At 2:25 on June 30, Beijing time, the warm-up game before the women's basketball Olympics continued in Spain, this game against the European powerhouse Serbian women's basketball team, and finally after four quarters of competition, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to Serbia 83:92, and suffered three consecutive defeats in overseas warm-up games.
In the last warm-up game, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to Belgium by 15 points, and many problems of the team were exposed in the game, such as poor offensive organization, too many mistakes, low free throw shooting rate, etc., although Li Meng, the core of the organization, did not play due to injury, but can one Li Meng solve all the problems? At the same time, Li Meng said in an interview with CCTV reporters that now the knee injury is getting more and more serious, and now he is still in the process of active rehabilitation, striving to be in the Paris Olympics, which is tantamount to a bolt from the blue, if Li Meng can't come back, how can the Chinese women's basketball Olympics still play? The Paris Olympics are coming, and there is not much time left for Coach Zheng Wei! The opponent Serbia women's basketball team, ranked tenth in the world, should not be underestimated, and the Chinese women's basketball team is in a very bad state due to injuries, and has only achieved 2 wins and 6 losses in the 7 warm-up games that have been conducted, which is a very severe test for the Chinese women's basketball team.
Chinese women's basketball team starters: Yang Liwei, Wang Siyu, Zhang Ru, Pan Zhenqi, Han Xu
Tournament Progression:
In the first quarter of the game, Celvia made two consecutive fouls for the Chinese team to get free throws, and then the mid-range shot and the outside line blossomed, hitting the Chinese team's 11:2 scoring climax, and then Han Xu passed on Sun Mengran to score to stop the decline, but the Chinese team fouled too much, Serbia got many free throw opportunities, and at the same time, there were three points and mid-range shots, and instantly played a 20:6 lead, and at the last moment, Wu Tongtong and Sun Mengran scored, and the Chinese team fell behind 15 points at 12:27 to end the first quarter.
Han Xu scored on a mid-range shot
In the second quarter of the game, Serbia took the lead in scoring 2 points, Han Xu scored in the middle of the shot, Serbia counterattacked and made fouls, two free throws, the Chinese team was stealing three consecutive passes by Serbia, Serbia hit three points, the score came to 36:16, and the lead reached 20 points. Then Huang Sijing hit three points, Yang Shuyu hit two free throws, Sun Mengran scored a layup, and after missing the free throw, Huang Sijing scored a basket, playing a wave of 9:2 scoring climax, chasing the score, Serbia paused. After the pause, Serbia's shooting rate plummeted, and the Chinese team took advantage of the opponent's excessive fouls in this quarter to make frequent kills, all the way to 43:39, Serbia hit three points before the end of the half to turn the score into 46:39, Serbia led by 7 points to end the first half. In this section of the game, Sun Mengran and Yang Shuyu performed well and scored frequently, and they were important contributors to the lead of their opponents in this section.
Huang Sijing hit a three-point shot
In the second half, Yibian fought again, Wang Siyu scored 2 points with a rebound, Serbia scored two three-pointers in a row, Wang Siyu broke through the layup, and then Han Xu made a powerful shot in a row, narrowing the score gap to 5 points, 49:54, but immediately Serbia played a wave of 6:0 again to expand the difference to more than 10 points. Li Yuanzao fouled free throws to stop the bleeding, Pan Zhenqi hit two free throws, and then Serbia hit consecutive shots, and the third quarter ended, Serbia led 71:69.
Wang Siyu made a layup to make it 2+1
In the last quarter of the game, Serbia hit two three-pointers in a row, Han Xu threw and Sun Mengran hit back with three points, and the opponent scored a step-back jumper again, 79:63, and the Chinese team paused. After the pause, Serbia played 2+1, the general trend of the game has gone, although the follow-up Chinese team continued to chase points, but the score gap was too large, and had to accept the fate of defeat, and in the end, Serbia defeated China 92:83.
After the whole game, the fans were very disappointed with the Chinese team, and they said that the Chinese team this time was too disappointing, and it would be considered a success if it entered the quarterfinals, so let's see Dabao and Zhang Ziyu next time!
Player Comments:
In this game, the veteran Sun Mengran was the highlight of the game, the first half was all based on his score, Han Xu was sluggish in the first half, but he performed well in the second half, and he was the two players who played normally in this game.