This year's Spring Festival, the Chinese women's football team blossomed in adversity and returned to the top of Asia 16 years later. On this year's National Day, the Chinese women's basketball team lived up to expectations and announced with a World Cup silver medal: the new era of this group of women's basketball team girls set off from now on.
silver is stronger than gold. This is not a joke
narrowly defeated Australia in the semi-finals by 2 points, and stepped on the opponent's opponent's doorstep to advance to the final. This is an extremely awesome thing in itself. The two sentences of returning to the World Cup finals after 28 years and drawing the best results in history directly point out the historical height that this Chinese women's basketball team has reached.
1994 Zheng Haixia The past of the women's basketball legends winning the second place in in the World Championships is too far away for many people. Even 11 of the 12 women's basketball players have not been born at that time. Even the players who were called the "golden generation of women's basketball team" and reached the semi-finals of the Beijing Olympics were not able to taste the taste of the top four on the World Cup stage.
Due to the current strong dominance of the US women's basketball team, winning the runner-up is actually the best result that any women's basketball national team except the United States can get.
In addition to writing a new chapter in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team, this Women's Basketball World Cup runner-up also allowed the three major Chinese balls to reach the finals on the world-class stage again after three years.
The Chinese Women's Football Team won the Asian Cup at the beginning of this year, which brought the first beam of light to the three major balls in the dark. And the runner-up of the Women's Basketball Team this time can at least make us believe that the three Chinese women's balls have begun to get back on track after experiencing a brief downturn.
"Silver is stronger than gold", this is no joke. This silver medal may be the key to opening a new era of Chinese women's basketball and even the new era of women's three major balls.
, this group of women's basketball players have been holding it in for 5 years.
has entered the World Cup finals and won the world and was runner-up, which has made many people who don't usually pay much attention to the women's basketball team exclaim: It turns out that these women's basketball teams are so strong. But to a certain extent, these Chinese women's basketball teams really began to become so strong in this World Cup. In other words, it was through this World Cup that they truly realized their talents.
Most of the 12 female basketball players started to be included in the women's basketball roster in 2017. Only Huang Sijing in the team has experienced the 2015 Asian Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics , two events that have changed the Chinese women's basketball team.
2015 Wuhan Women's Basketball Asian Championships, the golden generation of Chinese women's basketball team had basically retired. Shao Ting , Sun Mengran , Luwen , Chen Xiaojia and others were the main players to launch an attack on the champion at their doorstep. However, the Chinese women's basketball team, who played at home, lost to Japan twice in the group stage and the finals. The 35-point defeat in the finals made the scene fall silent, and it is also a scar that is difficult for the women's basketball team to heal completely in the history of the women's basketball team.
This defeat also allowed the Chinese women's basketball team to win the number of places in the Rio Olympics through undrafts. In order to improve the competitiveness of the inside, Chen Nan, a 33-year-old veteran who had withdrawn from the national team for a long time, chose to make a comeback and successfully helped the women's basketball team enter the Olympics. However, the Chinese women's basketball team, which lacks overall competitiveness, lost 8 points to in the group stage of the Olympics, lost 21 points to Spain, lost 22 points to Canada, and lost 43 points to the United States. In the end, the 10th place scored the worst record in the history of the Olympics.
After two consecutive years of painful defeats, the then foreign coach of the women's basketball team Mah left office, and the meritorious coach of the Beijing women's basketball team Xu Limin took over. The story behind
may have been told too many times in the past two days. After Xu Liming took office, he hung two photos of the Japanese women's basketball team winning the cup after winning the 2015 Wuhan Asian Championships with a score of 35 points.
In addition, Xu Limin began to reshuffle the women's basketball lineup. Han Xu , Li Yueru , Li Yuan , Wang Siyu and many other main players of the current women's basketball team began to be selected into the national team at that time. When Han Xu and Li Yuan were selected for the first time, they had not even stepped on the WCBA field.
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But a young team cannot reach the top all at once. In the 2019 Asian Cup final, the Chinese women's basketball team, which lacked , Li Meng, and , defeated Japan by three points, missing the opportunity to defeat its opponent in the third line.
