In the final four of this Women's Basketball World Cup, the United States women's basketball team, also from North America, took the lead in meeting the Canadian women's basketball team. As we all know, the actual dominance of the US women's basketball team is more terrifying than the men's basketball team, looking at the existence of the only file in the world, in terms of historical battles, against the comrade-in-arms Maple Leaf Country, it also occupies an absolute psychological advantage with a record of 9 wins and 1 loss. However, the Canadian women's basketball team performed well in this World Cup trip, with 4 wins and 1 loss in the group stage, only 3 points to lose the world's third-ranked host Australian women's basketball team, and the quarterfinals was a 19-point victory over Puerto Rico.
What people did not expect was that such a high-quality game, which was originally regarded as a needle tip against Mai Mang, evolved from the first moment into a completely one-sided game. In the opening period, the US women's basketball team directly fired full fire, blasting out a 20-0 offensive climax, setting the tone for normal games, during which they directly led to five 24-second violations by their opponents through high-level pressing and suffocating defense. The oppressive nature of the defense is evident!
Although the Canadian women's basketball team broke the scoring drought at the end of the quarter, the 27-7 score was still so eye-catching, showing their predicament. In the second quarter, the U.S. women's basketball offensive feel has declined, but it has done a good job in terms of retreat defense and rebounding control, and the Canadian side also has no way to set off a counter-offensive wave by switching offensives. At the end of the half-time, the U.S. women's basketball team maintained a 24-point lead at 45-21. The team's ace and veteran star Stewart won 12 points, 7 boards, 2 assists and 2 hats in the half, almost single-handedly defeating the opponent.
Easy side to fight again, still the United States team took the lead in the attack, a single quarter of the bomb 22-8, directly let the game lose suspense. The game of the top four level turned into garbage time with one and a half quarters left in the game time, and the two sides sent bench players to play, and finally the US women's basketball team still had a huge advantage in the rotation of the lineup, with a 40-point advantage to wash the Canadian women's basketball team!
For the U.S. team, Stewart from the Seattle Storm came on for just 20 minutes, and in two quarters a little more playing time, he handed over a 17+8 report card, 6 of 11 shots, including 4 of 5 three-pointers, and easily clocked out of work, while Aja Wilson also showed amazing dominance, contributing 15 points and 12 rebounds in 21 minutes of playing time. In addition, Plume, who came off the bench, also contributed 14 points in the output.
In Canada, ace scorer Carlton was strictly guarded in this campaign, only 6 points and 5 rebounds on 3 of 7 shots, and her performance is also a microcosm of the Canadian team - the confrontation level is not in an order of magnitude, the speed cannot be matched, and the rhythm is completely controlled by the other side. No one on the team ended up scoring in double figures.
Through this game, we also deeply feel the strength of the US women's basketball team again, whether it is the Chinese women's basketball team or the Australian women's basketball team, after advancing to the final, what can be broken with the basketball overlord, to what extent? Let's wait and see.