On August 3, 2024, Beijing time, the Paris Olympics women's basketball tournament ushered in a match between the Chinese women's basketball team and the Puerto Rico women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team and the Puerto Rico women's basketball team were in the same group. Now they are fighting again, just to compete for a place with little chance of qualifying.
In the first quarter of the game, Huang Sijing missed the first strong layup, and the Chinese women's basketball team lost rebounds on the defensive end, allowing Jones to shoot three points in the second offense, Huang Sijing did not have three points, Li Yueru converted the offense and caused fouls, and the two free throws were also iron, but fortunately, he grabbed the rebound and completed the rebound by himself, breaking the scoring drought of the Chinese women's basketball team. In the next round, the Chinese women's basketball team defended the opponent for 24 seconds of violations, Li Meng took advantage of the block and dismantled to pull out a three-point shot, Zhang Ru completed a steal and a quick break to complete the layup, and the Chinese team played a wave of 7-0 counterattack climax.
Puerto Rico tried a lot of three-point shots, but unfortunately they didn't hit, and the feeling dropped sharply, and finally Jones hit a long two-point shot to break the scoring drought. On the Chinese women's basketball team's side, Huang Sijing also hit the iron with two big empty three-point points, and it had to be Wang Siyu, the three-point shot at the top of the arc was empty, and the three-point shot was shot, and then Li Meng scored three points again to help the Chinese women's basketball team establish a lead.
The performance of the Chinese women's basketball team on the court is still relatively tight, and a lot of cooperation has not been played, especially the advantage of the inside line, which is not reflected much. Fortunately, the pressure given on the defensive end was enough, so that the opponent was basically a hasty shot on the court, and the shooting rate was not high, and the Chinese women's basketball team led Puerto Rico 17-11 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter of the game, the Chinese team completed the steal on the first defense, Sun Mengran converted the offense and was released into the outside three-point, the second offense and the defense opponent shot three without sticking, Li Meng held the ball and forced the inside line to cause a foul, free throws scored 1 point, Puerto Rico missed consecutive shots, converted the attack Li Yueru basket under the strong hit two plus one hit, the Chinese women's basketball wave 7-0 stretched the difference to 13 points.
After Puerto Rico called a timeout, Li Yueru made a pass error, giving Puerto Rico the opportunity to attack the basket and cause a foul, and score through free throws. Puerto Rico also used a set of joint defense, but the Chinese women's basketball team easily tore through the defensive formation, and Zhang Ru made a foul under the basket and scored 1 point. Then Puerto Rico Grant scored 8 points in a row, but the Chinese women's basketball team could respond, Li Yueru also scored 4 points in a row, and Wang Siyu scored three points. But Grants couldn't stop it, singled Li Yueru to complete the layup, converted the offense and scored three points, the difference was narrowed to 9 points, and finally relied on Li Yueru's free throws to score 1 point, Li Meng scored two plus one, once again helped the Chinese women's basketball team to stretch the score to more than 10 points, and the Chinese women's basketball team led Puerto Rico 40-29 at halftime.
In the second half of the game, Sun Mengran missed three points at the top of the arc, Puerto Rico Holinshed's top three points did not score, Wang Siyu shot three points in the bottom corner of the defense, Grant felt powerless, no three-point shot, Li Meng assisted Li Yueru to score a layup and caused a foul, but unfortunately the free throw missed, Zhang Ru missed three points, Jones threw a super long three points, Holinshede also hit three points, Puerto Rico's offense improved.
The Chinese women's basketball team had some problems in the rebounding defense during this period, allowing the opponent to fight for a second offensive opportunity, which largely broke up the defensive formation of the Chinese women's basketball team. After Han Xu came up, he scored under the basket, and a skirmish broke out between Sun Mengran and Huo Linshed, and both sides received a technical foul. Fortunately, this did not affect the mentality of the Chinese women's basketball team, Han Xu continued to score under the basket, and Li Meng converted three points to help the Chinese women's basketball team pull the score to 16 points, directly stopping Puerto Rico.
After the timeout, Puerto Rico also increased its defensive intensity, making the Chinese women's basketball team fail to score several consecutive offenses, Li Meng wanted to receive the ball inside, distributed to Yang Liwei on the outside, and hit three points, Han Xu and Li Meng caused foul free throws one after another, and the Chinese women's basketball team led Puerto Rico 62-45 at the end of the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter of the game, Puerto Rico took the lead in scoring through conversion layups, the referee's two penalties were somewhat criticized, the first time Li Yueru was wrapped up when the opponent had a foul, Li Meng was also blown an offensive foul when holding the ball, Perez basketed a single to complete the layup, Puerto Rico has a tendency to fight back.
Fortunately, Huang Sijing scored three points after returning to the court, the Chinese women's basketball team defended Grants and dribbled out of bounds, Li Yueru assisted Wu Tongtong to also shoot a three-pointer, and the Chinese women's basketball team stretched the score to 18 points, which is the largest point difference in the current Chinese women's basketball team in this game.
The Puerto Rico head coach also received a technical foul, and Li Meng executed a technical foul and hit a free throw, and the difference came to 20 points! Then the two sides did not score for many consecutive rounds, the defense of the Chinese women's basketball team made it difficult for Puerto Rico to shoot, Huang Sijing hit a three-point whistle, breaking the stalemate during this time, and the referee sent Wu Tongtong five fouls with a body whistle!
Due to the large point difference, the Chinese women's basketball team stabilized the situation in the next 5 minutes and successfully won the game, and finally the Chinese women's basketball team defeated Puerto Rico 80-58 and ushered in the first victory of the group stage.
Chinese women's basketball player statistics: Li Meng 18 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, Li Yueru 14 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist, Wang Siyu 13 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Huang Sijing 10 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists, Han Xu 10 points and 9 rebounds, Sun Mengran 5 Finn 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Zhang Ru 4 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.
Puerto Rico player stats: Grant 20 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, Jones 13 points and 2 rebounds, Perez 6 points.