On February 21, Beijing time, FIBA officially announced the first phase of the Asian preliminaries.
The details are as follows:
1. Australian men's basketball team.
2. Japanese men's basketball team.
3. Lebanon men's basketball team.
4. Philippine men's basketball team.
5. South Korean men's basketball team.
6. Iran men's basketball team.
7. Chinese men's basketball team.
8. New Zealand men's basketball team.
9. Jordan men's basketball team.
10. Men's basketball.
11. Bahrain men's basketball team.
12. Syrian men's basketball team.
13. Chinese Taipei men's basketball team.
14. Saudi Arabia men's basketball team.
15. Kazakhstan men's basketball team.
16. Indian men's basketball team.
Seeing this list, many of our fans were directly dumbfounded on the spot.
To put it bluntly, it is really a bit too much to rank the Chinese men's basketball team in 7th.
First of all, the Australian men's basketball team, the Lebanese men's basketball team and the Philippine men's basketball team will not be mentioned.
After all, these three teams have indeed won the Chinese men's basketball team in direct confrontation in recent years.
In competitive sports, everything is based on the results, and if you lose, you have to be convinced.
In other words, you can also be unconvinced, so the next time you meet again, you will get back the face you once lost.
However, this wish has not yet become a reality.
So, now it can only be the last one.
Secondly, the Japanese men's basketball team didn't say anything.
Although the Asian preliminaries two years ago, when Du Feng was still coaching, the Chinese men's basketball team went to Sendai, Japan, and defeated the Japanese men's basketball team with a big score in both games.
Let the other party know what the real "Asian hegemon" is.
However, after two years of development, the respective situations of the two sides have undergone some changes, the Chinese men's basketball team has declined to a certain extent, while the Japanese men's basketball team has won the only direct ticket to the Paris Olympic Games qualifying tournament in the entire Asian region in last year's World Cup.
They were also the only team in the entire Asian region to win in the group stage.
Therefore, let's just assume that the Japanese men's basketball team is now ranked ahead of the Chinese men's basketball team.
However, why are the South Korean men's basketball team and the Iranian men's basketball team ranked ahead of the Chinese men's basketball team?
In the 1 4 finals of the Hangzhou Asian Games just past, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the South Korean men's basketball team 84-70 without blood.
At that time, there was neither Zhou Qi nor the "old captain" Zhou Peng on our side, nor even the naturalized player Li Kaier.
The main thing is that we have just experienced such a World Cup, so it can be said that the overall morale is also in a relatively low time.
However, it still won the South Korean men's basketball team by 14 points, which should be a good indication of the comprehensive strength of the two teams.
Even, the South Korean men's basketball players lost in a hurry, and they also tried to mess up the mentality of the Chinese men's basketball players by creating a "conflict".
It's a pity that they were disappointed.
On our own home court, even the players of the Brazilian men's basketball team had to take the initiative to "call a stop", let alone them.
So, the end result is that we win the ball and we win the fight.
Two words: happy!
Next, let's talk about the Iranian men's basketball team, they were indeed the biggest opponent of the Chinese men's basketball team at the Asian level, however, with the aging of the "** generation", the situation of no successor has intensified.
The current Iranian men's basketball team is no longer what it used to be.
Of course, the Chinese men's basketball team has also faced this situation in recent years.
However, compared with the Iranian men's basketball team, the Chinese men's basketball team is not so fast.
At least, we still have Zhou Qi on the inside, Zhao Rui on the outside, and Zhang Zhenlin and other players with good athletic ability on the front line.
This is also the main reason why we have been able to win against the Iranian men's basketball team in recent years.
In view of this, it really makes no sense for FIBA officials to rank these two teams in front of the Chinese men's basketball team.
In other words, of course, we know that the Chinese men's basketball team has been declining in recent years, and has repeatedly played games that have left fans speechless.
However, this does not mean that the Chinese men's basketball team can be beaten to the end with a stick and completely become a "leftover" role.
To put it bluntly, the game is not played well, and we practice again in private, but we can't even "obliterate" the most basic fair ranking.
Otherwise, the victories that our players have worked so hard to get are not as good as those who lost to us, so what's the point of such a ranking?
Men's basketball boys, have you all seen it?
Now that the so-called "discrimination" has come to the forefront, what to do, everyone understands, right?
I hope that everyone can be ashamed and courageous, and then in the future, at least at the Asian level, we can win as much as possible.
The first step in revival is to regain the status of our "base camp".
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