The era of alternate domination between China and Iran in the Asian basketball world has passed, and the Japanese men's basketball team will become the only overlord in the next five years.
In the warm-up match, the Japanese team defeated Belgium 87-59, which was incredible. I thought this was already the extreme performance played by the Japanese team against European teams. However, in the warm-up match that ended on July 18, 2021, the Japanese men's basketball team once again beat the European team. The difference is that this time their opponent is the French team, the French team with all the main players.
You may have no idea about the strength of the French men's basketball team, but you must have heard of these names: Fournier , Gobert , and Batum. They play for the NBA's Celtics, Jazz and Clippers, and they are all important rotations for these teams. Especially Gobert, he is the Jazz's inside core and the best defensive player in the two NBA games. They are all French and they played against Japan. However, facing the opposite Hachimura Hiroshi , they had no choice but to be beaten by the Japanese team 46-30 at halftime. Although he chased after the competition in the second half, he failed in the end and lost to the Japanese team 75-81.
Three hours ago, I just wrote an article to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese men's basketball team and the Chinese men's basketball team, and put forward the view that "the current Chinese men's basketball team has three major advantages over the Japanese men's basketball team. If the Chinese team fights, they can still suppress the Japanese half head." As a result, I was slapped in the face now. Let’s put it this way, the Chinese team has not won European and American teams in 13 years (except for tourism teams), even in warm-up matches. Especially in the face of European teams, Chinese men's basketball players are not only suppressed by the opponent's skills and tactics, but they can't even beat the opponent's body. I still remember that the Chinese men's basketball team's Red Team still lost against a fourth-tier team in an Eastern European country, and the scene of the National Olympic Team losing to Italy with 5-3 wins and 3-winds are still vivid in my mind. For Chinese fans, even if the Chinese team can lead the European and American genuine national teams by 10 points in half in any game, they are already very satisfied.
This Japanese team did it. Recently, they have played against three European teams, Hungary, Belgium and France, without any defeat, and the value of the last two games is quite high. We have no excuse to say that the Japanese team wins by luck, and can win one or two games by luck, and the three consecutive wins obviously have considerable strength to support it.
The most direct understanding of Japan's game against France is that in the sport of basketball, a top player can really bring qualitative changes to a team. Japanese team's mixed-race striker Hachimura scored 14 points in the first half. Putting aside the data, Hachimura Bulldozer made a layup and hit Gobert, showing his excellent physical ability to fight. I have said before that Zhou Qi can definitely limit the black guy in Japan in the international arena. Now it seems that this is a joke. To put it bluntly, if the Chinese team meets the Japanese team, they may be beaten by Hachimura alone. It's not an exaggeration at all.
What's more, in addition to Hachimura, Japan also has the x factor of Watanabe Yuta . Although Watanabe's NBA career is not as successful as Hachimura Shizuo and his strength is not as strong as Hachimura Shizuo, he is a player who can rotate with the Raptors after all, and in the Asian arena, it is a dimensionality reduction strike. In this game, Watanabe scored in double digits, perfectly demonstrating his strength. With his assistance, Hachimura was like a fish in water and was unstoppable.
Although from the bottom of my heart, I am unwilling to admit that the Japanese men's basketball team has surpassed the Chinese men's basketball team and became the overlord of Asia, but no one can believe the facts. Judging from paper strength, the Japanese team has surpassed the Chinese team and the Iran team, and the era of Asian basketball dominated by the Japanese team has arrived. It's cruel and real.
However, as the classic saying in the sword light says, the brave will win when they meet in a narrow road. When they encounter strong enemies, they must dare to draw the sword. Even if they are about to be finished, they must let the other party get rid of their skin. The spirit of the Chinese men's basketball team has returned under the leadership of Du Feng and , and we have a more advantage in the overall confrontation of the Japanese team. Therefore, as long as we are not timid and play our true level, it is still unknown who will win.At the same time, as the material selection mechanism of Chinese basketball becomes more and more perfect, the level of the CBA league is getting higher and higher, and one day our Chinese men's basketball team will be able to return to the top of Asia again!
