There are only 20 days left before the start of the 2023 Basketball World Cup, and the preparations for the World Cup teams have also changed.
Ten days ago, China men’s basketball team was waiting for naturalized player Li Kaier to fly from Shanghai to Slovenia to join the team. Now, Li Kaier has been quickly integrated into the team, and is looking forward to his debut in the China men’s basketball team in the match with the Italian men’s basketball team on August 6th.
China men’s basketball team’s European tour continues. After losing two to Croat and one to Slovenian in the first three warm-up matches, the China men’s basketball team beat the Egyptian team 80-69 in the warm-up match. In the early morning of August 5th, the China men’s basketball team beat Cape Verde 86-66 in the first match of the Italian 2023 Trentino Cup. Li Kaier didn’t appear, but the fluency, self-confidence and teamwork of the team on the offensive end were quite amazing, which also made the fans see the long-lost China men’s basketball team with appreciation. In addition to the stable output of qi zhou, Zhao Jiwei and Zhang Zhenlin, the performances of young Cui Yongxi and veteran Fang Shuo are also eye-catching. Although it’s only a warm-up match, and although it’s only the weak Cape Verde, in view of the ups and downs and even some stagnant performance of the China men’s basketball team in the past years, this China men’s basketball team coached by Jorjevich will still make fans give a lot of expectations in the World Cup.
The American men’s basketball team started training more than 20 days after the countdown to the World Cup (August 3), and did not run in early because of the dim star of the World Cup team. As a result, they lost to the sparring team in two consecutive 10-minute matches. The lineup of the sparring team is relatively more mediocre, including Jay Green, Cunningham, Holmgren and others, even including galloway who has not signed a contract and players from G League.
Team USA will train for five days in Las Vegas and play a warm-up match against Puerto Rico on August 7th. Later, they will travel to Europe and Spain and Slovenia for warm-up matches. In the future, they will also play against Greece and Germany, but with the current performance, the US team is probably under great pressure to perform well.
The Slovenian team finally ushered in the return of Dancsics on July 28th. Dancsics, the captain of the team, has played a warm-up match with Greece on behalf of the team. In the face of the Greek team lacking the letter brother, Slovenian lost 91-98, and Dancsics contributed 21 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists.
The French team, which announced the list of 12 players early, beat the Tunisian team 93-36 in the warm-up match. Gaubert, the main center of the team, bluntly said, "Our ultimate goal is the gold medal".
The Greek team reduced the 22-person World Cup training list to 18, and the letter brother was absent due to injury. In this World Cup, it is more and more likely that Brother Alphabet will be absent.
Canada’s World Cup lineup is strong. They are led by NBA players Alexander and Murray and are currently training. From the perspective of paper strength alone, Canada is not inferior to any opponent.
China’s biggest competitor for Olympic qualification in this World Cup is the Philippine team, which is currently participating in the warm-up match in Heyuan, Guangzhou. They beat Iran in the first game and lost to Senegal in the second game, but the naturalized player, NBA defender Clarkson and the team’s clues did not go out with the team. It is still uncertain when they will train with the team.
In addition, the list of 14 players released by China’s opponent Puerto Rico in the group stage does not include NBA player alvarado who has not recovered from injury. Dominica, which is in the same group as the Philippines, announced the 29-man World Cup preparation list. Although NBA players Horford and Duarte are reported not to participate in the World Cup, Timberwolves center Downs once again said that he will play for Dominica this summer. With Downs, Dominica’s competitiveness will be greatly enhanced.
The Iranian team is also actively preparing for the World Cup. Haddadi, a veteran who broke his achilles tendon in January this year, has already participated in the team’s training.