On February 11, Beijing time, the second day of the Lunar New Year, the final game of the FIBA Olympic Women's Basketball Qualifying Tournament in China officially started, and the Chinese women's basketball team will continue to sit in Xi'an to face the Puerto Rico women's basketball team. Although the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the French women's basketball team by 32 points yesterday, with Puerto Rico narrowly defeating the New Zealand women's basketball team by 1 point, the Chinese women's basketball team locked the qualification for the Paris Olympics one day ahead of schedule because of the relationship with New Zealand.
Therefore, today's game does not have any pressure on the performance of our Chinese women's basketball team, but more to test the results of the training camp, temper the skills and tactics, and train the young players. But after all, it is the Spring Festival, how can our heroines waste this precious opportunity to pay New Year's greetings to the Chinese people, after four quarters, the Chinese women's basketball team successfully defeated the Puerto Rico women's basketball team 105-69. The trend of the game, defined by the player's rating (out of 10 points): 4 people are perfect, 5 people are up to standard, and 2 people are flawed.
Han Xu (perfect 9.5 points)
At the beginning of the first quarter, the basket hit a second offensive strong shot to help the Chinese team open the scoring, and then received Huang Sijing's hanging pass from the inside line to hit a high shot to help the Chinese team lead the opponent 6-2. At the end of the period, he received Yang Liwei's wonderful pass and hit the inside hook shot.
At the end of the second quarter, he received a wonderful pass from Wang Siyu and hit a three-point shot at the top of the arc. Hit two foul free throws early in the third quarter.
At the end of the game, Han Xu started the game, shooting 4 of 8, scoring 11 points, 7 rebounds, 0 assists, 1 steal, 0 turnovers and 2 blocks, with a plus/minus of +21. Today's Han Xu showed the dominance of the world's top center on the inside, extremely powerful at both offensive and defensive ends, and the overall performance was perfect.
Li Meng (perfect 10 points)
At the beginning of the first quarter, Huang Sijing received a hanging pass from the inside line and stepped back to shoot a jumper, and in the middle of the section, Han Xu covered and threw a three-point shot at the top of the arc to help the Chinese team lead the Chinese team 14-6.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Zhang Ru hit a 45-degree three-point shot, and at the end of the second quarter, Pan Zhenqi hit a 45-degree three-point retreat, and then hit four foul free throws, helping the Chinese team lead the opponent by as many as 22 points at 54-32.
In the middle of the third quarter, the top man forced a layup, and then hit a 45-degree retreat three-pointer on the serve, and a dozen and two in the final counterattack became a difficult 2+1, which made the audience chant MVP while helping the Chinese team lead the Puerto Rico team 80-37.
At the end of the game, Li Meng started the game and played very bravely, shooting 7 of 10, scoring 23 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 0 steals and 1 turnover, with a plus/minus of +31. Today's Li Meng almost takes what he wants on the offensive end, all kinds of tank breakthroughs and top people strong shots are simply incomprehensible, and the overall performance is domineering and perfect.
Wang Siyu (7.5 points)
In the middle of the first quarter, he used Euro Step to make a layup and made a foul and hit all free throws.
Two foul free throws were made late in the second quarter to help China take a 44-27 lead. In the third quarter, he hit a three-pointer at the top of the arc as soon as he made a layup.
At the end of the game, Wang Siyu started the battle with an average feeling, 5 shots and 1 hit, got 6 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, 0 steals, 1 turnover, 0 blocks, plus or minus +23, Wang Siyu's offensive efficiency in this campaign is average, and his teammates have done a remarkable job, and his overall performance can be rated as up to standard.
Huang Sijing (perfect 9 points)
In the middle of the first quarter, he received a 45-degree open three-point pass from Wang Siyu, and at the end of the period, he broke through with the ball and threw it in the middle of the march, helping the Chinese team lead the Puerto Rico team 18-9.
In the second section, Huang Sijing did not have too many eye-catching performances. At the beginning of the third quarter, he hit a second offensive rebound, and then hit an open three-pointer from Li Mengmiao's pass to help the Chinese team lead Puerto Rico 66-37.
At the end of the game, Huang Sijing started the game and performed brilliantly, shooting 4 of 5, scoring 10 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 0 turnovers and 0 blocks, with a plus/minus of +29. In this campaign, Huang Sijing was extremely efficient on the offensive end and very desperate on the defensive end, which deserved to be the first 3D in the Chinese team's forward line, and the overall performance could be rated as perfect.
Zhang Ru (6.5 points)
At the beginning of the first quarter, he made two consecutive baskets and forced the opponent to make a layup, made fouls, and missed all 4 free throws, and in the middle of the counterattack, he received a long pass from Wang Siyu and hit a layup, helping the Chinese team establish a double-digit lead at 16-6.
Hit a foul free throw early in the second quarter. In the early part of the third quarter, he scored a counterattack layup to help the Chinese team lead 59-34.
