FIBA officially announced, the Chinese women's basketball team is happy from the sky! Trident vs. Belgium
With the Chinese women's basketball team beating Puerto Rico to advance to the quarterfinals, the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup group stage has come to an end, and the Chinese women's basketball team will prepare to play against Belgium. Not long ago, FIBA issued an article praising Chinese striker Li Meng, which pointed out that Li Meng has found the best state in the World Cup group stage, and she is also the core of the Chinese women's basketball team. The article also wrote that when Chinese basketball is mentioned, many people will think that China has an internal advantage, and there have been many excellent players on the inside in recent years. The Chinese women's basketball team has always had a proud inner twin tower, even if Li Meng won the MVP of the Belgrade World Cup Qualifiers, many people still pay attention to Huang Sijing.
But after the start of the 2022 World Cup, Li Meng began to explode, and also showed the ability of the leader. In the past four World Preliminary Rounds, Li Meng has played well. Even against the US women's basketball team, Li Meng also cut the highest score in the whole game, and also won the recognition of the US women's basketball team, believing that Li Meng is very strong, especially the outstanding scoring ability, and the changeable attack makes it difficult for the US women's basketball team to defend. In the first three games of the group stage, Li Meng averaged 17.3 points per game, ranking third in the scoring list of players in all participating teams, and Li Meng's two-point shooting rate was as high as 56%, three-point shooting rate was as high as 35.7%, and free throw shooting rate was as high as 89%.
The excellent and soft shooting feel has attracted the attention of many teams, who will develop a defensive strategy against Li Meng before the game, but they are always unable to prevent it. The 27-year-old Li Meng came to his peak, which is the best golden point for results. Behind Li Meng's step-by-step becoming the core of the women's basketball team, in fact, there are also touching stories.
Li Meng had two opportunities to play in the WNBA League, but eventually chose to give up. The first is that the family, her father and mother are not in good health, her father retired early because of uremia, and her mother was diagnosed with a serious illness when she was 8 years old and needed chemotherapy. Li Meng learned to play basketball from primary school, watching her father work hard for the family to make money, she was determined to take the basketball profession to make money. At the age of 15, she made a name for herself at the World Championships, when many NCAA teams threw olive branches, including the WNBA Bobcats who offered standard contracts directly. But it is precisely because her mother needs her own company, she chose to give up staying in the ocean to play.
After his parents' health improved, Li Meng was invited to the WNBA League again in 2019, but Li Meng still chose to give up. Because the national team is preparing for the competition, the women's basketball team needs Li Meng, and she does not want to delay the preparation of the national team. Moreover, Li Meng once entered the Bayi women's basketball team, and she is also a soldier. Therefore, going abroad to play is a need to go through the procedure.
Li Meng gave up the opportunity to stay in foreign countries twice for the sake of his family and for the national team. At present, the new trident of the Chinese women's basketball team has taken shape, Wang Siyu + Li Meng + Han Xu. These three people are the core of the women's basketball team, but only Han Xu and Li Yueru play in the WNBA League, the highest level of women's basketball in the world, Han Xu's growth is visible to the naked eye, and Li Yueru's basketball confrontation is also stronger. Therefore, I personally hope that the Chinese women's basketball team can have more capable or potential young people like Li Meng and Wang Siyu to impact overseas high-level leagues.
We still have a gap with the US women's basketball team at this stage, how to narrow the gap is a problem, if the players are already in the ceiling of the domestic league, it is better to take advantage of the young to go overseas high-level stage to train themselves. Women's volleyball team Zhu Ting is also 27 years old, men's basketball team Zhou Qi is 26 years old, they are all in order to improve their ability as the goal of impacting overseas leagues, in order to be able to better shoulder their responsibilities in the national team during the Paris Olympic Games cycle.