforming to national laws and regulations, in line with the FIBA competition standards, there are also issues of culture and integration. At present, Li keel is the most suitable candidate, not even one.

In addition, Li Kele’s basketball attitude is very professional. For example, he has sufficient sensitivity and professionalism in dealing with major events. At the end of the playoffs, Li Kele answered the question of domestication: “This matter needs to be discussed with my family and agent. At present, I am focusing on the Timberwolves competition. When the season is over, I will discuss further with my family before making a decision. 」

After the completion of danggui Hua, Li keai can focus his mind on the competition without any distractions. He is expected to become a new leader in men’s basketball and gain more in business, honor and influence. It is reported that his business endorsement has reached 10 million levels, and it is possible to announce new sports brand sponsorship in the near future.

The business map like Gu Ailing seems to be waving to this “first person in men’s basketball.

Domestication can relieve thirst and become the world trend.

Under the tide of domestication in the world, whether Chinese men’s basketball need “join the parade” is not a problem that we should pay attention to. It is the root cause that we need to improve combat capability too much.

Especially at present, not only European teams but also Asian teams are constantly rising, and the number of naturalized players is increasing. At the Asian Cup last year, the host Indonesia’s naturalized center Bolden; Once played for the NBA Cavaliers for a short time, the old rival South Korea’s Luo Jianer; Japan’s Luke Evans; Bahrain’s zisim; the “foreign aid” such as Alic in Lebanon has enhanced the strength of the team to some extent.

At Euro Men’s Basketball held in the same year, more than half of the teams had naturalized players, Lorenzo Brown in Spain, Sean Larkin in Turkey and A in Poland. J. Slaughter, Mike Toby of Slovenia and others……

It is worth mentioning that only three teams do not use naturalized players, one is France, which is the descendant of the whole team, the other is Serbia, and the other is Lithuania. But now, Lithuania has also begun to use naturalized black players, Keenan Evans, a black guy who started playing in Lithuania only in 2022, was originally an American and acquired the citizenship of Lithuania because of his special contribution.

Keenan-Evans (figure Source: FIBA Weibo)

However, even the traditional strong team of Spain, the two-time World Cup champion and the three-time European Cup champion, won the 4th European Cup championship last year with the play of naturalized black defender Lorenzo Brown, brown personally joined the best team in the competition. As Spain’s first naturalized player in men’s basketball, he once played in CBA for two seasons.

Behind the success of Spain is one of the essence of domestication: Brown fills the short board of the defensive line that Rubio cannot play, thus successfully matching the strong teams and team demands of other domestic players, it comes down to the most appropriate “bucket effect”, so domestication is by no means the achievement of one person, but the success of the whole team.

Spain won the 2022 European Championship (source: FIBA official website)

In other words, domestication can fill the team’s shortcomings, improve the team’s shortcomings, even bring “strong aid” and even core players, and enhance the overall strength of a national team. The arrival of Li keel is a way to improve the team’s strength in a short period of time, and the domestication choices in the next men’s basketball will be more diverse.

But back to the long-term overall strength of the national team, the future still depends on local players. As Xu Jicheng, vice chairman of the Basketball Association, said, “domestication is medicine, but not Rice. 」

After domestication, the growth of basketball talents has become more open

It should be noted that the current pattern of basketball talent growth is undergoing subtle changes.

On the one hand, the growth of domestic high-level players mainly depends on the traditional sports bureau youth training and professional echelon, which has been the rising channel of most CBA players for many years, especially the main players at the level of previous national teams, it also relies on traditional youth training methods. This also leads to the reason that the management has always occupied a larger voice of CBA.

Take this year’s U19 men’s basketball World Cup players as an example. China was assigned to the death group men’s basketball. The same group of opponents included Spain, France and Canada. In the three group matches, the Chinese team successively defeated France, Canada and Spain with 63 to 83, 79 to 88 and 74 to 83. Group A ranked at the bottom. The top 16 met the first American team in Group B, with 69 to 92 non-hostile players.

In 7 games, 2 wins and 5 losses, but the final 10th place has exceeded expectations. The list of 12 players in the team almost covers the best players of the same age group, including Yang Hansen, wang Haoran and other CBA club echelon players, as well as Li Yongwei and other players with campus basketball background, as well as Zhao Weilun who grew up in the European youth training system and played for overseas leagues, and Wang Junjie, a young rookie who fought against NCAA goals in this way, hit the professional stage.

u19 China men’s basketball lineup (figure Source: FIBA official website)

On the other hand, it is the excellent players in the integration of sports and education. Even if the number of such players is not enough, college players from CUBAL have begun to show their talents. In particular, according to statistics in the white paper on basic information of CBA in the 2022-2023 season, CUBAL transportation has gradually become a stable channel for talent transportation in CBA league. A total of 13 players have been transported to CBA league in the 2022-2023 season.

As of last season, there were 76 players transferred from college students to the CBA league. Since the official start of the CBA draft in 2015, the number of CUBA players entering the CBA league has increased steadily, and there is no lack of mature players entering the squad and training camp of the national team. Although it is not enough to change the talent system of CBA league, it is undoubtedly a positive signal.

When we focus on the club youth training, we can also find that the professional team is embracing more open training methods.

Zeng fanbo and Zhang Zhenlin, who have been included in the national team list this year, have profound overseas growth experience; Zhejiang Chouzhou team will go to Europe to practice this summer and will have several rounds of discussions with the local teams in Serbia; qingdao team has maintained the tradition of going to Europe to practice for many years in summer. In addition, the basketball association plans to support the East Asian Basketball Association to launch a brand-new regional basketball brand competition, attracting Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, china’s top basketball clubs participate in…… All kinds of cases have proved the increasingly open environment of Chinese basketball.

On men’s basketball, the expedition was launched on FIFA World Cup qualification 2023( Source: FIBA official website)

We hope that there will be more basketball seedlings to “blossom and bear fruit”, so we need to improve the training level and training results of the professional team to further enhance the player growth and talent pool reserve of the entire league, at the same time, it will drive more junior echelon players and non-rotating players to gain more growth. This process requires persistence and waiting.

In NBA, top players have the power to propose transactions, players flow very frequently, and the players’ union also has a very high status…… These stories may deeply affect the way of thinking of Chinese fans.

However, returning to the training ground, we still need to find a talent training method suitable for our national conditions, whether it is club youth training or campus basketball, to improve the training level and competitive level, more channels for talent cultivation and self-improvement are needed, and making the “old method” better is still an effective way to build top-level talents.

I hope that this door of domestication of Li Kele can help us open up a wider basketball world.

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