China's women's basketball team showed remarkable progress by finishing 5th at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The news that the Chinese women's basketball team managed to reach the final of the 2022 World Cup with a narrow 2-point win over Australia thrilled domestic fans. Then, in 2023, the Chinese women's basketball team won both the Asian Cup and the Asian Games. In this case, the Chinese women's basketball team has high expectations for sure.
Head Coach Zheng Wei explained that in the loss to France, our performance was excellent: recently we have not played against strong teams from Europe and America for a long time, and usually just play against Asian teams, of which the strongest opponent is just the Japanese women's basketball team. In this case, the players were not adapted to the sudden encounter with the strongest teams in Europe and the United States. Therefore, losing this game to France is a good thing! With only half a year left before the Paris Olympics, this defeat will serve as an important warning to the women's basketball players: we are ranked second in the world, we have the strength, but at the same time, we need to give our best!
