Basketball starts with breathing

On August 8th, the group stage of the men's basketball team at the Athens Olympics finally started. When the Chinese team members arrived, the first two games had already ended.

Angola in Group B lost to Lithuania 73:78, while Italy in Group A narrowly beat New Zealand 71:69.

As the whistle sounded for the end of the game between Italy and New Zealand, more and more fans began to pour into the arena. Most of them were local students and overseas Chinese. Many fans from Spain also appeared in the arena. In an ordinary group match, the attendance rate was more than half.

The interval between the two games was very short. After the on-site staff urgently cleaned up the traces left by the game in the arena, the Chinese team and the Spanish team began to warm up.

In the interview area, Yao Ming's face appeared relaxed and confident when he was interviewed by CCTV reporter Yu Jia.

Yu Jia asked: "Seeing Dayao's confident look, he should be very confident to win this game?"

Yao Ming smiled and said, "Yes, we must win this game!"

"Spain, as a strong opponent in Group A, have we made corresponding tactical arrangements?" Yu Jia then asked.

"Well... this is a secret, you can ask Harris, he is the head coach, the tactics leaked by the head coach must be fake tactics."

"Haha, Dayao is really humorous. Last question, do you have the confidence to enter the quarterfinals?"

"Of course." Yao Ming raised his chin, "Have you seen my beard? I told my teammates that I won't shave my beard if I don't make it to the quarter-finals!"

Yu Jia was infected by his strong self-confidence and couldn't help applauding him. However, it is not easy for the Chinese men's basketball team to win against Spain. After all, the Spanish men's basketball team has always been a strong team in the world. Although there are five Chinese men's basketball teams. NBA-level players, but the five players are all inside. Fortunately, Lu Yu used to play outside, so he can go to the guard position. Spain is a traditional European strong team, and their players in each position are very balanced. However, as a Chinese, Yu Jia believes that what the Chinese team needs at this time is encouragement, not preaching to tell them to recognize the reality.

"Looking forward to your performance, looking forward to the performance of the Chinese men's basketball team, I hope you can see your clean chin at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, and Chinese basketball fans stand behind you to cheer for you!"

Yao Ming nodded and said seriously: "Thank you! Definitely!"

Yu Jia originally planned to interview Lu Yu, but Lu Yu refused the interview.

Lu Yu just said lightly: "You won the game, come and interview me again..."

He knows the strength of this Spanish team better than anyone, so he is more reluctant to be distracted before the game. This Spain can be called the golden generation in Spanish basketball history. Precipitation, their fangs will open to the world sooner or later.

What's more, even a young lion is a lion...

Yu Jia ran from one end of the interview area to the other end to interview Harris, but Harris just told him bluntly that if he wanted to interview, please come to the interview area after the game. At this time, he was going to score.

What a stubborn old man.

Sun Yiping sat down early in the live broadcast room. Due to the large number of Olympic games, CCTV's hosts were simply not enough, so this time he could only sing a one-man show.

But there is nothing to worry about. For a commentator like Sun Yiping, as long as he enters the commentary state, even the tone of his speech will obviously become full of passion.

Not to mention the explanation of the Chinese men's basketball game.

"CCTV……"

"CCTV……"

"Good evening, everyone. I'm in Athens now broadcasting the first game of the men's basketball team in the Athens Olympics against the Spanish men's basketball team."

"Actually, it's 02:30 in the afternoon here in Athens, but I know our domestic time is 07:30 in the evening. Everyone stays in front of the TV to support our Chinese men's basketball team. Yao Ming will accept Gasol's challenge. It was the first confrontation between the two outside of the NBA arena...Today, the Chinese team wore white jerseys and the Spanish team wore red jerseys. From my visual observation, the number of Chinese fans at the scene was greater than that of Spanish fans."

He cleared his throat and continued: "The Spanish team is actually inferior to our Chinese team in terms of the number of NBA players. The Chinese team has 5 NBA players, while Spain has only one Pau Gasol, but they have the strength to enter the NBA. There are not a few players, such as their guard Juan Carlos Navarro, nicknamed 'Bomb', who was selected by the NBA as early as 2002, but never went to the NBA, as well as players such as Calderon and Fernandez They are all players of great quality.”

