We love this game too!

I just the basketball match of China Vs U.S. I was very much impressed by the energy and enthusiasm our young players have brought out to the game. Although we lost by over 40 points, we did not have our top two stars--Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi in the game. As mentioned by the CCTV host, we shall not fear to lose this game, instead we shall get a clearer picture of where our strength and weakness lies by fighting with the top competitor in the game. World Basketball Champion is around the corner, starting on August 19th in Japan. We will have some more warm-up matches in the next two weeks. We shall learn from the matches in Europe and Guangzhou, and do whatever it takes to practice the team play in the subsequent matches. By August 19th, we shall be able to give the world a fresh look with a healthy Yao and Zhizhi Wang.

P.S I tried three methods to view CCTV5 today.

1. online streaming by any centralised server--very much outdated. It takes forever to load and the view is never continuous.

2. P2P BitTorrent TV players

2.1 TUV player--very problematic from my past experience. The channel list often does not load properly during initialisation

2.2 PPLive player--takes quite some time to open the first view, as the initial buffering takes a long time. However the subsequent visual quality is good and the view is continuous