At 20 o'clock on the evening of August 30, Beijing time, the Chinese men's basketball team will play against the Puerto Rican men's basketball team in the final round of the World Cup, based on the high probability that the Serbian men's basketball team can defeat the South Sudan men's basketball team, the Chinese men's basketball team still needs to win at least 36 points to miraculously advance to the round of 16 knockout rounds, because other Asian 5 teams are definitely eliminated, so it also gives the Chinese men's basketball team a glimmer of life.
After the first two rounds of the group stage, Jordan, Lebanon and Iran were eliminated early and entered the final round, and the Philippines and Japan also did not succeed in the upset, losing to Italy and Australia respectively, and joined hands on the same matchday.
In this way, among the 6 Asian teams, only the Chinese men's basketball team still has hope of qualifying from the group.
According to the rules, the Asian teams with the best results in the World Cup can go straight to the following year's Olympic Games, and the Chinese men's basketball team must beat Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, the Philippines and Japan in the ranking to return to the Olympic finals.
Now the above five Asian teams have determined that they need to participate in the qualifying round to compete for Olympic qualification, so that the Chinese men's basketball team sees the opportunity to end the suspense early, that is, to qualify from the group stage and become the only Asian team to advance to the round of 16 knockout stage.
In the first two rounds, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Serbia by 42 points and South Sudan by 20 points, suffered two consecutive defeats, and a net loss of 62 points, the situation of hitting the Paris Olympic qualification became not optimistic, the group qualification was only theoretically possible, and the conditions for promotion in addition to the final round must beat Puerto Rico by more than 36 points, but also to hope that Serbia would defeat South Sudan.
According to the schedule, the match between Serbia and South Sudan starts four hours earlier, and once South Sudan wins, the Chinese men's basketball team will be in vain no matter how many points it beats Puerto Rico.
At present, the state of the Chinese men's basketball team is sluggish, coupled with the overall strength is not as good as Puerto Rico, it is already an extraordinary performance to win the game, how can we talk about a net win of at least 36 points? Therefore, the Chinese men's basketball team still needs to participate in the qualifying round of 17th to 32nd place to compete for the qualification of the Olympic Games, and 2 opponents have been determined, namely Angola and the Philippines, because the net win score is too far behind, even if the Chinese men's basketball team wins two consecutive games, it depends on the faces of other competitors.
It is worth mentioning that reporter Li Pingkang is optimistic about the prospects of the Chinese men's basketball team, believing that the team may be the team with the worst performance of the 6 Asian teams in this World Cup, and there is no hope of competing for the Olympic qualification.
Group Stage Update:
Advance to the round of 16: Germany, Australia, Dominica, Italy, USA, Lithuania, Montenegro, Spain, Canada, Latvia
Eliminated teams identified: Angola, Philippines, Japan, Finland, Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Iran, France, Lebanon