After the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese men's basketball team finally ushered in another appearance in international competitions. This event is the Asian Cup qualifiers, and the Chinese team is in a group with the Mongolian team, the Japanese team and the ** team. In the first game, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Mongolian team 80-49 at home in Xi'an, and the win was easy and pleasant. Next, the Chinese men's basketball team will go to Tokyo, Japan to face the second opponent and the toughest opponent in this group on Sunday, the Japanese team.
Although the Chinese men's basketball team's record in the past two years has been miserable, the record against the Japanese team is still good. In the World Cup qualifiers, they faced Japan twice, both of which were big wins over their opponents, and they were at the opponent's home stadium, except for Watanabe and Hachimura, the other main players were also there. So much so that in the next game with the Chinese men's basketball team, he must have come with a "revenge" mentality.
Despite their poor performance in the World Championships, the energy of the Japanese team in the World Cup was really shocking. In the case of a very unfavorable group group, they actually reversed the Finnish team with Markanen, won the Venezuelan team and the Cape Verde team with momentum, and won the best result of the Asian team in the World Cup and advanced to the Paris Olympics.
One of the biggest contributors to the reversal of the Finnish team is Kawamura Yonghui, who is also one of the most dangerous players in the Chinese men's basketball team when facing the Japanese team next. He is only 1.72 meters tall, but he is extremely fast, and his main technical feature is three-point shooting, and he shot 4 of 7 three-pointers in the game against Finland, and scored 25 points, 1 rebound and 9 assists in the whole game. The average score is 13 per game throughout the cup6 points, 2 rebounds and 76 assists and 33 three-point shooting3%。It should be noted that these stats are obtained against world-class teams like Germany, Australia, etc.
From the perspective of alignment, the task of defending Kawamura should be handed over to Zhao Jiwei or Xu Jie, which is certainly a heavy job, but it is also the key to defeating the Japanese team. Of course, the outside line is not only Kawamura Yuki, the Japanese team's outside players are basically this type, like Tomiya Keisei, Tomiya Yuki, etc., are not high, fast, and accurate three-pointers.
A bunch of "small steel cannons" is the biggest feature of the Japanese team's lineup. Because there are many defenders, there are also many assists per game, and the World Cup average is 212 assists ranked 14th, the highest ranking in Asia. Because of the large number of defenders, the Japanese team's game rhythm is also much faster than ours, of course, because of the faster game rhythm, the Japanese team's average mistakes per game are more than the Chinese team.
In terms of the inside line, the core point of the Japanese team is the naturalized player Hawkinson, who did not play in the game of the same team, but he is still in the Japanese team squad. He is a typical white interior player, strong and agile on his feet, and was one of the main contributors to the victory over Finland at the World Cup. He scored a team-high 28 points against Finland. He averaged 21 points per game throughout the World Cup8 rebounds and 2 assists.
In terms of defense, Yu Jiahao, Yang Hansen and Hu Jinqiu can only take turns. The effectiveness of the defense will depend on the specific situation of the day's game, but one thing is that Yu Jiahao and Yang Hansen may not have much advantage in terms of footwork. Of course, the Japanese team in this Asian Cup qualifiers has another naturalized player, Josh Harrison, a 2.08-meter-old white man, who scored 11 points, 21 rebounds and 2 assists in 32 minutes in the same team's game, and the number of rebounds is still quite scary.
Overall, the Japanese team is still a team that is more in line with the trend of modern basketball. Three-point shots can account for more than half of the total shots. During the World Cup, the Japanese team averaged 32 per game6 three-point shots and just 32 two-point shots2 times. In the game with the ** team, the three-point shot was 45 times, and in the face of us who are taller than the ** height, it is predictable that the three points will still be their main offense**. So, despite the presence of naturalized interior players like Hawkinson and Harris, the focus of defense is still on the outside, and try not to help when the ball goes inside.
In recent years, the Chinese team has always been a long-standing problem in defending three-point points, and fundamentally our players can't keep up. One of the ways to control the speed is to use the high, of course, high and fast is the best, we have always been short of height, we still lack players with height and footwork. In the current Chinese team lineup, those who can meet this condition are Cui Yongxi and Zhu Junlong. Therefore, in this game against Japan, the play of the two on the defensive end is still crucial.
Or back to the most fundamental question, after analyzing so much, can we defeat the Japanese team? To be honest, it's hard to say, there is even an article on the official website of FIBA, giving three reasons why the Japanese team can defeat the Chinese team, and it seems that even FIBA is more optimistic about the Japanese team. But the most important thing in this world is to "slap the face", and I hope that our Chinese men's basketball team can "slap" the "face" of FIBA.
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