The paper adopts the literature consultation,observation statistics and comparative analysis to carry a comparative research on guards' main competitive abilities between Chinese team and the top 8th teams in the 15th Men's Basketball World Championship.The analysis show that the average height of Chinese guards was slightly higher than that of the top 8th teams,but the average age was obviously younger than their opponents.As a result,their experience of important international games was insufficient and the first and second step troops were disjointed.Domestic guards' ability was backwarded ...