2023 Men's Basketball World Cup Asia officially ended the fourth window. Although the scene was not very refreshing, at least the Chinese men's basketball team won two necessary victories. With this group, with , the Japanese team defeating Kazakhstan 73-48, the situation of qualifying has been clearer.
Since the 2023 World Cup will be jointly organized by three countries: Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia , except for Indonesia ( Asian Cup failed to reach the quarterfinals and lost its qualification), the other two countries, Japan and the Philippines will directly qualify for the main competition. In addition to these two teams, the Asian division (including Australia and New Zealand ) also has 6 promotion places.
In other words, the top three in the Asian region, which currently excludes Japan and the Philippines, will advance to the World Cup.
next door group, New Zealand and Lebanon have confirmed to advance to
This group where the Chinese team is located, the situation is a little complicated
It is worth mentioning that this record is not exactly the record of this group, but the result of the previous first stage of the grouping. In the first stage, the Chinese team won easily in the other four games (each against Japan and , Chinese Taipei , respectively). He entered the second stage with a score of 4 wins and 2 losses.
. Since Australia has finished the two games (the teams in the same group will no longer play in the previous stage), the only opponents of the Chinese team in this group are Iran, Kazakhstan and Balim .
Now after the first two games against Kazakhstan and Bahrain, we have four games in the next game, namely Iran (November 11 this year and February 26 next year), as well as the remaining one Bahrain (February 23 next year), and one Kazakhstan (November 14 this year).
The schedule of the Chinese team is relatively easy, but the two qualifying competitors will be relatively sad in the future. In the remaining four games, Iran will not only play against China, but also play against Australia and Japan. Kazakhstan will fight Australia two more times, one against China and the other against Japan.
Considering that this Australian team is indeed a single player (8 wins and 232 points, averaging 29 points), he slaughtered Bahrain in the first two games of the second phase by 54 points and defeated Iran by 30 points. Unless he deliberately lets go, the Australian team will be completely defeated by qualifying.
So in this case, the Chinese team does not need to consider other issues in the remaining four games. As long as you win two games at will, you can basically ensure that you can enter the top three and get a qualifying place. is called qualifying if you tie.
Of course, our goal is naturally to win all four battles. After all, Bahrain and Kazakhstan are obviously weaker than us. Iran, the old opponent ranked fourth in the group, is in very ordinary state now.
The reason why Iran is doing this now is mainly because the first stage was too bad. Previously, Iran and Kazakhstan, Syria and Bahrain were in the same group, but they actually lost to Kazakhstan twice.
If there is Hadadi absent + various excuses for the opponent to join in the naturalized franchise, Iran lost to Kazakhstan in the second game, but it was a bit of a self-taken component - Kazakhstan's naturalized defender Clemens did not play in this game, and Iran's elites all showed: Hadadi, Kazmi, Jacques Charlie, Jassididi, Jamsidi, and Mashayeki all played, but even so, Iran was still taken away by the opponent in the final quarter, and Kazakhstan's No. 10 Murzagaliyev scored 26 points in that game.
From this perspective, it looks very similar to Celtics White
In this way, Iran fell into a very passive situation in the journey of this men's basketball World Cup. The only thing they are more confident about in the next four games is only one game against Japan, and it is basically useless to play against Australia. The two games against China are the games they must fight for.
Of course, Kazakhstan's life is not a good time, because they are sure of nothing. As a team with a huge gap in upper and lower limits, although Kazakhstan defeated Iran twice, they lost to Bahrain in the first stage, and they just lost to Japan, resulting in the record being equal to Iran. The next two games against Australia are expected to be free, so the remaining two games against Japan and China are all things they need to fight for.
So the Chinese men's basketball team is now in awkward position... It turns out that they have to fight for their lives now?
Therefore, for the Chinese team, the away matches between Iran and Bahrain on November 11 and 14 are particularly critical. If you can win both games smoothly, the Chinese team will come to a safe position to ensure qualifying with 8 wins and 2 losses.
At that time, Kazakhstan and Iran had similar results, but they were still 5 wins, so that the Chinese team could watch the performances of the two opponents downstairs in February, and even decided whether to send a young lineup to hone in February...
However, the adverse effects of this were not without: Take the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, which is the same as in 2023, as an example: At that time, the draw was divided into grades according to world rankings. The Iranian team, which had earned enough points before, ranked 27th at the time, successfully squeezed to the last place in the fifth level, and was able to be in the same group as another Asian and African team.
If Iran had scored a little less points and fell to the Philippines and South Korea, it would have been basically given to
In the end, the Iranian team's opponents were Spain, Puerto Rico and Tunisia. Although Iran lost all three hard games and entered the loser's group, he only lost 22 points in the three games (after losing to Spain, he lost Tunisia , and then was defeated by Puerto Rico ), which led to their final victory over their opponents in the playoffs and being able to overwhelm the Chinese team and squeeze into the Olympics by relying on the advantage of net winning points.
Therefore, the Chinese team cannot underestimate the enemy too much at this time. Currently, the men's basketball team ranks 29th in the world, not far from South Korea, 30th and Philippines, 34th. Neither Kazakhstan nor Bahrain team are weak teams that many fans imagine are without resistance. The Chinese team still needs to take it seriously to ensure that they can get a better draw in the World Cup draw and strive to enter the Paris Olympics.
In general, just win, fans cannot expect too high, and always feel that if you don’t win 30 points, you will be considered losing.
PS: Kazakhstan is a famous X-factor in Asian basketball. When anyone is crazy, he dares to win, and when he is shameless, he dares to lose... In the past 20 years, they have won Iran, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Taipei, China respectively. It can be said that they have won many strong teams in Asia except China (after 2002, China has never won 20+ in a single game), and have also lost to India and Palestine... It can be said that they are the team with the largest gap between the upper and lower limits in Asia.
As for the old enemy Iranian team... it is better to chase the poor enemy with the remaining courage. The greatest respect for the opponent is to do your best to kill them with all your might, without mobilization, everyone knows how to fight to the death.
Come on!
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