{"id":70151,"date":"2025-08-15T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70151\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:00:13","slug":"china-basketball-team-earn-respect-against-koreans-reach-first-asia-cup-semi-in-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70151\/","title":{"rendered":"China basketball team \u2018earn respect\u2019 against Koreans, reach first Asia Cup semi in decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China will take on New Zealand in basketball\u2019s Fiba Asia Cup semi-finals in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after a victory over South Korea that coach Guo Shiqiang said had earned his team some respect.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A 79-71 win on Thursday at Jeddah\u2019s King Abdullah Sports City set up a Saturday evening clash with the Tall Blacks, who overcame a 22-point deficit to send Lebanon packing with a 90-86 win.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese fans celebrated a hard-fought victory featuring a series of controversial calls, as their country reached the last four for the first time since 2015.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a match that China led by as many as 18 points midway through the third quarter, social media attention turned to the 17 free throws awarded to the Koreans within a six-minute, 44-second span during the quarter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Koreans sank 15 to keep themselves in the game. China were awarded two free throws in those 10 minutes, but Liao Sanning, who finished with four points, missed both.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chinese captain Zhao Rui (left) and Wang Junjie (right) thank the crowd after their win. Photo: Xinhua\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5b083683-9ed3-461a-b25f-3f4542814901_0be199a8.jpg\" title=\"Chinese captain Zhao Rui (left) and Wang Junjie (right) thank the crowd after their win. Photo: Xinhua\"\/>Chinese captain Zhao Rui (left) and Wang Junjie (right) thank the crowd after their win. Photo: Xinhua<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While \u201cyou had 17 free throws, but you still couldn\u2019t win\u201d was among the most popular comments, others questioned the officiating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China will take on New Zealand in basketball\u2019s Fiba Asia Cup semi-finals in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,21976,21419,512,21421,55318,40755,5740,55322,55316,21423,55317,55319,590,1736,4621,14640,5813,85,55321,55320],"class_list":["post-70151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-cba","tag-changsha","tag-china","tag-chinese-basketball-association","tag-chinese-mens-team","tag-fiba","tag-fiba-asia-cup","tag-guo-shiquiang","tag-hu-jinqiu","tag-jeddah","tag-king-abdullah-sports-city","tag-lebanon","tag-nba","tag-new-zealand","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-south-korea","tag-sports","tag-tall-blacks","tag-wang-junjie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}