Basketball starts with breathing

When Lu Yu woke up the next day, he realized that the headline that appeared on the news was not the Chinese team's victory over Spain.

Headlines robbed?
Well, the U.S. team was miserable, beaten by Puerto Rico for 19 points...

I thought it would be a game without any suspense, but the result was really no suspense. The U.S. team was beaten by Puerto Rico in the audience. It is no exaggeration to say that the U.S. team did not even have the strength to fight back in this game.

The coaching staff of all teams also analyzed the reasons for the US team's loss.

The main reason is - there is no shooter!
翻开他们的得分记录，艾弗森15分、邓肯15分、奥多姆13分、韦德10分、杰弗森8分、詹姆斯5分、马里昂4分、马布里2分、布泽尔1分。

The only shot Carmelo Anthony even scored zero, of course, this is also related to his playing time too little.

Look at their players, is there any one who can shoot?

No!

Under the rules of the international men's basketball team, it is conceivable how difficult it is for a team without a shot to play. Of course, this American team is not shooting at all, but most of the players are better at hitting inside.

It was only because they felt really bad today.

The strength of the team is still there, and no one dares to underestimate the US team. However, this fiasco really made the US men's basketball team lose face, and it also directly magnified the shortcomings of the US team countless times.

The Chinese media still focused on reporting the victory of the Chinese men's basketball team.

Xinhua News Agency: "Congratulations to the Chinese men's basketball team for their victory!"

Sports Weekly: "Lu Yu led the Chinese men's basketball team to their first victory!"

Sports Weekly: "The showdown between Gasol and Yao Ming! Yao Ming defeated Gasol and the Spanish men's basketball team to win."

We all know that Yao Ming and Lu Yu are the two most important cores for the Chinese team to win. Of course, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle and Yi Jianlian also greatly increased the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team.

The three NBA-level starters ensure that the Chinese team will not show weakness even in the face of a world-leading team such as Spain. The other two NBA-level players, Bartelle and Yi Jianlian, can help the team stabilize the situation during the bench. How can the Chinese team not make the fans happy.

The Chinese team didn't pay attention to these the next day, because the US team was in Group B, and the good or bad will have to wait until the end of the group stage.

In Group A, Italy, China and Argentina all won the three games yesterday, with one point each.

The opponent of the Chinese team in the next game is New Zealand, who just lost to Italy yesterday. Although they lost to Italy, the Chinese men's basketball team did not dare to relax their vigilance. It was better than the American team that capsized in the gutter. All soaked in the training gym to do some simple training to stay in shape.

Yao Ming's bearded face looks a little haggard. To be honest, he played very depressed in the last game, especially against Gasol, and he often encountered opponents' attack. Although he played well, he was attacking. There is always a feeling of being tied up at the end.

Fortunately, I finally won...

Yi Jianlian is also very depressed. He scored a total of two points in the last game, which is the dunk. He envied Zhu Fangyu for scoring more points on the court, but he knew that when the opponent strictly guarded the basket, it was Zhu Fangyu. The location is more likely to give opportunities.

Lu Yu comforted him: "Actually, you played well. You got two blocks when you played."

"But I only got two points." Yi Jianlian smiled bitterly.

"It's not about scoring." Lu Yu said sternly: "There are five people on the court, and only one basketball. After an offensive round, there is only one person who finally shoots. We can't judge heroes, defensive contributions, and offense by scoring. Screening at the end is where you do a great job, you do what the team asks of you now, and you have to be able to stand up at any time when the rest of the team can't score."

Yi Jianlian felt much better after hearing this, and glanced at Lu Yu gratefully, "Thank you, Brother Lu, I understand."

Lu Yu doesn't know if Yi Jianlian really understands. He knows that Yi Jianlian's character determines that he will definitely care about some things. Just like when he enters the NBA now, fans pay attention to his scores every day, and he seems to be affected. The score is of particular concern.

The more points you get, the more the media trumpets, the fewer points you get, and even the words of encouragement have a sour taste.

In fact, whether Yi Jianlian is in the national team or the NBA, before he becomes a star, the most important job he has to do is not to score.

