Chapter 391 Victory

   At this time, the timeout ends, the game begins, and the Literary Bowl attacks.

   As the core and leader, Sabonis does his part. In order to restore morale, he will play the first ball after the timeout.

  The left-wing penalty area waist, he began to ask for the ball.

   In the case of not using the iron mountain, it is difficult for Pharaoh to push Sabonis. He should have a certain advantage in absolute strength, but there is no need to defend with all his strength in this position, three meters away, far from the basket.

As soon as the ball is in hand, Sabonis swings again, trying to distract the defender.

   "This guy should be able to play one by himself. It's 6-0, and the Litero Bowl hasn't scored yet." Also as the core of the team, Pharaoh made a prediction.

   At this time, the core needs to stand up to open up the situation. If Sabonis does not come, he will not be a qualified core leader.

   So his defensive focus is not on the opponent's passing, but on the opponent's shot, and he makes targeted defense.

   The opponent's movement speed is much slower than him, and it is very difficult to rush in. The opponent should not think about breaking through, that is, the main goal is to prevent his shots, such as the side hook that is the most difficult to block.

   In the next instant, Sabonis stood up suddenly and hit a 45-degree sideways hook for nearly two points. The shot position was about four meters away from the basket.

With   's accurate prediction, Wang Tiejun's reaction was very fast, he quickly jumped to block, and a pair of big hands blocked a large space.

   This kind of side hook is very difficult to block, especially the 221 cm high center, so he did not think about blocking the opponent, but tried his best to block the air, forcing the opponent to increase the shot angle and destroy the opponent's shooting stability.

   The next moment, the ball slid across his fingers, and when it landed, there was a sound of smashing the basket behind his head, he immediately turned around, and the basketball bounced back and fell right into his hands.

   "Beautiful defense, Tiejun's single defense is getting better and better!" Zhang Lili praised.

   "The pottery bowl has strengthened the defense, let's settle down and fight one." Sun Zhenping shouted.

   "Be careful of your opponent's pressing!" Zhang Lili suddenly shouted.

On the field, the Chinese team played two consecutive defensive counterattacks in front of the Litao Bowl, which was a little messed up. Just after the suspension, the coaching staff had already arranged tactical arrangements to strengthen the defense and backcourt pressing. Wang Tiejun passed the ball. When it was given to Li Xiaoyong, the two defenders immediately rushed over and implemented a double-team from the backcourt.

   "Pass it back."

   Pharaoh immediately rushed over to respond and roared.

  Li Xiaoyong barely passed a grounder from the gap and almost made a mistake.

Pharaoh picked up the ball from the floor, and his outstanding vision made him immediately seize the opportunity. When he saw that his teammate Wu Qinglong had rushed to the right wing of the frontcourt and was cutting into the penalty area, he immediately threw both hands and the ball flew like a shooting star. past.

   Wu Qinglong caught the ball with both hands outside the penalty area without dribbling. He entered the penalty area with one step, jumped up after another step, hit a layup with one hand, and hit a ball.

"Beautiful! With a long pass of more than 20 meters, Wu Qinglong's fast break cut was also very timely, and played our small and quick whirlwind attack." Zhang Lili roared very excitedly, more than when he was explaining the NBA. excited.

   "Now 8:0, we are eight points ahead, and we still have a clean pottery bowl." Sun Zhenping shouted excitedly.

   "The flanking attack is more fierce, and the defense speed is faster!" The head coach of the Litao Bowl was so anxious that he roared sharply on the sidelines.

   "Sir, I suggest that you should double-team Old K in advance in the positional battle. Sabonis is old, and he can't guard against that old K alone." Yunas, the assistant coach of Li Tao Wan, reminded.

   "Okay." The head coach agreed immediately.

   Next, the Litao Bowl finally opened up. The guard No. 9 made a false shot and made a sudden jump. After the sudden jump from Wu Qinglong, he hit a long two-pointer.

   came to the front court, Wang Tiejun took a low position on the left wing.

   At this time, Litao Wan adopted a defensive strategy of double-teaming in advance, vacated Hu Weidong, who was playing at the 3rd position, and the small forward came down and approached the low post.

Li Xiaoyong passed the ball to Hu Weidong, who replaced Li Nan. The latter received the ball at the three-point line on the left wing, stared at a pair of highly myopic eyes, and didn’t even take aim. , hit an open three-pointer.

   "Beautiful! There was absolutely no preparatory work for the pottery bowl, and they actually let Hu Weidong empty?" Zhang Lili said in surprise.

   "The five of us on the court are not weak. They are all golden generation. No one can be short. Except for Tiejun, including Dazhi, four of them can shoot three points." Sun Zhenping said excitedly.

Zhang Lili nodded and said: "Yes, Hu Weidong's three-point shooting rate is as high as 45%, Li Xiaoyong's three-point shooting rate is as high as 43.5%, and Wu Qinglong is also as high as 41.8%. If they dare to continue to double-team the iron army in advance today, they will pay a heavy price. of."

