On February 10, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team ushered in the first showdown of the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup qualifiers, and head coach Zheng Wei also ushered in her national team debut. Our first opponent was the Nigerian women's basketball team from Africa. In this game, Zheng sent Li Yueru, Huang Sijing, Yang Liwei, Wang Siyu and Li Meng as the first five tigers. After the opening, the Chinese team started from the inside line first, Li Yueru came out on top, Yang Liwei hit a three-pointer in the left bottom corner, Li Meng also hit a three-pointer, and the Chinese team made a 10-4 start. In contrast, the Nigerian women's basketball team has frequently won on the inside line with excellent running and jumping ability, and the two sides have played extremely anxiously. The game came to the middle of the first quarter, and the Chinese team gradually controlled the rhythm of the field, and the outside felt hot. Huang Sijing and Li Meng's three-point cannon stopped the opponent, and after Li Yueru hit a 2+1, the Chinese women's basketball team has achieved a 12-point lead. At the end of the festival, the two sides exchanged horses, and Wu Tongtong and Pan Zhenqi replaced Li Meng and Yang Liwei respectively. Li Yueru continued to extend the lead with two free throws.
In the second quarter, the Chinese team continued to play strongly, and Li Yueru attacked and defended both on the inside. The Nigerian women's basketball team didn't have much to do, only piecemeal and hard to score. On the other hand, the Chinese team played a clear combination of internal and external, and the firepower points were very scattered. Han Xu replaced Li Yueru, and there was a middle-distance hand, and the scoring efficiency was very high. At this time, the Nigerian women's basketball team took advantage of Han Xu's slightly worse weakness against the opponent, and the offensive success rate on the inside line improved. The point difference was narrowed to 9 points, and Li Yuan responded with three points to continue to suppress the opponent's momentum. After Li Mengbiaozhong's fifth three-pointer, the Chinese team's three-point shooting rate has reached 69%.
Yi Bian fought again, Han Xu's unsolved shot helped the Chinese team to stretch the point difference to 20 points, and Pan Zhenqi easily hit the basket under the empty cut. Han Xu shot more and more smoothly, and the three-point shot was also hollow into the net. After Li Meng and Li Yueru, Han Xu became the third player in the Chinese women's basketball team to score in double figures in this game. Wang Siyu broke the hand of the Nigerian defender on the empty basket 67:42. Li Meng received Li Yuan's pass and hit his sixth three-pointer. The Chinese team entered the final quarter with a score of 79:52, the game also completely entered the garbage time, Zheng guidance gradually sent some young players, the Nigeria women's basketball team took advantage of the mistakes of the Chinese team to play a wave of scoring climax, the point difference was narrowed to 21 points, Zheng Wei emergency timeout reminded the players to pay attention to the rhythm. Women's basketball players increased their defensive intensity and paid attention to protecting rebounds, causing opponents to frequently hit iron. Although the opponent once narrowed the point difference to 15 points, but the game time passed minute by minute, the women's basketball team stabilized the rhythm and finally turned the advantage into a victory, with a score of 90:76 to win the opening.
In this game, the Chinese women's basketball team entered the state very quickly, and the attention of all the members was very concentrated, and the two major centers Han Xu and Li Yueru attacked efficiently, the former scored 15 points on 7 of 9 shots, and the latter scored 19 points on 8 of 10 shots. The outside players also felt quite good, shooting 14 of 27 three-pointers from the whole team, shooting as high as 52%. Li Meng played well, she frequently fired cannons outside the three-point line, and there were three points in the bottom corner, left and right 45° and the top of the arc. Three-pointers on 6-of-10 shooting are overwhelming! Congratulations to the women's basketball team for winning the opening red, tomorrow night the Chinese women's basketball team will usher in a second opponent - the Mali women's basketball team, looking forward to the players to continue the good performance and win two consecutive wins!