The Chinese men's basketball team climbs the road to the Olympic Games in Paris! Laugh at your heart's content, this death squad will never give up
The Chinese men's basketball team has never been under more pressure than this period in history.
After losing the 2019 World Cup and the 2021 Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team missed the Olympic Games for the first time in 37 years. Different from other countries, the Olympic Games is the most important competition in the eyes of the Chinese people. This kind of weight is indescribable and incomparable.
Therefore, when watching others perform their Tokyo trips under the eyes of the whole world, as a long-term hegemon in Asia and the Chinese men's basketball team that has reached the top eight in the world three times, as well as Chinese fans who love basketball, Missing the Olympics is undoubtedly extremely heartbreaking.
The Tokyo Olympics have passed, and the Paris Olympics are coming soon. Although they are not optimistic, this is an opportunity for the Chinese men's basketball team to return to the Olympics again and bring confidence to the entire Chinese fans. In the past two years, the Chinese men's basketball team has lost its burden and moved forward in the criticism. It has improved the ability of local players through the reform of the CBA, set up corresponding national organizations to supervise the development and construction of the national team, and established various standards for the selection of national team talents. The challenge of Paris, they will give everything, whatever the cost, to accomplish this combined task.
So, what challenges does the Chinese men's basketball team need to go through if they want to qualify for the Paris Olympics? Which key nodes need to be foolproof? How likely is it to succeed? Below I will give you a detailed introduction.
It should be noted that with the restructuring of FIBA (FIBA) in 2015, the Chinese men’s basketball team’s quota for the Olympic Games has gone straight from the previous Asian Championships (now called the Asian Cup) to winning the Asian championship in the World Cup. Good results (excluding Australia and New Zealand), the role of the Asian Cup is only to train soldiers and get points.
Therefore, for qualifying for the Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team cannot only focus on Asia as in the past, and its opponents are not only Asian countries. We have to be the best Asian team in the 2023 World Cup.
In the 2019 World Cup, China was eliminated with 1 win and 2 losses in the group stage. In qualifying, China had 1 win and 1 loss, and the total record was 2 wins and 3 losses - the same as Iran, but Iran had a small advantage of 17 points. China ranks 23rd, and China unfortunately falls in 24th place, then Iran has become the best team in Asia, and thus gets the only ticket to the Olympics.
The Chinese men's basketball team subsequently lost to Canada and Greece in the Olympic qualifying games, thus completely missing the Tokyo Olympics.
The Olympic qualifiers consist of 4 groups of 24 teams consisting of 16 teams that failed to qualify for the World Cup and 8 teams that failed to participate in the World Cup (four continents, two teams from each continent). The team needs to compete with the strong teams from Europe and the United States for the top spot in their group - this difficulty is several times higher than that of the World Cup group stage!
Therefore, the Chinese men's basketball team must work hard to win more victories in the 2023 World Cup. No matter whether it can qualify for the group or not, it must at least become the best team in Asia.
The first window of the World Cup qualifiers this year has been completed. China has won both games against Japan and is currently preparing for the second window of the World Cup qualifiers. This year, the Chinese men's basketball team was placed in Group B with Australia, Chinese Taipei and Japan in the World Cup qualifiers. The top 3 teams of the 4 teams entered the next stage of the competition. According to the group situation, the Chinese men's basketball team may be ranked second or third. Position, the pressure of promotion is not great.
If you lose to the provincial team in an upset, then the situation will be very bad. I think, it should not be so weak, right?
In the second stage, there are 6 semi-final groups left (4 in Europe and 2 in the rest of the divisions). In the second stage of the game, each team will play a double round-robin home and away game with the three teams that have not met in the first stage. At the end of the second stage, the ranking is based on the total score. The World Cup places allocated by FIBA to the Asia-Pacific region (Asia + Australia + New Zealand) are 7.
Since three Asian countries, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines are the hosts, and considering Indonesia's poor strength, FIBA has made it clear that Japan and the Philippines will directly get 2 places, while Indonesia needs to be in the top eight in the World Cup qualifiers to get it. There are only 5 or 4 places left in the Asia-Pacific region.
And Australia, as the new overlord of the Asia-Pacific region, will undoubtedly reserve 1 place in advance, so the chances left for China are 3 to 4, that is to say, from the perspective of the traditional Asian territory, the Chinese men's basketball team advanced to 4 in the qualifiers It shouldn't be a problem to be strong, so the Chinese men's basketball team's participation in the World Cup will not be a big surprise.
Then everyone follow me and push forward, how can the Chinese men's basketball team qualify for the World Cup qualifiers? The answer is the top 16 teams in the Asia Pacific region in the FIBA standings.
As of today, the Chinese men's basketball team ranks 29th in the world (30th in South Korea) with 359.2 points, and 4th in Asia. Is it possible that China does not even qualify for the World Cup qualifiers? Without this possibility, the Chinese men's basketball team is not the Chinese men's football team, and the men's basketball team is still the dominant player in Asia no matter how bad it is.
In addition, it needs to be said that the Chinese men's basketball team needs to participate in international competitions above the intercontinental level, continuously increase the points, and improve the world ranking, so as to provide a better selection for the Chinese men's basketball team in the Asian Cup and the World Cup. Of course, the points have a great impact on the Asian Cup grouping. If China is fifth in Asia, then China may be in the same group as Australia in the Asian Cup.
However, the impact on the World Cup is relatively small. The World Cup race groups are evenly distributed to each group according to each gear. It is impossible for China to avoid the actual strong team, and it will also be in the same group as the weak team.
So, now we should be clear, the road to promotion of the Chinese men's basketball team. FIBA points remain the top 16 in Asia to qualify for the World Cup qualifiers, the top 4 in the Asia-Pacific region after the rematch of the World Cup qualifiers (if the top eight, you need to consider the results of Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines), the best results in Asia in the World Cup race (if not the best in Asia) If you have a good result, you can only play in the Olympic Games and compete for the top spot in the group!)
This road can be said to be very difficult, just like the failure of the Chinese men's basketball team in 2019. The real opponents of the Chinese men's basketball team are strong Asian teams such as Iran and Japan, but the opponents of the competition are from Europe, the United States and Africa. So today's Chinese men's basketball team is like a death squad. It knows that the road ahead is full of ups and downs, but it still makes the best preparations. Every capable player has a strong desire to fight for the country and wants to become a member of the national team. member.
You can mock them as much as you like, anyway, what I see is hope, Du and the men's basketball boys are not what they were a few years ago, they are worth looking forward to! Although not flying to Paris, although crawling slowly like a snail, the appearance of hard work is always worthy of respect. This has nothing to do with success or failure!
Come on, Chinese men's basketball team!
