In Pax, six team corps have been certified in such a way that only four of them can be on the field at the same time, and Hungarian players now score a fraction of the team’s points. With this, the sport interrupts the show. Analysis by Marton Vagy.
A few weeks ago, the new headquarters of the Basketball Association was handed over in Budaors, at an investment cost of about 4.1 billion HUF, upon the delivery of Ferenc Szalay, President of the National Association of Hungarian Basketball Players (MKOSZ) and also mayor from the city of Szolnok, said that
“Twelve years ago, our association’s budget was barely HUF 190 million, and we had only 22,000 accredited athletes. Since then, we’ve managed to spend more than HUF 200 billion to subsidize corporate tax on basketball! We renovated 250 gymnasiums and parlors sports, and we’ve built quite a few. Today, with nearly 90,000 certified basketball players, we’re one of the largest leagues in the country.”
The fact that more people are playing basketball – and playing sports – is certainly pleasant, only a sports nation can be a healthy nation, sports have innumerable benefits for the national economy, and in fact it is in the public interest that as many Hungarians as possible be. Do regular physical activity.
However, it is worth separating team sports from professional sports, because they are
It’s good that the number of athletes in MKOSZ has increased, but if we look at the men’s professional championship of the first division, we get a terrible picture:
There are practically no Hungarian players, the situation is worse than NB I football in many aspects.
Although there is a youth rule in the NB IA group (every club must have a Hungarian player 23 or younger competing in the first half of each match), a Hungarian player must be kept on the field for every minute of the match. match. But still, the aliens’ dominance in the league is brutal.
Fighting against relegation – but staying last – the Bucks confirmed their sixth team in the spring (although only five can be named for the match and four can be kept on the field), but also with the majority of clubs
Foreign players are the main solution to the problem of training weak young players.
It is typical that in this year’s championship, in the regular season, Hungarian players scored more points than foreigners in only two teams (Falco and Alba), while the percentage of Hungarian points in other teams varies between 31.4 and 13.7 percent.
There is a team in which Hungarian players score only thirteen points out of a hundred, which may raise questions even if – according to Szalay – basketball does not receive more than 200 billion TAO subsidies.
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However, the situation was not always disastrous from the point of view of the Hungarian players. Ten years ago, at the dawn of the TAO system, for example, clubs could nominate a maximum of three foreign players for matches, as a result we can see that the Hungarian point percentage was never less than 30 percent, and there was no shame in that only 13 were among the Every hundred local players must score 19 points.
It may well be, the tournament was of a lower standard, but at least the young Hungarian players got explainable game minutes, they were active and useful parts in the rotation.
21-year-old David Vojvoda averaged 13.5 years, 23-year-old Akos Keller had 11.9 years, 21-year-old Mateh Muhajci had an average age of 11.7, and 22-year-old Balent Horty had an average age of 10. points in the regular season.
On the other hand, this year a young man ruled here or there,
No U23 player can score at least ten points per game, but most don’t even get the five points.
And if we start from the fact that none of the young players in the 2011-12 season became a world-class basketball player, then we can definitely conclude a particularly bleak future given the performance of the current young players.
Should (or should at least 70 percent of TAO’s $200 billion in support be spent) be spent on youth training, though, we can see that eighteen of the twenty valuable players this season are foreigners.
In the VAL list (perhaps the most complex statistical indicator in the game, both positive and negative values are included, for example points scored, balls sold, etc.), two young players who can be considered already TAO-educated entered the first eighty places. Two eighty.
From the first table above, it can also be seen that Falco stands out from the court, and this is due to two things: on the one hand, it is the team with the most capital, so they easily managed to get selected Hungarian basketball players, and on the other hand, in the person of Zoltán Perl and Benedek Váradi, they have trained two players who can be called classics at the Hungarian level.
The two players who self-educate score nearly a third of the team’s points,
So even if they don’t have the money for the other – non-zombathile – players (Keller, Goloman, Somogyi, Pinky), they’ll still be better off than the majority of players.
The field, where it seems most of the youngsters are only on the field out of necessity and can’t even look at the arena, will be dissolved by the American players and the South Slavic players. Due to the youth rule, it is necessary to keep the U23 player on the field in the first half, but the majority of these players do not change the world, to put it mildly, they are on the field out of necessity, but you hardly get the ball (most of them do not even come close to the field of play in the second half), Hardly any points are scored.
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The fifth most successful young player in the regular season averaged 3.92 points per game, which is practically two good shots.
It is interesting that there is also a youth rule in the women’s field, although it is written for really young players, and not “youths” under 23, but under 20.
In this year’s tournament, Pécs’s Nora Wentzl, born in 2001 and trained by top Hungarian basketball coach, Laszlo Ratgeber, became the eighth highest scoring player in the regular season with an average of 11.88 points.
If we add to this that Rica Dombay, born in 2002, is ranked eleventh in the list, or that eleven of the top twenty goalscorers are from Hungary,
We find an amazing difference between the sexes.
Let us add that this summer recruitment is also seen in the World and European Championships, where our various women’s national teams usually compete for medals, while the majority of the boys do not even reach the level of the first division.
Of course, let’s not compare apples and oranges, women’s and men’s basketball are two completely different sports in all respects, and the competition is obviously greater in the latter, but this kind of difference in education of the sexes in Hungary is definitely interesting.
Of course, it is also a fact that even before 2010, the men’s basketball league was dominated by foreigners, but before 2010 there was no TAO, and clubs did not receive huge sums of money annually to train players.
Financial and technical opportunities thanks to government subsidies are currently available in all spectator sports, but nowhere is much progress being made. Of course, the dressing rooms have been nicely renovated, new jerseys and warmers have been added, and the coach also earns several times more than a few years ago, but the higher salary has not made him a better professional, and the worst thing is that the attitude of the clubs has not changed either.
Even teams with smaller budgets
They would rather justify the Fifth and Sixth Corps than give confidence to the youth.
Of course, it is difficult to give them confidence when the players are not capable enough and cannot even rise to the level of the not very strong Hungarian League, but all this can be attributed to the fact that the teams were not interested. in quality training alternatives.
It was an easier and simpler solution to justify the non-stop American and Serbian players in basketball as well, rather than putting real work into educating the players.
open image: Leicester Medford and Brandon Taylor in the Falco KC Zumbathely – Albie Verveer match; Photo: Giorgi Varga, MTI
