Why did the Chinese men s basketball team become so powerful in the 2025 Asian Cup?

After watching this Asian Cup, I was also surprised by the performance of the Chinese men's basketball team. What was surprised was not that they could win the runner-up and almost beat Australia. What was more important was that the technical and tactical level they showed was completely a way to modern basketball, which was jaw-dropping.

The flexible cover and pick-and-roll are alert and resolutely shoot three-pointers, and they are never ruthless; they rarely play singles at low positions, and the center pulls out the pick-and-roll, and after the cover, the wingers will respond, and the players at 45 degrees or bottom corners will make the ball into the three-pointer.

It turns out that the Chinese team likes to go from the outside to the inside. This time, it has changed and turned from the inside out, and it really keeps up with the mass army.

There are many three-pointers, and you must shoot no matter whether it is accurate or not; the big man should do more dirty and tiring work, actively grab rebounds, and run frequently without the ball. Everyone should run desperately. You can't play standing on the field, and run to compete with your opponent.

Younger, diversified and three-dimensional, this is a new feeling that the Chinese team brought to fans in this Asian Cup.

Watch them playing, you will feel that they are both familiar and unfamiliar. This is a bit different from the Chinese team, a bit like the shadow of the Korean team, and even a little bit of the Warriors' way of using Curry, such as Yu Jiahao coming out to cover, Zhao Rui blocks the opponent's running route, and then Wang Junjie hits a three-pointer, which makes people fascinated and beautiful.

The game is clear, flowing, and natural, and has a sense of overall feeling. Such a team is full of effort, and even if it loses, it makes people happy.

If you want to tell me the reason, I think it is the unified understanding of the tactical implementation of Guidance Guo Shiqiang and the execution of the players. Everyone has accepted advanced playing styles and will never give up until they are unified.

Since many teams are playing this style of play, it is a popular trend, then I will learn and follow it.

Other teams shoot more than three-pointers, and I can't leave. I shoot 20 or 30 three-pointers in each game to expand the space and combine the inside and outside. This way of playing requires persistence.

You can't just stop shooting because you can't make a shot.

Guo Guo’s speech touched me very much. He said that the tactics were arranged by me and the personnel were also taken by me. You can fight with confidence. If you don’t fight, I will blame you for everything.

This courage is also moving, and it shows the responsibility and sense of responsibility of a head coach.

I don't know what happened in the locker room and how the players and coaches arranged their work, but one thing I can see is that this Chinese team is quite united. From the front court to the back court, and then to the substitutes, no one will not work hard and actively make their own contributions.

Whatever the coach asks me to do, I will do it seriously; if there is something bad, I will try my best to correct it, and I will never be ambiguous and will not have any complaints.

Wang Junjie played poorly in the group stage for a while and was criticized by the coaching staff. He also changed it. He played better and better in the future, becoming a hero for the Chinese team to achieve good results.

In terms of player strength, this Chinese team is definitely not good. Without Yang Hansen, Zhou Qi and others, the overall strength is much worse than that of the opponent.

However, with insufficient talent, hard work, and reasonable technical and tactical guidance and execution, this Chinese team has exerted 200% of its combat effectiveness, broken through its limits, and reached an unprecedented high level.

Not only do domestic fans praise it, but foreign fans also respect it extremely. Fans from Australia, South Korea, Japan and other countries also gave the Chinese team a very high evaluation.

Just watching the game, I feel very comfortable watching the video these two days. From the first quarter to the last quarter, the play was smooth, and there was no feeling of the Chinese team's sluggish play before.

This Asian Cup has also given me great confidence and full of hope for the future of Chinese basketball. Chinese basketball in 2025 is also full of good news. Not only are the ball played well, but Chinese players can also go to the NBA to further their studies and develop. More and more Chinese players have been widely recognized and valued by everyone.

This is more precious than the results.

Maybe starting this year, Chinese basketball will move towards a stage of prosperity and will become better in the future.