I’m Really Playing Basketball

Spain, third in Group C, finally made it to the quarterfinals in a very thrilling way. After being brutally beaten by France and the United States in the same group, the Czech team in Group A played the Japanese team in the third game, although they brushed hard. , but still couldn't get enough points.

In the end, France, the United States, Serbia, Australia, China, Slovenia and the two best third-place teams in the group, Italy and Spain, advanced to the knockout stage.

In the knockout stage, the first place team in each group and the second best team in the group are the seeded teams. At the same time, teams in the same group will not meet in the quarterfinals.

Therefore, the Chinese team's opponents in the quarterfinals cannot draw Spain and Slovenia, but can only draw Australia or Italy.

The final draw results for the quarter-finals were that the US team was drawn by Spain, Serbia was drawn by Slovenia, the French team was drawn by Italy, and the Chinese team was drawn by Australia.

I have to say that this is a relatively unfriendly result for the Chinese team, because Australia is definitely the strongest opponent in the lower half.

In the group stage, Australia defeated Italy and faced Serbia, the strongest team in the group, and performed very well. They even led in the first three quarters, only to be overtaken in the end, and in the end they only lost by one point.

Let's put it this way, the reason why Australia did not become the second best group is simply because there is only one tank team from Nigeria in the same group, while the US team has two tank teams from Japan and the Czech Republic. He has a lot of net points on his body.

In fact, before this year's Olympics, the U.S. team lost in a warm-up match against Australia.

In fact, in the main matches and warm-up matches of these major competitions, the American team has not defeated Australia for a long time.

In the warm-up match before the Olympics, Australia not only defeated the United States, but Argentina also lost.

If it weren't for Serbia's last-ditch double center sanction, Australia would not have lost a game in this Olympic cycle.

In short, this is a team with a very balanced offense and defense. Under FIBA ​​rules, it will not be easy for any team to beat them.

Of course, relatively speaking, the Chinese team had a slight advantage in beating Australia.

After all, he's tall, and he's tall and can cum.

Because of Milicic's age, Serbia had to wait until the fourth quarter to use a tall lineup with double centers to punish Australia.

The Chinese team can sanction Australia in all five positions from the beginning of the game.

Xiao Chen at point guard, Chen Xiao at shooting guard, Zhou Qi at small forward, Gao Bo at power forward, and Arab League at center.

Except for center A Lian, the Chinese team has the tallest players in all other positions in this Olympics.

The tallest point guard, shooting guard, small forward, and power forward in this Olympics are all on the Chinese team.

At the same time, the four tall men of the Chinese team all shot over 50%, with Gao Bo and Chen Xiao even over 60%.

To be fair, this makes teams who are afraid of high forwards look absolutely desperate.

Australia is really not afraid of the sudden individual singles of the American team.

But they are really afraid of people like the Chinese team standing there and shooting.

It's accurate and high, no matter how excellent your defensive skills are or how desperate your defensive attitude is, it's useless.

You just can't help it.

Therefore, regardless of the fact that the Chinese team drew Australia, it was a lottery. They drew the strongest team in the bottom half.

But for Australia, being drawn into the Chinese team is really a bad luck for eight lifetimes.

Let's put it this way, for Australia, in this Olympics, they are afraid of one and a half teams.

China is this team, and Serbia is the other half.

If they don't meet the Chinese team in the quarterfinals, let's put it this way, Australia feels they can win a medal this year.

But now that we have met, there is no what if.

At 8 o'clock in the evening on August 3, the quarter-final match between the Chinese team and Australia at the Saitama Super Arena was the finale of today's quarter-finals.

Before the battle between the Chinese team and Australia, the other three groups had already decided the winner.

The U.S. team finally defeated Spain 95-81 and advanced to the semi-finals first.

Spain is highly regarded for this Olympics. After all, many people say that this is the last Olympics for the Gasol brothers and Ibaka. The three of them will leave themselves a wonderful ending in this Olympics.

In addition, Spain's current overall strength is indeed very good. Although the youth is not in charge, the veterans are still there and have strength. Although the newcomers have not emerged with a new leader, their strength is also good. In this case, they can make a difference. .

