Hide it or expose it.
When fighting the world, the Japanese basketball team has always chosen to hide. By not showing it to the outside, he was trying to gain an advantage in the international competition. Due to the Japanese language and the uniqueness of being an island country, it was easy to hide it until a long time ago. I may have won some games because of it. However, is this method really beneficial to the Japanese basketball world?
Over the past few years, the Japanese basketball world has changed greatly in various ways. One of them is the shift from a culture of hiding to one that thrives on exposure and sharing.
The symbol of this is the “Technical Report 2021“is.
A detailed report on the preparations and battles of the men’s, women’s, and 3×3 (3×3) men’s and women’s teams at the Tokyo Olympics is 59 pages for the men’s team, 40 for the women’s team, and 47 pages for the 3×3 combined. , each with plenty of volume. Not just the match results, but also the goals and concepts of the team before the tournament, preparation period, roster selection, how to fight during the tournament, achievements, what did not go well, reasons, comparison with past tournaments, and the world. The position of is summarized with detailed stats. Some of them even have weak points written on them.
“Interesting” “Is it okay to publish this far?”
This report was created by the technical committee technical house subcommittee of the Japan Basketball Association. It is a department that supports the Japanese national team by scouting opponents in international competitions. After the tournament was over, they made use of their analytical skills to thoroughly explain the Japanese national team, and this is the technical report.
As soon as it was released, coaches of various levels in Japan and enthusiastic fans commented that it was “interesting” and “helpful”, and asked, “Is it okay to disclose this much?” It was about
According to Tomoya Higashino, technical director of the Japan Basketball Association, no other country has released such detailed reports to the public. Even in other sports, for example, the technical report of the Japan Football Association, which was used as a reference in creating this technical report, was distributed to domestic coaches, but it is not open to the public.
With that in mind, it was an epoch-making event that a detailed report of the Japanese national team was posted on a website that anyone could access. In other words, anyone in the world who understands Japanese can read it—for example, people from other countries. Even after the tournament is over, it’s like giving information to the enemy for the next tournament. Even so, the report was created with the belief that it would have great advantages that outweigh the disadvantages, and it was open to the public.
