Can the Olympic Games go further after China won the women’s basketball championship？

[Network+] China basketball finally won the first world championship in adult competition! In the women’s final of the 2019 FIBA Three-Man Basketball World Cup held in the early morning of 24th, the China women’s team beat the Hungarian team, a European powerhouse, by 19:13 to win the championship. Last night’s "News Network" broadcast this good news.

When it comes to basketball games, the first thing we usually think of is 5X5, that is, five players from each side will play in four sessions with 10 minutes each (12 minutes for NBA and CBA). The public is much more unfamiliar with three-person basketball, and more may only stay in "knowing" that there is a KFC national youth three-person basketball championship challenge that has been held for 15 years in a row. Today, Lianjun will tell you about the "past life" of this sport.

Indeed, compared with the history of more than 100 years of five-a-side basketball competition, the popularity and popularity of three-a-side basketball, which was first played in world-class competition in 1992, is indeed much inferior. However, because it does not need much space (half of the five-person system), the single game time is short (10-16 minutes per game), and it is more suitable for training beginners’ technical movements and technical and tactical cooperation, it is very popular among young students.

In recent years, 3X3 basketball has made more and more appearances in the world. The FIBA Three-Man Basketball World Cup, which was won by the China women’s team, has been held for six times since it was first held in 2012. In 2017, the International Olympic Committee officially added the three-person basketball game to the Olympic Games.

After winning the World Cup, the China women’s team also successfully won the Olympic tickets, and we will see them again at the Tokyo Olympic Games next year.

"Many skills of three-person basketball and five-person basketball are the same. Whoever can put more balls into the basket will win." David Crocker, executive director of FIBA, once explained this sport. However, the difference between skills and actual combat also makes them have their own characteristics. From some angles, they can also be two completely different sports.

Only three players are present, which means it is difficult to distinguish the roles of "striker" and "defender", so everyone should get used to playing the role of generalist. The shrinking of the venue makes the confrontation more intense and the play faster. It is enough for each team to have four good players when three people play. Compared with the five-a-side basketball game, each team needs 8-12 excellent players to attack the medals. This game is undoubtedly more suspenseful, and anyone can become a winner.

Such suspense also makes it more possible for China to play three-person basketball in the future.

In the field of five-a-side basketball, China can’t be called a traditional strong team. Previously, China’s best performance in the world was the runner-up of the women’s team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Although the men’s basketball team won the eighth place in four Olympic Games, it is always difficult to take a step forward.

But the situation is much better in three-person basketball. If you count the youth competitions, China won the championship as early as 2010. In the first World Youth Olympic Games, China U17 women’s three-person basketball team beat all the strong teams and finally won the gold medal. At last year’s Asian Games in Jakarta, the men’s and women’s teams of China swept the championship in this event. This makes us have more expectations for next year’s Olympic Games.

It is worth mentioning that, due to the good mass foundation, the three-person basketball game has more advantages in talent selection than the five-person basketball game, which also lays an excellent foundation for the future development of this project.

The four players of the men’s basketball team that won the championship in the Asian Games last year can be called "grassroots": Huang Wenwei, who scored the winner in the final, is a teacher of Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education, xiao hailiang is an employee of Dongguan Cultural and Sports Bureau, Zeng Bingqiang is a student of Guangdong University of Technology, and Chen Gong is from Hubei team, but so far, he has not played in the professional league. And they were able to get on the stage of the competition, all through the "I want to go to the Olympics" three-person basketball competition held in chinese basketball association at the beginning of last year.

After the two words "all the people" and "Olympic Games" are closely linked, China three-person basketball will surely enter a better era.