Slap in the face! Women's basketball ace playing WNBA abandoned: 33 points in the Asian Cup First in both statistics
Han Xu, who was 2.07 meters, killed in the Women's Basketball Asian Cup against South Korea, Han Xu cut 33 points, 11 rebounds and 4 blocks on 15-of-23 shooting, dominated the penalty area, led the Chinese women's basketball team to reverse and win, and successfully advanced to the semifinals. So far in this Asian Cup, Han Xu's performance is MVP level existence, the efficiency value has reached 29.0, ranking first among all players, averaging 22.3 points per game, also ranking first, and rebounding is averaging 11.3 per game, ranking second among all players.
These data are enough to highlight the dominance of Han Xu, she is the number one center in the field of Asian basketball, and she has enough outstanding strength. And it is such an excellent Han Xu, who was directly abandoned in the WNBA this season, and was not valued in the New York Liberty, averaging less than 5 minutes per game, in contrast, Han Xu averaged 18 minutes per game last season. The fundamental reason for this is the addition of two superstars, Stewart and Jones, but Han Xu's playing time should not be so little, which is disrespectful to her. This Asian Cup performance is excellent, Han Xu is punching the WNBA coaches.
Han Xu's biggest advantage is that he has a height of 2.07 meters, but he has the movement speed of the outside player, plus he has a certain shooting ability, Han Xu has a great threat at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and any WNBA team can play the role of an inside rotation, not to have no effect at all.
FIBA officials also wrote that Han Xu is the key figure of the Chinese women's basketball team in this event, bluntly saying that if the Chinese team wants to win the championship, Han Xu needs Han Xu to play at the level of the 2022 World Cup, when Han Xu was selected as the best team of the tournament and led the team to win the runner-up.
Of course, individual performance is not Han Xu's main goal, to lead the Chinese women's basketball team to the top to win the championship is the ultimate goal, the current opponent of the Chinese women's basketball semifinals is determined to be Australia, the two sides met in the 2022 World Cup semifinals, when Han Xu cut 19 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks, leading the team to defeat the opponent and successfully advance to the final. However, all WNBA players in the Australian team did not play in this game, and the overall strength declined, and Han Xu hopes to play again to help the Chinese women's basketball team advance.
And Han Xu's biggest challenge is actually whether he can cross the mountain of the Japanese women's basketball team, since playing in 2018 to become the main inside force of the Chinese women's basketball team, Han Xu has lost to the Japanese women's basketball team many times, including the last Asian Cup final, watching the opponent complete five consecutive championships. In this competition, Han Xu has the opportunity to complete "revenge" and also an opportunity to help the Chinese women's basketball team become the Asian hegemon again.
Do you think Han Xu is the No. 1 center in the Asian women's basketball team?
(Lin Xiaoxiang)