Women's Basketball World Preliminary Tournament second game, the Chinese women's basketball team against the Mali women's basketball team, the first game China team easily defeated the African champion Nigeria women's basketball team, one foot has stepped into the Women's Basketball World Cup that will be held in Australia in September, as long as the game defeats the African runner-up Mali women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team will advance to the World Cup main game, the result of the Chinese women's basketball girls did not disappoint the fans, they continued the fighting spirit of the last game, suppressed the opponent, and finally defeated the Mali women's basketball team 84-64, successfully completed the task in advance.
This campaign, is a contest between the two intercontinental runners-up, the Chinese women's basketball team is the Asian Cup runner-up, and Mali is the African Cup runner-up, from the perspective of defensive intensity, the African runner-up is not worse than the African champion Nigeria, but also stronger, which also makes the Chinese women's basketball team and the last game against Nigeria when the feel of the little decline, from the overall point of view, although the Chinese women's basketball team has always controlled the whole field, but the whole team shooting is not very good, the full field shot 68 shots 30, the shooting rate is only 44.12%, and the three-point shot 29 shots 13, The shooting percentage is 44.83%, which is a significant drop from the first game. In terms of individual technology, the team had four people score in double figures, including Li Meng shooting 4 of 11, 3 of 8 from three-point range, cutting 15 points and 6 assists; Li Yueru shot 8 of 14, cutting 21 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals; Huang Sijing shot 5 of 12, cutting 11 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists; Yang Liwei shot 9 of 5, cutting 13 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals. Han Xu scored 2 points, Li Yuan scored 5 points, Wu Tongtong scored 9 points, Pan Zhenqi scored 6 points, and Wang Siyu scored 2 points.
In this game, due to mali's defensive intensity, the two major centers of the Chinese team did not form a good complement as in the last game against the Nigerian women's basketball team, and Han Xu, who was mainly shooting, only played for 7 minutes due to poor confrontation ability, coupled with poor hand feeling, only played 7 minutes, and only got 2 points in five shots, and it was in the second quarter of her main game that the opponent narrowed the point difference to single digits. In this case, coach Zheng Wei can only give the burden of the inside line to another big center Li Yueru, this game the female version of O'Neal played the highest 33 minutes of the whole team, the inside line can be described as a pillar of power, got 20 + 10 + big doubles. The Mali women's basketball team has no one to really match her, there is no better way to defend her than fouls, as the media said, Li Yueru, born in 1999, has grown rapidly in the past two years as a top international center, and she has indeed reached the time to train in a higher league, hoping that she can join the WNBA as soon as possible. In order to get better training, like Yao Ming to become the real leader of the Chinese women's basketball team.
In the ensuing match between France and Nigeria, France lost 65-67 to Nigeria, making the Chinese women's basketball team the only team in the group to win two games. France won the first game against Mali 77-66, it is currently a win and a loss, and Nigeria is also two wins and one loss, only Mali lost two games, but their last game against the old opponent Nigeria women's basketball team, as long as they defeat Nigeria, they will also win a victory, and the Chinese women's basketball team last game against France, if you win by a large score, (in terms of the state of the French team in this tournament is not impossible), France, Nigeria, Mali's three teams will form a situation of one win and two losses, and they will form a chain set. It is very likely that it will enter the situation of competing for small scores. Therefore, the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team in the final round may determine the fate of the French team.