On December 18, the 2021-22 WCBA regular season battle ended, the team ranking has been set, after the playoffs, will officially start the playoff journey, Sichuan and Inner Mongolia two championship favorites will fully impact the championship, the rest of the teams will also strive to bring trouble to Sichuan and Mongolia in the playoffs.
It is difficult for Sichuan and Mongolia to fight against each other
For various reasons, this season's WCBA League not only continues to implement a closed tournament system like last season, but also is only arranged in the Wenjiang Division of Chengdu, and no other divisions are set up, and the bigger change is that the teams in the regular season only play a single round robin game, not a double round robin.
Before the start of the season, some fans thought that the number of single-round-robin games was too few to watch, but when the game began, people found out how wise it was to set up a single-round-robin format, because the strength of the Sichuan women's basketball team and the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team was too strong, so that they had no suspense against other teams, which greatly reduced the viewing of the game.
As the defending champion, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team continued to introduce strong reinforcements after maintaining the winning team last season, and Shen Yi, Li Yifan, Shen Yi and other new and old national players have joined in succession, which has raised the depth of the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team once again. In addition, the "troika" composed of Li Yueru, Huang Sijing and Yang Liwei has been cooperating for many years, and this year's offseason has been with the national team to fight in the south and north, even if the return time is short, but there is no so-called run-in problem. Coupled with the addition of mulati, assistant coach of the national team, the coaching staff of the entire Inner Mongolia women's basketball team is a national team configuration, and no one in the entire league can stand out.
On the basis of the introduction of Shao Ting and Gao Song last season, the Sichuan women's basketball team recruited new and old national players such as Li Meng, Han Xu, Sun Mengran, Chen Xiaojia, Wu Di and so on in the offseason, which is enough to dominate the whole league from the paper alone. However, Shao Ting and Wu Di failed to complete the registration due to personal affairs or injuries, and they were not related to this season, which weakened the strength of the Sichuan women's basketball team, but they were still able to challenge the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team.
Sure enough, as soon as the league began, the Sichuan and Mongolia teams rode the dust, leaving other teams far behind, even in the face of xinjiang, Shandong, Jiangsu such a strong team, basically can win 20+ or even more, the only relatively sticky game, is the Sichuan women's basketball team and Shandong women's basketball team, Sichuan army "only won" the opponent by 10 points. As for other teams, they will basically choose to let the main players rest when facing Chuanmeng, or only let the main players play for a short time.
When Sichuan and Mongolia played in the regular season, they did play the effect of Mars hitting the earth, and the Sichuan women's basketball team once led by as much as 18 points, but the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team was plagued by fouls by Li Yueru, and the outside line was full of firepower, and even surpassed 1 point in the fourth quarter. Although the Sichuan women's basketball team still laughed to the end with a 3-point advantage, once the two teams met in the finals as they wished, the victory or defeat was really unpredictable.
In the end, the Sichuan women's basketball team ranked first in the regular season with an unbeaten record of 17 consecutive wins, followed by the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team with 16 wins and 1 loss, will the two sides enter the finals and bring a wonderful and intense series to the fans?
Playoff teams are fiercely competitive
Even if the strength of the two teams in Sichuan and Mongolia is superior, the three teams of Shandong, Jiangsu and Xinjiang are also higher than the rest of the teams other than Sichuan and Mongolia, some games seem to be a bit boring, and the suspense of winning or losing is not large, but the competition between the playoff teams is still very fierce.
In addition to Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Jiangsu, Xinjiang, the gap between the 6-13 (not counting the general sports association should be 6-12) is not large, and it can be seen from the record that like the sixth-ranked Shanghai women's basketball team, the regular season results are 10 wins and 7 losses, and the Shanxi, Zhejiang, and Dongguan after the team are either equal in the number of wins, or only 1 win behind the team.
According to the format, the top four teams in the regular season will directly enter the top eight of the playoffs, and the teams in the 5-12 will play the playoffs to determine the last four quarter-finals, and the play-offs will be played on December 20 and 21, respectively, Xinjiang vs Wuhan and Shanxi vs Beijing on the 21st, and Shanghai vs Hebei and Zhejiang vs Dongguan on the 21st.
It is worth mentioning that after the play-offs, the WCBA All-Star Game will be held, when balloon stars like Li Meng, Han Xu, Li Yueru, Yang Liwei, Yang Shuyu and others will appear unsurprisingly.
The "stepping incident" became the death of the league
This season there is a very special team, that is, the General Sports Union, which is preparing for the World University Games in Chengdu next June, hoping that these elites selected from CUBA can use the WCBA platform to practice for a season and achieve good results in the Universiade.
The team eventually achieved a record of 10 wins and 7 losses, ranking sixth in the standings, which was achieved in the case that the main center Liu Yutong did not play in many games, and like Zhang Jingyi, he threw 16 three-pointers against the Shanghai women's basketball team and shot 50 points! Set a new league individual scoring record this season. In addition, Song Kexin, Tang Ziting, Li Shuangfei, Chen Yuekun, etc. have also emerged in the competition and showed good potential.
However, in the fourth quarter of the competition between the General Sports Association and the Jiangsu Women's Basketball Team, Jiangsu veteran Sun Li shot from the outside, and the opponent Gu Yiyi rushed over to cover, and Sun Li stepped on the back of Gu Yiyi's foot after falling, and then fell to the ground and issued a series of miserable shouts. After the game, Sun Li was diagnosed with 3 fractures and torn ligaments, and considering the severity of the injury and her age in her 30s, her career was basically reimbursed.
The Chinese Basketball Association has since punished Gu Yiyi and the General Association, and Gu Yiyi also apologized on social media. However, the controversy and questioning caused by this incident is still worth pondering: why are there no ambulances off the field? Why didn't the referee on duty control the situation when the two sides began to move heavily?
epilogue
The curtain has fallen on the regular season, and then there will be the "dinner" playoffs, when the confrontation is promoted to a level, I hope that the girls will not be injured, but also play out the style, play the level, achieve the goals set before the season, and dedicate an unforgettable showdown to the fans.