Double stars shine in Los Angeles

Chapter 121 A Bad Half Time
After defeating the traditional European teams, the Chinese men's basketball team successfully advanced to the semi-finals and will compete with the Brazilian men's basketball team.Entering the semi-finals is the best record in the history of China's participation in international competitions such as the World Championships and the Olympics. The best ranking is the previous No.8.

For the Chinese men's basketball team's victory over the European traditional strong Lithuanian men's basketball team, major domestic media have given detailed reports, saying that this men's basketball team is a history-making team.As for the Chinese team's upcoming opponent, the Brazilian men's basketball team, in the semi-final two days later, the major media agreed that the Chinese team would easily win.

There is also a reason for the media to think so, because the Brazil team and the Chinese team were in the same group in the group qualifiers, and the Chinese team beat Brazil by 105 points in the group stage with a score of 92 to [-].However, the major media did not think that Wang Zhizhi in the current Chinese team will not be able to play for the time being, and Yi Li, who has high hopes as a small forward, was injured and left the field in the group match against Australia, so he could not participate in the reception. After all the matches, the situation of the Chinese team was not as easy as they imagined.

On August 28, the semi-finals of the Olympic men's basketball event were held as scheduled.The first to start is the game between the US team and the Russian team.The US team launched a strong offensive from the very beginning of the game, pressing the Russian team to play.However, Russia, which broke into the semi-finals for the first time, also rushed forward. Although it was overwhelmed by the US team, it was not much behind. When the first quarter ended, the Russian team trailed the US team by 24 points with a score of [-] to [-].In the second quarter, the U.S. team rotated personnel and beat the second team of the Russian team in terms of lineup, so the score was quickly widened, forcing the main players of the Russian team to play early.But in the face of the already rising US team, the Russian team has no way to prevent the opponent's crazy scoring.When halftime ended, the Russian team was already fifteen points behind the US team.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the US team lost its shooting feel and missed consecutive shots. The Russian team seized the opportunity to counterattack with all their strength and managed to get the score back to within five points.At the beginning of the last quarter of the game, the outside pitchers of the US team once again showed their strength and expanded the score again.Although the Russian team launched several counterattacks during the period, they were all defeated by the US team with precise outside shots.In the end, the US team defeated the Russian team with a score of 108 to 95 and successfully advanced to the final.The Russian team will have a bronze medal match against the loser between the Chinese team and the Brazilian team on the second day.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team is center Li Yifeng, power forward Yi Jianlian, small forward Sun Yue, shooting guard Wang Shipeng, and point guard Lin Fengzhe.

Brazil's starting lineup is center Anderson Varejao, power forward Diego Splitter, shooting guard Ribeiro Garcia, shooting guard Leonard Barbosa, Marcelo Hull sta.The Brazilian team sent a three-back lineup, which increased the attack and mobility of the lineup.

As the whistle of the game came to mind, Li Yifeng and Anderson Varejao jumped the ball high and stretched their arms desperately to shoot the basketball in the air.Anderson Varejao was still a little worse than Li Yifeng, and Li Yifeng succeeded in jumping the ball.

Lin Fengzhe ran to the front court with the basketball, and made a three-point shot from beyond the top of the arc. The basketball hit the back edge of the basket and bounced into the basket.Lin Fengzhe has already liked this feeling, and it has become a habit of Lin Fengzhe to shoot the opponent a three-pointer immediately at the beginning of the game.Although I know what he will do, it is difficult to defend his shots.

Marcelo Herstad took the ball upfield.Through Marcelo Herstad's dribbling movements, it can be seen that this guy has a good sense of the ball and his basic basketball skills are very solid. It is not a simple matter to steal the ball from him.

Marcelo Herstad became famous at a young age and is good at organizing the team's offense. Since joining the Brazilian national team, he has been occupying the position of starting point guard, which shows that his strength is extraordinary.Brazil's first offense was handed over to power forward Diego Splitter.

Diego Spurrick held the ball and singled Yi Jianlian head-on, while Yu Yu took the initiative to make room for the two to fight.Yi Jianlian opened his arms, lowered his center of gravity, and carefully guarded Diego Splitter. In fact, Diego Splitter's ability to attack with the ball is not very strong.

Diego Splitter hit Yi Jianlian from the right to the basket. When there was still more than two meters away from the basket, Diego Splitter made an emergency stop and made a cross-step shot .Although Yi Jianlian's reaction was quick and he followed up quickly, but Diego Splitter had already made a shot and the basketball was hollow into the net.

"Come on, replace him, the game has just begun." Lin Fengzhe passed by Yi Jianlian when he was attacking, and said, "Calm down and take your time, finish this round of offense and talk about other things."

