China 2013

[Kings]

Men's

Friendly Games

07/06 China 61 Australia 55
09/06 China 50 Australia 85
12/06 China 65 Australia 68
14/06 China 88 Australia 81
23/06 China 75 Ukraine 67
25/06 China 70 Ukraine 67
01/07 China 58 NBA Stars 61
19/07 China 60 Iceland 48
20/07 China 80 F.Y.R. of Macedonia 60
21/07 China 77 Montenegro 74
24/07 China 79 New Zealand 67
26/07 China 63 New Zealand 62

3rd East Asia Championship

Preliminary Round

16/05 China 84 Hong Kong China 59
18/05 China 109 Mongolia 45

1/2 Final

20/05 China 83 Japan 68

Final

21/05 China 68 South Korea 79

11st FIBA U19 World Championship

Preliminary Round

27/06 China 61 Russia 59
28/06 China 57 USA 113
29/06 China 81 Ivory Coast 48

Second Round

01/07 China 88 Australia 79
02/07 China 50 Serbia 76
03/07 China 77 Brazil 87

1/4 Final

05/07 China 58 Lithuania 89

5th to 8th Place

06/07 China 100 Canada 110
07/07 China 94 Croatia 80

9th Stankovic Continental Champions Cup

27/06 China 79 Puerto Rico 67
28/06 China 59 Australia 64
29/06 China 60 Germany 51
30/06 China 57 Nigeria 60
02/07 China 59 Argentina 66
05/07 China 58 Nigeria 52
06/07 China 73 Puerto Rico 62
07/07 China 58 Argentina 66
09/07 China 44 Argentina 61

27th FIBA Asia Championship

Preliminary Round

01/08 China 59 South Korea 63
02/08 China 113 Malaysia 22
03/08 China 51 Iran 70

Second Round

05/08 China 73 Kazakhstan 67
06/08 China 79 India 45
07/08 China 88 Bahrain 66

1/4 Final

09/08 China 78 Chinese Taipei 96

5th to 8th Place

10/08 China 79 Jordan 76
11/08 China 96 Qatar 85

3rd FIBA Asia U16 Championship

Preliminary Round

25/09 China 95 Syria 61
26/09 China 100 Hong Kong China 48
27/09 China 92 Bahrain 43

Second Round

28/09 China 119 Malaysia 52
29/09 China 77 Iran 51
30/09 China 83 South Korea 71

1/4 Final

02/10 China 102 Kazakhstan 75

1/2 Final

03/10 China 99 Japan 78

Final

04/10 China 85 Philippines 78

6th East Asian Games

Preliminary Round

10/10 China 60 Japan 47
11/10 China 86 Hong Kong China 55

1/2 Final

13/10 China 61 South Korea 52

Final

14/10 China 79 Chinese Taipei 82




Women's

Friendly Games

15/05 China 73 Cuba 57
17/05 China 74 Cuba 67
19/05 China 75 Cuba 67
05/06 China 52 Czech Republic 71
06/06 China 72 Russia 103
07/06 China 67 Latvia 69
09/06 China 73 Lithuania 66
10/06 China 62 Japan 83
11/06 China 68 Sweden 86
19/06 China 69 Australia 64
21/06 China 65 Australia 61
23/06 China 59 Australia 69
05/07 China 84 Puerto Rico 59
06/07 China 70 Canada 44
07/07 China 88 Brazil 93
10/07 China 89 Puerto Rico 61
11/07 China 70 Canada 65
12/07 China 66 Brazil 64

10th FIBA U19 World Championship

Preliminary Round

18/07 China 97 Mali 44
19/07 China 56 USA 103
20/07 China 78 Lithuania 65

Second Round

22/07 China 79 Canada 64
23/07 China 43 France 62
24/07 China 73 Netherlands 61

1/4 Final

26/07 China 65 Australia 74

5th to 8th Place

27/07 China 70 Japan 49
28/07 China 68 Brazil 65

6th East Asian Games

10/10 China 78 Chinese Taipei 65
11/10 China 108 Guam 33
12/10 China 64 Japan 65
13/10 China 86 Hong Kong China 31

25th FIBA Asia Championship

Preliminary Round

27/10 China 70 South Korea 72
28/10 China 103 Kazakhstan 62
29/10 China 97 India 36
30/10 China 85 Chinese Taipei 63
31/10 China 55 Japan 62

1/2 Final

02/11 China 66 South Korea 71

3rd to 4th Place

03/11 China 61 Chinese Taipei 53

3rd FIBA Asia U16 Championship

Preliminary Round

23/11 China 82 South Korea 50
24/11 China 109 India 51
25/11 China 59 Japan 75
26/11 China 90 Malaysia 28
27/11 China 110 Chinese Taipei 74

1/2 Final

29/11 China 81 South Korea 55

Final

30/11 China 62 Japan 50

[pohani komarac]

Neven Spahija to take over China NT???

