When Zhu Junlong hit the game-killing three-pointer 36 seconds before the end, the bench of the Chinese men's basketball team erupted in cheers like the aftermath of a catastrophe. What should have been an easy finale turned into a priceless confrontation open lesson. The score of 86-78 was fixed on the stadium screen of the University of Guam, and the 38-year-old Weiss used 32 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks to give the young Chinese men's basketball team an open lesson.

Wesley's every back-to-back singles is quenching for young Yang Hansen, Zeng Fanbo, and Hu Jinqiu. With a height of 2.01 meters, he used a destructive power more than three times his body size, and under the encirclement and suppression of a group of Chinese teenagers, he handed over a complete victory. The former NBL star player has brought to life two decades of confrontational wisdom in a conversation with China's new interior linemen: the space for elbows, the displacement of hips, the defensive vacuum of knees during take-offs — every detail is a living textbook.

Guo Shiqiang's decision to take turns to rest Zhou Qi unexpectedly unveiled the evolutionary cut of Chinese basketball. The 19-year-old Yang Hansen showed his talent on 7-of-8 shooting in 17 minutes, with continuous dunks, but exposed the disconnect between core strength and confrontation experience on the defensive end. Liao Sanning's sharp spirit, which scored 7 points in the last quarter, was fiercely hedged with the cold hand of Xu Jie, Gao Shiyan, and Zeng Fanbo in a total of 10 shots, just like the growth curve of this youth army.

What is more profound is the change of Zhu Junlong's role. This forward, who is known for his defense, turned into Mr. Key in this game, and continued the victory with three three-pointers - when the front line of world basketball has long blurred the line between offense and defense, the functional cutting of Chinese players may have to break the moment.

The referee's controversial decision was made throughout the court, Hu Jinqiu's physical foul after being elbowed, and Xu Jie's neglected contact when he broke through, showing the rules of survival in the international arena naked. Guo Shiqiang bluntly said after the game that "offense and defense can't maintain lethality", and Zhao Rui reflected on "the solution is not in place" - these sober self-criticism are closer to the starting point of progress than victory.

What is worth playing is the paradox behind the data: the Chinese men's basketball team scored 22-8 in this fast break to crush the opponent, but was chiseled by Wesley alone in the positional battle. This kind of fragmentation confirms the transformation pains of the coaching staff to "catch up with the world trend": when speeding up counterattacks has become the new label, how to maintain the intensity of confrontation at high speed is still an unfinished task.

The confrontation of basketball is never a savage clash of muscles, but a precision engineering that translates the laws of physics into technical aesthetics. On the night of Guam, Weiss used 32 points to carve a mutation mark on the gene chain of the Chinese men's basketball team, and those young figures who began to actively seek collisions may be weaving the Noah's Ark of Chinese basketball. When our players learn to dance in confrontation instead of falling, this final match of the Asian qualifiers will eventually become a prologue to a new era.