I’m Really Playing Basketball

Latest website: After the quarterfinals defeated Australia, the Chinese men's basketball team successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.

The opponents of the Chinese team in the semi-finals are the old opponents and old acquaintances of the Spanish team.

Spain defeated the Argentina team 90-86 in the quarterfinals to complete the promotion, and finally reached the quarterfinals to meet the Chinese team again.

As for the other semi-final matchup between the United States and Lithuania, Lithuania easily defeated the Greek team in the quarterfinals to reach the semifinals.

The Chinese team played against Spain.

The U.S. team played against Lithuania. To be honest, these two matches were really quite sparkling.

Compared with the dark horses in the last Olympic Games, the teams that reached the semi-finals in this Olympics are all well-known and powerful teams in the international basketball world.

The first of these two semi-finals was the semi-finals between the US team and Lithuania.

Lithuania is the seeded team, first in Group A, so play first.

The game between China and Spain was played after 22:15 in the evening.

However, on August 22nd, Chen Xiao and Yao Ming still took the Chinese team players to the Wukesong Arena at 8 o’clock in the evening to take their seats, ready to watch the US team and Lithuania’s team. Games.

At the same time, next door to the Chinese team, the Spanish team also arrived.

To be honest, the American team, which has now taken on a new look, really deserves more attention and understanding from the Chinese team and Spain.

In this case, everyone is unwilling to miss something useful.

However, for the Chinese team and Spain, they certainly hope that Lithuania can perform better in this game. This can also push the US team harder and let the US team play all its strength without reservation. Come out, this is also convenient for the Chinese team and Spain to observe.

Lithuania has always been one of the strongest teams in the world. The Chinese and Spanish teams are full of illusions about them, and they are not castles in the air.

In fact, this game Lithuania did cause a lot of trouble for the US team.

Faced with the recent morale of the United States team, Lithuania played very tough as soon as it came up.

With the help of the strong players and recent excellent morale, the U.S. team played Lithuania 9-4 as soon as they came up. Many people originally thought that the U.S. team was going to sweep the Spanish and German teams like the previous autumn wind swept the fallen leaves. In Lithuania, people with this idea soon knew they were wrong.

When the U.S. team led Lithuania with a maximum of 6 points 14-8, Lithuanian defender Kokonas used the pick and roll to hit the basket one after another and scored consecutively. At one point, the score between the two sides was only 1 point left.

"The U.S. team's defensive strength is too strong and aggressive. If the opponent can't force the opponent to make mistakes, if the opponent can stabilize the tactics and play the pick-and-roll, it will be very easy to break the defense of the United States team."

"Lithuania is very old, facing the U.S. team, almost every round is full-court or half-court defense. They played very patiently and tactically. They seem to have tactics even better than Spain. Literacy."

Listening to the coaches of the Chinese team next to him, although Chen Xiao did not have any emotional changes, he was really surprised by the tactical literacy of Lithuanian players. After all, Lithuania has always been the most tactical literacy in the world's basketball world. Of the teams, there is no one.

Tactical literacy is carved into the bones of Lithuanian players.

The Lithuanian team, regardless of whether the team has peerless talents or not, can maintain its status as a super team in the world. The lower limit has always been very high. Even a group of ordinary players can achieve good results. This is because of the players. Our tactical literacy supports all of this.

Some teams are strong when they have talented players and are weak without talented players. This kind of thing never happens in Lithuania.

If the Chinese team does not have Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, let alone dominate the world, it will not necessarily be able to dominate the Asia-Pacific.

Even Brother Wei, they are all enhanced versions.

The overall tactical literacy of Chinese male basketball players is very low, and the basic skills are not solid at all. The basic skills of shooting, free throws, and offensive and defensive skills are all very bad from the standards of the world's strong teams.

China is indeed the strongest team in the world, but Chinese basketball has a long way to go from the world's basketball powers.

When will the Chinese team have no geniuses like Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, they can still choose 12 players to play in the Olympics and enter the quarter-finals at will. When they are in the top four, the Chinese team has really become the world's basketball team. Tradition is strong.

