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Chapter 163 The last battle before winning the championship!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!
Chapter 160 The second final battle before winning the championship!
When Xu Lang confirmed that he would go to the Eagles, he knew some information about his teammates next season in advance.

Of course, because Xu Lang was too busy at the time, and the national team was under pressure, at most Xu Lang only knew the names of these teammates, and Xu Lang still didn't know much about the others.

Therefore, facing Jose Calderon, it was the first time for Xu Lang to understand his true strength level from the system.

Under the standards of the NBA, Calderon's overall strength has only reached the B minus level, but under the standards of the FIBA, his overall strength has reached the peak level of the B level.

Although it is compared with the strength level of the B-plus level under the FIBA ​​standard of Spanoulis.

Calderon's level of strength is slightly lower, but as a European player who also plays with rhythm and field control as his main style of play.

Calderon is not much worse than Spanoulis in controlling the rhythm of the game.

And except for Calderon, a b-level point guard.

There is also a center in the Spanish team, Marc Gasol, who is just 21 years old this year and has reached the c-level under the NBA standard and the c+ level under the FIBA ​​standard.

At the same time, Marc Gasol is still the younger brother of Paul Gasol.

"I'll go, can basketball talent be passed from person to person?"

Look at Marc Gasol's A-minus basketball potential no less than Pau Gasol's.

Xu Lang feels that the basketball genes and basketball talents of the Gasol family are a little too good?

And this is not over yet, after having Paul Gasol, the A-level starting center, and Marc Gasol, the C+-level backup center.

After Calderon, the b-level point guard, Spain also has a b-level Rudy Ferrandos whose strength has reached the b-level below the FIBA ​​standard.

In addition to these three b-level and above players and one c+ level player, the entire Spanish team has four c plus level players and four c level players.

The 12-man lineup of the Spanish team is not weaker than the Chinese team at all in terms of pure strength evaluation, and even stronger than the Chinese team in some positions, and the lineup is also deeper.

"As expected of a team that can score 16 points against the US team, this game is not easy to play."

After Xu Lang looked at the strength evaluation of all the players in this Spanish team in the system, he thought with some emotion.

But when Xu Lang turned around and looked at Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and others who were talking and laughing beside him, who were warming up, they also showed a confident smile.

"But we're not vegetarians either."

Soon, the warm-up of the players of the two teams ended, and the much-anticipated final was about to begin.

"Okay, let's stop the gossip. This game is about to start. Let's take a look at the starting lineups of the two teams."

The starting lineup of the Chinese team: slightly

Spain's starting lineup:

Center: Pau Gasol, power forward: Jorge Garbajosa, small forward: Carlos Zimens, shooting guard: Juan Navarro, point guard: Jose Calderon.

In the entire Spanish starting lineup, except for the b-level player Fernandez who did not play, the other two players above the b-level in the Spanish team all stayed in the starting lineup.

As for Juan Navarro, who replaced Fernandez and entered the starting lineup, although the overall strength evaluation under the FIBA ​​standard is one level weaker than Fernandez, he has also reached the c-plus level.

What's more, although Navarro is slightly weaker than Fernandez except for his overall strength, his three-point ability has reached the B+ level under FIBA ​​standards!

This is also an important reason why Navarro will still be able to replace Fernandez and enter the starting lineup even though the overall strength evaluation is not as good as Fernandez.

At least, from a tactical perspective, Navarro, a first-class shooter under FIBA ​​rules, will be better for the space and tactical performance of the entire Spanish team lineup.

With the determination of the starting lineups of the two teams, the game officially began.

Facing Pau Gasol with a midcourt jump ball, Yi Jianlian relied on his faster rebound speed to move the basketball to the Chinese team's half court first.

It was just when Xu Lang was about to take the basketball that Yi Jianlian had dialed over and launch an attack.

The Spanish team's starting point guard, Jose Calderon, suddenly jumped out and rushed in front of Xu Lang, about to snatch the basketball from Xu Lang's hands this time.

Fortunately, Xu Lang reacted quickly, taking the basketball with one stride ahead of Jose Calderon.

And after Xu Lang took the basketball, he immediately dropped the ball and rushed forward, directly throwing away Jose Calderon, who was out of position because of a failed gambling steal.

As one of the top three core point guard players in this World Championship, and a rookie of the Eagles who is likely to compete with Xu Lang for the starting point guard next season, Jose Calderon intends to make a good name for himself in this game. Measure Xu Lang's.

Although Xu Lang is the No. [-] pick, although Xu Lang's performance in the World Championships is very impressive, as long as Jose Calderon can gain the upper hand in this direct dialogue with Xu Lang, it is not impossible to kill Xu Lang and become The starting point guard for the Eagles next season!
But so far, in the first confrontation between the two, Xu Lang was the winner.

After getting rid of Jose Calderon, Xu Lang accelerated, planning to take advantage of Calderon's defensive loss this time to quickly launch a fast break.

It's just that when Xu Lang really took the ball and took a step outside the three-point line, he suddenly found that several other players of the Spanish team had already settled down and stood in the defensive position ahead of time.