Especially in the NBA, functional players are more important than star players!
In the NBA, among the more than 300 players in the league, many media say that these are the 300 best players in the world. In fact, this sentence is nonsense.

The league is full of all kinds of role players. Some of these players have a single function, and they may not even be able to play in other leagues.

But in the NBA, teams need such players.

And some players may be superstars in the NCAA, but they are completely lost when they get to the NBA arena.

There are many such players, the most famous one is Lu Yu's memory, the God of Lonely...

So Lu Yu hoped that Yi Jianlian would not care too much about scoring.

In the Chinese men's basketball team, there are many points that can be scored. Lu Yu, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi are now a good opportunity for Yi Jianlian to adapt to his role as a role player.

On August 8, the Athens Olympic men's basketball group stage continued.

The match between the Chinese team and the New Zealand team started at the Heliniku Indoor Arena, the earliest match of the men's basketball group stage today.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team is still Liu Wei, Lu Yu, Li Nan, Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming.

After the first quarter of the game, Li Nan took the lead in hitting two long-range points. Then Yao Ming made two free throws for his opponent's foul, and then he received a pass from Lu Yu under the basket and scored a one-handed dunk.

After the buckle, Yao Ming clenched his fists hard, and he wanted to completely explode the unhappiness of the last game against Gasol.

The dunk turned the game into a crush.

New Zealand originally thought that they could score 71:69 with Italy, only two points behind. Although the Chinese team won against Spain, New Zealand would not admit that they would win New Zealand. It is between Bo Zhong.

But the biggest difference between the Chinese team and the Italian team is that the Italian team does not have Yao Ming!

In this game, Yao Ming completely let his opponent know what a "little giant" is, and the opponent's tallest center was much shorter than him. He played 34 of 20 shots in 15 minutes and scored a game-high 39 points and 13 rebounds. This score is the highest individual score in a single game so far in the Olympic Games.

As for Lu Yu, sprinkled with water, scored 15 points and 9 assists, and almost had a double-double.

Other players Wang Zhizhi 8 points, Du Feng 7 points, Guo Shiqiang 5 points, Liu Wei 4 points, Zhu Fangyu 2 points, Yi Jianlian 2 points, Li Nan 2 points.

84:62
The Chinese team beat New Zealand by 22 points, surpassing the 21-point difference between Greece and Australia yesterday, and became the biggest difference so far in this year's Olympic Games.

And without Greece's home field advantage...

The media sympathized with the two teams of New Zealand and Australia in Oceania, which were labeled as 'difficult brothers and sisters'.

In an interview with reporters after the game, Harris also praised Yao Ming's performance and said: "Yao Ming performed very well today, and he was a major contributor to our victory today... What? You ask me why I didn't send the time later. Shanglu? Don't you see Lu Yu's negative attitude towards the game? ... I decided to let him be a substitute in the next game!"

Lu Yu is also very helpless, the opponent is too weak, what's wrong with me taking a walk?
Harris's words were naturally a joke, he couldn't let Lu Yu really go to the bench.

There are still two games in Group A. In the evening, the results of the game came out. Serbia and Montenegro won Italy 74:72, and Spain won Argentina 87:76.

In this way, the current results of Group A are 2 points for the Chinese team, 1 point for Spain, Argentina, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro, and 0 points for New Zealand.

The Chinese team is currently No. [-] in Group A.

The opponents in the next three games are Argentina, Italy and Serbia and Montenegro. At present, as long as the Chinese team wins one more game, they can qualify in advance.

However, none of the next three opponents are underdogs, which also makes the Chinese team temporarily ranked first in the group, but there is no guarantee that they will be able to qualify for the group.

On August 8, the men's basketball game started again.

In fact, the Olympic schedule is very unfriendly. There is a game every other day. For any team, it is not only a technical and tactical requirement, but also a physical test. The physical strength of the Chinese men's basketball team has always been weak, compared with European and American strong teams. Get up, obviously do not have the upper hand.

Of course, it's better than the World Championships.

Last year's World Championships, there were competitions every day, it was a fool.

The first game is the game between Serbia and New Zealand.

No one expected that Serbia and Montenegro would lose to New Zealand at the last moment...

