At 21:00 on July 16th, Beijing time, the Chinese men’s basketball team will face its last opponent in the Asian Cup group stage, Chinese Taipei . This game is also a key battle that determines the ranking of the two teams in the group.
The final match of the group stage was against Chinese Taipei
At present, the South Korean team has won both games. Considering that the South Korean team’s last opponent was the Bahrain team, the weakest team in the group, the South Korean team won the group and ranked first in the group and directly advanced to the quarterfinals. It's a high probability thing. For the Chinese men's basketball team, the last group match is against Chinese Taipei team . If the Chinese team can defeat its opponent, it will finish second in the group.
In the previous third window of the world preliminaries, the Chinese team had a double victory over Chinese Taipei, but when they came to Jakarta, the lineups of both sides had undergone major changes. Due to the impact of the epidemic, many players in the Chinese team have withdrawn from the Asian Cup roster, while the Chinese Taipei team has added three players who played for CBA Chen Yingjun, Lin Tingqian, Liu Zheng, as well as naturalized player Atty. Four powerful generals.
At present, most of the players in the Chinese team are still in poor physical condition, and almost all of them are "carrying it on". The poor situation has also made the Chinese men's basketball players become impatient. In the match against Bahrain , Zhao Rui and Sun Minghui received two technical fouls and were sent off while arguing with the referee, which made the Chinese men's basketball team, which was already stretched in terms of personnel, even worse.
After the game, coach Du Feng also said bluntly: "We played too badly. Everyone should be awake and focused at all times on the court to play, instead of being uncool when an incident occurs."
continuous , Gu Quan, , who performed well in both games, will continue to be entrusted with important tasks, and young players , Jiang Weize, and are also gradually showing their style as generals. However, it should be noted that the Chinese Taipei team will definitely focus on them. By then, the Chinese team will need more people to step up and stabilize the overall situation.
's match against Chinese Taipei this time is related to the group competition for the top eight seats, so Zhou Qi may make a comeback. However, whether his physical condition has not fully recovered yet whether he can finally make his debut depends on Du Feng's on-the-spot arrangements.
In contrast, the health condition of the Chinese Taipei team players is better. The inside line with naturalized player Atino in the team will bring a lot of trouble to the Chinese men's basketball team. In the previous two games, Atino averaged 16.5 points and 8 rebounds per game, becoming the team's scoring weapon, and the three CBA players will attack the Chinese men's basketball team from the outside.
With the current personnel configuration and status of the Chinese men's basketball team, it will undoubtedly be a tough battle against the Chinese Taipei team. Fortunately, the team is very united at this stage. "The difficulties the team is encountering now are unpredictable for all of us, but no matter how difficult it is, none of us will give up. We will go all out and fight to the end!" Gu Quan said bluntly.
New Zealand will become a stumbling block in the knockout rounds
The special competition system of the Asian Cup makes the top spot in the group particularly valuable. A total of three teams from each group qualify, but the top teams in the four groups can directly advance to the top 8, while the other eight teams have to fight against each other to determine the qualifications of the other four to reach the top 8. However, after losing to South Korea in the first game of the group stage, the Chinese team has little hope of winning the top spot in the group stage.
Of course, from the perspective of avoiding Australia, advancing as second in the group is indeed not a bad thing for the Chinese men's basketball team. The two teams are in different half-districts, and the earliest meeting is in the finals. However, for the Chinese men's basketball team to break through from the other half and reach the finals, the process may be more difficult than imagined. If the Chinese men's basketball team finally advances as the second place in Group B, we will face off against the third place in Group A in the 12-to-8 knockout round. At present, there is a high probability that Australia will take first place in Group A, and the third place will most likely be the host and Indonesia . Although they have great desire to advance to the top eight, they may be the only team in this tournament that has performance pressure. However, the Chinese team still has a clear advantage over the host country, and the possibility of being upset is not particularly high.
However, in the quarter-finals, the Chinese men's basketball team will face a very difficult challenge. According to the arrangement, the Chinese team will compete with the first place in Group D. Now it seems that New Zealand team is more likely to be in this position. This time New Zealand has arranged a relatively young lineup to play. There are a total of 6 players born in the 2000s in the team. However, looking at the historical confrontations between the two sides, the Chinese men's basketball team has never had any advantage over the New Zealand men's basketball team. If the two teams meet in the Asian Cup, the outcome is actually difficult to predict.
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