"The game is about to start. We see that the starting lineup of the Chinese team is center Yao Ming, power forward Wang Zhizhi, small forward Li Nan, shooting guard... The Chinese coaching staff put Lu Yu at the shooting guard position, and the point guard is Liu Wei. ."

"This is slightly different from what the media predicted before the game. No one expected that Coach Harris would assign Lu Yu to the position of shooting guard. You must know that Lu Yu has been playing in the forward position in the NBA in the past two seasons, but It doesn't matter, Lu Yu played shooting guard in his rookie season, and he has the strength to play shooting guard."

"The arrangement of the men's basketball coach Harris is beyond everyone's expectations, and I think it will also be beyond the expectations of the Spanish men's basketball team."

Fans of the Chinese team chanted the names of Yao Ming and Lu Yu off the court. The game had just started, and the atmosphere in the arena was already warm.

"The coach didn't let me start because he was afraid that I would go up and destroy Spain in minutes..." Zhu Fangyu said while sitting off the court.

In fact, he still really wanted to be able to start the game, but he knew that he was a little worse than Li Nan in terms of handling the ball, just like Yi Jianlian next to him. Logically, Yi Jianlian's strength must be in addition to Lu Yu, Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming in the team. The strongest player, but because his position overlaps with Wang Zhizhi, he can only be Wang Zhizhi's substitute.

Yi Jianlian sat on the stool calmly, and he was always ready to play.

Through this time of training, he also learned the difference between playing in the NBA and playing in the FIBA.

In terms of one-on-one ability, he can even play against Wang Zhizhi without falling behind. As for the players in the other teams, he can basically fight.

But if it is about the game experience of FIBA ​​games.

Yao Ming, Bartell, Wang Zhizhi, Du Feng, and Mo Ke have all the experience of the inside players crushing him.

Yi Jianlian sometimes admires Lu Yu. No matter what kind of game, Lu Yu can play with ease. Perhaps this is because his strength is too strong, and playing other players is like a dimensional blow.

For example, the Dream Team of the year, the reason why they can play so easily in the international arena is because their strength can already ignore the rules.

The referee threw the ball into the air and both sides jumped the ball.

Yao Ming picked the ball with his fingertips when the ball reached the highest point. Gasol was only a little short. It is still useful to know that he is tall.

Yao Ming easily allocated the ball to Liu Wei.

Yao Ming's jumping ball may be a little harder to face the NBA's jumping men, but as a player who works two centimeters off the ground, Gasol is no better than Yao Ming.

Liu Wei took the ball quickly through the half, and encountered an interception from the opposite side at the midline.

Standing in front of him was what Sun Yiping called the 'bomb' - Navarro.

Juan Carlos Navarro.

Height: 193 cm.

Weight: 91 kg.

Nickname: Bomb.

Features: Accurate three-pointers, good at throwing, has excellent scoring ability, and clear tactical thinking.

Juan Navarro won the MVP at the 1999 World Youth Championship.

2002年世锦赛No.5争夺战，纳瓦罗26分4篮板3助战胜了美国梦5队。

Navarro and Gasol are like Lu Yu and Yao Ming of the Chinese men's basketball team.

His throws are like bombs, hence his nickname "The Bomb".

But no one knows that his most powerful shot is not his throwing, but his defense. Liu Wei is struggling with his defense. Yao Ming.

Harris frowned off the field, obviously the team underestimated the opponent's defensive pressure.

Fortunately, after Yao Ming caught the ball, he handed it over to Liu Wei. Yao Ming's attacking point was not at the three-point line. The reason why he brought it up was because he was too familiar with Liu Wei. You can see the defensive pressure Liu Wei is facing.

This wave of response relieved Liu Wei's pressure. Liu Wei held the ball and did not rush into luck, but observed the situation on the court.

He didn't expect Navarro to be guarding him, which was a bit of a surprise.

Because Navarro is a shooting guard, the opponent's point guard Calderon should be defending him, but just by looking at it, Liu Wei understood the opponent's intention. The rhythm of the offense was chaotic. After the team settled down, Spain had changed to a 2-3 zone defense formation at this time.

Liu Wei couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If he had noticed the opponent's intention at the first time and found the ball directly to the shooter, it would have been a gap.

It's just that it's too late now, and we can only look for opportunities again.

