The match against Australia exposed a number of problems, and the Chinese women's basketball team needs to further polish the details

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2024-06-03 13:56Posted on the official account of Shanghai The Paper

Zheng Wei, head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team.

The three warm-up games are 1-2, which is the report card of the Chinese women's basketball team against the Australian team in the warm-up match.

On June 2, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Australian women's basketball team 75-68 in the Shenyang station of the China-Australia women's basketball warm-up match, winning the only victory in the three warm-up games.

This is the first leg of the Chinese women's basketball team's warm-up game this summer, and in the absence of Han Xu, Li Meng and other main players, the Chinese women's basketball team is gradually finding its own rhythm.

Han Xu, Li Meng and others did not participate in this warm-up match.

Substitute training by competition, pay attention to the process

In the first game with Australia, the Chinese women's basketball team scored only 5 points in the fourth quarter and finally lost 70-72.

But coach Zheng Wei did not dwell too much on the sudden power outage at the end of the game after the game, but affirmed the overall performance of the team: "This is our first game after the training camp, and it is against a world powerhouse like Australia. I think it took us a long time to go into training immediately after the Women's Basketball League, from the intensity of the domestic league to the intensity of adapting to the international competition, and I feel like we are doing well today. ”

A similar statement also appeared in the second warm-up game, the Chinese women's basketball team trailed Australia by 16 points 33-49 in the first half, but Zheng Wei in addition to feeling that the team did not play well in the first quarter, still affirmed the women's basketball team's performance in the second half, "The team lineup is not very neat, and there are more young players." I think it's a big exercise for our team to chase back in this situation, so I'm very happy with the last two quarters. ”

It can be seen from Zheng Wei's post-game speech that the current Chinese women's basketball team does not care about winning or losing the game, but emphasizes more on what can be achieved in the game.

In this series of warm-up games, although Australia is not the strongest lineup, the Chinese women's basketball team also lacks Han Xu, Li Meng, Li Yueru, and Huang Sijing. At the same time, the main defender Yang Liwei suffered a leg injury in the first game, and the other defender Li Yuan suffered a nasal fracture in the second game, so the pressure was more on the younger players.

The good thing is that the young players are doing well. In the first two games, Luo Xinqi, who was born in 2001, averaged 10 points and 3 rebounds per game and became an important space shooter on the outside. In the third game, Yang Shuyu in 2002 started the game, scoring 23 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists on 6-of-6 three-point shooting, helping the Chinese women's basketball team win the game.

Seeing the performance of the young players at the moment of focusing on the process also made Zheng Wei affirm the team's performance: "The three games against Australia have been very helpful for us to adapt to the intensity of international competitions, and our goal is to play one game further. At the moment, we have fewer people playing but we have been able to withstand the intensity of these three games, especially in the last game, and I think we did a little bit better at both ends of the pitch than in the first two games, which is something we should be happy about. ”

Yang Shuyu's performance in the third game was eye-catching.

More details, need to be polished

In preparation for the Olympic Games, the first thing the Chinese women's basketball team did was to adjust the intensity of the players from the league to the intensity of international competitions, and the team also found the Shanxi men's basketball youth team for sparring. However, as the first warm-up game this summer, the Chinese women's basketball team still has a lot of details to polish.

According to the data analysis given by the technical and tactical service platform of the Chinese Basketball Association, in the first game, the Chinese women's basketball team only scored 8 points in 16 offensive opportunities to block and dismantle the ball, including 1 of 7 shots under the basket; In the second game, the Chinese women's basketball team missed inside, and the Australian women's basketball team hit an efficiency of 8 of 10 shots under the basket only through air cutting; In the third game, the Chinese women's basketball team had flaws in fixed-point projection, even though Yang Shuyu made 6 of 6 three-point shots, the team only scored 16 points in 30 fixed-point shooting opportunities.

In the three warm-up games, each game had different problems, which is why Zheng Wei always emphasized after the game: "In the middle of the game, there will always be some problems in defense, but we will continue to summarize, summarize while playing, and continue to improve." ”

At the same time, the Chinese women's basketball team's free throw performance in three games was unsatisfactory - 16 of 26 free throws in the first game, 13 of 28 free throws in the second game, and 19 of 30 free throws in the third game, with a total free throw shooting rate of only 57.1%.

What's more important to note is that in the three warm-up games held in China, the Chinese women's basketball team seems to have an advantage in blowing penalties. In the first game, the Chinese women's basketball team won 16 free throws, 19 in the second game, and 20 more free throws in the third game, with a total of 55 more free throws than the Australian women's basketball team.

In the Olympic arena, it is difficult for the Chinese women's basketball team to get such a huge free throw advantage, and how to have a more stable performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends at that time is also a theme that the Chinese women's basketball team needs to overcome.

According to the warm-up match arrangement, the Chinese women's basketball team will go to Xi'an to play two warm-up games with the Japanese women's basketball team on June 5 and June 7 respectively. Afterwards, the team will go abroad to communicate with the world's strongest teams and further hone the team lineup.

According to the warm-up match arrangements that have been confirmed, the Chinese women's basketball team will play against the Spanish team in the group stage of the Paris Olympics in Vigo, Spain on June 23; On July 3 and 5, two matches against Australia were played in Melbourne; On July 21, the last warm-up match before the Paris Olympics was played against the host French team.

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