More than a month ago, the Chinese women's basketball team created a miracle in Australia, winning the World Cup runner-up, which still makes many fans' blood boil to this day, and it was Zheng Wei who led this team to create such excellent results as a head coach for the first time.
History is always strikingly similar, 28 years ago, at the age of 31, Zheng Wei participated in the Women's Basketball World Championship with the Chinese women's basketball team as a player, and even more coincidentally, the Chinese women's basketball team also reached the semifinals, and the opponent of the semifinals was also the Australian women's basketball team. 28 years later, the 59-year-old Zheng Wei met the Australian women's basketball team again in the World Cup semifinals as the head coach, which seemed to be the cycle of time, and the Chinese women's basketball team relied on free throws to defeat the Australian team at the last moment and reached the final final.
In fact, in the final of the 1994 World Championship, the Chinese women's basketball team had a chance to win the world championship, because the opponent of the Chinese women's basketball team at that time was Brazil, and the Brazilian team eliminated the favorite American women's basketball team in the semifinals, it is worth mentioning that the Chinese women's basketball team at that time never lost in the historical confrontation with the Brazilian team, in the words of Zheng Wei, all players before the game thought that we were already world champions. In the end, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to Brazil 87-96, but the world runner-up has created the best result in the history of Chinese women's basketball.
Since 1994, the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team has been declining, and the 35-point defeat to the Japanese team in the final of the 2015 Women's Basketball Asian Championship has become a pain that the Chinese women's basketball team can never erase. So the Chinese women's basketball team began to reform, boldly used newcomers, Han Xu, Li Yueru and other players gradually appeared in the public eye, in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, the Chinese women's basketball team regained the honor of the Asian championship.
However, in the world series, the Chinese women's basketball team has not broken through the fate of reaching the final four since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In last year's Tokyo Olympics, considered the most hopeful, the Chinese women's basketball team, which won all three games in the group stage, did not perform well in the 1/4 final, and was blocked out of the final four by Serbia. In February 2022, Xu Limin will no longer serve as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, and in mid-May, Zheng Wei officially took over the coaching whip of the Chinese women's basketball team, and 4 and a half months later, the Chinese women's basketball team led by Zheng Wei won the runner-up in the Women's Basketball World Cup in Australia, bringing too many surprises and touches to the Chinese people.
Just recently, Zheng Wei announced an important decision, that is, to resign as the head coach of the Inner Mongolia Women's Basketball Club and specialize in leading the Chinese women's basketball team. You must know that in the past two seasons of WCBA, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team won two championships in a row, Inner Mongolia Basketball Association President Batel for the creation of the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team can not be described as unsuccessful, and for Inner Mongolia women's basketball head coach Zheng Wei, naturally not too bad in terms of treatment, now Zheng Wei for the honor of the national team, but to resign from the club, such a decision can't help but make people awe-inspiring.
As we all know, in the current Chinese basketball, the results of the Chinese men's basketball team and the Chinese women's basketball team have formed a sharp contrast, and now the Chinese women's basketball team has become the world runner-up, in the latest world ranking released by the FIBA, the Chinese women's basketball team is also second only to the United States team in the world, and the Chinese men's basketball team only won the eighth place in the Asian Cup that ended in July this year, such a disparity makes many people wonder what happened to the Chinese men's basketball team?
In fact, the eighth in Asia is caused by multiple factors, not the real level of the Chinese men's basketball team, but the current poor performance of the Chinese men's basketball team is indeed an indisputable fact. At present, many people blame most of the blame on the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, Du Feng, and recently the well-known basketball media person Su Qun published an article about the Chinese men's basketball team, mainly mentioning that there are many things that Du Feng can not decide. As fans, we just want to ask the question, why can't the players who are currently in the league be able to enter the national team?
Less erosion of interests, let basketball return to its essence, Zheng Wei can quit the club's job to concentrate on being the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, perhaps it has given us the best answer!