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Chapter 265 The Final Four!The world's top four! 【Please subscribe! 】

"What? Has the Chinese team entered the quarterfinals?"

"It's been six years, and we finally made it to the quarterfinals again. Do you know how we've been through these six years?"

"Maybe more than the quarterfinals, we must know that our opponent in the next round is Puerto Rico!"

"The Chinese team is much stronger than Puerto Rico."

"The Chinese men's basketball team has finally risen, and we are also a world-class team!"

When Lu Yu saw various comments on the Internet, he just sighed secretly.

Six years?

In Lu Yu's previous life, the Chinese men's basketball team was more than six years away from the top eight in the world!
In the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, only in 1994 has won the top eight in the World Championships, only this time in the top eight in the World Championships, and three in the top eight in the Olympic Games, in 1996, 2004 and 2008.

If it sounds good, it is the top eight, and if it is ugly, it is the eighth.

After 2008, for a full 14 years, the Chinese men's basketball team has not even mentioned the top eight in the world. After hitting the back, it may not even be able to enter the top eight in Asia.

I originally thought that the past few years were the beginning of the rise of Chinese basketball. Who knew it would be a swan song?

After Lu Yu can't control it, he doesn't know how to help Chinese basketball. He only knows that he can play every game he participates well and win a few more championships.

This year is the best chance for Chinese basketball.

The opponent Puerto Rico is not very strong, there is no problem in entering the semi-finals, and the other three teams in the semi-finals will be Argentina, Germany and Yugoslavia if there is no accident.

Argentina and Germany are both underdogs of the Chinese team, but Yugoslavia is more difficult to deal with.

As long as we reach the semi-finals, we are only two games away from the final championship.

No matter who the opponent is, the last fight is over!

On September 9, the quarter-finals of the Men's Basketball World Championships kicked off.

The first two games are Argentina and Brazil at the RCA Dome, and Germany and Spain at the Conseco Arena.

The Argentina team's overall style of play this year has shown a very high level, and the skills of using tactics in actual combat are already perfect.

Argentina's defense is also worth mentioning. When their height is not dominant, they can fill every loophole with quick supplementary defense and assist defense, making it difficult for opponents to shoot comfortably.

In this contest with Brazil, the focus is more on the players who may enter the NBA from the two teams, so the scene also attracted a lot of NBA scouts.

Ginobili has been confirmed to join the Spurs after this summer.

Scola was selected 2th in the second round by the San Antonio Spurs in this year's draft, but due to the high buyout fee requested by the parent team, he will not land in the NBA in the short term.

In Brazil, a shooting guard who was still playing in a small club in Brazil caught the attention of scouts.

He was Leandro Barbosa, who had 15.8 points, 6.4 assists and 1.7 steals last season.

The guy nicknamed Brazilian Lightning, who made Nash and his wife a black boy.

His speed is indeed fast, and his playing posture is quite weird, but he was able to score and led Brazil to cling to the score until the last 3 minutes of the fourth quarter.

In the end, Argentina defeated Brazil 78-67 and advanced to the semi-finals.

The Brazilian team fell to the 5th to 8th place in the competition.

Another game at the same time at the Conseco Arena was over as Germany beat Spain 70-62.

Gasol is still a little immature in front of Nowitzki.

Don't look at Nowitzki, who is two years older than Gasol, but Gasol has just spent his rookie season in the NBA, and Nowitzki has been in the NBA for four seasons.

These four seasons have brought earth-shaking changes to a player's growth.

At this time in Spain, there is no golden boy Rubio. This year Rubio is still a 12-year-old child. Rudy Fernandez has just finished playing U16. Gasol’s younger brother Marc Gasol is still playing for the Lausanne Academy.

Gasol alone can't bear the rolling wheels of German chariots.

加索尔这场比赛只拿到16分7个篮板2次助攻的数据，而诺维斯基则是拿到了30分13个篮板5次助攻的数据。

Simply incomparable.

After these two games, two teams have entered the semi-finals, Argentina and Germany.

However, these two teams have also lost to the Chinese men's basketball team.

This has doubled the confidence of the Chinese men's basketball team.

The game between Germany and Spain is over, followed by the game between the United States and Yugoslavia at the Conseco Arena.

America can't lose anymore.

