In Chengdu on July 15, the 2023 CBA draft conference was held as scheduled, and 23 players were selected (the second most in history). From this moment on, they entered the professional arena and became a member of the CBA family.
In the ninth year of CBA talent show, people have gradually become accustomed to preheating and discussing at this time every year, and waiting for this day in front of the screen.
From 2015, only Fang Junlei was selected, and today, more than 140 people have passed physical tests, trials and finally won recognition from CBA. CBA draft conference has continued to move forward firmly along the established road, it is precisely because of the CBA draft conference that many people of the age in college basketball can enter the professional arena and continue to show their elegant demeanour, which also brings a new atmosphere to CBA.
It is true that in terms of popularity, the talent shows in recent years are difficult to match the popularity of the 2020 Session. At the talent show conference called “the strongest year of CBA talent show”, district Junxuan, zhu Mingzhen, Lin Tingqian, Zhu Songwei, Zhang Ning and other excellent players have been selected, and many of them have grown into the mainstay of each team, they also signed satisfactory renewal contracts.
To be fair, the success of the 2020 session itself has the blessing of the first year of basketball variety, which also gives each team a sense of participation. It can even be said that it was the success of the 2020 draft conference that made more teams realize that they could win one or two young talents who had been tested by CUBA or other leagues through the election. In terms of attention, it also achieved a win-win situation.
However, in recent years, the CBA draft also encountered some challenges. In recent years, some young players who were originally prepared to take the college basketball road turned into the arms of the CBA youth team under the influence of various reasons, to some extent, this situation weakens the overall appearance of the talent show players and has a certain impact on the prospect of the future CBA talent show.
The reason is that the situation of each CBA team is different, and the prospect of the team becomes unclear with the orientation of the city and sponsors, most talented young players are not ready to go to a team that is difficult to become stronger in a short time. At the same time, most of the teams that actively recruit these young players have relatively strong strength. Their draft ranking is generally low, and it is difficult to pick the desired players in the draft convention.
Many insiders and fans are worried about this situation, but in fact, as far as the current situation is concerned, although this kind of worry is reasonable, this phenomenon has not reached the “critical survival” situation.
First of all, we can refer to CBDL (China Basketball Development League). This season is divided into four races, consisting of youth teams of CBA teams, some university teams and the second national men’s basketball team. In terms of the final battle situation, the college student team is not inferior to the youth team in the scene, and even shows a higher competitive level and competition quality.
In the competition of Shaoyang station, Tsinghua University men’s basketball, coached by Chen Lei, ranked first without dispute with a score of 90 points and a loss of 66.8 points. In the following Yuncheng Station, Shanghai Jiaotong University won 5 wins and lost 0, and also ranked first. Obviously, for the players of the youth team, the college players are not kneaded fish brisket at will.
As we all know, compared with youth training, the biggest advantage of college players is not only a diploma, but also a large number of matches that college players can play, after the baptism of the university league and the long-term tacit cooperation, many of them learned how to read the match and how to improve their understanding of the match-especially the defender.
As a result, there are many top point defenders in universities who continuously deliver to CBA at the draft Conference: Li Yiyang, Wang Lanzhen, Yuan Tangwen and Yan Tingjia have already gained a firm foothold in CBA, fang Jiachen, also from Tsinghua University, was included in this draft. The longer training time makes them more adaptable to high-intensity competitions. The backcourt engine trained by CUBA also proves that it is enough to bring the CBA luxury chariot.
Of course, there is still something immature about the CBA draft, and our league culture is not exactly the same as NBA-indeed, even if it is the top ranking of the CBA draft conference, it is also difficult to lead the team to a complete change like some high shows in NBA. However, it should be noted that the draft of CBA is different from NBA. It is only a kind of reinforcement channel. It may not be able to be strongly supplemented now, but high-rise buildings always need deeper foundation, A virtuous circle of soil is more important than two gifted Super newcomers.
Behind the concerns of goodwill, there are also many gratifying things about this draft: This year is the first time that the scene of “DOUBLE HEROES competition for the top” appeared. The day before the draft conference, the speculation about who Zou Yang and Chen Guohao will be elected to the top is still continuing, and these two new stars are produced by CUBA. If the focus of the draft in previous years was more on returnees and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan players, now, the CUBA University League in recent years is also more helpful for the team to see clearly what type of players they want to choose, at the same time, it can make our college players more aware of the direction to develop and improve.
Our CBA league, founded in 1995, has gone through 28 years, 28 years old. It is the prime age of prosperity. Our CBA league has indeed played its own reputation in Asia and even the world. However, the draft conference is only the 9th year now, and it is still a teenager still learning. Everything has to go through some ups and downs and some imperfect periods. For the CBA draft conference, it is not easy to stick to it.
However, when we tried to follow the example of NBA, as early as 1947, when we started the first BAA draft (the predecessor of NBA), there were 78 selected players, and only 33 of them took up the professional arena. In the early days of NBA, there was also the situation of skipping the draft and signing the contract directly with the team-in 1949, the general manager of Knicks used the withdrawal from the league as a threat, skipping the draft and signing the Vincent Borila of the University of Denver; in 1948, Joe Graboski signed a contract directly with the NBA team before finishing high school. At that time, NBA also lacks enough strength and experience to solve this problem.
Crossing the river by touching the stones is still the process of continuous learning and growth of CBA talent shows at this stage. We have too many places to improve, but it also shows us that it is these immature talent shows, let those faces that we are already familiar with stand in the center of the stage. They spread their talents and tell their stories.
Many of them have also entered the national team and become real pillar talents. Please applaud their dream-chasing experience and wish the young people selected this year and many years in the future, can have a glorious future.
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