The Chinese men's basketball team defeated the French team 90-70 by 20 points, easily advanced to the second round of the knockout round, and also entered the quarterfinals.

The other three matches in Groups C and D came to an end quickly, with Turkey, the second-placed hosts of Group C, taking on New Zealand to win 66-55 and also advance to the quarter-finals, while third-placed Russia took on Spain, the second-placed team in Group D, who were the biggest powerhouses in Europe with an 80-65 victory.

It is not easy for Russia to come to this point, they were not optimistic before the game: the absence of the absolute core Kirilenko, Kolyapa also missed the World Championships due to injury, Holden and McCarthy, the withdrawal of the two American veterans made Russia in the competition in recent years, for the first time, there was no "naturalized" player, and experts even concluded that Russia could not break out of the group stage!

But even in the competition with the Chinese team, they are also good, the backcourt is young and impactful, although the inside is rough but has height and hardness, giving the Chinese team a lot of pressure, especially the center Mozgov, who is about to join the Knicks, used his physical advantage to force the inside line many times when Chamberlain was off the court, and he and Bykov, Pontashov and others constitute the future of Russian basketball.

As for Lithuania, the first in Group D, they are naturally even more tough, they will also be the fourth Greek team in Group C, which is also a European powerhouse, and beat 70-51 by 19 points, the Greek team has ended in disgrace, and they can only hope that the big brother Chinese men's basketball team in the group stage can teach Lithuania a lesson.

Lithuania is a well-deserved dark horse in this World Championships, they even missed the top 8 in the European Championships last year, and they still relied on FIBA's green card to barely participate in this World Championship.

After the veterans of Siskauskas, Jascovy Hus, Masiyanskas, Kaukenas and Darius Sanguela bid farewell to the national team, the Lavrinovic brothers, who dominated the European League, also missed the World Championships due to injury, and their strength was questioned by the outside world before the game.

As a result, no one expected that this mediocre talent Lithuania had complete fighting spirit and the resilience to not admit defeat, and in the group stage of France and Spain, they all won through a reversal!

Lithuania often sends small lineups, and the 2.04-meter Jakunas often plays the center position, and they use extremely aggressive defense and decisive outside shots to fight the opponent to the death.

Although it has become the biggest "dark horse" of this Cup, objectively speaking, it is an indisputable fact that the level of basketball in Lithuania has declined, although they have played very hard, the talent of this group of young players is mediocre, and they still have a longer way to go if they want to reshape the glory of Lithuanian basketball.

There is nothing to say about the matches in Group A and Group B, the Dream Team is still so unbeatable, and the Chinese team only cares about this team, because the final match with them must be the Dream Team!

However, Serbia, who are top of Group A, is also a variable.

In the 07 European Championships, Serbia lost all three games in the group stage, and in the loss to Greece, Milicic scolded the referee because he was dissatisfied with the penalty, and he was unabashed, claiming to rape the referee's daughter, and was banned by FIBA for one year after the game, and the old team suffered the most painful defeat in the international competition.

At the same time, their U19 team won the World Youth Championship with a victory over Michael Beasley's USA team. The U20 youth team, also led by Teodosic, won the European Youth Championship.

This made the Serbian Basketball Association determined to change blood, and in the subsequent 09 European Championships, the Youth Janissaries went all the way to the final, shocking the world.

In this year's Turkey, the Serbian Youth Army once again proved with an excellent performance that the runner-up in last year's European Championship was not accidental!

In the previous overseas training of the Chinese men's basketball team, they played two games with Serbia, that is, one win and one loss, as long as Chamberlain did not break out, the Chinese men's basketball team could not play with others at all.

Serbia now provides a flaunt for the Chinese men's basketball team, the team fell into a trough in 07, and now it has relied on a group of youth troops to quickly return to the ranks of the world's strongest teams, it took less than two years, which is really shocking!

The most amazing thing about Serbia is that it has a strong hematopoietic ability, which allows them to have a stable star production line, and when Argentina, the opponent in the 2002 final, is still relying on Luis Scola and Carlos Delfino to support them, Serbia is ready to continue to lead the world basketball in the next decade.

There is still some distance in the final, and after the quarterfinals is the semi-finals, and the Chinese team meets the Spanish team.

These two teams are also quite related recently, in the 08 Beijing Olympics, the Spanish team formed the strongest team in history, ready to go to the Beijing Olympics to show their strength, only to meet the fledgling and fierce and terrifying Chamberlain, almost single-handedly destroyed their hopes.

This time in the World Championships, the two teams met again, and it was the semi-finals!

The Spanish team can't afford to lose this time, and in recent years, since Gasol appeared, this team has begun to walk the world basketball world as a top hero.

In the Beijing Olympics, the Spanish team was overturned by the Chinese men's basketball team, which made the Spanish domestic sports media silent for several days, and later the Spanish men's basketball team returned to China and almost became a national sinner.

This kind of treatment is not the hypocrisy of the Spanish sports media, the main reason is that the current Spanish team has a lot of titles, and it is indeed worthy of high standards, strict requirements and high expectations.

