Chinese men's basketball team has played two games in this window period. After losing the first game, the second game against Chinese Taipei team achieved a 36-point victory. Coupled with the Chinese men's basketball team's double defeat of and Japanese team last summer, the Chinese men's basketball team achieved three wins and one loss in the four world preliminaries. Currently, the FIBA official website has also updated the group rankings. The Chinese men's basketball team ranks second in the group, only behind the Australian team.
According to the group promotion rules for the first stage of the World Preliminaries, our Chinese men's basketball team has already qualified for the group ahead of schedule. Next, our Chinese men's basketball team will face the Australian team again at 16:40 on July 3. This game will determine which team is the first in this group. After advancing to the second stage, 12 teams will be divided into 2 groups. The teams that played against each other in the first stage will no longer play against each other in the second stage, and the results of the first stage will be directly carried into the second stage. If Indonesia enters the top 8 in the Men's Basketball Asian Cup , the top 2 of the two groups and the 3rd with the best record, a total of 5 teams will qualify for the World Cup; if Indonesia fails to enter The top 8 teams in the Men's Basketball Asian Cup will be the top 3 teams in the two groups, and a total of 6 teams will qualify for the World Cup. Due to the competition system, although our Chinese men's basketball team has locked in a qualifying spot in the group, the next game against the Australian team is still very important.
In fact, judging from the first game against the Australian team, our Chinese men's basketball team still has a chance to defeat the opponent. In the first game, we almost completed a comeback. It can be seen from that game that Zhou Qi is the absolute core of our Chinese men's basketball team. He caused a lot of trouble to the Australian team on both offense and defense. Regarding Zhou Qi, the Australian team's strategy is to flank him, either to prevent him from catching the ball or to prevent him from getting the ball out. This defensive strategy was also successful in the fourth quarter of the first game. Regarding this point, I believe that Du Feng guidance will also make timely adjustments. In addition, our Chinese men's basketball team showed a very good attitude. Not only was it very active in fighting for rebounds, it also achieved a great advantage in rebounding. It also did not panic after falling behind, but took one goal at a time. The ball restored the disadvantage.
Of course, that game also exposed four major shortcomings of our Chinese men's basketball team. The first is the lack of height of the strikers, which was targeted by the Australian team. There is nothing that can be done about it. Our Chinese men's basketball team has too few strikers selected for the national team this time. Secondly, his outside performance was too poor, with only a 9-for-29 shooting percentage. Under normal circumstances, our Chinese men's basketball team has Zhou Qi's restraint on the inside and should perform well on the outside. However, our Chinese men's basketball team does too poorly on the outside. Contrary to our Chinese men's basketball team, the Australian team performed very well on the outside, making 15 of 32 shots, with a shooting percentage of close to 50%. The third point is that our Chinese men's basketball team's performance in perimeter defense is relatively poor, which can be seen from the opponent's three-point shooting percentage. The fourth point is that the defending Chinese men's basketball team made a lot of mistakes, as many as 18 turnovers, which is too many compared to the Australian team's 8 turnovers. These four problems of our Chinese men's basketball team are very obvious. I believe that Du Feng's guidance will also make adjustments before the Australian team.
I believe that after the first match against the Australian team, our Chinese men's basketball team will have a big improvement in confidence. This time we face our opponent again. Although the opponent is very strong, our Chinese men's basketball team still has a chance to win. I also hope that our Chinese men’s basketball team can continue to work hard, be able to defeat our opponents to complete our revenge, and break the embarrassing record of complete defeats in the history of confrontations with our opponents!
