Four Hundred Fifty-One. Lock the Top 2 of the Group!
6 to 4 group stage qualifying rules, the 5th and 6th top days can win two games, most of the time can only win one game, and it is not impossible to lose all.
Even if the fifth and sixth teams are lucky enough to win two games, and the Chinese team loses the rest of the games, then the record is the same, and the points difference will be used to calculate the qualifying places.
In the first two games, the Chinese team already had a net difference of 48 points.
The strength shown by the Chinese team against Greece is obviously comparable to that of Turkey and Russia in the group. Even if they lose, they will not lose too much. That is to say, the Chinese team is basically locked in qualifying for the group stage!
To qualify for the group stage after two games, this... the fans didn't even dare to think about it before! Even if it was the Olympic Games in my own country two years ago, I dare not even think about it!
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The players of the Chinese team yawned and slept on their stomachs. Only Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Wang Shipeng, and Zhu Fangyu listened seriously.
These four are all big shots who are going to enter the management team or directly lead the national team after retiring.
Others, salted fish...
On the podium, a fat and oily basketball center official was delivering a long speech.
After the Chinese team played the first two days of games, they got a day off. On the 31st and September 1st, they played two games. On the 2nd, they had another day off. On the night of the 3rd, they played the curtain call of the group match with the Turkish team.
Sun Ce, who was lying on the desk and yawning, was speechless to the people in the basketball management center. After finally taking a rest day, he went to borrow the key to the classroom. It is estimated that he asked his secretary to stay up late last night to write an article. A long "song draft", praising the motherland, boasting about the leadership of the Blue Association, and praising the performance of the players in the past two days...
And the cameraman is taking pictures!
Of course, the cameraman dare not take pictures of the players now.
In the early morning, the players who had worked hard for two days were called up to do this kind of nonsense, just to shoot a video and send it back to China as news. Sun Ce felt that this group of people was full.
Fortunately, the basketball management center is not like the football side. The officials of the basketball management center just like to engage in formalism, and they will not intervene in the coaching staff to coach. After recording a circle of everyone enthusiastically applauding to welcome the leader to give a speech, everyone except the four brothers rested on their stomachs.
After the eloquent speech of nearly 10,000 words,
The officials of the basketball management center left contentedly. Deng Huade silently asked the players to go back to sleep and take a rest. They gathered at lunch time, prepared for tomorrow's game in the afternoon, and went to the scene to watch the game in the evening...the tough battle is coming!
Türkiye will play Russia tonight, and the Chinese team will play Russia tomorrow!
In Group C, Russia and Turkey are currently 1 win and 0 losses. They both won last night. The Chinese team has 2 wins and 0 losses. The other three countries have not yet won.
At present, China, Russia, and Turkey are recognized as the top three in Group C. The strong confrontation between today and tomorrow will largely affect the ranking of the top three.
Russia is the most questioned country, because they won Puerto Rico by only 5 points, beating each other 99 to 94. The ferocious defense shown in the European Championship seems to have been completely forgotten in Moscow in the World Series.
But no matter what, the Chinese team didn't dare to be careless at all. After finally making the best start in the history of the national team, if they are complacent at this time, it will be over.
To talk about the advantages of the Chinese men's basketball team... they think of themselves very lowly, and it is a game to be able to fight, unlike football, which theoretically has a way to deal with any opponent before the game and finally "does its best".
In the tactical training in the afternoon, the Chinese team mainly conducts defensive training. The main lineup has Yao Ming defending the basket, Sun Ce counterattack, and Yi Jianlian and Wang Shipeng who can keep up. It is very advantageous for the Chinese team to play defensive counterattack in international competitions.
The Russian team's center forwards are Timofey Mozgov and Alessi Zhukanenko.
Mozgov is the meat shield center of the Russian Khimki team that the Knicks have taken a fancy to after they formed the super duo of Paul + Stoudemire in mid-July. It is the insider that the Knicks signed to deal with Howard Defensive gate.
The Knicks are rich and powerful, and the three-year rookie contract of $9.72 million to Mozgov has refreshed the highest rookie contract held by the Grizzlies Marc Gasol in the second round and the undrafted pick.
However, as a defensive center, Mozgov basically has no medium-to-short-range shooting ability. Yao Ming should not be too easy to defend the basket, and he doesn't even need to leave the three-second zone.
Another center, Zhukanenko, has a stable mid-to-long range shot, but his speed is too slow, which makes Wang Zhi feel defensive. Moreover, Zhukanenko is not like a Russian player. His style of play is surprisingly soft. Yesterday's game was defeated by Arroyo I picked up several of them, and I didn't even bother to stretch out my hands.
In the evening, Sun Ce and his teammates came to Ankara City Stadium to watch the match between Russia and Turkey.
After watching the game, it's not that the Chinese team wants to underestimate Russia, it's that the opponent played too badly!