In the 2006 World Championships in Japan, Spain was the champion, in the 08 Beijing Olympics they were the bronze medal, and last year's European Championships started, they are still the champions!

The success of the past four years shows that the Spanish team is currently at the top of the world and is regarded as the favourites to compete with the United States, and the team will naturally aim to defend the title at the World Championships.

However, since the start of the World Championships, the Spanish men's basketball team has found that it is too difficult for them to defend the title this time, and it is even more difficult to press the Chinese men's basketball team to defend the title.

Originally, the Spanish men's basketball team belonged to Group D with strong teams such as Lithuania and France, but it may not be difficult for Spain to beat these two teams to qualify as the top of the group, and teams such as New Zealand, Canada and Lebanon may not pose much of a threat to Spain.

As a result, although there are not many stars from Lithuania this time, all of them are practical, and the style of play is extremely fierce, which is a pain for the technical flow of the Spanish team.

You must know that this year's Spanish men's basketball team is short of major generals, Pau Gasol, the main player on the inside, and Calderon, the main player on the outside, are both absent!

Despite the absence of Pau Gasol, the absolute heart of the team, the Spanish squad is still a star-studded squad and after it was confirmed that they will play China, their head coach Scarioro said: "The absence of Pau Gasol and Calderón does not affect us, we are here to win and not to lose, no matter who we meet, there is only one thing to do, step on them and win the title. ”

After all, the Spanish men's basketball team has made remarkable achievements in the international arena in recent years, FIBA officially ranked it as the second best basketball league in the world, and La Liga has even become the second best basketball league in the world after the NBA.

In the group stage, Group D was in a brighter format, with either Spain or Lithuania being the first, and after these two teams met, Spain lost unfortunately.

At that time, the Spanish team also expressed their disapproval, and a genius like the golden boy Rubio even felt happy, he previously told reporters: "We have been looking for an opportunity, a chance to take revenge." We made some mistakes in the last Olympics that disappointed our fans and now it's time to make up for them. ”

With Gasol and Calderón both sidelined, Spain's core became Navarro and Rubio.

Navarro is the captain of the national team at the World Championships, he is mature and has a good sense of the big picture, he is now 30 years old, he is the golden age of a basketball player, and he also has both NBA and FIBA experience: he played for the NBA Grizzlies, and his most precious youth was left to the European giants Barcelona.

Navarro didn't have a great time in the NBA, returning to Europe last season and leading Barcelona to the Champions League trophy and MVP.

He was the leader and scoring center of the Spanish team in key moments, and his brilliant small projectile earned him a reputation as the "bomb", and he was an excellent long-range shooter who could hit threes in any situation and anywhere. In addition, he is fast, not only does he have excellent ball control skills to break through and score on his own, but he is the key man in the World Championships in Spain.

Although the Spanish team still has excellent players such as Fernandez and Suarez, if you look forward to the future, Navarro's teammate "Golden Boy" Rubio at Barcelona can have a better performance at the World Championships.

As the youngest player in La Liga, Rubio has already shocked the four players in the 08 Olympic Games, he is astonishingly comprehensive, his ability to assist and steal can be described as terrifying, and he has a good sense of the big picture, and in the first time he played for Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals, Rubio equaled the number of assists in the history of the semi-finals.

In addition, his rebounding and scoring strength are also good, not physically burly, but his sense of rhythm and balance are exceptional, he was selected by the Timberwolves with the fifth pick in last year's draft, but finally decided to stay in La Liga for another year, and will only enter the NBA this year.

The current Spanish team may be the least afraid of the Chinese men's basketball team, so when I learned that the Chinese team was the first in Group C and they were the second in Group D, I would be so calm.

The two cores of this team, Navarro and Rubio, either have never played in the NBA, or they didn't catch up with Chamberlain's most terrifying timing when they played in the NBA, so they are under pressure but more motivated when it comes to playing against Chamberlain.

The Spanish team also has the strength to challenge the Chinese men's basketball team, although there is no Calderón and Pau Gasol, but they retain most of the main players of the 08 Olympic Games and the 09 European Championships, such as Rubio, Navarro, Fernandez, Calderón, Gabajosa and many other giants with experience in the World Series.

In short, in terms of this year's record, team strength, and the stability of the tactical system, the Spanish team is second to none among all teams, even surpassing the American Dream Team.

The three most dazzling teams in the World Championships, the Dream Team, the Dragons Team and the Spanish Team.

Now, the Chinese men's basketball team is the first to play against the Spanish men's basketball team, and both teams can't afford to lose this time.

The Spanish team is the defending champion of the World Championships, the bronze medal of the Olympic Games, and the champion of the European Championships, and the Chinese team is the silver medal of the Olympic Games and is directly aimed at the championship, and the side of the two teams that loses can't even enter the semi-finals, that is, there is no medal to win.

As a result, this match became the most exciting match after the final, with tickets sold out for a long time, and compared to the other three semi-finals, this match naturally received more attention than Cheng Dù, and the ratings are expected to break the record of the opening match between China and Greece.