On the afternoon of August 3, Beijing time, in a key matchup in the final round of Group A of the women's basketball group stage of the Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team played against the Puerto Rico women's basketball team. Judging from the half-time trend, the Chinese women's basketball team completely took the initiative on the field, with a high probability of winning, and is expected to qualify as the third in the group with the best results.
Because of the previous 2 games, the Chinese women's basketball team lost and was pushed to the edge of the cliff, so this battle is a backwater.
In the game, the starting lineup arranged by Zheng Wei, the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, is: Wang Siyu, Li Meng, Li Yueru, Zhang Ru, Huang Sijing.
After the start of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team failed to attack for the first time, and although Puerto Rico did not hit the first shot, they grabbed the frontcourt rebound and used the second attack to hit a three-pointer.
Next, the Chinese women's basketball team still missed in the second attack, but caused the opponent to foul, but unfortunately, Li Yueru missed 2 free throws. However, she then used a second offensive layup to make a layup. Immediately afterwards, Li Mengyuan hit the shot and overtook the score. Zhang Ru steals the fast break and scores another 2 points. The Chinese women's basketball team gradually grasped the initiative.
Under the high-quality defense, Puerto Rico's offense was blocked, and the Chinese women's basketball team took a five-point lead after consecutive projections from Wang Siyu and Li Meng. In the last 2 minutes of the first quarter, Han Xu made 2 free throws to extend the lead to 7 points. At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese women's basketball team led Puerto Rico 17-11.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Sun Mengran projected from the outside and caught the opponent off guard. And after Li Yueru played 2+1 under the basket, the Chinese women's basketball team played a wave of 7-0, and Yao Ming also got up and applauded excitedly.
Although Puerto Rico called two timeouts, they were at a disadvantage on both ends of the floor. After Huang Sijing skillfully assisted Li Yueru to score a layup, the difference came to 15 points.
In the second half of the second quarter, Puerto Rico rebounded and stepped up its offense to narrow the margin to single digits. But before the end of the half, Li Meng once again played 2+1 to stabilize the situation. At halftime, the Chinese women's basketball team led the opponent by 11 points 40-29.