Liaoning men’s basketball team won the second championship in team history, Zhao Jiwei was awarded the FMVP
The CBA Finals are over and a new challenge begins
2022-04-26 23:07:24Source: Xi’an News Network
Xi’an News Network News On the evening of April 26, the fourth game of the 2021/2022 CBA League Finals was staged in Nanchang, the “City of Heroes”. As the Liaoning Men’s Basketball Team, which has entered the finals 10 times in history, went down with a score of 100:82. In Yicheng, they finally swept the Zhejiang Guangsha team with a big score of 4:0. After the 2017/2018 season, they won the second CBA league championship trophy in the team’s history, and became the second CBA league championship trophy in the team’s history following the Bayi team and the Guangdong team. The third team in CBA history to win the championship with an undefeated record in the playoffs. The hero of winning the championship, Zhao Jiwei, was elected as the FMVP (the most valuable player in the finals). For the soldiers of the Liaoning team, this season may be successful enough, but for the practitioners of Chinese professional basketball, new challenges are at hand…
Similar promotion paths, different championship journeys
Before the start of this season’s finals, many Liaoning fans made predictions: “Last time our team won the championship, we eliminated Guangdong in the semifinals, and swept Guangsha in the finals. This time, according to the prescription, the championship still belongs to the Liaoning men’s basketball team! “Sure enough, the Liaoning team’s road to promotion and winning the championship is roughly similar to four years ago, but the people and scenery on the road are quite different.
First of all, due to the impact of the epidemic, the home and away game system four years ago was changed to the current knockout stage. All games are held in Nanchang. After the former Liaoning team finals moved to Shenyang, there were more than 20,000 tickets for the two games. The grand occasion of being snapped up in an instant is nowhere to be seen. At the beginning, the basketball fans in Liaoning had been looking forward to 23 years. After the team failed many times in the finals, they finally got compensation and release as the Liaoning men’s basketball players lifted the CBA championship supreme treasure. The fiery emotions of the arena were also dulled by the emptiness of the arena.
The second is the change of the parties. Four years ago, the Guangsha team’s back line was still dominated by “Treasure Island Beast” Lin Zhijie. Now, Sun Minghui, who celebrated his 26th birthday on the night of the fourth game of the finals, has already provoked the lead. In that year, the “third grader” Hu Jinqiu of the league struggled with leg cramps in the finals. After the game, assistant coach Wang Bo helped him back to the locker room. Four years later, Hu Jinqiu, the team’s most valuable player in this season’s CBA regular season, and Zhao Yanhao, the absolute main force, were both spectators in the finals due to major injuries on the way to the promotion. Although the young assistant “Boge” beside Li Chunjiang had already overwhelmed Du Feng and became the “Guide Wang” who was elected the best coach of the season, facing the shortage of major generals, Wang Bo, such as recruiting newcomers and strengthening defense. Strategies are ultimately irreversible. After the third game of the finals, he admitted that the Guangsha team had three deficiencies compared with the Liaoning team: they lost too many rebounds, had fewer chances to win free throws than their opponents, and made more mistakes. Judging from the process of the fourth game, the Guangsha team was still unable to make up the gap in the above three aspects. After halftime, it was 29 points behind, and it was reasonable to be swept in the end.
For the Liaoning team, following winning the championship four years ago, Guo Ailun cried when facing the media and said: “In order to play the finals well, I haven’t slept for a few days.” Now, he has truly become the team leader. , Although the status of Han Dejun and Li Xiaoxu in the inside has declined, the Liaoning team with Guo Ailun, Fu Hao, Zhang Zhenlin and the most valuable player in the finals Zhao Jiwei has indeed ushered in its own peak period. Yang Ming, who has reached the championship ring, but for the second year in a row, when he led his team to the finals as the coach, he was able to calmly strategize with the attitude of “Jiangdong Meizhou Lang”, and easily won the championship title.
There are more than one “red lights” in the finals!
The main force was injured, the substitutes were weak, and foreign aid was eager to play. For various reasons, the Guangsha Men’s Basketball Team only scored 75 points, 90 points, 73 points and 82 points in the four games of this season’s finals, which also made the fans unable to bear it. Questions and emotions such as “Is this the worst CBA final in history?” and “The Liaoning men’s basketball team won the championship this time are seriously insufficient”.
It is undeniable that the main team’s injury was the “culprit” for the lack of suspense and viewing pleasure in the finals, and the real cause of the rupture of Hu Jinqiu’s spleen and the intracranial hemorrhage of Zhao Yanhao of the Guangsha team during the playoffs were some players. The “dirty action” of many CBA players is the distorted mentality of “tit for tat”, and it is the evil result of the referee team and the league management’s connivance and insufficient punishment. It can be said that the lackluster performance of this season’s finals has lit up a “red light” in the CBA league. If it is to be extinguished, an iron-fisted rectification action to purify the atmosphere of the industry must be carried out, so that the basketball game can truly return to show competitive athleticism. With the essence of beauty, teamwork and mutual trust, otherwise, the regret of the finals can only be replaced by increasingly dirty fouls and more ugly games.
The finals, which are of great significance to the influence of the CBA brand, should have been the most exciting and intense series of the season, but now, the attention, topicality and influence of the finals are not satisfactory, and the brand value of the league is difficult to achieve. Shrinking once more and once more, this is another “red light” lit by the entire CBA league. This season is the third season following the CBA league adopts the game system. Whether it is the attractiveness of the regular season, playoffs, and finals, or the sponsors’ investment and recognition in the league, and the fans’ appreciation for the team and the game. The sense of belonging and attention of the league has dropped once more and once more. The CBA seems to have fallen into a vicious circle from the decline of attention, to the reduction of investment by sponsors, and then to the further increase of losses of various clubs. Of course, this has the negative impact of the epidemic, but it also requires league managers to come up with effective measures. In the case of unfavorable external environment, how to tap the potential internally and introduce new policies to improve the quality of the game, improve the mobility of players, break the shackles of monopoly sponsorship contracts, and increase the popularity of key games and star players. New media exposure and other means, a little bit to make oneself stronger and better, and to make the existing “cake” more delicious and attractive, is the key to breaking the stagnant water and restarting the virtuous circle.
This season’s CBA league has officially ended, and the Liaoning men’s basketball team deserves its title. However, except for the soldiers of the Guangsha team who are eager to make a comeback, every practitioner of Chinese professional basketball and professional sports must seriously face and consider it. How to extinguish the “red light”, and even the problem of rebirth from ashes.
Text/Jin Peng, an all-media reporter from Xi’an Press
