On the evening of September 11, Beijing time, the last two matches of the top eight of the 2019 men's Basketball World Cup were held. Like the previous two semi-finals, the last two semi-finals also broke out a big surprise, that is, the second most popular winner, the United States, was eliminated by France. In another game, Australia beat the Czech Republic. After four matches, all the top four of the world cup have been produced, namely Spain, Australia, Argentina and France. These four teams will compete in the semi-finals on September 13, Beijing time.
At the same time, due to the Czech Republic's exit, all the teams that won the qualification directly to next year's Tokyo Olympic Games will be released. They are Spain and France in Europe, the United States and Argentina in the Americas, Australia in Oceania, Iran and Japan in Asia (host), and Nigeria in Africa. At this time, there are still four tickets left for next year's Tokyo Olympic Games. These four tickets will be competed by 24 teams who will participate in the losing competition next year.
The teams that fail to participate in the competition next year are composed of the best 16 teams and 8 wild card teams among the teams that are not eligible for direct qualification in this world cup. Although the qualifying of 5th-8th place has not been carried out yet, due to France's successful promotion to the top four, the losing Czech Republic and Serbia must enter the losing competition. At the same time, the other 14 teams that lost the competition were Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Greece, Russia, Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Germany, New Zealand, Tunisia, Canada and Turkey.
At the same time, according to the team world ranking given by FIBA, the other eight wild card teams will be Slovenia and Croatia in Europe, Mexico and Uruguay in the Americas, China and the Philippines in Asia, Senegal and Angola in Africa. Although the team's world ranking will be updated after the world cup, and the final ownership of the eight wild cards can only be determined at that time, it is not a problem for the Chinese men's basketball team to obtain one of the wild cards as a whole.
But the question is, after obtaining this wild card, can the Chinese men's basketball team win one of the four tickets? Any one of the other 23 teams is either a big European team or a strong American team, and most of these teams have one or more NBA stars. Most importantly, from the current situation, it is impossible for the Chinese men's basketball team to be assigned to the weakest group like the world cup. No matter what, the Chinese men's basketball team needs a positive confrontation with the strong teams in Europe and America.
What does the Chinese men's basketball team take to compete with others? Even weak teams such as Poland and Venezuela can't compete. How can they compete with strong teams such as Canada, Italy, Germany and Serbia? At that time, in this case, it may be extremely difficult to win in the group, not to mention winning the Olympic ticket at the top of the group. It seems to be the only chance left for the Chinese men's basketball team to win Olympic tickets through losing the competition, but the probability of this opportunity is zero. So, how should the Chinese men's basketball team face it then?