China’s men’s basketball second team is currently conducting the second phase of training. Team coach Han Deng said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency recently that the development direction of the second team is to break the source barriers and gradually build a platform for the integration and improvement of talents for the national team and high-level league matches.
According to the list released by the Chinese Basketball Association before, a total of 16 players participated in the training, of which 10 were from domestic universities.
Han Deng said that the players participating in the first phase of training were mainly the clubs and their echelon players. The second phase of training was organized on the basis of the recent in-depth investigation of the campus league by the coaching team, mainly the campus players, the club and the professional team are supplemented by young players. The training of the second team can help the resources of the Chinese Basketball Association to intervene in the training of young players as soon as possible, and continuously expand the national youth basketball talent reserve through scientific evaluation, selection, training and competition.
“The construction of the national second team focuses on two types of target training groups, one is the best young players in China, and the other is young players with training potential. We will break the barriers of the source of players and do a good job in talent selection and training from the perspective of supporting the preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and looking at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. In terms of team formation and player selection, we have mastered several principles. One is to adhere to the multi-channel and multi-source inspection of players. The second is to insist on cultivating talents with the modern basketball concept and no longer stick to the distinction between the so-called European and American basketball. Specifically, the second team will face the future and emphasize the players’ projection ability, space utilization, the cultivation of blocking and dismantling ability and the cultivation of players’ personal technical details in training and selection, strive to integrate with the world and form an integrated attack and defense system with China’s men’s basketball.”
For example, Han Deng said that from the recent European Championship competition, teams with relatively high scores generally adopted the playing method of 4 pitchers or even 5 pitchers, emphasizing the use of space, pay attention to simple blocking and dismantling tactics and defensive counterattack. Du Feng, the head coach of China’s men’s basketball, also pays attention to the playing style of “one big and four small” and develops towards the direction of four pitchers and five pitchers. These concepts are in line with international standards.
From May this year to July, the second team of China men’s basketball organized the first training session. Han Deng believes that the training effect of the last period was good. It not only mastered the basic situation of domestic excellent players aged 19-22, but also further improved several outstanding players, for example, Jiang Weize, who supported the national team and performed well in the Asian Cup and FIFA World Cup qualification.
According to Han Deng, the personnel of the second phase of training are mainly College student players. In the process of selecting college student players, the coaching team not only pays attention to the basic data of players’ average scores and rebounds, but also makes full use of the advanced data tools of players’ comprehensive performance provided by K8 research group. After the preliminary screening, the coaching team went to the Chinese college student League competition area for on-site inspection, and finally determined the list of 10 National People’s Congress student players. The six players in the professional system are based on the development potential and combined with the training status this summer.
This training session lasts about 5 weeks, which is slightly shorter than the first one. Han Deng revealed that after the end of China’s men’s basketball professional league (CBA) next year, the national second team may also organize the best young players to train and practice overseas.
When talking about the development potential of college student players, Han Deng said that in recent years, some excellent college student players have entered professional teams through selection, and many of them have gained a firm foothold in China’s men’s basketball professional leagues. Although the technical and tactical abilities of college students selected this time are not mature enough, there is a lot of room for improvement. I believe they have the potential to move towards a higher level of platform.
The Chinese Basketball Association is still planning training for U-series teams under the age of 18. Han Deng said that the training of the national second team and the U series National character team focused on the concept of dynamic construction and maintenance of the national team’s talent pool, aiming to reserve high-level competitive talents for China’s men’s basketball at all ages, form a one-stop talent training system.
(Reporter Wang Jingyu)