China, Puerto Rico brawl at hoops tourney

[ahsingjai]

China, Puerto Rico brawl at hoops tourney
Stankovic Cup game called off after fighting erupts between men’s teams
Reuters
Updated: 12:24 a.m. ET July 30, 2005

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The Puerto Rico players cover their heads while making their way to the locker room after their game against China in the Stankovic Cup was abandoned due to a mass brawl in the last quarter. China were announced winners 91-80. [CD]

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Chinese basketball player Yi Jianlian, right, clashes with Puerto Rico player Manuel (held back by referee) during a game between at the Stankovic Continental Champions Cup in Beijing. The game was called off early because of the ensuing brawl.

BEIJING - A basketball game between China and visiting Puerto Rico deteriorated into a mass brawl that some state media termed the most shameful night of Chinese basketball and a bad example for the Olympic hosts.

The fighting erupted at Beijing Capital Gymnasium on Friday night after two Chinese players charged off the bench to fight Puerto Rico players in the dying moments of a game in which China was leading comfortably.

The bad feeling spilled into the stands where 3,000 home fans hurled insults and missiles, the China Daily reported on Saturday. Officials abandoned the game as the visitors fled to the locker room, one shielding his head with a plastic chair.

Chinese players Li Nan and Mo Ke had reacted after seeing teammate Yi Jianlian fouled hard by Puerto Rican center Manuel Narvaez, the newspaper said.

“Fists, plastic cups, water bottles and even a fan’s shoe went flying during the fracas with China’s Yi Jianlian, Tang Zhengdong, Mo Ke and Li Nan right in the middle of it,” the official China Daily reported on Saturday.

China’s basketball association deplored the violence as setting a poor example just three years before Beijing hosts the summer Olympics and said it would adopt measures to prevent such violence from recurring.

“Such behavior is very disgusting and leaves an extremely bad impression,” the China Sports Daily quoted association spokesman Li Jinsheng as saying.

Victory in the Stankovic Cup game, abandoned with China ahead 91-80, was later awarded to the hosts. A basketball association official said China accepted the result but should apologize to fans.

State media railed about the team’s behavior.

In a story headlined “China suffers night of shame,” China Daily said the melee “badly hurt the growing reputation of Chinese basketball.”

“China and Puerto Rico stage ‘free for all’,” said the Guangzhou Daily.

It said they had turned the Capital Gymnasium, a 2008 Olympic venue, into “the Palace of Auburn Hills arena,” where Detroit players and fans brawled near the end of a game against the Indiana Pacers in November 2004.

Three thousand fans hurled abuse along with drinks, plastic bottles and popcorn at the Puerto Rican team as it made its way to the locker room.

“This is the ugliest scene I have ever experienced in my life,” 31-year-old fan Wang Kai was quoted as saying.

“The Puerto Rico players have traveled more than 30 hours to come to China and they are our guests. As the host team, how can we treat them with such disdain?”

It was not the first instance of violence for Chinese basketball. In Shanghai in July 2001, China and Lebanon clashed just 10 days after Beijing won the right to host the Olympics.

Both benches emptied after the final buzzer of a physical game, Chinese fans threw water bottles and other objects and several Lebanese players were bloodied before police broke it up.

In other sports, overzealous Chinese supporters have frequently embarrassed the authorities. Soccer in particular has seen a number of violent incidents.

Fans rioted in Beijing in 1985 after the national soccer team lost a World Cup qualifier against tiny Hong Kong, missing out on the 1986 finals in Mexico.

In August 2004, angry fans went on a rampage in the capital after the national team lost the Asian Cup final to Japan.

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[Napoleon Chynamite]

Gotta love those Chinese fans... :rolleyes:

You'd think for those two players to be running off the bench to start shit, the Chinese team would have had to be losing badly or something.

[hooligan]

Oh shit, when Chinese attack!

[ahsingjai]

Gotta love those Chinese fans... :rolleyes:

You'd think for those two players to be running off the bench to start shit, the Chinese team would have had to be losing badly or something.

All players of China-Puerto Rico game disqualified for fight
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/30/content_3286049.htm

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhuanet,By Shan Lei) -- All basketball players of the China-Puerto Rico game at the Stankovic Continental Champions Cup were disqualified from the game after a brutal fight on the court on Friday night.

Puerto Rico's Manuel Narvaez severely fouled on China's Yi Jianlian with 1:29 left in the game when China led by 91-80.

Yi advanced towards Narvaez when the foul was called, which ledto an on-court battle between the two teams.

The fight was finally stopped by the spectators, who threw downdozens of bottles of water into the court and the players of Puerto Rico had to run back to the locker room to avoid injury.

"All members of the teams were disqualified and the game was stopped," said a statement released by the Technical Committee of the Tournament late in the night.

The final results of the game stands as it was at the time of the incident and the tournament will continue as schedule, the statement said.

