Detailed analysis of the failure of the Chinese women s basketball team in the Asian Cup: One person must be responsible, the disaster performance of the whole game

The scoreboard of the Shenzhen Universiade Center Stadium was frozen at 81:90, and the Chinese Women's Basketball Team's Asian Cup came to an abrupt end. The Japanese players cheered and hugged, and the Chinese girls stood in the middle of the field in a daze - the confidence of home court advantage, height crushing, and double-killing opponents in the warm-up game was gone at this moment. This loss is essentially a direct dialogue between two basketball philosophy. The Chinese team adheres to the traditional double tower tactics and tries to crush them with height; the Japanese team demonstrates the essence of modern basketball - core instigation + space projection. Let's analyze the situation of this game: On Gong Luming's tactical board, the advantage of the double tower is the pre-match winning ace. Zhang Ziyu, 18-year-old 2.26 meters tall, partnered with Han Xu at the WNBA level. This should have been the absolute killer to crush the Japanese inside line. However, in actual combat, this strategy has many loopholes from formation to execution. When the Japanese team launched a three-point craze in the third quarter, Gong Luming dismantled and used the double tower. When Zhang Ziyu guarded the inside alone, the Japanese team's targeted strategy was immediately effective: he cut off the receiving route around the front defense, and multiple double-teams forced him to make mistakes; 18-year-old Zhang Ziyu exposed his shortcomings in this game, and the defect of slow movement on the defensive end was targeted by Japan.

What is even more puzzling is that when the Japanese team made the fourth three-pointer in the third quarter, the women's basketball coach Gong Luming looked solemn but did not request a timeout, allowing the score difference to widen from 2 points to 9 points. When Han Xu assisted Zhang Ziyu in the fourth quarter to score and reproduce the power of the double towers, Gong Luming's substitution choice interrupted the rhythm again. The Japanese team took the opportunity to respond with Yoshino's accurate three-pointer. Japan made 16 of 34 three-pointers in the whole game, and China made only 6 of 23 shots. The opponent's advantage was very obvious. The Japanese team grabbed 9 offensive rebounds in the whole game, 7 of which came from long rebounds after missing the three-pointer. The 19-year-old Japanese star of Takka Center scored 27 points and 5 assists in the whole game, and the three-pointer was like rain, just like the female version of Yuki Kawamura. The Japanese team scored only 26 points in the penalty area, 18 points less than China, but a three-pointer net win of 30 points. The efficiency gap determines the outcome. What's more ironic is that before the game, Lu Ming, Gun, publicly mocked the Japanese team's physical fitness: "I hope they don't be as incompetent as they were against Australia in the second half." In actual combat, the Japanese players ran like a perpetual motion machine.

The back line of the Chinese women's basketball team has become the weakest link in the game. Li Yuan was in no state but started every game. Yang Liwei's organizational skills were mediocre. Wang Siyu, the only one who was good at feeding balls to the inside, had to sit on the bench for a long time, and her external shooting ability was shocking. Yang Shuyu made 1 of 5, Luo Xinyu made 1 of 3, Huang Sijing made 0 of 5, and the team's three-point shooting percentage was only 26%; the impact of core absences such as Li Meng and Li Yueru cannot be ignored. But Japan also did not send the strongest lineup. The Chinese team lost with multiple advantages of timing, venue and talent, reflecting the deep crisis. Gong Luming's tactical system exposed the rigid nature. The five small lineups with significant effects against South Korea were abandoned, but instead they used bulky double towers to chase Japan's small Kuailing. When the Japanese team used pick-and-roll to create misalignment, the Chinese players' at a loss-willed expressions exposed their lack of tactical preparation.

‌The path of innovation in Chinese basketball is not at its height, but at the reshaping of ideas. The basketball world has changed, and we are still wandering in our old dreams.