A few days ago, the grading of the Men’s Basketball World Cup was officially released, and the World Cup draw will be made according to this grading. China team was finally assigned to the sixth gear, 32 teams were divided into eight gears according to the world ranking, and China team was also assigned to the sixth gear according to our ranking. This is also helpless. China’s current decline level is still relatively fast. According to this gear, China team will be drawn with the teams in the second, third and seventh gears respectively. In the seventh gear, because there are two Asian teams, namely Japanese team and Jordan team, it is said that China will draw one of the two teams in C? te d ‘Ivoire and Angola as an opponent of China’s group match.
Judging from the situation of such a grouping, we can basically determine the goal of China’s World Cup. It’s impossible to get into the top 16, because the teams in the second and third files are at least strong teams in Europe and America, and compared with these teams, China is not a question of winning or losing, but a question of how many points it loses. After retiring from Yao Ming, the China team has never been able to beat this level of opponents, even if it is impossible to narrow the difference to double digits with them. This can be referred to the unsuccessful match of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. When the China team faced the Greek and Canadian teams, they lost more than 50 points in two games, which is a good reference.
There is only one goal left for China, that is, to become the best Asian team in the World Cup and return to the Olympic Games. First of all, the first step is to beat one of the teams in C? te d ‘Ivoire and Angola, and at the same time, we should hope that the other Asian teams, namely, the Philippine team, the Japanese team, the Lebanese team, the Jordanian team and the Iranian team, can only achieve the hope of China’s men’s basketball team returning to the Olympic Games if their records are not better than those of China.
Originally, because Japan and the Philippines are the hosts, we don’t have much hope for China to get the Olympic seats, because according to the regulations, the hosts will be assigned to the first team, so their grouping situation will be relatively favorable, or even a little lucky, and they will be able to hit the top 16 with the help of the host, just like the China team in 2019. At that time, China was put into a group with a team like Polish and Venezuelan, in fact, it was because of the glory of the host country. As a result, after the grading, we found that only the Philippines got the host qualification and advantage, and the Philippines was assigned to the first grade, while the Japanese team was assigned to the seventh grade according to its international ranking, and his grouping situation was definitely more dangerous than that of China, because he could not touch the super weak teams like Angola and C? te d ‘Ivoire. On the contrary, he had to play against the stronger teams in Europe and America such as Georgia, Latvia and Mexico, so Japan, a potential competitor, was selected.
Jordan and Lebanon are ranked eighth and seventh respectively. They are the lowest ranked and weakest teams in the same group, and it is basically impossible to win even one group match. Although Iran will meet a team with a lower ranking than itself, its strength is even worse than that of Kazakhstan after the lack of Kazakhstan season, so even if it gets a better opponent, it is basically hard to win. Therefore, China’s real potential opponent is only the host Philippines, so this grading is really a surprise to everyone. The unexpected point is that Japan, as the host, was not assigned to the first file, but was assigned to the seventh file. For China, it is a fisherman’s gain, and it is very likely that it will return to the Olympic family with the help of such an unexpected grading form.
Of course, this depends on two points. The first point is that China must win the weakest African opponent in the group stage, and also hope that the Philippines can’t play too well, because once the Philippines really rushes back to the top 16 with the help of the lottery, China can’t qualify for the Olympic Games.
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