Against both sides: China men's basketball team vs Bahrain men's basketball team
Competition time: 21:00 on July 14
On July 14, Beijing time, the second round of the group stage of the 2022 FIBA Men's Basketball Asian Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team will face the Bahrain men's basketball team. In the first round of the group stage, the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the South Korean men's basketball team 81-93, encountering a black opening. In this context, the Chinese men's basketball team is naturally eager to win against the Bahrain men's basketball team in the second round of the group stage. Considering that the strength of the Bahrain men's basketball team is relatively limited, the chinese men's basketball team is still very optimistic about the prospect of winning this time.
The Chinese men's basketball team is currently ranked 29th in the world, while the Bahrain men's basketball team is currently ranked 106th in the world. To some extent, the FIBA World Points Ranking can more intuitively reflect the comprehensive strength of the team. In the first round of the group stage, the Bahrain men's basketball team lost 84-102 to the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team. At that time, the Bahrain men's basketball team was completely suppressed by the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team, and there were as many as 23 mistakes. In the Bahrain men's basketball team, Devon and Odrazzi are the core players inside and outside, of which Devon has 24 points, 18 rebounds and 5 blocks in the first round of the group stage, and Odrazzi has 20 points and 7 assists. For the Chinese men's basketball team, whether it can effectively limit Devon and Odrazi is crucial.
The first round of the Chinese men's basketball team's group game lost to the South Korean men's basketball team, largely due to the absence of many main players in the team, including Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin, which directly affected the immediate combat strength of the Chinese men's basketball team on the inside line. Before the second round of the group stage, Zhou Qi flew from Australia to Jakarta and returned to the team. However, considering Zhou Qi's physical condition and the comprehensive strength of the Bahrain men's basketball team, whether Zhou Qi will appear in the number of games against the Bahrain men's basketball team is full of unknowns.
Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei were not selected for the Chinese men's basketball team in the asian cup of the men's basketball team due to physical reasons. In this way, defenders including Hu Mingxuan, Zhao Rui, Xu Jie and other defenders naturally need to take on more responsibilities. However, in the match when the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the South Korean men's basketball team, Hu Mingxuan, as the starting guard, played a total of 19 minutes, and only won 1 point, 2 rebounds and 2 assists on 0-of-4 shooting, with 3 turnovers and 4 fouls. This also led to Hu Mingxuan being widely criticized and questioned by the outside world after the game. When it comes to the second round of the group stage, whether Hu Mingxuan can justify his name is worth paying attention to.
From the third window of the World Preliminary Tournament to the first round of the men's basketball Asian Cup group stage, the Chinese men's basketball team has more than once collapsed due to physical decline in the second half of the game. For Du Feng, how to reasonably allocate the physical strength of the whole team to ensure the sustainability of combat strength is a problem that must be faced and solved.