At 7 p.m. on June 29, Beijing time, in the semifinals of the U18 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, the Chinese team played against the South Korean team at home in Shenzhen. In this campaign, although the Chinese women's basketball team was a little slow in the opening stage, but in the second quarter, the Chinese team broke out, and it was too exaggerated to play 21-3 in a single quarter. In this campaign, Zhang Ziyu scored 34 points + 16 rebounds!
In the group stage, the Chinese team won 3 consecutive wins and won the first place and directly entered the top 4. South Korea finished second in the other group with 2 wins and 1 defeat, winning the play-offs against New Zealand to secure a place in the semi-finals. In this semi-final, Zhang Ziyu, a 17-year-old talented center with a height of more than 2.20 meters, continued to start for the Chinese women's basketball team.
After the opening, the two teams played their own advantages, Zhang Ziyu scored frequently inside, the South Korean team had no way to interfere with Zhang Ziyu, the Chinese team led by up to 8 points, and the South Korean team relied on the outside three-pointer and scored 5 three-pointers in a single quarter. At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team led the South Korean team by 3 points 24-21. It is worth mentioning that after Zhang Ziyu got off the break, the Chinese team only scored 2 points, and if the Chinese team wants to play more easily, the rest of the players must make a certain contribution.
In the second quarter of the competition, Xu Peilin continuously caused the South Korean team to foul and score 4 points in a row through free throws, Zhang Ziyu easily scored on the inside, and the South Korean team tried to shoot three points several times, but then the Chinese team's offense was chaotic, and the South Korean team counterattacked with three points, and the Chinese team asked for a timeout. After the pause, Zhang Ziyu scored 8 points in a row and directly stopped the Korean team. When the South Korean team came back from this timeout, Zhang Ziyu went off the court and had 24 points and 11 rebounds in the half! Zheng Xinru scored three points, Chen Jing quickly made a layup, and the South Korean team continued to attack, and the Chinese team seized the opportunity to extend the lead to more than 20 points, leading the South Korean team by 21 points at 45-24 to end the first half.
In the entire second quarter, the South Korean team only scored 3 points, and the only time the goal was a three-pointer, the Chinese team won 21-3 in a single quarter by 18 points, hammering the South Korean team!
Coming back in the second half, Zhang Ziyu threw himself and grabbed the basket to score, and Pei Xiaorun finally scored another three-pointer for the South Korean team. At the end of the first three quarters, the Chinese team led the South Korean team 61-35 and reached 26 points.
In the last quarter, the outside shooting rate of the South Korean women's basketball team improved, but due to the large score difference, the victory and defeat had lost suspense, Zhang Ziyu clocked out in advance, and the Chinese women's basketball team finally defeated the South Korean team 79-61.