I can think that France will not be as easy to play as New Zealand, but I never expected that the Chinese women's basketball team would lose by such a huge point difference, which is absolutely unexpected, this loss has poured cold water on the Chinese women's basketball team that has won more and lost less in the past two years, and has continued to honor. Dialectically, though, it's a good thing, at least the fiasco didn't happen at the Olympics.
Speaking of this game alone, it cannot be said that the loss is because of their poor hand feeling or condition, and the unequal defensive intensity, the gap in personal physical fitness and the backwardness of technical and tactical levels are the main reasons.
The French women's basketball team relied on crazy pressing to make the Chinese women's basketball team, which has always had the proud twin towers, lose 14 rebounds (including 9 less on the front board) and 7 more turnovers, these two aspects directly made the Chinese women's basketball team have about 15 fewer offensive opportunities than France, and 15 offensive opportunities are equivalent to at least 15 points less (calculated with a 50% shooting rate, and all are counted as two-point shots).
A bit of a coincidence, in the last game against New Zealand, the Chinese women's basketball team grabbed 51 rebounds on the inside with the twin towers of Li Yueru and Han Xu, won 17 from New Zealand, and at the same time made New Zealand send 20 turnovers through excellent defense, and the Chinese women's basketball team scored 25 points with defensive counterattacks, with defense and rebounding, the Chinese women's basketball team made 20 more shots than New Zealand.
Therefore, how the Chinese women's basketball team wins New Zealand, how it loses France.
Of course, this is not entirely the case, France's pressing ** is only one of them, and the most important thing is that the Chinese women's basketball team has completely lost to the French women's basketball team in terms of technical and tactical play at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
The French women's basketball team, with the two cores of Johannes and Williams, scored 34 points through tacit cooperation and strong individual ability, Johannes was 5 of 8 from the outside, and Williams was 8 of 13 from the basket, all of which were very efficient.
The Chinese women's basketball team can only get the best of Li Meng. He was 3-of-7 from the field and 6-of-7 from the free-throw line and scored a game-high 21 points. It turns out that only Li Meng can compete with the French women's basketball team physically, this is a hand-to-hand fight, whoever can have no physical disadvantage in this hand-to-hand fight is the winner.
In this regard, Han Xu and Li Yueru do not have an advantage.
Han Xu is the inside line of the mobility space, but once the opponent can keep up with the pace and give enough confrontation, it will be difficult for Han Xu to connect the ball, let alone efficiency. In the whole game, Han Xu only made 5 shots, with a shooting rate of 40% and scored 4 points. Han Xu's advantage on the defensive end is his reach and height, but the disadvantage is power, and Williams avoided his edge and won repeatedly.
Li Yueru is completely opposite to Han Xu, Li Yueru has tonnage and height, but the speed is slow, this characteristic determines that Li Yueru has to play alone most of the time on the offensive end, and it is difficult for the Chinese women's basketball team to have such exquisite cooperation, that is to say, Li Yueru is present, how is the attack of the Chinese women's basketball team, it depends more on Li Yueru, this one is really not good, 1 of 4, only scored 8 points, and there are 6 points just by free throws.
On the defensive end, Li Yueru will be bullied by the opponent's blocking and dismantling, defensive blocking and dismantling, she either chooses the basket or the outside, and the opponent can freely choose the direction of the offense according to Li Yueru's position, so Li Yueru can only watch the opponent shoot 3 points on the outside.
As for Wang Siyu, Yang Liwei and Li Yuan, their physical confrontation and movement speed are obviously inferior to their opponents, and their performance has all fallen into a trough.
It is true that part of the reason why the French women's basketball team was able to win by 32 points is that the 3 points are too accurate, but overall, the Chinese women's basketball team's own problems are the most important, and the disadvantage of physical confrontation has been a long time.
In the past two years, the Chinese women's basketball team has won the World Cup, the Asian Cup and the Asian Games. There are twin towers to bully the weak team, and it is more important to compete with the strong team with tacit teamwork.
Therefore, the next test for Zheng Wei is how to ensure that team basketball is not defeated, ensure the operation of the ball and the execution of tactics without dominating the physical confrontation, which is a problem that must be solved before the Paris Olympics in the future.