On January 6, Beijing time, the Chinese Basketball Association officially announced a latest women's basketball training list, including a total of 18 people, 17 from the domestic WCBA League, 1 from the University Student League, and Tang Ziting from Beijing Normal University.
It is worth mentioning that on the training list, the position of the Chinese women's basketball coach has changed, the former coach Xu Limin announced that he would change his position due to physical reasons, and assistant coach Zheng Wei became the temporary head coach to lead the team.
The official of the Basketball Association mainly wrote: "Due to physical reasons, Xu Limin no longer serves as the head coach of the national women's basketball team, and transfers to serve as the executive commissioner of the Olympic preparations, continuing to play for the construction of the national team." Zheng Wei, the former assistant coach of the national women's basketball team, is the acting head coach. ”
Xu Limin began coaching the Chinese women's basketball team in March 2017, and from 2021 to 2021, he led the Chinese women's basketball team to play in two Asian Cups, one Olympic Games, and one Olympic qualification tournament, both of which were lost to the Japanese women's basketball team in the finals. At the Olympics, he reached the first place in the group, but fell to the top 8 due to too many mistakes, and finally achieved the fifth place result.
Coaching the Chinese women's basketball team for a total of 4 years, Xu Limin has completed a new round of new and old replacement, focusing on cultivating two outstanding centers, Li Yueru and Han Xu, both of whom have been selected by the WNBA team, and are the core main force of the current Chinese women's basketball team, and will work together to support the women's basketball team in the next many years. But in addition to completing the replacement of the old and the new, Xu Limin did not lead the Chinese women's basketball team to complete the established results, especially in the Tokyo Olympic Games to stop in the top 8, in the group stage to win all the qualified and the average net win per game more than 20 points, the Chinese women's basketball team failed to reach the final four or even get the medal, as the head coach Xu Limin has a great responsibility. For today's Chinese women's basketball team, it is necessary to have a breakthrough as soon as possible in order to return to the ranks of the world's strongest teams as soon as possible.
In terms of player selection, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team became a big winner, including Li Yueru and Yang Liwei, MVP of the Xinke WCBA Finals, as many as 6 people were selected. In addition, there are also new faces in the list of personnel in the new collection of the Chinese women's basketball team, the popular new star Yang Shuyu was shortlisted, as Yang Liwei's sister, Yang Shuyu finally caught up with his sister's footsteps and was selected into the Chinese women's basketball list. At the Tokyo Olympics, Yang Shuyu represented the Chinese three-man women's basketball team and eventually won a valuable bronze medal. But compared to the three-person basketball field, five-person basketball is always different, Yang Shuyu to face a very fierce competition, as a new generation of players after 00, to maintain a humble mentality to learn from the predecessors, and strive to be able to stay last!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)