From a 88-point victory to a 5-point victory! The men s basketball team was almost overturned by Saudi Arabia: What has the Chinese team done in the past 20 years?

93 to 88, the men's basketball team debuted in the group stage of the Asian Cup, and the Chinese team was in a surprise event, defeating the host away and winning the Asian Cup. Judging from the game process, the Chinese team's overall performance is pretty good, and Hu Jinqiu, Zhao Rui, Wang Junjie and others have all performed well. However, as the former big brother of Asian basketball, the Chinese team eventually "slidedly defeated" their opponents with a 5-point advantage, which is indeed a bit unbelievable. After all, 20 years ago, China and Saudi Arabia also met in a narrow way at the Asian Championships. At that time, the Chinese team defeated their opponents with a huge advantage of 88 points. Now that 20 years have passed, the men's basketball team has become like this, almost overturned by Saudi Arabia, which really makes people feel very disappointed.

In fact, the Chinese team has little chance of fighting with Saudi Arabia in international competitions. Due to the huge gap in strength between the two teams, the two teams cannot meet during the big score. At the 2005 Asian Championships, the Chinese team and Saudi Arabia met in the quarterfinals. At that time, the Chinese team's lineup was very luxurious, gathering Yao Ming, Tang Zhengdong, Sun Yue, Mo Ke, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Du Feng, Liu Wei and Li Nan, and their lineup was very luxurious. Due to its strong overall strength, Yao Ming did not play in the game between the Chinese team and Saudi Arabia. However, even if an NBA All-Star center was given, the Chinese team eventually made a big splash and healed his opponent.

In that game, the Chinese team scored a 14-0 fantasy start. Saudi Arabia did not get its first scoring chance until five minutes after the start. At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team led the opponent with a big score of 35-4, and 4 points in a single quarter was already the limit of the Saudi men's basketball team. In the following three quarters, Saudi Arabia's scores were controlled by the Chinese team at 2 points in each quarter. In the end, with its strong overall strength, the Chinese team defeated Saudi Arabia 98-10 88 points, giving the opponent the most miserable defeat. According to media reports at the time, despite losing to the Chinese team with 88 points, Saudi Arabia seemed to be very satisfied with being able to score 10 points on the Chinese team in a single game.

Look at the current Chinese men's basketball team, although the team finally defeated their opponents without any danger. Hu Jinqiu, Wang Junjie, Zhao Rui and others performed quite well and basically met expectations. However, to be fair, facing such an Asian team, the Chinese team ended up winning only 5 points, which itself has problems. It is undeniable that after naturalizing foreign players, Saudi Arabia's strength has indeed increased significantly. But in terms of overall strength, they are actually still far from the top Asian teams. The Chinese team once widened the gap to 15 points in this battle. However, if they were not careful in the final quarter, they were counterattacked one after another by their opponents, and they were almost reversed.

From 88 points in a single game, to now playing hard to match the opponent, I finally beat them only 5 points. In the past 20 years, the world basketball world has been in turmoil. Many of them were once our defeated players, but now they have gradually turned over. For example, Iran, Lebanon, Japan, the Philippines and other teams, and the Chinese team during the Yao Ming era, were not just randomly played. But now, facing these teams, the Chinese team is indeed not sure to win the opponent. Especially Lebanon and Japan, their rise has been very strong in recent years and has gradually surpassed the Chinese team.

In contrast, since the Chinese team experienced the golden generation of Yao Ming's era, Wang Xiaoer has been doing the New Year in the past 20 years, and it has been worse than the New Year. When Yi Jianlian was still there, the Chinese team was still the top team in Asia and could still compete for the Olympics. But now, Ali Lian has retired, and the only fig leaf for the men's basketball team is gone. Watching the former defeated generals rise one after another, but I fall into the abyss. As a powerful player at the peak of men's basketball team, I don't know what Guo Shiqiang will think after seeing it.