On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the women's basketball team caused a 32-point tragedy for 3 reasons, and one person became the culprit in 1 of 6

The 2024 Paris Olympics women's basketball qualifying tournament was held in China during the Lunar New Year, and the Chinese women's basketball team at home lost to the French women's basketball team 50-82 in the second game of this tournament, suffering a 32-point bloodbath. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it is indeed unpleasant for fans to encounter such a tragedy, but calm down, we still have to seriously summarize and prepare for the next game against Puerto Rico.

In this game, the Chinese women's basketball team began to prepare to be opened up from the second half of the first quarter, and has not been able to tie the score since then, losing 13 points and 14 points in the second and third quarters respectively. All 12 players on the French team scored and shot 47.8% from three-point range. Studying the reasons carefully, the Chinese women's basketball team mainly lost in three aspects.

First and foremost is the back line. The guards of the Chinese team were completely blown out in this game, and the two guards who started the game, Yang Liwei and Wang Siyu, scored only 5 points in total, of which Yang Liwei only made 1 of 6 shots, 0 of 4 three-pointers, only got 2 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, and had 3 turnovers, which can be said to be the culprit of the loss of this game. The defenders could not effectively transmit the ball, the offense was completely stagnant, and the inside advantage could not be played, and the Chinese team could only watch the score be pulled away little by little.

Secondly, the Chinese team made too many mistakes, and even some of them were unnecessary mistakes. In the whole game, the Chinese team made 22 mistakes, 7 more than the opponent, and 4 of the 5 people who started the game made 3 mistakes (Wang Siyu 1 time), and none of the 10 people who appeared on the court did not make mistakes, and even had many bottom-line serves directly to the opponent. How can you win if you make mistakes as a matter of course?

Third, the rebounding gap is too big. In this game, the Chinese women's basketball team lost 13 rebounds to the opponent 28-41, and the rebounding protection was not effective, which led to the direct consequence that the French team got 70 shots in the whole game, while the Chinese women's basketball team only had 45 shots, plus a 50%-28.9% shooting rate, even if the Chinese women's basketball team made 18 of 23 free throws, 1 of 4 compared to the opponent, and 17 points more than the free throws, but under the huge gap in rebounding and shooting percentage, the Chinese women's basketball team still suffered a 32-point bloodbath.

This fiasco is also a wake-up call for the Chinese women's basketball team, last year's results are in the past, and the European powerhouses seem to have found a strategy to deal with us, and it is better to have problems now than at the Olympics. I hope that the girls of the women's basketball team can seriously summarize, adjust their mentality, and play the next game against Puerto Rico well.