I’m Really Playing Basketball

Facing the Argentina team that was obviously going to give up, the Chinese team won easily, 97 to 82, and the Chinese team easily won by 15 points.

At the end of the match, Chen Xiao's good friend Ginobili looked at Chen Xiao enviously, gave Chen Xiao a hug, and said to Chen Xiao: "Chen, good luck."

Chen Xiao could see that Ginobili wanted to do something to the United States. His friend was so proud.

However, his status in Argentina is definitely very different from that of Chen Xiao.

There is simply no way Ginobili can withstand the collective will of the Argentine team.

By the way, in this game against Argentina, the Chinese team's newcomer Yi Jianlian scored 12 points on 5 of 8 shots. This was the first time in his Olympic career that he scored in double figures.

As for the two big brothers of the team, Chen Xiao played 30 minutes in this game and scored 25 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, while Yao Ming scored 22 points on 8 of 11 shots.

Against Argentina, which does not want to enter the top two, the Chinese team played very easily. Ah Lian, Liu Wei, Zhu Fangyu, these young people have a lot of opportunities to play.

However, for Italy, which wants to be in the top eight and doesn't care whether it faces the American Dream Team, this game is not that easy to play.

On August 21, Greek time, in the fourth group match of Group A of the Chinese team, the Chinese team defeated their strong enemy Italy 92-89 in a very tough match.

At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the Italian team took the lead and quickly gained a 5-2 lead. Fortunately, with Chen Xiao's unreasonable three-pointer, the Chinese team quickly equalized the score.

Subsequently, the Italian team responded by hitting two consecutive three-pointers from Basel, opening the score gap between the two sides to 6 points.

Let's just say that Italy is really strong now, and it is also quite restrained by the Chinese team. While the three-pointer is too accurate, the players move very fast. Italy's inside lines are basically 2 meters 10. Below, the zone defense is extremely flexible.

And this is why Italy has performed so well in Europe over the years.

Facing Italy, which is striving to qualify, the Chinese team was so passive at the beginning. After Chen Xiao played, Yao Ming scored his first goal of the game.

This ball was his hook shot under the opponent's attack. Yao Ming's shot ended the Italian team's 6-0 shock wave.

After that, the Chinese team and Italy began to get anxious, and Italy ended the first quarter with a score of 22-21.

At the beginning of the second quarter, facing such a powerful Italy, the Chinese team did not adjust the rotation in a hurry.

Chen Xiao sat on the sidelines, Yao Ming led the team to play, the Italian team took the opportunity to launch a more powerful attack, and scored 4 points in a row at the beginning of the second quarter. However, in the next Chinese attack, Yao Ming faced Italy's chain defense. Suddenly, the ball was given to the unguarded Li Nan from the outside. The latter made a three-point jump shot. Not long after, Li Nan hit a three-pointer again. Li Nan's touch in this game was very good.

27 to 26!

It is definitely an unexpected surprise that the Chinese team can take the lead while Chen Xiao is resting.

The Chinese team, which had overtaken the score, did not slack at all in its offense, because Chen Xiao was still off the court, and Italy could hit them to a climax at any time. Fortunately, although the Chinese team fell behind again when Chen Xiao played, the score was 30-32. Not far behind.

Such a surprising situation boosted the confidence of the Chinese team after replacing Chen Xiao again, and Chen Xiao brought changes to the Chinese team as soon as he came on the field. Facing Italy's almost frenzied defense contraction against Yao Ming, Chen Xiao played at the top of the arc The long shot scored three points for the Chinese team and once again took the lead, 33 to 32.

However, the Italian team once again took the lead with a three-pointer from Posek. The players of the Italian team were extremely tenacious and focused in this game.

Chen Xiao, Yao Ming and the Chinese team have worked extremely hard, but there is still no way to open the score in the second quarter. In the last 20.4 seconds of the second quarter, Yao Ming scored with a hook shot, and the Chinese team ended with a 2-point advantage In the first half, 41 to 39.

