After the Olympics, FIBA quickly updated the latest edition of the men's basketball world rankings.

The five-time Olympic champion of the United States is still at the top of the list, followed by Serbia and Germany, France 4th and Canada 5th.

In the world rankings of the teams in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia is 7th, Japan is 21st, New Zealand is 22nd, Iran is 28th, and Lebanon is 29th.

Chinese men's basketball team, No. 30.

This should be the lowest ranking of the Chinese men's basketball team in the world since I followed the Chinese men's basketball team. In the previous rankings, the Chinese men's basketball team has always been around 27-29.

In 2021, I wrote that the Chinese men's basketball team ranked 29th in the world and 4th in the Asia-Pacific region.

It is true that Wang Xiaoer celebrates the New Year, and every year is not as good as a year.

At its best, we can be in the top 10 on this list.

To be clear, although this is the official FIBA ranking, it is not a concrete representation of the real level. The ranking criteria are the number of points scored during this period.

In 2008, the Chinese men's basketball team reached the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games, which does not mean that we are the top eight in the world. Just because Japan made it to the Olympics this year doesn't mean they're one of the 12 best teams in the world.

In terms of points, it is more friendly to Asian teams.

The reason is very simple, the difference between the key class and the ordinary class.

Europe, the key class of world basketball, FIBA list, 13 of the top 20 are European teams.

Because of the quota limit, teams such as Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia and Slovenia cannot enter the Olympics, which is outrageous in itself.

Therefore, this list does not completely objectively reflect the position of the Chinese men's basketball team in the world.

To be bold, the ranking of 30 is also higher.

In the list, the team behind us is even Croatia...

Croatia has fewer points, but what level do people have? Before the Olympics, they fought Greece for the final ticket, winning Slovenia, Dominica, Brazil and Poland.

The three main forces: Hezonia, Zubac, Saric, and the players who didn't come have Bojan, who can average close to 20 points per game in the NBA...

At this stage, the Chinese men's basketball team plays Croatia and wins by less than 25 points.

Croatia does not touch porcelain, so the question arises:

Côte d'Ivoire, Angola, Philippines, Jordan, Ukraine, Tunisia, Egypt, Montenegro, Israel, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Bulgaria, Senegal, United Kingdom... These more than 10 teams, we are not sure.

It's really ranked according to strength, conservatively estimated, 45 out.

The team can play in the World Cup and have the opportunity to compete for the Olympic ticket purely because we are in Asia.

Two days ago, I said a sentence that was marked by everyone crazy:"Basketball is improving all over the world (except Asia)".

Asian basketball, as a whole, is really not good.

Although Japan has made significant progress, these two Olympic Games have also been reduced to sending points to boys, not winning a game, and accompanying the role of running.

Why can't Asian teams understand?

In addition to the natural weakness that Asians often say that their physical fitness cannot be compared with Europe and the United States, I want to talk about the competition environment.

The two major centers of basketball in the world: Europe and United States.

Various teams in Europe huddle together for warmth, extreme involution, plus a large number of old blacks joining, and there is a naturalization policy, and the progress is rapid.

Representing the team, that is, the silver medalist, France.

United States, with the world's most successful basketball league and the richest talent pool, has also radiated to Canada, Puerto Rico and other American countries.

In addition, the internationalization of the NBA has attracted a large number of European players to join, can it not progress to compete in such an environment?

These two centers have nothing to do with Chinese basketball.

On the other hand, the Japan men's basketball team thought very clearly: if I want to improve, I can't play with these Asian teams.

We all know that the reason for falling behind is that it is too closed and lacks a competitive environment...

But over the years, it seems that nothing has changed.

Is there a policy to encourage players to go out?

Not to mention encouragement, we young players who want to see the world and play in the summer league have to be sneered at...