Chinese social media users compared the basketball team to the hugely underachieving football squad. FMTNews
Fans looking dejected after China’s defeat to Venezuela which means they fail to advance from their group.
Though not expected to go deep into the tournament, China’s performance was seen as a disappointment, especially since they had been drawn in one of the easiest preliminary groups. “The young Chinese men’s basketball team failed to play at the level that they should have, on both defence and offence,” said the national team’s official social media account.Comments on Weibo, China’s popular answer to Twitter, ranged from disappointed to savage, with some comparing them to the huge nation’s perennially underachieving football team.
China, ranked 30th in the world, had placed their hopes largely on the shoulders of a towering front court of three seven-footers: veteran Yi Jianlian and relative newcomers Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin, but the trio failed to dominate.But while China dominate on the court regionally, winning Asian Games gold in Jakarta a year ago, they struggle against the world’s best and have not discovered a successor to trailblazer Yao.
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