In this game, the confrontation between the two sides is very fierce. Hualong. com reporter Chen Yi photo
Hualong. com (Wang Xurui) At 19: 30 on September 17th, the 2023 "the belt and road initiative" China-Europe Basketball Champions Cup was held in Yubei District Gymnasium of Chongqing, and Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent Club beat Serbian Mettala Basketball Club 86-74.
In the first half of the campaign, Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent got a hot start, with a wave of 13-4 to stop the opponent, but the opponent’s tactics were adjusted in time, and the hit rate rose sharply. After half-time, Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent fell behind Mettala by 38-46.
The scene of the game. Hualong. com reporter Chen Yi photo
In the second half of the game, Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent quickly entered the state again, playing a wave of offensive climax to overtake the score, and then the two sides played back and forth, and they did not open the difference. Until the last moment of the last quarter, Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent relied on the successive goals of Lu Wenbo and Wang Yibo to pull the difference to 10 points and finally won.
Serbian Zlatibor Basketball Club won the championship. Hualong. com reporter Chen Yi photo
The China-Europe Basketball Champions Cup is jointly sponsored by Chongqing Sports Bureau and Yubei District People’s Government, and the competition adopts the points system. After three days of fierce competition, Serbian Zlatibor Basketball Club won the championship, Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent Club won the second place, Shanghai Jiushi Shark Club won the third place, and Serbian Mettala Basketball Club won the fourth place. Wu Qian, a player from Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent Club, was named the most valuable player in this tournament.
Enthusiastic Chongqing audience. Hualong. com reporter Chen Yi photo
It is worth mentioning that this is also a showdown between China and Serbian men’s basketball after the World Cup. The list of participating players includes powerful players such as Wu Qian, Wang Yibo, Guo Haowen, Li Tianrong, Luo Hanchen and Ren Junwei.
"This China-Europe Basketball Champions Cup is an intercontinental club cup held in China, which provides CBA teams with an opportunity for intercontinental confrontation and a head-on collision between CBA high-level clubs and European basketball clubs." The relevant person in charge of the organizer said that the purpose of this competition is to improve the competitive level of professional basketball in China and Europe, help China’s professional basketball go abroad, and also devote itself to promoting the exchanges and cooperation between China and Europe’s basketball industry for a long time.
Brief introduction of the participating teams:
1. Shanghai Jiushi Shark Club
In the 2001-02 CBA championship, he once trained many national players such as Zhang Wenqi, Wei Liu, Wang Ligang, Peng Fei and Zhang Zhaoxu, and Yao Ming played for him for many seasons in his early career.
2. Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent Club
In the CBA regular season of 2022-23, he ranked first in the regular season with a record of 35 wins and 7 losses, and successfully broke through many difficulties in the playoffs and reached the finals.
3. Serbian Zlatibor Basketball Club.
He won the championship of Serbian Basketball League (KLS) and the first honor of Adriatic League (ABA) season.
3. Serbian Mettala Basketball Club.
The team has a long history. Founded in 1948, it has repeatedly entered the top four in the country. Many players in the team have been selected for the Serbian national training team, the U20 national team and the college students’ national team.
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