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Chapter 346 Quarterfinals against Serbia
Serbia, the opponent in the quarter-finals of the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team, is to some extent a stronger opponent than Argentina.

It may be difficult to distinguish between the two in terms of team strength, but at this stage when Ginobili has retired and Scola is getting old, Argentina has no core-level players who can serve as the main force in the NBA.

But Serbia is different.

Nikola Jokic was originally one of the candidates for the MVP of the regular season last season. He averaged 20 points, 10.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game in the regular season last season. The regular season MVP of the two seasons of 20 and 21-21, his strength is undoubtedly the top level in the league.

When the Huaguo men's basketball team faced Argentina, they basically relied on Wang Feng's personal ability to win. Serbia can also do this. After all, with the current inside level of the Huaguo men's basketball team, they want to guard against the heavy weight of 129 kg. Center Jokic is quite difficult.

Ah Lian can't do it, and Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin are even more impossible.

Therefore, fans who know a little bit about penalty kicks have already started to worry about the Huaguo men's basketball team before the start of the game between the two teams.
Can the Huaguo men's basketball team withstand Jokic's offense?
Gong Luming has been troubled by this problem.

Who should guard Jokic against Serbia?

Then, Wang Feng took the initiative to find him.

"Director Gong, next game, let me defend Jokic."

When Wang Feng said this, Gong Luming almost thought he heard it wrong.

Let Wang Feng defend Jokic?
He didn't even think about it.

As we all know, Wang Feng is best at perimeter defense. Initially, his interior defense ability could even be used as a short board. It was not until recent years that he gradually improved, showing good defense ability in the interior.

But even so, when he was on the Lakers, Wang Feng would only occasionally mark the inside line in most cases, and most of the time he would put more energy and efficiency on the outside line defense that he was better at.

It is obviously not a wise move for Wang Feng to defend the top-level inside star in the NBA.

What's more, Wang Feng still needs to bear a lot of offensive firepower responsibilities of the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team on the field. Focusing more on defense may cause him to be distracted, and the offensive efficiency will also be affected.

However, Wang Feng has his own considerations.

It's true that he's not good at inside defense, but that's only relative.

The inside defense that has reached 90 has made Wang Feng's defensive ability at the basket stronger than most defensive insiders in the NBA. Now the only thing that restricts his defensive efficiency at the basket is only a little height.

After much deliberation, Wang Feng decided that it would be better for him to mark Jokic himself.

In fact, in terms of scoring alone, Bojan Bogdanovic is the most eye-catching player in Serbia. In the group stage, Bogdanovic averaged 22 points per game and had two 30+ scoring performances.

As the strongest perimeter defender in the same position as Bogdanovic, Wang Feng should have prevented Bogdanovic to death.

But he is very clear that Bogdanovic is only the point with the highest scoring output in Serbia on the surface, and the real core of this team is Jokic.

Although not particularly outstanding in terms of personal data, Jokic's center support ability has revitalized the entire Serbian tactical system, allowing the entire team to play smooth cooperation and games.

So far in the Men's Basketball World Cup, Serbia is the team with the strongest offensive firepower among the 32 teams, averaging 115.5 points per game, which is completely a scoring level that can only be achieved in a 48-minute game in the NBA. Open Jokic's contribution.

Wang Feng can mark Bogdanovic all the way to make him play abnormally throughout the game, but even so, Serbia can still find other scoring points to continue to maintain the team's offensive efficiency.

Therefore, Wang Feng believes that getting Jokic is the key to defeating Serbia.

What he has to do is not how to guard Jokic strictly, but to do everything possible to entangle Jokic as much as possible and consume Jokic's physical energy.

Jokic's weight is close to 129 kilograms, and he is also the core of the team's offensive and defensive ends, which consumes a lot of energy. If there is another Wang Feng with a strength of 88 during this period, what kind of result will it be? ?
Wang Feng's self-confidence comes from the purple badge he just redeemed this summer, a powerful terminator.

This badge allows him to reduce the consumption of physical energy in direct physical confrontation. When this badge level reaches the purple hall of fame level, the degree of reduction is quite obvious.

