71-86, facing the physically strong and more technically and tactically literate New Zealand team, the Chinese U18 men's basketball team finally lost after four quarters of stumbling with the opponent. Strictly speaking, the disparity between the strength of the Chinese team and the New Zealand team is not large, and the Chinese team lost to the opponent and missed the Asian Cup final, and there are indeed many places that need to be summarized and reflected......
In this campaign, the Chinese team's internal general Xun Sinan was suspended due to injury, and the star Zhang Boyuan played again due to fever and illness, which laid hidden dangers for the life-and-death battle between China and Singapore. After the game began, the two sides were evenly matched in the first quarter, but as the game progressed, the physical advantage of the New Zealand team gradually became apparent, and they frequently attacked the basket again and again, constantly rushing for two rebounds (leading 24 rebounds in the game), and the score was quickly stretched. Although the Chinese team fought back with all their might, the offensive efficiency was too poor, coupled with the weak defense, and finally saw the New Zealand team enter the finals......
It is worth mentioning that in this game, the coach of the Chinese team, Qu Shaobin, had two defenders, Yang Yihe and He Wenwei, who performed lacklusterly. In this U18 Men's Basketball Asian Cup, Qu Shaobin, as the coach of the Guangdong Youth Team, selected 5 players from the Guangdong Youth Team into the 12-man squad of the national team, including Yang Yihe and He Wenwei. Although the two worked very hard in the Asian Cup, their height disadvantage and personal skills determined their performance (Yang Yi 1.79 meters, He Wenwei 1.8 meters). What's more, neither of them is good at attacking.
Against New Zealand, although Yang Yihe and He Wenwei provided 12 assists, two errors accounted for half of the team. Yang Yi played 22 minutes and scored four points on 2-of-6 shooting. The offense is hesitant, he doesn't dare to shoot when he gets out of the vacancy, and the defense is even more useless, and the opponent accelerates it; He Wenwei really worked hard in this game, and played again after being injured, but he played 12 minutes, only made one shot in the whole game, scored 3 points but made 3 mistakes, and was also unable to defend himself.
The crotch pull of the Chinese team's back line reminds people of Li Yuezhou, another defender of the national youth team. Li Yuezhou, Zhang Boyuan and Xun Sinan are considered to be the three "hopeful stars" of the Chinese men's basketball team. In the U17 World Cup, Li Yuezhou averaged 15 points, 3.6 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.7 steals per game, with a 52.9% shooting rate and 2.6 three-pointers per game. Compared with Yang Yi and He Wenwei, Li Yuezhou is very different in terms of height, speed, attack power and defensive intensity. But what is unbelievable is that Li Yuezhou was not selected for the U18 men's basketball Asian Cup squad......
As the coach of the Chinese U18 men's basketball team, Qu Shaobin stubbornly excluded Li Yuezhou from the squad, which became his failure in the U18 men's basketball Asian Cup......