In order to ensure the gold medal of the Sichuan women's basketball team, Shao Ting withdrew from the Chinese women's basketball team after the National Games.

After winning the National Games championship, the Chinese women's basketball team made adjustments to the lineup.

In order to participate in the Women's Basketball Asian Cup at the end of the month, the Chinese Basketball Association officially released the 12-member list of the new Chinese Women's Basketball Team on the evening of the 17th. Compared with the Tokyo Olympics and the National Games, the biggest change in this list is undoubtedly that the 31-year-old Shao Ting and the 29-year-old Sun Mengran were replaced by 23-year-old Li Yifan and 25-year-old Yang Hengyu, which also means that the Chinese women's basketball team, which will appear in the Women's Basketball Asian Cup, will be a younger team.

According to Xinhua News Agency, coach Xu Limin explained the reasons for the departure of Shao Ting and Sun Mengran, saying that on the one hand, it was due to the age of the two and injury problems, on the other hand, it was to give young players more intercontinental game experience and training opportunities. Xu Limin, who has been training newcomers since taking over the Chinese women's basketball team, once again attributed the reason for the lineup adjustment to the training of new people, which did make everyone have nothing to say, but a question is still curious: Since Shao Ting and Sun Mengran are not suddenly injured, why did the Chinese women's basketball team not exercise these two newcomers at the National Games?

In the just-concluded National Games women's basketball adult group competition, although Shao Ting and Sun Mengran followed the Chinese women's basketball team to win the final championship, but during the entire women's basketball competition, these two "veterans" did not have many opportunities. Among them, Shao Ting played in 4 games, contributing 18 points in a total of 26 minutes; Sun Mengran only appeared in 3 minutes to contribute 2 points.

From this statistics, Shao Ting and Sun Mengran obviously did not get too many performance opportunities at the National Games, and among the two newcomers who joined the Chinese women's basketball team, Li Yifan, born in 1998, played 5 games for the Beijing women's basketball team, averaging 7.4 points in 20 minutes per game; Yang Hengyu, who was born in 1995, also played 5 games, and contributed 19.0 points in 34 minutes of the Shandong women's basketball team.

If the Chinese women's basketball team decided to replace Shao Ting and Sun Mengran with these two newcomers before, then why not complete this somewhat surprising personnel adjustment before the start of the National Games?

If they have been adjusted before, then Li Yifan and Yang Hengyu will undoubtedly get 5 opportunities to practice and play with the national team, which is obviously more conducive to their integration with the national team than they represent their respective provincial teams in the National Games and "oppose" the Chinese women's basketball team.

The reason why the Chinese women's basketball team gave up training new people will definitely not be because of the pressure on performance. After all, the Chinese women's basketball team did not encounter any trouble in winning the National Games - the Chinese women's basketball team averaged 51.8 points per game in five games, and the smallest victory was also a 110-74, 36-point advantage to defeat the Shandong women's basketball team - and in the process of the National Games, young players such as Pan Zhenqi and Zhang Ru did get more playing time.

For the Chinese women's basketball team, which has achieved better results in recent years, many of their adjustments certainly have their own purposes and reasons, and it is not the turn of outsiders who do not understand the situation to talk about it. But a fact that must be said is that if Shao Ting's position is replaced by a newcomer before the start of the National Games, then Shao Ting will not be able to win a national games gold medal for the Sichuan women's basketball team.

Such speculation about the National Games, which does not have a medal table and a gold medal table, is indeed a bit too "malicious". And the reason why the Chinese women's basketball team has adjusted so much is not the most important, the most important thing is that the Chinese women's basketball team can regain the honor lost for too long in the Asian Cup?

Since the 2011 Asian Cup (Asian Championship) narrowly defeated the South Korean women's basketball team to win the team's 11th Asian Cup championship, the Chinese women's basketball team has lost all the championships in the last four competitions, and the strong rise of the Japanese women's basketball team and the Australian women's basketball team, which has always been strong, can be called the "two major obstacles" in front of the Chinese women's basketball team.

With the addition of Li Yifan and Yang Hengyu, the average age of the Chinese women's basketball team has dropped from 25 years old at the Tokyo Olympics to 24 years old, although the main framework has not changed, but whether this younger team can regain the Asian Cup championship may really become a huge question mark - from the current news, Machida Yuwei, who shined at the Tokyo Olympic Games, was not selected for this Year's Japanese women's basketball team.

The most important goal of the Chinese women's basketball team is of course the World Cup and the Olympic Games, but if even the honor of the Asian Cup cannot be regained, it means that the Chinese women's basketball team is still helpless with the Japanese women's basketball team or the Australian women's basketball team, then, can the Chinese women's basketball team really achieve better results in the Olympic Games and the World Cup?