On the evening of April 30, the Taiwan SBL League came to an end, and the Taiwan Beer Team won the championship.
When the world was affected by the new coronavirus and NBA was forced to shut down, the SBL league became the only mainstream basketball league to end normally. In early April, the New York Times paid attention to the return of the SBL league to normal order. A phenomenon, and wrote an article expressing the hope that the NBA’s restart can learn from some of their practices.
But on the other side, the Japanese B League is swinging back and forth between restarting and suspending. Even one team had as many as 11 people infected, and they finally chose to end the season early.
A successful case and a failure case have certain reference significance for the resumption of work of the local league CBA.
Affected by the global epidemic, Taiwan SBL resumed normal competition on March 25th. The finals ended on April 28th. More than a month after the restart of the league, no players or related players have appeared. The incident of staff being infected...
This SBL finals only has 6 games. The competition format is a 6-match 4-win system, not the 7-match 4-win system that fans are familiar with. In the 6 finals, the Taiwan Beer team that won the regular season championship in the first and second half of this season's SBL will automatically win a game according to the rules.
The SBL had experienced changes before this, and two powerful teams, Daxin and Fubon Warriors, withdrew from the league. This season, only five teams, Taiwan Beer, Puyuan, Yulon, Taiwan Bank, and Jiutai Technology, are left to participate, which is the smallest scale in history.
Former CBA Guangsha star Lin Zhijie played for the Fubon Warriors this season, and his team withdrew from the SBL
Since there are only 5 teams left, the specific competition system of the SBL this season is: after the regular season is over, the team ranked first Directly entering the finals, the 2nd and 3rd ranked teams will compete in a best-of-5 series to compete for another spot in the finals.
only needs to be ranked in the top three of 5 teams to have a chance to win the championship. Such a screening mechanism makes the benefits of allowing teams with high regular season rankings to play against lower-ranked teams in professional leagues lose their practical significance in the SBL league environment.
Then this weird competition system appeared: the finals were changed to a 6-match 4-win system, and the regular season champion won a game in advance, which became the most important reward of SBL for the regular season winners.
In the finals, Yulon fell behind 0-1 first and forced the total score to 3-3
. However, this strange match system became a major objective factor for the SBL League to successfully "withstand" the epidemic and hold the game normally. It achieved centralized Competition location, control the flow of personnel, and reduce the risk of infection during travel.
The SBL playoffs will start at the Haoyu International Training Center.
In addition to the small size of the league, which is conducive to organizing relatively concentrated and closed games, the smooth completion of the SBL league is also closely related to the strict epidemic prevention measures they have taken.
"I am very lucky to be able to stay in Taiwan. Taiwan has done a good job in epidemic prevention. Taiwan is a place you want to stay at this moment."
Foreign aid Buckley, who currently plays for the SBL Taiwan Beer Team, said.
Taiwan Beer's foreign aid Barkley
can allow foreign players to participate in the game with peace of mind. Thanks to the SBL League's strict epidemic prevention measures, closing venues, playing games behind closed doors, and controlling the number of people entering the venue are its basic measures. Its Epidemic Command Center has early suspended public gatherings with more than 100 people indoors and more than 500 people outdoors, and limited the number of people entering SBL to less than 100 people.
For those who enter the stadium, they must cooperate with the basketball association staff to measure their forehead temperature, disinfect with alcohol, register information, fill in a health declaration form and other epidemic prevention measures.
During a basketball game, close contact between athletes and the spread of body fluids can easily lead to cross-infection. Participating teams do not dare to take this lightly. Whenever there is a change of players on and off the field, dedicated staff will come forward to disinfect with alcohol. This creates a relatively safe competition environment.
On-site staff disinfected the players
In addition, it is also stipulated that those entering the venue must wear masks at all times (only event anchors, team bench personnel and referees during the game are excluded). In fact, after experiencing the SARS epidemic in 2003, Taiwanese people, who learned from it, have developed the habit of hoarding masks and using them daily for many years.
Even before the outbreak of this epidemic, people wearing masks could be seen everywhere in various public places in Taiwan during the autumn and winter seasons. The outbreak of the new coronavirus has made Taiwanese people even more vulnerable. Even in the SBL league that was held in an empty stadium, most of the staff on the sidelines wore tight masks to minimize the spread of the virus and infection.
