The Chinese women's basketball team performed very well in the just-concluded World Cup qualifier Belgrade Group B match, and they achieved an impressive record of winning all three games, thus winning the first place in the group stage and successfully qualifying for the World Cup, which made the fans happy. After the game, the Chinese women's basketball team took a break and immediately prepared to leave for China, but on the evening of February 15, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team suddenly sent bad news.
The Chinese Basketball Association officially announced that in the routine nucleic acid test before returning to China, 2 people in the Chinese women's basketball team tested positive for nucleic acid. Therefore, the Chinese women's basketball team had to stay in the local quarantine and postpone the return to China. This kind of incident occurred, and the fans' hearts were also anxious, but fortunately, no other personnel tested positive at present. After learning of this, Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, immediately connected with every player and sent his concern and respect. And Yao Ming also said that the Chinese Basketball Association has the determination and confidence to bring every player back to China and bring it to his family.
In this World Preliminary Tournament, due to Xu Limin's rupture of Achilles tendon, he did not go out with the team, and Zheng Wei, the former assistant coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, served as the acting coach. In the past three World Preliminary Tournaments, the Chinese women's basketball team can be said to be eye-catching, and in the first game, they easily defeated The African powerhouse Nigeria with a score of 90-76. In the second game, facing the African champion Mali women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team suddenly shot inside and outside, comprehensively suppressed Mali, and finally won 84-64 against the opponent. In the third game, facing the world's top five French women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team played a mercury-like attack, Huang Sijing slashed 30 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, Wang Shiyu cut 10 points, 8 rebounds and 15 assists, under the leadership of the two, the Chinese women's basketball team beat the French women's basketball team 103-70 by 33 points, shocking countless fans, even FIBA sent congratulations.
Huang Sijing and Li Yueru performed very prominently in the three group games, Huang Sijing averaged 16.3 points, 8.3 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game, Li Yueru averaged 16.7 points and 8 rebounds per game, the two were selected for the best team in the group, and Huang Sijing was elected as the group MVP. In addition to Huang Sijing and Li Yueru, the performance of other players in this World Preliminary Tournament is also remarkable. Of course, the biggest change in the Chinese women's basketball team in this World Preliminary Tournament is that their shooting is more decisive and confident, after three games, the Chinese women's basketball team has shot a total of 77 times outside the three-point line, hitting 38 times, and the shooting rate is as high as 49.3%. Compared with last year's Asian Cup, the Three-point Long-range Shot of the Chinese Women's Basketball Team has made a qualitative leap, which is inseparable from their hard training in recent months.
I hope that the Chinese women's basketball team can lift the isolation as soon as possible and return triumphantly in peace, health and health.