The Paper's trainee reporter Hu Jie
The Chinese women's basketball girls celebrate the victory.
"This step must be crossed! It is better to cross later than to cross now! At the end of the first quarter of the game, Xu Limin shouted at the women's basketball girl.
The Australian women's basketball team, the world's second-ranked team, is a step-by-step step step by step for the Chinese team in the eyes of Xu Limin.
With 7 minutes left in the first quarter of the game, Wang Siyu and the Australian women's basketball team members collided, and their foreheads were broken and bleeding. But after a simple down-and-out bandage, Wang Siyu returned to the game after only 3 minutes.
This is the spirit of the Chinese women's basketball team - on the evening of the 30th, the girls defeated the strong enemy Australia 76-74! Advance to the group with a record of 2 wins and 0 losses!
Wang Siyu's blood flowed on the spot.
Don't give the other person a chance to breathe
"Several teams didn't play well in their first games, which also prepared us mentally. For this game in Puerto Rico, we prepared for more than eight months. In the first game, 97-55 victory over Puerto Rico by 42 points, Li Yueru revealed the team's preparations.
From Belgrade getting the Olympic ticket to the first game, the Chinese women's basketball team waited for 534 days.
So in the first quarter of the game against Puerto Rico, the Chinese girls had the advantage - after the first quarter of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team had led by as many as 15 points 32-17.
But during the break, the broadcast camera captured Xu Limin's guide saying something like this: "Don't give the other party a chance to breathe, hear no!" ”
Yao Ming watched from the sidelines.
In the first game, 12 girls in the women's basketball team played, 10 of them scored, and 4 scored in double figures.
After the game, Xu Limin, who has always been strict, praised the first game of the Chinese women's basketball team in the Olympic Games: "In addition to the three veterans, all the team members who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time showed their due level and achieved the effect I expected." ”
Even the information flow update editor of fiba's official website can't help but sigh: "Of course, China's high superiority is obvious, but in fact, their long-range shooting performance is also very good, 7 of 15 three-pointers." If they can continue to maintain this balance between the inside and outside, this team will live up to the name of the dark horse. ”
Wang Siyu appeared with an injury.
Play against strong enemies and prove yourself
In the second game against Australia, the world's second-ranked country, the Chinese women's basketball team is not very advantageous.
In an interview before coming to Tokyo, Xu Limin said very sincerely: "Australia is the world runner-up, the replacement of old and new is also the most mature, and it is more difficult to defeat them." ”
'Based on the current format and opponents, Australia is not the team we are mainly competing for the group to qualify."
However, before the game, Australia's core Campbic withdrew, and they lost the first game of the group to Belgium by 15 points, which may give the women's basketball girls more confidence.
The game process also proves that the Chinese women's basketball team has indeed proved itself!
The first quarter of the game. The women's basketball team ended with a 27-19 lead. In the second quarter of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team's interior attack was in trouble, and the women's basketball team crashed into the defender several times, while Australia used the misplaced advantage to repeatedly attack the frame and chase the score back.
After the adjustment, the third quarter began 2 minutes, the Chinese women's basketball team played a wave of 9-0 offensive climax, while Australia only scored 9 points in the single quarter.
In the final quarter, Australia chased the score wildly, chasing the score to 68-70 with 24 seconds left in the game. Australia used foul tactics in the final moments and hit 2 consecutive three-pointers, but Wang Siyu and Shao Ting hit them steadily on the free throw line.
In the last 2 seconds, the two teams were tied, and the Chinese team adopted a beautiful sideline ball tactic, Li Yueru received the ball under the basket and was fouled, followed by 2 free throws to kill Australia.
The Chinese women's basketball team successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.
After winning Australia, the Chinese women's basketball team still has the last opponent Belgium, after the Belgian team won 85-70 against Australia, 87-52 victory over Puerto Rico, the group stage two wins, the strength can not be underestimated.
Interior Emma Messman was the absolute nucleus of the Belgian team, scoring 32 and 26 points in both games.
Emma Mesman was born into a sports family in 1993, and his mother was named Belgium Women's Basketball Player of the Year in 1983.
In 2019, Emma Messman won the WNBA Finals MVP with her outstanding performances, and she is also the first foreign player to win this award since Lauren Jackson in 2010, and the first player to win the WNBA Finals MVP as a substitute.
In the face of strong enemies, the Chinese women's basketball team still spells the head.
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