Olympics 2008. Why chinese basketball team, mens, lost many games?

Question

can you blame the coach or the three nba players, in the chinese team?

Answer 1

not good enough

Answer 2

because their opponents were better at basketball.

Answer 3

why, their opponents were too tough that all.

Answer 4

I would guess because they're so tiny!  

Except the one NBA player he's really tall for an Asian

Answer 5

Blame the players, they just aren't good enough to verse the other more experienced, better and professional players out there.

Answer 6

Yao was injured. and there problem is not practiccing. u can tell caz they get tired easily and heir momentum falls quick

Answer 7

yao, yi and wang are not playing well. afraid that they might get injured and cant play in the NBA. they could win against other team except the U.S. offense is the best defense. yes, the guards spent much time dribbling the ball.

Answer 8

They were in a group of death that consisted Spain (world champions), Greece, Germany, and of course USA.  They are also very inexperienced, as they only have two players in the NBA (Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian the Milwaukee rookie), the rest played in a much lower competitive level in China.  The third NBA player you spoke of, only just signed with the Lakers this month, so he hasn't played there yet.

Well their guards dribbling often on the outside is definitely a COACH inspired tactic, and they often get disrupted and turned over because of that.  Another thing is that they almost never slam dunk in a match, yet they are perfectly capable of doing it in training.  Their head coach seems to want them to slow down the pace, rather than hitting a quick counterattack.