That was fun, seeing Chinese players lose by 40 points against a young but hungry Serbian team coached by Aleksandar Đorđević and led by team captain Miloš Teodosić. But that's not going to be my point here. I want to point out how China's basketball program still sucks despite being a FIBA Asia powerhouse. Why I said that? They can only use their height against small defenders and have the range. But why they lose when it comes to the international stage?
Lack of direction. Yes, they have Yao Ming(I grew up idolizing him with the Houston Rockets), Yi Jianlian and others but what happened to that game against Serbia even if it's just an exhibition game and they have a lot of 7 footers? No direction and it's just they are a powerhouse on paper. That's right. On paper!
As they got trashed by the Serbs, the Chinese even resorted to injuring Miroslav Raduljica and the hammer to the face of a charging Nemanja Dangubić, which I know is a classless act by the Chinese team but Karma does still strike.
If I have to tell the Iranian, Philippine and other teams to beat China, they can even if not having the height as long as you can hasten up the pace and make them eat dust. Sure Serbia has a lot of point forwards and Raduljica can outmuscle even the taller Chinese centers but Iran has Haddadi, Philippines has a lot of arsenal and other countries in Asia can beat China. Once they know this game and learn what tactics they can do against the once proud basketball program of China, they are just targets for hungry and motivated Asian teams.
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