Yi Jianlian nodded and didn't speak, just ran to the front court to take a stand.Lin Fengzhe took the ball to the frontcourt, observed the position of his teammates, and made tactical gestures.The outside players of the Chinese team are all distributed on the outside. Li Yifeng guards the basket, and Yi Jianlian is near the free throw line, ready to respond and grab rebounds at any time.

Lin Fengzhe, Wang Shipeng and Sun Yue kept throwing the ball backwards on the perimeter, and after attracting the attention of the Brazilian team, Wang Shipeng passed the basketball to Yi Jianlian. There was a huge gap.Because the Brazilian team focused on defending the periphery where the Chinese team might appear, ignoring the defense inside the team, Yi Jianlian had plenty of time and space to hit the basket.Yi Jianlian's two major players came to the basket with both hands holding the ball behind his head, his body was tense like a giant bow stretched out with one palm, and then he dunked with force, the basketball hoop was shaking up and down because of Yi Jianlian's violent dunk .

"Boom!" The audience, especially the Chinese fans who came to watch the game, cheered endlessly.Although Yi Jianlian didn't get any opportunities to play with the Dallas Mavericks last season and didn't have a very happy life, he still didn't give up on honing his skills.

At the same time, the Brazilian team also showed the strength it should have as a strong South American team. In the first quarter, it was evenly matched with the Chinese team.Don't think that if a team has one or two big-name stars, it will be fine and they can win the game. Basketball is a sport of five people after all. Just like the Brazilian team, there are not many famous players.

In the 6th minute of the first quarter, Brazilian shooting guard Ribeiro Garcia stole Wang Shipeng and passed the ball to Leandro Barbosa for a fast break.Leandro Barbosa did not choose a more secure attack at the basket, but directly shot a three-pointer when he came beyond the three-point line, and the shot was hit, helping the Brazilian team to equalize the score and overtake the Chinese team two points.

In today's game, Wang Shipeng and Sun Yue were obviously out of shape, and they didn't know what they were thinking. If it wasn't for the two of them sneaking around on the court, the Chinese team wouldn't be so closely chased by the Brazilian team in terms of score. Overtaken by the opponent.

"Hey, buddy! Keep up your spirits, don't you want to win the game? As long as we win this round, we can at least get a silver medal! Concentrate!" Lin Fengzhe shouted at Wang Shipeng and Sun Yue , Lin Fengzhe on the court doesn't care about your qualifications, everything depends on your strength, just look at Liu Wei back then.

At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team was four points behind the Brazilian team.After the end, Lin Fengzhe didn't say anything, just sat on the seat and put the towel on his head.Li Yifeng, who usually laughs and makes noise with other people in the team, also sat in his seat with a gloomy expression and said nothing.

After the intermission, the two sides carried out personnel rotation. The Chinese team replaced the second team led by Yao Ming, power forward Zhou Peng, small forward Zhu Fangyu, shooting guard Zhang Bo, and point guard Liu Wei.

However, in the second quarter, the state of the Chinese team was still sluggish. Except for Yao Ming, the others did not do what they should do, and the shooting percentage was just over 30.00%.Just after halfway through the second quarter, the Chinese team was [-] points behind the Brazilian team. Just after half the game, the opponent widened the gap by another three points.

Head coach Deng Huade called a timeout and sent all the starting lineup except Wang Shipeng.After the substitution, Lin Fengzhe made a long-range three-pointer as soon as he came on the field, and then hit the inside for a dunk. At the same time, he caused a defensive foul by Brazil's substitute center Nene Hilario, and scored six points with a penalty.

But Marcelo McAdoo, the oldest player on the Brazilian team, also hit a three-pointer, which caused Sun Yue to make two free throws for a defensive foul.The score difference is ten.Until the end of the halftime game, the Chinese team failed to reduce the score to less than five points. The Chinese team trailed Brazil by six points 35 to 41.This was the result of the joint efforts of Lin Fengzhe and Li Yifeng. Yao Ming played fast breaks because of his slow movement speed, so Yao Ming didn't participate in the offense for three rounds, and he just ran back and forth.

As soon as he returned to the locker room, Lin Fengzhe broke out and shouted to the other players, "What are you thinking! Are you satisfied after just reaching the semi-finals! You actually lost to us by [-] points in the group stage It’s very face-saving for the team to play against you! You have to know how many fans in China are watching your game, is this how you give back their support for you!”

Afterwards, Yao Ming also spoke up, and he was also dissatisfied with the performance of other players.Yao Ming's status and prestige in the national team is still very high, and no one else objected to what Yao Ming said.

Then the head coach Deng Huade first encouraged his players, and then began to arrange the arrangements for the second half.

(End of this chapter)