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On February 22, Beijing time, FIBA officially updated the women's basketball world rankings, and the Chinese women's basketball team ranked seventh. This is fiba's second women's basketball world ranking after the Tokyo Olympics. Comparing the first rankings, there was no change in the rankings except for France and Belgium.
That is to say, the United States, Spain, Australia, and Canada still occupy the top four positions, and the original fifth and sixth France and Belgium have changed their positions, and the reason why France has retreated to sixth should be related to the previous game in which the Chinese women's basketball team lost 33 points in the women's basketball World Cup qualifiers. The next four seats remain unchanged, followed by China, Japan, Turkey and Serbia.
The Chinese women's basketball team is a young team with an average age of less than 26 years old, is a world-class team that dares to fight and dare to fight, and repeatedly brings us surprises, the Tokyo Olympic cycle, repeatedly staged the following good dramas, many times defeated the world powerhouse Australia team, and now the world's second Spain, the fifth Belgium is also the defeated player of the Chinese girl.
Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team is to go to the medal, the group stage three battles three victories, the soldiers do not bloodshed to advance to the quarterfinals knockout round, this is the first time that the Chinese women's basketball team in the Olympic Games group stage to achieve a complete victory, rewriting a historical record of the team. However, in the first match of the knockout round against the European champion Serbian women's basketball team, in the first three quarters of the 58-49 lead of 9 points, the last quarter staged a crash tragedy, painfully lost a good game, and finally stopped the quarterfinals with a 70-77 defeat to the opponent and eclipsed out.
After the Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team changed coaches, Xu Limin left class, and Zheng Wei served as the acting coach. Changing the coach is like changing the knife, and the Chinese women's basketball team has a new look. In the just-concluded 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese women's basketball team won three consecutive victories, especially in the face of the 5 consecutive European Championship runners-up and the Third Place Team of the Tokyo Olympic Games, without fear, and repaid a arrow with the way of crushing the whole field.
The thickness of the current Chinese women's basketball team even the basketball celebrity Su Qun is also full of praise, there are world-class Li Yueru and Han Xu in the center position, Li Yueru has the elegant number of "women's version of O'Neal", Li Meng, who is known as the "female version of LeBron" on the forward line, and "women's version of Durant" Huang Sijing, the Chinese women's basketball team will be a world-class strong team in the next few years, and has the strength to win medals in the Olympic Games and the World Cup.
But netizens do not buy it, thinking that although the Chinese women's basketball team has suppressed the Japanese women's basketball team, the record is not necessarily better than others, and the little Japan has won the silver medal of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Indeed, the Japanese women's basketball team has always been the hatred of the Chinese women's basketball team. In the 2015 Asian Championship, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the Japanese women's basketball team by 35 points at home, and in the 2019 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, we lost 3 points to the opponent and did not win the championship.
Take the final of the 2021 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, it is Su Qun's mouth that this strong Chinese women's basketball team lost to the Japanese team 73-78, regrettably won the silver medal, and watched the Japanese women's basketball team win the Asian Cup championship for five consecutive years. The last time the Chinese women's basketball team won the championship was in 2011.
The Japanese women's basketball team won the Olympic silver medal to create history, and I believe that in the next many years, the Japanese women's basketball team will still be the strongest opponent of the Chinese women's basketball team in Asia. And if we want to return to the top of Asia, we need to cross the threshold of the Japanese women's basketball team. Xu Limin can't solve this problem that has plagued him for more than 10 years, can Zheng Wei do it?
Even Asia cannot dominate, let alone conquer the world? Therefore, netizens are quite right: win the little Japan and then say.