Against both sides: China vs South Korea
Contest time: 21:00 on July 12
On July 12, Beijing time, the Men's Basketball Asian Cup officially started today, and the first game of the Chinese men's basketball team will face the South Korean men's basketball team. The South Korean team is the strongest opponent the Chinese men's basketball team has encountered in the group stage, and this game will also be the decisive battle to determine the first place in the group. Can the Chinese men's basketball team win? Let's wait and see.
The Chinese men's basketball team competed in the men's basketball world preliminary tournament at the beginning of the month, defeating Chinese Taipei twice and losing to Australia twice, advancing to the second stage with a total score of 4 wins and 2 losses. Because of the impact of the new crown epidemic, the Chinese men's basketball team recruited 5 players fan Ziming, He Xining, Zhai Xiaochuan, Jiang Weize and Gao Shiyan to join the team, and Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei were not selected into the big list of the Chinese men's basketball team to participate in the Asian Cup because of their physical condition, which also made the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team sharply reduced, which is also regrettable.
The Chinese and Korean teams are old rivals, and in the Asian Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team has an overwhelming advantage of 13 wins and 3 losses against South Korea. South Korea's Asian Cup roster includes a number of well-known players such as Luo Jian'er, Heo Hoon, Heo Hsiung and Lee Dae-sung, but the two rising stars Lee Hyun-joong and Lui Joon-seok did not go with the team. Because of the ban of fiba, the South Korean men's basketball team did not have the opportunity to participate in the men's basketball world preliminary tournament, and bid farewell to the 2023 men's basketball World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in advance. For the Korean men's basketball team, this Asian Cup will also become the team's only major competition in recent years.
The South Korean men's basketball team has a disadvantage in height, with only 5 players in the team reaching 2 meters, and the highest Kim Jong-kyu is 2 meters 07. The inner line of the Chinese men's basketball team sits on the towers such as Wang Zhelin of 2 meters 14 and Fan Ziming of 2 meters 11, which undoubtedly occupies an absolute advantage in the confrontation of the inner line, which will also become the key to the victory of the Chinese men's basketball team. The "Great Demon King" and the "Great King" are also expected to feast on the field.
The four teams in this group, namely the Chinese men's basketball team, the Korean men's basketball team, the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team and the Bahrain men's basketball team, according to the rules of the tournament, the first team in the group will directly enter the quarterfinals, and the second and third teams in the group will decide the other 4 places in the quarterfinals through the play-offs. Due to the weakness of the other two opponents in the same group, Chinese Taipei and Bahrain, the only two teams that can really compete for the first place in the group are China and South Korea. The winner of this game will also have a high probability of directly advancing to the quarterfinals as the top of the group.
China men's basketball team roster: Zhao Rui, Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan, Sun Minghui, Jiang Weize, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Fan Ziming, Zhai Xiaochuan, Gu Quan, He Xining, Fu Hao.