Guo Zhenming talks about letting Yang Hansen go without playing the Asian Cup: It is both easy and difficult, and we should look forward to the long-term

August 30th, China Basketball Association Chairman Guo Zhenming was interviewed by CCTV's "Basketball Park" and was asked about whether Yang Hansen would participate in this year's Men's Basketball Asian Cup.

Q: (Chinese Basketball) Association finally made the choice to let Yang Hansen go. Isn’t this choice extremely difficult for you?

Answer: "It's really difficult to say it's difficult, and it's easy to say it's easy to say it's easy. In fact, before the men's basketball team went to the Asian Cup, the injury of the players and the disorganized lineup in all aspects did have a certain impact on the team's preparations, which is also one of the elements of difficulty. But it's easy to say it's easy. In this regard, our thoughts are highly unified. We support young, capable and excellent athletes going out, including the national team, and we all support Yang Hansen's confidence and courage to break the comfort zone and go to the NBA, an extremely fierce competitive environment. In addition, we are all committed to his guarantee work. Therefore, when the national team is both necessary and necessary, we must look at the long term and have a good environment and space for athletes to mature and grow, and at the same time we must protect athletes. Therefore, Henson did not participate in the Asian Cup in the end, and went all out to work with the club to integrate into the NBA league competition environment as soon as possible. This is also our consensus. So we must take the long-term. When there are some hedging between the two, we will put down the local interests in front of us and for the future. This is also our consideration. ”