The 2023 Three-a-side Basketball World Cup will be held in Vienna, and the top three in this World Cup will directly qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The Chinese three-man men's basketball team did not qualify, and the Chinese three-man women's basketball team became the "lone team" defending the honor of China's three-man basketball and striving for Olympic qualification.
All the way to the flat push, China's three-man women's basketball team won five consecutive victories to advance to the final four!
The Chinese women's basketball team in this World Cup still sent Wang Lili, Zhang Zhiting and Wan Jiyuan "Ace Iron Triangle Combination" who won the bronze in the Tokyo Olympics, and the replacement was replaced by Yang Shuyu at that time with newcomer Zhang Yi. Digression: This substitute position has been changed many times in the past 1 year, but it always has a strength gap with Wang Lili, and it cannot reach Yang Shuyu's role as a substitute at that time.
However, the iron triangle led by Wang Lili is a guarantee of achievement. The Chinese women's basketball team defeated Israel, Lithuania, Romania and Italy successively, winning all 4 games to advance from the group; In the 8-4 knockout round, they beat Germany 17-14 and advanced to the semi-finals with 5 consecutive wins!
The team member was accidentally injured, and the three-man women's basketball team unfortunately lost to the United States and missed the final:
The Chinese women's basketball team will face the two-time World Cup champion of the United States three-man women's basketball team in the semifinals, but the good news is that the United States team is far less dominant in the three-man women's basketball team than the five-man women's basketball team.
The U.S. women's basketball team took the lead in the opening game, and Zhang Zhiting broke the deadlock under the basket, but Zhang Yi's early sprained knee to put the Chinese women's basketball team in passivity. Although Zhang Yi tried to put on a bandage and insisted on the field, he was soon injured again, and this time he was completely unable to hold on.
The physical fitness of the Chinese women's basketball team that plays one less person is greatly affected, after all, the three-person women's basketball team is strong and fast-paced, and for a veteran like Wang Lili, it is very helpful to rest for 1-2 minutes to catch his breath. Coupled with the obvious bias of the referee in favor of the American team, the Chinese women's basketball team failed to create a miracle, and was played 7-0 by the American team when we took advantage of our physical bottleneck, and finally the Chinese women's basketball team lost 12-20 and missed the final.
Playing 1 less + outrageous penalty, China's three-man women's basketball team was killed by Australia and did not have the opportunity to go directly to the Olympics:
The Chinese women's basketball team, which did not qualify for the final, can only compete for the third place, but as mentioned earlier, the top three can go straight to the Olympics, so this third-place battle is actually a direct competition for Olympic qualification. But the bad news is that less than 2 and a half hours after Zhang Yi was injured, the Chinese women's basketball team will play a 3-4 place final with Australia, which means that the Chinese women's basketball team can still only play with 3 players!
Wan Jiyuanqiang played inside and Zhang Zhiting's arc top shot gave the Chinese team a lead; Wang Lili reproduced her true colors as the "God of War", and made two consecutive long shots and two signature emergency stop shots to help the Chinese team maintain the point difference.
But as the game deepened, the Chinese team's fitness once again reached a bottleneck, and the Australian team took the opportunity to gradually catch up with the score.
The women's basketball girl burst out with amazing willpower: Wang Lili hit a 2-point shot from far again, Wan Jiyuan and Zhang Zhiting still gritted their teeth and insisted on attacking the basket even when their physical strength was exhausted, and the Chinese team won the match point!
Seeing that the women's basketball girls were about to create a miracle, fate and the referee played a joke with us together: first awarded Wang Lili's out-of-bounds ball to Australia, and Australia chased 19-20 with 2 points on this shot; Then Australia shot a suspected three-stick (if it is "three non-sticky", the ball should belong to the Chinese team according to the rules), and the Australian player tried to shoot 2 points from far again after getting the rebound in the front court, and the ball scored at the same time as the whistle, and the referee blew a violation (the "three non-stick" violation just now). The goal was not counted at first, but after the referee repeatedly watched the video, he decided that the "three non-sticks" in front actually hit the basket, and the 2-point goal was valid! The score became 21-20, and the Chinese women's basketball team was eliminated by their opponents.
Australia's first shot hit the frame, but the timer should also go back to 12 seconds; But at that time, the on-site technicians probably also thought that it was "three not sticky", so there was no return to the table. Strictly according to the rules, it should be "going back in time", going back to the time when Australia's first shot hit the frame, and Australia served again to attack. Who knew that the referee would directly award Australia a goal after deliberation! In the face of this unexpected outrageous penalty, all the members of the Chinese women's basketball team obviously can't accept it!
The Chinese three-man women's basketball team lost the third place and also lost the direct Olympic qualification, and Wang Lili, who has always only let people see her resolute side, cried in front of the camera for the first time.
End:
The Chinese women's basketball team eventually missed the opportunity to go directly to the Olympics due to various adverse factors, but they still have a good chance to win the Olympic ticket through the qualification round - the three women's basketball teams in Paris have a total of 8 places, the top three of this World Cup will take 3, and the remaining 5 will be selected by the qualification round.
Come on Chinese women's basketball!
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