In the 2020 Olympic Games qualifying round, the Chinese women's basketball team, with a stable lineup structure, won all three games and successfully entered the Tokyo Olympics. These two extremely popular videos during the game made countless people feel the spiritual power of this Chinese women's basketball team from top to bottom.
But at the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team still suffered a loss when they were young. They won all three games in the group stage and lost to Serbia in the knockout match. In the subsequent 2021 Women's Basketball Asian Cup , the Chinese team lost the chain again when facing the Japanese women's basketball team with an uneven lineup. Xu Liming also left the position to take over by assistant coach Zheng Wei .
Is the revival of the Chinese women's basketball team just a dream? This year's World Cup gave us the answer.
This group of Chinese women's basketball teams, which have been tempered for nearly 5 years, finally bloomed in Sydney , and the breath that had been held for too long was finally released. As for the doubts, failures and efforts we have faced in the past five years, just like the captain Yang Liwei said after the game: "Everything is worth it."
. Even if you and I have followed what the Chinese women's basketball team has experienced in the past five years, I will not really know how much this team and each of them have paid.
Will the Chinese women's basketball team have a chance to win the United States in the future
After winning the runner-up of the World Cup, these women's basketball girls have a further goal, that is, to continue to attack the seemingly unshakable American women's basketball team. Judging from the current strength and lineup of each team, the Chinese women's basketball team also seems to be the most likely team to overturn the US women's basketball team.
First of all, we have to admit that compared with men's basketball , the overall competition of women's basketball is still much worse. The overall professionalization of the world women's basketball team has resulted in a relatively small number of top players, most of which come from the United States.
This causes, except for the American women's basketball team to be at the ceiling level alone, many teams including China, France, Australia, Japan, Canada, Spain and other teams are in the second echelon melee. No one is sure to win the game in the fight between them. At this time, the quality and number of stars have become the key factors that dominate the outcome of the game. Judging from this World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team currently has more initiative in the competition among these teams.
The current Chinese women's basketball team has a very reasonable age structure. Wang Siyu, Yang Liwei and Li Meng were all born in 1995, while Huang Sijing was born in 1996. They can maintain a stable state for at least the next four years. Han Xu and Li Yueru were both born in 1999 and have both played for the WNBA team. They still have time to further realize their talents.
and above 6 people have the strength to compete in the WNBA, which is already quite outstanding in the history of the Chinese women's basketball national team, so it is reasonable to get such a result.
But if you want to continue to make breakthroughs and win the US women's basketball team once, the current lineup is still relatively difficult. In the simplest comparison, the US women's basketball team can send 12 WNBA All-Stars, and even if there is no unstoppable superstar like Maya Moore before, it still has enough strength to fight against any team. In other words, the Chinese women's basketball team only has the chance to compete with the American women's basketball team when there are about 10 players who can compete in the WNBA.But at least, the current Chinese women's basketball team is moving in a beautiful direction, just like the Chinese women's football team that has already started the trend of overseas study.
starts a new golden generation. It is not only players that need to work hard for
women's basketball team wins the runner-up of the World Cup and the women's football team wins the Asian Cup championship. The unsuccessful men's football team and men's volleyball are of course ridiculed again. Similar to the women's football team's victory in the Asian Cup, many people have begun to call for a raise in salary for women basketball players.
As for how much the female basketball employee’s salary is, there are many statements. According to relevant media sources, the women's basketball team's salary has increased significantly in the past two years because there is no salary cap, and some players' annual salary after tax can reach 4 million.
But it is worth mentioning that the current salary in the WNBA is relatively low. For example, Han Xu and Li Yueru went to the WNBA to play basketball and received lower salary than in the WCBA.
After winning the runner-up of the World Cup, the women's basketball partner Yili rewarded 12 million, and TCL took out 3 million to support the women's basketball team.
After that, what Basketball Association and WCBA need to do is to improve the professionalism and the overall level of the league, discover more women's basketball talents, and allow the Chinese women's basketball team to maintain the top level in the world. This is easy to say, but it is not certain to do.
In addition, for fans or those who are paying attention to the Chinese women's basketball team because of this World Cup, I hope to continue to pay attention to the women's basketball team for a longer time in the future, rather than just joining in the fun when it is brilliant, and not paying attention to the trough. At least don't be as ignorant as the following netizens.