Head coach Zheng Wei: Lower your posture and focus on fighting

　　Our reporter Li Yuanfei

　　The 2022 FIBA ​​Women's Basketball World Cup will kick off in Sydney on September 22, and the Chinese women's basketball team will play against South Korea on the opening day.

On September 12, the women's basketball players who went to Sydney in two batches successfully reunited and immediately began to prepare for the sprint stage.

Next, the Chinese team will play the last 3 warm-up matches with Australia, Canada and Mali.

　　In order to prepare for the Women's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese team concentrated on May 20. After that, the team experienced three stages of physical recovery, personal technical training, and running-in preparations.

However, due to the need to find problems in training through the competition, and then solve them one by one, the Chinese team finally decided to visit Europe for training after two months of intensive training.

Now, they have arrived at the World Cup venue, the two centers have also joined the team, and the whole team has been preparing for the sprint stage.

　　During the one-month training in Europe, the Chinese team played several warm-up matches with French, Belgian, Serbian, and Spanish clubs and teams, and solved some of the team's previous problems, such as how to break through the pressing defense. And so on, to achieve the purpose of zipping.

"We've played eight games so far. I think every game is a good testing process for us. In between, we found a lot of problems. The team is getting better and better at the moment. Good." Zheng Wei, head coach of the Chinese team, said, "Li Yueru and Han Xu also returned to the team. They only played two games with the team, so I think the team's running-in needs to be further improved. But their mental outlook and the team's The overall condition is very good.”

　　Han Xu and Li Yueru, the two interior generals of the Chinese team, joined the team at the end of the European zipper.

It took four or five months to leave the national team, but after returning to the team, both Han Xu and Li Yueru quickly integrated into the team.

Han Xu has experienced the entire WNBA season, her body is relatively tired, and there is some fluid accumulation in her right foot, but she is determined to go all out to complete the task of the World Cup competition.

　　When Li Yueru just returned to the team, he felt that his cooperation with the team was a little unfamiliar.

But after a short adaptation process, she and the team regained their previous tacit understanding.

Li Yueru thinks she has gained more confidence from the WNBA.

She said: "After a season, I think a lot of things our team is doing now is progress. The purpose is to develop towards the world's top teams. If we keep improving, we will be able to get closer and closer to the world's best teams."

　　In the World Cup four years ago, the Chinese team created the smallest loss margin against the United States since 1983, and finally lost to the French team in the fifth or sixth place in the competition.

In this competition, people from all walks of life have high hopes for the Chinese team, but the team has remained calm.

"We need to keep a very clear head, put ourselves in a lower position, be based on fighting against our opponents, and be prepared to deal with more difficulties." According to Zheng Wei, there are already 8 World Cup participating teams coming to the tournament. On the ground, from what she observed, each team's lineup is very complete and well prepared, so every game that the Chinese women's basketball team will encounter next will not be easy, "The Chinese women's basketball team will definitely play the best The mental outlook and form to finish this game.”