The women's basketball team and New Zealand match on February 8, Beijing time, this match is the first game of our Olympic qualifiers. At the beginning of the first quarter, we were very strong on the offensive end, and the first two offensive rounds of the opening game were all blocked, and Han Xu also scored two three-pointers in a row to help the team maintain a 6-2 lead. In fact, in the past two years, Han Xu has been strengthening her three points, and she has indeed become more and more comprehensive on the offensive end.
In this situation, the women's basketball team played more and more easily, and Huang Sijing also scored a three-pointer when she got the opportunity to help the team lead 9-2. In this case, New Zealand changed their style of play and began to suppress the whole court, resulting in the women's basketball team shooting iron, and there were also mistakes, New Zealand chased 2 points, but we can still occupy a 9-4 lead.
Although there was a pause for a while in the middle of the quarter, Li Yuan assisted Han Xu to score, and we stretched the score to 11-4. After that, the women's basketball team can still occupy enough advantages when they change to the second team. Even though there were some unnecessary mistakes, the pressure on the defensive end was very strong, and the women's basketball team maintained a 22-12 lead at the end of the first quarter, completely suppressing the opponent.
The biggest highlight of the women's basketball team in this game is the excellent basic skills. You have to know that when you get three points, you can easily take it. And in last year's World Series, our three-point shooting rate has always been very high, 3 of 8 in a single quarter, but the shooting rate in the second half of the quarter was a bit sluggish.
We still have a huge advantage under the basket. Whether it is Han Xu or Li Yueru, we are all a lot higher. It is true that the main force of the New Zealand women's basketball team did not come, as long as we stood under the basket and raised our hands on the opposite side, it was difficult to restrict, and completely dominated the interior offense and defense. It's just that Li Yueru wasted a lot of opportunities under the basket at this point, and she may still be in a bad state, and she is only 1 of 6 in a single quarter, which is what she needs to continue to look for. But Han Xu is an inexplicable performance, he can score all the inside and outside, and he scored 8 points in a single quarter and dominated the situation.