The Paris 2024 Women's Basketball Qualifying Tournament in China is underway in Xi'an. Today, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team ushered in the second game of the qualifying round, and the opponent was the French women's basketball team. But in the end, the Chinese women's basketball team was in a sluggish state, losing 50-82 to the opponent and missing the qualification for the women's basketball tournament of the Paris Olympics in advance.
In the first game two days ago, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated New Zealand 94-47 and won the first victory in the qualifying tournament of this Olympic Games! In that game, the Chinese women's basketball team established a lead of more than 30 points at halftime, and the whole team blossomed inside and outside in the second half and finally got off to a good start!
And today, the Chinese women's basketball team, which is currently ranked second in the world, ushered in the challenge of the French women's basketball team, the host of the Olympic Games. Thinking back to the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup 1 4 finals, we defeated our opponent 85-71, and finally won the runner-up in that tournament to tie the best record in team history! Because of this, although the French women's basketball team has no pressure to qualify, it still has to go all out to complete revenge.
In the first quarter of the game, the French women's basketball team relied on the team's rebounding advantage and Johannes' excellent outside touch to lead the Chinese women's basketball team 17-10, while the Chinese women's basketball team did not have a good feel on the outside, and could only use defense to counterattack and score.
In the second quarter, Johannes's performance was still outstanding, and she scored 17 points in the last game, and she continued to hit three points against Li Meng's defense after the opening of the second quarter! The French women's basketball team, which is full of soldiers, moved the ball quickly in the offensive of the positional battle, which made the defense of the Chinese women's basketball team very passive, and as the French team hit a bottom corner three-pointer after breaking through the score, the French team stopped the Chinese women's basketball team 25-13.
After the pause, Wang Siyu hit a three-point shot to stop the bleeding in time for the Chinese women's basketball team, but Johannes was like "Curry" possessed, and Han Xu's teammate during his time with the New York Liberty hit a difficult three-point shot against Pan Zhenqi's defense on the outside! Further establish the advantage of France in the score.
Since then, the Chinese women's basketball team's offensive grasp is not high and mistakes are frequent, and the mentality of the whole team is slightly impatient when the score is behind. The French women's basketball team took this opportunity to continue to fight back, and the core of the team, Gabby Williams, continued to break through the single quarter and scored 8 points, which can be described as what he wanted, and the score also stretched to more than 20 points. Before the end of the half, Li Meng "defused the bomb" and hit a three-point shot to help the Chinese women's basketball team enter the locker room 24-44.
In the second half of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team's offense still did not improve, and the French women's basketball team continued its offensive momentum in the first half while further improving its defensive intensity, and continued to score 25+ points in a single quarter in the third quarter, extending the lead to 34 points with 70-36. In the final quarter of the competition, the Chinese women's basketball team did not score in the half quarter, and the score gradually opened while the game entered garbage time, and the Chinese women's basketball team finally lost to the opponent 50-82.
In the face of strong opponents, the Chinese women's basketball team has poor adjustment ability under the bad hand. Technical statistics show that Han Xu, the starting insider, only scored 4 points and 5 rebounds, and although Li Meng scored 21 points, the team had as many as 22 turnovers, and France scored as many as 25 points. Judging from the game, in the face of the opponent's frenzied attack, the Chinese women's basketball team lacked patience in the game, and the Chinese team, which has been pinned down by the French women's basketball team, has never been able to find its own offensive strength. Obviously, such a defeat of the Chinese women's basketball team is not acceptable to fans, and the team is not unable to lose, but such a rout is very demoralizing.
In terms of offensive performance, the Chinese women's basketball team is not in good shape, with a shooting rate of only 289%, and the inside score is 12-40 behind the opponent. For the Chinese women's basketball team, this year's Olympic Games is destined to experience more high-intensity confrontations, if this problem cannot be solved, the Chinese women's basketball team's journey to the Paris Olympics will become extremely difficult.
The Chinese women's basketball qualifying tournament for the Paris Olympics will produce three Olympic tickets, and the Chinese women's basketball team will face France, New Zealand and Puerto Rico in the same group. Since the French team is the host of the Paris Olympics and has already qualified in advance, the Chinese women's basketball team only needs to compete with New Zealand and Puerto Rico for the remaining two tickets, which is not very difficult. In another game in the evening, due to Puerto Rico's 69-67 victory over New Zealand, the Chinese women's basketball team and the Puerto Rico women's basketball team qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the New Zealand women's basketball team missed the Olympics.
Tomorrow, the Chinese women's basketball team will face the Puerto Rico women's basketball team back-to-back, which is ranked 12th in the world as a traditional powerhouse in the Americas, and also played against the Chinese women's basketball team in the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, when the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the opponent 95-60 in the group stage. In the final round of the competition, although it has been confirmed to obtain a ticket to the Paris Olympics, how to adjust the state to end the qualifying round with the best mental outlook will become the biggest topic for Zheng Wei's guidance, after all, after losing to France by a big score, the Chinese women's basketball team will advance to the Paris Olympics with a hearty victory!