Lithuania is one of the few traditional tycoons in the world of basketball.

It should be said that there are only two teams that are traditionally powerful in the world of basketball, not the disbanded team, the United States and Lithuania.

Spain, Argentina, and China are not as powerful as the world's traditional teams in front of Lithuania.

Of course, Lithuania and the US team certainly cannot be compared.

However, the tactical qualities of Lithuania, which are all-soldier, can indeed cause great trouble for the US team.

The unhurried temperament of the Lithuanian players makes the US team a little difficult to play.

Therefore, in the first quarter of the game, Lithuania even relied on Kokonas's three-pointer to overtake the score 17-15.

The two teams played very cruelly in the first half of the first quarter, and naturally consumed a lot. Maintaining such a good state even consumed more energy.

Not to mention Lithuania, even the United States team was a little struggling. The boss of Ke and James played for 6 minutes in this game. Because they couldn't control the scale, they both had two fouls and both were replaced.

A less intense game is a good control for the American players who are not familiar with the FIBA ​​standards, but when the game is extremely intense, the unfamiliarity of the rules and standards of this group of American players will still be exposed.

The US team's defense is so strong now that almost every round of defense is on the verge of fouling and non-fouling.

The scale is easy to say, but it is really not that easy to do.

Players like Kobo and Xiao Zhan got into foul trouble after playing less than half of the first quarter. For the average team, this must be bad, or even problematic.

But for the US team, it really doesn't matter if the boss of Ke and Xiao Zhan get into foul trouble.

Even players who came from the bench might perform better. For example, replacing Wade, who came up as the boss of Ke, changed the situation of the American team's backwardness. A successful steal and a backhand dunk helped the U.S. team exceed the score by 20-17.

How long is this!

Just two rounds!

The explosiveness of the US team's scoring is simply terrifying!

The thickness of the U.S. team's lineup is equally terrifying!

Even if Kobe and James are not on the court, Wade and Tracy McGrady can still maintain the same defensive strength.

But how do other teams follow?

No matter how strong Lithuania is, there is still a significant gap between the strength of their bench players and the starting players. It is impossible for the US team to have 12 players who can almost completely replace them.

Therefore, when the physical strength of Lithuania's players is declining crazily, the players on the US team are all alive and well.

How does this make people tidy?

At the end of the first quarter, Wade made the first three-pointer of the game. For Wade, FIBA's three-pointer is two points long, so in FIBA, Wade is capable of three-pointers. , Maybe not so strong, but it does.

In the end, under the leadership of Wade, the US team ended the first quarter 38-31 in the first quarter. Wade scored 13 points in just 6 minutes in the first quarter. The efficiency is still amazing and terrifying.

Lithuania looked a little shaky and about to collapse under this wave of Wade's blow. However, after the start of the second quarter, Chen Xiao, Yao Ming and the coach of the Chinese team next to him were once again shocked.

As soon as the second quarter came up, Lithuania’s Jakovicius used a mid-range shot and a three-pointer, scored 5 points in a row, and quickly narrowed the difference, followed by Lavrinovic and Yasitis. Since then, they have made three-pointers. After the start of the second quarter, Lithuania actually played a wave of 19-6. Good guys, the boss of Ke and Xiaozhan who were back on the court at the beginning of the second quarter were all blinded.

To be honest, in this wave of Lithuania, no one can be blinded, and Wade sitting on the court is blinded.

These tenacious guys in Lithuania took advantage of the American team’s defensive aggressiveness and easy loss of position, and used their tactical cooperation and patience to find vacancies one after another. Lithuania’s series of three-pointers was nothing short of a knife. Heartbroken!

50 to 44!

The US team led by 7 points at the end of the first quarter, and only played less than half of the second quarter and became 6 points behind.

The audience at Wukesong Arena was dumbfounded.

Even NBC's live commentator Barkley was speechless for a while, and could only stare at the stadium with his mouth open and sluggish.

Finally, Barkley suffocated one sentence: "We all know the weaknesses of the US team's current defensive style. However, it is the first time I have seen the weaknesses of the US team's play style so accurately and so hard. !"

