After 21,600 minutes of fierce competition, the 2019 Basketball World Cup came to an end at the Wukesong Gymnasium in Beijing. Looking back on the past 360 hours, some people cried, some laughed, some were annoyed and some were annoyed. Recall the scenes of the game that happened in the past 15 days and bid farewell to the 2019 Basketball World Cup. Do you still remember those moments?
This damn sideline serve
First of all, as a native of China, the most memorable moment of this World Cup is the damn sideline service. Back to 20 o’clock on September 2, 2019, almost all China fans who love basketball are looking forward to it in front of the TV, expecting China to win two consecutive victories over Poland.
12.5 seconds before the end of the regular time, China once held a 3-point lead. After the time-out, they chose the "penalty tactics" that didn’t consume time to send their opponents to the free throw line. After the successful service in the backcourt, they should have waited for the opponent to foul but took the initiative to pause. After the time-out, qi zhou made a fatal mistake in serving the sideline ball and passed it directly to the opponent. The Polish team dragged the game into overtime.
9.8 seconds before the end, China defender Zhao Jiwei violated the rule of serving the sideline ball for 5 seconds and lost the ball right. In the end, China lost to the Polish team 76-79, giving away the easy victory.
China team lost to free throws, touchlines and time-outs, and lost to the word "details" which is talked about day and night. The basic skills are the simplest and the most difficult. The simple thing is action, but the difficult thing is practice day after day.
Spain won the championship again
In the just-concluded basketball World Cup finals, Spain beat Argentina 95-75, winning the World Cup with a record of eight victories.
It is worth mentioning that Spain’s Pau Gasol defeated Argentina in the final. He won both the NBA championship and the World Cup championship in the same year, and achieved a bumper harvest of the highest honor of the club and the national team in the same year.
In the 2018-19 season, Pau Gasol averaged 30.6 minutes on behalf of the Toronto Raptors in the playoffs, scoring 9.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 0.88 steals and 1.08 blocks to help the Raptors win the championship.
This is the second time in the history of the Spanish men’s basketball team to win the World Cup (including its predecessor, the World Championships). The last time they won the championship was 13 years ago. At the World Championships held in Japan in 2006, they beat Greece 70-47 in the final. In the Olympic Games, the Spanish men’s basketball team won the runner-up three times, namely the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984, the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the London Olympic Games in 2012.
Kobe, your prediction has come true.
I have to say that Kobe Bryant, a famous NBA player, is really accurate in other aspects besides having a son.
On October 31, 2018, Kobe officially became the global ambassador of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. In the promotional film he shot, Kobe said the classic sentence: "Team USA, don’t think you are stable." As a result, after 315 days, the American team was eliminated by the French team in the eight-to-four competition, and their 58-game winning streak in international official competitions was ended. This is also the first time in 13 years that the United States lost in the World Series. The last time it lost, it was traced back to the semi-final of the 2006 World Championships (the predecessor of the Basketball World Cup). The United States lost to Greece 95-101.
In fact, this American team was not optimistic from the beginning for many reasons. First, the big-name stars quit one after another before the start of the game, which led to the so-called dream of the 13 th team. Second, the United States team assembled for a short time and did not fully establish a chemical reaction with each other; Third, after putting out a small lineup, the attack didn’t go as smoothly as expected, and the defense suffered from the loss of body and rebounds.
Before the August 4th competition, American team coach Popovich was interviewed. When asked about the American team’s early qualification for the Olympic Games, he said, "One of our purposes here is to get tickets for the Tokyo Olympic Games. In fact, the national team has tasks every year. For example, Jeff Van Gundy’s task when he coached the United States was to break through the qualifiers, and now we are finally through the Olympic Games. We are very happy."
Ok, now I am very much looking forward to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, waiting for the "The Avengers" composed of NBA superstars to wipe out other teams all over the world.
He may bid farewell to the Olympic Games.