At the end of the game, Zhang Ru started the battle and felt okay, shooting 2 of 3, scoring 5 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 0 steals and 0 turnovers, plus or minus +23. Zhang Ru fought very well today, but the free throw shooting rate was too low, only 1 of 6, which was somewhat unreasonable, and the overall performance was barely rated as standard.
Li Yueru (perfect 9.5 points)
At the end of the first quarter, he used his body to force the opponent under the basket to make 4 fouls, helping the Chinese team lead the Puerto Rico team 24-11 to end the first quarter of the game.
At the beginning of the second quarter, he first hit two foul free throws, then the basket forced the opponent to turn around and hit a layup, and the second offensive strong shot under the basket in the middle section made it 2+1, helping the Chinese team lead the opponent 37-20. He hit a foul free throw in the late middle and then received a wonderful pass from Yang Liwei to cut inside and make a layup to help China lead Puerto Rico 43-24.
In the middle of the third quarter, Li Yueru made two rebounds under the basket as soon as she came up, and hit a mid-range pullup jump shot at the end of the period to help the Chinese team lead the opponent 87-42. Four points for garbage time in the fourth quarter.
At the end of the game, Li Yueru came off the bench and was in good shape, shooting 8 of 13, scoring 22 points, 22 rebounds, 2 assists, 0 steals, 3 turnovers and 2 blocks, plus or minus +15. Today, Xiaobao's lethality on the inside line is full, which can be called the first killer of the Chinese team's foul, and the overall performance is very perfect.
Pan Zhenqi (flawed 5 points)
Early in the second quarter, he broke through with the ball and hit a jumper layup. Garbage time for an open layup.
At the end of the game, Pan Zhenqi came off the bench to perform averagely, shooting 2 of 6, getting 4 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 0 turnovers and 1 block, plus or minus +7, and the overall performance can be slightly flawed.
Yang Liwei (6.5 points)
In the middle of the second quarter, he received a pass from Li Yuanmiao and hit a 45-degree strong three-point shot. At the end of the third quarter, he hit a mid-range pull-up jump shot to help the Chinese team lead 77-37.
At the end of the game, Yang Liwei played well in the game, shooting 1 of 2, getting 3 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists, 0 steals and 0 turnovers, plus or minus +7, and the overall performance met people's expectations.
Li Yuan (6.5 points)
Hit a mid-range pullup jump shot in a transition late in the first quarter.
He missed two shots in the second quarter, but dished out two assists. At the end of the third quarter, Li Yueru scored a three-pointer at the top of the arc. Hit a counter layup early in the fourth quarter, followed by back-to-back turnovers.
At the end of the game, Li Yuan came off the bench and performed well, shooting 3 of 11, scoring 7 points, 2 rebounds, 9 assists, 0 steals, 3 turnovers and 0 blocks, with a plus/minus of +13. Today's Li Yuan's shooting rate is average, and the assists are good, but there are a lot of mistakes, and the overall performance is rated as standard.
Luo Xinqi (6 points)
Played 2 minutes in the second quarter and contributed 1 block. Early in the fourth quarter, the interior hit a second offensive rebound. Garbage time gets 5 points.
At the end of the game, Luo Xinqi came off the bench, made 3 of 6 shots, scored 7 points, 2 rebounds, 0 assists, 1 turnover and 1 block, with a plus/minus of +1. Today's Luo Xinqi has a good overall presence, and his performance is rated as up to standard.
Yang Shuyu (flawed 5 points)
Didn't get a chance to play in the first half. Late in the third quarter, he hit a layup with the ball. He hit a three-pointer at the top of the arc early in the fourth quarter to give China a 94-46 lead.
At the end of the game, Yang Shuyu did not come off the bench, shooting 2 of 6, getting 5 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 1 turnover, 0 blocks, the lowest plus/minus of -7 in the game, and the overall performance was slightly flawed.
Wu Tongtong (unseen)
Didn't get a chance to play
At the end of the game, Wu Tongtong did not come off the bench, 0 shots and 0 hits, got 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 turnovers and 0 blocks, plus or minus 0, and the overall performance was not evaluated.
Finally, to summarize the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team in the half-game: Han Xu, Li Meng, Li Yueru, and Huang Sijing performed perfectly, Wang Siyu, Yang Liwei, Zhang Ru, Li Yuan, and Luo Xinqi performed to meet people's expectations, and Yang Shuyu and Pan Zhenqi's performance was slightly flawed. So far, the FIBA Olympic Women's Basketball Qualifying Tournament in China has come to a perfect end, and the Chinese team ranks second in the group with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss, and successfully advances to the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Chinese women's basketball team can always use their own efforts and sweat to successfully present to the Chinese people when the festival is coming. As the last hope of China's three major balls, we sincerely wish the future of the Chinese women's basketball team to be better and better.
It is necessary to state that the above ratings of the core players of the Chinese women's basketball team are all based on the objective performance of this game, and there is no deliberate tout or malicious belittlement.