On July 4th, Beijing time, Chinese men's basketball team defeated Chinese Taipei team again with a big score of 97:56, and finally ended the first stage of the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup Asia Regional Qualifiers with a record of 4 wins and 2 losses. journey. In the second stage of the top 12, the top three in Group B of the Chinese team will meet the top three in Group D, and the results of the first stage will be carried into the second stage. The currently confirmed qualifying teams in Group D are Kazakhstan and Iran . Another quota will be generated between Syria and Bahrain . However, before participating in the second stage of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese men's basketball team's most recent competition task is to participate in the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup to be held in Indonesia.
World Cup preliminaries lost in physical confrontation
Guo Ailun was rested by Du Feng ?
In the third window of the first stage of the World Cup preliminaries held in Melbourne, the Chinese men's basketball team, which had an uneven lineup, defeated Chinese Taipei twice and successfully advanced to the second stage. However, the Chinese men's basketball team's tragic loss to Australia on July 3 still caused a lot of controversy. With the score tied at 45 in the first three quarters, the Chinese men's basketball team only scored 3 points in the fourth quarter, which is really incomprehensible. After the game, the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team criticized Guo Ailun, "Guo Ailun and I also emphasized, 'Alan, you are a player with very good results in China, but you encountered a high-intensity team in international competitions. Today You only scored 6 points on 3 of 16 shots. Your efficiency is really low. I think you can share the ball with your teammates more. Basketball is not a one-person sport. Can he create opportunities for his teammates and share the ball in advance? "
Du Feng's comments about Guo Ailun aroused great repercussions among fans. Some people thought that Du Feng was not a good head coach of the national team and criticized him. Guo Ailun is also suspected of blaming others. In the Chinese men's basketball team's match against Chinese Taipei on July 4, although Guo Ailun was included in the 12-man roster, he remained on the bench for the entire game. In this regard, some fans pointed out, has Guo Ailun been rested? Some fans also analyzed: Guo Ailun is not a cancer, but a benign tumor, but his habit of sticking to the ball is too harmful. Du Feng can refer to the instruction manual of Gong Luming - let him charge freely when the opponent's defense drops in the final attack, or simply use him as a substitute.
analyzed it realistically. In fact, the Chinese men's basketball team lost the two games to Australia's "second team" mainly due to physical fitness and physical confrontation. In this regard, former Shandong men's basketball head coach Gong Xiaobin believes that this shows that the intensity of our CBA league competitions is not enough. Physical confrontation should be encouraged, because only with high-level confrontation in the league can players become more adaptable to international competitions. Gong Xiaobin said that through this world preliminaries, Zhou Qi has significantly improved the intensity of physical confrontation through a season of training in the Australian League, and his skills at the basket are very solid, but other players of the Chinese team still need to improve in this aspect. Gong Xiaobin called on our CBA league to be in line with the world and communicate more with international basketball.
Zhou Peng or Chiyuan Asian Cup
Can "front weakness" be relieved ?
In addition to the physical fitness and physical incompatibility of the Australian team's high-intensity confrontation, the forward players' insufficient support for the team on both offense and defense is also a problem exposed by the Chinese men's basketball team in this world preliminaries. Although Gu Quan 's three-point shooting percentage is okay, and Zhu Junlong , who represented the national team for the first time, is also very motivated, their performance is obviously still far from the requirements of the national team. Due to the lack of forwards who can hold the ball, defend, and have impact, Du Feng often arranges three defenders in the starting lineup, hoping to use their speed and flexibility to bring vitality to the Chinese team. However, such a lineup is ineffective against Australia. Not good in every game.
After completing the first stage of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese men's basketball team will take a brief rest in Melbourne, and then go to Indonesia to participate in the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup to be held in Jakarta from July 12th to 24th. In the group stage, the Chinese men's basketball team was divided into a group with South Korea, Bahrain, and Chinese Taipei. In Du Feng's words, this is the first intercontinental competition that the new Chinese men's basketball team has participated in.It is reported that in order to alleviate the "front weakness" of the Chinese men's basketball team, Du Feng plans to recruit the injured and veteran captain Zhou Peng. On July 4, Zhou Peng updated his Douyin account and posted a photo of his departure. It wrote: "July 4, traveling far away." Some fans speculated whether Zhou Peng would return to the national team. , rushing to support the Asian Cup?
However, even if the 33-year-old Zhou Peng can really return to the national team, the problem of "powerlessness" in the Chinese men's basketball team may not be completely solved in the short term. In the future, we may only place our hope on young players. On July 4th, Beijing time, the Phoenix Suns announced their NBA Summer League roster. Chinese player Zhang Zhenlin’s name was among them. He is very hopeful that he will go with the team to the next game in Las Vegas. Summer League. Prior to this, Guo Haowen was selected into the Mavericks roster, and Zeng Fanbo will represent the Pacers in the summer league. In this way, it is possible that three Chinese athletes will be confirmed to participate in the NBA Summer League this summer. We hope that the Chinese men's basketball team can win the championship in the next Asian Cup, and we also hope that these three young players can bring passion and hope to the Chinese men's basketball team.
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