At 18 o'clock in the evening of June 30, in the final of the U18 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, the Chinese team finally lost to the Australian team, which is also our second consecutive competition to lose to the Australian team in the finals, and the Australian team successfully defended the title and became the real hegemon of Asian basketball.
Basketball is a team sport, each team has five people on the court, although when a very strong player joins the group, the improvement effect on the whole team is very obvious, but we can't just play alone. The reason why the Chinese women's basketball team was able to reach the finals this time and win the championship of this competition. A very important reason is that we have Zhang Ziyu, who is two meters tall and twenty-eight meters tall, it is precisely because of her joining that the balance of strength between teams at this age has been broken, but in front of the overall stronger Australian team, Zhang Ziyu slashed 42 points and was still powerless.
Before the finals, the two top Asian teams of Japan and South Korea were helpless in the face of Zhang Ziyu of the Chinese women's basketball team, and in the finals, facing the Australian team, Australia was at a loss in the first half and successfully limited Zhang Ziyu, and they were also a little helpless against Zhang Ziyu in the second half. However, the Chinese women's basketball team was not able to seize the opportunity, and Australia took advantage of Zhang Ziyu's physical decline to take the game away.
The Chinese women's basketball team has won the championship of this competition 16 times in history, and since the establishment of this competition in 1970, the Chinese women's basketball team has become the team with the most championships in this competition. In 1978, the Chinese women's basketball team won the U18 Asian Cup for the first time and reached the final for 13 consecutive years. Our opponent has changed from South Korea to Japan, and now to Australia, although we failed to win the championship this time, but in Asian women's basketball, the advantage of the Chinese team is still very obvious, and we need to regain confidence.
Zhang Ziyu through three matches with Japan, South Korea, including Australia, can be regarded as dispelling some of people's doubts, in fact, before the start of this competition, Zhang Ziyu was already very famous in China, her proud height made all the fans pay attention to her, but many people are still skeptical about her going to play official games, such as her physical problems, basket skills, coupled with lack of experience in international competitions, Zhang Ziyu can really fight against the speed and rhythm of this international competition? Now after the games with the Japanese team and the two teams with Australia, if you look at Zhang Ziyu's data and performance, you should be able to dispel all these doubts.
We can also say that Zhang Ziyu is the best player in this competition, there is no one, she also broke the individual scoring record in a single game in this competition, and won the MVP of Ben's game. Australia and Japan are the world's top eight teams, in last year's U19 Women's Basketball World Cup, Japan won the sixth place, Australia is only one step away from the top eight, so to be able to play a wonderful performance against these two teams, there is reason to believe that in the Czech Republic next year, Zhang Ziyu will still make the world basketball side eye.