Xinhua News Agency, France, Poitiers, June 29 (reporter Xiao yazuo) the 2023-season FIBA three-person Basketball Women’s Series Poitiers station ended on the evening of 28th. In the final, the Chinese team lost to Canada by 16:17, and won the second place in this competition.

Compared with the World Cup which ended at the beginning of this month, the Chinese team took two old players Wang Lili and Zhang Zhiting in the competition on this site, and sent four young players Wan Jiyuan, Huang Di, chen mingling and Chen Yuzhen, the average age of this lineup is less than 22 years old.

For the first time in the series, the performance of the four players in the whole race was getting better. He won the two games in the group match. In the quarter-finals, Leck US U24 team came to the top in the semi-final, and played a 6:1 climax when he was behind 7:10, finally defeated the Italian team and joined the final with the top seed Canadian team in this competition.

“The four of us may have some discomfort at the beginning, but in the final game, everyone has run into a tacit understanding.” Huang Wei said.

The Chinese team is the “Youth Army”, while the Canadian team is four experienced veterans, especially the twin plouf sisters, who are already old acquaintances in the three-person basketball court. After the start of the game, the Canadian team always took the initiative on the field, with the maximum score difference reaching more than 5 points. However, Huang Di hit two key 2 points to help the Chinese team reduce the score difference to 2 points when there is about 1 minute left in the game. With Chen Yuzhen scoring another 1 point, the Chinese team reached 16:17 when there were 50 seconds left in the game.

“Everyone is not discouraged when they can’t enter, and they are encouraging each other and daring to rob. It may be a little unclear when the defense was replaced at the beginning, but it has been actively communicating.” Huang Wei said. In this game, she made 3 out of 6 external shots and got the highest 8 points in the whole game.

But in the last 50 seconds, the Chinese team did not grasp the opportunity. With the continuous attacks of both sides, the score was finally fixed at 16:17. The Chinese team lost by 1 point and won the runner-up. Michelle plouff of the Canadian team contributed 8 points in this game, and Catherine plouff got 4 points. In addition to Huang Yi, Chen Yuzhen (4 points) scored the highest in the Chinese team.

Next, the Chinese three-person basketball team will go to Israel to participate in the next race.