Tokyo Olympics Women's Basketball Quarterfinals: Chinese women's basketball team will compete with Serbia for a ticket to advance to the semifinals
On August 4:00 PM, Beijing time, the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics women's basketball team will officially start, and the Chinese women's basketball team will compete with Serbia for a ticket to advance to the semi-finals. In this game that determines the outcome, the Chinese women's basketball team will also usher in the biggest challenge so far.
The time of this game is not "friendly", and it is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Beijing time on August 4th. For players who are accustomed to the evening game, the start of the game at 9 o’clock is a challenge to the player’s routine and excitement.
The 9 o’clock game also means that female basketball players need to start early in the morning to prepare, eat, and tie. The time for pre-match preparations such as feet and warm-up had to be changed again.
But this is also a challenge for Serbia, which is accustomed to the Tokyo time difference. Therefore, in terms of game time, both sides will encounter new issues.
The key lies in how the Chinese women's basketball team adjusts its mentality?
As the women's basketball coach Xu Limin said, "Go forward, forward, love whoever is behind!
Give me a shot, thank you, the Chinese women's basketball team will definitely do it! Come on."
As long as they can play lightly and continue the group stage, I believe that the Chinese women's basketball team "will definitely do it."
The strength of Serbia cannot be underestimated！
They are the new champions of the European Cup in 2021. They also won the bronze medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics. They also won the bronze medal in the European Cup in 2019.
In this Olympics, they ranked second in Group A, with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss in the group stage. Based on the performance of recent years, the Serbian women's basketball team can be regarded as a strong European basketball team.
In the World Series, Serbia and China's women's basketball team has the upper hand.
However, from the point of view of the fight, Serbia's advantage in the face of the Chinese women's basketball team is not outstanding.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to Serbia 72-80. Sun Mengran scored the team's highest 16 points. In this Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team failed to qualify for the group.
Serbia eventually won the bronze medal. The results of the two teams seem to be a little different, but from this match, the Chinese women's basketball team once had a chance to win. After the group failed to qualify, Chen Nan, a Chinese women’s basketball veteran who returned as his mother, summed up the game and said: “It’s a shame to play Spain and Serbia. Bureau."
On the stage of the World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team also beat Serbia.
In the 2014 World Championships (the predecessor of the World Cup), the Chinese women's basketball team in the transition between the old and the new won the sixth place.
In this competition, the Chinese women's basketball team lost Serbia 63-65 in the group stage.
In the 5-8th qualifying, the Chinese women's basketball team beat their opponents 85-69 to complete their revenge.
At that time, Shao Ting, who was still a young player on the team, scored 24 points and made an eye-catching performance, which made him a firm foothold in the national team.
In addition to the World Series, the Chinese Women's Basketball Team and Serbia also played against each other in the China International Invitational Tournament in July 2018. The Chinese Women's Basketball Team eventually defeated their opponents 75-65.
Judging from the fighting record and Serbia's performance in recent years, Serbia is strong, but the Chinese women's basketball team still has enough chances to win.
Although Serbia is the European Cup champions in 2021, their performance is not so outstanding in the group stage of the Tokyo Olympics.
In the group stage, they only won the Korean women's basketball team by 4 points, and in another winning game they only won by Canada by 4 points.
The winning advantage is not obvious. As an old opponent of the Chinese women's basketball team, the South Korean women's basketball team has been completely suppressed by the Chinese women's basketball team in recent years.
In the 2020 Belgrade Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the Chinese women's basketball team beat the South Korean women's basketball team by 100-60.
Although it is difficult to use their performance against each other to determine the team's strengths and weaknesses, but these data can at least show that the Serbian women's basketball is not so terrible.
What's more, the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team in this Olympic Games is obvious to all.
With the current state of the Chinese women's basketball team and their outstanding performance in the past two consecutive games, they have enough confidence to meet the challenge with Serbia.
After this Olympics group match, the Chinese women's basketball team is ahead of Serbia in all aspects such as scoring, rebounding, assists, steals, blocks, or three-pointers, overall shooting percentage, and three-point shooting percentage.
In terms of scoring average, the Chinese women's basketball team, which averaged 82.3 points per game, is significantly ahead of Serbia, which averaged 69 points per game.
Of course, some of Serbia's characteristics are enough to arouse the vigilance of the Chinese women's basketball team. As a team with an average age of 30, Serbia has rich experience, flexible tactics, and good at full-court pressing.
This will be a test for the Chinese women's basketball team, which is slightly less experienced in the competition. Anderson (point guard) who averaged 13 points, Brooks (power forward) who averaged 12 points, Kragisnik (center) who averaged 11.7 points, and Vasic (small forward) who averaged 9.7 points per game are Serbia The main attackers, these players need the Chinese women's basketball team to be targeted defense.
Compared with Serbia, which has an average age of 30 and an average height of 1.85 meters (the highest height is 1.95 meters), the Chinese women's basketball team, which has an average age of 25 years and an average height of 1.86 meters, has obvious advantages in impact, counterattack speed and maximum height.
Both Li Yueru, who is 2.0 meters tall, and Han Xu, who is 2.05 meters tall, will be powerful weapons for the Chinese women's basketball team to defeat the enemy.
The combination of Li Meng and Shao Ting's two strikers, which have been stable since the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, is still a major advantage of the Chinese women's basketball team. Compared with Serbia, which lacks depth, the Chinese women's basketball team has more players and more outstanding substitutes, which will be an additional advantage for the Chinese women's basketball team.
Therefore, from the perspective of paper strength and the performance of this Olympic Games, this game may be a match between the two.
The Chinese women's basketball team has a chance to defeat Serbia.
The key is whether the Chinese women's basketball team can play lightly?
Avoid being burdened by winning all three of the group matches and anticipating the next game in advance.
Written by Sicily
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