This made it impossible for Xu Lang to find an opportunity to quickly launch an attack in a short period of time, although the Spanish team is currently defending four defenses and five defenses.

Then, Xu Lang, who has always shown a strong ability to organize offenses, this time he didn't know how to organize offenses for a while.

At the same time, just as Xu Lang was blocked from the three-point line by the Spanish team's tight defense.

Jose Calderon had also crossed halftime again, returned to his defensive position, and stood in front of Xu Lang.

This makes the Chinese team's offense can only turn into a positional offense.

Fortunately, for Xu Lang and the Chinese team, they didn't even think about it. In this game against Spain, they relied on jumping balls to open the situation.

Therefore, although the Chinese team's attack was unsuccessful this time, it did not affect the Chinese team's offensive rhythm.

After entering the rhythm of attacking from the ground, Xu Lang took advantage of the situation and directed his teammates to make tactical moves, quickly opening up the offensive space on the left.

After opening enough space for Yao Ming to attack, Xu Lang directly hit the ground and passed the ball, and handed the ball to Yao Ming who wanted the ball behind his back.

Yao Ming got stuck behind Paul Gasol's interference and received a pass from Xu Lang.

First of all, the top defensive player behind him, the Spanish team's strongest player Paul Gasol, tentatively leaned back to judge his defensive center of gravity.

At the same time, Yao Ming is also paying attention to the positions of other Spanish defensive players.

Unlike other opponents of the Chinese team, the Spanish team's defensive position is obviously relatively outside.

You must know that because of Yao Ming, every opponent facing the Chinese team will be more inclined to the inside when building a defensive system.

Even when the U.S. team was playing against the Chinese team, most of the players' defensive positions moved more towards the inside.

But the Spanish team is different. I don't know if it is because of their trust in Pau Gasol. When the Spanish team faced Yao Ming's offensive move with his back for the ball.

Except for Garbajosa on the wing, most of the other Spanish players are located outside the three-second zone, and even Jose Calderon, who is defending Xu Lang, is outside the three-point line. .

Faced with such a good one-on-one singles opportunity, Yao Ming would naturally not let it go.

After a simple test and observation, Yao Ming directly dropped the ball and exerted force, pouted his big butt, tensed his two thick thigh muscles, and exerted force twice in a row, easily pushing away Pau Gasol half a dozen times. defensive position.

Then Yao Ming, who gained the space to attack, directly and decisively received the ball, and came to the edge of the penalty area in two strides.

And just when Yao Ming was about to get up and complete a two-handed dunk to win the first point for the Chinese team, Garbajosa, who was ready to flank Yao Ming at any time, appeared in front of Yao Ming in time.

However, although Garbajosa has tried his best to interfere with Yao Ming's attack this time, Garbajosa really didn't expect that Paul Gasol would be pushed away by Yao Ming so easily.

Therefore, in the end, Garbajosa's supplementary defense still did not prevent Yao Ming from completing this attack.

Of course, Garbajosa's active supplementary defense was not all useless. It still forced Yao Ming to change the original dunk action into a layup action.

"To be honest, Yao Ming in this World Championship actually brought me a lot of surprises."

"Although in the NBA, Yao Ming has already shown the strength of a top center in the NBA."

"But I never imagined that after matching Yao Ming with a top-level point guard, he would be able to exert such terrifying inside pressure!"

"Indeed, if you just look at the performances in these few games in this year's World Championships, I personally think that Yao Ming's dominance in the paint is starting to approach that of Shaquille O'Neal at his peak."

Barkley looked at Yao Ming who was still steadily putting the ball into the basket in the face of a double team, and he really felt that he was really blind back then.

The screen returned to the game field. After the strong attack against Yao Ming just now failed to defend, the generals of the Spanish team did not seem to be too frustrated.

After all, is it Yao Ming? It's too normal to be unstoppable!

Therefore, after the defense failed, the generals of the Spanish team turned around without any hesitation, under the command of Jose Calderon, and started their own offensive positions.

Like Spanoulis, he is a point guard who mainly plays on the field.

Under the control of Jose Calderon, the Spanish team also played like a whole.

And because the overall strength of the Spanish team's players in each position is stronger than that of the Greek team, it also makes the Spanish team's offensive power and effect stronger than that of the Greek team.

This made the Chinese team, which was able to limit the Greek team's offense to a certain level in the previous game, not be able to block the Spanish team's attack this time.

And this is just the beginning. In the following games, the Spanish team began to use various running positions and tactical arrangements to help their team obtain various offensive opportunities.

And what makes the Chinese team feel a little helpless is that.

The Spanish team played in the first half of the first quarter and basically did not waste any offensive opportunities that might score.

Throughout the first half of the game, the Spanish team made 16 of [-] shots and scored [-] points in the half of the game.

And the 16 points were evenly distributed, with Pau Gasol scoring six and Jose Calderon three.

Navarro scored three points, and the other four points were divided equally by the other two starters!
I talked about the team style of play like the Greek team, or most European teams.

