A Comparative Study of the Abilities of Attack and Defense Between Asia's Top Three Basketball Teams and Euro-American Powerful Teams in the First FIBA World Cup

By literature review,video observation,mathematical statistics and comprehensive order method,this article makes a quantitative evaluation on attack and defense levels of the first Basketball World Cup male teams,and a comparative analysis of each team's offensive,defensive and comprehensive strengths,and makes a further comparison of the advantageous gaps between the three Asian teams which was qualified and completed in the World Cup finalists and Euro-American basketball powers.The results show that there is an obvious gap among different national teams,teams from USA,Spain,and Brazil hold a safe lead,ranking in Grade A;RSR of Asian top three teams' overall strength are:Philippines 0.43 Grade C;Korea0.31,Grade D;Iran 0.27 Grade D.These three teams have a large gap in the offensive and defensive sides with the Euro-American teams;the overall strength from different continents takes big difference gap,Euro-American teams still lead the development of world basketball;Oceania teams has caught up to similar levels with Euro-American teams,and these teams have gained the strength to contend with Euro-American teams;There is a slow increase of strengths of Asian and African teams,but these teams can not be threat for Euro-American teams.