"We can see that the Spanish team has a 2-3 defense formation, and the defensive integrity of European teams is obviously their advantage... Let's take a look at the Spanish team's starting lineup." At this time, the big screen played The list of starters for both sides has been introduced. Sun Yiping, the starter of the Chinese team, has already introduced it before. He only needs to introduce the list of the Spanish team.

"Spain starting: center is Paul Gasol, power forward Philip Reyes, small forward Jabba Jose, shooting guard Navarro, point guard Calderon."

"Comparing the lineup of the two sides, the Chinese team is only strong but not weak. On the inside, the Chinese team has the twin towers of Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi. Gasol and Reyes are relatively weak. Li Nan also has enough experience to defend Jia. Bahesha, the shooting guard Shanglu Yu is stronger than Navarro, so Liu Wei is the most important point for the Chinese team at present... Liu Wei passed the ball out, and Li Nan directly passed the ball to the ball after receiving it. With Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhizhi stood in the high position and kept the ball and directly hung it to Yao Ming, Yao Ming scored, and the Chinese team took the lead!"

The Chinese fans in the audience immediately became excited, and they gave warm applause to this attack, hoping that the Chinese team can continue to play such a wonderful performance.

Wang Zhizhi mentioned the position of the free throw line. The two guards did not dare to shrink. Only Gasol in the middle area made up for it. As soon as Gasol came out, he left enough space for Yao Ming to play on the inside.

The camera was aimed at Lu Yu at this time. This wave of offensive basketball passed the hands of the four players, but did not reach Lu Yu at all.

What is Lu Yu doing?

He is running!

When Liu Wei received the ball and passed it to Li Nan, he cut directly into the Spanish team's defensive area from a 45-degree angle, forcing the Spanish team to shrink their defense. When Wang Zhizhi received the ball, he slipped to the bottom corner again because he was excellent The three-point ability of the Spanish team can only continue to expand, so that Yao Ming can just score the ball steadily.

Lu Yu under the camera is very calm, he just interspersed and ran according to Harris's request, this time Yao Ming has a chance to fight Yao Ming, next time if the opponent tightens up, it's time for him to shoot.

Harris nodded with satisfaction. To talk about the understanding of the team's tactics, no one in the Chinese team can be left behind by Lu Yu.

The most important thing is that every time Lu Yu runs, he can pinpoint the time node very accurately.

The head coach of the Spanish team was stunned. The layman watched the excitement, and the expert watched the doorway. Only those who really understand basketball will understand how deadly an excellent empty-handed movement is to the regional defense.

It's not just the shot that breaks the zone...

"Spain's Gasol wants the ball at the basket." Sun Yiping shouted: "Calderon easily hit the ball to Gasol's hand, and then he slipped past Gasol. Bottom line, open space for Gasol... Gasol turned around and feinted, Yao Ming didn't take his fake action, he turned back again... Be careful, it's Navarro's empty cut!"

Just when everyone thought that Gasol would pass the ball to Jabba Hesha on the outside if he couldn't play, he was referring to the east and west, and a sharp pass passed the basketball to Navarro.

Navarro throws!
hit!

Lu Yu chased behind Navarro, helplessly watching the ball fall into the basket.

"Blame me!"

He took the initiative to indicate that he did not defend the ball well. When he was blocked, Wang Zhizhi actually wanted to make it up, but Lu Yu shouted, "No change!"

That is to say, Lu Yu did not ask to switch the defense, but bypassed the defense and chased behind Navarro. He was worried that after the switch, Wang Zhizhi's defense against Navarro would suffer.

But I didn't expect Navarro's throw to be so accurate, and the nickname "bomb" was not given for nothing.

The two sides tied at 2:2.

Navarro clenched his fists fiercely and roared, this shot really made him confident.

His eyes looked at Lu Yu inadvertently. In his opinion, Lu Yu is now No.1 in the NBA. Many American fans or players are unwilling to admit that the strongest player in the NBA is Lu Yu.

Because in their eyes, black people are the overlords of the sport.

But the honor that Lu Yu has won is really there. There are not a few stars in the entire league who have been beaten by Lu Yu. Of course, there are also many stars from Western teams who lost to Lu Yu in the regular season, but did not pay in the playoffs. After passing it, they are also a little unconvinced.

Different from the NBA arena, in the entire FIBA ​​international arena, all players think that Lu Yu is the No.1 in the NBA now, just like Jordan back then.

Therefore, Navarro is very excited to score on Lu Yu's head.