The Beijing Winter Olympics will hold a closing ceremony this evening, and then We China will enter the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Hangzhou Asian Games will open on September 10, and then fans will see athletes from all over Asia go to Hangzhou to start a fierce competition.
Just recently, according to the well-known basketball blogger "IQ is getting lower and lower unicornnxp" report, the North Korean men's basketball team is currently preparing for the Hangzhou Asian Games! Veteran basketball fans are very clear about the pattern of the world basketball world, not to mention the Asian basketball world, from the early years of the Sino-Korean hegemony to the later Iranian men's basketball team's strong rise, and then to the Iranian men's basketball team, the South Korean men's basketball talent gap, the Japanese men's basketball team crazy naturalized into Asia's first-class strong team, only for the North Korean men's basketball team, I am afraid that the vast majority of fans are completely unaware, not to mention what are the stars in the Korean men's basketball team.
Historically, the North Korean men's basketball team has also been a strong team in the Asian basketball world, and this mysterious division has won the runner-up at the 1973 Asian Games in Bangkok and the runner-up at the 1993 Asian Championships in Indonesia. In 1974, the Chinese men's basketball team met the North Korean team for the first time to participate in the Asian Games, when the Chinese men's basketball team won 88:77, and the Chinese men's basketball team and the North Korean men's basketball team fought again in the 1978 Asian Games, this time the Chinese men's basketball team won the opponent 115:80. At the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, the Chinese men's basketball team once again beat the North Korean men's basketball team by a big score.
To say that the Chinese men's basketball team and the North Korean men's basketball team last met, or in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, when Yao Ming did not retire, but did not participate in the game, november 17, 2010, the Chinese men's basketball team in the second game of the group stage to meet the North Korean men's basketball team, under the leadership of Wang Zhizhi, Zhu Fangyu, the Chinese men's basketball team easily defeated the opponent. However, since then, the North Korean men's basketball team has rarely appeared in international competitions. Only in 2018, Yao Ming led the Chinese men's basketball team and the Chinese women's basketball team to North Korea to play a friendly match, in which the Chinese men's basketball team and the North Korean men's basketball team played a 130-130 draw, and finally shook hands and made peace.
Rarely participate in international competitions, and the domestic competitions of the North Korean men's basketball team are also very interesting. Fans know that the CBA and most of the world's leagues adopt FIBA rules, and although the NBA does not adopt FIBA rules, it is basically the same, and there is not much difference in the rules. But the domestic game of the North Korean men's basketball team is completely different, and in the game in North Korea, if the players score a dunk, they are counted as 3 points. If you let Zion, Alphabet Brother, Howard and other dunk masters play, you can't score 40+ in a game.
What is more interesting is that in the domestic league of the North Korean men's basketball team, if it hits a hollow 3-pointer, it is counted as a 4-pointer, and I really dare not imagine how many points can be scored in a single game if Curry and Lillard play in the North Korean league. However, if O'Neill plays in the North Korean League, I am afraid that he will be beaten by the rules, because the North Korean domestic league stipulates that if the penalty basket is not scored, he will be deducted 1 point, and if O'Neal plays in the North Korean League, it is not good to lead the team to a negative score in a game.
What's even more interesting is that the North Korean League stipulates that how to hit a killer ball in the last 3 seconds is counted as an 8-point shot, and a kill is actually 8 points, which is really valuable! The North Korean men's basketball team will participate in the Asian Games again, and in the Hangzhou Asian Games, we can get a glimpse of the North Korean men's basketball team.