For many seniors, such as Brazil’s Barbosa and Garcia, Argentina’s Scola, Iranian’s Haddadi and bahrami, this may be their last basketball World Cup. As the saying goes, if the country is selfish, it will live or die, and it will be avoided because of misfortune. They work hard on the field to make people feel distressed, just to help the national team go further and further. They regard all games as the last game of their careers.
For China team leader Yi Jianlian, this may be his last World Series (Olympic Games, World Cup). At 8: 00 pm on September 8th, China welcomed the last match of this World Cup in Guangzhou, against the Nigerian team with four NBA players. In this game, Yi Jianlian gave everything for the China team and contributed 27 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in 25 minutes, including 8 of 10 two-point shots and 2 of 4 three-point shots. Every point he got propped up China’s last hope and face, but his fists were lost to four hands, and China lost to his opponent 73-86, losing the ticket to the Olympic Games directly and falling into the abyss of the play-offs of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Two minutes and 57 seconds before the end, Yi Jianlian fought for the backboard in the backcourt despite his injured ankle, but because no one answered, he was robbed and dunked by his opponent. The United Arab League spread out his hands towards his teammates and bent down to beat the floor hard. It was the moment when Nigeria killed the suspense of the game. After the game, Yi Jianlian’s distant back looks so lonely and desperate.
32-year-old, 15-year national team career, 4-time Olympic Games participation experience … The stage of Tokyo Olympic Games should be Yi Jianlian’s curtain call performance as a veteran of the 5 th Olympic Games. But the cruel reality tells us that we have only one Yi Jianlian. Who can take his torch in the future?
Isn’t this a mirror image?
Football fans once joked that England is the European China team, so basketball fans can say that Turkey is the European China team in this year’s Basketball World Cup. The progress of the two teams in the group stage is almost identical. Isn’t this a mirror image?
In the opening match, China beat C? te d ‘Ivoire and Turkey beat Japan. In the second game, China and Poland fought overtime, but China once again made a throw-in error and lost 3 points. Turkey and the United States also fought until the overtime decisive moment, but all the free throws at the last moment missed by 1 point. In the final match of the group stage, China lost to Venezuela, while Turkey lost to the Czech Republic. Both teams missed the top 16 of the World Cup.
It is worth mentioning that in the second world war of the group stage, China was dragged into overtime because of Zhou Qi’s foul on the sideline, while Turkey was dragged into overtime because of Osman’s three-point foul.
China wasted an excellent signing, while Turkey wasted a chance to go down in history. If one sentence is used to evaluate these two teams, it is "it’s useless to give you a chance!"
Brother Alphabet: I’m too difficult.
Who would have thought that the Greek team led by NBA MVP Yannis Adetokunbo last season didn’t reach the World Cup quarter-finals? Greece, known as one of the favourites to win the championship before the game, lost in the second stage group stage. In the match between the Greek team and the Czech team, they must win at least 12 points in order to get the advantage in the small-scale competition with the Czech team and Brazil and get the chance to qualify. The Greek team tried their best. Although they won the game 84-77, they failed to advance to the quarter-finals.
Under the rules of FIBA (there is no 3-second defense limit), the weakness of "Letter Brother" in poor projection is exposed. The opponent locked him up by double-teaming and the center standing in the basket. Czech top star Satoransky said: "He is undoubtedly the best player in the world, almost unstoppable under the NBA system, but the international arena is a completely different game, and we can limit him and beat him under this system." The "letter brother" trapped in singles can only find opportunities by passing the ball. It is worth mentioning that every time this happens, his outside teammates seem to have lost their sight.
Back to September 9th, with 5 minutes and 32 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Adetokunbo, the "Letter Brother", pushed the defensive player to make a layup in the fast break, but the referee penalized Brother Letter for an offensive foul. "Brother Letter" got the fifth personal foul in this game and had no choice but to leave.
At that moment, he shook his head helplessly, as if to say, "I am too difficult!" "
Fairy fights are really beautiful.
Also on September 9, the second stage of the group stage ushered in the final battle. France and Australia were both 4 wins and 0 losses before the game. The outcome of this game will be related to who will meet the defending champion USA in advance.
