On February 11, Beijing time, the second game of the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifier continued to fight again, and the Chinese women's basketball team once again faced the African powerhouse Mali women's basketball team, and the Chinese women's basketball girls played very actively in the whole game, and finally won 84-64 against the opponent to win 2 consecutive victories, advancing to the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup in advance. In this game, the Chinese women's basketball team scored in double figures, including Li Yueru 8 of 14 shots, cutting 21 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 2 double data; Li Meng shot 4 of 11, 3 of 8 from three-point range, with 15 points and 6 assists; Huang Sijing shot 5 of 12, with 11 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists; Yang Liwei shot 5 of 9, with 13 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals. However, the performance of one person is disastrous, she is 2 meters tall han Xu with a female version of Zhou Qi, played 7 minutes, 5 shots 1 to get 2 points, 3 rebounds and 3 fouls and 1 mistake data, the positive and negative value of the field -6, which is also the main reason why Li Yueru has to play for so long.
Han Xu played 7 minutes and lost 6 points
The reason why the Chinese women's basketball team can win this game, the biggest contributor is Li Yueru, who is known as the female version of O'Neal, li Yueru started 32 minutes and 54 seconds in this game, full of dominance in the inside line, 8 of 14 shots in the whole game, and also won 6 free throw opportunities to hit 5, cut 21 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, including 6 frontcourt rebounds, plus or minus of the game's high +26. After the game, many fans criticized head coach Zheng Wei for letting Li Yueru play too much time, and many people did not notice that the Chinese women's basketball team really did not leave Li Yueru, especially the opponent Mali, although the technology is relatively rough, but the confrontation is particularly fierce, once the Chinese women's basketball team failed to suppress on the inside line, not only in the offensive end is difficult to open, the defensive end will also be eaten hard by the opponent.
Li Yueru once again played a dominant performance
The most obvious is that in the first quarter when the two sides fought 6-6, the Chinese women's basketball team relied on Li Yueru to score frequently, and the opponent could also plan to shoot three-pointers in succession to the outside line when she was wrapped up, relying on the combination of the inside and outside of this time, the Chinese women's basketball team blossomed more than 17-0 super attack wave, establishing a double-digit lead in one fell swoop, but in the second half of the second quarter, head coach Zheng Wei let Li Yueru rest and replaced him with a 2-meter 07 high school forward Han Xu, but Han Xu was obviously unable to adapt to the confrontation of the Mali women's basketball team after playing, and could not enter the inside line after playing. Can only float in the periphery to throw a few, so the way of playing is certainly not effective, the idea of the Mali women's basketball team seized the opportunity of Li Yueru to play, quickly chased the point difference to single digits, and finally the Chinese women's basketball team only achieved a 9-point lead, and in the replacement of Li Yueru, replaced by Han Xu This 5 minutes, the Chinese women's basketball team only scored 5 points.
Han Xu, who is 2 meters 07, can only shoot from the periphery
In fact, the gap between Han Xu's strength and Li Yueru is not so big, as a new generation of center born in the same year as Li Yueru, Han Xu was selected by the New York Free Agents with the 14th pick in the WNBA draft on April 11, 2019, and Han Xu also began to compete in the career of the WNBA. Represented the New York Free agents averaged 7.9 minutes per game, got 3.0 points, 0.8 rebounds and 0.1 assists data, returned to China after 19 seasons to continue playing in the WCBA League, last season Han Xu also forced Li Yueru to get the regular season MVP, the last game against the Nigeria women's basketball team, Han Xu came off the bench for 18 minutes, 7 of 9 shots, 2 of 3 points, 15 points and 3 rebounds, everyone also had high expectations for her.
Han Xu's fear of confrontation was the biggest drawback
However, in this game, Han Xu's play made everyone very disappointed, she only played 7 minutes and 05 seconds, 5 shots 1 of 5, including 1 of 3-pointers, 2 points, 3 rebounds and 3 fouls and 1 mistake data, plus or minus -6! You should know that the Chinese women's basketball team won the opponent by 20 points in this game, and Han Xu lost 6 points in 7 minutes on the field, which is also the main reason why Zheng Wei did not dare to play Li Yueru. The reason why Han Xu played such a disastrous game is mainly her fear of confrontation, although the Mali women's basketball team is generally skilled, but they really fight very strongly, Han Xu can't go in at all at the offensive end of the field, although the defensive end has a height of 2 meters 07, but can't withstand the opponent's basket strong fight, can only keep fouling, like the last 2 minutes, Han Xu has 3 consecutive unnecessary fouls, if it were not for the Chinese women's basketball team at that time has ensured to win, it is likely that Zheng Wei will replace Han Xu with Li Yueru, Han Xu played like this, It was difficult for Li Yueru not to die of exhaustion.