The men's basketball World Cup qualifiers are currently in full swing, although the Chinese men's basketball team does not have the World Preliminary Tournament to play in this window period, but the old Asian opponent of the Chinese men's basketball team, the Iranian men's basketball team, which is now ranked first in Asia, will play, so many domestic fans are more concerned about the World Cup qualifiers of the Iranian men's basketball team.
However, in the game between the Iranian men's basketball team and the Kazakhstan men's basketball team on February 24, there was a big upset, and the Iranian men's basketball team actually lost 69-73 to the Kazakhstan men's basketball team, which also surprised many domestic fans! To know that in the latest edition of the world rankings, in addition to the Australian men's basketball team, the Iranian men's basketball team ranked 22nd in the world men's table tennis rankings, New Zealand ranked 25th, the Chinese men's basketball team ranked 28th, the 29th place is South Korea, and the Japanese men's basketball team ranked only 35th in the world!
If you exclude the two Oceania teams of Australia and New Zealand, the Iranian men's basketball team is the first team in Asia, while the Kazakhstan men's basketball team only ranks 70th in the world, the 9th in Asia, from the ranking point of view, the Kazakhstan men's basketball team and the Iranian men's basketball team are not at all on a horizontal line, and the Kazakhstan men's basketball team has never defeated the Iranian men's basketball team in the international competition in recent years, but this game Kazakhstan has played quite well.
In the first quarter of the game Kazakhstan established an 18-15 lead, after which the Iranian men's basketball team played very resiliently, they overtook the score, the two teams came and went very fiercely, but in the last quarter Kazakhstan played a wave of 13-0, and the Iranian men's basketball team suddenly lost power, and finally the Kazakhstan men's basketball team took a difficult victory.
Frankly speaking, the reason why Iran lost this game has a lot to do with the fact that their 37-year-old veteran Haddadi did not play. But their two veterans, Kamrani and Kazmi, all played in the game, and the two scored only 8 points for each 0 points! After losing to the Asian weak Kazakhstan men's basketball team, the golden period of the Iranian men's basketball team has passed, and it can even be said that the Iranian men's basketball team has become a third-rate team in Asia.
In history, the Chinese men's basketball team has always been the hegemon of Asia, and there is no shortage of challengers during this period, the Korean men's basketball team is the fierce enemy of the Chinese men's basketball team, but the real trouble for the Chinese men's basketball team is the Iranian men's basketball team, the Iranian men's basketball team has won the Asian championship three times in 2007, 2009 and 2013, and the golden generation of the Iranian men's basketball team has Haddadi, Bahrami, Kazimi and Kamrani and other tough players, which has been the bitter owner of the Chinese men's basketball team for a long time.
However, the Iranian men's basketball team has encountered great problems in the past five to seven years, and the team has not been able to pick up, or rely on veterans such as Haddadi and Bahrami to play, and there is no player who can take on the big responsibility. In the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, the Chinese men's basketball team red team and the Iranian men's basketball team met again in the final, and as a result, half of the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Iranian men's basketball team, and the veterans such as Haddadi and Bahrami in the last quarter of the game were physically exhausted, and 4 years later, the Iranian men's basketball team still had to rely on these veterans to play.
It can be expected that after the Iranian men's basketball team lost to the World Ranked 70th and Asia's 9th Kazakhstan Men's Basketball Team, basically the talent has been completely broken, coupled with the Chinese men's basketball team is still stable, the Japanese men's basketball team rises, and the Iranian men's basketball team will become a third-rate team in Asia.