Healing Basketball

  Chapter 759 Chapter 759. Revenge Lithuania!

  The Lithuanian team's zone defense must start with strengthening the confrontation at the basket, the center and the bottom line. With the giant center Z, the Lithuanian team coach will definitely choose this way... This is the analysis of Jonas in the preparation stage.

  Based on defense and confrontation, the Lithuanian team’s offense will not be very good at the beginning, and there is a chance to climax—this is the judgment of Silver Fox.

  The combination of the two decided to play more shots from the outside at the beginning. The effect was very good, and the start was 8 to 0! Stopped the Lithuanian team.

  The opening 8-0 was not due to any tactics, but the improvement of the strength of Liu Xiu, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and Zhu Fangyu!

   For them two years ago, it is quite difficult to make such a start! Now they are playing with ease.

   Entering the timeout period, Yunas speculated that the next step is the most difficult, and the Lithuanian team must start to defend regardless of the dead.

  Compared with the NBA, the game under the rules of the FIBA ​​is more conducive to deadly defense.

  When the opponent has the ability to defend, unless they have a crushing level of personal ability advantage, otherwise they can only follow the opponent to defend. Silver Fox's choice is also to defend.

  But Silver Fox is not like the coach of the Lithuanian team who thinks about purely defending and killing the opponent. He has someone to count on on the offensive end-the warden and the little giant!

After returning from the timeout, the Lithuanian team first rose up on the offensive end and played a wave of 6-2, chasing the score to 6-10, but the continuity was insufficient. The next 5 minutes added up to only 6 points. At the end of the game, the Lithuanian team scored 12 points.

For the Chinese team, they only scored two points in 5 rounds after a timeout, but after adapting to the defense, Liu Xiu scored two goals in a row at the high post. Two meters away from the three-point line, the three-pointer made a strong three-point tip-up, plus Liu Xiu’s final counter-attack and one-stop layup...After the first quarter, the Chinese team led the Lithuanian team by 8 points 20-12 and entered the quarter rest!

   Counting from the first timeout, the Chinese team and the Lithuanian team drew 12 to 12, which is quite encouraging for the Chinese team!

  Two years ago, once the Lithuanian team started the iron-blooded battle that tortured people without paying for their lives, they could only follow suit, and they were passive. That is, Liu Xiu, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi were not enough to break the Lithuanian team's iron-blooded defense built around the big Z.

Just like Yao Ming's defensive dominance in the international arena, even Dirk Nowitzki and Milicic can't break through it. Big Z, who is 221 cm tall and proficient in defense, is really worthy of the defensive end in international games without three seconds of defense. Layup and next bully!

   But now, even if the Lithuanian team puts up an iron-blooded defense, Liu Xiu and Yao Ming can still tear a hole in the Lithuanian team's defense!

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  With stronger Liu Xiu and Yao Ming, plus Jonas who knows Lithuania's defensive system well, the Silver Foxes have the capital to win.

   But the game is never as simple as it looks on paper. In a final match with a tiebreaker system, upsets are common.

In the second quarter, the Lithuanian team led the team to 17 points in a single quarter by relying on Big Z's back-up shots and Marcioskas' pick-and-roll breakthroughs again and again, and restricted the Chinese team to only After scoring 13 points, the Lithuanian team chased the score to 29 to 33 at the end of the half, narrowing the point difference to 4 points!

After the halftime break, the Chinese team relied on Liu Xiu's 3-of-5 shooting and 8 points to play a wave of 8-2, pulling the point difference to double digits, leading the Lithuanian team 41-31, but the Lithuanian team returned A wave of 12 to 4 narrowed the point difference to two points.

  The two teams scored 6-6 at the end of the third quarter. The Lithuanian team scored 20 points in the third quarter, and the Chinese team scored 18 points. At the end of the third quarter, the Lithuanian team chased the score to 49-51!

