{"id":154476,"date":"2025-08-18T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154476\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:13:10","slug":"hong-kong-college-basketball-system-puts-local-teams-at-disadvantage-needs-revamp-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154476\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong college basketball system puts local teams at disadvantage, needs revamp: coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s intercollegiate system needs an overhaul if the city\u2019s teams are to compete on an even footing against foreign teams, said the University of Hong Kong (HKU) men\u2019s team head coach, as they gear up for the Asian University Basketball League this week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">James Chan Yik-lun said that while playing overseas in tournaments of higher standards could only bring positives, the \u201cextremely short\u201d local season meant that Hong Kong college teams were underdone when they played against foreign opposition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This was shown starkly last week when HKU, the reigning local intercollegiate champions, flew to Tokyo for the three-day World University Basketball Series and came away last Monday with two landslide losses in as many days.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">HKU first fell 98-31 to the Japan University Select Team, before being humbled 102-48 by Taiwan\u2019s National Chengchi University.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chan, who guided his team to their title in April, said playing few games over the season was one reason for the heavy losses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HKU head coach James Chan (right) giving instructions to his players. Photo: Gym Aesthetics \/ WUBS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6f7e6573-fe21-48d6-ac88-2a8072fcf434_338aded1.jpg\" title=\"HKU head coach James Chan (right) giving instructions to his players. Photo: Gym Aesthetics \/ WUBS\"\/>HKU head coach James Chan (right) giving instructions to his players. Photo: Gym Aesthetics \/ WUBS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">HKU, who are are preparing to compete in the inaugural AUBL in Hangzhou, played only eight competitive matches \u2013 winning seven \u2013 over the entire season from last November to April, including beating Lingnan University 73-68 in the final at Southorn Stadium in Wan Chai to clinch their title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s intercollegiate system needs an overhaul if the city\u2019s teams are to compete on an even footing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[90204,90210,90205,90211,1339,90206,90215,8464,90212,90207,170,90208,90214,1317,1337,1338,90213,62,90209,21751,67,132,90203,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-154476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-asian-university-basketball-league","9":"tag-asian-university-sports-federation","10":"tag-aubl","11":"tag-ausf","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-binjiang-gymnasium","14":"tag-hakuoh-university","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-hong-kong-bulls","17":"tag-james-chan-yik-lun","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-jay-li-jintian","20":"tag-national-chengchi-university","21":"tag-ncaa","22":"tag-ncaa-basketball","23":"tag-ncaabasketball","24":"tag-southorn-stadium","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-the-university-of-hong-kong","27":"tag-tsinghua-university","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-university-basketball","31":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}