Right now, the CBA playoffs are in full swing. At the same time, the Chinese Basketball Association officially announced the schedule of the Asian Cup of the Chinese men's basketball team. The Chinese team will participate in the group stage of the Asian Cup in mid-July, and the specific schedule is as follows:
According to the previous draw results, the three opponents in the group stage of the Asian Cup of the Chinese men's basketball team are South Korea, Bahrain and Chinese Taipei. After the end of the CBA League, the Chinese men's basketball team will begin to assemble after a short break to prepare for the upcoming Men's Basketball Asian Cup. The first game will be on July 12, against the "old enemy" South Korean men's basketball team; the second game on July 14, the Chinese men's basketball team will compete with Bahrain, the last opponent of the Chinese team in the group stage is Chinese Taipei. With the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team in the group stage, it should be a big deal to qualify.
This men's basketball Asian Cup was originally scheduled to be held in Indonesia in August 2021, but due to the epidemic and other reasons, it was helpless to postpone the holding time many times, and it was finally determined to be held on July 12, 2022. It is worth mentioning that since the 2015 Men's Basketball Asian Championship, the event has been renamed "Asian Cup". From 1975 to 2015, the Chinese men's basketball team participated in the event 22 times and won the men's basketball Asian Championship championship 16 times.
However, since FIBA classified the Australian and New Zealand men's basketball teams into the Asian Cup, the entire championship competition pattern has changed. At the 2017 Asian Cup in Lebanon, the Australian men's basketball team and the New Zealand men's basketball team competed for the first time. The Australian men's basketball team finally reached the final, winning the tournament with a 79-56 victory over the Iranian men's basketball team, and the South Korean men's basketball team defeated the New Zealand men's basketball team 80-71 to win the third place.
In this Asian Cup, due to the continued participation of Australia and New Zealand, if the Chinese men's basketball team wants to win the championship, the biggest "roadblock" is the above two teams. If the Chinese team wants to successfully reach the top, the difficulty is not a little bit...