The draw ceremony of this year's men's basketball World Cup has just ended in Manila, Philippines, and the Chinese men's basketball team is divided into Group B.
A total of six Asian teams, including the Philippines and Japan, participated in the World Cup, the other three being China, Iran, Lebanon and Jordan. Whether it is signing or their own strength, Japan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan no longer have the opportunity to compete for the best results in Asia, Iran is because of the loss of Hadadi's unworthy strength, Japan as the second host of the group is too bad, Lebanon and Jordan have no reason to not work.
The main suspense in Asia is still the Philippines and China, the Philippines' grouping is the best Italy and Dominica are not the absolute strong teams in Europe or the Americas, Angola has long been not the strength of African champions, plus the Philippines has Clarkson and Green, two naturalized players with NBA starting strength, so in Group A they have at least the strength to win Angola, if you can "steal" another game from Italy or Dominica, then the group will directly qualify, but the huge gap between local players and naturalized players, I'm afraid it can't be moved, So there is a high probability that the Philippines will still slide down to qualifying, and their qualifying opponents are the bottom two in Group B.
The opponents of the Chinese team in Group B are Serbia, Puerto Rico and South Sudan, Serbia has Jokic to sit in the squad, don't think about it, Puerto Rico is our old opponent during the Yao Ming period, their fast style can not say that we have no chance, but there is little hope, and it is the first game of the tournament, it can be regarded as an encounter to fight. The last thing we have to want is South Sudan, South Sudan is a track and field geek, if we enter their pitching rhythm, we have little hope of winning, we are not familiar with him, they are also not familiar with us, African teams are weak in tactical literacy, so we have a high probability of winning a game in the group stage, and thus slipping to qualifying, so that more than 90% of our opponents are Angola and the Philippines, winning Angola is not a problem, the Philippines has not shown its face in the face of the Chinese team in recent decades, Including when there have been naturalized players in recent years, in addition, you said that the new star Soto, Zhou Qi is enough to cope, and has a record of playing in the Australian NBL.
In this way, the battle for Olympic tickets for Asian basketball is actually a head-to-head confrontation between the Philippines and China in the qualifying tournament, although the game will be held in Manila, but I believe that the Chinese men's basketball team will not give them any chance, I believe that the psychological advantages accumulated over the past few decades will not only make us more confident, but also make it difficult for the Philippines to break their demons.
In this way, it seems that in the case that the signing position has been decided, the Chinese men's basketball team must enter the Olympic Games, will this play a lot of mainstream commentary "Chinese men's basketball team will not be able to participate in the Olympic Games" argument?
Finally, a few more nagging, the Philippines and Japan are really "younger brothers" in the draw, there is no such play, the Philippines also said that in the past, Japan's group opponents see who they are? It can't be more difficult, no matter which country is weakened enough to divide into such a group, the key is that Japan still has to take money to hold the game, do you say FIBA is playing people? Not to mention that playing this set of China is the ancestor, they still need to learn!