The advantage it has is that there is no specific offensive core point, which makes it difficult for opponents to plan a defensive strategy in advance when defending, thus limiting the overall offensive rhythm of this type of team.

And to deal with such a team-based offensive system, the method is also very simple.

One is like the Chinese team played against the Greek team in the last game, system against system, relying on high-intensity defensive confrontation and high-level defensive rotation, making it difficult for every player of the opponent to get a good offensive opportunity.

In this game, the Chinese team actually did it, but compared to the players of the Greek team, these players of the Spanish team have stronger offensive capabilities.

In the eyes of some players of the Greek team, what may be a difficult offensive opportunity may be a good offensive opportunity in the eyes of the players of the Spanish team.

In addition, as soon as this game came up, the Spanish team's touch was so good that it seemed that the Chinese team could hardly suppress the Spanish team's offense only by relying on the defensive system.

And if there is no way to rely on the defensive system to suppress the team-based offensive system, then if you want to kill the team-based offensive systems of Spain and Greece, you can only use offense instead of defense.

Through stronger offensive firepower than the Spanish team, the Spanish team has to spend more energy on the defensive end, which can also reduce the Spanish team's offensive firepower in disguise.

However, the problem now is that apart from Yao Ming, the entire Chinese team has no other players who can oppress the Spanish team's defensive formation.

Moreover, although Yao Ming had already played in the first half of the game, he tried his best to play one-on-one in the interior, time and time again playing extremely efficient offensive performances.

Directly in the first half of the game, a single player scored 70 points with a shooting rate of more than 11%.

However, the Spanish team did not change their original defensive strategy because of Yao Ming's efficient offensive inside.

After all, even with Yao Ming maintaining such an efficient offense, the Chinese team was still behind at the end of the half quarter.

Speaking of which, I really can't blame the other players of the Chinese team for not being up to date. It is really because Yao Ming, the strongest point of the Chinese team, has no way to rely on his strong internal pressure to compress the Spanish team's defense.

With the exception of Yao Ming, it is difficult for the entire Chinese team to rely on their own offensive strength to break through the Spanish team's stronger defensive system than the Greek team.

And when the outside players of the Chinese team have no way to form an offensive linkage with the inside Yao Ming, it is naturally difficult to put great defensive pressure on the Spanish team's defense.

In addition, although Pau Gasol's defensive strength is not a very strong ability, it is not weak either.

At least Yao Ming still needs to consume a lot of physical energy and energy when facing Pau Gasol's individual singles again and again.

In addition, on the defensive end, Yao Ming still needs to sit in the penalty area to deal with the Spanish team's various bottom line interspersed moves.

It also made Yao Ming's physical consumption far exceed that of the same period at the end of the first half of the game.

Therefore, after entering the second half of the game, the Chinese team not only failed to complete the lead in the score, but also allowed the Spanish team to widen the score gap between the two teams.

The Chinese team attacked, Xu Lang held the ball from the outside, and looked at the score gap that was already three points behind.

Xu Lang somewhat understood why the Spanish team was able to beat the US team, and even beat the US team by 16 points.

In terms of pure personal strength, Jose Calderon is actually not as good as his opponent Spanoulis in the last match.

However, Xu Lang was able to kill Spanoulis one-on-one when facing Spanoulis alone in the last game, thus completing a breakthrough and helping the Chinese team find some opportunities to break the game.

But this game is facing a tighter defense and a stronger Spanish team.

Although Xu Lang was still able to pass Jose Calderon every time, he often couldn't reach the three-second zone before being stopped by other players of the Spanish team.

Then, Xu Lang, whose offensive rhythm was interrupted, would be forced to stop by Jose Calderon's back and forth attacks, and had to retreat to the three-point line to organize the attack, or pass the ball directly.

This made Xu Lang's all-star strength, but actually only [-]% of it could be used.

Similarly, because of Xu Lang's lack of restraint on the outside, Yao Ming could only face the pincer attacks of Pau Gasol and Garbajosa on the inside alone.

As the game progressed, Garbajosa was increasingly able to find the best time and position to pinch Yao Ming.

This made Yao Ming face more and more defensive pressure in the second half of the game.

In fact, Garbajosa did not dare to flank Yao Ming so unscrupulously.

After all, Yi Jianlian's basket impact ability and mid-range shooting ability shown in the previous games are still very good.

But who would have thought that Yi Jianlian, who had been able to fly into the sky and escape from the ground before, would see a sharp decline in his offensive status in this game.

Whether it is the strength of hitting the basket or the shooting from the mid-range position, Yi Jianlian does not look like a player who can compete for the first team of power forwards in this World Championship.

In addition, Yi Jianlian's own mid-range shooting speed is relatively slow, which makes his defensive attractiveness to Garbajosa drop a lot.

Especially when Yao Ming passed the ball to Yi Jianlian twice in a row, allowing him to get an open shot, but he failed to grasp it.

It made Garbajosa's flanking behavior and flanking movements more and more unscrupulous.

In the end, due to the combination of various reasons, the Chinese team played like the world's second-rate team in the first 8 minutes of the game against Spain.

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