Why are they so bad at team sports?
communism
>>142937571they culture isnt centered around sports
>>142937662But why?
>>142937662Is this really true?
>>142937571THE FAVSTIAN INDIVIDUAL SPIRIT
The ultimate "Imagine if [X] cared about [Y]" isn’t America and soccer, it’s China and baseball once they figure out it’s an individual's game disguised as a team sport. They just have to get over seeing it as a strictly American thing and how the other East Asian places make it their own.
>>142938036Korea and Japan were/are essentially colonized. That's why they play baseball. China would never go that low for a sport that's not popular internationally. Soccer at least has WC potential.
!1. BasketballBasketball is the most popular sports in China, and according to some analysts, has already become part of the Chinese culture. This is seen mainly in the outstanding popularity of the world’s top league, the NBA, in the Middle Kingdom.Hoops are a massive business in China and the NBA fan base is constantly boosting there.Apart from following the NBA, the Chinese have their own competition called the CBA, Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). The CBA was launched in 1995
>>142938036Nah it still requires physical strength and spatial awareness
>>142942582>basketballcertain nation is conspicuously absent from pic rel.
They are individualistic, they just don't know.
>>142937922I remember an Interview with Ole Einar Bjørndalen who was hired to coach the chinese biathlon team.The "athletes" he got were so bad many of them had never even skied before. Chinese sport system is basically just taking millions of people, throwing them into a meat grinder apparatus and hoping that by random chance you get someone good out at the other end.
>>142940390Japan taking up baseball was 100% their own choice when they were busy being their own empire as the ones doing the colonization of Korea and Taiwan. It was at a time when they were copying Europeans for practically everything and baseball was the odd American outlier.
>>142937571>communism breeds great individual athletes but terrible group athletes Isn’t this a paradox?
