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Chapter 314 Working hard for the top four

The national team's victory over the Spanish team was a victory that caused an uproar in the country.

Compared with the brilliance of "small ball", the situation of "big ball" in China has always been very embarrassing, but "big ball" is more enjoyable than "small ball"!
Since Yao Ming entered the NBA, this popular sport has directly become the most popular sport in China.

Although the country has been bragging about surpassing this goal and improving the ranking, in fact, domestic basketball has not improved significantly internationally.

But this time is different. As the champion of the last World Championships, Spain is recognized as one of the world's strongest teams in team history, but this time the winner is us!

Victory is the only criterion for "improvement"!

This caused the media the next day to make repeated reports on the game.

"The quadruple-double winner helps the national men's basketball team and takes the giants Spain!"

"One high, one fast, combined internally and externally, the national team may realize the dream of the semi-finals!"

"Our glory has just begun!"

"Keeping eight and four? Maybe we can imagine a medal!"

"The Rise of Grassroots Basketball, 'Worker' Shi Lei's Fantasy Basketball!"

Winning the NBA Finals made Shi Lei temporarily the hottest athlete in China. In these two games, Shi Lei performed the most outstandingly, averaging 21 points, 6 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game. The assist king, coupled with the leadership's care, naturally made the media's reports focus on him, and even cctv5, when the Olympic Games were so tense and the off-site reporters were extremely busy, they even arranged for reporters to specialize Traveled to Boston to interview the Celtics management on Shi Lei's performance in the Olympics.

The team's general manager Danny Ainge personally received them.

"Although it is a pity that I can't watch Shi's game from the sidelines of the court, but as soon as your game starts, I will put aside all my work, because we must know everything about him, and he is so important to us.

Shi is very hardworking, yes, very hardworking, but I am still surprised by his progress, not that he started to learn how to use the mid-range shot, we are not surprised, what surprises us is that he can integrate into a team so quickly A completely unfamiliar team, yes, I’m talking about your national team, the rules there are different from here, but Shi’s adaptation looks good, he has already played the same role as in our team, using his own strength to help the ball team wins."

Amidst the media's praise and the encouragement of the leaders, the national team ushered in their next opponent, Angola, the weakest in the group, just one day later.

In this Angola men's basketball team, there are no particularly well-known players, and the four pillar players are only experienced in the NCAA and European leagues.As soon as the Olympic team announced the roster, the national team regarded the match against this team as an opponent that must be won. Well, this is also the only opponent that the national team is confident of winning.

Facts have not changed much from expectations, and Angola has not caused much trouble to the national team.

The national team with all the main players on the field led the opponent by five points in the first quarter, but in the second minute of the second quarter, they allowed Angola to score two points with only free throws in six minutes, taking a 6-point lead in one fell swoop. Advantage.

After the main force of the national team left the field, Angola once chased the point difference to nine points, but the national team replaced the main force afterwards, and the point difference between the two sides was quickly expanded to fifteen points. This is the third quarter of the game middle section.

When the third quarter ended, the national team's lead had been extended to 23 points.Since then, Angola has no power to fight back. Three minutes after the start of the fourth quarter, the point difference between the two sides was expanded to more than 3 points, and the game entered garbage time.

After this game, the national team tied for second in the group with Greece with a record of one loss and two wins. The US team ranked first, Spain and Germany with two losses and one win ranked fourth and fifth, and Angola had all three games in the group stage. Defeated, the group is at the bottom.

After winning this game, the national team has actually qualified for the promotion, which means that the national team has completed the expected task of entering the quarterfinals.But now is not the time to herd horses in Nanshan and Mingjin withdraw troops.

After advancing to the quarter-finals, the promoted teams in Group A and Group B will face off against No.1 in Group A against No.4 in Group B, No.2 in Group A against No.3 in Group B, and No.3 in Group A against No. No.2 in Group B, No.4 in Group A against No.1 in Group B, in order to get a weaker opponent, the national team must make persistent efforts.

In other words, the national team has been working hard for the semi-finals since this time.

The time jumped to August [-]th, and the national team ushered in their opponent in the fourth round, the German team led by Nowitzki.

Although there are top stars like Nowitzki and an all-star center like Kaman in the team, the strength of this German team is not strong, or it is not stronger than the original national team, that is, Shi Lei did not join. former national team.

After Nowitzki and Kaman, there was a talent gap in the German team. After many years of inactivity, the members of their team were either too old or too young, which seriously affected their competitiveness.

After the start of the game, the national team made a perfect start again. In the first quarter, the score difference was quickly opened up with 19:9.

The start of the Olympic national team has been very smooth, even facing the US team, the start of the national team is also very beautiful.

In the second quarter, the national team replaced the main players.
Nowitzki has always been said to be "soft", but that has a lot to do with their bad luck being "black eight". The only recognized white top star after Bird, he quickly helped the German team out the dilemma.

"Only four players, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Dirk Nowitzki, could succeed in my era."

The person who said this was Jordan, and Nowitzki was quick to tell people why he could get such an evaluation.

At the beginning of the second quarter, he first scored two points with a mid-range shot, and then won the rough confrontation with his former opponent. He slapped the rough shot and assisted his teammate Harman to make a quick break. Time helped the team narrow the gap to six points.

Being behind is not terrible, what is terrible is the emotional changes caused by being behind.

The national team is still leading, but the lineup composed of substitute players thought it was an offensive and defensive failure, and chaos occurred.

Eager to make a contribution, Chen Jianghua Qingqi quickly got off, but Harman and Gatlin teamed up to block him at the basket. Then Gatlin grabbed the rebound and scored two points through a fast break through the inside in the counterattack, closing the gap again. zoom out.

For a while, the national team was in turmoil!
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