National Basketball | Compared with the World Cup, the blocking and demolition resources of the Chinese men's basketball team in the Asian preliminaries have changed

(2023 World Cup group stage first game against Serbia)

In the World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team's blocking and dismantling campaign was very unsuccessful, and Qiao Shuai led the generals to practice for more than a year.

The purpose of a short down is to take advantage of the center's threat in the middle, attract help defenders, and then create open opportunities on the wing, in the corner, or under the basket. The people who directly assist these 3 positions are not all defenders, they can also be center forwards. Therefore, the number of assists of the center can relatively reflect the effect of short and downward.

In the 5 games of the World Cup, Zhou Qi averaged 2.4 assists per game, Hu Jinqiu 1.3 times, and Wang Zhelin 0.7 times.

Judging from the data, it seems that Zhou Qi is more successful in short-term down, but in fact, it is not common for Zhou Qi to get the ball in the middle, Hu Jinqiu and Wang Zhelin are naturally the same, most of Zhou Qi's assists come from the outside pass after attracting the help defense when playing in the low post, which is the last resort choice of the Chinese men's basketball team after the failure of various tactics launched by the guard.

What is the reason that the Chinese men's basketball team does not have a short and smooth after blocking and dismantling?

(World Cup 2023 Group Stage 2 against South Sudan)

1. The center turns and goes down slowly;

Zhou Wanghu has relatively little success under the CBA, including now, the team where these three big men are located is not a top blocking team.

2. Lack of response ability of the center;

Zhou Wanghu is indeed the top center in China with finishing ability, but the strategy is not what these people are good at.

3. The center has no threat of blocking and dismantling external bombs;

Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin actually have a certain basket, but no one dares to shoot in the World Cup, and the three of them average 1.1 3-point shots per game. Of course, today's Zhou Wang Hu has more or less increased his shooting skill package in the league, especially Hu Jinqiu.

4. The defender's height and confrontation are insufficient, resulting in limited vision and inefficient passing;

Qiao Shuai has been pursuing big man guards, but as a result, in addition to Li Kaier, he has to rely on Zhao Jiwei, because there are no excellent big point guards in China - the premise is that he can play a tough battle and have experience, Cui Yongxi can be a secondary attacker, and the main attack is afraid that he owes a little fire. Zhao Jiwei is indeed one of the top masters of transmission and control in China, but in Europe and the United States, there is probably one Zhao Jiwei per capita, and he is tall and powerful. When Zhao Jiwei launches a block, it is often like a headlong rush to a tall and tall meat forest, where can you still see where Zhou Qi is, where Wang Zhelin is, Hu Jinqiu's whereabouts are unknown, and the advantage of the big man guard is here - not afraid of confrontation, wide vision, and three-dimensional passing routes.

5. European, American and African teams are large and mobile, and the team is well-trained in defense;

6. European and American non-defenders are tall but not lose speed, and the defense is extremely oppressive.

The above six reasons, coupled with the inability to grasp the already pitiful vacancy, the inability to grasp the most deserving free throws and some mistakes in defensive strategy, at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, should have done a good job, and should not have done a good job, and finally caused the bitter fruit of the World Cup.

(World Cup 2023 Group Stage Match 3 against Puerto Rico)

In FIBA games, there is no positional warfare without blocking, there is no offense without positional warfare, and it is not reliable to rely solely on switching offense or positional off-ball covering, even if there is a certain rebounding advantage. Therefore, how to solve the problem of inefficient blocking and demolition is undoubtedly the top priority of the Chinese men's basketball team to solve the team's offensive problem.

This is also a highlight of the Chinese men's basketball team on the offensive end of this Asian Cup qualifiers.

From the perspective of squad strength, despite the absence of many main players, this "202402 version" of the national team may play better than the past performance in terms of blocking and dismantling, not only because the opponents are Mongolia and Japan, which cannot be compared with the opponents of the World Cup, but more importantly, the defenders who launched the blocking and dismantling and the center who blocked and dismantled have changed significantly from before.

Zhao Jiwei's ability to use blocking and dismantling to make the ball to the center is stronger, and the 2023-24 season should be Zhao Jiwei's craziest season to play blocking and dismantling, facing the most difficult mobile center (strong ability to change defense), he can also buy time and space for the center to go down through feints, so the center of Liao Basket can send more than 5 assists in total this season, ranking first in the entire league.

In addition, Zhao Jiwei's ability and desire to use the block and pick up to score is also stronger, Zhao Jiwei used to attack 7 points and 7 points, but now it has changed, about 4 points to attack 6 points to pass, and it may even be 55 points, 3 points in a single block, 3 points in chasing, the middle distance after the serpentine breakthrough and the sudden attack on the frame after the block and dismantling are obviously more frequent and efficient than in the past. Without offensive power, the passing will become unthreatening, on the contrary, once Zhao Jiwei has offensive containment, the combing attack will also rise.

