China News Agency, Beijing, July 21st, 69:72! The difference of 3 points became the ceiling, and China was again blocked outside the top four Asian Cup men’s basketball.

The men’s basketball Asian Cup 2022 held the 1/4 finals in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 20th. In a duel in the evening, China men’s basketball lost to Lebanon, which had never lost in the Asian Cup before, and failed to win the fourth in two consecutive Asian Cups.

The Chinese team in this campaign started with 2:10 and fell into a passive position. After falling 4 points behind 13:17 in the first quarter, at the end of the first half, the difference with the opponent expanded to 9 points (30:39).

In the third quarter, the Chinese team was once 16 points behind (33:49). After entering the fourth quarter with a score difference of 12 points (45:57), the Chinese team fought against each other and once surpassed the score by 64:63. But at the last minute, China failed to grasp the opportunity men’s basketball and finally lost to its opponent for the first time in the history of the Asian Cup at 69:72.

In this game, Zhou Qi, who was still a substitute, contributed 22 points, 21 rebounds, 3 rebounds and cap. In addition, Gu Quan and Xu Jie each scored 9 points for the Chinese team who had no double scores, jiang Weize, the “after 00” general of “Man on Fire”, got 6 points. Lebanon’s Alaki 22 shot 13, cut the highest 32 points in the game.

Before this campaign, China met Lebanon 11 times in the Asian Cup (Asian Championship) men’s basketball, and the Chinese team did not lose. However, China has been in an unprecedented dilemma men’s basketball in this Asian Cup. In addition to the fact that many people were positive for nucleic acid after the end of FIFA World Cup qualification in Australia, which caused Liaoning double star Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei to miss the Asian Cup, other players also had injuries to varying degrees. Even if a number of players were urgently recruited from China to supplement the lineup, only about 6 players in China could stick to normal training before the Asian Cup men’s basketball.

On the contrary, the Lebanon team in this Asian Cup has a neat lineup and strong soldiers. Alaki, who had a short “working” experience in CBA, has become the core of the Lebanon team. In the group match, the Lebanon team, the New Zealand team with good strength and the Philippines team won more than 23 points in the game. In the latest Asian Cup battle force list released by the International Basketball Federation, the Lebanese team surpassed the third Australian team in the world and was promoted to the top of the list, araki was also selected by the FIBA official website as one of the five players with the best performance in the group match.

Although the Chinese men’s basketball stopped the top eight again, to a large extent, because the lineup was not complete and the wounded soldiers were full of camps, Du Feng, the coach of the Chinese team, did not make excuses at the press conference after the game. He said that losing is losing, which is his own reason. The 22 mistakes are not the real level of China’s men’s basketball, and the penalty basket hit rate is ridiculously low. It is “everyone thinks about the game simply” and “The team defeated itself”.

For this, Du Feng apologized to the national fans. He said: “All fans will not accept this result, and we cannot accept it ourselves. But the biggest responsibility for this failure lies in the coach, which has little to do with the players.” He said that most of the players in the Asian Cup were in poor health and the situation was repeated from time to time, but everyone had been insisting on it, which was very touching.

It is reported that China men’s basketball, which ends the Asian Cup, will go to Europe to train and prepare for the men’s basketball World Cup qualifier window in late August.

The men’s basketball Asian Cup, formerly known as the Asian Men’s Basketball Championship, was founded in 1960 and has been held for 28 sessions. After 2015, the men’s basketball Asian championship was renamed the men’s basketball Asian Cup. China participated in the Asian championship for the first time since 1975 men’s basketball, winning 16 championships and 19 medals in the first 22 competitions. After the Oceania regional team joined the Asian Cup in 2017, it changed the pattern of Asian basketball. The World Team Australia became the Xinba leader of the Asian Cup, at that time, the Chinese team was eliminated from the top four in the 1/4 final.

The Lebanese team who advanced to the top four in this Asian Cup will face Jordan in the semi-final on the 23rd, and the latter will knock out the last runner-up Iran in the 1/4 final. Another semi-final opponent will be the winner of the battle between Australia and Japan and the winner of the battle between New Zealand and South Korea. (Finished)