Almighty legend life

Chapter 463
"I accept the result of the game. My players played their strengths. They worked hard, but it is a pity that we met Liu who can match Jordan. No one can ask for a Spanish team whose average age is less than 24 years old. Beat the Chinese team with Liu, he is the most special."

"But Liu has been away from basketball for more than two years, and he is now a professional football player."

"Jordan can still score [-] points in the NBA after playing baseball for seventeen months. They are the same kind of people. Although everyone knows how bad Jordan's baseball is, Liu Han is a football genius."

This is a conversation at the press conference after the men's basketball quarter-final match between Spain and China in the Sydney Olympic Games. The two sides of the conversation are the reporter and the head coach of the Spanish team.

Liu Han defeated the Spanish team in only half a game, which made their head coach very embarrassed, so he had to praise Liu Han vigorously after the game, so as to make his team's failure more reasonable. Otherwise, it is estimated that his handsome position will be unstable.

Such a game is a huge blow to the Spanish team, and it is not a small encouragement to the Chinese team. However, for the next semi-finals, the Chinese team does not have much hope. Their next opponent will be It is the winner of the first place in Group A and the fourth place in Group B. The result is already doomed, because the first place in Group A is the US team, and the fourth place in Group B is Russia.

Can Russia beat the US?This is obviously a question, and it is a very ridiculous question. The polar bears have never defeated the US team when they were at their strongest, let alone now after ten years of "shock therapy".

Compared with the previous "Dream Team", the stars of this US team are much dimmer. Although there are still big-name stars such as Jason Kidd, Kevin Garnett, and Gary Payton, there are also some second-tier stars and new stars, such as Steve Smith, Antonio McDyess, 99 rookie Vincent Carter and others.

In the group stage, the Dream Four team played smoothly, but in the group match against Lithuania, the Dream Four team only won by nine points, which is enough to show that the basketball level of other countries is rapidly approaching that of the United States.

In this game, the Dream Four team exposed one of their major flaws, that is, the lack of outside firepower. They are very strong in appearance, but they are not players who mainly focus on shooting accuracy, and the entire Dream Four team also lacks pitchers with sufficient stability. When it comes to the Dream Team [-], the team has hoarded a lot of players inside, but in games where FIBA ​​can defend, the strength of the US team's inside has been suppressed.

The Lithuanian team defended the second and third defenses from the beginning to the end of the game against the US team.

Although the US team eventually defeated their opponents, their shortcomings were still noticed by everyone.

On September 29, the penultimate day of the Sydney Olympic Games, the semi-finals of the men's basketball competition kicked off.

Jiang Xinquan adjusted Liu Han's position in this game. He put Liu Han at the shooting guard position and let Li Xiaoyong start the point guard. The purpose was to release Liu Han and let Liu Han play the biggest role in the offense.

Yao Min failed to beat Alonzo Mourning in the jump ball in the middle circle (Mourning was very explosive before the kidney transplant, otherwise he would not be ranked in the top ten blocks in the league. This top ten is the top ten when O'Neal and Duncan are active. Later O'Neal and Duncan both surpassed Mourning), although Mourning's height is only [-] meters.

Payton squeezed away Li Xiaoyong to grab the basketball, Tomjanovich chose the more famous and better defensive Payton as the starting point guard, and Jason Kidd sat on the bench.

Payton has always had a regret in his heart that he has never defeated Liu Han in a game. Since Liu Han joined the NBA, the Sonics have been eliminated by the Lakers in the playoffs for two consecutive years. This made Payton very depressed. He dreamed They all want to beat Liu Han once, and this desire is even stronger than defeating Jordan.

After Payton took the ball to the frontcourt, he hoisted the ball into Mourning's hands inside. Tomjanovich has always been a head coach who values ​​the inside, otherwise he would not have cultivated a player like Olajuwon.

After Mourning took the ball, he was going to forcefully hit the "big bamboo pole" behind him. Yao Min's thin body made Mourning think that the opponent should have little strength, but unexpectedly, the big man of the Chinese team was quite stable. Two clicks did not move Yao Min.

This is Liu Han who has come to double-team Mourning. After losing the opportunity, Mourning can only repass the ball to the outside Vinson Carter.

Vincent Carter was a rookie in 99, and this year is only his second year in the NBA. However, with his excellent physical fitness, he quickly became the core of the Raptors as soon as he joined the NBA, even surpassing his distant cousin Mike Grady.

After Carter got the ball, he had a chance to pass the ball to shoot directly, but the young and energetic Carter wanted to challenge Liu Han, so he even refused the insider Garnett's request for the ball.

Liu Hanhe returned to his defensive position and faced Carter's challenge directly.

Carter took the ball to make a tentative step and found that Liu Han was unmoved, and then he directly started to break through from the left side of Liu Han's body, but Liu Han's feet moved quite quickly, directly blocking Carter's breakthrough line.

Carter, who was blocked, took advantage of the opportunity to pull the ball and half-turned to fake, and then used his footsteps to turn his body again to prepare for a shot, but he underestimated Liu Han's reaction speed and bounce.

Although Carter's previous movements were done in one go, and his take-off height and body shape were maintained very well, when he shot, he found that Liu Han was still blocking him, and even the space for his shot was blocked by Liu Han. Carter could only use his waist to stay in the air, and then raised the arc of his shot to avoid Liu Han's block, but such a shot could not guarantee the accuracy of the ball. After the basketball hit Lan's neck and popped up, Yao Min grabbed it. rebound.

After Yao Min grabbed the rebound, he directly passed to Liu Han, because Liu Han flew out immediately when he landed.

Facing the American team with strong physical fitness and full explosive power, ordinary teams rarely counterattacked. The American team defended high and then counterattacked, but today the Chinese team played a counterattack. Liu Han's speed was faster than that of the American team. The players seem to be incomparable, and Yao Min is outstanding in height, of course he can see far from standing tall, and he has good finger skills and passes the ball very well.

After Liu Han successfully received the ball, he rushed to the US team's backcourt at full speed, and Carter also returned to the defense behind him.

After Liu Han stepped into the three-point line and jumped high, Carter was not to be outdone and tried to block Liu Han to save face.

But Liu Han, who jumped into the air, suddenly folded at the highest point, just avoiding Carter's block, and then Liu Han unfolded his body again, and dunked the ball heavily into the basket with his right hand.

Liu Han abused NBA rising star Vincent Carter between one defense and one offense.

(End of this chapter)