After the two warm-up games with the Macau Black Bears, the Chinese men's basketball team will set off in the near future to start the team's overseas training journey. In this trip, the Chinese men's basketball team will first go to Australia to play two warm-up games with the Australian men's basketball team, and then the team will go to Sacramento, USA, to participate in the NBA Summer League as a special guest team. After that, the Basketball Association also contacted a number of local teams in the United States for the Chinese men's basketball team, and it is expected that the national team will continue to play five or six warm-up games in the United States before returning to China at the end of July.
The coaching staff hopes to help the young players in the team grow up as soon as possible through this series of warm-up games, and better pinch the players into a whole, so as to prepare for the 2027 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games. It's just that just now, there was a sudden news from the Australian front, the Australian men's basketball team announced the list of personnel for their warm-up match with the Chinese men's basketball team, and many people were worried about head coach Guo Shiqiang, and the Chinese men's basketball team had booked two fiascos in advance.
In fact, it is not difficult to see from the itinerary of the national team's warm-up match that the Chinese Basketball Association and the coaching staff still hope to use the easy to difficult way to improve the players' self-confidence first, and then gradually achieve the purpose of training. In the two warm-up games in Kunshan, the team chose the semi-professional team Black Bears from Macau, and the result was the first game, the Black Bears gave enough face and directly let the Chinese men's basketball team win by 35 points, but when the two sides met again the next day, the Macau Black Bears, who did their best, also defeated the Chinese men's basketball team in front of the national fans, without showing any mercy to Guo Shiqiang and the players of the Chinese men's basketball team.
When it comes to this overseas training, fans and friends should be mentally prepared in advance, and the Chinese men's basketball team is likely to have a series of big defeats. Judging from the personnel list announced by the Australian Basketball Association, the Australian team also sent all the main players in the warm-up game, including Patty Mills, Dyson Daniels, Matthew Dellavedova, Josh Giddey, Joe Ingles, Dante Exum, Jack White and other current or former players who have played in the NBA, which is also the personnel lineup of the Australian men's basketball team to participate in the Paris Olympic GamesObviously, the two warm-up games with the Chinese men's basketball team will be the best opportunity for the Australian players to improve their self-confidence.
If Djordjevic led the national team to train in Europe last year, making fans aware that there is a huge gap between Chinese basketball and European basketball at the level of team cooperation, then this warm-up game with Australia, and the subsequent NBA Summer League, it is very likely to directly expose the individual level of local players and compare the shortcomings of international players. In fact, in the early years, the Chinese men's basketball team also chose to participate in the NBA Summer League, when the Chinese men's basketball team led by Guo Allen and Ding Yanyuhang played a good performance, but this time it went out again, and the prospects of the Chinese men's basketball team are not optimistic.