In the first half of the game, Chen Xiao scored a team-high 15 points, Li Nan scored 9 points, and Dayao only scored 4 points.

Chiazig of the Italian team scored 14 points and Granda scored 9 points.

This half of the game was definitely the most difficult half of the game played by Chen Xiao, Yao Ming and the Chinese team.

In the third quarter, Yao Ming succeeded in jumping the ball, and the Chinese team took the lead in attacking.

Yao Ming seized the key position under the basket. The opponent pushed and fouled. Yao Ming made two free throws. It can be seen that Yao Ming was a little bit annoyed by those fast and clingy 'small centers' in Italy in this game.

Although Dayao's ruthlessness has increased compared to the first half, Dayao is still difficult to gain points under the defense of Italy. It's even difficult to take action.

Under such circumstances, Chen Xiao's main attacking Chinese team could only watch helplessly as the Italian team chased the score little by little.

In the entire third quarter, Chen Xiao was almost alone against the entire group of shooters in Italy.

In this extremely fierce game, the shortcomings of Chinese players' unsteady shooting were once again exposed.

Not talking about those domestic players, let's just say that even Brother Wang is not that stable, because compared to those muscular sticks of the American team, Brother Wang and the technical players of the Chinese team are really more afraid of these European players. Players who play with their brains, their skills are not inferior to them, and their brain talents may not be inferior to them.

This game is really thanks to Xiao Li's flying knife.

Fortunately, when Chen Xiao was alone, Dayao finally had an outstanding performance in this game before he was replaced by Bage. He made a strong attack at the basket and scored an extra penalty at the same time. He scored for the Chinese team. A rare three points.

And relying on Dayao's 3-pointer, the Chinese team ended the third quarter 59-60, only 1 point behind.

In the first three quarters of the game, both teams defended a bit ruthlessly. In the fourth quarter, the defense of both teams declined.

The Chinese team will definitely not be able to prevent Italy's attack.

In fact, it is not easy for Italy's defense to defend the Chinese team for three quarters.

Although Chinese players such as Wang Zhizhi played very poorly in the first three quarters, which made Dayao and Chen Xiao more and more defensive, you can't expect players like Wang Ge to be strong and unstable throughout the entire quarter.

In the fourth quarter, Chen Xiao didn't take a break. This was the first time that Chen Xiao played the second half of the Olympic Games.

After Brother Wang and the other players of the Chinese team fired, Chen Xiao felt that the defensive pressure on her body was instantly relaxed.

Why did Brother Wang and the others open, and Chen Xiao was the one who let go first?

Of course, Italy is more afraid of Yao Ming's inside attack!

Maybe for Italy, Chen Xiao can't guard him anyway, and it's useless to throw him out, but strangling Yao Ming is useful. Instead of letting the two of them go, it's better to choke Yao Ming.

At the end of the fourth quarter, the score was 92 to 89, and Chen Xiao scored 45 points in the game.

Judging from the final result and Chen Xiao's score, Italy's strategy failed.

However, if you look at it from another perspective, Yao Ming only scored 9 points on 3 of 12 shots. At the same time, Italy, which was generally not optimistic, only lost by 3 points in the end. This game was extremely successful for Italy. of.

The Chinese team played very hard in this game, and the difficulty was visible to the naked eye all over the world.

At the same time, the whole world also saw the determination of the Chinese team to win this game.

The crazy and embarrassing behavior of the American team in Group B had a huge impact on the Group A team.

Especially for the Chinese team, which ranks first in Group A, will they be as smart as Argentina to avoid the US team?

With Yugoslavia no longer the champion of the World Championships, the Chinese team, the runner-up in the World Championships, is the leader of the international team in this Olympic Games, hope.

Facing the American team in such poor condition, if the Chinese team hides.

To be honest, hiding is understandable, but it can also be very disappointing.