The world basketball governing body FIBA expressed deep regret and concerns of the incident. The FIBA could put up more penalties to both teams after the tournament.

Officials from the Chinese Basketball Association guaranteed that immediate measure would be taken to avoid further incidents.

[Tao]

oh sweet china was winning.

yellow man can jump!

[Napoleon Chynamite]

^ more like...yellow man from north of yangtze is tall-ass motherfucker

[AngryABCGirl]

you gotta love the problems associating with rising nationalism

that basketball player looks like one bad-ass motherfucker though

[mrcfo]

^ more like...yellow man from north of yangtze is tall-ass motherfucker

Isn't that Yi Jianli doode from Guangzhou, one of the shorter provinces??

Off topic but sometimes I find it rather ironic that China and South Korea are two of the most rude countries be it in sports or whatever Asian nations I've encountered.

Apparently these two are the most "Confucious influenced" socities in the world.

[ahsingjai]

Isn't that Yi Jianli doode from Guangzhou, one of the shorter provinces??

Off topic but sometimes I find it rather ironic that China and South Korea are two of the most rude countries be it in sports or whatever Asian nations I've encountered.

Apparently these two are the most "Confucious influenced" socities in the world.

The one in the second pic please for Guangzhou's team. He is like 16 or 17? Future NBA draftee. He faster then yao, but Not as tall.

Yi Jianlian
Birthdate: 10/27/87
NBA Position: SF/PF/C
Ht: 7-0
Wt: 230
Int Team: Guangdong Tigers
Hometown: Shenzhen, China
High School: Liaoning Academy

trenghts: Unlike other Chinese big men like Yao Ming or Wang Zhizhi, Yi is extremly athletic ... very good body type, long arms and big hands ... hasn't stopped growing yet, is projected to reach 7-2 ... great stamina ... nice ballhandler and passer, some say he's able to play all 5 positions ... he has great speed at running the floor, jumps really quick and can dunk 360s ... amazing rebounder, anticipates well ... great defender, excellent shot blocker ... left hander with decent range ... developes more and more lowpost skills, like a jump hook ... intelligent player, knows how to use his physics ... battled fellow Draft prospect Ha Seung-Jin to a standstill, although Ha has almost three years, three inches and 70 pounds on Yi ... at the age of 15 he literally dominates 18-19 years old players, as he did at the Junior World Championships in Greece ... if you think of how good he'll be by the time he enters the NBA Draft (likely 2006 or later), it's hard to image he'd be something other than the first pick overall

Weaknesses: Still raw, because he didn't play organised basketball till the age of 13 ... has to learn the fundamentals of the game ... unpolished yet, especially on the offensive end ... needs to refine his postmoves ... too thin to hold a place in the paint, needs to develope muscles ... questions about his real age, some say he was born in 1985

-Stefan Lorenz

Notes: He played at the U18 Tournament in Mannheim, Germany and averaged 15 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks mostly against players who are 3 years older than him. Dominated again at the U19 World Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece with 18.9 points and 11.5 rebounds per game.
Made his first game in the CBA in December 2002, becoming the youngest player to ever player in Chinas highest league. Played only few minutes for Chinas top-team Guangdong, earned CBA Rookie of the Year honors, though.
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His team Guangdong Hongyuan used to train him as a guard when he was not very tall, so he has very good ball handling skill and shooting touch for his size. Superb body coordination ... very good 1-on-1 player (he played streetball before recruited by Guangdong team). Probably the best leaper in China, can throw down wind-mill dunks easily. His style is a lot like KG's. He has played both PF and Center potision in the CBA. A very good shot blocker, he swats the ball hard enough to make the fans crazy. When playing a bigger defender, he's able to dribble, spin, and outquick his defender. He can also back down weaker opponents, although he's usually one of the skinniest guys on the court. He also has the potential to play at SF position but might have problems staying with quick American perimeter players.

-Scouting Report from Xiang Long translated by Shawn

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He is a good athlete with the right size, and shows soft touch and also silky moves playing on the outside. He just has to add weight. He is able to make several leaps in a few seconds and watching him practice, Yi shows the ability to hit a pull up mid range jumper as well as from the long distance. He is only fifteen years old, and there is a long way till the NBA, but he is guy to follow in the future.

-Romano Pettiti






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- translated by BasketballBoards.net member Tattoo - (Original Chinese article: Sina Online)

Jianlian might become the next Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming. Yi went to ABCD Camp in the US. This was not his first trip to the US. He was with the Chinese youth national team in the US last year. Because of an injury to a Chinese teammate and the Europeans not coming, Yi was the only non-American player at ABCD camp out 246 players. Several other Chinese players went to the ABCD camp before. In his first game in camp, Yi could not adjust to the game. He scored 1 point at the half. The coach was angry. By 2nd half, he scored 6 points. After 4 days at camp, he was selected to the All-Star game. His average at camp was 5.2 rebounds per game, 6.7 pts. He was ranked 5th in the entire camp.

