This year's Women's Basketball World Cup has participated in a total of 12 teams. Although the teams that have entered the top 8 have been released one after another, it is different from the previous situation where the knockout match will be arranged according to the group ranking. In this Women's Basketball World Cup, the two teams ranked best in each group will draw lots with the other two teams ranked third and fourth in the group. With the Chinese women's basketball team defeating Belgium and successfully locking in Group A, they will also draw lots later to decide who their opponent in the quarterfinals.
The final ranking of Group B has not been officially confirmed. Canada, France and Australia, ranked 1-3, have all scored 3 wins and 1 losses, and , ranked 4, Serbia also has the opportunity to improve its ranking later. For the Chinese women's basketball team, except Australia, the other three teams are much weaker than theirs on paper.
Although the Chinese women's basketball team ranks first in this tournament in many data (average points, shooting percentage, assists), in terms of three-point shooting percentage, they are second only to the US women's basketball team with 41.4%, and Australia is the only three in this tournament, with three-point shooting accuracy reaching more than 40% of the team. If we are apart from Australia, which is the least willing to meet, the team the Chinese women's basketball team most hopes to meet should be the French women's basketball team. This time, their average average score was only the third-last 64 points, and their three-point shooting percentage was 22.8% and the worst team in this tournament.
In addition, Serbia is also an ideal opponent that the Chinese women's basketball team wants to meet in the knockout stage. Although they lost to Serbia at the Tokyo Olympics last year, in this World Cup, Serbia averaged only 66 points per game and had a three-point shooting percentage of only 31.1%.
In the face of Japanese women's basketball team , they only won 5 points, and their condition should not be particularly ideal. So in this group draw, the Chinese women's basketball team most wanted to meet France, followed by Serbia and Canada. As for Australia, it is best to meet again in the semi-finals or the finals. If they are really eliminated in the match with other opponents in the same group, it will be very good news for the Chinese women's basketball team.
(Shopkeeper Luo)
