Slovenia
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Men's Basketball World Cup
Slovenia has participated in many Men's Basketball World Cups. Slovenia became an independent country after the breakup of Yugoslavia, and has participated in many Men's Basketball World Cups, but at that time the World Cup was also called the World Championships. In the 2006 World Cup, Slovenia and the Chinese men's basketball team were in the same group, and at that time Slovenia became the backdrop of the Chinese men's basketball star Wang Shipeng's kill, the Chinese men's basketball team with the kill, with the advantage of the net victory points into the round of 16. Slovenia is to group 3rd identity also killed to the round of 16, but in the 1/8 final defeat Turkey, finally only get the 12th place.
Slovenia didn't get to participate in the 2019 World Cup in China because at the time they were playing in the World Qualifiers, they had suffered a 28-point defeat to Ukraine, and it was this game that caused them to finish bottom of their group and not make it to the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup. In the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup, however, Slovenia are back in the picture, having been placed in Group F alongside Cape Verde, Georgia and Venezuela. In the preliminary list of the World Cup they announced earlier, Dong Ciqi, Chancar and other NBA players are listed, in the case of Dong Ciqi's probability of playing, Slovenia's group out of the line should not be too much of a problem.
Although it has participated in the World Cup many times, but Slovenia's team history has only once into the Olympic Games, and this only Olympic experience is in the Tokyo Olympics, when under the leadership of Dončić, Slovenia swept into the top 4, but in the third-place match, they did not beat Australia, and finally only finished 4th, but for the first time in the team history into the Olympic Games, you can achieve the 4th place, Slovenia's basketball The rise of Slovenian basketball is indeed a threat to other European powers.