(Warm-up match with Qingdao)

Choi Yong-hee is the No. 2 guard ball-handler in this national team, and similarly, compared to the beginning, Choi Yong-hee has also improved a lot, averaging 15.5 points and 3.6 assists per game this season, and shooting 37.4% from the outside. Choi Yong-hee usually plays the No. 3 position in the Guangzhou lineup (playing the No. 2 position in some stages), and in the ranking of small forward assists (including foreign aid), Choi Yong-hee is ranked fourth.

In addition, the new face Liao Sanning is also an excellent ball handler, he is characterized by solid breakthrough skills, and he can bring some energy and variety to the defender's attack.

Zhao Jiwei, Cui Yongxi and Liao Sanning will be the main ball-holding or main rotation of blocking and dismantling, and Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan and Cheng Shuaipeng are the ball-holding resources on the wings, so the fourth problem mentioned above can be roughly alleviated.

(Warm-up match with Qingdao)

The center forwards are a new trio: Hu Jinqiu, Yang Hansen and Yu Jiahao.

Judging from the warm-up match with Qingdao, Qiao Shuai is likely to let Hu Jinqiu play 5 like the World Cup, and he is the starting No. 5, followed by Yang Hansen, and finally Yu Jiahao.

Hu Jinqiu's change is to add the outside bullet after the pick-and-roll, which is already the regular play style of the Guangsha team and Hu Jinqiu, who has delivered a 50% shooting rate on the outside this season. In the warm-up game two days ago, Hu Jinqiu scored 1 3-point shot and 1 shot, and in the World Cup, Hu Jinqiu didn't shoot a 3-pointer, this is the change.

(Data from the warm-up match with Qingdao)

The team value of the center's outside bomb is not as good as the block-and-drop smooth, but the outside shot can dilute the defense, empty the box, and create favorable conditions for the defender or the wing to attack the frame.

Yang is a rare playmaker center, and compared to his back-to-back skills under the basket, it is the passing after the ball on the line that truly reflects the value of his development resources. In the warm-up game, Yang Hansen actually delivered the most 5 assists in the team, from this point of view, Qiao Shuai does not seem to ignore Yang Hansen's strategy value in the national team, and Yang Hansen should have designed some open back door or reverse running play.

After talking for a long time, it still hasn't been short?

It's coming!

(In-team training)

Yu Jiahao is the three centers, in the CBA short down the most times, like Liao Basket, Zhejiang this season has also enriched this style of play, Yu Jiahao can rely on the wide body to make a wall for the guard, quickly go down to catch the ball, and then there are three commonly used solutions:

1. Mid-range shooting;

The hit rate is as high as 45.5%.

2. Internal and external response;

Averaged 2 assists per game, and the assist rate/round possession rate exceeded 70% of the league's centers;

3. Long down the attack frame.

He shot 78.8 percent from the field.

The above mentioned that the World Cup blocking and dismantling did not play well about the center has 3 shortcomings, and Hu Jinqiu, Yang Hansen and Yu Jiahao have the ability to solve these 3 problems, of course, these three have different characteristics and values, so, the premise is that Qiao Shuai knows that people are good and good at taking advantage of the situation.

If the Chinese men's basketball team can tear apart the opponent's defense line through blocking and dismantling, then Abudu, who plays all-round on the wing, Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan, Du Runwang and Wang Ruize who has the threat of shooting, or Fu Hao, who has the ability to cut in the air, may be activated, so don't be so discouraged, there is still something to see in this Chinese men's basketball team.

(Warm-up match with Qingdao)

Japan had a fantastic World Cup performance, beating Finland (98-88), Venezuela (86-77) and Cape Verde (80-71) to get the only Asian Olympic ticket to Paris.

This time, Japan attaches great importance to the fight with the Chinese men's basketball team, and the Japanese men's basketball coach Horvath said bluntly: "We didn't win last time (the first window of the 2023 World Preliminaries), this time we want to win, we want to take revenge!" Therefore, the Japanese lineup of the Asian preliminaries this time is almost the team of the World Cup, except for Yuta Watanabe, there are as many as 10 people participating in the Japanese training team, including Yuki Kawamura, Yuki Tomiyatsu, Yudai Bababa, Qisheng Fuyong and naturalized foreign aid Hawkins.

In the past, China and Japan played each other, Hawkins was not in the team, the Chinese men's basketball team has an absolute advantage in the penalty area, both games ended in big wins, this time Japan, is a victorious division returning from the World Cup, with the famous 172 guard Kawamura Yuki and the naturalized foreign aid Hawkins, the strength is obviously not the same as in 2021, so this contest is undoubtedly a very difficult challenge for the Chinese men's basketball team, success or failure, may determine Qiao Shuai's future direction.

Of course, let's get this victory against Mongolia on our doorstep first.