But in the end, Spain's performance in this Olympics was a bit weak and a bit embarrassing.

They almost didn't qualify in the group stage and were outscored by 20 points by fellow championship rivals China. Unexpectedly, even a team like Slovenia could overthrow them.

And in the knockout round, the American team, which is currently undervalued, could beat them by more than 10 points. If it were not for the fact that after the American team took the lead, the stars of the American team would not give the ball to Durant, Curry, and Rose, but to themselves. Just a few random fights, let's put it this way, Spain may lose more in this game.

In this era, where everyone has social media and everyone wants to be in the limelight, the biggest problem for the U.S. team is that every star on the team wants to be in the limelight.

During the U.S. team's trip to the Olympics, even American fans themselves said that they watch Durant in adversity and Durant in good times. This summary is quite vivid.

When the U.S. team faced adversity, every other player on the U.S. team cowered and looked for Durant with the ball. If they didn't look for Durant, they wouldn't know how to play.

Durant finally defeated the opponent in an invincible singles and turned the situation from adversity to prosperity. The stars of the US team all lost sight of Durant and did not even let Durant touch the ball. , every time he gets the ball, he thinks he is Jordan.

Therefore, this is also the reason why the American team is not favored. It is too inconsistent. Look at how the Chinese team plays.

That really means that every ball is reasonable. Under the organization of Chen Xiao, Xiao Chen, Gao Bo, Zhou Qi, A Lian and others, every ball will hit the player with the greatest misalignment.

In the Chinese team, no one has special privileges. Even Chen Xiao does not want special privileges in this Olympics. Whoever has the opportunity will play.

Compared with the Chinese team, this American team is like a ragtag group of people.

Faced with such a ragtag American team, Spain lost so much. Let's put it this way, even the fans in Spain cannot accept it.

After all, before the quarterfinals started, Spanish fans felt that they had a chance to be killed by the American team.

The French team can use its inside advantage to defeat the American team, why can't Spain?

Although Spain's three insiders are not as good as the Chinese team, facing other teams, even Serbia, they dare not say that their inside players are worse than Spain.

But the final result can only be said to be extremely disappointing for Spanish fans.

Spain today is really bad, not united and not determined enough.

Although the current US team is not good at cooperating and coaching, the three thighs of Durant, Curry, and Rose are really thick and strong.

In addition to the focus battle between the United States and Spain, in the other two quarter-finals matches, the French team easily defeated the Italian team 85-74, while the focus battle between Slovenia and Serbia was an upset.

Slovenia, led by Doncic, defeated Serbia 90-85.

This was something that no one expected before the game. After all, no one could have imagined that Raptors veteran point guard Dragic made five of five shots in the first half and scored 12 points with a 100% shooting rate, allowing Doncic to play the entire game. Half the game was full of soy sauce.

Let's put it this way. In the first half of this game, Dragic led Slovenia to suppress Serbia, led by Raptors boss Milicic.

Then in the second half, Serbia recovered and wanted to exert its strength, but fell behind by 8 points in the first half and could never catch up.

Serbia's double center is very suppressive, but it is really difficult for the double center to chase points, it is too slow.

Especially when the opponent has a player like Doncic who can always score.

In this game, it can be said that Dragic established the team's lead, while Doncic, who played like a super giant, firmly covered Serbia's coffin board on the spot.

In the whole game, Dragic and Doncic scored 50 points together, which was 2 points more than the 48 points scored by Jokic and Milicic.

In short, after this game, many people felt that Slovenia, the dark horse, was going to be dark to the end.

Of course, if Slovenia wants to win, it needs to defeat the US team. If it were 20 years ago, no one would have such expectations.

But in this time and space, in this era, when the American team has been knocked off the altar by the Chinese team and has even lost the title of Dream Team, everyone can indeed imagine that they can beat the American team.

Back to the game between China and Australia.

On the court, the five starting players of the Chinese team, A Lian, Gao Bo, Zhou Qi, Chen Xiao, Xiao Xiao Chen, five players over 2 meters tall were standing there like this. The pressure on Australia was indeed huge.

