FriedRiceNSpice
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Re: Sports thread
The reason right now China stinks so bad is because it is still in a transition between two very fundamentally different styles of basketball. Previously, China has ran a European/Soviet-style team focussed on team basketball, team defense, and perimeter shooting (They have a 7'2 center, Wang Zhizhi shooting threes). However, as the NBA exerts more influence on China, newer Chinese players are heavily influenced by the American style of basketball, featuring a game dependent on the independent abilities of its athletes. lol even basketball is somewhat affected by political ideologies (team communism vs individaulistic capitalism). But China's team has got many great new athletes, but China's coach (an Lithuanian) has not yet come up with plays to utilize the great athletic abilities of the Chinese basketballers, and instead continues to run a European offense and defense, so what you got on the court are half your players only good at running a team game which they cant run since the newer generation of Chinese basketball players are not proficient with such a game, and a few athletic players who try to play 1 on 5 basketball. And China is also not utlizing their best players, which are Sun Yue, Chen Jianghua and Yi Jianlian. Instead they put oldsters like Zhu Fangyu and Liu Wei and Wang Zhizhi whom are all about as athletic as logs. These old players are completely incompetent at everything other than running the same plays they have been drilling for the last 8 years. By 2008 though, I think Chen Sun Yi and Yao will be an unstoppable force, playing a very similiar style of basketball to the NBA. Just think about a team consiting of Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnet, Chris Bosh, and . ... Yao Ming.
tphuang said:
The reason right now China stinks so bad is because it is still in a transition between two very fundamentally different styles of basketball. Previously, China has ran a European/Soviet-style team focussed on team basketball, team defense, and perimeter shooting (They have a 7'2 center, Wang Zhizhi shooting threes). However, as the NBA exerts more influence on China, newer Chinese players are heavily influenced by the American style of basketball, featuring a game dependent on the independent abilities of its athletes. lol even basketball is somewhat affected by political ideologies (team communism vs individaulistic capitalism). But China's team has got many great new athletes, but China's coach (an Lithuanian) has not yet come up with plays to utilize the great athletic abilities of the Chinese basketballers, and instead continues to run a European offense and defense, so what you got on the court are half your players only good at running a team game which they cant run since the newer generation of Chinese basketball players are not proficient with such a game, and a few athletic players who try to play 1 on 5 basketball. And China is also not utlizing their best players, which are Sun Yue, Chen Jianghua and Yi Jianlian. Instead they put oldsters like Zhu Fangyu and Liu Wei and Wang Zhizhi whom are all about as athletic as logs. These old players are completely incompetent at everything other than running the same plays they have been drilling for the last 8 years. By 2008 though, I think Chen Sun Yi and Yao will be an unstoppable force, playing a very similiar style of basketball to the NBA. Just think about a team consiting of Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnet, Chris Bosh, and . ... Yao Ming.
). I haven't followed so much NHL, tough our media always noticed when a finnish guy scores or otherwise glows in the "narrow ice".
