The Chinese women's basketball team missed a three-pointer and defeated South Korea in an upset, missing the Asian Games gold medal match for the first time in 32 years.

Qin An, a naturalized player from South Korea who was born in Taiwan, was able to hold up China's tallest man Zhang Ziyu, who is 223 centimeters tall. (Provided by Nagoya Asian Games Preparatory Committee)

[Reporter Lu Yangxuan/Comprehensive Report] The Chinese women's basketball team stalled with a three-pointer in the top four of the Asian Games women's basketball team in Nagoya yesterday. In the end, it lost to South Korea 80:85, missing the gold medal game for the first time in 32 years. After the game, it once again aroused criticism from the Chinese media.

The Chinese team made all 13 three-pointers yesterday and finally lost to South Korea. The outside offensive was reversed. "Sohu Sports" pointed out that the women's basketball team has always emphasized shooting training during the national team training, and even stipulated a training plan of 10,000 shots per day. However, in the really important games, the outside shooting failed collectively. It also mentioned that the three main players, guard Zhang Manman, forward Jia Siqi and center Sun Yu, only scored 1 point in total on the court. They were also to blame.

Please read on...

The Chinese team had won 9 of 10 games against the South Korean women's basketball team before this campaign, but yesterday it suffered a reversal in a key battle. Since the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, it has been unable to reach the Asian Games women's basketball finals for the first time in 32 years. In addition, the previous men's basketball team lost to the Japanese second team 77:97 in the top four, and finally only finished fourth. " "Shangguan News" pointed out that the Chinese team won four gold medals in basketball at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, but this time at the Nagoya Asian Games, they failed to win gold medals in the men's and women's basketball and 3-on-3 basketball events. "The men's basketball team lost and the women's basketball team lost. It only took 8 years to go from winning four gold medals to losing all four."