Just like in the Olympics two years ago, the defensive end was so soft. Turkey, led by Turkoglu, Okur, and Asik, scored 91 points in a single game, while the Russian team only scored 67 points.
Asik was a second-round pick in 2008. His signing rights had just been sent to the Bulls by the Blazers, and he had just signed a two-year $3.8 million contract with the Bulls. He squatted inside, Mozgov I can't squeeze it.
The weirdest thing is the point guard of the Russian team, 24-year-old Igor Vyartshev, who is 190 cm tall and weighs... 76 kg!
When the Turkish team replaced Okur as a center to open up the space, Anka Morva, a 38-year-old veteran backup point guard born in 1972 and the water dispenser manager of CSKA Moscow, went up to sit in the low post, and Teh Koglu connected high and low. This veteran who was originally used as a mascot and the leader of the locker room, stunned to score 8 points and 2 assists in the second quarter of the low singles.
The bamboo pole defender of the Russian team was bullied as badly as possible.
In this game, the Turkish team is like a teaching model, instructing the Chinese team how to deal with Russia tomorrow.
Not to mention, what the Turkish team can do with Turkoglu, Asik, and Okur, the Chinese team with Yao Ming and Sun Ce can really do it!
Moreover, the Chinese team has Yi Jianlian, an athletic power forward that the Turkish team does not have!
Sun Ce watched the performance of the Russian team, which was initially predicted to be the second most powerful team in Group C, and finally understood what the weakest group is...
If it weren't for the Chinese team having him, Yao Ming would still be able to play, and the five countries in Group C would not even be able to put pressure on Turkey!
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On August 31, 2010, the Chinese team defeated Russia 87 to 71 without bloodshed.
There was an example of the Turkish team taking down Russia easily. The Chinese team could do as they please, and the victory was easy. The Chinese team took advantage of the weaknesses of the Russian team. The opponent sent Mozgov, leaving Yao Ming on the field to fight back.
The opponent replaces Mozgov with Zhukanenko, who has the ability to shoot, and then uses Wang Zhizhi to attack Biao.
Today Yao Ming is the player with the highest score in the paint. After three games, he scored in double figures for the first time. He scored 15 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks. Yi Jianlian scored 12 points and 10 rebounds in a double-double.
In addition to these two, there are two players who scored in double figures, Zhu Fangyu and Sun Ce.
Zhu Fangyu received a lot of open shots and made three three-pointers, scoring a total of 14 points. The highest scorer in the game was Sun Ce, with 19 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.
Not many assists, tied with Wang Zhizhi who had 6 points and 4 assists for the highest assists in the game.
However, in the World Championships, even if it is a core organizer, the assists in a game will not be too high. Four or five are considered normal.
By this time, the opponent had already taken precautions.
However, it was too easy for Sun Ce to sit in the low position and play Russia's 76 kg and 81 kg Khvoztov. The opponent switched defenses in other positions, and the speed could not keep up with Sun Ce.
All of a sudden, they won three consecutive victories!
The Chinese team currently ranks first in the Group C standings!
Moreover, the Russian team lost two games, and the one lost to the Turkish team was still a big loss. After the Chinese team defeated Russia, Turkey then defeated the Greek team 76 to 65. The Greek team also lost two games, and the record became 1 win and 2 losses.
That is to say, except for the 3 wins and 0 losses of the Turkish team and the Chinese team, other countries have won 3 games, and the Chinese team has a net difference of 64 points after 3 games...
Locked in the top two of the group!
Sun Ce felt too surreal after defeating Russia. Who would have expected the current situation before coming to Turkey?
He didn't think about how different the national team would be after having a core point guard. He still underestimated Yao Ming, who averaged 25 points per game in the 2006 World Championships in China, and Yao Ming, who was the second scoring champion in China's history in the World Championships in 2010 in the original time and space. If Yi Jianlian, who averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds per game in the World Championships, has a core point guard who can pass the ball well, how terrifying the Chinese team will be!
In these three games, if Liu Wei, Sun Yue, Guo Ailun and others who played during the rotation were all negative effects, the point difference would have become even bigger!
It's not that these three are bad, but that they are placed in the world basketball world. The point guard line composed of these three is really a hindrance to the three inside cores of Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming, as well as the two stable shooters Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu. In general, Sun Yue, who has a B-level ability evaluation under FIBA rules, is the best performer among the three.
Liu Wei is old, 30 years old, at the end of his career as a domestic defender; Guo Ailun is only 17 years old, energetic but young; Sun Yue's talent was wasted by Aoshen for 4 years...however, they are still playing in the World Series. For a team The crucial point guard position, even if Sun Yue is not so slow, the effect is still a negative point, because the point guards in other countries are all helping the inside to play better.
But now with Sun Ce! Not to mention that it can be compared with the top powers such as Spain and Argentina who play in the full lineup, it is not much different from Turkey, an emerging strong team supported by 3 NBA players!