Sun Zhenping nodded and smiled and said, "Vacant, that's the advantage of having a super center in the low post. We have never had such an open position on the outside before, but now the opportunity is here, we must seize it and kill them with three-point rain. Bar."

Next, the Li Tao Bowl continued to double-team Lao Wang, and then the three major outsiders of the Chinese team kept getting vacant positions. They made all-out shots and made 3 of 5 three-pointers. Paused once.

  The atmosphere on the pottery bowl bench was very tense and dull, like an iron plate.

   Before the game, no one of them expected such a situation. With their strength, they only thought that they would crush the Chinese team, but now the situation is just the opposite.

  The media in their country did not provide them with information about Wang Tiejun, which made them not know much about Pharaoh.

   It's not that they don't understand it completely. They know that Wang Tiejun plays in the NBA, and he played well, winning the championship and MVP.

  However, the strength of the Literary Bowl is too strong. They beat the US team in 1988, which makes them not look down on the US team very much.

   Actually, the rules are different. They think that in the international arena, they are the strongest, so they don’t look down on Wang Tiejun.

   Oh, this situation is the same as the NBA looking down on European players.

   And the strength of the Chinese national team is too weak, they are more lazy to study this opponent.

   It is the strong confidence brought by this powerful strength that makes them ignore the research of their opponents, and now they are a little caught off guard.

Now Li Tao Bowl has no way to deal with the open three-pointer of the Chinese national team on the outside. It can only release the defensive strategy of double-teaming in advance, and play a 212 zone defense. Under the premise of letting Sabonis defend the old king alone, he sits at the free throw line. Small forwards strengthen low post defense.

   As a result, Wang Tiejun immediately stepped up his personal attack.

Sabonis is indeed strong, but after all, he is in his thirties and has too many injuries, so he can't defend against Pharaoh's strong attack. Under the turn of the attack, it was bombed.

In the 9th minute of the first quarter, during a strong attack, he was knocked over again by Pharaoh's continuous back arch. He suffered a back injury and ended up injured. Li Tao Wan lost his core leader and pillar, was completely destroyed, and his morale was demoralized. to the lowest point.

   In this game, at this moment, the quarter was not finished, the five main players lost three of them, and the suspense was completely lost.

   The first quarter of the game has already shocked the whole world.

  What is the strength of the Literary Bowl? The world basketball world recognizes the strength of the top three in the world, at least the top five, actually playing so hard under the weak Chinese team?

   This competition made Wang Tiejun's name widely spread all over the world, and his world-class popularity skyrocketed.

   He used to be called a world-class sports superstar, but he was not well-known in North America and East Asia, and now he has truly reached the world through the strong influence of the Olympic Games.

   In the end, at 95:65, the Chinese team actually won by 30 points.

   After the game, Sun Zhenping said excitedly: "Comparing the strength of the two teams, it is almost impossible, but it happened. This battle is a miracle."

Zhang Lili said excitedly: "The pottery bowl is indeed strong, but the Chinese national team with Wang Tiejun is definitely not a weak team. His joining has brought a very large chemical effect, and the bonus is so great that it completely exceeds 1+1=2 effect."

Sun Zhenping took the data sorted in his hand and said: "Tie Jun made 11 of 15 shots in 32 minutes, with a shooting rate of 73.3% and 10 of 13 free throws. Today's feeling is really good, the free throw rate reached 76.9%, and got 32 11 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks."

   "Top offense and defense all-around performance." Zhang Lili said with admiration.

   "By the way, Director Zhang, the NBA introduced the K-law last time. What impact do you think this law will have on the Tiejun?" Sun Zhenping asked.

Zhang Lili has been thinking about this issue, and after hearing this, he said: "I have been with him recently, in charge of the summer camp. He has improved his skills, and there are no technical moves that are prone to fouls and violations, and his strength will definitely decline. Some, but I don't think the impact is fatal and definitely won't cause a cliff-like decline.

   It's just that in the low-post attack, the huge lethality he used to have is gone, and it is not easy to break the opponent's bones, and the deterrence will be reduced. "

Having said this, he thought for a while and added: "But it's not right to say that there is no impact, because without that huge deterrent and lethal power, the opponent can unscrupulously double-team him, which will definitely decrease. his efficiency.

In addition, his ability to break double teams turned out to be very strong. Several people who double-teamed him were forcibly knocked away by his serial punches. That's how the name of the restricted area sweeper came from, but now it is restricted from sideways punching. , the ability to break the double-team will be greatly limited.

  You still remember the 1995 Finals, when the Bulls played so no one dared to guard him, now that the K-law is introduced, this deterrent effect is almost gone.

   Anyway, his strength must have declined to a certain extent, but the extent of the decline, we still need to look at the actual game situation to analyze.

   But no matter what, he is ready for K-law, ready to fight, I think his performance next season is still worth looking forward to. "

   After the last group match, the Chinese team won three wins and two losses and made it through.

