In the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup final that ended this afternoon, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the defending champion US team after 28 years. Despite losing the final, the Chinese women's basketball team tied the best record in the World Cup.
The number one scorer of the Chinese women's basketball team who missed the semi-finals due to fever and illness, Li Meng was still unable to play in this final, so the Chinese women's basketball team still had to use a lineup configuration to compete with the world's women's basketball team 's strongest team.
Chinese women's basketball team fully utilized their advantages in the inside in the first quarter. High center forward who plays in the WNBA in the United States, Li Yueru, faces no stranger to his opponent, frequently scores at the basket, and scores 8 points from 4 shots. In addition, defender Wang Siyu broke through the inside and outside three-pointers and contributed 5 points.
In comparison, the US women's basketball team is indeed stronger in terms of strength. They were able to suppress the Chinese women's basketball team with their frontcourt rebounds, quick offense and accurate mid-range shots, and took a 18:13 lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, under the high-pressure defense of the US women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team made as many as 5 mistakes in this quarter, and was scored continuously by opponents who were good at counterattacking, widening the score gap.
However, the Chinese women's basketball team's defender Wu Tongtong and the substitute center Han Xu , who shined in the semi-finals, also performed very well. Han Xu continued the inside advantage of the Chinese women's basketball team, contributing 6 points in a single quarter; and the most surprising thing was that Wu Tongtong scored 9 points in the second quarter.
With Jin Weina shot and buzzer-beating three-pointer, the Chinese women's basketball team finally entered the halftime break with only 10 points.
At the beginning of the second half, both the Chinese women's basketball team and the US women's basketball team seemed a little slow to warm up, and no one could score in the first 3 minutes.
However, as the US team found its sight, the Chinese women's basketball team could not keep up with the opponent in terms of rhythm under high intensity, and the defense line showed obvious loosening. At the end of this quarter, the score difference between the two teams had reached 21 points, and the Chinese women's basketball team fell behind 47:68. In the fourth quarter of the decisive victory in
, the Chinese women's basketball team sent the main center Li Yueru and substitute center Han Xu to the court, using " double tower tactics " to make the final try. But the lineup moves slowly, and the US women's basketball team started 5:0 again, and the Chinese team head coach Zheng Wei had to call for a timeout and re-arrange it.
Wu Tongtong, who came on as a substitute in this game and temporarily scored the highest score of 13 points in the team, ended up due to injury during a breakthrough, which made the Chinese women's basketball team even worse.
scored nearly 30 points, and with the last 5 minutes left in the game, the US women's basketball team began to replace the main players. But the Chinese women's basketball team still tried their best to narrow the score gap and play every minute of the final.
In the end, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the US women's basketball team 61:83 and won the runner-up in this Women's Basketball World Cup.
The highest scorer in the Chinese women's basketball team was center Li Yueru who scored 19 points; Wu Tongtong scored 13 points; Wang Siyu scored 11 points.
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