The Chinese women's basketball team is 17 years old and 2.23 meters to face the first game! The 1.86-meter mixed-race female will be a helper in the battle against Japan on June 26

Li Xilin's basketball lore

2024-06-24 17:39Posted in Beijing Sports Creators

The 2024 U18 Women's Asian Basketball Championship will kick off on June 24, and the Chinese U18 women's basketball team will face three opponents in the group stage: Indonesia, New Zealand and Japan. This time the competition was held in Shenzhen, and the Chinese team was the host. The Chinese team, with 2.23m of talented rising star Zhang Ziyu, aims to challenge for the championship.

The Chinese U18 women's basketball team previously announced the list of 12 players: Zheng Xinru, Wang Jiayi, Xu Fengwei, Wang Jiaxin, Li Yuwang, Hu Yifan, Zhang Ziyue, Xu Peilin, Chen Jing, Sun Kaiwen, Zhang Yifan, Zhang Ziyu.

Compared with last year's Chinese U16 women's basketball team, this team ushered in a big change, leaving only Wang Jiayi alone. The team's main players have become Zhang Ziyu, Wang Jiaxin, Li Yuwang, Xu Fengwei and others. 17-year-old Zhang Ziyu was set up as the tactical core by coach Wang Guizhi.

Zhang Ziyu previously dominated domestic competitions of the same age group, often playing at the level of 30+10 and easily won the championship. Last year, she was selected for the Chinese U16 women's basketball team, and the team ended up in the U16 Asian Championships with a sluggish performance, finishing only sixth to create the worst result in history. This time, the goal of the Chinese U18 women's basketball team is to finish in the top three, and coach Wang Guizhi shouted the slogan of trying to win every game and want to win the championship.

In the previous warm-up match, Zhang Ziyu performed well against the senior level. Zhang Ziyu scored 9 points, 5 rebounds and 1 block in the first game against Wuhan Shengfan women's basketball team, and 14 points, 11 rebounds and 1 block in the second game against Jiangsu Nangang women's basketball team. In the third game against the Shanghai Jiaotong University women's basketball team, she scored a game-high 19 points on 9-of-10 shooting, plus 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks.

In the U18 Women's Asian Basketball Championships, Zhang Ziyu is expected to dominate the game, after all, this is a junior level game, and her height advantage is more obvious. This will be Zhang Ziyu's first international competition for the national team, and it will be the beginning of her ability to show her ability on the international stage.

Zhang Ziyu's current running speed is still slow, her shooting ability still needs to be polished, and her dribbling ability needs to be improved. But she does have a super height advantage at the moment.

The Chinese U18 women's basketball team also has a number of powerful players. Defender Wang Jiaxin is the captain of the team and has a strong ability to break through. Xu Fengwei and Li Yuwei also performed well in the warm-up match. It is worth mentioning that Su Qun, a famous basketball commentator, watched the game of the Chinese U18 women's basketball team in the Golden Basket Cup Women's Basketball Tournament and praised Zhang Ziyu, Xu Fengwei, Wang Jiaxin and Li Yuwei.

In addition, the Chinese U18 women's basketball team also has Zhang Ziyue, a mixed-race player, who is 1.86 meters tall and has excellent physical conditions, and she can impact the opponent in the second team as a substitute player.

China's U18 women's basketball team played its first game against Ginni on June 24, played New Zealand on June 25, and played its old rival Japan women's basketball team on June 26. The Chinese women's basketball team lost to the Japanese women's basketball team twice in this year's warm-up matches, so can the small women's basketball team beat the Japanese team? See!

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