The day before he watched the Hoyas beat the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons 98-81.
It is not uncommon for basketball games in China to erupt into fisticuffs. American players and coaches communicate with hand signals and interpreters. Chairs and water bottles were tossed as the Hoyas headed to the locker room with the score 64-all in a testy, foul-plagued matchup.
I was up the whole day, just thinking about the game.”
The highlight was a one point victory over defending world champions Serbia-Montenegro.
One might argue that sportsmanlike conduct in team sports competitions has evolved over the decades in the USA and other countries, though in some contests such as football (European and American) and rugby matches, one is still reminded of the bloodlusty gladiatorial cultures of the ancient Roman Empire as described by Saint Augustine.
Chinese basketball, he suggests, is much like the country as a whole: caught halfway between an enduring socialist system and an amped-up commercial frenzy, anxious to absorb ideas from the West but deeply ambivalent about their influence. That was unbelievable.
Yet even before the season begins, the boss does an about-face, initially sidelining Weiss in favor of a Chinese assistant whose idea of a perfect practice is to run pointless drills until the players collapse. But drawing on his six years of experience in China, Yardley manages to capture, in touchingly human detail, the essence of a nation in transition.
“molten-iron” training, so deeply rooted in the Chinese sports system, provides one clue in the case of the missing point guards. And, the shoe companies are dependent on the China market and that's where all of this is coming from. After that, Chinese players had to take sportsmanship classes and, as one sports official put it, to “deeply reflect” on their actions.
They often practice in unheated and un air-conditioned gymnasiums. 2 economy. "You see NBA players constantly over the summer during their offseason running to China to do the bidding of their shoe companies and to sell their shoes in the China market," he said.
Boss Wang, the tempestuous steel baron who owns the Brave Dragons, has decided to buy an American coach from the holy land of hoops, the NBA.
After the game, he said, “This game was a treasure, and it will be with me for the rest of my life...This is a personal Olympics for me...Everyone is proud. Brook Larmer wrote in the Washington Post: No less than Yao Ming “criticized Chinese coaches for treating basketball as a non-contact sport. The symbolic significance of 64-64 has not been lost on some observers. A simple image consisting of seven words might be the most troublesome tweet in corporate America this year. Basketball is the most popular sport in China. It now has relationships with a number of television and digital media outlets throughout China, including a three-decade partnership with CCTV, the league said.
If the team loses the coaches are blamed and if they are blamed they let the players know it. Some Chinese who have money … Many think China will be one of the top four teams in the world in about ten years. It was a great game, great atmosphere.” Fans seemed most impressed with the steady stream of slam dunks by Bryant, Wade and James.
Book: “Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing” by Jim Yardley (Knopf/Random House, 2011). Yao Ming fouled out after scoring only 11 points.
It is now worth more than $4 billion, according to Forbes. But he suddenly finds himself in Taiyuan, a coal-choked provincial capital in what Yardley calls “the boiler room of China.” The first inkling that the season will be fraught with surprises: Weiss’s hotel, though seemingly topped by a Howard Johnson sign, turns out to be a run-down replica that, on closer inspection, is called “Howell & Johnson.”
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Anyway, basketball lán qiú (篮球) in Chinese soon took on a life of its own in China, becoming a mainstay on university campuses and even at government offices. Among those in attendance were U.S. President George Bush, his wife Laura and father, former U.S. President George Bush, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. They are mainly used by guards and other employees to play informal games.Basketball is the most popular school sport and the most popular sport among Chinese youth. Mediocre basketball players in the United States have become big stars in China.
[Source: Brook Larmer, Washington Post February 17, 2012]
I like other sports, but nothing is like this.” Wade, the 2006 NBA Finals MVP said “It can’t get no bigger than this.
Among the 12 teams in the CBA League are the Beijing Ducks, Guangzhou Southern Tigers, Hong Kong Flying Dragons, Hubei Cranes and the Shanghai Sharks.
The later is jointly owned by the Shanghai government and a state-owned television station.
Yao became a star and helped build the NBA’s following in China.
They have a reputation for choking and blowing games because of their poor ball-handling skills. What such interpreters see in the 64-64 tie between the Georgetown Hoyas and the Bayi Rockets is the PLA suppressing students on June 4, 1989.
"Whitlock called the situation an "education" for the casual sports fan, and criticized players and coaches who have apologized to China or have made similar remarks in the wake of Morey's tweet.
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