Speaking of who the god of basketball is, even people who don’t know anything about basketball will look down at their shoes and tell you that they are “Michael Jordan”, but when it comes to the 3×3 god of basketball, most people’s first One reaction is: 3×3 basketball? Is this a basketball game? Isn’t it all because of the expediency of a group of people playing the ball when the court is tight?
In fact, it is not. Since 2012, the FIBA has organized six 3×3 basketball World Cup matches. Serbian Dusan Bulut (dusan bulut) and his compatriots have been on the courts of Greece, China, France, and the Philippines. Won the first prize four times. In most of his career, he has been the FIBA No. 1 3V3 player, and a well-deserved GOAT (the greatest player in history) in the 3×3 basketball circle.
Of course, even if the name in 3×3 basketball is like a thunderbolt, the public still knows very little about Dusan and 3×3 basketball. Why should there be 3×3 basketball after a full-court basketball game with a century of history? Are these two the same thing?
Fifteen years ago, FIBA took 3×3 basketball as a project, formally formulated a set of general rules, organized testing activities, and most importantly, unified many existing championships in the world under its management. Pyramid network.
FIBA’s motives are clear: it hopes that a more streamlined and faster 3×3 game can attract the younger generation of spectators, who enjoy endless entertainment options. But everyone knows that the attention of this generation of young people is very limited. What they need is a short 15-second video and a one-minute song. The original game is too cumbersome and time-consuming. Who wants to keep staring at a famous game? Does 48 minutes actually require 120 minutes of basketball? Can you catch the attention of young people as soon as possible?
3×3 basketball is considered to be a way to lower the barriers for countries that love basketball to enter international competition. The resources or talent pools of these countries cannot be compared with a powerful country like the United States, but they also love basketball. More importantly, 3×3 basketball also meets the needs of the rejuvenation of the Olympic Games, just like skateboarding and rock climbing. Therefore, in 2017, the Olympic Committee decided to include 3×3 basketball as an official event of the Olympic Games.
Robbie Hummel, a member of the American 3×3 basketball team, said: “I think it’s very similar to what beach volleyball means to ordinary volleyball: a very cool condensed essence in a very popular sport. .”
The 3×3 game has only 21 points per game, no 3-pointers, and 12 seconds of offense; the space released by fewer players on the court promotes the creativity of the game (the field of play is also shorter than the half of the traditional basketball court by 3 Meter). Without a coach, there is very little rest time during the game. This is a fast-paced, high-intensity brand-new basketball game where all rules emphasize. It was born out of basketball and is far from traditional basketball.
Patrick Bowman, Secretary-General of FIBA and member of the International Olympic Committee, explained: “The concept of 3×3 basketball has all the elements and skills required for basketball. It has inspired and will continue to inspire many great players in the future. At the same time, It is one of the easiest and most effective ways to bring teenagers into basketball, retain them and promote our games.”
Learned some basic knowledge of 3×3 basketball. Someone will definitely say: When professional players come to this event, do amateur players still play it? But it’s actually not that simple. As mentioned earlier, 3×3 basketball is designed to help some countries that love basketball but the level of basketball is not developed. So the 3×3 basketball game has an unusual qualification system, which aims to develop the sport throughout the year and find the best team for the World Cup. The national team’s participation is strictly based on the country’s official 3×3 ranking. The ranking system of the national team also considers the ranking of individual players. Even the ranking of countries that can qualify the team for the World Cup on the surface is not enough to qualify, because the FIBA currently stipulates that 20 male and female teams participating in the World Cup in a given year must come from 30 different countries. This makes it more difficult for individual countries to allow both male and female players to enter the World Cup.
The 3×3 basketball god Dusan was also a traditional basketball player. Like many young people, he watched AND1’s mixtape street basketball highlights. Marbury and Iverson’s highlight videos fell in love with basketball. He used to play basketball as an adult. Serbia, Hungary, Bosnia, and Macedonia were among the multinational teams, but he later discovered that 3V3 basketball could release his free spirit.
Why don’t many professional players join the 3×3 basketball game? Dusan and his teammates are from the Novi Sad region of Serbia. He said that their humble background and difficult environment have always been a force to inspire them to move forward.
Dusan said: “This game is always difficult and uncomfortable, like someone pinching your neck to make you breathless. That’s why we are good at this: we win prizes through competitions to ensure that we are normal. Life. For example, people from Canada, Sweden or Qatar go to play 3×3, if they win a game, they still get less money than they do for a job like a bank. For us, This is a question of survival.”
Therefore, the vast majority of 3×3 athletes in the world are not professional basketball elites. The prize money for the World Cup matches is only six-figure dollars, with four points.
Going back to the game, friends who watched 3×3 basketball these days must have noticed it. The rhythm of this game is completely different from that of the whole game. Friends who play regularly also know that there is a big difference between half-time and full-time. Some correct decisions in the whole game are completely wrong in a 3×3 game. Therefore, the real 3V3 basketball masters, even if they are almost all converted from 5V5, want to adapt to the 3×3 basketball rules, they will have to go through a running-in period of at least a year before they can fully adapt.
In terms of playing style, want to rely on the strength of the body to fight back? In traditional basketball, the scores are 2 and 3 points respectively, and the difference is not that big; in 3×3 basketball, there are 2 points outside the three-point line, and all the points are 1 points, which is a full double. This is how the change of direction encourages players who are not that tall to attack more from the outside. Defensively, big men are actually at a disadvantage against small ones. In 3×3, the inside line is actually very restricted, because many teams do not need the threat of rebounds and guards. What is more needed is the unlimited ability of players to switch defenses. The higher the height , The slower the pace is the unchanging truth.
In most 3×3 basketball teams, the players are between 1 meter and 9-2 meters tall. Players will not be too tall to slow the team’s offensive rhythm, and they will not be particularly short in confrontation. For example, the heights of the Serbian quartet ranked first in the 3×3 Olympics are: 1.91 meters, 2 meters, 1.94 meters and 1.99 meters. The players with the tallest and shortest 3V3 basketball players in this Olympics are all from China: 1.85 meters Gao Shiyan and 2.10 meters Hu Jinqiu.
This time, the candidates for the 3×3 basketball event of the Olympic Games have caused waves before. There are always some people who think that 3×3 basketball is just like traditional basketball. Wouldn’t it be easy to win the opponent by sending a few professional players? Zheng Yi, who helped 3×3 basketball to qualify for the Olympics, was dismissed and killed. CBA professional players were entrusted with important tasks by the Basketball Association. As a result, we also saw that despite the highlights of killing Poland, they lost in the last game. Japan, being beaten by Tominaga Keisei, made China’s 3×3 men’s basketball team the first time to participate in the Olympics, ranking first among all eight teams.
As early as 2016, the NBA also held its own Dew NBA3x3 Summer League. The 3×3 and NBA2K, the fan’s three-point game, and the live music show are packaged together into a carnival-like activity. 3×3 basketball is booming, and tournaments like passersby have emerged in China. This piece of rivers and lakes independent of professional basketball has its own rules of the rivers and lakes, and it is not possible for an outsider to swagger into it casually. Maybe one day, China can also cultivate its own Dusan-Brutt?
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