67-84! Xinke CBA championship lost to Mongolian team in the first match of the AFC Champions League

2025 Asian Basketball Championship League (BCL Asia) will be held in Baidi from June 7 to 13. A total of 9 top clubs from Asian leagues participated. The group stage is divided into 3 groups, and each group has 3 teams playing a single round-robin match. The competition adopts a concentrated group stage + knockout mode until the final championship and runner-up is decided.

This time, the new CBA champion Zhejiang Guangsha Team represented China. The group match opponents also include the Mongolian League champion Ulaanbaatar Broncos Men's Basketball Team and Iranian powerhouse Tabiat. This team, which performed very bravely in the 2024-2025 CBA playoffs, beat Liaoning and Beijing traditional CBA giants with an unstoppable momentum in the recently ended CBA playoffs, achieving a historic breakthrough and winning the CBA championship for the first time in the team's history.

However, this time the FIBA ​​hosted the top Asian club competition, it was not good! In the first game, he lost 67-84 to the Mongolian League champion Ulaanbaatar Mustang Men's Basketball Team, which is at the lowest level in Asian basketball. This result is probably difficult for many domestic fans to accept. After all, Chinese basketball has been dominant in Asia for several years, and even though its current level has declined slightly, it is still at the top level in Asia.

As the new champion of the CBA League, Zhejiang Guangsha can be compared with the overall competitiveness in the AFC Champions League. But this time it was a bit unreasonable to lose to the unparalleled Mongolian team.

However, in fact, the lineup of Guangsha's team participating in this Asian Champions League is far from the championship team participating in the CBA. The main players including local core players Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui, Zhu Junlong were unable to be separated because of participating in the National Games.

The final participation in this AFC Champions League was a temporary lineup composed of three foreign players Brown, Knight, Nanali and veteran Xu Zhonghao, leading a group of young players from the bench and reserve echelons to participate. Because the Guangsha team, composed of young players, lacks running-in, it is conceivable that its overall combat effectiveness is temporarily launched.

In the first quarter, Guangsha team was weak in offense. Although it was still difficult to play smooth offensive routines under the leadership of three foreign players. But on the defensive end, it failed to effectively defend against the opponent's threatening attack. This also caused Guangsha to fall behind after the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, Guangsha gradually narrowed the score gap after effective adjustments, but the scene was still very passive.

In the third quarter, Guangsha team completely lost control! Young players have been exposed to physical weakness, and their tactical execution on the field has been greatly reduced. This also caused an increase in active mistakes, and the Broncos also seized the opportunity to continuously expand their score lead. In the last quarter, Guangsha, which had already been out of the blue, had completely given up resistance and eventually lost to the opponent 67-84.