The opponent of the semifinals of the U18 Asian Cup Chinese women's basketball team has been officially decided, the South Korean women's basketball team defeated the New Zealand women's basketball team by 20 points in the play-offs, and successfully advanced to the semifinals. From the perspective of strength, the South Korean team is not enough to create too much threat to the Chinese team, especially the Chinese women's basketball team with Zhang Ziyu, which makes the South Korean team feel desperate.
Previously, Zhang Ziyu played better than one game in three games, especially in the face of the world's top eight Japanese team, and he scored 44 points alone, setting a personal single-game scoring record in the U18 Asian Women's Basketball Championship. Winning against South Korea should be no problem.
Before this game, the Chinese women's basketball team came with another very good news, Zheng Caiyuan, one of the main players of the South Korean team, has confirmed the reimbursement of this game, and there is no way to appear in this semi-finals, and she did not play in the play-offs with the New Zealand team. Zheng Caiyuan has a very good projection ability, and his height is also outstanding in the South Korean team, the Korean team wants to deal with the Chinese team, and strive for the only chance to win, which is to rely on their outside three-point shots in the offense, as well as the few players who can defend inside, and now Zheng Caiyuan's injury will undoubtedly make the South Korean team will be greatly affected at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
In fact, this effect can be seen from the play-offs, although the South Korean team finally defeated New Zealand by 20 points, but all these 20 points were won in the first quarter, and they actually played a five-five game with New Zealand in the next three quarters. When the shooting rate of both sides returned to normal, the overall level of the South Korean team did not look much higher than that of the New Zealand team, so from this level, unless the South Korean team can maintain a three-point shooting rate like the New Zealand team in the first quarter, it is impossible to pose a threat to the Chinese team.
Of course, even if Zheng Caiyuan is not injured, there is no suspense in this game. But for the Chinese team, this is still good news. Why? Because after playing this semi-final, we will go to the final in 24 hours, and the opponent is likely to be the powerful Australian women's basketball team, which is also the defending champion of this competition, and will also be the strongest opponent encountered by the Chinese women's basketball team.
In the last competition, the Chinese team lost to the Australian team and missed the final championship, and the Chinese team never led in the whole game, and was always held down by the Australian team, so if this final is played against Australia, it will be a revenge battle for the Chinese women's basketball team, and it will also be a game to pull the champion off the throne.