The Chinese women's basketball team in the U18 women's basketball Asian Cup final with Australia, the first half was a little surprising to everyone, because everyone saw the game between Australia and Japan yesterday, and felt that the level of the Australian team was like that, only won the Japanese team by 5 points, and the Chinese women's basketball team won by 15 points against the Japanese team. But when the game started, everyone found out that this was not the case.
The Australian women's basketball team is different from other teams when they jump the ball. In the past, all the opponents of the Chinese women's basketball team, as long as it was Zhang Ziyu's starting game, all the opponents gave up the jump ball. I don't fight with Zhang Ziyu anymore, I can't fight anyway, the Australian team grabbed Zhang Ziyu, and they even won. This is also the first time Zhang Ziyu lost the jump ball in this competition.
As soon as the Australian team came up, they were not afraid of Zhang Ziyu at all, and they used the ball to keep moving, and they played the inside line of the Chinese women's team, and did not play the outside line at all. In fact, the outside shooting level of the Australian women's basketball team is relatively average, but their physical condition is very good, and they can make full use of the height difference of the four points other than Zhang Ziyu, that is, to rush and hit hard, increase the success rate of the inside breakthrough, and adjust Zhang Ziyu back and forth around the three-second zone.
Once the Chinese team dares to defend the joint defense, they are not stingy to shoot outside, although their outside shooting rate is not high, but the rebounding of the three-point shot is relatively far, so Zhang Ziyu's height advantage can not grab the rebound, in the first half of the Chinese women's basketball team rebounded 10 less than the opponent, Zhang Ziyu couldn't touch the ball under the basket at all, and created a lot of trouble for us in defense.
It's our turn to attack, the Australian women's basketball team surrounded Zhang Ziyu, because their height and confrontation ability are relatively good, jumping can interfere with Zhang Ziyu, and Zhang Ziyu has never encountered such defensive intensity in the previous game, it is obvious that her hand is not good, and she is relatively slow to adapt. Fortunately, the three-point shot of the Chinese women's basketball team in the first half was okay, not a special crotch pull, otherwise the score difference in the first half might have gone to double digits. The Chinese women's basketball team lost three points in the first quarter, and the Chinese women's basketball team lost by four points in the second quarter, and in the entire first half, it fell behind the defending champion Australia 42:49.
The Australian team is also teaching the Chinese women's basketball team. Next year, Zhang Ziyu will face these strong teams in the world, like Spain, top European and American teams like the United States, their height and weight are the same as those of Australia, especially the American women's basketball team, their physical fitness may be better than the Australian team, and Zhang Ziyu's advantage will be smaller. This also provides us with a new topic, how to give full play to Zhang Ziyu's height advantage in this kind of competition.