Beijing, July 20, at the Reims station in France
women's basketball warm-up game
The Chinese women's basketball team suffered a tough challenge in the final score of 57-79 against the strong Belgian women's basketball team, which is the second time during this summer's warm-up matches that the Chinese team lost to the same opponent. Despite the difficulties, the center of the Chinese women's basketball team, Li Yueru, still performed well, contributing a team-high 19 points and 9 rebounds. In addition, Han Xu also scored nine points, while Li Meng, who returned from injury, delivered six points and five assists.
The specific scores of the four quarters are as follows (China Women's Basketball in front): 11-23, 18-19, 12-19, 16-16. Other players of China Women's Basketball Basketball Basketball data include: Huang Sijing 5 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, Yang Liwei 3 points, Wang Siyu 3 points, Li Yuan 3 points, Zhang Ru 4 points, 3 rebounds, and Sun Mengran 5 points. It is worth mentioning that in the latest edition of the Olympic Women's Basketball Power Ranking, Belgium Women's Basketball ranked second, showing its strong competitiveness in the international basketball world.
At the beginning of the game, Yang Liwei scored the first goal for the Chinese women's basketball team, but the Belgian women's basketball team quickly got into the swing of things and established a lead with an 11-3 start. Li Yueru scored for the Chinese team with a high jumper from the baseline, however, the Chinese team's overall touch was low, scoring only 5 points in the first 6 minutes. Belgium took advantage of the opportunity to extend the lead, once the gap to double digits.
In the second quarter, the Chinese women's basketball team began to counterattack, Han Xu hit a three-point shot, and Li Meng and Yang Liwei scored breakthrough points one after another. Li Yueru's strong performance in the interior made the Belgian team have to ask for a timeout. Nonetheless, Belgium's top scorer Mesman made a crucial 2+1 to help the team stabilize the situation. At the end of the half, China was trailing 29-42.
Into the second half, the Chinese team tried to adjust the lineup, Wang Siyu hit a whistling three-point shot and Li Meng scored a fast break layup, but Belgium still maintained an efficient offensive rhythm. At the end of the third quarter, Belgium extended its lead to 20 points, making the possibility of China's women's basketball team's reversal at the end of the quarter greatly reduced.
In the last quarter, Sun Mengran scored inside and China strengthened its defense to limit Belgium's offense. However, due to the large difference in points accumulated before, the Chinese women's basketball team failed to turn the game around and finally lost 57-79.
Although the result of this warm-up game is not ideal, the Chinese women's basketball team, in the face of the injury plagued situation, still need to learn from the experience, and further improve the team's overall strength and tactical execution. As the main players return to the team one after another, it is expected that the Chinese women's basketball team with "all the players" will show stronger fighting power in the future matches.
