Asian Cup: Chinese men's basketball team 81-93 lost to the Korean men's basketball team, the first game was defeated

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] The Chinese men's basketball team welcomed the first game of the Asian Cup in Jakarta on the evening of the 12th. In the contest with the old opponent South Korea, the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the Korean men's basketball team 81: 93 and failed to win the start. In another group of the same group that day, the Chinese Taipei team beat the Balin team 102:84.

In this game, when Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin could not appear, the Chinese men's basketball coach Du Feng sacrificed a small lineup in the opening, and the team shocked the opponent with breakthroughs and remote shots. In the entire game, Gu Quan and Zhao Rui doubled 22 points. Return player Luo Jian'er in the Korean men's basketball team scored 25 points.

Although the Asian Cup has been decoupled with the World Cup and the Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team attaches great importance to this event. However, the preparation of the Chinese men's basketball team was influenced by the new crown pneumonia. During the team in Melbourne, Australia, many players were positive for nucleic acid testing. In order to ensure that the Asian Cup competition can be carried out normally, the Chinese men's basketball team emergencyly transferred Zhai Xiaochuan, Fan Ziming, He Xining, Jiang Weize, and Gao Shiyan to Jakarta. In the list of 12 people in the Asian Cup announced on the 10th of the Chinese men's basketball team, Zhao Rui, Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan, Sun Minghui, Jiang Weize, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Fan Ziming, Zhai Xiaochuan, Gu Quan, He Xining and Fu Hao were listed.

In this list, the four players who participated in the preliminaries of the World preliminaries were not included, and Gao Shiyan among the players was not selected. Guo Ailun said on the evening of the 12th through his personal social platform that he was unfortunately not able to participate in the Asian Cup.

The Chinese team and South Korea are two seed teams of Group B. The two teams won 44 Asian Cup medals including 18 gold medals (16 Chinese teams). According to the official website of the International Basketball Association, the encounter of the China -Korea men's basketball team is a heavyweight dialogue. The Korean men's basketball team is the first team of 12 people in this event. Among them, the 2019 World Cup Korean team ’s number one brokerage and rebounding king and naturalized player Luo Jian'er will set foot on the Asian Cup.

After confronting the South Korean team, the Chinese men's basketball team will face the Barin team on the 14th, and on the 16th, the last opponent of the team of the Chinese Taipei team. The first group will be promoted directly to the quarterfinals, and the group second and third will participate in the quarterfinals. (Li Jiayin)

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