Asian and African Countries Do not Move in the Face of the World

2019 World Cup China plays all first round matches. A total of 16 teams from the top two teams in each group then advanced to the second round. Interestingly, the second round will also use a group system. Two teams from the same group will not meet. Thus, each group in the second round will have four matches and each team will play twice.

If you look deeper, there are some interesting things in this second round. Of the 16 teams available, none are from Asia or Africa (geographically). Yes, all the teams in the second half only came from teams from Europe, America and Australia.

Not only did they fail to qualify, but teams from Asia and Africa did not even win continental teams. In terms of play, there are 25 matches that bring together representatives of Asia and Africa with other continental teams and none of them bring victory to Asia and Africa (0-25).

This caused the competition in the classification round to be defeated by the Asian and African teams. Only Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Turkey and Montenegro are outside Asia and Africa. That also happened because in their group there was only one representative from Asia or Africa.

This series of mediocre results shows the difference in the quality of basketball in the world. We (Asia and Africa) are still far behind those in Europe, America and Australia. Countries such as China, Japan and the Philippines are the most dominant countries in the Asian continent. However, they are nothing in front of the world. Once again, the world, not just the United States.

In this World Cup, you can see how much basketball is exposed by European countries and Australia. Countries such as Serbia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic can show how to play that we don't often see in the NBA. This happens because there are many differences in the rules of the game.

This difference also makes the United States very difficult in their first two matches before playing against Japan. One of the fundamental rules that changed their game was the absence of a 3-second defensive offense. Without this rule, players can survive indefinitely in key areas and reduce the opponent's space.

This space narrowness means that teams that rely on isolation patterns or only one player during an attack perform themselves slowly. The Philippines is the best example you can see about the defeat of the isolation game based on Andray Blatche.

While the games presented by Australia, Serbia, Lithuania and France who continue to rely on captivating movements without the ball and extension of the wall make them captivating, it enables them to dominate in this event.

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