Maibanda, the American coach of the SBL Puyuan team this season, lamented in an interview with the New York Times that the current serious epidemic in the United States is related to "Americans do not agree with the culture of wearing masks." Even he himself I was not used to this at first when I stayed in Taiwan.
American foreign aid Franklin Session, who plays for Jiutai Technology Team, said in an interview: "To be honest, it is safer here than at home. Taiwan is very good at keeping the environment clean, such as in shopping malls. And we come to play games. , you will take your temperature, etc. I think it’s great!”
The SBL men’s basketball league can end smoothly and maintain a safe situation, which is also inseparable from the good epidemic prevention environment in Taiwan. This series of effective measures made the SBL league the only mainstream basketball league in the world to be held normally and successfully concluded from March to April. This also allows them to enjoy the special treatment of global live broadcast by the FIBA official website.
FIBA global live broadcast SBL
In addition to the SBL men's basketball league, Taiwan's major baseball league and professional football league have resumed one after another, which is rare in the world.
In contrast, this year's Japanese basketball league also experienced a process of interruption and then restarting, but they are no longer as lucky as the Taiwan SBL league.
html On February 26, the Japan Basketball League officially announced that a total of 99 games in the B1 and B2 leagues will be postponed. After the league was suspended for more than half a month, the Japan B League resumed on March 14.
In order to restart the league smoothly, the Japan League Organizing Committee has taken certain preventive measures, arranging all resumed leagues to be played behind closed doors and providing free online live broadcasts. For participating players and staff, temperature checks will be conducted on-site. Despite this, accidents continue to occur in the restarted Japan B League.
Before a game on the day when the league resumed, it was found during temperature testing that three players had temperatures exceeding 37 degrees Celsius, and the game was canceled. Later, in another game, the referee's body temperature exceeded the standard again, causing the game to be canceled again. Some foreign players from the United States even refused to play in the game again.
Japanese naturalized foreign aid Fizekas expressed his dissatisfaction with the rematch
Due to the pressure of consecutive situations, just two or three days after the Japanese League resumed, the chairman of the Japan Basketball Association announced the cancellation of the period from March 20 to April 1. of 95 games. On March 27, the Japan Men's Basketball League officially announced that the season will end early, and each team will determine the final results based on the current ranking.
The nightmare of the Japanese Basketball League did not end there. On April 2, their first professional player was diagnosed with the new crown virus. The week after , his teammates on the same team were diagnosed with new coronavirus pneumonia one after another. A total of 11 of the 15 players in the team were infected.
The resumption of the Japanese league caused a large number of players to be infected. This is closely related to the fact that their domestic epidemic was not significantly contained at that time and they rushed to restart the league without adequate safety measures.
"It's as if (the league) is willing to wait," said Schinkel, a 32-year-old player from the United States who plays for Japan's Koshigaya Alpha team. "There was a lot of pressure on Japan to keep the Olympics. SoftBank As the B-League's largest sponsor, they had paid for the remainder of the season, so there were a lot of bad factors at work."
Another American foreign aid Ayers, who is playing in the Japanese league, was even more angry about the league's decision: "I believe they are under pressure to host the Olympic Games and must do something. They need to ask People show that Japan is safe and can be a travel destination. "
Compared with the various strict measures when the SBL league resumed, when the Japanese B League resumed in March, there were no such detailed regulations. Although empty games were also organized, not all teams were able to frequently test players. Only some teams insist on doing this kind of work. Regarding the frequent contact between players on the court, they also failed to take better epidemic prevention measures.
The hasty resumption of work in the Japanese B League is more of a hasty behavior due to economic pressure.
" At that time, the pressure on the league and the team was very high. Considering the financial issues, the league certainly wants to resume. At that time, other sports leagues and live events were basically not suspended, and medical experts strongly recommended not to stop, but I don’t think many people felt that this decision was correct. The pressure must be great. "
A reporter from the "Japan Times" stated this fact.
The relatively favorable "resumption" environment of the Taiwan SBL League is a reference experience for the CBA, which has as many as 20 teams and a more complex geographical environment. It is very limited; and the serious consequences caused by the hasty restart of the Japanese B League cannot but serve as a lesson for the CBA.
From the beginning of April to April 15, and now it is very likely that the league will not be able to restart before the end of June. The CBA League "resumption". The day has been anticipated by countless people, but it has been repeatedly postponed after showing hope. It is a helpless move due to numerous concerns.
During this unprecedentedly long offseason, all CBA can do is wait patiently
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