On April 11, Beijing time, the official website of FIBA updated the information of the third window period of the 2023 Basketball World Cup Sub-Regional Qualifiers, and the window period was from June 30 to July 4. The Chinese men's basketball team will play in this window against Australia and Chinese Taipei.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, the matches of Group A and Group B (the group of the Chinese men's basketball team) will be held in the form of a closed-loop management of the tournament system, and the venue will be Melbourne, Australia. Previously, the Chinese men's basketball team did not have a game task in the second window, so this time there will be 4 games.
At present, the Record of the Chinese Men's Basketball World Preliminary Tournament is 2 wins and 0 losses, ranking third in the group, and this window will complete 4 games with the remaining two opponents. Due to the relatively weak strength of the Chinese Taipei team, the Chinese men's basketball team will not lose two victories with the Chinese Taipei team without accidents, so the two encounters with the Australian team will inevitably receive high attention.
After the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team has been in a trough period, not only in the world arena is difficult to win, but also in the Asian scope has gradually lost its hegemonic position, although in the 2015 Changsha Asian Championships and the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games to achieve the summit, but also failed to return to the peak, the 2019 World Cup held at home can still be said to end in a "fiasco".
With the introduction of a series of reform plans by the Chinese Basketball Association, the Chinese men's basketball team began to show initial results in 2021. The maturity of Zhou Qi, Hu Jinqiu, Wang Zhelin, Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, and Zhao Rui, the sudden emergence of Hu Mingxuan, Zhang Zhenlin, and Guo Haowen, and the emergence of young forces such as Zeng Fanbo and Yu Jiahao. The Chinese men's basketball team will most likely have a strong rebound in the next few years. It is not difficult for the Japanese team to see that the new Chinese men's basketball team has enough strength to enter the international arena in the Asian Cup qualifiers and the World Cup qualifiers, especially Zhou Qi and Guo Allen have proved with practical actions that they have enough confidence and are not afraid of any opponent.
Not only the international arena performance, the league Guo Allen, Zhao Rui, Hu Jinqiu and other players also proved their strength with excellent performance, including Zhou Qi, who played in the Australian League, the performance is also remarkable, what kind of combat effectiveness can the Chinese men's basketball team in such a state, I believe that the strong Australian team will be a very qualified inspector, this year's Asian Cup and Asian Games are also testing the real strength of the Chinese men's basketball team.
Theoretically, Australia belongs to the world's first-class team, their strength is significantly higher than the Chinese men's basketball team, and the difficulty of trying to beat the opponent is self-evident. However, under the guidance of Du Feng, the new Chinese men's basketball team can show extraordinary performances in the international arena, and can also be fearless of strong opponents in the face of two strong opponents in Canada and Greece, and play their own characteristics. Therefore, what kind of performance the Chinese men's basketball team will have against Australia with a neat lineup is indeed worth everyone's expectation.
At present, the CBA league is still in progress, and after the end of the league, the national players will fully devote themselves to the preparation of the national team. On June 30, the Chinese men's basketball team will play Australia for the first time; on July 1, against Chinese Taipei; on July 3, it will play against Australia; and on July 4, the final game of the group will be played against Chinese Taipei. How the Chinese men's basketball team will shine the sword, let us wait and see.