France and Australia played fiercely from the beginning, and the two teams with close strength launched an attack, and the score rose alternately, which was very anxious. In the last 3 minutes of the last quarter, the two teams let the fans know what is called "fairy fight", all kinds of difficult breakthroughs and picturesque three points. 16.6 seconds before the end, the two teams tied at 98. In the last attack, the French team was forced to foul again because the forecourt ball was broken. With only 0.9 seconds left, the Australian team deliberately missed the last penalty and won the game 100-98.
In this competition, Australian team’s core defender Mills scored 30 points and French team Founier scored 31 points. This is the first time that both players scored 30+ points at the same time.
After watching the game, I left tears of envy. When will our China team be able to play such a pleasing game? We also want to see the China version of the Fairy Wars!
Asian and African brothers are struggling
On the evening of September 5th, the first stage group match of the basketball World Cup ended with the final whistle of the American team’s bloodbath of Japan. Eleven Asian and African teams, including the host team China, were all eliminated, and they could only participate in the 17-32 qualifying session.
There are six teams in Asia, namely, China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, the Philippines and Jordan. There are five teams in Africa, namely Nigeria, Tunisia, Angola, C? te d ‘Ivoire and Senegal.
In the first stage of the group stage, except for China, which defeated C? te d ‘Ivoire in the opening match, the other five Asian teams lost all three games, with no win, and many Asian teams lost by a big margin. In the 17-32 qualifying matches, Japan and the Philippines both lost, Jordan beat Senegal, China only won South Korea, and South Korea beat C? te d ‘Ivoire. Iran scored the best, they beat Angola first, and finally beat the Philippines by 20 points, and finally forced China to get the ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Although African teams have many talented players who even play in the NBA, their performance is unstable in the game. When they play, they improvise. When they are prosperous, they will collapse to the end. Their situation is not as good as that of Asian teams, and they are completely crushed by their opponents.
After all the games were played, the teams in Asia were 6-24 and the teams in Africa were 7-18. When the World Cup grouping was just announced, who would have thought that Asian and African teams would collectively miss the top 16? Asian and African brothers are really struggling in the international basketball competition.
Your uncle or your uncle?
Diamonds last forever, and one will last forever!
The 39-year-old Luis Scola led Argentina, which is in the transition from old to new, to beat Serbia, which ranked first in FIBA, in the quarterfinals and successfully advanced to the semifinals of the 2019 Basketball World Cup.
In the semi-final, Scola became angry again, and taught Gaubert, the best defensive player in NBA, to be a man. He scored 28 points and 13 rebounds in the whole game, helping the Argentine team reach the final of the World Series 15 years later. At the same time, Scola has scored 20+ in 16 games in the history of the World Cup, second only to the famous Brazilian Oscar Schmidt (23 games).
At the last moment of the quarter-final against Serbia, Scola, who was dragging his old body and his temples were white, jumped high, grabbed the key offensive rebounds and firmly controlled the victory in his own hands. At the last moment of the semi-final against France, Scola hit the horn in a row to seal the victory. After the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Scola and Ginobili, a famous Argentine on the sidelines, hugged each other tightly.
At the age of 39, why he can be so efficient on the field depends not only on talent, but also on self-discipline, hard work, attitude and determination to win or lose. Your uncle is still your uncle, if you refuse to accept it, you can’t!
During the 15-day basketball World Cup, China Mobile Mi Gu, as the exclusive broadcast platform of telecom operators in China, not only broadcasted all the games of China, but also launched the activity of "China Mobile 5G call for China", where users can participate in the interaction and generate exclusive fans’ cheering photos, so that "call for China" can lead the trend of friends circle. In addition, the topic of # call# for China # has also been strongly launched on social media platforms such as Weibo, attracting fans to participate.
This is the end of the 2019 Basketball World Cup. China has put all the bullets together. Although the World Cup tour is over, we still have a long way to go. Let’s continue to call for the China team in the future!
Xiongguan Man Road is as iron as iron, and now we are striding from the beginning. Team China, we support you!
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Source: China Daily.
