Playing against both sides: Chinese Men’s Basketball Team VS Chinese Taipei Men’s Basketball Team
Game time: July 16, 21:00
Beijing time, July 16, the final round of Group B of the 2022 FIBA Men’s Basketball Asia Cup Group Stage, the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team will face off Chinese Taipei Men’s Basketball Team. Before the final round, both sides had lost to the Korean men's basketball team and defeated the Bahrain men's basketball team. Considering that the Chinese men's basketball team, which is short of major generals, lost to the South Korean men's basketball team by 12 points and had a very difficult victory over the Bahrain men's basketball team, this also makes people somewhat worried about the prospects of the Chinese men's basketball team against the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team.
At the beginning of this month, in the third window of the FIBA Men's Basketball World Cup Asian Region Qualifiers, the Chinese Men's Basketball Team won two games against the Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team, with a total victory of 77 points in the two games. But it is worth mentioning that during the World Cup preliminaries, the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team arranged a second-tier lineup to compete, while the Chinese men's basketball team's lineup structure was relatively neat. As of this year's Men's Basketball Asian Cup, the Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team has deployed all its main players, including Chen Yingjun, Lin Tingqian, Liu Zheng, Atino and other players. On the other hand, today's Chinese men's basketball team not only has an untidy lineup, but also has players on the team suffering from injuries. This also directly caused the Chinese men's basketball team to lose to the South Korean men's basketball team in the first two rounds of the group stage and then narrowly beat the Bahrain men's basketball team by 1 point.
Before the second round of the group stage, Zhou Qi has returned to the team. However, considering Zhou Qi's physical condition, Du Feng did not arrange for Zhou Qi to play against the Bahrain men's basketball team. In the final round of the group stage, the Chinese men's basketball team will face a very critical game. The outcome of this game is not only related to the Chinese men's basketball team's group stage ranking, but also to the team's self-confidence. Looking back at the previous World Cup preliminaries, Zhou Qi contributed 21 points, 8 rebounds and 4 blocks in the Chinese Men's Basketball Team's 94-58 victory over the Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team, and then contributed 16 points in the Chinese Men's Basketball Team's 97-56 victory over the Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team. 10 rebounds and 5 assists. Zhou Qi's combat prowess in the interior is evident from this. As the absolute core of the Chinese men's basketball team, if Zhou Qi can come back to help out, then the Chinese men's basketball team's prospects of winning will be much more optimistic.
In the Chinese men's basketball team's 1-point victory over the Bahrain men's basketball team, Zhao Rui and Sun Minghui were both expelled from the field due to irrational behavior, which also directly affected the team's game deployment and personnel deployment. For the Chinese men's basketball team, it must avoid a similar situation from happening again when facing the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team, otherwise the consequences may be disastrous. But thankfully, Gu Quan and Jiang Weize have shown good form recently. Gu Quan scored 22 points in two consecutive games, while Jiang Weize scored 12 points in a single quarter and contributed 20 points in the game between China and Pakistan. In addition, the competitive status of Hu Mingxuan has also improved.
The Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team is a team with relatively outstanding outside shooting capabilities, including Chen Yingjun, Liu Zheng, Lin Tingqian, etc., who all have certain three-point shooting capabilities. However, when the Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team lost to the South Korean Men's Basketball Team, the Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team's outside offensive was successfully restricted by the opponent. The Chinese Taipei Men's Basketball Team made only 5 of 21 three-pointers in the game, with a three-point shooting percentage of 23.8%. The total score is only 73 points. Therefore, it is crucial for the Chinese men's basketball team to be able to effectively limit the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team's outside offense like the Korean men's basketball team.
