Original title: Three-person Basketball World Cup: The Chinese men’s team suffered a two-game losing streak by the largest point difference to the Olympic champion
The 2022 FIBA Three-person Basketball World Cup will continue to be held in Antwerp, Belgium on the 22nd. The Chinese men’s team in the one-day double-match lost to the Netherlands and Latvia with 15:21 and 6:22 respectively. They suffered a two-game losing streak, and in the battle with Latvia, it was the biggest single game since the start of the World Cup. The difference is lost.
In this competition, the Chinese men’s team was divided into the “group of death”, which was in Group B with the Tokyo Olympic champion Latvia, the World Cup runner-up Netherlands, the European powerhouse Poland and the old rival Japan. In the last three-person basketball World Cup, the Chinese men’s team lost all 4 games in the group stage, ranking 19th among the 20 participating teams. In this cup, the Chinese three men’s basketball team strives to make progress.
The four members of the Chinese three-man men’s basketball team are Li Haonan, Zhu Yuanbo, Yan Peng and Guo Hanyu. Among them, Li Haonan and Yan Peng participated in the Tokyo Olympics, and Li Haonan also participated in the last (2019) three-person basketball World Cup.
The confrontation with the Dutch team is the first show of the Chinese three-man men’s basketball team in this competition. In the face of a strong opponent, the Chinese team did not have stage fright, got off to a good start 4:1, and once led 6:2. However, as the Chinese team’s feel declined, especially the long-range shots were repeatedly missed, the Dutch team with its own strength quickly caught up with the score and achieved a go-ahead, and finally reversed and won 21:15.
According to the relevant rules, the total duration of a three-person basketball game is 10 minutes, but during the regular game time, the team that scores 21 points first can win early.
The subsequent battle between the Chinese men’s team and the Latvian team ended early due to the disparity in strength between the two sides. The Tokyo Olympic champion Latvia team fully demonstrated its strong strength. Not only did it start 7:0, but it took less than 6 minutes to win the game 22:6 ahead of schedule. The biggest point difference in a single game since the start of the World Cup.
The 2022 Three-Person Basketball World Cup kicked off on the 21st. The defending champion Chinese women’s team won one and one loss on the first day of the game: after trouncing Romania with 21:12, they lost to Japan with 14:17. At 17:00 and 18:50 on the 23rd, Beijing time, the Chinese women’s team will face Lithuania and Germany one after another. On the evening and evening of the 24th, Beijing time, the Chinese men’s team will face Japan and Poland in the last two games of the group stage.
According to the rules, among the 4 groups of the men’s and women’s teams in this three-person Basketball World Cup, the first place in each group will directly advance to the quarterfinals, and the second and third place in each group will compete for the other 4 quarterfinals.