After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 378 Breaking Through History, Entering the Final Four

After Li Chengming left the field, the men's basketball team's style of play became more routine. No matter if it was Yao or Dazhi, they couldn't be as varied as Li Chengming.

Of course, the main reason is the gap in strength. Now everyone has actually realized that there is indeed a gap in strength between Dayao and Li Chengming. Of course, Dayao has a certain degree of dominance in the interior, but the problem is that he also has many flaws. Except for the fact that he is short in height, everything else can be said to be comprehensive and perfect.

Even the defense, which was criticized before, is now gradually becoming a bright spot. At least the ones who can catch him must be guards at the level of Kobe and Wade of the US team, which is difficult for others to do.

"Croatia may feel relieved, but we have already played an advantage in the first quarter. In fact, we only need to maintain a balance at this stage. And Dayao and Dazhi are in good condition today. I was worried about their physical strength before, but Veterans must have their own ways of adjusting."

"That's right. On the contrary, the youngsters like Ah Lian, Sun Dasheng, and Chen Jianghua seem to be a bit uncomfortable with the current intensity of the competition. But as long as they don't make mistakes, the problem is not too big."

As for Li Chengming, this is completely outside the scope of their discussion.

Although Li Chengming is actually the youngest player in the current men's basketball team, everyone does not regard him as a young man and a junior at all. He is already the absolute core.

This is not determined by anyone, but is played out game by game.

When Li Chengming returned to the court, the men's basketball team managed to maintain the balance of power on the court, and this was not good news for Croatia.

When the men's basketball team is weak in the rotation stage, they can't catch up with the score. When the men's basketball team returns after a break, they can only pray that the point difference will not be further widened.

However, after Li Chengming came on the field, he was full of firepower, and Croatia, who could not resist, could not help but move more and more in the defensive confrontation.

They didn't necessarily want to hurt people, and Li Chengming's style of play made them unable to make a move, but sometimes they didn't move too much, and they couldn't even stop Li Chengming.

When he was hanging a man on his body and was able to make a throw under the basket, even the Croatian commentator had nothing to do about it: "No. 60 is a monster that cannot be defended. He is worthy of being the NBA's new FMVP." !"

Barkley and Kenny Smith even teased the special guest Shaq O'Neal at the same time, "You can't do this now, can you?"

It's not that he can't hang people on his body now, his size and strength are still there, but his current offensive degradation has been obvious, and it is difficult to hit such a difficult ball in the crowd.

If we really want to say that O'Neill is certainly not lacking in technology, but his biggest bug is actually his body. His handwork is not as good as the sky hook, and his footsteps are not as good as Dameng. performance, and O'Neal is not very good after his physical fitness has declined.

Even because he is becoming more and more lazy now, the impact of previous injuries is also intensifying. The former big mac is now really only a deterrent in size, and is actually just a second-rate star.

Undoubtedly, Li Chengming's performance once again aroused the enthusiasm of the fans at the scene.

Director Zhang couldn't help being excited and said: "During the interview before the game, Li Chengming told us that he felt that he was slowly adjusting to his best condition now. To be honest, I still don't believe it, because he performed so well before. Good enough? But he really can be better!"

Ma Jian also sighed and said: "I don't know if it's my illusion, I think Li Chengming seems to have 'evolved' again in this Olympics."

This is of course not an illusion, this feeling is actually correct.

Because Li Chengming deliberately strengthened many aspects of himself before, and his performance in the Olympics can also provide him with calorie consumption, so as to get rewards, he even exchanged for a strength bonus "Western Chu Overlord", although it cannot be said now It's strength, but if you are conscious, maybe you can try to copy O'Neal's smashed backboard-or the glass that has been strengthened now.

But there is no need to do this in the game, it is a bit dangerous, let's find an opportunity to talk about it later.

Li Chengming's performance obviously frightened the opponent. When you can't stop him no matter how many fouls you make, you feel desperate in your heart. They can't really engage in "killing basketball".

After all, this is the country of Hua, and the men's basketball team is the host. At the door of their house, even the country of the United States has to give some face, let alone them.

At the end of halftime, Li Chengming had scored 18 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists. A triple-double was imminent. At the same time, the men's basketball team also took a 62-point lead at 47:15.

It can almost be said that the Croatian men's basketball team was beaten by the men's basketball team, or by Li Chengming.

For the fans, it seems commonplace to lead their opponents at halftime in the Olympics. It was not so much worrying before, but it still felt unreal like a dream, but the performance of the men's basketball team gradually made them realize that, this is the truth.

"Mr. Zhang, what adjustments do you think the Croatian team should make in the second half to catch up with the score?"

