China News Service, Beijing, July 25th (Reporter Wang Zumin) The 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup came to an end in Jakarta, Indonesia on the evening of the 24th. The Australian team successfully defended the title, and the Asian basketball pattern was rewritten again in this competition.

　　——For the first time in history, an East Asian team missed the semi-finals.

　　Four East Asian teams participated in the men's basketball Asian Cup. Among them, Chinese Taipei lost to Jordan by 1 point in the top 12 play-offs and missed the quarterfinals.

The three teams of China, Japan and South Korea were eliminated by Lebanon, Australia and New Zealand in the quarter-finals, and none of them made it to the top four, which was the first time in the history of the Asian Cup.

　　The Men's Basketball Asian Cup, formerly known as the Asian Men's Basketball Championship, was founded in 1960 and has been held for 28 sessions.

After 2015, the Men's Basketball Championship was renamed the Men's Basketball Asian Cup.

Therefore, following the Asian Championships, the Asian Cup of Men's Basketball has been in its 30th session so far.

　　In the first 29 events, the East Asian team has never missed the podium.

In the early 7 Asian Cups (Asian Championships), in addition to the East Asian teams, only the Philippine team had meddled in the top three.

The Chinese men's basketball team participated in the 8th Asian Championships for the first time in 1975, and won 16 championships and 19 podiums in the first 22 competitions.

In the three competitions (2007, 2013, 2017) where the Chinese men's basketball team failed to reach the top three, the South Korean team won the third place.

　　——As things went from bad to worse, the Chinese men's basketball team withdrew from the battle for the king.

　　Throughout the previous Asian Cups, the Chinese men's basketball team, which did not participate in the whole process, was the biggest winner, sweeping more than half of the championships.

However, in this Asian Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team, which stopped in the top eight, recorded its second-worst result in the Asian Cup, only stronger than the tenth place in 2007.

But in order to make the first-line teams better prepare for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the second team of the Chinese men's basketball team played in the 2007 Asian Championships.

Therefore, the Chinese men's basketball team this time can also be called the worst record of the first-tier team in the Asian Cup.

　　Although the Chinese men's basketball team that set out for this Asian Cup has been in an unprecedented predicament due to the positive nucleic acid of many players and a full camp of injuries, as its coach Du Feng said, they lost by 3 points in the quarter-finals. The Lebanese team and the Chinese team "think about the game too simply" and "beat themselves".

　　In fact, in the past ten years, the Chinese men's basketball team has not only lost its dominance in the Asian Cup, but has also been on a downward trend.

In the nearly 7 Asian Cups from 2007 to 2022, the Chinese men's basketball team has only won 2 championships, the Iranian team has won 3 championships, and the Australian team has won the championship for nearly two consecutive times.

In the past 4 Asian Cups, the Chinese men's basketball team missed the top four in 3 sessions, and even stopped in the top eight in the past two sessions.

　　——From "accompanying reading" to "C position", the West Asian team has made rapid progress.

　　When the East Asian team was wiped out, the two West Asian teams, Lebanon and Jordan, both advanced to the semi-finals. For the first time in this Asian Cup, a West Asian team completely defeated the East Asian team.

　　In the history of the Asian Cup, the West Asian team played the role of "accompanying reading" for most of the time.

However, before and after the new century, the West Asian team made rapid progress and constantly refreshed its honorary record in the Asian Cup. In 1999, the Saudi team won the third place. In 2008, the Lebanese team won the runner-up, and the West Asian team took it to a higher level.

In the 10 Asian Cups after entering the new century, the Lebanese team has won the runner-up 4 times.

　　In 2007, the Iranian team won the first championship in the history of the Asian Cup for the West Asian team, and won three championships in four consecutive Asian Cups. In 2009, the Iranian team (champion) and Jordan (third place) were on the same board. The podium once again left a highlight moment for the West Asian team.

Qatar also won the third place in the 2003 and 2005 Asian Cups.

It is precisely under the continuous "encroachment" of the West Asian team and the strong joining of the Oceania team that the Chinese men's basketball team and other East Asian teams gradually gave up the "C position" of the men's basketball Asian Cup.

　　——The Oceania team dominates Asia.

　　In this Asian Cup, the two Oceania teams are among the top three, among which the Australian team successfully defended the title as expected, and the New Zealand team won the third place.

　　In 2017, the Asian Cup of Men's Basketball, which was just renamed from the Asian Men's Basketball Championship, welcomed the participation of the Oceania team, and the pattern of Asian basketball has since been rewritten.

In the current Asian Cup, the Australian team became the new dominant player in Asian basketball, and the New Zealand team also entered the semi-finals, only to encounter the "Oceania Derby" in the semi-finals and missed the final.

If New Zealand had not faced Australia in the semi-finals of the two Asian Cups, the Asian Cup final of the men's basketball team would have been a civil war for the Oceania teams.

　　In the latest FIBA ​​rankings, Australia, which ranks third in the world, deserves to occupy the top spot in the Asian region, and New Zealand, which ranks 27th in the world, also ranks third in Asia (Iran, which ranks 23rd in the world, ranks third in the world). The team ranked second in Asia, and the Chinese team ranked 29th in the world ranked fourth in Asia).

It can be expected that if the two Oceania teams, especially the Australian team, are fully committed to the Asian Cup, the pattern of the dominant position of Asian basketball will be difficult to shake in a short period of time.

　　Although this is a good thing for the future development of Asian basketball and the improvement of the overall level, it cannot be considered an embarrassing situation for the "home-grown" Asian teams.

To change this pattern, only the Asian team is ashamed and brave.

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