They lost to China and Argentina, both of which were held at the Conseco Arena, so the U.S. always felt that the place wasn't auspicious.

Since the American Dream Team was formed in 1992, only the American team in 1998 has lost more than them.

But that year was completely different from this year.

The 1998 Men's Basketball World Championship Team USA consisted of Brad Miller, Jimmy King, David Wood, Wendell Alexis, William Edwards, Andrew Amaya, Chiwan Gareth, Shi Tiff Hawkins, Gerald King, Trajan Langton, Jimmy Oliver, Jason Suther.

It's not surprising to be unfamiliar with this list, and even veteran fans don't recognize a few.

Since the NBA was suspended in 1998, the American Basketball Association could not call players from the NBA to compete in the 1998 Men's Basketball World Championship, so it was composed of a group of non-NBA active players at the time.

The most famous of these is undoubtedly Lu Yu's current teammate, Brad Miller. At that time, he was only a college player, and the other college player on the team was Langton.

In addition to Miller, a little famous should be Jimmy King, but he is not famous for his NBA career, but for the Michigan Five Tigers in college.

Except for Miller and Wood, most of the other players have only played 2-3 seasons in the NBA, and 3 of them have never played in the NBA.

So it doesn't matter if the American men's basketball team loses.

But this year is different. Although the Dream Team this year is weak, there are many star players in the NBA, even if they are second-rate stars, they are also at the NBA level.

Any other team that can find an NBA-level player should be called a strong team.

So is there any reason for the USA Basketball to lose?

Certainly not!
Therefore, the players of the US men's basketball team are under a lot of pressure, especially when they play on such an unlucky venue, they are even more nervous.

People can't be nervous. When they're nervous, they not only want to pee, but they also shoot crookedly. The basketball hoop in the Conseco Arena was smashed.

In this game, Yugoslavia's Peja Stojakovic scored 20 points and 4 assists, leading his team to defeat the United States and advance to the top 4.

The final score was 81 to 78!

The U.S. team underestimated Yugoslavia, knowing that Stojakovic was the second-in-command of the Kings this year, and the seven-game entanglement between the Kings and the Lakers is still vivid in his mind.

American fans were outraged.

I really blamed the Chinese team at the beginning. It wasn't that the Chinese team was too strong, but that the American men's basketball team was too weak. They lost to the Chinese team, lost to Argentina, and lost to Yugoslavia.

Don't talk about the semi-finals, and now we have to fight for 5-8 places.

Lu Yu is playing against Puerto Rico at this time, and he still doesn't know the result of the game. If he knows, he will tell the American fans: "Don't be sad, you will lose to Spain when you look back."

Smile if you can get a sixth.

But Lu Yu knew that American fans and the media would soon find excuses for this team.

such as……

Differences between NBA and FIBA ​​rules.

One of the biggest differences, a rule that has benefited countless centers, and the one rule that American players are most uncomfortable with is that FIBA ​​does not defend three seconds.

In all basketball leagues, only the NBA has created the three-second defense rule. The reason is that there are too many outstanding inside players in the NBA. If the three-second defense rule is not restricted, it will lead to imbalances on the court. , Excellent inside players are almost invincible.

The FIBA ​​Basketball League has not introduced the three-second defense rule, so theoretically the big center can always stand inside.

That is to say, whether you are standing, lying down, or asleep in the restricted area, whatever you want...

For the US team players who are good at breaking through, I am not used to it, I am not used to it, I will not play like this, so I should lose!
There's always a reason anyway.

At this time, the Chinese men's basketball team and Puerto Rico are in the quarterfinals at the RCA Dome.

The Puerto Rico national basketball team is a traditional powerhouse in the basketball world in Central and North America, and this Puerto Rico team is their most golden team.

In Lu Yu's previous life, in the 2004 Athens Olympics, this team once defeated the American "Dream Six" and became famous.

The Puerto Rico men's basketball team is quite a nerve knife. Once launched, it can even kill the American Dream Team. However, they can sometimes be eliminated in the group stage, which also shows their nerve knife.

The characteristics of fluctuating strength and weakness make them a team that no one in the world dares to despise.

However, once the state is not good, it will often be ravaged by second- and third-rate teams.

Such fatal injuries also make them often qualify for the group, but if they want to go further, they will have to pay considerable hardships.

