With the start of the Asian Cup for the Men s Basketball Team, the discussion on the strongest lineup of the Chinese men s basketball team has reached a white-hot stage

With the start of the Men's Basketball Team's Asian Cup, the discussion on the strongest lineup of the Chinese men's basketball team has also reached a white-hot stage. Huo Nan, a former CBA player and former general manager of Nanjing Tongxi Club, recently announced his mind's list of the strongest five-man active teams through video. In this list, Huo Nan gave the No. 1 position to Xu Jie from Hongyuan, Guangdong, and the No. 2 position to choose the young scorer Lin Wei from Tongxi, and the forward line is partnered by Zeng Fanbo, who is about to travel to the United States and Hu Jinqiu from Zhejiang Guangsha. In the center position, he chose the rising star Yang Hansen, who just signed with the NBA Portland Trail Blazers. This lineup brings together the backbone of the Mesozoic generation in China and the potential players of the new generation. From a paper perspective, it has both immediate combat power and talent. Huo Nan's list therefore represents a professional perspective in the basketball circle.

However, this "strongest lineup" selected by the former general manager has a huge gap with reality, even with a hint of irony. When people compared this list with the 12-man roster of the Chinese men's basketball team that was about to go to the Asian Cup, an embarrassing fact surfaced: among the five "strongest" players selected by Huo Nan, only Hu Jinqiu was finally selected for the national team guided by Guo Shiqiang. For the other four, Xu Jie was cut at the last moment, Yang Hansen was busy in the NBA training camp, Lin Wei also chose to go to the European League, while Zeng Fanbo missed the national team's training camp from the beginning due to injury. This also made some fans unable to help but joke: "It seems that coach Huo Nan is not as good as coach Guo Shiqiang, and Huo Nan's evaluation of the strongest lineup attracted ridicule. Only Hu Jinqiu was selected for the Asian Cup by 5 players, and fans were dissatisfied with Xu Jie.

Among all the controversies on this list, ranking Xu Jie in the number one position in the first lineup was the point that triggered the most opposition. Although Xu Jie's limited playing time in the warm-up match, his organizational squad is significantly better than several other defenders in the team and has certain defensive abilities, it is a pity that he lost to the national team. Some fans bluntly pointed out: "It's reasonable to choose other people, but it's too outrageous to choose Xu Jie." Whether in terms of qualifications, personal honors or comprehensive strength, the current domestic back line, Zhao Jiwei, Sun Minghui, Zhao Rui, Hu Mingxuan and others should rank ahead of Xu Jie. Listing Xu Jie as the starting point guard in the strongest lineup at the current service is considered a disrespect for other excellent defenders.

The outside world generally lacks confidence in the Chinese men's basketball team that is about to go to the Asian Cup. When most of the "strongest lineup" cannot play for the country, it seems that it will lose its meaning to discuss who is better and who is worse. Many fans have begun to actively lower their expectations, believing that with the overall strength of the Chinese men's basketball team, they rank about 6-7th in Asia. If they can finally reach the top five, it will be a result of extraordinary performance.