   Of the four teams in Group A, the U.S. team won all of them, and the other three teams out of the group stage were China, Croatia, and the Litao Bowl.

China lost to the United States and Croatia, Croatia lost to the United States and the Literary Bowl, and the Lito Bowl lost to the United States and China, all of which were three wins and two losses. 's scoring rate.

  The three countries have the same win rate, so the score is the score that determines the ranking.

  The rate of points gained and lost is the total points divided by the total points lost. After calculation, the Chinese team benefited from a large victory over the Litou Bowl, so it finally ranked second among the three countries, behind Croatia, and surpassed the Litou Bowl.

  So the final ranking of Group A is the United States, Croatia, China, and the Literary Bowl.

   The ranking of Group B is Yugoslavia, Australia, Greece, Brazil.

   According to the principle of knockout match, A1: B4, A2: B3, A3: B2, A4: B1, the first knockout opponent of the Chinese team is Australia.

   And then, it enters the knockout stage, a game is decided, the winner moves on, and the loser competes with other losers for the next place.

   As the men's basketball team defeated the pottery bowl by a large score, there was not much reaction from the United States. Most Americans didn't even know where the pottery bowl was, but it caused a wave of public opinion in Europe.

  Wang Tiejun's name appeared frequently in the major European media, and with the popularity of the Olympic Games, the attention was very high.

   After the game, Director Yuan did what he said. He found a Chinese restaurant and ordered a batch of dumplings, which was a reward for the men's basketball team.

   "Congratulations guys, you actually won the pottery bowl."

  When the men's basketball team returned to the Olympic Village, they met the diving team that had just finished the competition. Fu Minxia, ​​the leader, said with a smile.

   "You know that too?" Old Wang said proudly.

   "The pottery bowls are very strong. You can beat them by a big score. Which project does the delegation know?" Guo Jingjing laughed.

Pharaoh became happy, and was about to brag a few words in front of a group of little beauties, when he suddenly saw a gold medal on the chest of the big beauties Fu, Jin squinted a little, couldn't help but stay for a while, pointed to the sign and asked: " What is this stuff?"

   "You don't know the gold medal? Sister Minxia just won the women's platform jumping championship." Guo Jingjing, who looked contemptuous, said proudly.

   Lao Wang is speechless, beautiful girl Fu, you are too unlovable, you are all gold medal winners, congratulations to us for winning a group match, do you want to embarrass us?

   "It's boring, let's go, we won't play with them anymore."

   was struck, and he waved a little frustratedly, signaling that they should follow.

"whee…"

   A group of diving team members laughed.

"Brothers, our group of big men can't be underestimated by this group of girls, and this time we have to get a brand, the gold medal is a bit boring, the group of **** in the Dream Team 3 are really a bit strong, let's fight for the next two brands. Work hard, maybe you can." Old Wang shouted as he walked.

   When Liu Yumin heard this, her heart rose. Isn't this putting pressure on herself? She quickly said, "Tie Jun, don't rush to talk about your results, take it step by step, and walk steadily."

  The coaching staff also nodded and took the sign? The goals are too high to be realistic.

   Now that he is in the top eight, it is the most suitable goal to be able to go further and win the first knockout round.

   In the evening, Director Yuan had a private treat and ate beef dumplings as a celebration for the men's basketball team. He had a meeting while eating, mainly talking about the situation of the knockout round.

  The first knockout round is also the 1/4 finals. If you lose, there will be a 5-8 crossover match to determine the final ranking. If you win, you will enter the 1/2 finals, which is the semi-finals.

Australia's strength is also very strong, and there was no certainty at first, but now it has won the Literary Bowl, whether it is the men's basketball itself, the basketball department, or the Olympic Committee of the delegation, the spirit and self-confidence, All came up.

   Director Yuan was a little excited, stood up with a bowl of dumplings, waved his chopsticks and said to the crowd: "Comrades, we will strive to win Australia, reach the semi-finals, and move forward with great strides."

   "Director Yuan, there is a lot of pressure, and the opponent is very strong." Wang Tiejun raised his head from the bowl and said.

  You have to charge forward when it is time to be steady, but when it is time to charge, you are under pressure. Director Yuan stared at him angrily and said angrily, "Wang Tiejun, are you fighting against me?"

   "How can there be?" Old Wang muttered.

  Liu Yumin winked anxiously beside him, and said anxiously, "Tie Jun, eat your dumplings. You've already eaten three bowls. You haven't finished two bowls. If you don't eat them, you'll be gone."

Chewing slowly, Dazhi raised his head from the bowl with a confused look on his face, and shouted, "Mother Liu, I only have one bowl, when will I have three bowls? Brother Tie Jun is the third bowl, not the second bowl. Look at him, you can't go wrong."

   "Eat your own, why are you staring at me?" Old Wang said angrily.

   "I have enough to eat." Liu Yumin was also not good-natured.

   "Puff!"

  Hu Weidong couldn't hold back, laughed and sprayed the dumpling foam on the table.

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   (end of this chapter)