Women's Basketball Asian Cup Knockout Matchup: China Direct Semifinals Match South Korea and Australia Winner Final or Japan for the championship
On June 28, Beijing time, the dust of the 2023 Women's Basketball Asian Cup group stage was all settled, the Chinese women's basketball team narrowly defeated the South Korean women's basketball team in the final round of the group stage, the defending champion Japanese women's basketball team defeated the host Australian women's basketball team, and the Chinese and Japanese women's basketball teams were 3-0 to lock up the group final four. The Chinese women's basketball team will play the winner between the Korean and Australian women's basketball team in the semifinals, the winner between the Japanese women's basketball team and the new Philippines women's basketball team in the semifinals, and the Chinese women's basketball team will most likely play against the Australian women's basketball team in the semifinals.
Women's Basketball Asian Cup Group Stage Results and Rankings:
A组
1. China 3-0 (directly advanced to the semifinals)
2. New Zealand 2-1
3. South Korea wins 1 and loses 2
4. Lebanon 0-3 (eliminated)
Group B
1. Japan 3-0 (directly advanced to the semifinals)
2. Australia 2-1
3. Philippines 1-2
4. Chinese Taipei 0-3 (eliminated)
According to the format of the Women's Basketball Asian Cup, a total of 8 teams will be divided into two groups, the first team in the group will directly advance to the final four, the second and third teams will play the play-offs to determine the other two semi-final places, and the top four teams will receive the 2024 Paris Olympic qualification place and the 2026 Women's Basketball World Cup qualification place.
Women's Basketball Asian Cup Knockout Matchups:
Australia vs South Korea: Winner semi-final against China
New Zealand vs Philippines: Winner semi-final against Japan
Chinese women's basketball semifinal prospects: high probability against host Australia
This year, the Chinese women's basketball team took the runner-up of the Women's Basketball World Cup last year, not only to win the 2024 Paris Olympic qualification and the 2026 Women's Basketball World Cup qualifying place, but also to regain the women's basketball Asian Cup championship after 12 years.
In the first two games of the group stage, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Lebanese women's basketball team and the New Zealand women's basketball team by 45 and 34 points respectively, but the third game of the group stage trailed by 11 points at most, and finally defeated the South Korean women's basketball team 87-81 through overtime, reflecting the hidden dangers of the Chinese women's basketball team. The Chinese women's basketball team relies too much on the play of Han Xu and Li Meng's dual core, and the rest of the players do not give much help, and in the absence of Li Yueru due to injury, the pressure on Han Xu is undoubtedly huge, and she faces the South Korean women's basketball team to bombard 33+11+4 caps is also overloaded.
The Chinese women's basketball team is likely to face the Australian women's basketball team in the semifinals, after all, the play-off competition for the Australian women's basketball team is better than the South Korean women's basketball team, and also has the help of home court advantage, and is expected to beat the opponent to advance to the final four to challenge the Chinese women's basketball team. The Chinese women's basketball team lost to the Australian women's basketball team by 15 points in the last warm-up game before the Women's Asian Cup, but considering that the opponent lacks all seven players who play in the WNBA, the Chinese women's basketball team is still expected to beat the Australian women's basketball team who played in the second team.
The prospect of China's women's basketball team rushing to the championship: there is a high probability that the final will challenge Japan again to win the championship
The two favorite teams for this year's Women's Basketball Asian Cup are naturally the Chinese women's basketball team and the Japanese women's basketball team, which locked the final four places in advance. The last time the Chinese women's basketball team won the championship was in 2011, after which the Japanese women's basketball team won five consecutive championships and became the Asian hegemon of the women's basketball Asian Cup.
As for the Chinese women's basketball team, if it wants to win the championship, the opponent in the final is most likely to be the Japanese women's basketball team. The New Zealand women's basketball team has a high probability of beating the Philippines women's basketball team to advance to the final four, while the Japanese women's basketball team has little problem eliminating the New Zealand women's basketball team. In this case, the final of the Women's Basketball Asian Cup is likely to be a China-Japan showdown, and in the past two Women's Basketball Asian Cup finals, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the Japanese women's basketball team and lost the championship.
The Chinese women's basketball team lacks Li Yueru, Huang Sijing and Wu Tongtong, three members of the women's basketball World Cup runner-up, and their shortcomings exposed by the narrow victory over the South Korean women's basketball team in overtime are undoubtedly related to whether the Chinese women's basketball team can finally win the championship.
(Text/Drunken Lying Float)