Now that the Sixth Dream Team, which has been labeled as the worst dream team in history, is hiding, the international team can only make so little progress.

It can be said that among these teams in Group A, Argentina can hide, Spain can hide, but the Chinese team cannot hide.

Don't talk about moral kidnapping. Everyone has praised you for so long, and you have enjoyed it for so long. When everyone needs you, you hide. This is your right, and that's right, but can your conscience be at peace? ?

In the end, the Chinese team did not disappoint.

"The Chinese men's basketball team is a heroic team. They are now the brave men expected by the entire Olympic Games!"

This is not what the American media said, this is what FIBA ​​Secretary General Patrick Baumann said.

At the same time, the secretary-general said after the Chinese team fought hard to win and defeated Italy: "The Chinese team is not afraid of the American Dream Team. World basketball is no longer a trembling lamb crawling under the American basketball. The Chinese men's basketball team now has a massacre." The supreme courage of the dragon.”

"A new pattern in the basketball world is formed!"

The performance of the Chinese men's basketball team in this Olympic Games has filled the world of basketball with hope.

On the other side, the US team did not disappoint world basketball.

In the fourth group match of the United States team, with the magical performance of Jaskovicis, the Lithuanian team defeated the United States "Dream Six" 94-90.

Captain Jaskovicis made 7 of 12 three-pointers in this game and scored a game-high 28 points.

In the last 3 minutes, he first succeeded in "hitting four points" and then hit two three-pointers, establishing the victory for the Lithuanian team in one fell swoop.

To be honest, one person scored 10 points in the last three minutes. This godlike performance really stunned the Dream Six and Larry Brown.

To be honest, it is difficult to encounter a god like this one in the NBA, but how many times has the Dream Six team encountered such a god in this Olympics?

These gods on the opposite side of the US team just kept popping up like mushrooms after rain without money.

What about the iron-blooded defense that was promised?

Why do people get penetrated every time?

It can only be said that Larry Brown's set is really unpopular in the international arena.

Of course, the players of the US team are actually really good. Under such a limited situation, they can still play against Lithuania for a whole game.

In this game, Lithuania's Stompogas contributed 16 points and 10 rebounds, including 2 of 3 three-pointers. Sisikauskas and Zukauskas contributed 14 points and 11 points respectively.

From these data, it can be seen that these European players are really not afraid of Meng Liu's "iron defense" champions.

For the Dream Team, Jefferson scored the highest score of the US team with 20 points, including 3 of 5 three-pointers. Duncan contributed 16 points and 12 rebounds. Ron Howard and Iverson scored 11 points each. Ali Nurse also scored 10 points.

Well, the Dream Team's three-pointer actually relied on Richard Jefferson. Xiao Tiantian sat on the bench and cried silently, while silently cursing.

"Damn Larry Brown, you are such a genius!"

Putting Anthony on the bench and using Richard Jefferson as the main attacker, isn't this genius?

No disrespect intended to Richard Jefferson.

To be honest, Jefferson's performance in this Olympics was good enough.

He really tried his best, but there were some tasks that he just couldn't do!

In short, after losing to Lithuania, the Dream Team has completely bid farewell to the top three, and can only strive for fourth place in the end.

Well, that's right, fighting for fourth place.

After four games, they have not yet qualified and need to defeat Angola in the fifth game.

How embarrassing!

"Chen, I'm panicking now. I'm so afraid of going back to the United States..."

Anthony was already panicking. In fact, many players on the Dream Team were panicking.

In response, Chen Xiao on the other end of the phone smiled slightly.

"Mello, don't panic, I'll take you back."

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On August 23, 2004, the Chinese team defeated Serbia and Montenegro 87-76, winning five consecutive games and qualifying first in Group A.

On the same day, the Dream Team defeated Angola 89-53 and qualified fourth in the group with 2 wins and 3 losses.

The quarterfinals of the Olympic men's basketball team, China VS the American Dream Team, is about to begin!

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