The leader of the Australian team, the Spurs' young point guard Patty Mills, stood in front of Xiao Chen, just like a Xiuzhen warrior.

The Australian team has seven NBA players. In the absence of Houston's leader Simmons, Mills is the absolute leader of the team.

And Mills has indeed always been very powerful in the FIBA ​​arena.

In this game, Mills' performance was also very good. Although he couldn't defend Xiao Chen or Chen Xiao, he was beaten hard by the Chinese team during the whole game and was beaten hard, but he His mentality was not affected, and he still scored 22 points on the offensive end.

Of course, such a score will definitely not help Australia as a whole.

Aron Baynes, a 2.08-meter center who currently plays for the Raptors, and Jock Randall, who plays for Melbourne United in the Australian domestic league, were two big men in this game. It’s maxed out.

Jock Randall is actually not short, with a height of 2.11 meters and a wingspan of 2.20 meters. If you put this anywhere, he is actually not short or short.

But Gao Bo, who he faced, was 2.19 meters tall and had a wingspan of 2.32 meters. In comparison, he was just like Chen Xiao and Ke Laoda back then.

This is not disrespectful to Ke Lao. With such a huge difference in static talent between the two, Ke Lao and Chen Xiao completed an offensive exchange in the finals. This can only show that Ke Lao is invincible in terms of technique.

But it is obvious that although Randall is Australia's best next-generation insider, his skills are not even comparable to the invincible level of Ke Lao.

His skills are not as good as the opposite Gao Bo.

Well, if in this game Randall can barely keep up with Zhou Qi at 50-50, and the fight will be inextricable, but when facing Gao Bo, it will be really miserable.

Gao Bo doesn't have as many fickle thoughts as Zhou Qi. Gao Bo's golf intelligence and mentality are very strong, and he can catch you and beat him to death.

Randall, the most dominant player in Australia and a player who is about to join the NBA, was given a hard lesson by Gao Bo, the NBA's second-team center and the best rookie, in this game.

Of course, that's not a bad thing for a young player.

Of course, Randall is nearly 4 years older than Gao Bo.

However, with Gao Bo's current reputation in the basketball world and the NBA, it doesn't matter if Randall is not as good as Gao Bo. After all, Gao Bo was the No. 1 pick in 2018, and you, Randall, were only in 2018. An undrafted pick.

And in this Olympics, Gao Bo and Doncic are definitely the two most outstanding young players.

If you don't look at Chen Xiao, who has played extremely well so far, and Durant, who was ignored by his teammates and couldn't produce statistics in good times, Gao Bo and Doncic are the players with the best performance in the Olympics so far.

The two brought the fierce rivalry between Chen Xiao Basketball School and the NBA to the Olympic Games.

I have to say that this is indeed something that many fans are looking forward to.

Looking forward to whether the two can meet in the Olympic finals.

On August 5, the semi-finals between Slovenia and the United States started first. Slovenia, which was expected by everyone, performed very well, but ultimately lost to the United States 92-99.

In this game, Doncic was wildly targeted by the US team, but Doncic still recorded an incredible super triple-double of 18 points, 18 assists and 11 rebounds.

Although it was difficult for Doncic to attack offensively in this game, his golf IQ is so high that it is jaw-dropping.

It can only be said that Slovenia and Doncic have tried their best, and the US team is indeed strong.

With Durant and Curry Rose, even if others take off, the US team can beat all teams except the Chinese team.

Therefore, after eliminating Slovenia, the entire US team, led by Joe, attended the semi-final between China and France at 7pm.

"There is no way the French team can beat the Chinese team!"

Yes, they absolutely do not believe that France, which defeated them, has the ability to defeat the Chinese team.

This is the opponent's confidence in the Chinese team, an old rival.

97 to 81!

The Chinese team defeated the French team in the semi-finals and reached the finals of the fifth consecutive Olympic Games.

The Chinese team has won the first four times.

But this time, the opponent is an old rival, Team USA!

Another showdown of the century!

Just this time.

China is the dream team and the United States is the challenger!