On July 22, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team ushered in the last opponent of the warm-up game in France Reims France women's basketball team. Before the game, the bookmaker offered a handicap of 20.5 points for the Chinese women's basketball team, and the outside world was not optimistic about the Chinese women's basketball team. The result of the game was also as most people expected before the game, and the Chinese women's basketball team lost by 17 points. After this game, the Chinese women's basketball team will set foot on the field of the Paris Olympics, and on July 28, the Chinese women's basketball team will welcome the first opponent of the group stage, the Spain women's basketball team.
The starters of the Chinese women's basketball team made adjustments in this game, with Wang Siyu, Zhang Ru, Li Meng, Sun Mengran, and Li Yueru starting the game, and Yang Liwei being replaced. The Chinese women's basketball team played actively in the first quarter of the game, with a relatively high defensive intensity, and once dominated the game, leading 25:24 in the first quarter. However, in the second half, the Chinese women's basketball team was physically exhausted and made continuous mistakes, especially in the fourth quarter of the game, which collapsed again on the court and finally lost helplessly.
Li Yueru is still the offensive core of the Chinese women's basketball team, both in the last game against Belgium, Li Yueru shot 6-of-10 and scored 19 points and 12 rebounds, this game Li Yueru broke out again, she shot 9-of-11 and 4-of-6 free throws, and scored 22 points and 12 rebounds. Li Meng shot 4-of-10 from the field, got 13 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, and his state picked up, Sun Mengran shot 4-of-8 and scored 11 points, and Han Xu shot 3-of-2 from the field and 5-of-6 from the free throw to score 9 points.
The Chinese women's basketball team has maintained a greater threat on the offensive end, Li Yueru, Li Meng, and Han Xu still have a strong offensive threat, and the main problem is that the defensive pace cannot keep up, allowing the opponent to break through easily. And the passing and receiving mistakes are constant, the opponent is on the body, on the defensive intensity, their physical strength decreases, and others are fast and fast, how can they not make mistakes, because our usual training and games, there will be no such defense, and it is useless to run in for a long time.
During Li Yueru's time in the WNBA, her average score per game was only four points, not that Li Yueru's ability was not enough, but that all WNBA teams adopted the modern basketball style of play, requiring the ball to flow quickly, all players can break through and shoot three-point shots, and these two are precisely Li Yueru's shortcomings, and the Los Angeles Sparks cannot change their team's tactical play for Li Yueru, they don't need a center like Li Yueru who is mainly single-handed.
It can be seen from Li Yueru's usual training video that Li Yueru is strengthening her three-point shooting practice on the one hand, and has achieved certain results, whether in the national team or in the WNBA league, Li Yueru has a record of three-point shooting, which is a good sign. Then Li Yueru spends a lot of time practicing with the ball, to be honest, with Li Yueru's conditions, the ball attack is her shortcoming, but Li Yueru dares to challenge herself and dare to pursue the advanced technology in the world now, which is completely worthy of recognition. It can be seen from the video that Li Yueru's face frame attack is adding rhythm control skills, and maybe we will soon see that Li Yueru shows his skills on the court.
But most of the players of the Chinese women's basketball team are only willing to stay in the WCBA league, on the one hand, the annual salary of the WCBA is 10 times higher than that outside, on the other hand, the competition in foreign leagues is too fierce, Li Yueru has no stable playing time, let alone others. Han Xu also came back because he didn't have playing time, Han Xu's problem is that he doesn't have the determination to challenge himself like Li Yueru, Han Xu's shortcomings are lack of strength and confrontation, and the WNBA league also has many ways to improve his strength, it depends on whether he has the courage to change.
The Chinese women's basketball team's guards have poor ball holding ability and many passing mistakes, because in the WCBA league, everyone has no strength, and there is no problem with how to pass. For the Chinese women's basketball players who are playing under the age of 28, only by going to the leagues in Europe and North America for training can they better adapt to the national competition, and it is meaningless to be selected for the national team without going out to exercise in the future!