On July 31, Beijing time, the Olympic women's basketball group stage continued to play, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to Serbia 59-81, this game Li Meng played 26 minutes, shooting 2 of 9 (2 of 3 points 6, 4 of 4 free throws) to get 10 points and 2 rebounds, but in the first three quarters of the time period when someone needed to stand up, Li Meng continued to fail to have sports battle scoring controversy.
In particular, Zheng Wei created tactics for her in a certain period of time, but failed to achieve the expected results, and even misplaced singles after being named on the defensive end, Li Meng appeared in the round of "eye" defense, compared to Serbia's extremely fierce defense, Li Meng handed over 0 foul data throughout the game, as if incompatible with the intensity of this game.
Some fans posted: 21 points against United States, 23 points against France, obviously the Olympic qualifying tournament in February is still the only person in the team who can score sports battles against strong teams, why is the breakthrough gone, the three points are gone, can people still look forward to it?
After the game, a very bizarre scene appeared on a social media, Li Meng's team bought hot searches to respond to various controversial remarks, and a large number of encouraging remarks in response to poor state appeared.
For this kind of explosive speaking for Li Meng in a short period of time, it is indeed a bit of an inexplicable fountain growth, and Li Meng's overall performance failed to meet expectations, which is obviously caused by many factors.
Since this summer, except for the first two warm-up games of the Olympic Games, she has basically been in a state of recuperation, and it is normal for there to be a gap in competitive state.
The former Li Meng was known as the James of the Chinese women's basketball team, with an extremely strong body advantage, a very obvious misplaced singles ability on the offensive end, once rushed up, even if it was a FIBA game, it was quite an advantage, and the three-point shooting in the past 2 years has become more and more accurate, once reaching a shooting rate of about 40%, she has proven herself in the Asian Cup and the Hangzhou Asian Games.
But after winning the championship from the Sichuan women's basketball team in the new season, Li Meng fell into a long-term injury plan, up to 2-3 months without regular games, from the level of professional athletes, it may be quite difficult to make a comeback before the Olympic Games, and it is normal for the competitive state to fail to meet expectations.
The problems of this Chinese women's basketball team are multifaceted, and it is inevitable that Li Meng, as a core player, needs to shoulder a certain amount of responsibility, but it is unrealistic to directly divide the loss into Li Meng.