On the evening of July 2, Beijing time, Chinese basketball ushered in a number of blockbuster events. In the third round of Group B of the 2024 FIBA U17 Men's Basketball World Cup group stage in Turkey, the Chinese U17 men's basketball team faced the strongest U17 men's basketball team in the group. In another game, in the warm-up match between the Chinese men's national basketball team and the Australian men's basketball team, with the excellent performance of Liao Sanning and Wang Lanyan, the Chinese team finally lost to the opponent by 20 points 87-107. Chinese basketball lost a total of 104 points in the two games, which also made domestic fans recognize the huge gap between the current Chinese basketball and the world's first-class standards.
Before the start of the game between the Chinese U17 men's basketball team and the United States U17 men's basketball team, many people expected that the Chinese team would be very difficult in this game, but they did not expect that the Chinese players who had just defeated the French team could not even pass half the court when facing the high-pressure pressure of the American team on the court. The U.S. U.S. U17 men's basketball team has a very good athletic talent, and the players on the court are accustomed to using physical confrontation to create an advantage, which makes the young Chinese players very uncomfortable, so that they make mistakes on the court and eventually gradually lose confidence.
However, even if the opponent scored 84 points in a heavy defeat, there were still some bright spots, and the teenager Li Yuezhou hit three points in the second half in a row, scoring 17 points personally. Although another high-profile potential star, Xun Sinan, only scored 11 points, but the personal talent he showed on the court was no worse than that of American players of the same age, and even had many actions to block American players, but Xun Sisi still did not control the foul problem well enough, resulting in him being troubled by fouls and playing time was very limited.
For this defeat, fans don't need to despair about the Chinese U17 men's basketball team, judging from the past few games, the U.S. U17 men's basketball team also defeated the opponent 124-49 when facing the Guinea U17 men's basketball team, 75 points, and last year in the U16 Copa America final, the U.S. men's basketball team also defeated the same strong Canadian team 118-36 by 82 points. Therefore, it is not that the Chinese U17 men's basketball team is not good enough, but because the opponent is too strong, and our goal is not to surpass the American men's basketball team, so we don't have to give up on ourselves because of a loss.
In the warm-up game between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Australian men's basketball team, judging from the performance of the players on the court, after more than half a month of adjustment and training under the guidance of Guo Shiqiang, this group of players has improved significantly in at least many aspects, the most significant improvement is the shooting stability of the players on the court, in last night's game, the shooting rate of the Chinese men's basketball team was 46.9%, the three-point shooting rate was 41.7%, and in terms of free throws, the whole team was also 21 free throws and 17 shots, and the performance was quite stable. In terms of players, Liao Sanning and Wang Lanyan have played brilliantly, and the Chinese men's basketball team once took the lead on the court in the first half of the game.
The fly in the ointment is that in the game, Du Runwang, a player from Guangdong Hongyuan, clashed with Australian player Reese, and the two sides expressed their dissatisfaction with each other's faces, and when the referee tried to separate the two, he pushed Du Runwang away with his hand, and Du Runwang reflexively chose to fall backwards directly, this clumsy acting skill also made Australian fans on the other side of the ocean laugh, in the face of Du Runwang's operation, Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association who supervised the battle on the spot, also felt shameless, He worked hard to contact the Australian Basketball Association and brought the Chinese men's basketball team to a warm-up game with the opponent, but Du Runwang didn't score a shot on the court, but used this fake fall to win attention, which completely lost the face of Chinese basketball.