[sinobball]

Neven Spahija to take over China NT???

Thanks for the tip, but from what's reported in the Chinese media these days, so far there is still a long list of ~20 coaches, and they won't finalize a decision until late February or March (February=Chinese new years and everybody in China takes off for ~2 weeks). Now we know he's a candidate. CBA is indeed leaning towards a European coach.

[Khalid80]

Thanks for the tip, but from what's reported in the Chinese media these days, so far there is still a long list of ~20 coaches, and they won't finalize a decision until late February or March (February=Chinese new years and everybody in China takes off for ~2 weeks). Now we know he's a candidate. CBA is indeed leaning towards a European coach.

I heard there are 3 main candidates that are a priority for the Chinese basketball federation and they are David Blatt, Panagiotis Giannakis & Neven Spahija

[sinobball]

I heard there are 3 main candidates that are a priority for the Chinese basketball federation and they are David Blatt, Panagiotis Giannakis & Neven Spahija

Pretty impressive list if true. What is your source? But success in Europe is not immediately applicable to China. IMO personality will be the most important.


China NT will revamp this year, probably no more Liu Wei, Wang Zhizhi etc. though they are still putting star-like numbers in CBA (#2 and #4 respectively for domestic players behind Yi Jianlian. Sad?). We have some young CBA talents who give people hope, but from what I've seen no "next big thing" except for Wang Zhelin who has been a little inconsistent. Defending the championship in Asia won't be easy, but the good news is it won't be difficult to make the World Cup next year - even in the unlikely case that China did not qualify I expect FIBA to hand China the wild card.

The goal is definitely not this year, I hope the bureaucrats can have a long-term plan for the guys for Rio de Janeiro '16. Or at least the coach.

[Khalid80]

Pretty impressive list if true. What is your source? But success in Europe is not immediately applicable to China. IMO personality will be the most important.

My source isn't anything official. It's one of the Chinese members who used to previously post here in IBN... He posted this info. on my twitter account and asked my opinion about it.

[sinobball]

My source isn't anything official. It's one of the Chinese members who used to previously post here in IBN... He posted this info. on my twitter account and asked my opinion about it.

Oh I see. In that tweet he also mentioned Ramūnas Butautas. Not sure what his source is.

[Khalid80]

Oh I see. In that tweet he also mentioned Ramūnas Butautas. Not sure what his source is.

True I missed out on mentioning that name as well

[Mindozas]

Oh I see. In that tweet he also mentioned Ramūnas Butautas. Not sure what his source is.

Butautas was total failure with LT NT in 2007-2009. Sure we won bronze in 2007 Eurobasket, were 4th in Olympics, but basically thnx to players individual efforts, mostly Jasikevicius and Siskauskas were leading the team on court as PG and point forward respectivelly. In 2009 both were gone and we failed badly in Eurobasket, didn't even reach qtrfinals. He was probably worst coach to coach NT since 1992 when we cameback to international scene as independent nation.
From other 3 names - Blatt is surely the best option. Guy might not be the best clubs coach, but with Russian NT he did great

[Khalid80]

So apparently the list of candidates for the Chinese NT has been narrowed down to 6 names and the main runner ups for the position are Ilias Zouros, Brian Goorjian and Neven Spahija.

[CKR13]

To think David Blatt was even considered. Shame that the latter turned down the offer. If I remember correctly, Goorjian was being considered back in early 2009 but Bob Donewald Jr. was named head coach.

[CKR13]

Am reading from Weibo that the following are also considered:

Kestutis Kemzura
Panagiotis Giannakis
Zeljko Obradovic

[Khalid80]

Am reading from Weibo that the following are also considered:

Kestutis Kemzura
Panagiotis Giannakis
Zeljko Obradovic

These names were mentioned in the initial list but they rejected to coach the Chinese NT from what I heard.... Unless there are new developments that occured over this past week which i'm not aware of as I have been really busy with work and did not have the chance to check the latest updates.

[CKR13]

These names were mentioned in the initial list but they rejected to coach the Chinese NT from what I heard.... Unless there are new developments that occured over this past week which i'm not aware of as I have been really busy with work and did not have the chance to check the latest updates.

I found this about Kemzura who was in China last week:

http://basketball.titan24.com/nba/2013-03-15/260501.html

It seems Kemzura met with officials.

[CKR13]

Really looking forward to seeing a front-court of Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhelin atleast in training camp. I heard Wang had been promoted to the senior squad full time as the latter is not listed in the U19 squad. So this means that Wang has commitments to address and the federation does not want him to get burned out with so much basketball activity.

In a side note, I will pick Li Xiaoxu over Li MuHao at this point if we gauge CBA performance and individual progression. Though Li MuHao and Wang Zhelin recently worked out in NIKE, Oregon for a couple of specialized training sessions. Li also worked out with Hakeem Olajuwon.