Paris Olympics women's basketball group stage, Chinese women's basketball against Puerto Rico women's basketball, for the Chinese women's basketball team, is a game that cannot be lost, and even needs a big win game, the Chinese women's basketball team led the Puerto Rico women's basketball team 40-29 in the half, in the half game there are two incredible and three should not.
First of all, it is incredible that Li Meng's state has picked up, with 12 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in the half; The second incredible thing is that Li Yueru continued to be in excellent form, 5-of-6 from the field, 2-of-5 from the free-throw line, and finished with 12 points and 5 rebounds. But there are also three that should not be, the first should not be for the defense of Girantes, who scored 13 points, why not carry out targeted package defense; The second should not be Wu Tongtong's 4 fouls in 4 minutes; The third should not be why Zheng Wei did not use the combination of two towers, which is as strong as Han Xu only has 4 minutes of playing time.
In the first quarter of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team showed a good competitive state, especially the core of the forward Li Meng's state warmed up, two three-point hits in a single quarter, and also Wang Siyu's inside breakthrough and outside three-point hits, the inside Li Meng and Han Xu both had a good play, both had a strong finish on the inside, and the Chinese women's basketball team led the Puerto Rico women's basketball team 17-11 in the first quarter.
Entering the second quarter of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team showed good skills on the defensive end, limiting the opponent to score a point within two minutes, and the control of defensive rebounds was quite good. On the offensive end, Li Yueru has a strong dominance, in the face of the opponent's hug and fall, there is a tough basket 2+1 success, Zhang Ru scrambles to get the offensive rebound, the basket finishes to create kills, two free throws and one hit, the Chinese women's basketball team expanded the score to 13 points.
However, as the core of Puerto Rico came on the court again, it continued to score in the middle distance, showing a strong impact, and during the pause, Zheng Wei said: "We can't stop for a minute, we must do a good job of on-site attention." After the timeout, Wang Siyu hit a three-pointer from the outside, and the Chinese women's basketball team led the Puerto Rico women's basketball team 32-18, but Girantes' individual ability was shown in the game, and the Puerto Rico women's basketball team chased the score to 22-32.
It was Li Yueru who used the change of pace under the basket to finish under the basket to help the Chinese women's basketball team stabilize the situation, but Gilantes has always been a defensive strength that the Chinese women's basketball team cannot solve in the second quarter. The latter can be described as crazy, and even had a counterattack three points, narrowing the score to 9 points, and the Chinese women's basketball team led the Puerto Rico women's basketball team 40-29 at halftime.