87:90
The current record of Serbia and Montenegro is 1 win and 2 losses. Even if they win all the next two games, they will only accumulate three points, not to mention that the opponents in the latter two games are Spain and China.

The Chinese team is okay to say, but it is very unlikely that Serbia and Montenegro want to grab a point in the hands of Spain.

Following the match between Italy and Spain, Spain easily defeated Italy 71:63 to become the second team to accumulate 2 points.

Italy's record is the same as Serbia and Montenegro, with 1 win and 2 losses. The opponents in the last two games are China and Argentina.

Both Serbia and Montenegro and Italy will take the game against the Chinese team as a point that must be won.

The third game is between China and Argentina.

When preparing for the game, Lu Yu met Carmelo Anthony in the player tunnel, who had just finished the game.

Carmelo Anthony looked frustrated when he saw Lu Yu coming over and hurried over: "Lu, are you going to play soon?"

"Yes, I'm about to enter the arena to warm up." Lu Yu was stunned: "What's the matter, it seems that you didn't play well, and you lost again?"

Carmelo Anthony shook his head: "No, I won, the opponent is Australia, and I won by 20 points."

"That's good, I remember that you also won against the host Greece in the last game, so it seems that your strength is still very strong. The first game lost to Puerto Rico was just an accident." Lu Yu said with a smile.

"Good shit, winning is winning, but I don't even have a chance to play!" Anthony whispered: "I don't know if I offended the coach, LeBron and Dwyane have playing time, only I can only play in garbage time, I didn't even play in garbage time today, and I have scored zero points for three consecutive games!"

"What's the reason?" Lu Yu frowned slightly. He remembered that the head coach of the US team seemed to be Larry Brown?
Well, another stubborn old man.

He is notorious for not using new people, and Lu Yu can only express sympathy for Anthony.

Anthony just happened to meet Lu Yu, and he stopped by to complain, but he couldn't say more. After all, this is the international arena, and he is here to represent the US team.

At this time, the other members of the Chinese team came out of the locker room. Zhu Fangyu and Yi Jianlian recognized Carmelo Anthony at a glance. Zhu Fangyu came over immediately: "Xiao Lu, this is not that...that..."

"Anthony." Lu Yu reminded.

"Yes, yes, Anthony, Carmelo Anthony." Zhu Fangyu stretched out his hand: "Ness spit... Tumit again!"

Anthony was stunned. He didn't know Zhu Fangyu well. If it wasn't for Lu Yu's face, he wouldn't have shaken this hand. After shaking hands, he ignored Zhu Fangyu and said goodbye to Lu Yu.

But when he left, he said hello to Yi Jianlian.

The two are rookies in the same class and have played against each other in the NBA regular season.

Zhu Fangyu looked at Anthony's back, and frowned: "Why is this person like this? What kind of arrogance is this!"

Lu Yu smiled: "Maybe, he didn't understand the English you said..."

"Am I not good at speaking English?" Zhu Fangyu was unhappy when he heard it: "Ask Ah Lian if my English is more authentic than his."

"..." Yi Jianlian.

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Argentina's locker room.

The head coach is arranging tactics. Compared to other teams, Argentina's style of play is both American and European, thanks to many of their players who are either in the NBA or in the Euroleague.

"Have you all listened to what I said? Our task is very simple, don't let the rhythm be taken away by the No. 10 of the Chinese team, we have to play our offensive rhythm, guard their center Yao Ming, and then cut off Yao Ming and Lu Yu. The connection between them is half the battle!" the head coach exclaimed.

The Argentine players nodded.

Scola sat next to Ginobili: "Hey, Manu, will you be defending the No. 10 of the Chinese team?"

"Didn't the coach arrange it? He said let me defend." Manu Ginobili said indifferently.

Scola pouted: "I don't know you yet. When the time comes for a few rounds, you will definitely be defending the other defenders of the Chinese team..."

"Shut up." Ginobili rolled his eyes at him.

"Is he...is it really that hard to guard?" Scola asked tentatively.

Ginobili was stunned, looked at the position of No. 10 Lu Yu marked in red on the tactical board, and sighed and said, "I think all players in the entire NBA are aware of this issue."

"Don't look at me suspiciously, you heard that right, all the players."