Refuse a 16-point comeback! Men s basketball team narrowly defeated New Zealand with 3 points: Is the U16 Chinese team stable in 6 wins in the last 7 games?

The 2025 U16 Men's Basketball Warm-up match continues, with the Chinese team facing New Zealand. In the last warm-up match, the Chinese team lost to Australia with a huge 21-point gap, and suffered its first defeat in the warm-up match. In this game, the Chinese team faced New Zealand. In the previous two matches, the Chinese team eventually defeated their opponents. This time there was no exception. After four quarters of competition, the Chinese team finally defeated New Zealand 67-64, completing a triple kill against their opponents. Refused to be reversed by New Zealand 16 points. In the past 7 warm-up matches, the Chinese team won 6 of them, and this future is indeed worth looking forward to.

This U16 Men's Basketball Warm-up match is to prepare for the next U16 Asian Youth Championship. The Chinese team invited three teams from Australia, New Zealand and Slovenia to participate in the warm-up match. In the past two matches, the performance of the Chinese team is still remarkable. The double defeat of New Zealand and Slovenia, and the battle with Australia reached 1 win and 1 loss. When facing New Zealand, they defeated their opponents twice, 77-71 and 64-57 respectively. Therefore, in the third game between the two sides, the Chinese team has a psychological advantage.

After the first quarter, the Chinese team opened fire and entered the game very quickly, scoring a high score of 25 points in a single quarter. Moreover, on the defensive end, they also successfully restricted New Zealand, who scored only 9 points in a single quarter. At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team took a 16-point lead. However, after entering the second quarter, the Chinese team once fell into a scoring drought, with only 10 points in a single quarter, while New Zealand scored a 16-10 attack wave, narrowing the gap to only 10 points. At the end of the first half, the Chinese team still held a double-digit lead.

The change of sides and the fight again, the Chinese team was still in poor form in the third quarter. Faced with New Zealand's crazy counterattack, the Chinese team did not respond much on the offensive end. In the entire third quarter, the Chinese team scored only 12 points in a single quarter, while New Zealand completely exploded, scoring 22 points in a single quarter. With the big explosion in the third quarter, New Zealand instantly smoothed the gap and the two sides returned to the same starting line again. In the final quarter, the Chinese team finally withstood the pressure. They took the lead again in the fourth quarter, setting a slight lead of 20-17 in a single quarter. In the end, relying on the stable performance of the final quarter, the Chinese team defeated their opponent with a slight advantage of 3 points and completed a three-kill against their opponent.

In this game, the Chinese team was able to defeat New Zealand because of the performance of the substitute player. In this game, the substitute players of both sides were far ahead of New Zealand 42-18 in terms of scoring. From this point of view, the performance of the Chinese team is still relatively balanced. Compared with the U19 men's basketball team, the performance of the U16 Chinese team seems to be more satisfactory. Although this team does not have absolute star players, their playing style is more team-oriented and the lineup is more reasonable. When facing teams such as New Zealand, Slovenia and Australia, they also played in an orderly manner.

In the last 7 warm-up matches, the Chinese team won 6 of them, two of which beat Slovenia, three-time New Zealand, and also won 1 win and 1 loss with Australia. If this is the case, the Chinese team is still worth looking forward to in this year's Asian Youth Championship. After all, New Zealand and Australia, who came to China this time, are also their genuine U16 national teams. When facing them, the Chinese team not only plays back and forth, but can even be said to be able to suppress their opponents. They have won 6 of them in the last 7 games, which is indeed unexpected.