Wang Feng, whose physical fitness has already reached 98, coupled with a powerful purple terminator, can completely entangle Jokic throughout the whole process, exhausting him, and his own offense will not be affected too much.

Well... This way feels a bit sloppy, but Wang Feng can't help it.

When the team's overall strength is weak, if they want to win the game smoothly, they can only think of other ways. After all, Wang Feng can't really expect himself to be better than the five Serbian players in terms of offensive firepower.

He told Gong Luming all about his thoughts and plans.

Although Director Gong recognized Wang Feng's tactical ideas, he was still a little worried.

Can Wang Feng really carry Jokic who weighs close to 130 kg?And even if he can really hold it, how much physical strength can he have on the offensive end when he consumes so much energy on the defensive end?
However, worry was nothing but worry, Gong Luming couldn't think of any other better way.

Being able to contain Jokic and block Serbia's tactical fluency is obviously an easier way to win.

So after some struggle, he still agreed to Wang Feng's proposal.

"Wang Feng, this is a risky move. If it fails, not only will the team lose, but your game statistics will also be greatly reduced. At that time, it may be regarded as causing the team to lose. The main culprit." Gong Luming looked at Wang Feng, and said solemnly: "You are now in the rising stage of your career, which has a great impact on you, are you really ready for this?"

"Of course." Wang Feng nodded without thinking.

As the core leader of a team, if he dare not even take this risk, how can he expect to lead the team to victory?

What's more, Wang Feng didn't think that the situation that Gong Luming was worried about would happen to him at all.

A powerful finisher at the Purple Hall of Fame level is not something to look at, and the Men's Basketball World Cup only lasts 10 minutes in a single quarter and 40 minutes in total.

If he hadn't taken all these factors into consideration, he wouldn't have come here to volunteer.

……

On September 9, the quarter-finals of the Men's Basketball World Cup.

"Audience friends, welcome to the quarter-finals of the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup. What is going on now is the duel between the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team and the Serbia Men's Basketball Team. The winner of both sides will enter the semi-finals, and the loser Participants will be eliminated and can only participate in the subsequent 5-8 qualifying rounds."

"Therefore, there is no way out for the Huaguo men's basketball team or Serbia in this game. The brave wins when we meet on a narrow road. Let us cheer for the Huaguo athletes!"

Accompanied by the commentator's opening, the Wukesong Stadium roared with cheers like a tsunami.

The Huaguo men's basketball team has a very obvious home court advantage in local games.

Amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, the players of the two teams appeared on the stage.

Everyone is very clear that this will be a difficult battle for the Huaguo men's basketball team, and the key to winning the game is most likely the performance of the two core players of their respective teams, Wang Feng and Jokic.

In the live broadcast rooms of the major portal websites, countless fans have begun to swipe their screens frantically, expressing their views on the game.

"Come on, Wang Feng! If you score 60 points in this game, the Huaguo men's basketball team will win the game!"

"Jokic is a bit difficult to mess with. Can Ah Lian and Zhou Qi stand up?"

"I support the Huaguo men's basketball team, kill Serbia, kill the United States, and reach the finals to compete for the championship!!!"

……

While the audience and fans were discussing extremely enthusiastically, the two commentary directors of the CCTV Sports Channel were also discussing the game.

"In this game, everyone is very clear that the key to the outcome of the game is the performance of Wang Feng and Jokic. Our side must do whatever it takes to wipe out Serbia's advantage in the interior. Don't let the opponent get too many good opportunities in the paint."

"Similarly, for the Serbian men's basketball team, what they need to do is how to restrict Wang Feng's success, but we have all seen before that Wang Feng's technical characteristics are different from Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo. A player who is suitable for playing the rules of the international basketball league, with super long range, quick breakthrough, and stable mid-range shooting, are the most feared in zone defense tactics."

"In the first round of the group stage, in order to limit Wang Feng's performance, several other teams used the extreme tactic of double-teaming. As a result, we saw a Wang Feng who averaged double-digit assists per game. It doesn't do anything to him."

