Sports Illustrated’s Alex Wolff has a look at the bizarre training methods of the Chinese Olympic basketball team which pretty much throws away any chance China’s very good team had of being competitive with the United States (and let’s be frank, Olympic basketball is going to remain one big snooze fest until some country manages to at least make the NBA superstars sweat a little).
The Chinese approach includes 5-hour a day workouts every day — that’s insane and, as Wolff notes, almost certainly wears out China’s basketball players prematurely.
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Chinese coaching philosophies are too dated. Alex Wolff, Sports Illustrated, September 17, 2000.