Live broadcast: On September 18th, basketball commentator Su Qunfa sent a message, looking forward to the performance of China men’s basketball team in the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou.
The original text is as follows:
The Asian Games is coming again. I don’t know whether China will play well or not this time.
Of course, the teams in your own country should wish them well. However, I don’t know whether it is good or bad for China basketball to play well in the Asian Games.
I have always said that the Asian Games is another systematic competition, but not everyone can understand it. For example, China’s men’s basketball team played badly in the World Cup, and many people turned to them for revenge in the Asian Games. In fact, no matter how well the Asian Games is played, we can’t be ashamed of it, because if the World Cup is not played well, the Olympic Games will not be able to go. What is lost here can’t be found there. There is an idiom that says so.
To understand the special nature of the Asian Games, we can compare the National Games with the League Games. At present, the vast majority of local sports bureaus no longer care about the league, but lead the preparations for the National Games. Every four years, they spend a lot of money, including "foreign aid". After the National Games, the league is the club’s business. What youth training and reserve echelon have nothing to do with the Sports Bureau.
In the Asian Games, basketball is a chess piece in a big game, and the main task is to raise the national flag and play the national anthem. Other events, especially individual events, the Asian Games also undertakes the function of selecting superior players for the Olympic Games, but basketball is not. Basketball is to raise the national flag and play the national anthem, especially now that the Olympic Games can’t go.
Therefore, if the Asian Games is not played well, the consequences will be very serious.
In the past, the Asian Games were not well played, and there was still a chance to make amends, because the Asian Championships followed, and the Asian Championships won the championship before going to the Olympic Games.For example, in the Asian Games in South Korea in 2014, Gong Luming led the team and only won the fifth place, which caused a nationwide outcry. However, what is worse than this is the Asian Championships the year before, and only one year before the next Asian Championships, so Xin Lancheng gave the palace guidance time. A year later, in Changsha, the five-star red flag fluttered in the wind.
Qi zhou and Guo Ailun played an outstanding role in that Asian Championship, and the China men’s basketball team won the qualification for the Rio Olympic Games. But no one cares about the performance of China men’s basketball team in the Olympic Games.
At that time, the Asian Games, the Asian Championships and the Olympic Games were intertwined, which could be understood as a systematic competition. Although the events were different, there was a causal relationship between them. If you don’t play well, you can still have time. If you play well, it will cover up many problems.
For example, after China’s men’s basketball team was defeated by Tianjin in the Asian Championship in 2009, Deng Huade took office. The first battle was the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010, which was remembered because of the singing of old boys and Wang Zhizhi’s 12 gold medals hanging around his neck. As a result, the Asian Championship in 2011 almost lost to Jordan and only won 1 point. Winning the Asian Championship and getting tickets to the Olympic Games, even if the task is completed, no one cares about the performance of the China team at the London Olympics.
The Asian Games often gives people a lot of illusions, either making you feel that the men’s basketball team sucks or that it has revived. According to the past rhythm, Asian Championships, Asian Games, Asian Championships, Olympic Games, and Asian Championships, Asian Games, Asian Championships, Olympic Games have started again … In the cycle of year after year, the Asian Games is a special existence. It is the fig leaf of the Asian Championships that was least valued last year, and it is also an inspection for the Asian Championships that was most valued next year.
The problems exposed in the Asian Championship are likely to be covered up because of the good performance of the Asian Games. The green and yellow exposed in 2010 did not meet, and the Asian Championships broke out completely in 2013. In 2018, the Asian Games swept four basketball gold medals, and optimism planted seeds for the tragedy of the 2019 World Championships.
The repeated alternation of disappointment, hope, comedy and tragedy is similar to the three-body world.
There are three suns in the sky, either coming together or not coming at all, or dying of heat or freezing to death. This is called chaotic times. When there is only one sun, the weather is good and the spring blossoms. This is called the eternal era. The chaotic era is coming, the three-person body is dehydrated, the constant era is coming, and the three-person body is soaking in water.
The problem is that the chaotic era and the constant era are irregular, and sometimes dehydration is called just after soaking in water, because the arrival of the constant era is just an illusion. The trio was tortured by hope and disappointment, and kept dehydrating, soaking and dehydrating.
We always say that when disappointment comes to an end, there is hope. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? That’s because there is only one sun in the sky.
Three-body people only have endless torture and pain, and civilization moves forward bit by bit in repeated destruction and reconstruction. They know that they can’t get rid of the cycle of hope and disappointment, and they keep soaking and dehydrating because they can’t get rid of those three suns. So they want to escape and run to the place where there is only one sun.
If the Asian Games is well played, will it become our yearning and belief for the eternal era? Will the short-term pleasure brought by soaking in water make us forget the long-term suffering brought by dehydration?
Different from the past, the next chaotic era will last for at least four years, because the Asian Championships that decided the qualification of the Olympic Games are gone, and the Asian Games can be a fig leaf for the fiasco of the World Cup, but it cannot be a guiding light for the next eternal era.
I wish the China men’s basketball team win the championship in the Asian Games, but if China basketball wants to have its own real eternal era, it must stay away from its three suns.
At this moment, my mood is similar to that of the three-person body.
