Legendary star

Chapter 191 Entering the Quarterfinals
"This is the correct way to open the national team. The personnel arrangement guided by Jiang in today's game is very reasonable compared with the previous games." On September 2000, 9, the Huaguo men's basketball team welcomed the team The last opponent of the competition, the Italian team, the champion of the last European Championship, when the starting list came out, the teacher Zhang Lili, who was far away from BJ, expressed his approval for the staff arrangement of Coach Jiang Quan for the first time.

Since the Huaguo men's basketball team has already secured their qualification, in the last match of the group stage, the head coach Jiang Quan also rested several main players. Yao Ming, the third center of the national team, started for the first time in the 3 games of the group stage. However, although he is the third center of the national team, Yao Ming has already surpassed the other two in terms of strength, but he still lacks the qualifications of the national team. In this Olympics, Yao Ming came off the bench and played 5 minutes per game, but he was able to contribute 3 Points, 16 rebounds, and 9 blocked shots. He is the best performer among the three major centers of the national team. In the game against the US team, Tomnovich even double-teamed Yao Ming, and after the game, The NBA champion coach is also very appreciative of Yao Ming, constantly praising his future is limitless.It's just that the current Yao Ming also has his own shortcomings, that is, lack of coping ability, and too many mistakes are also an important factor why the head coach Jiang Quan dare not increase his playing time.

As for the position of power forward, Liu Yudong has a truce for this game. Battelle, who has been a guest power forward in the previous games, did not play. Liu Yudong is replaced by Zhang Jinsong. In the previous games, Zhang Jinsong and Hu Weidong have been starting alternately at the small forward position. This game is also after the warm-up match with the South Korean team, Zhang Jinsong once again served as a power forward.

After playing as a substitute for many games, Meng Xu finally ushered in the first start in the national team game. Although this game will not be related to whether the national team qualify or not, this game is still very meaningful. Because Meng Xu believes that after this game, he will become the unshakable starting small forward of the national team.

The starting point guard is Li Nan, an important substitute of the Chinese team. This swingman, known for his excellent shooting, is also the first time to start the national team.In the past, when the national team had Hu Weidong, Zhang Jinsong and Sun Jun as the three major forwards and guards, Li Nan didn't even start the game, even if he didn't get much time off the bench. The team's No. 3 striker was reduced to No. 4, but this game Li Nan unexpectedly started. When the head coach Jiang Quan announced the starting lineup before the game, Li Nan also looked astonished.

In the position of point guard, Guo Shiqiang is also the first time to replace Li Xiaoyong as the starter. Guo Shiqiang, who is 26 years old this year, has gradually entered the peak state of his career, but the current main point guard of the national team, Li Xiaoyong, is still in good condition. How many years will Guo Shiqiang have to play as a substitute before he can become a regular.

Before the group stage, the goal of the national team is to strive to avoid the strongest Yugoslavia and Russia teams in Group B when they enter the knockout stage. However, this year's Olympic Games is somewhat unexpected. These two former Olympic champions The ship capsized in the gutter. Although Yugoslavia had already secured the qualification, it was ranked third in the group, and Russia had to beat Angola in the final round to ensure the qualification. So in this case, the national team will fight for it. The second place in the group is meaningless.Similarly, regardless of whether it is currently ranked No. 3 in Group B, Brazil, or No. 2 Australia, the strength of the two teams is similar, so no matter whether you win or lose this game, it will not have any impact on the national team's qualifying. It is nothing more than winning. Just play the host Australia, and if you lose, you will play Brazil.So for this game, coach Jiang Quan also sent a lineup with almost all substitutes. From the outside, it seems that he is going to give up this game.

"Xiao Meng, you are the core of the game, and the other four players will play around you, so you can say what you want now." This is before the start of the game, the national team's coach Jiang A private conversation between Quan and Meng Xu, although Jiang Quan's coaching ability is still far behind the NBA's first-line coaches, he is still one of the best coaches in Huaguo, so although Jiang Quan can't see Meng Xu The huge energy hidden in Xu, but I can also feel that this is a player who can be the core of the team, can make teammates better, and can also lead the team to victory.Therefore, coach Jiang Quan also wanted to take advantage of this game to see if Meng Xu could make any good changes in the national team after establishing Meng Xu as the core.If it turns out that Meng Xu does have this ability, then even if he tries to turn his face against some people, Jiang Quan will have to correct Meng Xu in the next knockout round.If it turns out that Meng Xu can't do it, then he can also take this opportunity to silence those people in China who have been criticizing him. See, it's not that I don't give him a chance, but that he can't do it himself. It can't be my fault.

