China News Service, Beijing, July 26th. On July 20th, the Chinese men's basketball team ended its participation in the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup, which also means that the national team has begun to enter the preparation stage of the fourth window of the World Preliminaries.

On the 25th, the Chinese men's basketball team has traveled to Europe to start the next stage of its foreign training and competition tour.

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　　In the past month, the Chinese men's basketball team has participated in the World Preliminaries and the Asian Cup.

Looking back on the experience of the World Preliminaries, Zhou Qi said, "This is my first time representing the national team after I came back from a season in Australia, and the venue was in Australia again, so I felt a little pressure before I went, I was afraid that I would not perform well, but more The idea is to play well for the national team.”

　　Zhou Qi's performance in this game has won the recognition of many fans, and many people think that he has "raised the ball".

For the game, Zhou Qi's deepest feeling comes from adaptation and confrontation, "I think it takes a long time to get used to high-intensity confrontation in order to improve our level."

The picture shows the debut of the Chinese men's basketball team.

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　　"The technical level of all members of the national team has basically been finalized. The player's physical condition and ability to adapt to confrontation are the criteria that determine the team's performance in international competitions." In Zhou Qi's view, if the mid-season If you can maintain a high-intensity confrontation for a long time, then the heart, lungs, body and other aspects will be more adapted to this state. "When you play international games, you will adapt quickly, and it will not take a game or two to adapt to this intensity. confrontation.”

　　During the World Preliminaries and the Asian Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team went through a difficult time, with some people in the team feeling unwell one after another.

　　"After this illness, the whole person's physical condition has been consumed a lot from the inside out, not just an ordinary fever. Because the interval between games is very short, I want to return to the game state in such a short period of time. It is really difficult, everyone is persevering in this environment." Zhou Qi revealed that for a period of time after the World Cup preliminaries, he had been having a fever and was lying in bed most of the time. And mental state is very low, basically did not touch the ball.

"In that state, it's hard to do some recovery, and it's hard to have an appetite to eat. After the fever subsided, I hurried to join the team as soon as possible, did some recovery training and then went to play the game."

In the 14 finals of the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup, China lost to Lebanon 69:72.

The picture shows Zhou Qi's layup. Source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency

　　After losing to Lebanon, the Chinese men's basketball team was blocked from the semi-finals of the Asian Cup.

In this regard, Zhou Qi said frankly that the team only needs to care about the results.

"If I always talk about objective factors, I feel like I'm looking for reasons and excuses. As for us, it is true that the results are not good, and we must make a good summary and continue to train hard. I think this is certain. Next We still have time and games. Through this Asian Cup, we will definitely adjust our form and play well in the next game.”

　　Although the results are not satisfactory, Zhou Qi believes that for the Chinese men's basketball team, the Asian Cup is a very important experience.

In his opinion, the biggest problem of the team is actually itself, one is the state of the body, and the other is how to prepare for the next game through the experience of this Asian Cup.

The picture shows the Chinese team in the game.

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　　According to the plan, after arriving in Europe, the Chinese men's basketball team will conduct overseas training in Spain and France successively, and arrange warm-up matches locally to help the team adjust their competitive state until they go to Kazakhstan in late August to start the fourth window of the 2023 World Cup qualifiers. In the two games, the opponents were Kazakhstan and Bahrain.

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