They were lucky this year and made it to the quarterfinals.

It's a pity to meet the Chinese team!

"Friends from the audience, after the suspension, the Chinese team replaced Lu Yu and Yao Ming, but the firepower of the other players is still very strong, and the Puerto Rico team seems to be unable to resist."

The person in charge of the commentary is still the familiar Sun Yiping, whose unique tone is full of passion.

"Wang Zhizhi hits a three-pointer from beyond the arc... This is Wang Zhizhi's third three-pointer after Lu Yu and Yao Ming went down. The Puerto Rico power forward's movement speed is too slow to pull out to defend Wang Zhizhi's three-pointer." Sun Yiping He said excitedly: "The Chinese team played very decisively, constantly creating difficulties with opponents on the outside..."

Not long after entering the third quarter, the Chinese team took a 68-point lead over Puerto Rico with 47:21.

After the offensive and defensive transition of the two teams, Wang Zhizhi once again caught the basketball outside the three-point line in the bottom corner. The Puerto Rican strikers did not pay attention to Wang Zhizhi before the game, but after Wang Zhizhi made consecutive three-pointers, he had to admit to defending Wang Zhizhi. It was indeed a bit difficult for him. Seeing Wang Zhizhi receiving the ball, he immediately jumped on it.

Wang Zhizhi swayed the opponent's center of gravity with a feint, and then quickly made a breakthrough from the bottom line to the basket. The basket was already full of people. Battelle and his opponent were fighting under the basket. Wang Zhizhi, who originally wanted to shoot from the mid-range, was out of the corner of his eye. Seeing that Li Nan at the top of the arc was unmarked, he threw the ball out with a flick of his hand.

After Li Nan received the ball, there was no defense within two meters. The player who was supposed to defend him had gone to make up for Wang Zhizhi. Li Nan adjusted it calmly, and then shot a three-pointer.

Swish!
Basketball hit the net.

"Beautiful! Li Nan is worthy of being the 'Little Li Feidao' of the Chinese men's basketball team. After this three-pointer hit, the Chinese team expanded the point difference to 24 points." Sun Yiping smiled: "Li Nan has been playing since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Every competition, no more or no less, he must have a rage, throwing more than 6 three-pointers and scoring around 25 points, but since this year's World Championships, he has not performed well. He originally thought that this year's World Championships Li Nan will not break out, and now it seems that the outbreak is here!"

Zhang Weiping added on the side: "The Chinese team played very hard in this game. Although Yao Ming and Lu Yu took a break for the next game, none of the players on the court wanted to give up the game. The current score is 71-47. China The team replaced Wang Zhizhi and Bartell to continue to maintain the point difference...Although Bartell has not made a shot so far this game, he has limited the opponents very well both on offense and on defense. Now Puerto Rico has only them in scoring points. The defender and center...beautiful, Zhu Fangyu simply passed the opponent neatly, a mid-range jumper made the score 73-47, and the point difference widened again..."

After the goal, Zhu Fangyu blew a kiss at Lu Yu on the bench, thanking Lu Yu for letting him lose a thousand threes, and now the shooting feels so good.

"..." Lu Yu.

"The only Chinese player who hasn't scored yet on the field is Bartell. Although Bartell didn't score, his role cannot be ignored." Sun Yiping said: "His opponent is a Puerto Rico center who is known for his strength, but he is stronger than him. The stronger Battelle seems a bit reluctant..."

Puerto Rico's coach knew that Battelle, a Chinese player who couldn't even make it into the NBA rotation, originally thought that his player's strength was a lot higher than that of Battelle, but after a few hard fights, he found that he couldn't get in at all.

The strength of Puerto Rico's center may be able to take advantage of Yi Jianlian, but it's like playing a family when it comes to Battelle.

Lu Yu knows that every player in the Chinese team has shown confidence and fighting spirit.

For the Chinese team, the results of this World Championship are temporary, but when the team has this fighting spirit, it will affect generations of Chinese men's basketball players.

And this game will become a sign of the maturity of the Chinese men's basketball team.

When the referee blew the whistle of the end of the game, veteran men's basketball players Liu Yudong and Gong Xiaobin rushed into the court, and everyone was shouting wantonly.

97 is better than 70!

Top four!

Chinese men's basketball team!

World, the top four!
　coming! coming!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)