NBA: Starting with Jokic template

Chapter 38: Just because I’m standing on the court, I scare you so much that you can’t play basketball?

Lin Chuan served the ball, looked at Spain's tight defense, and called on his teammates to run.

As eight people ran on the field, his eyes looked for gaps in the Spanish team's defense.

The serve time was almost four seconds away, but Lin Chuan remained patient, scanning the situation on the court.

Yi Jianlian turned around and rushed out from the double-team of two Gasols. Gasol wanted to follow up, but worried that the inside was empty and he could only play a simple ball, so he stayed inside.
Yi Jianlian finally broke free from the defense and ran out.

Seeing the open space, Lin Chuan shook his wrist, and when he was about to commit a violation, he threw the ball to Yi Jianlian who was outside the three-point line.

Yi Jianlian took the ball and prepared to play according to the tactics.

But looking at Gasol who took two steps away from him and was sure that he didn't dare to take a long shot, even with Yi Jianlian's personality, he couldn't help but feel a little angry.

Even a clay man can get angry. Do you really think I don’t have a basketball?

There was no need to think about what tactics to use. Yi Jianlian gave up the idea of ​​preparing for a breakthrough layup. He received the ball and jumped on the spot to shoot a three-pointer.

The moment he shot, Gasol turned around and was about to get into position, looking at the basket, ready to grab the rebound the moment Yi Jianlian missed the shot.

Bang!
The basketball drew an arc, hit the back frame and bounced in.

Score in!

70: 67!

Seeing the ball bounce up for the first time, Gasol was ready to jump up in a good position, but the three-pointer made his open strategy look like a clown.

After Lin Chuan came on the court, everyone could see that the temperament of the Chinese team had changed.

In the Spanish round, Calderon passed through Gasol in the high position and then passed the ball to Fernandez in the bottom corner. After triggering the defense, the breakthrough again attracted the defense to shrink and passed through Calderon at a 45-degree angle.

An unguarded three-pointer was scored.

The two sides tied at 70 again.

Navarro faced Liu Wei, opened his arms to guard him and passed the ball to Lin Chuan.
"Don't even think about passing it to your center. I'll guard you to death, kid."

After successfully catching up with the score, he started talking trash non-stop.

But Liu Wei didn't understand, nor did he want to understand. He was concentrating on his teammates. When he saw Lin Chuan take the initiative to move forward, his eyes lit up and he dribbled the ball to the right to prepare for a breakthrough.

Navarro moved quickly, and when he saw Liu Wei's movement, he moved sideways synchronously.

Boom!
Navarro was only paying attention to Liu Wei in front of him and didn't notice Lin Chuan who came forward to cover him. He bumped into Lin Chuan and the recoil almost made him fall down.

Liu Wei also rushed into the inside at this time. Facing Gasol's backup defense, he was not in a hurry and took a step ahead to throw the ball into the basket.

In the next round, after Spain failed to score two points, Liu Wei broke through and passed the ball to Zhu Fangyu, who pulled the defense line again and passed the ball to Wang Shipeng who was unattended and ambushed in the bottom corner, and scored another three-pointer.

Spain was hit by an 8-0 attack wave by the Chinese team, and finally woke up a lot.

When it was his turn to attack, Calderon cooperated with Gasol. After breaking through, he passed the ball back to Gasol, who followed up with a slam dunk over Yi Jianlian.

Lin Chuan and Liu Wei also responded to the Spaniard with a similar round.

But compared to Gasol, the more threatening Lin Chuan attracted more attention.

After breaking through to the paint area, Liu Wei made a fake pass and saw that Gasol's eyes shifted to Lin Chuan, so he decisively pulled back and made a layup, returning two points to Spain.

Seeing that he had attracted all the attention of the two Gasols, so much so that they even left Liu Wei open, Lin Chuan slowly returned to defense and kept parallel with Pau Gasol.
"Why, I'm just standing inside and you're so scared that you can't play basketball?" Hearing Lin Chuan's arrogant words, Paul Gasol couldn't hold back any longer.
"Don't be so arrogant. Let's see if you can still be so eloquent when you lose the game later."

Hearing Gasol's voice, which was different from the deep voice of a big man, but more like a normal person, Lin Chuan was a little surprised and continued,

“Then you may not see it.”

In the studio.

Zhang Weiping saw the changes on the field and said happily,

"Lin Chuan's appearance seems to have made the entire team more confident. Their movements are no longer stiff. Everyone is more courageous to shoot and no longer hesitates."

"Lin Chuan has only been on the court for a few rounds, and the three players on our team have already opened fire, hitting three of three shots! In less than a minute, they beat the opponent 8 to 0! This kind of deterrence is really terrifying!"

Yu Jia also praised excitedly,

"Yes, Lin Chuan hasn't even started holding the ball yet. Just standing there, he has already changed Spain's defensive strategy, allowing everyone else to play more comfortably."

Lin Chuan had just played for two minutes when the two commentators started praising him.

After all, even they had never seen this before. He just stood in the inside without even holding the ball and attracted almost all the opponent's defense. Even the All-Star Gasol brothers were overwhelmed and were sweating profusely due to Lin Chuan's offensive threat.

Even Yao Ming at his peak in the last Olympics couldn't achieve this kind of deterrence!
Lin Chuan, who had just come on the court, forced the Spanish team to call a timeout after just a few rounds.

"Ugh."

Looking at his players, the Spanish coach couldn't help but sigh.

"Paul, what do you mean?"

He was also a little helpless. After defending against the best performing player of the Chinese team, the other players of the Chinese team suddenly got into the groove.

More blossoms put them behind again.

The Spanish coach was at a loss for a moment and asked his team leader for help.
"Coach, we have restricted him from receiving the ball. We missed a few shots because we focused too much on him when he first came on. I don't think it's a big problem. The Chinese can't score every shot. Their shooting is not that good."

"Okay, let's maintain the original tactics and increase the intensity! Everyone, get moving!"

The Spanish team's head coach agreed with Gasol's opinion and made a radical statement.

"In terms of shooting and tactics, we are better! Let's kill them with offense!"

On the other side, on the bench of the Chinese team, Deng Huade and several others high-fived the players as they walked off the field.

"You guys did a great job, every shot hit the target, even more accurate than in normal training."

"It's all because of Lin Chuan's ability to attract defense. Their defense is not as strong as the trainer's defense during our training."

As the team's starting point guard, Liu Wei, who had the most cooperation with Lin Chuan, took credit for Lin Chuan.

"Really, this match so far is easier than any of our previous matches against Spain."

The taciturn Yi Jianlian also agreed.

Lin Chuan was very happy to see that everyone was so confident and had such a good feel.

He suddenly felt that he didn't need to take any action in this game. He could just take it easy on the court and let his teammates lead him to victory.

(End of this chapter)