At the end of the quarter, Darius Sangueira made a great contribution by stealing Zhu Fangyu who cut to catch the ball. Looking back, Big Z slipped into the basket from the bottom line, catching the ball and avoiding Wang Zhizhi's defense and smashing the ball into the basket with one hand. The score was tied.

  The two teams started a tug-of-war. The game reached 9 minutes and 49 seconds of the fourth quarter. After Simmons Gastis almost used up the offensive time, he rushed inside and flew to the layup...Miss! However, Big Z made a follow-up tip-up to increase his personal score to 20 points, and also made the score 69 to 66. The Chinese team missed the defense at the critical moment and fell behind the Lithuanian team by three points!

  The Chinese team called a timeout and replaced the lineup of Liu Xiu, Li Nan, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, and Wang Zhizhi. One big and four small, all the five players with the best three-pointers were replaced.

  The Lithuanian team also replaced five players with fast speed and sufficient height, and basically gave up the frame protection. The Chinese team was willing to give the opportunity to shoot two-pointers.

   After returning from a timeout, Liu Xiu wasted time. The Lithuanian team did not attack blindly. Every player defended his defender. Liu Xiu was defended by Linas Kleiza, who was 203 cm tall.

  With 4 seconds left in the time, Liu Xiu moved. Kleiza knew that Liu Xiu was going to shoot a three-pointer, so he tried to follow up and interfere, but was still pulled by Liu Xiu with a well-paced vigorous pat to get the shooting space.

  Liu Xiu took off from a big step on the right side of the top arc, and made a three-point shot...hit!

  Kleiza has reached the limit, but Liu Xiu's three-pointer at the buzzer still scored!

  The moment the ball fell into the basket, more than 30,000 fans at the scene were boiling!

   In the few seconds just now, the fans at the scene did not dare to show their atmosphere, and now they are venting their emotions to their heart's content!

   At critical moments, you can always trust the warden!

  The referee confirmed that the goal was valid and the take-off position was outside the three-point line. The technical table updated the score, 69 to 69, and the game entered overtime!

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  After Liu Xiu hit a three-pointer, Silver Fox excitedly rushed onto the field and hugged Liu Xiu to celebrate.

  Hanging heart, I can finally let it go for a while.

  The arrangement for overtime is simple—defend and let the warden single!

  The combination of Liu Xiu, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian, and Du Feng was replaced.

After a while, overtime began. Liu Xiu came up and hit a jumper with a high emergency stop, a sideways back to the right of the free throw line, turned around and rushed to the basket to score 2+1, scored 5 points in a row, and scored a 2+1. Wave 5 to 0.

As expected by Silver Fox, the Lithuanian team's style of play went to overtime, and the continuity was very difficult to guarantee, and being dragged into overtime by the opponent's three-pointer at the buzzer was also a huge blow to the confidence of the Lithuanian team .

   This was the case in the two rounds just now, and the Lithuanian team was obviously a little frustrated.

However, the point difference was not widened all of a sudden, and Big Z went berserk in overtime. In the next 3 minutes, Big Z scored 7 points, and Zhu Fangyu made two consecutive three-pointers, and Yi Jianlian made a layup and caused a foul. With the impact of one of two free throws, the score became 81 to 76, and the Chinese team still only led by 5 points.

   But Big Z failed to mobilize his exhausted teammates.

Next, Liu Xiu made a counter-attack dunk, Sun Yuekong scored two points with a split dunk, and Yi Jian connected with Zhu Fangyu's second pass to score two points with a backhand split dunk. The team scored 6 to 0 and scored 87 to 76, and the point difference was widened to 11 points!

  The Lithuanian team scored a super long three-pointer in the middle circle at the last moment, but it was unable to change the outcome.

  Big Z scored a game-high 29 points, 6 rebounds and 4 blocks tonight, but lost to Liu Xiu's 28 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, Yao Ming's 18 points and 12 rebounds, Zhu Fangyu's 14 points...

  The Chinese team narrowly beat the Lithuanian team 87 to 79 through overtime and advanced to the semi-finals! Complete revenge!

  (end of this chapter)