Original title: Women’s Basketball World Cup Comprehensive: China lost to the United States and South Korea to take the first victory
Xinhua News Agency, Sydney, September 24. The 2022 Women’s Basketball World Cup Group A will start the third round on the 24th. The Chinese team, which had won two consecutive victories before, met the American team, and the Chinese women’s basketball team lost 63:77 in the end.
The defending champion US team led Group A with three consecutive victories and secured a place in the quarter-finals ahead of time. The Chinese team ranked second in the group with 2 wins and 1 loss. In the other two games in this group on the same day, Jiang Yise scored 37 points to help the South Korean team beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 99:66 and won the first victory of this tournament; Belgium narrowly defeated Puerto Rico 68:65.
According to FIBA data, the U.S. team has an absolute advantage with 13 wins and 0 losses in the previous World Series match against China. Before the game, Plum, Gray and Wilson who participated in the 2022 WNBA finals returned to the team, and the US team assembled the strongest lineup.
After the opening, the US team made 3 three-pointers in a row and played a wave of 11:0 offensive. The gradually adjusted Chinese team launched a counterattack and tied the score at 13 with 3 minutes left in the first quarter. At the end of the first quarter, the U.S. team led 18:13.
The U.S. team suddenly increased its defensive intensity in the second quarter, scoring a 13-0 climax and extending the lead to 19 points at halftime.
In the third quarter, the Chinese team caught up. Li Meng, Wang Siyu and Han Xu joined forces to contribute 20 of the 22 points the team scored in this quarter. The Chinese team won the opponent by 10 points in a single quarter, and the score was approaching 47:56 after three quarters.
The U.S. team scored 9 points in a row at the beginning of the last quarter, opening the gap again. The Chinese team caught up to 60:69 more than two minutes before the end, but Wilson scored 8 points in a row to seal the victory for the US team.
Li Meng scored a game-high 21 points, Wang Siyu contributed 17 points and 6 assists, and Han Xu scored 12 points. Team USA Wilson had 20 points and 8 rebounds.
Facing the Bosnia and Herzegovina team, who had not won the same game before, the South Korean team ended the first half with a 45:37 lead under the leadership of Jiang Yise that day. The South Korean team scored 31 points in the third quarter, outscoring the opponent by 16 points in a single quarter, and continued to expand their lead in the last quarter to win their first victory.
Jiang Yise made 13 of 21 shots in this game, including 7 of 14 three-pointers. In addition, she also had 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals. Bosnia and Herzegovina center Jones scored 21 points and 9 rebounds.
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