Naturalized players have been a topic that cannot be avoided in this Asian Championship, and this Asian Championship has set a new record - among the 15 teams participating in the competition, 8 teams have naturalized players. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The emergence of naturalized players has balanced the gap in strength between the teams to a certain extent, added new highlights to the Asian Championships, and affected the pattern of Asian basketball.

When it comes to the impact of naturalized players on the Asian basketball landscape, it should be traced back to the 2009 Asian Championships. At the 2009 Asian Championships in Tianjin, the performance of naturalized players was particularly eye-catching. Led by naturalized player Raheem Wright, the Jordanian team defeated strong opponents along the way to the third place. He was also named the best defender and also won the Asian Championship scoring title with an average of 20.6 points per game and was named to the first team. Several naturalized players of the Lebanese team, Fromman, Freger and Farris, also performed very well, helping the Lebanese team to the semi-finals and the World Championships the following year.

In addition, the Chinese taibei team also has naturalized players internally, especially Quincy. Davis is the most special. Quincy? The addition of Davis has strengthened the Chinese Taibei team. He was a teammate of Yi Jianlian, and in 2010, he also played for a year at Jiangsu Tongxi in China's NBL. In this Asian Championship, Davis averaged 14.7 points, 9 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game. Although his scoring is not as high as other interior players, he has become the pillar of the team because he is not greedy, can defend, and can grab rebounds, which is very in line with the technical and tactical style of the Chinese Taibei team, and can integrate well into this team.

"He's our inside leader, he's adding to our inside line and giving us the capital to compete with other Asian teams." Head coach Xu Jinzhe said.

Regarding Davis's ability, teammate Li Xuelin told reporters: "He has played a great role in improving the overall strength of the team, especially the height of the interior. Because we all know that the Taibei team has lacked tall men over the years, and with him joining, our playing style is more diversified. ”

The match between the Chinese Taibei team and the Philippine team in the group stage is the best proof that without Davis guarding the inside, the Chinese Taibei team would not have been able to reverse the host Philippine team.

In fact, most countries with naturalized players do so to strengthen their teams. Like the Chinese Taibei team, due to the lack of a strong interior line, the Philippine team "naturalized" center Dohit very early. Kazakhstan lacked good point guards, so they brought in Jerry, who had played in Clippers training camp and played in the European Multi-Nations League. Johnson. Because these players with a high level and even NBA experience have been naturalized, the overall level of Asian basketball has been improved to a certain extent, the gap between the strength of the strong and the weak team is also narrowing, and the game has become more beautiful.

However, the emergence of naturalized players is also controversial. In the last Wuhan Asian Championships, Qatar, the motherland of naturalized players, was temporarily disqualified by the Asian Basketball Federation due to problems with the identities of 5 players. In the Asian Championships, a laughable drama was staged - because only seven people were left to participate, the Qatar team deliberately fouled the game, and when the Qatar team finally had only one player left on the field, the referee had to declare the game over.

If some countries treat naturalized players only for the purpose of quick success, then it will do more harm than good to the development of their own basketball.

As early as 2006, the Qatari team, as the host of the Asian Games, relied on a large number of naturalized mercenaries and finally won the runner-up. However, to date, the level of the Qatar men's basketball team has not improved qualitatively, but has regressed a lot.

At present, among the top Asian basketball teams, the Chinese team and the Iranian team do not have naturalized players, both countries have complete professional leagues, and both countries have always been strong teams in Asia. It can be seen that although naturalized players can help improve the level of the Asian Championships, if you want to really improve the level of local basketball, the most fundamental way out has to start from your own league.

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At present, the final with the Philippine men's basketball team is about to be staged, and in addition to the old friend of the Chinese team, Dohit, the Philippine team lineup, such as Williams, Diocapo, Norwood and others will also bring trouble to the Chinese team.

Although the controversy over naturalized players continues, Sun Xiaotian is not concerned about it. "Please, don't hold on to the naturalized players, we just need to do it ourselves. Naturalized players are of course a reason, but the real strength of the opponent is all because of the role of naturalized players, and the basketball game still depends on the right attitude and team cooperation......"

In fact, what Sun Xiaotian said is not wrong, the strength of the Philippines in recent years is not entirely due to the role of naturalized player popularity. There is only one player in the Filipino squad who qualifies for the "naturalization" clause, and that is Dohit. The other players, all of whom hold Filipino passports, and even if some of the players don't look like Southeast Asians, there is nothing about them, they are all from the Philippine domestic league PBA.

Many fans will say, "Take away foreign aid, the Philippine national team can't even beat the CBA midstream team." This may be true, but we have to see the essence through the phenomenon. The Philippine national team can't beat the CBA midstream team, which does not mean that its basketball development is backward and its own competitive level is low, which can only show that basketball is a sport that relies heavily on height, and the Filipinos, who have an average national height of only 1.63 meters, are congenitally deficient, and are naturally at a disadvantage in this "one inch long, one inch strong" sport. The sum of the 12 Iverson may not be able to play the weakest complete national team in this men's basketball World Cup, but this does not lead to the conclusion that "Iverson can't play".

In fact, even with the 2.11-meter-tall naturalized player Dohit, the average height of the Philippine men's basketball team is only 1.91 meters. Even so, in the warm-up game, they can still kill the tall Kazakhstan team without leaving a piece of the armor, we should think more about "a Dohit to save a team", but "what kind of team can burst out with such energy after getting an NBA second-round draft player like Dohit?" ”

In addition, the Filipinos themselves have strict requirements for "naturalization". There is a little story in the market, the Filipino Heat head coach Spoelstra, who everyone is now familiar with, after graduating from the University of Portland in 1992, once wanted to join the PBA league, but the Filipino required him to play in the minor league for a year and obtain a dual citizenship before he could set foot in the PBA, so he had to choose to leave the German second league. In other words, "naturalization" is not naturalization if you want to naturalize, and people themselves have a threshold that is not low. And what is more sought after in the Philippines is always the local players they have cultivated spontaneously. The role of "naturalized" players in Philippine basketball is not to turn stones into gold and waste into treasure, but to make up for the shortest plank in the bucket - height.

God didn't give them the most suitable body to play basketball, but they had a heart that loved basketball the most. (To be continued.) )