The Paper's trainee reporter Hu Jie intern Yu Kaicheng
Wang Lili (left) has already convinced netizens.
If you haven't seen three-player basketball before, then the Tokyo Olympics are your "enlightenment field."
Especially after witnessing the performance of the Chinese three-person women's basketball team, netizens and hot searches were conquered by them.
Although it lost to the powerful Russian women's team in the semifinals, in the women's basketball three- and four-place finals held on the evening of the 28th, the Chinese three-person women's basketball team defeated France and won a valuable bronze medal!
From winning the 2019 Women's Basketball World Cup, all the way to today, the team is full of people, supporting each other, and their performance is always worthy of the word "China" in front of them.
Wang Lili, Wan Jiyuan, Zhang Zhiting and Yang Shuyu.
Good handsome and strong
In 5 days and 10 games, the Chinese three-person women's basketball team from the low profile when they went out, they beat themselves into a "hot search physique".
As early as the knockout round to win Italy, there are two topics in the top ten of the Weibo hot search list: "Yang Shuyu is a good coach" and "Wang Lili is strong", both of which are from the players of the Chinese three-person women's basketball team.
In the match against the Italian women's basketball team, the whole team scored 19 points, and Wang Lili scored 11 points alone. Three-pointers, breakouts, throws, mid-range... Wang Lili has conceded only 1 goal in 9 shots, and more importantly, she has scored in a different way almost every time.
At this point, people understood the meaning of the jersey number behind her - anyone who wore number 23 on the court was not easy to mess with.
Handsome Yang Shuyu.
Kelsey, the top star of the U.S. team, was also impressed by Wang Lili: "China's No. 23 is a very tough player, has a strong physical confrontation, is also very experienced, she caused me a lot of trouble. ”
Another team member, Yang Shuyu, is even more out of the circle because of her appearance - a refreshing short hair ring powder is countless, and she even used the front of the body to change direction to directly shake the opponent down during the game.
Compared to the three-man men's basketball team that relied on Hu Jinqiu's "one drag and three" to get 70% of the team's points, the women's basketball team scored extremely average - in the group stage 7 games, Wang Lili scored 34 points, Yang Shuyu scored 34 points, Wan Jiyuan scored 30 points, and Zhang Zhiting scored 29 points.
In almost every game, there are players who stand up - this also makes the three-person women's basketball team win 5 wins and 2 losses in 7 games, during which the team played with momentum by beating host Japan, reversing the world's first France, and losing all WNBA players to the United States.
The most common phrase fans describe them is, "When girls are handsome, there is really nothing wrong with boys." ”
In the 2019 World Cup, the Chinese three-person women's basketball team won the championship.
The big change of blood, the helplessness of injury and illness
At the Olympic Games, the Chinese three-person women's basketball team performed quite well, but fans familiar with three-person basketball will find that this team and the three-person women's basketball team that won the basketball World Cup in 2019 have changed greatly, and only Zhang Zhiting is still in the team.
Unlike five-man basketball, no national team on the field of the three-man women's basketball team has enough dominance. In this emerging sport, 5 teams have won the World Cup, the most recent of which was China.
But for the Chinese three-person women's basketball team, experiencing such a big "blood change" is not the original intention of head coach Xu Jiamin.
Three-person basketball is a game that relies heavily on the cooperation of team members, and the original four-person combination of Wu Di, Jiang Jiayin, Zhang Zhiting and Li Yingyun won the first World Cup championship in the history of Chinese basketball in 7 games in the 2019 Basketball World Cup.
If it were not for the postponement of the Olympic Games, these four people would most likely represent China in the Tokyo Olympics.
Yang Shuyu.
"There are a couple of championship-winning players who have suffered serious injuries and need surgery, and at that point in the Olympic Games, I don't know if they can recover." Xu Jiamin said in an interview.
She was talking about Wu Di and Jiang Jiayin – in February 2021, the main force Wu Di underwent surgery due to a meniscal cyst in her left knee, and a month later, teammate Jiang Jiayin was injured in the preliminary round of the National Games, and her forefing ligament as the World Cup FMVP was broken.