CCTV's commentary seats came to the so-called "reasonable, neutral and guest" link, but usually they usually act as a neutral party to make suggestions for the lagging party.

But now it is a very novel experience to stand on the "opposite side" of the men's basketball team.

As a commentary, it is impossible to directly say that Croatia has no hope at all. Director Zhang still affirmed the offensive performance of the Croatian team in the first half, thinking that they played their own style.

"But the defense against Li Chengming was indeed relatively unsuccessful. I think the Croatian team had two choices in the second half, either to pack more extreme points, or to let it go appropriately. At least they can no longer be so vacillating. In this way, there may be more Chance……"

Anyway, the result will not be worse, it is better to try a more extreme game, maybe you can wait until Li Chengming does not perform well or other men's basketball players do not perform well.

Back in the third quarter, the Croatian team really did this. In fact, the Spanish and Greek teams had given them samples before, and it was not impossible for them to limit Li Chengming.

It is impossible for Li Chengming to handle the ball successfully every time when he encounters a double-team, and as long as their rotation can be in place in time in the follow-up, the Huaguo men's basketball team will still rarely have the kind of consecutive top-man and strong shots. This is in terms of ability. There are deficiencies in itself, with poor talent and mentality.

Not to mention, they were prone to physical problems in the second half.

It was Li Chengming, because he fought too hard in the first half and the intermission was not enough, and he was a little out of shape when he came back from the third quarter.

As a result, the opponent played a wave of 12:3 in half a quarter, directly chasing the score to 6 points. Jonas had to ask for a timeout, and the shouts of the fans in the arena gradually died down. Instead, they began to feel uneasy. Worried about men's basketball.

Is this game going to replicate the most classic first half of the past, evenly matched, exhausted in the third quarter, and then withdrawn in the fourth quarter?

Ma Jiandao: "The men's basketball team played a few shots in a hurry at the beginning of the second half. It seemed that they wanted to kill the opponent all at once, but they failed to make the opponent counterattack. Now they panicked again and couldn't score. Yuna Coach Si has to tell them to adjust their mentality!"

Needless to say, Yunus, Li Chengming himself stood up to reflect on the timeout, and there was indeed a problem with his play just now.

In other words, a little floating, don't treat the opponent as a human?

After all, they led by 15 points at halftime, and their opponents were not the top three teams in the world like Mengba and Spain.

This kind of impetuous mentality, whether it is leading or lagging behind, is obviously not advisable.

"Me too, I want to review..."

"And I!"

"..." Seeing the players stand up one by one to reflect on themselves, Yunus was also a little confused, then glanced at Li Chengming who was wiping his sweat, nodded silently, clapped his hands again and said: "Okay , The past is over, and then we will start again in the second half.

"Don't think about the lead or what the situation is, take it slow and stabilize the rhythm, and remember that the game is far from over!"

Facing the moment when people can "make history", it is understandable that people's mentality has changed.

And obviously everyone is not just talking. After the timeout, Jonas first replaced Dayao and the others to rest, and then Li Chengming led the "one-star four-shot" lineup, returning to the first attack in the game, Big Zhi After receiving the first shot from the conduction ball, he hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner.

Then Croatia's offense was unfavorable. Li Chengming took off the rebound and pushed a counterattack. Chen Jianghua dunked the follow-up Ah Lian successfully.

The UAE has a lot of follow-up and fast-break dunk performances in this Olympic Games, which has a lot to do with the improvement of the men's basketball team's defense.

It can be said that not only can they play against their opponents, but they can also play defense, at least the defense of the inside line.

However, Croatia's adjustments also followed, and Repesa seemed to be desperate, choosing to let the outside players start to use their bodies to bully and eat the defenders of the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team.

Physically, except for Sun Yue, the others really couldn't take advantage of the confrontation, but after the pincer forced the ball out, the opponent also had problems in this area.

The position of the singles is not good enough. The men's basketball team defends the three-two defense. For the oppression of the internal and external connections, especially the sweeping of the two flank positions, Li Chengming and Ah Lian have done a good job.

Except for two open three-point opportunities in the bottom corners on both sides, and only one opportunity was grasped, it was difficult to break the defensive scoring of the men's basketball team at other times.

The coaching staff on both sides are fighting wits and the players are also fighting hard, but under the leadership of Li Chengming, the men's basketball team has regained a certain advantage.

Although Croatia recovered some points in this quarter, at the end of the third quarter, it was still 75 points behind at 83:8 and entered the final battle in the final quarter.

Jonas also immediately took Dayao back to the field after resting and recovering physically. As a result, Dayao started the fourth quarter with 3 of 3 balls from inside and 2+1 once again, pulling the score to double digits again. Finally, it seemed that the game was declared to be settled.

(End of this chapter)