On July 29th, the men's basketball team officially opened.

The Olympic men’s basketball game is divided into two stages. The first stage is the group stage. The twelve teams are divided into two groups. Each group has 6 teams. Each team will play in a single round-robin group. 5 games.

The group stage adopts a points system, with 2 points for winning a game, 1 point for losing a game, and 0 points for abstaining. Finally, according to the points ranking, the top four teams in the group stage get the right to qualify for the group.

If the two teams have the same points, then they will be ranked according to the only relationship between the two teams. For example, the Chinese team and the Spanish team have the same points, and the Chinese men's basketball team wins in the two teams, then the Chinese team is ranked In the front, the Spanish team is behind.

If there are multiple teams with the same points, such as China, Spain, and Australia, they will be ranked according to the scores. The higher the score, the higher the ranking.

The second stage is a cross elimination. The teams A and B qualify to form the quarter-finals, cross elimination, a game of life and death, and finally decide the championship.

The team that loses in the semifinals will have to play one game to decide third place.

At the beginning of the group stage, the Chinese men's basketball team ushered in its first opponent-the Australian team.

This Australian men’s basketball team is led by Spurs player Patrick Mills. Mills was the 25th overall pick in the second round of 2009. In the past season, he averaged 10.4 points and 1.8 rebounds per game with the Spurs. , 2.4 assists, can only be regarded as a regular rotation player.

The Australian team has only one NBA player and is not a star. Naturally, it is not as star-studded as the "Double All-Star Combination" of the Chinese men's basketball team, but it should not be underestimated because the other players of the Australian team are not weak. They are a team that pays attention to teamwork. The overall strength of the team is not bad.

At this time, the game is about to start. There are fans from all over the world sitting in the audience. Naturally, there are also Chinese fans. Many Chinese fans wave various slogans or have national flags painted on their faces to cheer for the Chinese men's basketball team.

Some are British overseas Chinese, and some come here specially from China.

In addition, there are also some Australian football fans. The two sides are very distinct, divided by each other's national flags, forming a distinct camp.

Among them, a group of people are particularly eye-catching. They are the players of the Chinese women's basketball team. Twelve female basketball players, including members of the coaching staff, are here.

This is the tradition of the Chinese basketball team. Whenever the women's basketball team competes, the men's basketball team will go to the scene to support it. When the men's basketball team competes, the women's basketball team is the same.

The Chinese men's basketball team is here.

The crowd gathered around Coach Deng Huade. Coach Deng Huade spread out his tactical board, made some arrangements, and then waved his hand: "Fight well, go on."

"Yes."

A group of players responded in unison.

Qin Hao greeted the teammates, stretched out their hands, and the teammates also stretched out their hands, everyone's hands were stacked together, Qin Hao shouted: "The Chinese team will win!"

"Sure victory!"

The crowd yelled in unison, and their voices resounded through the stadium like thunder.

Not far away, a group of Australian players frowned, their faces full of dignity.

"Let me talk about it." The Australian coach clapped his hands and said with a serious expression: "On defense, our most important thing is to guard against Qin. His threat is too great. Limit his breakthroughs and three-pointers, try to force He shot at the middle distance. There is also Yao Ming's point, which gives him physical confrontation. After he loses weight, physical confrontation is no longer an advantage.

"understand."

A group of players happily promised.

The Australian team has also studied the Chinese men’s basketball team, especially Qin Hao and Yao Ming, who are even more important. In the Eastern Conference semifinals of the 76ers vs. Heat, the Heat defended Qin Hao’s three-pointers and broke through the frame. For Qin Hao to take a shot at the middle distance, the Australian team plans to do the same.

As for Yao Ming, it is for him to confront.

"Okay." After the arrangement of the Australian team's head coach, he emphasized, "Remember, guard against Qin and Yao, other people shouldn't worry about it." Then, his tone changed, "On the offensive end, we want Try to avoid Qin and Yao and target the rest of the Chinese team."

I have to say that the Australian coach's arrangement is also very targeted.

The advantage of the Chinese team is that there are NBA All-Star players, and there are still two. The strongest are Qin Hao and Yao Ming. No one in the Australian team can match them. The disadvantage of the Chinese team is that the others are relatively weaker, some players are not as strong as the Australian players, and the lineup is very uneven.

As long as Qin Hao and Yao Ming can be restrained, others shouldn't worry about it. Although these words are biased, they are not unreasonable, but...can they restrain Qin Hao and Yao Ming?

......

"Snapped!"

The game officially began, Yao Ming jumped the ball and won, and the Chinese team got the ball.

Qin Hao pushed forward with the ball and quickly came to the front court. He took a look at the situation on the court. Several Australian team players have already arranged their defenses. Their starting five are center David Anderson (211cm) and power forward. Matthew Nelson (208cm), small forward Joe Ingles (203cm), shooting guard Pete Crawford (191cm), point guard Patrick Mills (188cm).

At this time, it was Mills who was confronting Qin Hao. It was not the first time that the two met. Mills had a solemn expression, his center of gravity was very low, one hand was raised, and he kept in front of Qin Hao's face.

After a glance, Qin Hao made a gesture.

Yao Ming stepped forward to pick and roll, and Qin Hao used the pick and roll to make a breakthrough.

However, the delay of the Australian team was very fast and Mills was blocked. Center Anderson rushed forward immediately, blocked in front of Qin Hao, and raised his hand, not giving Qin Hao a chance to shoot a three-pointer.

Upon seeing this situation, Qin Hao paused for a while, and then suddenly changed directions and accelerated, swishing past Anderson.

"really."

The Australian players sighed together, but it was not surprising. It had been expected that Anderson would be passed away, and his task was not to prevent Qin Hao, but to delay it and give other players time to respond. They contracted quickly, forming a circle on the inside, and as long as Qin Hao crashed in, they would be surrounded immediately.

"Huh?" Qin Hao was a little surprised, this defense is too familiar, isn't it the same set used by the Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals? Australia is copying homework directly.

Originally, Qin Hao was about to break through to attract defense, and then passed the ball back to Yao Ming.

But the opponent actually defended him like this, copying the Heat's work, he immediately changed his mind, stopped abruptly, did not attack the inside, but directly shot the middle distance.

"Huh!"

With a soft sound, the ball is scored.

Qin Hao glanced at the Australian rest area, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He now needs to take advantage of the training of the game to transform his mid-range shooting. The Australian team actually learns from the Heat team. Isn't it that someone gives pillows to sleep?

PS: Because of the plot requirements, I have made some changes to the group match schedule, so you don't need to be more serious!