Even if Li Meng, Gao Song, Zhang Wanglai and Jia Saiqi are four main rotations, the Sichuan women's basketball team still beat the Tianjin women's basketball team with a 17-point advantage without suspense, thus ending the 2020-21 regular season with an unbeaten record of 17 consecutive wins, which is also the second time after 15 years that a team has won a regular season after the 2006-07 bayi women's basketball team.
Replacement of shareholders to introduce big names
Sichuan women's basketball team was once an old powerhouse in China's basketball world, they participated in the mid-to-late 90s of the First Division (WCBA predecessor), but for various reasons in 1999 relegated to the second division, and sichuan men's basketball team has been mixed in the low-level league, it is difficult to return to the stage of the highest level league.
However, similar to the Sichuan men's basketball team, after Jin Qiang Group took over the Sichuan men's basketball team and was promoted to the CBA in 2013, the Sichuan women's basketball team then qualified for the WCBA in 2014 and re-entered the WCBA after 15 years. However, the results of the Sichuan women's basketball team have been tepid, until last season, the best result was only the ninth place, and never tasted the taste of the playoffs.
At the end of 2019, Sichuan Yuanda Group took over the Sichuan women's basketball team from Jinqiang Group, so the development of the Sichuan women's basketball team ushered in a new chapter. Yuanda Group is a group company that mainly operates real estate, with strong financial strength, and the club executives also love basketball, so they have been brewing to introduce big-name players since taking over the Sichuan women's basketball team.
Last offseason, the Sichuan women's basketball team announced the introduction of Shao Ting and Gao Song from the Beijing women's basketball team, which shocked the entire Chinese basketball world for a time. Since 2010, the Sichuan Provincial Sports Bureau and Beijing Normal University began to build a joint construction, most of the members of the Beijing Normal University women's basketball team represented Sichuan in the National Games, as a doctor of Beijing Normal University, Shao Ting helped the Sichuan women's basketball team break through from the preliminary round of the National Games for 20 years this year and break into the final stage. In the final stage of the National Games, Shao Ting won gold on behalf of the Olympic joint team, and according to the rules, she added a gold medal to Sichuan. Therefore, when Shao Ting joined the Sichuan women's basketball team, she said that she "went home".
In addition, the Sichuan women's basketball team also introduced Zhang Wanglai and other good players, and hired Pan Wei, who led the Guangdong women's basketball team to win the WCBA runner-up, as the head coach. As a result, last season, the Sichuan women's basketball team broke into the playoffs historically and finally ranked fourth.
The pace of Sichuan women's basketball team to attract strong reinforcements has not stopped: in this offseason, the team has successively announced that Li Meng, Han Xu, Sun Mengran, Chen Xiaojia, Wu Di and other new and old Chinese players have joined! The goal is directed at the champion.
The defending champion Inner Mongolia Women's Basketball Team also introduced Zhang Ru, Li Yifan, Pan Zhenqi and other national players under the premise of retaining the championship-winning lineup last season. Therefore, many fans joked: "Simply Inner Mongolia and Sichuan directly played the finals." ”
It's hard to win
As expected by the outside world, the powerful Sichuan and Mongolia teams have been singing all the way after the start of the new season, it is difficult to meet the opponent, usually winning the opponent for 20 or 30 points is a routine operation, and the rest of the teams will generally choose to give up strategically or let the main force play for a limited time.
It is in this situation that fans and the media are looking forward to the direct dialogue between the two teams in the regular season. The preview of the finals was held on the evening of December 13, and the Sichuan women's basketball team extended the lead to 18 points in the first half under the strong play of Li Meng and Han Xu, and limited Li Yueru's play, and the "women's version of O'Neal" scored only two points in the whole game.
However, the Sichuan women's basketball team did not do well enough in the defense of the opponent's outside line, and was shot by the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team in the second half of many empty three-pointers, and the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team once surpassed by 1 point in the fourth quarter. Fortunately, Li Meng, Han Xu and Gao Song played the experience advantage of the veterans, scored consecutive points to stabilize the situation, and with the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team drawing three points, the Sichuan women's basketball team won by 3 points.
The victory of this game not only allowed the Sichuan women's basketball team to surpass the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team to the top of the standings, but also laid the foundation for 17 consecutive wins.
However, although the Sichuan women's basketball team has achieved a record of 17 consecutive wins in team history, there are still many problems in the team, first of all, the depth of the lineup is not enough. In the case that Shao Ting and Wu Di did not complete the registration, the Sichuan women's basketball team is too dependent on Li Meng, Han Xu, Gao Song and other major forces, and compared with the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team with many soldiers, the gap between the main force and the substitute level will be a headache for the Sichuan army in the playoffs and even the finals.
Secondly, the Sichuan women's basketball team has more hidden dangers of injuries. Sun Mengran and Chen Xiaojia are veterans who have been playing outside for many years, injured, the decline in competitive status is large, and Li Meng was injured in the first round of the regular season, until the tenth round to come back, from the course of the game, injuries still have a greater impact on her.
More importantly, the Sichuan women's basketball team introduced more new signings in the off-season, but when these new signings met with the team, there was only one month left from the start of the new season, and the whole team could only play while running in, while the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team itself took the Guangdong women's basketball team as the team, Li Yueru, Huang Sijing, Yang Liwei "troika" in the league and the national team for many years, there is almost no run-in problem. It can be seen from the Sichuan-Mongolia regular season meeting that the score of the Sichuan women's basketball team relies more on the personal ability of Li Meng, Han Xu, etc., and the score of the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team relies more on the whole.
epilogue
If there is no accident, the two teams will meet in the finals as scheduled, and the three-game and two-win format is more difficult for the Sichuan women's basketball team, which has more physical and injury troubles, and it is difficult to lift the championship trophy for the first time in the history of the team. But in any case, I believe that if Sichuan and Mongolia enter the finals, they will definitely go all out, and the national players of the two teams will have no reservations, while the needle points against Mai Mang, but also bring a wonderful and fierce duel to the fans!