Chinese men s basketball back line frequently makes mistakes, the prospects for Asian Cup are worrying

The Bosnia and Herzegovina players' sweat has not dried yet, and the scoreboard of the Nanjing Stadium is frozen at 75:72. Although the Chinese men's basketball team won, the locker room was extremely quiet. Head coach Guo Shiqiang held the technical statistics table tightly, and the team made a total of 27 mistakes, while the back line contributed 18 times. Among them, Liao Sanning made 7 mistakes, Hu Mingxuan made 5 times, Cheng Shuipeng made 4 times, and the three main defenders made the opponent launch a fast break counterattack continuously.

Ironically, in the last 2 minutes and 47 seconds of the game, Xu Jie, who only appeared on the field for 1 minute and 22 seconds. The 1.83-meter-tall player did not score or assist in 82 seconds, but reduced the lead from 3 points to 6 points.

Hu Mingxuan rushed into the crowd again. When the ball hit the Bosnian player's leg and bounced out of bounds, the fans on the sidelines yelled: "Pass! Why don't you pass it!" The defender, who is respected as the Asian Cup winner, exposed problems in the warm-up game: within 20 minutes of his appearance, he made only 1 of 8 shots, 0 of 4 three-pointers, and made five turnovers.

fans left messages criticizing: "I can only blame my teammates", "I clearly have to fight for two and one." What's more fatal is that statistics show that his organizational error rate this season is as high as 18.7%, and his three-point shooting percentage is only about 35%.

Liao Sanning was also in trouble. In his second encounter with Bosnia and Herzegovina, he made seven mistakes, four of which occurred in the critical fourth quarter. Guo Shiqiang instructed him to replace Zhao Rui and control the rhythm of the game. As a result, he was caught in a double-team of three people when he broke through, and the pass was thrown directly into the audience. Although Cheng Shuipeng successfully hit a key three-pointer, all four mistakes in the whole game were due to the long time of holding the ball. He was even intercepted by his opponent in the third quarter, causing the opponent to easily score a layup.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Chinese team was once led by 16 points, but in a flash, it was overtaken to only 3 points left. The "collapse assembly line" of the Chinese men's basketball team was launched again:

When Hu Mingxuan passed the ball out of bounds again, Guo Shiqiang finally shouted a substitution order. Xu Jie, who was 1.83 meters tall, came on the court, and there were sporadic applause from Nanjing Stadium, and more people began to doubt: "Can he defend himself against the strong European man?"

In the next 82 seconds, Xu Jie showed his skills: he stopped the game before crossing the center line and asked Hu Jinqiu to perform a pick-and-roll. When Bosnia and Herzegovina players snatched, he passed the ball to his teammates to shoot, and Cheng Shuipeng hit an open three-pointer, pulling the score gap back to 6 points.

The next offensive handling was more skillful: Xu Jie suddenly accelerated his breakthrough after 20 seconds of possession, attracting three opponents to defend, and successfully passed the ball to Zhu Junlong who cut in, thereby provoking the opponent's foul. Although there is no outstanding data, the electronic scoreboard clearly shows that he has led by 3 points when he played and has increased his lead to 6 points when he left the court.

However, even if Xu Jie performed well in just 82 seconds, it could not conceal the fundamental problems in the inside of the Chinese men's basketball team. With Yang Hansen confirming that he will miss the Asian Cup, only Hu Jinqiu and Yu Jiahao are left in the team's interior to support it. And when the opponent attacks the defender wildly, where is the center that should provide support? Hu Jinqiu was forced to take action from the outside, while Yu Jiahao was targeted by his opponent in the pick-and-roll, and he couldn't breathe.

What is even more bizarre is the choice of team personnel. Guo Shiqiang always insisted on letting Hu Mingxuan play the main control role, but even in the Guangdong team, he was unable to compete with this position. Fans discuss the old story: Du Feng once tried to let him control the ball and lose to Japan, but now Guo Shiqiang follows the steps. On the other hand, Sun Minghui, who averaged 4.8 assists per game, has not yet entered the official list, because of his "poor defense."

Amid the sound of the air conditioning in Jeddah, in the Asian Cup locker room, Xu Jie silently handled his right ankle. There were still traces of water left on Hu Mingxuan and Liao Sanning's jerseys, not from sweat, but from traces just after the ice water shower.

Technical statistics table lie quietly on the side: the team made 27 mistakes, including 18 mistakes on the back line. The only thing that was not mentioned is: when the score was in a stalemate, a short man only took 82 seconds to let everyone see his true ball-handling ability.