With two major players at the expense of the team, the women's basketball team had to recruit new players to keep the team competitive. The selection of people is the most critical part of three-on-three basketball.
According to Xu Jiamin's words, "the two kinds of game rules are different, the characteristics are different, we must consider what kind of characteristics of the player is suitable for three-person basketball, in order to reflect the advantages, in recent years we are groping step by step, establish a system." ”
The final result is that three-person basketball does not need "partial experts", but needs "all-round talents" with all-round attributes, and players need to have good strength in both offense and defense.
Zhang Zhiting in the game.
So throughout June, the Basketball Association found more than a dozen high-level teams in various provinces to compete against the two split national teams in Shanghai, hoping to determine the final list as soon as possible.
In the end, two young players born in 2002, Yang Shuyu and Wan Jiyuan, as well as Xinjiang's famous player Wang Lili, joined the team, and only Zhang Zhiting was left in the former championship lineup.
"The run-in of the squad has always been a problem, and we have not had the opportunity to verify that this squad is not suitable for international competitions through international high-level competitions, and can only be estimated through some domestic competitions." This is Xu Jiamin's concern.
In such an environment, most people may choose more experienced veterans, after all, it seems that the risk is greater to bring 2 19-year-old "recruit eggs" to operate. But head coach Xu Jiamin made it clear that "the age, seniority and geography of the players are all put aside, and the only assessment criterion is the competitiveness of the international arena." ”
As a result, Yang Shuyu and Wan Jiyuan scored a combined 64 points in the group stage, accounting for half of the team. This performance is a surprise, but it is definitely not unexpected.
Yang Shuyu defended the Russian player.
No matter who it is, the name is "Chinese Team"
The rules of three-man basketball are very special, the head coach cannot be guided on the spot during the game, whether it is a tactical arrangement or a suspension, everything can only be decided by the four players on the court.
Such a rule makes the coach the person with the lowest sense of presence on the three-person basketball court. But the three-player basketball game is short, has many opponents, and is suspenseful, which means that the coach has to tell every detail to the players before the game.
"Sometimes A three-on-three game, I have to watch it several times to make sure I don't miss key information." In order to allow the team members to understand the characteristics of their opponents as quickly as possible, Xu Jiamin undertook the video editing and editing work.
Three-man women's basketball coach Xu Jiamin.
"Every time I prepare for battle, I clip a video of about 15 minutes. Let them understand the situation of the opponent and work with the coaching staff to make targeted tactical arrangements. For this short 15 minutes, Xu Jiamin spends 5 hours a day recording key points in the video.
"There are many times when I really see that my eyes are almost spent, and I have a feeling of prostration," Xu Jiamin smiled on his thin face, "but these trivial things can be exchanged for happiness after winning, and it is worth it." ”
But the hardest part for her was the moment when the Olympic roster was announced — there were only four people on each three-player basketball team, and most of the players were faced with the word losing.
'For the players who were eliminated, I spent a lot of time with them and saw them overcome a lot of difficulties and I know how difficult it was.
Every time he talked about the lost team members, Xu Jiamin was very helpless, "Once the team members talked to me and cried, their consciousness is really quite high." Such a good player, but I could only take four in the end. “
The team members fell to the ground and scrambled.
The consciousness she said in her mouth was the calmness of the team members.
Wu Di, who did not go to Tokyo, faced the camera and said: "What you gain is what others lose, and what you lose is what others get." As long as the Olympic Games Chinese three-person basketball gets good results, no matter who goes, it will be the same. ”
When the Olympic list was announced, Jiang Jiayin, the FMVP of the three-man women's basketball World Cup, also wrote on Weibo: "Some people have come, some people have left." Some of them did not have time to be recognized, so they quietly said goodbye. What remains unchanged is our common name: 'Chinese Team'. What does not change is that when you take over the robe, you will embark on the same journey and always move forward. ”
"This road is not lonely, because there are thousands of people behind it, and the hearts of the people are invincible. Cheers to the Chinese team, cheers to the Chinese women's basketball team! ”
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