In the All-Star game, he scored 8 pts (4 for 9) and 5 rebounds. An assistant coach form Phoenix Suns said that Yi is good enough for top level NCAA teams. During his stay in the US, everybody thought that he was Yao Ming. It mentioned all the flight attendents thought he was Yao Ming and treated him very well. A camper at ABCD asked him whether he was Yao Ming. After that, everyone at ABCD called him "Ming". An old official at ABCD camp liked him very much and gave him an English name "Sunny".

Yi was discovered in the summer of 1999. He entered a 3-on-3 tournament in Shenzhen with his friends. His team lost in the 1st round, but he was spotted by a coach named Dai. So Coach Dai approached Yi's parents and discovered he came from a family of athletes. Both parents were handball players. His mother was called into the training camp for the Chinese National team. The parents are 1.92 meter and 1.72 meter in height. Their parents were both athletes so they did not want their son to grew up to be one. They explained "hardship" as the reason. Until he was spotted by Coach Dai, Yi's father did not expect his son to be taller than 1.95 meter, and he thought his son was not good enough. Education was the number one priorty for them. Both parents had retired to become postal workers. They had played Amateur basketball for their unit team. They always took their son along.

In 1999, Yi joined the sports academy in Shenzhen with the help of Coach Dai. He trained there for a year. In 2000, Yi as a 13 years old, joined a youth team. Then, the national youth team head coach spotted him only a month after he joined the youth club. He began to train with the national youth team. The national team caoch said that he was better than Wang Zhizhi at the same age. Yi did not showcase his talents until a Beijing camp last Spring. They was a scout for players to be sent to ABCD camp. Yi did a 360 degree dunk on the Slam Dunk contest.

The coach said that he improved after ABCD camp. Before the US, a teammate named Tong (the same one who missed the ABCD camp) used to beat him all the same. Yi could not dominate shorter players. After the US trip, he gained confidence. His coach said that Yi would be best at power forward. His footsteps and his turns are not bad, and his shot is good. The next two years will be important for Yi. Yi has not played many real games. He's only played at the All-China youth league. The coach said Yi was unimpressive.

Yi does not know when he will play for his club team in the CBA. But he will try his best. In the meantime, his father says that Yi watches NBA on TV. He copies the moves by NBA players. With Tim Duncan being his favorite player. Yi prefers to keep the immediate task at hand which is improving every day and said that he has no big goal for the future. Although, he aspires to be on the 2008 Chinese Olympic team.

[mr. x]

Isn't that Yi Jianli doode from Guangzhou, one of the shorter provinces??

Off topic but sometimes I find it rather ironic that China and South Korea are two of the most rude countries be it in sports or whatever Asian nations I've encountered.

Apparently these two are the most "Confucious influenced" socities in the world.

you have to remember, the Koreans are descended from Mongols

and the Chinese are commies :rolleyes:

but seriously kinda surprising the Chinese media was quick to flaggelate the country. No way would it bend over backwards had the team been the U.S.

"U.S. team most OFFENSIVELY fouls Chinese national team, attacks fans"

[ahsingjai]

"U.S. team most OFFENSIVELY fouls Chinese national team, attacks fans"

Uh, Puerto Rico is a U.S territory.

[yoMAMA]

^ more like...yellow man from north of yangtze is tall-ass motherfucker

LOL

[Grasshopper]

Oh shit, when Chinese attack!
http://www.funny-games.biz/videos/245-bitchbash.html

Those Taiwanese women are some tough broads!! :eek: :biggrin:

....hats flying...hair pulling....and those deadly handbags! :tongue:

[yoMAMA]

http://www.funny-games.biz/videos/245-bitchbash.html

Those Taiwanese women are some tough broads!! :eek: :biggrin:

....hats flying...hair pulling....and those deadly handbags! :tongue:


another reason for china to takeover taiwan and teach them some manners.

:wink:

[Grasshopper]

another reason for china to takeover taiwan and teach them some manners.

:wink:
OOOOh, those are fighting words.

I want the video of the beat down after you say that to some of those Taiwanese nationalist women! :eek:

It would not be a pretty sight. Funny, but not pretty. :biggrin:

[AngryABCGirl]

http://www.funny-games.biz/videos/245-bitchbash.html

Those Taiwanese women are some tough broads!! :eek: :biggrin:

....hats flying...hair pulling....and those deadly handbags! :tongue:

hell yeah that's how we do it

[ahsingjai]

What about a Mainland Nationalist vs a Taiwan Nationalist?

[mr. x]

Uh, Puerto Rico is a U.S territory.
hmm good point there, but do you honestly believe they view the PR's as americans?

[ahsingjai]

hmm good point there, but do you honestly believe they view the PR's as americans?

Or have any views at all....