Every time when the atmosphere of basketball is not good, Chinese women’s basketball will always appear in time, bringing us a little excitement. This time, they played the women’s basketball World Cup in Sydney.
What is the prospect of China’s women’s basketball this time? What is the change compared with last year’s Tokyo Olympics? Where is the biggest attraction? Today, I will slightly expand these detailed questions through Q & A.
What is the goal of China’s women’s basketball?
It is still an impact medal. At present, the world hegemony of the United States women’s basketball is unshakable, and the remaining teams are almost the same level. According to the 12-team strength list in the front row of the International Basketball League, the United States ranks first, the host Australia ranks second, and the Chinese team ranks third, even higher than the Olympic silver medalist Japan.
In fact, China’s women’s basketball has been suppressed by the Japanese team in the past 10 years. In addition to winning the championship in the 2018 Asian Games, the other Asian Cup and Asian Games have lost gold medals. In last year’s Olympic Games, China was reversed by the Serbian team in the last quarter of 8th in women’s basketball. Unfortunately, the Chinese team was still ranked third this time, indicating that the International Basketball Federation expected a high value for them.
What are the main rivals of China’s women’s basketball?
The penetration rate of women’s basketball sports in the world is not high, and there are not many strong teams. Although China women’s basketball is not sure to win the US team, it already has the top four levels. In this kind of battle-style international competition, the Chinese team usually has to win one or two old European teams, and then is ready to fight against the Japanese team at any time.
We are divided into Group A. The same group includes the United States, Belgium, BiH, Puerto Rico and South Korea. Under normal circumstances, we will take the second line in the group. Group B includes Australia, France, Serbia, Japan, Canada and Mali. According to the rules, after the group match, there will be a draw to watch the US team (most likely the first group) play the third or fourth of the other team, and pick the rest to the Chinese team.
Defeating the Japanese team is another major goal of China’s women’s basketball in addition to winning cards. The elimination match may be met at any time.
What are the changes in the women’s basketball lineup?
Since the beginning of this year, Zheng Wei has replaced Xu Limin as the head coach of China Women’s Basketball Women’s basketball. Zheng Wei was women’s basketball General in August 1. After retirement, he commanded Guangdong Women’s basketball and Inner Mongolia Women’s basketball to win the WCBA championship and served as an assistant coach in China for more than women’s basketball times.
Compared with the lineup during the Olympic Games, the Chinese team changed two players. The center of Guangdong team, Dilana, replaced Sun Mengran, and the Jiangsu team, Jin Weina, replaced the old captain Shao Ting. Shao Ting and Sun Mengran have rich experience and outstanding ability, but they quit because of age or injury. China has been upgraded women’s basketball and is in a very stable period. It is also a stage of achievement. There are two world-class centers, Li Yuelu and Han Xu, inside. Huang Sijing is an excellent space-oriented power forward, li Meng, a small forward nicknamed “LeBlanc dream”, is at its peak age. It can be said that the internal advantage is an important reason why the International Basketball Federation is optimistic about the Chinese team.
What are the problems of the Chinese team?
The rear guard line has always been the short board of China’s women’s basketball. It has been a long time since there was a scoring guard with strong ball holding ability like Miao Lijie. When I went to Sydney this time, I still used Li Yuan, Yang Liwei, Wang Siyu and Wu Tongtong. On the one hand, they showed the coaching staff’s trust in this rear guard line. On the other hand, they did represent the best level of Chinese women’s basketball.
One of the major manifestations of our defender’s weakness is that the ability to break the pressure is not strong, and there are many mistakes in organizing attacks. Stabilizing the rear guard line is helpful to cultivate tacit understanding. In the past four months of training, one key point is to break the pressure and reduce mistakes.
China men’s basketball had a large area of infection with the new crown in Australia FIFA World Cup qualification, which dealt a major blow to the team and then affected the Asian Cup behind. This kind of problem should not happen to women’s basketball. First of all, when they went to Serbia to fight FIFA World Cup qualification in February this year, they were basically infected once. Secondly, in order to avoid repeating men’s basketball mistakes, before the World Cup, I specially went to Europe for training and training. I played 8 warm-up matches, which actually further adapted to the foreign environment.
What are the characteristics of Chinese women’s basketball?
Height is the biggest advantage of China’s women’s basketball. Their average height is 1.86 meters, ranking second among the 12 teams in the World Cup, second only to Australia’s 1.88 meters. The Australian team recalled the star center Lauren Jackson, who was 195 tall this time, but she was 41 years old. If only 50% of her skills were left, China could actually rank first in the Inner height of women’s basketball.
If compared with men’s basketball horizontally, the height of women’s basketball should be 15cm. For example, Han Xu’s technical type is equivalent to 220 height of men’s basketball, Li Yuelu is equivalent to 215, Huang Sijing 205, Li meng198, wang Siyu 195, Yang Liwei 191, Li Yuan 185. In this way, the overall height of China’s women’s basketball has reached the world-class level. The style of women’s basketball is also changing, but not as fast as men’s basketball. Height is still the basic advantage.
Of course, the US team and the Japanese team are two different types. The American team had already shown an obvious masculine style in the Chinese World Cup 20 years ago, while the Japanese team brought the little kuailing in East Asia to the extreme, and the remaining teams were relatively traditional. In this kind of battle-style world competition, it is extremely important to stick to one’s own characteristics.
Su Qun column