Today, the women's basketball girls lost to Serbia with a score of 59:81, and had to accept the status quo of two consecutive defeats in the group stage of the Paris Olympics, and the situation of group qualification is already in jeopardy.
When the group draw lots, we would never have thought that the Chinese women's basketball team would be so miserable. We are seeded in this group and runners-up in the Women's Basketball World Cup. But now the facts are in front of us, and we have to face them.
If we had lost to Spain in extra time in the last game, we would have been eliminated from the group stage if we lost to Serbia today.
There have been some changes to the format of this Olympic Games, although it is still 12 teams, but it is divided into 3 groups, each group has 4 teams, the top two teams in each group can directly qualify for the top 8, and the best two groups can also qualify. This leaves a glimmer of opportunity for the Chinese women's basketball team. But the Puerto Rico women's basketball team had to win the last game, and it had to be a big win. This is not easy to say, today the Puerto Rico women's basketball team and the Spain women's basketball team played back and forth, only one point lost, and the first game lost to Serbia was only 3 points. At present, like the Chinese women's basketball team, we have lost 2 consecutive games, and in the last game, we won Puerto Rico to get the third place in the group, but when comparing the results with the third of the other two groups, we are afraid of small points, so we must win by a large score to win the initiative to qualify.
At present, the state of the Chinese women's basketball team is really poor, and the warm-up game before the Olympics is 7 consecutive defeats. Although the main lineup of the World Cup runner-up is still there, except for Li Yueru, the others have really regressed significantly, especially our outer core Li Meng. At the World Cup, Li Meng was a small forward, physically strong, able to shoot suddenly, and could also connect the team well. Judging from the two Olympic group games, Li Meng's regression is too obvious, the offensive efficiency is too low, and he tried to break through a few times, but he couldn't score points, so he could only make fouls and pull out from the outside, which was really not good.
There is also head coach Zheng Wei, who feels that he has no skills and tactics, and he can win the runner-up in the World Cup, which is completely eating the dividends of the previous head coach Xu Limin. On the sidelines, I feel like I'm always staring dryly, and I can't come up with any solution to the problem, so I just let the players solve it themselves.
At the moment, we can only hope that the final game of the group against Puerto Rico will come back to life. But even if you qualify for the last eight in the group, don't expect any better.
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