"Director Jiang, I need an inside line that can sit under the basket. Yao Ming can do that. Then there are several outside lines that can shoot 3 points. The same is true for power forwards. They must have excellent mobility and be able to pull out and shoot. As for defense On the one hand, I think we should give up the zone defense, and just use the simplest man-to-man defense, and at the same time let Yao Ming stay at the basket and not pull out, and I will help them defend." Since the head coach Jiang Quan asked himself If there is any request, there is no need for Meng Xu to be polite.

In the current Huaguo national team, basically all players can shoot 3-pointers, even Yao Ming can shoot 3-pointers, but it is a pity that there is no stable shooter among these people. They are all ventilated.Not to mention Reggie Miller, not even Sean Elliott, but think about it, Sean Elliott is also an NBA All-Star player, averaging 20+ per game in his peak season 5+3 players, if there are several such players in the Huaguo national team, there is no need to call for 8 and 4, just call for a card.

At the same time, due to the lack of personal defensive ability, not only the Chinese team, but basically the most popular defensive method in the entire international basketball world is zone defense. Insufficient defensive ability, this kind of defensive tactics of defending the ball but not man, is the best portrayal of them, not only can't guard man, but also can't guard the ball.

"Okay, I promise you."

In the end, after the start of the game, the performance of the Huaguo basketball team on the court also greatly exceeded Jiang Quan's expectations. On the offensive end, Meng Xu broke into the inside line of the Italian team time and time again, as if entering no one's land. The basket and the points after the breakthrough are all very sharp, and the national team hit 7 3-pointers in the first quarter of the game. In the previous games, the outside shooting rate has been hovering around 30%. For this group of outside players, Jiang Quan couldn't believe the high shooting rate in this game. He made 3 of 15 three-pointers, and Li Nan even made 7 of 6 shots, with a shooting rate of 3%. Scoring in a single quarter even broke the Huaguo basketball team's scoring record in a single quarter in the Olympics. At the same time, it was very close to the average halftime score of this Olympics.

Unlike the head coach Jiang Quan who was excited to find the touch for this group of shooters, Meng Xu is very clear now that the points after the snake-shaped breakthrough, combined with the bonus of the third-level burst tactics, are equivalent to directly increasing their 3 points. % hit rate, and if the 10% bonus is subtracted, their true hit rate is around 10%. It is still quite difficult to rely on this hit rate to win. It can also be seen from this What a blockbuster is the bonus of the snake-shaped breakthrough and the bonus of the tactical system in the system.

As for the defensive end, after giving up zone defense and switching to man-to-man defense, relying on Yao Ming's great deterrence at the basket and Meng Xu's excellent defensive ability, compared with the previous games, Huaguo Basketball The team's defensive ability has directly improved several levels.Under such excellent defense, the Italian team, the champion of the last European Championship, only scored 15 points in the first quarter, which was less than half of the Huaguo basketball team's score.In the first quarter of the game, although Meng Xu only scored 6 points, he sent 8 assists, in addition to 4 rebounds, 3 steals, and 1 block.

"This is the champion of the European Championships. Now facing the national team's substitute lineup, there is no way to fight back?" The second quarter also hit 5 3-pointers and scored 26 points in a single quarter. At the end of the half game, 33 to 58, the Italian team fell behind by as much as 25 points.

"If I only looked at the score, I thought it was a match between Italy and the Dream Team. I didn't expect our national team to play such a quick attack and rock-solid defense." In the commentary hall of CCAV, Teacher Zhang Lili sighed at the right time.

"Yeah, I think this game, not only us, but even the audience in front of the TV must not believe it. This is our national team. Now we have reason to expect that our national team can compete in this game." They will go further in the 10 Olympic Games, and we also believe that they will be able to create history.” After instigating for a while, Su Qun continued: “It is undoubtedly Meng Xu who has brought such a big change to the national team. 14 points, 9 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 steals, [-] blocks per game, I can't find the words to describe him."

"Yes, here I want to quote a great man in the basketball world. Although Meng Xu's statistics are good enough, statistics are the most indescribable thing about Meng Xu's role on the court."

In the final game of the group stage, the Huaguo national team defeated Italy with a score of 91 to 74, and successfully entered the knockout round with the third place in the group.In this game, Meng Xu also became the first player to win a triple-double in the Olympics, and also the first triple-double in this Olympics so far, with 3 points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds, and 14 times Steals, 16 blocked shots.

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