Women's Basketball World Preliminary Tournament, the Olympic runner-up, the Chinese women's basketball team rivals Japan women's basketball team burst out of the super cold, they led in the big score, the last quarter of the mistakes, and finally by the Polish women's basketball team to 87-82 staged a big reversal. After the Japanese women's basketball team lost this game, they advanced to the World Cup with a record of 1 win and 1 loss in 2 games. Since the Belarusian women's basketball team in this group had previously announced their retirement, all three teams in this group had already advanced to the World Cup long before the game, and the two World Preliminary Tournaments had also become friendly matches!
As the runner-up of the Olympic Games, the Japanese women's basketball team has no doubt about their strength. In the previous Asian Championships, they also defeated the Chinese women's basketball team. In the last World Preliminary Tournament, they defeated the Canadian women's basketball team in a reversal while trailing by 20 points. It can be seen that as long as the Japanese women's basketball team wants to win, the Bosnian women's basketball team is not their opponent at all.
The game was lost to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Japanese women's basketball team basically did not want to win them, and at the same time gave FIBA a little face. Why? This has to start from the strange qualifying rules of the Women's Basketball World Cup.
The qualifying rule for the Women's Basketball World Cup is that the top three in the group can all qualify. Only one of the four teams is eliminated, and the probability of promotion is as high as 75%, basically as long as you win one game, you can qualify. The Group of Japan, Canada and Bosnia and Herzegovina was originally four teams, but because Belarus withdrew from the game, there was an embarrassing situation, and before the game began, all three teams advanced. Even if the Bosnian women's basketball team is a winless game, they will still qualify for the World Cup.
This strange promotion rule is not a little difficult and challenging, and it is impossible to play the characteristics of the fierce competition of basketball. The Japanese women's basketball team is probably also in order to avoid the embarrassing situation of the Polish women's basketball team with 0 wins and promotion, so that the opponent can win in the last quarter of the game.
In general, although the women's basketball world preliminary round is frequently unpopular, and the Day before yesterday, the French team was also reversed by Nigeria in 20 minutes, but this upset is not a reflection of the real level. FIBA wants to increase the impact of basketball, and there is still a lot of homework to be done in terms of competitiveness.