In the Chinese women's basketball training hall, there were two photos of the Japanese women's basketball team celebrating madly, one after winning the 2018 Asian Games final against Japan; after winning the quarter-final of the 2019 World Cup, the second one was taken down. It is this spirit of "lying down and tasting courage" that has created the thriving situation of today's Chinese women's basketball team.
Yesterday, in the group stage of the Women's Basketball Team at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Australian women's basketball team with a 2-point advantage, and wang Siyu, the No. 5 of the Chinese women's basketball team, stained his shirt with blood, and his slight injuries could not be in the line of fire, which stimulated the fighting spirit of the whole team.
Shao Ting, a core player and captain of the national women's basketball team, was originally from the college student league, and when she was first recruited into the national team, she was once ostracized by some teammates: You are a college student who does not have a good class at school, what do you earn with us?
Just as the so-called hero does not ask the source, as long as you have the ambition to serve the country and the ability to serve the country, you can serve the country. Wang Siyu, when he was training in Beijing, every rest day, he would come to Dongdan to play three-on-three with boys, just to increase his ability to fight.
Time back to September 5, 2015, Wuhan, the final of the Women's Basketball Asian Championship, the Chinese women's basketball team lost 50-85 to the Japanese women's basketball team, losing a full 35 points; before the Chinese women's basketball team also had a low period, whether against Japan or South Korea, two old opponents in the Asian field, such as when Ma Yuenan was coaching the national team; but in the Asian Championship, there has never been such a fiasco.
Chinese women's basketball team No. 9 Li Meng
At that time, the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team was the Head Coach Mach of Australia; although he had previously coached the Chinese women's basketball team to reach the top four at the Beijing Olympic Games, although he had led the Australian national team to the runner-up of the Olympic Games, but such a fiasco, at that time, not only lost the championship of the Asian Championships, but also let Mach himself be overwhelmed, but also made the Chinese women's basketball team lose the qualification to directly enter the Rio Olympic Games; although later through the defeat, the Chinese women's basketball team entered the Rio Olympic Games in 2016. But in the end, the tenth place ranking set the worst result since the Chinese women's basketball team participated in the Olympic Games.
Therefore, after returning from the Rio Olympics, on March 31, 2017, Xu Limin took office as the new head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team.
At the beginning of Xu Limin's tenure, in the training hall of the women's basketball team of the Training Bureau of the State General Administration of Sports in Beijing, two photos of crazy celebration after winning the 2015 Japanese Women's Basketball Asian Championship were hung up, and everyone who went to this training hall felt very "dazzling" after seeing it (for example, the author himself who wrote this article); but in the face of the people who came to interview, as well as the team members who participated in the training, Coach Xu Limin, or the coaching team members of other women's basketball national teams, are all one sentence ~ We must always tell the team members that this is the national team As for these two photos, when we (the Chinese women's basketball team) played against the Japanese women's basketball team again in the international competition, we naturally took this photo off when we used the results to wash away the shame! Xu's guidance is to tell the team members what is shameful and then courageous.
China women's basketball team No. 7 Shao Ting
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Women's Basketball Qualification Tournament was supposed to be held in Foshan, China, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the venue had to be temporarily changed to Belgrade, Serbia; the first game against the United Kingdom from backward to turned over, the second game hard to fight the bayonet, directly won the European champion Spain, and then the last 40-point advantage crushed South Korea, three consecutive wins to advance to the Olympic main event.
Although it is thrilling to win against Spain, if you can win with a double-digit advantage, it is not the standard of the Spanish women's basketball team; playing in South Korea, once with some friends while watching and chatting, some people jokingly proposed that "Xu guidance should let the young girls on the bench play a exercise", the problem is that the overall age of the national team is already very "light", which shows that this team, among domestic basketball fans, has received too little attention.
Whether it is the strength of Wang Siyu & Li Yueru, or the tireless running of Sun Mengran & Li Meng & Yang Liwei, as well as Li Yueru's "big heart" penalty at the last moment, including the foot injury on the sidelines, the limping Xu Limin Xu's command of the hoarse and exhausted, etc., on this special day & special circumstances, such a victory will bring excitement, not only an "Olympic group qualification".
China women's basketball team No. 13 Sun Mengran
Even so, the girls of the Chinese women's basketball team still did everything: the first game was ten points to win the top four of the European Championship, the second game was hard, killing Spain, the third in the world; South Korea was originally "ready" to fight the last game with China, but because of the two consecutive wins of the Chinese women's basketball team, it can only be said that the Korean team is calculated by the organs, and in the end it is itself that is calculated.
Before the start of the Olympic Games, the three national teams of the three major ball events, the women's basketball team is the least concerned; but the first game to clean up Puerto Rico, the second bayonet to win Australia, the Chinese women's basketball girls with practical actions to prove what is "no impossible".
The final result of the game is important, but when watching the game, whether it is the media or the fans, first of all, we should calm our minds and first do the joy of watching the game; the former Chinese women's basketball team is also a team with a prominent history, such as the runner-up of the Barcelona Olympic Games, the top four of the Beijing Olympic Games, etc.; the Tokyo Olympic Games, I hope that this Chinese women's basketball team can have the opportunity to bring surprises to the fans.