exist
Olympic women's basketball
Group C matches in the group stage.
USA women's basketball
poised for battle
Japan Women's Basketball
, which ended up being a big 102-76 victory to open the season.
At the beginning of the game, the U.S. Women's Basketball Team's Wilson scored points inside one after another to help her team go on an 8-0 spurt and quickly establish the initiative. Although the Japanese women's basketball team relied on consecutive three-pointers to stop the decline, the U.S. Women's Basketball Team had a multi-point blossoming and led by seven points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the U.S. Women's Basketball Team went on another 8-0 run to extend their lead to double digits. The Japanese women's basketball team was weak on the inside and had to rely on their sharpshooting outside three-pointers to chase points, hitting five consecutive three-pointers. Nonetheless, the U.S. women's basketball team went into the break with an 11-point lead at halftime, thanks to Stewart's efficient play.
In the second half, Wilson and Stewart continued their hot streak, and the U.S. Women's Basketball Team extended their lead to more than 20 points in the process. Although Yamamoto's three-pointers continued to stop the bleeding for the Japanese women's basketball team, the U.S. women's basketball team with continuous breakthroughs, once again pulled the difference to 22 points. In the final quarter, the two sides began a tug-of-war, the U.S. women's basketball team's Jonescu hit three-pointers and assisted Stewart layup, the team extended the lead to more than 30 points.
In the end, the U.S. women's basketball team beat the Japanese women's basketball team by 102-76, and achieved the opening of the group stage of the Olympic Games. This victory not only showed the strong strength of the U.S. women's basketball team, but also laid a good foundation for them in the next game.