For many years, China and Iran, the sworn enemies of the continental competition, have not met, and on the 11th of this month, in the fifth window of the World Preliminary Round, the Chinese men's basketball team will play Iran in Telandhe.
The last real meeting was in 2018, but the last time we met in the air was actually the 2019 World Cup.
In the autumn of 2019, it was a sad season, the Chinese men's basketball team lost the ticket to the direct Olympics at home, only one game away, or only 17 points away, the Chinese men's basketball team can go to Tokyo with their heads held high, 17 points to 5 games, each game is only about 4 points, 1 game victory, we are not impossible, if we face Poland's last quarter of the serve...
If you can't say "if", if you can "if", why not "if the Chinese men's basketball team leads by about 10 points in the final quarter of the final quarter", then what about the final touchline ball error? After all, the ability is still not good! Saying too much "if" is nothing more than a weak mentality, losing is losing, we just fall and get up!
Yes, we really lost to Iran, their record and Chinese men's basketball team are both 2-3, but the ranking is because of small points, Iran is ranked 24th, becoming the highest ranked team in Asia, and thus got the only Asian ticket to the Olympics.
However, a year ago, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Haddadi's Iran at the Asian Games in Jakarta!
In order to expand the young national player team and increase the experience of international competitions, the Chinese men's basketball team was divided into two ways, one for the blue team led by Du Feng, equipped with: Li Gen, Liu Xiaoyu, Ren Junfei, Yu Dehao, Zhou Peng, Guo Allen, Han Dejun, Li Muhao, Gu Quan, Hu Jinqiu, Wu Qian, Zeng Lingxu and other 12 people.
The blue team played the Asian Cup in Lebanon in 2017, and finally met Australia for the first time in the quarterfinals, naturally unable to win, and finally finished fifth.
The other team is the red team, led by Li Nan, with 12 people, including Zhao Rui, Wang Zhelin, Zhao Jiwei, Ding Yanyuhang, Zhou Qi, Fang Shuo, Liu Zhixuan, Yu Changdong, Sun Minghui, Zhao Tailong, Dong Hanlin, Abdusalamu Abdurixit.
Li Nan led the red team to the Jakarta Asian Games, defeated Iran in the final, and won the championship after 8 years.
At that time, Yi Jianlian was absent due to injury, the team was full of young people, Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin rose to prominence in China, plus Dong Hanlin and Yu Changdong, the inside line of the Chinese men's basketball team can be described as strong and vigorous. Iran's core remains veteran Haddadi.
Lee's strategy is very clear, combining the offensive end inside and outside, and the defensive end consumes Haddadi. Although the process was a bit thrilling, the trend of the game was basically as expected.
In the first half, Haddadi could do everything, the Chinese men's basketball team had no feel on the outside, and the inside line could not be attacked for a long time, and the picture of Zhou Qi blocking Haddadi in the opening game was the only highlight. And Haddadi and guard Bahramy blossomed inside and out, attacking fiercely, and at the most time of the first half, the Chinese men's basketball team actually trailed by 16 points.
Fortunately, Abudu, who became famous in Jakarta, scored 6 points in a row through his dexterous turn and solid and changeable footsteps, and Zhao Rui continued to attack the Iranian penalty area with his strong body, and finally the point difference was chased to only 4 points at the end of the half.
In the second half, Wang Zhelin played harder and harder, making it 2+1 several times, while Zhao Rui turned the breakthrough into shooting, and the three-point arrows rained down, and soon overtook the score, and Iran could only rely on Hadadi, whose physical strength had long been exhausted
Under the strict defense of the two major interior players of the Chinese men's basketball team, Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin, the shooting percentage continued to decline, and only relied on free throws to maintain the score weakly.
In the final quarter, the three points of the Chinese men's basketball team broke out suddenly, among which Fang Shuo and A Budu were the most accurate, and even Zhou Qi also shot 3 points, and finally the men's basketball red team defeated Iran 84-72!
Abudu scored 20 points and 6 boards, Zhao Rui 16 points and 5 assists, Fang Shuo 16 points and 8 assists, Zhou Qi 15 points, 11 boards and 4 boards, Ding Yanyuhang 9 points and 2 boards, Wang Zhelin 8 points and 3 boards, and Haddadi 27 points and 10 boards.
In this Asian Games, Chinese basketball won a total of 4 gold medals in men's and women's futsal basketball and three-a-side basketball, and Director Yao, who was a great success as soon as he took office, really smiled heartily, and many domestic fans at that time were saying that "let professional people do professional things".
There is no doubt that everyone recognizes Yao Ming's work very much, and hopes that he can bring greater changes to the Chinese men's basketball team.
However, now it has completely changed, more and more people shout Yao Ming to leave class, and even mock Yao Ming as "a master and stupid" "It's okay to play ball, but it's not okay to manage"...
The world of sports is like that, good results, good everything, bad results, nothing good.
In the past three years, that is, after the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, the results of international competitions can be described as more losses and fewer wins, the Tokyo Olympic cycle has passed Let's not talk about it, in the new Paris Olympic cycle, just past the Asian Cup, the men's basketball team actually created the second worst record in history, only won the eighth place in the Asian Cup.
Therefore, the fans' mood is naturally understandable, but we prefer that Yao Ming and the Chinese men's basketball team use their results to prove themselves.
Next year will be the day of Armageddon, with only two international matches left this year – against Iran and Bahrain. The Chinese men's basketball team needs to overcome many difficulties and strive for victory in order to prepare for next year's Armageddon, there is no need for too many injuries and personnel shortages, fans only need results, and the Chinese men's basketball team has no way back, hundreds of millions of Chinese fans are looking forward to it!
I hope that this time in the war against Iran, the two cores of Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin can repeat the glory of 4 years ago, defeat Haddadi again, win both battles, and look forward to triumph!
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