Straight to the Point! Su Qun Offers a Fair Assessment and Identifies the Biggest Reason Behind the Women's Basketball Team's Loss

Facing the defending World Cup champions, the United States women's basketball team, China played poorly and suffered a heavy 33-point defeat. After this loss, if China wants to advance from the group stage, it will need to defeat Italy and the Czech Republic in the upcoming games. Clearly, the next two matches will be a major challenge for China.

Looking at China's performance, there were many problems. For example, the team's offense was very poor. During the game, players missed many layups near the basket, and even missed open shots, creating difficult situations. At the same time, the team's three-point shooting was also poor. Since Gong Luming became head coach of the women's national team, the team's three-point shooting percentage has declined significantly.

Gong Luming has organized continuous training camps for the Chinese women's basketball team. Why has the three-point shooting percentage been so poor? What is the reason? Perhaps Gong Luming truly needs to reflect on this issue.

In addition, players showed large emotional swings during the game, with indecisive and untimely passing. Their shooting decisions were also not firm, and they committed many turnovers. Overall, the upcoming matches will be a major test for head coach Gong Luming.

It is worth noting that well-known domestic commentator Su Qun also commented on the game and pointed out the core issue with China's women's basketball team. Su Qun said: The biggest problem for China in this game was not that the twin towers were ineffective, but that the guards could not deliver the ball against high-pressure defense. Meanwhile, the team's outside three-point shooting was ineffective, allowing the United States to aggressively collapse defensively and double-team Zhang Ziyu and Han Xu inside.

Su Qun made his point clearly: China's guards were not performing well, and the three-point shooting was not effective. These were the fundamental reasons for the team's loss. The two interior players Zhang Ziyu and Han Xu had already performed quite well.

At the same time, Su Qun noted that Zhang Ziyu is 2.26 meters tall, equivalent to 2.36 meters in men's basketball terms. Zhang Ziyu is currently only 19 years old and is still a traditional post center. Unlike Yao Ming, Zhang Ziyu does not yet have Yao Ming's ability to facilitate from the high post or initiate offense facing the basket. Therefore, the success or failure of the entire team should not be placed on Zhang Ziyu alone.

To be fair, the author believes Zhang Ziyu has already performed very well. The 19-year-old player was participating in the World Cup for the first time, played 18 minutes, made 9 of 10 free throws, and recorded 13 points, 6 rebounds, and 2 blocks, which is already quite impressive. We can see that whenever Zhang Ziyu gets the ball in the paint, she has a significant impact and can often turn opportunities into points. This also shows her clear advantage and importance in the interior. It is believed that as Zhang Ziyu continues to develop, her future will be very promising.