National Games | Yin Zhe, Director of the Three-player Basketball Department of the Chinese Basketball Association: Three-player basketball is waiting to "break the circle"

Xinhua News Agency, Xi’an, September 20th (Reporters Yao Youming, Shan Lei, Zhang Rui) During the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the three-player basketball game of the 14th National Games in Xi’an City Sports Park attracts a lot of people every day A respectable audience. The ever-changing situation of the stadium, the dynamic live music and the sound of cheering from the audience are superimposed together, as if to overturn the roof of the stadium.

On July 28, Chinese team player Yang Shuyu (left) made a dribble breakthrough. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang

In an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency reporters, Yin Zhe, director of the three-person basketball department of the Chinese Basketball Association, said that my country’s three-person basketball has developed rapidly in recent years. The momentum of a higher stage of advancement. Yin Zhe said that with the continuous progress of the three-person basketball career, the future of three-person basketball is bound to feed back the five-a-side basketball and jointly promote the continuous progress of Chinese basketball.

Yin Zhe said: "This National Games has reached an unprecedented scale in terms of the number of participating teams and the total number of participants. The three-person basketball players have achieved both quantitatively and qualitatively in the past few years. Improve.”

During the Tianjin National Games, the three-person basketball court simply divided the five-a-side basketball court in half. The three-person basketball court of the Shaanxi National Games was built in full reference to international standards. Yin Zhe said that while the venue is standardized and internationalized, more people have the opportunity to feel the charm of three-person basketball.

"The women's three-person basketball team won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics and won the World Cup in 2019. These are actually some very important historical nodes of our three-person basketball and Chinese basketball." Yin Zhe said.

On July 28, the Chinese women's three-person basketball team won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang

Although it has already won in the World Series, Yin Zhe believes that the development of my country's three-person basketball is still in its infancy.

"Combined with our country's "14th Five-Year Plan", the Chinese Basketball Association has conducted special research on three-person basketball, and in the next stage, three-person basketball will be taken as a development focus and professionalized. We carried out a few days ago. After the announcement of the (three-person basketball) professional league, the professional league will also adopt a new structure,Organized and promoted by a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese Basketball Association. "Yin Zhe said.

Compared with traditional basketball, Yin Zhe believes that the three-person basketball court is smaller, the space and area occupied by each person is also smaller, the overall time is shorter, and the attack time is shorter. These are all inspiring Players must have more fighting and confrontation. "In order to adapt to the current fast-paced life, three-person basketball has made some changes on the basis of traditional basketball. I think it is in line with the current audience's taste. Yin Zhe told reporters.

On September 19, in the women's under-19 quarter-finals of the three-person basketball event of the 14th National Games, Shaanxi team player Guo Xiaoni (right) took the ball and attacked. Xinhua News Agency reporter Photo by Sun Fanyue

When asked when it is considered that three-person basketball has broken through the initial stage of development, Yin Zhe said that it needs to be measured from two aspects: on the one hand, the coverage of the population is further expanded, and the overall popularity is further improved. On the one hand, the Chinese three-person basketball team will be able to go further than this year’s in Tokyo at the Paris Olympics.

The Chinese three-person basketball professional league will be officially launched in 2022. As the "transition season" of the event, the 2021 China Three The Chinese Basketball Club Classic will kick off in mid-October.

Chinese Basketball Association chairman Yao Ming previously stated that the launch of the league will help promote the popularity and improvement of three-person basketball in China, and it will also be China The Basketball Association is conducting a pilot reform of the game management system.

On September 17, the Chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association Yao Ming (right) was watching the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Fanyue

"In the'transition season', we will do something Relevant professional league atmosphere building, professional system building, professional team building and professional staff building, etc., build these points, slowly connect them into a line, and finally form a whole. Yin Zhe revealed.

In the future selection of three-person basketball players, Yin Zhe believes that there must still be a principle that is to select the highest level and most competitive players in the country to participate in international competitions.

"For a period of time Among them, three-man basketball will also share the'talent pool' with five-a-side basketball. When the development of three-man basketball in China reaches a certain stage,Three-person basketball is bound to feed back five-person basketball. Yin Zhe said.

Editors: Zhang Yueshan, Huang Xuguo, Wu Junkuan, Wang Yilin (internship)

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