[China’s transformation women’s basketball is absolutely feasible in the future]]
On October 1st, China Women’s Basketball lost 61-83 to the US women’s basketball in the women’s basketball World Cup. Although they failed to reach the top, they have reshaped China’s women’s basketball glorious history and completed the breakthrough in history. China women’s basketball returned to the World Cup finals after 28 years, which is already a great achievement. Through this World Cup, China has completed a real transformation women’s basketball: in fact, they have already had the strength foundation to reach the podium before, but the sixth in the last World Cup and the fifth in last year’s Olympic Games, these achievements all show that they need to complete the leap in their hearts again to achieve qualitative change. In this World Cup, China’s women’s basketball strength is stronger, which is their biggest change and improvement compared with before, and this is also the biggest gain of China’s women’s basketball in this World Cup. At the same time, these players are in the rising or golden period of their career, and China women’s basketball will maintain strong competitiveness and level at least in the next five years. The future of China’s women’s basketball is absolutely promising.
China has been the leader of Chinese sports for many years before women’s basketball. But they have also experienced a low ebb, and their results have fallen to the point where even Asia cannot guarantee the championship. However, after several years of hard work and climbing up, this Chinese women’s basketball has already possessed the strength foundation of the world’s top teams. In fact, when the Tokyo Olympics last year, the strength level of China’s women’s basketball had reached the point of wrestling with the strong teams, but they did not break the layer of window paper and were blocked outside the gate of the quarter-finals by the Serbian women’s basketball. At that time, for Chinese women’s basketball, the biggest problem they needed to solve most was how to become stronger when playing strong teams so as to realize the transformation again.
In this World Cup, China Women’s Basketball finally completed such transformation. In the group match against the strongest US women’s basketball, China Women’s Basketball showed strong competitiveness and combat effectiveness, and they surprised the defending champion in a cold sweat. Entering the elimination stage, China Women’s Basketball showed a stronger characteristic in defeating France women’s basketball and Australia women’s basketball. This is the biggest difference between them and before. Especially in the semi-finals with Australia women’s basketball, China Women’s Basketball lacked the number one scorer Li Meng, but even so, China Women’s Basketball tried to reduce the adverse effects, and other players took heavier responsibilities, including Wang Siyu, yang Liwei, Han Xu and so on, they resisted the pressure at the last moment of the game and performed more calmly and stably on the court, which showed that they became more mature and more like a world-class strong team.
Although there was a certain gap in the overall strength between Chinese women’s basketball and American women’s basketball in the final, they still tried their best to show and Bloom themselves, playing the spirit of Chinese women’s basketball. Although he was defeated, such a Chinese women’s basketball is absolutely worthy of our pride.
Having experienced this World Cup, most players in China women’s basketball have had the experience of two World Cups and one Olympic Games. They have seen the world and played many tough battles, such experience precipitation will make them more mature. At the same time, the average age of this women’s basketball is about 25 years old, the youngest is only 22 years old, and the largest is only 30 years old, so the age structure and competition experience accumulation, this team can maintain strong competitiveness for at least the next five years. If more players go to the higher level league to exercise and improve in the future, China’s women’s basketball will become stronger and more confident. They can also have the Foundation to launch a stronger impact on American women’s basketball in the future.