ISTANBUL (FIBA World Championship for Women) - Shao Ting
indeed is the perfect representation of the transition phase in Chinese
women's basketball.
Shao Ting had not figured in any of the many
youth national teams that China developed and was almost a nobody until a
sterling performance in her maiden WCBA season with the Beijing Great
Wall paved the way for her inclusion in Maher's 'clean up' mission.
Shao
Ting returned the faith reposed in her with a steady showing in China's
preparations for the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women.
The 24-year-old forward further underlined her prowess and growth with a team-high 14 points as China beat Angola 65-39 on Sunday for their first win at Turkey 2014.
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With 11.5 points per game, Shao is China's only player to average double-digit scoring.
"One
year ago, if somebody told me I'd be here, I would have just laughed,"
said Shao Ting, whose only representations on any China team was at the
2011 and 2013 Universaides in Shenzen, China and Kazan, Russia
respectively.
"I still get goose bumps thinking of that day when
the coach called me," said Shao who averaged a healthy 15 points per
game for Beijing Great Wall leading her team all the way to the WCBA
Finals.
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