Li Meng scored 21 points, and the Chinese women's basketball team lost to France in the Olympic competition
On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Chinese women's basketball team, the world's strongest women's basketball team, ushered in the challenge of the Olympic qualifying tournament at home. Their opponent is the French women's basketball team, which is the host country participating in the Olympics. Due to the huge disparity between the opponent and the Chinese women's basketball team, the ranking is relatively close, so although this game is not about the Olympic qualification prospects of the Chinese women's basketball team, but for the Chinese women's basketball team, this is the most difficult Olympic qualifying match, after all, the opponent is also the best team in the world, the players also need to play their own characteristics, prepare for the difficulties in the game, and do not let the pressure of the home court and the fatigue of the domestic league affect the team's performance. They can't afford to let the pressure at home and the fatigue of the home league affect the team's performance. Now, let's take a look at the scores, wins and losses, and final results of each quarter of this game and make a brief comment.
In the first quarter of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team discharged its usual starting lineup. That is, the combination of Wang Siyu, Yang Liwei, Li Meng, Huang Sijing and Han Xu, under the guidance of Zheng Wei, the mentality of using the flexibility of the lineup to play a quick offensive and defensive transition is very obvious. However, in the opening stage, the Chinese women's basketball team could not give full play to their strength and physical fitness, especially in grabbing rebounds. The French women's basketball team was also a little tight, but Huang Sijing's three-pointer helped the Chinese women's basketball team take a 3-0 lead in the opening game. However, the whole team also did not pass the ball in the hands of the guards in a timely manner, giving the French women's basketball team a chance to score in the middle of the quarter. After the substitution adjustment between the two sides, Li Yueru's offense once helped the Chinese women's basketball team take the lead, but the use of personnel by the French women's basketball team is also very distinctive, their main force Johannes was put into the rotation lineup, and such personnel use is very effective, after she came off the bench, 2 three-pointers and 1 assist teammates scored inside, allowing the French women's basketball team to play the offensive peak and ended with a score of 17-10 The first quarter of the game witnessed the struggle of both sides.
Obviously, the Chinese women's basketball team's performance and concentration in the first quarter of the game were not as good as the French women's basketball team. However, in the second quarter of the game, the adjustment of the Chinese women's basketball team did not work. On the contrary, the French women's basketball team continued to quickly turn the score to 27-13 and 30-16 without any pressure, as well as a combination of inside and outside, until the middle of the quarter and the second half, even though the French women's basketball team committed too many fouls, giving the Chinese women's basketball players the opportunity to stop the ball on the free throw line, but the Chinese women's basketball team still did not do a rational enough job in its own offensive organization, Wang Siyu both made offensive mistakes and blew breakthrough fouls. Wang Siyu missed the offense while avoiding fouls, and players in other positions also missed shots in a row. When the emotional ups and downs of the Chinese women's basketball team became more and more obvious, the French women's basketball team completely opened the score gap, 38:18. At the end of the first half, the Chinese women's basketball team barely chased the score to 24-44 with Li Meng's three-point shot, still lagging behind the French women's basketball team with an excellent mentality and no burden 20 minutes in advance. Throughout the first half, the French women's basketball team had a 25-14 advantage in rebounding 11 times, which is also an important reason why they scored completely distracted in the first half and played more relaxed in shooting.
In the third quarter, after the score gap widened, the French women's basketball team's shooting became significantly easier, which allowed them to maintain their offensive timing and shooting percentage. One of their outside three-pointers helped extend their 30-point lead to 59-29. In the second half of the quarter, Li Meng, one of the core of the team, shot 1 of 2 from the outside, helping the Chinese women's basketball team narrow the difference, but overall, the Chinese women's basketball team's defense is still a little slow, giving the opponent a lot of opportunities to counterattack, near the end of the quarter, the French women's basketball team's three-point shot came again, so they led 70-36 into the decisive fourth quarter. With a big score difference of 34 points, the Chinese women's basketball team missed the victory of this strong dialogue.
In the decisive fourth quarter of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team still played several beautiful offenses and adjusted their mentality when they no longer had any chance of winning. Especially Li Meng, she is the most important player of the Chinese women's basketball team in this game. She scored 21 points in the game. However, due to the big gap in front, the whole team still lost the whole game by a large score. Huang Sijing's free throws rewrote the score to 50-82, and the Chinese women's basketball team lost the game by 32 points. I hope this result will not affect everyone's mood for the New Year. After all, the Chinese women's basketball team will play well in the games behind, and the initiative of Olympic qualification is still in their own hands. Finally, let's take a look at the statistics of the main players other than Li Meng: France's Williams scored 17 points and 7 rebounds, and Nahanes also scored 17 points. Huang Sijing scored 9 points, Li Yueru had 8 points and 8 rebounds, and Han Xu only had 4 points.