Chapter 343 The 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup kicks off!
On August 10, the Kunshan International Men's Basketball Championship, also known as the Kunshan Four Nations Tournament, hosted by Kunshan City, JS Province, officially kicked off.
This is a small-scale event held by Kunshan under the instruction of the Basketball Association. It is also one of the warm-up matches for the Chinese men's basketball team to prepare for the World Cup.
In addition to the Chinese men's basketball team, the other three participating teams are Angola, Croatia and Puerto Rico.
This small-scale tournament has attracted the attention of many Chinese fans because it is the first warm-up match that Wang Feng has participated in since returning to the team.
A large number of fans gathered in Kunshan City, wanting to see Wang Feng up close.
On the 10th, the Chinese men’s basketball team first played against the Angola men’s basketball team.
The gap in strength between the two teams made the game smooth. The Chinese men's basketball team took the absolute initiative from the beginning and maintained its lead until the end of the game.
But this was an unexpected match.
The main surprise is that Wang Feng did not take a single shot in the entire game, but in 22 minutes on the court, he grabbed 14 rebounds and provided 10 assists.
On the field, Wang Feng, who serves as a forward, behaves like a point guard. The ball basically stays in his hands. Wang Feng uses various passes to successfully assist his teammates to score. There are some tricks in the process.
A beautiful fancy pass, and even at the end, Wang Feng performed an elbow pass from behind, which caused the fans in the audience to scream.
Wang Feng can actually pass the ball so well?
Many people are a little surprised. After all, in the NBA, Wang Feng is obviously not a player who is good at passing. Last season, he averaged more than 38 minutes of playing time per game and held a lot of ball rights. His average assists per game was only
About 3 times, they are basically luck assists.
At first, people thought that the level of the NBA was too high, so Wang Feng originally had the ability to assist and pass the ball, but he couldn't do it in an NBA-level game, but he could in a lower-level game like this.
Make a difference.
But in the second and third games, Wang Feng continued to show his ability to pass and assist. With the blessing of the ten-cent badge, any open player who received a pass from Wang Feng had a significant improvement in shooting percentage.
, indirectly allowing Wang Feng’s assists to further increase the tide.
In the second game against Croatia, Wang Feng scored 15 points, 15 rebounds and 15 assists, leading the Chinese men's basketball team to an easy victory.
Then in the third game against Puerto Rico, he even sent out 20 assists in a single game!
The Chinese men's basketball team won all three games and easily won the championship, but the fans were dumbfounded.
Is Wang Feng preparing to switch careers and become a point guard?
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The Four Nations Tournament in Kunshan ended, but Wang Feng was a little disappointed.
Sure enough, even though this kind of competition held in a municipal city has a fancy name, such as the Kunshan International Basketball Championship, it is still not recognized by the system, and there is no reward for completing the competition.
Even if it’s a slightly symbolic reward with a few freely distributed points, it’s fine. Nothing is too shabby.
However, after three games, Wang Feng's goal was successfully achieved. His ability to pass and assist has been recognized by everyone in the team. From the coaching staff headed by the head coach to all the players in the team, Wang Feng is highly praised.
I am convinced, and so are several point guards including Guo Ailun.
"Brother Feng is still awesome! As a forward, his dribbling and passing abilities are better than those of us guards. He is worthy of being a top star in the NBA who can win the regular season MVP!"
After the Four Nations Tournament in Kunshan, the Chinese men's basketball team began to rebuild its tactical system around Wang Feng holding the ball.
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Time flies by so fast and it’s coming to the end of August soon.
On August 29, the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team officially announced the 12-man roster for the 2019 Men’s Basketball World Cup.
After the induction ceremony on June 6, the Huaguo men's basketball team conducted training for more than two and a half months and participated in 17 warm-up games. Finally, after trimming the original 20-man roster, the
12-man squad.
Except for Wang Feng, who joined the team midway and trained with the team for only one month, the other players are Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Guo Ailun, Fang Shuo, Zhao Jiwei, Sun Minghui, Zhao Rui, Ren Junfei, Kolan Bek-Ma
Kan, Zhai Xiaochuan.
On August 31, the Men's Basketball World Cup officially opens, and 32 participating teams will compete in the group stage in eight cities in China.
The group stage groupings were decided by drawing lots a few months ago.
As the host, the Chinese men's basketball team and the four teams of the United States, Spain and France men's basketball team are automatically divided into four different groups as seed teams to ensure that the groups can qualify.
The Chinese men's basketball team was finally selected into Group A, the only city to hold games in the capital. The other teams in the same group were Cote d'Ivoire, Poland, and Venezuela.
Overall, it seems that Group A is not strong, and there is no big problem for the Chinese men's basketball team to qualify.
After the opening ceremony on the 31st, the Chinese men's basketball team will compete with Cote d'Ivoire in the first round of the group stage that day.
The Ivory Coast men's basketball team is not a strong team, ranking only 40th in the world. In another time and space, without Wang Feng, the Chinese men's basketball team still won with a score of 70:55.
Now that Wang Feng is here, there is no more suspense.
In just the first quarter of the game, Wang Feng scored 20 points on his own. The Chinese men's basketball team won 31:13 in a single quarter, establishing an 18-point advantage!
In the second quarter of the game, the Chinese men's basketball team took a step further, widening the point difference from 18 points to 24 points.
The score between the two teams was 58:34 at halftime, and the game had lost its suspense.
The Huaguo men's basketball team replaced a large number of main players, including Wang Feng, who had scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists at halftime, as well as main players such as Arab Lian and Zhou Qi, and replaced them with young players for training.
In the end, when the whistle sounded at the end of the game, the score between the two teams was fixed at 89:56, with a point difference of 33. The Chinese men's basketball team won a good start.
Wang Feng's stable and efficient performance gave Chinese fans a big reassurance.
He played the entire first half and scored 31+6+5 in just 20 minutes. Although the opponent was the weak Cote d'Ivoire, even so, not everyone can easily perform like this.
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For example, the Greek team in Group F faced the equally weak Montenegro men's basketball team. Although the Greek men's basketball team won the final victory, the biggest player on the team was Giannis Antetokounmpo, who previously competed with Wang Feng for the regular season MVP.
Antetokounmpo, however, performed mediocrely in the game, with only 10 points and 8 rebounds, which was very different from Antetokounmpo's performance in the NBA, which was overwhelming.
Of course, as for why this is the case, fans who know a little bit about football will know that it is mainly because of the differences in the game rules between FIBA and NBA.