On October 1, the final of the women’s basketball World Cup in 2022 was held. Finally, China Women’s Basketball, which had a tenacious performance, lost to the US team. China, who won the runner-up women’s basketball, tied up its best results and created history again. Just the day before, China successfully advanced to the final with a victory over Australia at 61:59 women’s basketball. Since 1994, China has returned to the World Cup final after 28 years. The classic World War I has been screen-sweeping.
This vigorous Chinese women’s basketball has brought us many surprises. In the whole journey of the resumption of this World Cup, China Women’s Basketball’s tough performance in several tough and deadlocked battles was especially impressive. In the 1/4 final, facing the challenge of the old European Strong Team France, the Chinese team played extremely hard, but in the end, it still stood up to the pressure and won steadily; In the semi-final, China and Australia played epic World War I women’s basketball. The whole game was leveled 9 times and led 4 times alternately. In the last 3.4 seconds, Wang Siyu took two penalties to determine the victory-high-intensity attack and defense, high-energy output in the whole process, killing in seconds and flaming the whole game. This is the ultimate charm of basketball, and how can you not love it!
There is no doubt that China women’s basketball, which is still in the rising cycle, has shown the ruling power of elite teams. This kind of ruling power is not only 107:44 victory over South Korea women’s basketball, 98:51 victory over BiH, 95:60 victory over Puerto Rico, etc., but also reflected in, when facing the American team with “the first” twice, the team as a whole and individual players burst out with strong toughness and impact. In the first team of the US team in the group match, Chinese girls even played a beautiful score of 22:12 in the third quarter…… Although the victory was not taken away, it brought confidence and momentum.
No matter the result or content of the game, the Chinese women’s basketball in this World Cup has made the fans shine at the moment. From the perspective of several shots games, instead of simply saying that the Chinese team plays team basketball, it is better to play high-level composite basketball: high-intensity meat grinder-style defense, fast attack and defense conversion, and internal and external combination of scores, as well as downtown decisive and efficient shots, they are all used with ease. As far as the individual players are concerned, there are certainly performances of the first scorer Li Mengquan Ming Star. The performances of other players such as Han Xu and Li Yuelu are just as wonderful. Holding the ball is not panic, scoring the ball is reasonable, attacking the basket is firm, the tactics are various, and the whole team is running smoothly.
Women’s basketball, China has always been the honorary teacher of “three big-ball sports. 28 years ago, the Chinese women’s basketball where the player Zheng Wei was located reached the final in the world championship; 28 years later, Zheng Wei, as the head coach of China women’s basketball, led China women’s basketball to enter the world-class final again. The popularity of the talent team and the perfect competitive basketball ecology have laid the cornerstone for the long-term prosperity of women’s basketball. The market-oriented power and institutionalized guarantee have brought continuous opportunities to generations of basketball players. As a result, the “Basketball Dream” can last longer and extend more widely, with luxuriant leaves and flowers blooming and fruitful harvest.
A perfect trip to the World Cup is over, but it belongs to the best era of China’s women’s basketball and has just begun. We believe that this Youth Unlimited, energetic, skilled and tactical Chinese women’s basketball with firm will will will surely create more miracles.
(Yangcheng Evening News)