In 1983 Women s Basketball World Championship, Chinese women s basketball team almost defeated the United States

In 1983, in the Women's Basketball World Championship, the Chinese women's basketball team and the American women's basketball team officially met for the first time in history. As a result, the Chinese women's basketball team almost knocked the American team down. In the end, due to lack of experience in international competitions, they failed. This is also the closest game between the Chinese women's basketball team and the US women's basketball team, and they have basically lost a big score since then.

Let me introduce to you the process of this game.

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The 1983 Women's Basketball World Championship was the first time that the Chinese women's basketball team participated in the World Championship in history.

Previously, the 1979 Women's Basketball World Championship was held in South Korea, and China announced a boycott in order to support North Korea. At that time, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries also boycotted, so the Women's Basketball World Championships was deserted, and the United States finally won the championship and South Korea was second.

Turn the New Year's Olympics, China announced another boycott. In this way, the Chinese women's basketball team can only survive until 1983 to have the opportunity to participate in the World Championship for the first time.

The main lineup of the Chinese women's basketball team in this World Championships is as follows:

The center is Chen Yuefang at 2.08 meters. Although Zheng Haixia was also selected, she was only 16 years old at the time, so she basically had no chance to play.

The power forward was 1.86-meter veteran Xiu Lijuan from Jilin, and 1.90-meter-high rookie Liu Qing from Heilongjiang. She was only 19 years old at the time.

The small forward is the core of the team, the number one scorer, Song Xiaobo, the captain of the Beijing team.

The shooting guard is Qiu Chen from the Air Force. The

organizational guard is Zhang Hui from Hubei.

The World Championships are held in Brazil. Brazil was very shabby back then, and some of the venues provided for this World Championship were actually cement floors.

However, this did not affect the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team. The girls passed the hurriedly and played the sing of triumphs. In the group stage, the Chinese team won three games and defeated the Spanish team in Europe, Paraguay team in the Americas, and Nigeria team in Africa, and qualified first in the group. In the quarter-finals, the Chinese team defeated Canada and advanced to the semi-finals, and finally met the United States in the semi-finals.

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American women's basketball was not as prosperous as it is today. Without professional leagues like the WNBA, the level of the college women's basketball league is not too high. Female athletes who play basketball will not get any financial benefits, and they are all supported by a love for basketball.

Despite this, the US women's basketball team is still recognized as the second strongest team in the world, second only to the Soviet women's basketball team.

At that time, there were mainly two core players of the American women's basketball team. One is Cheryl Miller, the sister of the famous NBA star Reggie Miller; the other is Pamela McKee, the mother of the famous NBA star Javier McKee.

Both of them are over 1.90 meters tall and have excellent physical fitness.

But the skills of the two of them are not very good to be praised. Especially McGee's mother Pamela, who originally practiced track and field, but later because she was too tall, she had to play basketball instead. So her basic skills are not strong, and she is relying on a good body to support her on the court.

The Chinese women's basketball team and the American women's basketball team have their own advantages. The Chinese women's basketball team are all professional, skilled and have high tactical skills; while the American women's basketball team has super physical fitness and is flying around on the court, which is dazzling.

After the game between China and the United States began, the two sides fought hard to get apart.

The Chinese team was only 2 points behind in the first half. In the second half, the Chinese team scored consecutively with their technical advantages, and their leading advantage was expanded bit by bit. With only one minute left in the game, the Chinese women's basketball team was already 10 points ahead.

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The Chinese women's basketball team's victory is in sight.

However, at this moment, the Chinese team's lack of experience in international competitions was exposed.

When the domestic and Asian competitions, if you lead the opponent by 10 points with only 1 minute left, it is equivalent to the overall situation being decided. This 1 minute will definitely turn into garbage time.

Therefore, the then head coach of the women's basketball team, Yang Boyong, asked Chen Yuefang and Song Xiaobo to go down and rest in order to prepare for a decisive battle with the Soviet team.

However, the girls of the American women's basketball team are used to watching NBA games. They all know how to play when there is only 1 minute left in the game and 10 points behind?

So the US women's basketball team started pressing the whole game without hesitation, taking the initiative to foul, and buying time for itself to counterattack.

The Chinese women's basketball team had never seen this style of play at that time, and they were a little busy for a moment.

The basketball rules at that time also had the following provisions: that after the opponent fouled, you could choose not to free throws and still serve the sideline ball to delay time.

This is how the Chinese women's basketball team does.

Every time the opponent takes the initiative to foul, the Chinese women's basketball team will give up the free throw and continue to serve the sideline ball. However, because the American women's basketball team's pressing was particularly fierce, the Chinese women's basketball team's ball was intercepted many times, allowing the American team to succeed in the counterattack.

Although Yang Boyong replaced Song Xiaobo, Xiu Lijuan and other main generals, it was too late. The final whistle sounded, and the US team actually caught up to 84.

The next two teams had to play in overtime. In overtime, the Chinese women's basketball team experienced a foul crisis. Four players including Song Xiaobo and Xiu Lijuan were forced to leave the court due to five fouls.

In the end, the US women's basketball team turned defeat 101:91 and defeated the Chinese women's basketball team.

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This game was the smallest gap between the two Chinese and American women's basketball teams. The second only to this result is the time when the Chinese team lost to the United States in the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup.. In addition, every time the Chinese women's basketball team encounters the US team, they will lose at least 20 points.

Time passes, and decades are coming in a flash. Today's Chinese women's basketball team has made great progress compared to that year. Let us look forward to the new match between the Chinese team and the US team. The day of defeating the US women's basketball team will eventually come.