On September 22, Beijing time, Women's Basketball World Cup officially started. In the opening game, the Puerto Rico Women's Basketball Team, which participated in the Women's Basketball World Cup for the first time, faced the Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball team, ranked 7th in the tournament. Not only is the overall strength ranking of Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball team higher than that of Puerto Rico, but also has big center Jon Ques Jones who has just returned from the finals after playing for the WNBA finals. Jones, who plays for the Connecticut Suns, not only led the team to the finals, but also won the regular season MVP this season.
Although the Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball team has the advantage, the obviously better prepared side is Puerto Rico. After the start, Puerto Rico controlled the rhythm of the game. Since Jones only met with the national team two days before the start of the game after the WNBA Finals, he lacked running-in with his teammates, and the big man's slow movement was just targeted by the Puerto Rico team.
The Puerto Rico women's basketball team has no advantage in height and belongs to the style of Xiao Kuailing. They chose to double-team against Jones in advance and quickly attacked after intercepting the ball. With such tactical arrangements, Puerto Rico scored 31 points in the first quarter, only allowing Bosnia and Herzegovina to score 16 points. In the second quarter, the Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball team woke up from their dreams and began to chase points. They once narrowed the gap to within double digits and stopped the Puerto Rico women's basketball team.
After the timeout, the Puerto Rican women's basketball team stabilized their position, while Bosnia and Herzegovina lost their sight. In the second half of the second quarter, the rhythm of the game returned to the hands of the Puerto Rican women's basketball team. Facing the Puerto Rican women's basketball team, which is getting smoother and smoother, Bosnia and Herzegovina played very simply, just use the ball to find Jones. Even if Jones tried all his best, he had both three-pointers from the outside and strongly played at the basket, he still could not narrow the score difference, and he could only see that the score difference became bigger and bigger.
At the end of the half, the Bosnian women's basketball team trailed Puerto Rico women's basketball team 36-53 by 17 points. Jones' data was very impressive, and he scored 13 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists in the first half. Tavic performed the best, scoring 7 points. Not only did the Bosnia and Herzegovina team have low shooting percentage, but the team made continuous mistakes and made 9 mistakes in the first half, which just gave Puerto Rico the opportunity to play a fast break. On the other hand, Puerto Rico's team can be said to be full of players, with the starting five players scoring more than 7 points, and the shooting percentage is as high as 65%, of which 5 of 10 three-pointers were shot, just 50% of the shooting percentage.
This game is very similar to the 2021 Women's Basketball Asian Cup Chinese Women's Basketball match against Japanese Women's Basketball . The Chinese women's basketball team also has the advantage in the inside line, while the Japanese women's basketball team played a small fast spirit, and the final result was that the Chinese team lost regretfully. Nowadays, the Chinese women's basketball team's inside line is still in charge of Han Xu and Li Yueru. If their personal abilities are just about their strength, their strength is not as good as Jones of Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the Chinese team needs to pay attention to the next group stage when facing Puerto Rico.
If the Chinese women's basketball team still has not changed, it is still simple in tactics, only playing in the inside and outside players do not perform, meeting Puerto Rico in the group stage will be a difficult opponent. If you just look at the strength ranking, the biggest competitor in the group stage of the Chinese women's basketball team is the United States, followed by Belgium and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Puerto Rico beat Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first game, and the Chinese women's basketball team must pay attention to it, otherwise the situation in the group stage will become very serious.
