On July 13, the second stage of the 2019 men's Basketball World Cup qualifier will be kicked off in September this year. The second stage is divided into two window periods, from September 13 to December 3, 2018 and from February 21 to February 25, 2019. The teams in each region will fight fiercely in these two window periods. The specific schedule is as follows:
In the second stage, teams that have already met in the group match will not meet again, and the results of the group match will be included in the second stage. Therefore, the second stage of the competition will be very critical, will be directly related to the final place in the world cup. The teams are also aware of the stakes. After all, if they can't make it to the world cup, they will fail to make it to Tokyo Olympic Games. Therefore, some NBA and European League stars who are absent in the first stage will return in September, which will make the game more exciting.
The Chinese team will fight with Lebanon, Jordan and Syria in the two window matches. The first battle is to travel to Lebanon on September 13, return to Jordan on September 17, and continue to play in Syria on November 29. According to the previous arrangement, the Chinese men's basketball team will send the blue team led by Yi Jianlian to play in the three games. For Du Feng, the head coach of the blue team, this game is likely to be related to who he and Li Nan will be the only head coach who will lead the men's basketball team to the world cup, so Yi Jianlian, Guo Allen and other leaders may all return. Judging from the previous warm-up matches with Iran and Canada, Wu Qian and Hu Jinqiu have gradually found a feeling. If they can integrate well with Yi Jianlian and other core players, the strength of the blue team will undoubtedly be upgraded.
For New Zealand and South Korea, they will also meet Lebanon, Jordan and Syria one after another. As long as New Zealand can ensure the return of major players such as Webster, their strength is undoubtedly one step higher than that of Western Asian tourism. It should not be a big problem to get a World Cup ticket. And although South Korea has naturalized player Ratliff to join in, and the latter's performance in the world preliminaries is also good, but South Korea has lost the inherent small quick spirit style in the past, die to hit Ratliff this point, to the West Asia team with strong physical confrontation, the winner is very difficult to say.
Among the top three in West Asia, Lebanon and Jordan are average in strength, and all have naturalized players. Alaki, who was absent from the third window of the world preliminary because of injury, should be back in September. Abbas of Jordan will also compete with the opponent with the backcourt core Tucker. As for Syria, they only press the weakest Indian team to qualify in the group match, so it's very difficult to break through the encirclement of the new three strong teams of China and South Korea, but the performance of former Jilin team's foreign aid Ma Danli deserves attention.
In another Asia Pacific Group, Australia, Japan, Iran, the Philippines, Qatar and Kazakhstan are in the same group. In the third window of the match with Japan, Australia team suffered the first defeat since entering Asia, and then there was a group fight with the Philippines, which shocked the world. However, the penalty of FIBA for these two teams has not come down, especially for the Philippines. Once more than one main force was suspended, their prospect in the second stage will be very bleak. Australia's own strength is far superior to other Asian teams. As long as there is no problem of belittling the enemy, it's not a big problem for them to get a World Cup ticket. However, in the face of hadadi and bakhrami's old Asian strong team Iran, 'kangaroo' may take some brains.
Japan is definitely an opponent worthy of attention. They lost 4 games in the first two windows of the world preliminaries, but after the Newly Naturalized 2.11-meter-tall center Fazekas and mixed race forward bacumura returned from the University of Gonzaga, they defeated the two major rivals Australia and China Taibei one after another, and pushed the latter out. In September, Watanabe Taiji, who is playing for the nets in the NBA Summer League, is likely to return to the team. The Japanese team will have unprecedented strength in the front line, which Qatar and Kazakhstan are afraid to resist.
In Europe, Spain, Serbia, Greece, Germany, France and other traditional strong teams have not only made outstanding achievements, but also NBA stars such as' alphabet brother 'adetokumbo, Batum and so on may return to the national team. The war situation in Europe will be unprecedented fierce. In the third window of the world preliminary, Mexico, led by Real Madrid star ayoun, defeated the United States in the first formal match since the 2006 World Championships. Although the United States played in the world preliminary are some development league players, defeating them will also enhance the confidence of the American team. It is worth mentioning that whether it is ladulica in Europe, borussis, Scola in the Americas, or Diogu in Africa, they are all foreign aid who once played in CBA. Some of them will play in the world preliminaries in September, which may be an important reference for whether they can return to CBA.