"In the second round of the group stage, the Huaguo men's basketball team faced Argentina. The latter learned the lessons of several teams in the first round. They did not choose to double-team Wang Feng but strengthened their defense against the other players of the Huaguo men's basketball team. Isolate Wang Feng, and then he broke the single-game scoring record in the Men's Basketball World Cup..."

Now, CCTV sports channel commenting on basketball games is much simpler and easier, as long as you catch Wang Feng playing without thinking, as long as it is playing Wang Feng, more than [-]% of the national audience will absolutely love to listen.

Besides, they weren't really bragging, they were just stating the facts. Wang Feng is so strong, what can be done?
After touting for a while, the commentary style changed. "Okay, we see that the starting players from both sides have already appeared on the stage. For the Huaguo men's basketball team, the starting five are Guo Ailun, Zhai Xiaochuan, Wang Feng, Ah Lian, and Zhou Qi."

"The starting five for the Serbian men's basketball team are Varisje Misic, Bogdanovic, Belica, Boban, Marjanovic and Nikola Jokic."

"Both centers jump the ball in the middle circle. Zhou Qi successfully won the jump ball by relying on his height, wingspan and jumping advantages. The ball was directly given to Wang Feng. Wang Feng pushed the ball to the right 45 degrees outside the three-point line, oops! The distance There is still one step away from the three-point line and I have already taken off and shot!"

"The Serbian men's basketball forward Beliza, who was in charge of defending Wang Feng, obviously didn't expect Wang Feng to be so decisive with the first goal. He stepped forward to defend slowly, and the basketball hit the net in response, and the three-pointer was effective!"

"It seems that Wang Feng feels very hot in this game. This is good news for the Huaguo men's basketball team. As long as Wang Feng's scoring efficiency is guaranteed, the offense of the Huaguo men's basketball team will not be bad. Next, as long as we can do as much as possible Limit Jokic's performance, and you can..."

The narrator's passionate narration suddenly stopped abruptly, and then the voice rose a few degrees.

"Now Serbia has the ball. We saw that Wang Feng actually stood in front of Jokic. Is he going to defend Jokic himself?"

"Oh! This is not a good idea. Although such enthusiasm is worth encouraging, Wang Feng is only 2 meters tall. Facing Jokic who is 01 meters tall, the height gap is too big, and Jokic is heavier than Wang Feng It weighed more than 2 kilograms, and Wang Feng is not easy to carry this tonnage."

The two commentators were a little anxious.

"There is really no need to do this. As long as Wang Feng can guarantee his efficiency on the scoring end, it will be the greatest help to the Hua Guo men's basketball team. Basketball is not a 1v5 game. Wang Feng must learn to trust his teammates. Ah Lian And Zhou Qi must have a way to restrain Jokic."

The audience in the live broadcast room and on the field couldn't help but get nervous.

However, on the court, Jokic has already frowned.

"This guy, what are you trying to do?"

Before entering the inside line, Wang Feng had already started wrestling with Jokic.

He stood in front of Jokic, trying his best to squeeze the opponent to the outside line.

Although Jokic's weight and tonnage are relatively large, Wang Feng's strength as high as 88 gives him a certain amount of capital that can compete with Jokic.

After a lot of effort, the Jokic Wizards finally took a position under the basket and raised their hands for the ball.

Relying on Wang Feng's back and receiving a pass from his teammate, Jokic used his flexible inside footsteps to successfully deceive Wang Feng's center of gravity, and then scored with a low-handed layup.

3: 2.

Although he succeeded in scoring a goal with Wang Feng alone, Jokic was not very happy.

Too much effort.

It was just an ordinary attack, and Jokic spent a lot of effort, entangled with Wang Feng from the outside to the inside, and even had to continue to resist Wang Feng when he turned his back.

This is exactly Draymond Green's defense incarnate.

Green, who is also 2 meters tall, is the only player in the Warriors' death five who can stand up to a big center. Big center.

Green's ability on the offensive end can be blacked out at will, but in terms of defense, especially the desperate degree of inside defense, Green is definitely not blackened.

Jokic, who has experienced Green's defense more than once, feels that Wang Feng's pressure just now is not much more than Green's!

(End of this chapter)