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27 mistakes! Men s basketball team narrowly beat Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 3 major problems made Guo Shiqiang difficult

7:38pm, 1 August 2025Basketball

As we all know, the 2025 Men's Basketball Asian Cup is the most important competition for the new Chinese Men's Basketball Team this year. This Asian Cup will be held in Saudi Arabia from August 5th to 17th.

In order to achieve better results in this Asian Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team, led by head coach Guo Shiqiang, has carried out a series of preparations.

Before the restart, Guo Shiqiang led the team to Europe for training and training. After returning from Europe, the Chinese men's basketball team organized four warm-up matches with Venezuela and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Chinese team will play 2 warm-up matches with these two opponents, with a total of 4 games.

Today's warm-up match is the fourth and last game of the warm-up match. After this warm-up match, the Chinese men's basketball team will determine the final 12-man roster and set off for Saudi Arabia to adapt to the jet lag and the game venue in advance.

In the previous three warm-up matches, the Chinese men's basketball team won all of them and achieved a three-game winning streak. Today, facing Bosnia and Herzegovina again, the Chinese men's basketball team hopes to end with a complete victory.

In the first quarter, Hu Jinqiu made a continuous strong attack in the inside and scored 8 points, but the Bosnian men's basketball team can always respond and bite the score. Raymond went on the court and opened the score for three consecutive points. The Chinese team led 11 points in the first quarter;

The second quarter, the two teams started a tug-of-war, and Xu Jie had three points from the way up, but the Bosnian team killed the inside and stopped bleeding and responded. In the last minute, Bosnian and Herzegovina played 7-0 and chased to 7 points.

, Hu Mingxuan continuously attacked the inside and helped China. The team opened the double-digit lead again, and then the Chinese team made a series of mistakes, Bosnia and Herzegovina continued to rush the frontcourt board and chased the single-digit score difference again, and the Chinese team stabilized the situation six times in a row;

In the fourth quarter, the Chinese team broke off the power of the offensive, only scored 12 points in a single quarter, and made consecutive mistakes. Bosnia and Herzegovina once caught up to only 5 points, Cheng Shuipeng made a key three-pointer, but the Chinese team still made consecutive mistakes and was chased by Bosnia and Herzegovina to 3 points in a different way. At the last moment, Bosnia and Herzegovina missed the opportunity. In the end, the Chinese men's basketball team narrowly defeated the Bosnia and Herzegovina men's basketball team 75-72.

Such a narrow victory today finally made the Chinese men's basketball team deeply discover its own problems. In summary, the three major problems of the Chinese team today seem to have become their lifeline. The first problem is that the Chinese men's basketball team's mistakes are too poor. In the whole game, the Chinese men's basketball team made up as many as 27 mistakes, including 5 Hu Mingxuan, 7 Liao Sanning, and 4 Cheng Shuipeng. So many mistakes mean that the opponent has a large number of counterattack opportunities. If you encounter a strong team, such a number of mistakes will undoubtedly be digging your own grave.

The second problem is that there is no one in the back line who can organize and connect the team steadily. This is also the fundamental reason for so many mistakes. Neither Liao Sanning nor Hu Mingxuan can control the game. Even when Bosnia and Herzegovina increased its pressing efforts, it was difficult for our defenders to transport the ball to the frontcourt. In the fourth quarter, Bosnia and Herzegovina pressed in the whole game, constantly making mistakes from the Chinese team and almost completed the reversal.

The third problem is that the inside cannot protect the rebound. Throughout the game, the Chinese team's inside line did a very bad job of rebounding protection. Big center Yu Jiahao only had 5 rebounds in the game, while Bosnia and Herzegovina used the rush to grab 12 frontcourt rebounds, and scored multiple frontcourt rebounds in the fourth quarter to form a second score. If Zhou Qi and Yang Hansen are not around, the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team's inside is worrying.

These problems exposed may be a headache for Guo Shiqiang, because they are about to go to Saudi Arabia, and it may be difficult to solve these problems in a short period of time. In this Asian Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team couldn't help but make people worry about them!

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