Lithuania is a team like a god!

However, looking at the sweaty Lithuanian players on the court, Barkley couldn't help but feel some respect.

These Lithuanian players played a lot of time in this game. With the current state of the US team, if you want to entangle with the US team, Lithuania needs more main players to play.

Lithuania’s tenacity can be withstood now, but will it be able to withstand it later?

I have to say that Barkley's idea is correct. Lithuania scored 19 points in the first four minutes of the second quarter, but only 11 points later.

However, in the second half of the second quarter, the U.S. team took advantage of Lithuanian stamina, decreased concentration, decreased shooting rate, successive steals, and counterattacks. At the end of the second quarter, the U.S. team led 69 to 61 by 8 points.

Among them, Wade scored 21 points in the first half. Wade played after a wave of Lithuanian's main physical strength by the boss and Xiaozhan. It was a crazy killing.

When the game hits here, everyone knows that Lithuania must have lost, and in fact it is true. Although the efficiency of both sides is declining in the third quarter, Lithuania is 9 points behind 82 to 91 at the end of the third quarter. , Only lost 1 point in a single quarter, which seems to be okay.

However, everyone knows that Lithuania’s shooting percentage dropped in the third quarter. It was a real drop, not because of poor state, but because of physical weakness, and it was impossible to come up later.

And the efficiency of the US team in the third quarter is low. It is entirely a matter of player status and has nothing to do with physical strength. The efficiency can be improved in the fourth quarter.

Therefore, in the fourth quarter, the American team, who recovered their form, played Lithuania 30-11. At the end of the game, the American team finally defeated Lithuania with a score of 121 to 93, and advanced to the Olympic final by 28 points.

And this is also the first time the US team has entered the finals of the Olympic Men's Basketball and World Series after eight years.

"Eight years, the American team is finally back again!"

For a team like the US team, eight years, this is indeed a bit long.

So not only Barkley is very excited, but the coaches of these players of the US team, and even the president of the Basketball Association, Jerry Colangelo, are very excited.

"Now that the competition in the world basketball is so fierce, it is no longer a matter of course for the US team to enter the Olympic finals. We have never seen the scene of the dream team and tears because of the finals. Now we see it, K The coach’s tears are not the self-movement of the weak without ambition, but the memories of the painful past of the American men’s basketball team over the past eight years. Now, under his leadership, the American team has finally found a way to re-dominate the world basketball world!"

Barkley is full of praise for the US team and Coach K.

Barkley believes that the American team can once again dominate the world.

Because Barkley feels that the U.S. team is no longer lucky to win this game. Barkley feels that even if the U.S. team and Lithuania play another 100 games in this game, it will only be the U.S. team that will win in the end. Lithuania will not win even one. field.

"Congratulations to Coach K. He finally found the most suitable tactics for the American team. Before facing the Chinese team, they reached their own peak!"

Don't care about fouls, don't care about physical strength, use your own personal ability to frantically strangle the opponent's single player.

I have to say that this American team is really terrifying now.

Lithuania has tried its best, but even a team like Lithuania can't stick to the three quarters under the style of the US team.

What about the Chinese team?

In short, this big victory against Lithuania finally allowed the American team to determine what their biggest advantage is.

Lithuania forced them into this in the first half. As long as they stick to their own style of play, they will still win in the end, and it will be a big victory.

As long as they firmly adhere to their dominant play, no team can beat them!

After the game against Lithuania, the US players did not return to the hotel after attending the press conference, but returned to the Wukesong Arena again.

"50 to 38 at halftime by 12 points, 71 to 47 in the three quarters, leading by 24 points. Although Spain tried desperately in the last quarter, they still lost 71 to 100."

"We won Lithuania by 28 points in the semi-final, and the Chinese team won Spain by 29 points in the semi-final. Is this a coincidence?"

Listening to the whispers of the surrounding US team players and watching the crazy cheers of the Chinese fans on the spot, Coach K clenched his fists.

It really is you!

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