Data doesn't lie|How bad is the Chinese men's basketball team now? Three figures have ranked second to last in the World Cup
The Chinese men's basketball team lost all three games in the group stage and finished bottom of Group B. After qualifying, they will play Angola and the Philippines, and even if they win, it will depend on the faces of others. Judging from the data of these three games, how big is the gap between this Chinese men's basketball team and other teams? They already have three stats to rank second to last among the 32 World Cup teams!
Offensive stats: See how iron is the Chinese men's basketball team?
After three group games, the highest ranking in the offensive data of the Chinese men's basketball team is three-pointers, their three-point shooting rate is 33.8%, ranking 15th, seemingly at the mid-table level, acceptable, but look at how accurate the three opponents in Group B are outside, you can see why China lost so badly. Because the only data they can get is also madly crushed by their opponents.
Serbia's three-point shooting percentage is 44.7%, ranking first in the World Cup; South Sudan shot 42.7% from three-point range, ranking third in the World Cup; Puerto Rico shot 41.0 percent from three-point range, fifth in the World Cup. In terms of three-pointers alone, the Chinese men's basketball team is really in the "death group".
Looking at the other data of the Chinese men's basketball team, it can only be said that it is spicy eyes. Averaged 73.7 points per game, ranking 25th; shooting 44.4%, ranking 20th; 23rd on two-point shooting percentage of 52.4%; Averaged 17.7 assists per game, ranking 24th, and 70.7 per game efficiency, ranking 28th.
The worst was the free throws, which shot 63.6 percent from the free-throw line, just a little higher than Greece and ranked 31st in the World Cup, or second from the bottom. Of the four players who averaged more than two free throws per game, only Zhao Rui passed 83.3%, the remaining three: Zhou Qi 66.7%, Li Kaier 50%, and Wang Zhelin 37.5%.
Defensive stats: Averaged points conceded only below Lebanon
The offense can't be shot, and the defense is not good. The Chinese men's basketball team, which ranked 25th in points per game, conceded an average of 100.3 points per game, ranking 31st. Their average points conceded are only lower than Lebanon's, and only China and Lebanon have conceded more than 100 points per game for the 32 World Cup teams.
Bad defense is all-round. The Chinese men's basketball team has a poor ability to protect rebounds, averaging only 30.3 rebounds per game, ranking 29th, and they are only 31st in 4.7 steals per game. Blocks are a slightly better statistic, and they are the only one of the 12 official statistics of the Chinese men's basketball team to rank in the top ten. Averaged 3.3 blocks per game, tied for 9th place.
In terms of mistakes and fouls, the Chinese men's basketball team also did not perform well. With an average of 13.7 turnovers per game, the 13th most of the 32 World Cup teams, and 22.3 fouls per game, the 5th most of the 32 World Cup teams.
It can only be said that the gap is all-round, from offense to defense. It's not something that a manager, a naturalized player can change. To improve the overall level of the Chinese men's basketball team, we must still focus on ourselves and youth training, otherwise, who else can the future of the men's basketball team rely on? Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian, who once made us proud, have all retired, who can become their successors?