Chapter 682 London Olympics

The NBA free market is over and the league has entered its annual rough period.

But the difference between this year and the past three years is that this year is an Olympic year.

The 2012 London Olympics will be held on August 1st.

Sun Hao only stayed in Los Angeles for two days, and then flew back to China to join the national team.

This time Yao Ming was not with him.

Due to injuries, Yao Ming will miss the Olympics for the first time in his career.

This is also where he differs from history.

In history, Yao Ming forced his comeback to participate in the 2008 Olympics through injury, but in the end it was hard to come back and he retired directly in the new season.

The current change is not that Yao Ming's personality has changed, but that the current Chinese men's basketball team is completely different from the Chinese men's basketball team in history.

The Chinese men's basketball team now has two Olympic champions in its hands and is now the dominant player in the world's basketball world.

In other words, Olympic champions are still important, but the Chinese men's basketball team no longer needs Yao Ming to spend his career to "prove" anything.

So when it’s time to recuperate, recuperate well.

This time in London, the Chinese men's basketball team is led by Sun Hao and Yi Jianlian.

It is worth mentioning that the US men's basketball team suffered a setback in the 2006 World Championships and failed in the 2008 Olympics. At this time, the domestic super giants were not very enthusiastic about participating in the Olympics.

After all, revenge has already failed once before in 2008. Who knows that it will not fail this time?

Some people may say that since Yao Ming did not go this time, the chances are much greater!

But everything has two sides. If revenge fails, wouldn't it completely throw yourself into the pillar of historical shame?

As for what you think, it varies from person to person.

For example, James declined the invitation of the US Men's Basketball Team this time on the grounds of recuperation.

For example, Durant not only announced immediately that he would continue to participate in the national team, but also called on other super giants to participate!

It's just that... his appeal is very limited.

People with different personalities make different choices, but the results are different because of their different personalities.

Man, it sure is funny sometimes.

The situation on the American team is more complicated, but the enthusiasm on the Spanish side is as high as ever.

Because this is fighting on European soil, and with the rise of Gasol and others, the strength of the Spanish men's basketball team has reached its historical peak.

And last summer, the Spanish men's basketball team did a big thing. They naturalized Ibaka!

When talking about the issue of naturalization, fans should be most familiar with the Asian men's basketball team.

Because Asian teams are inherently weak, many countries need naturalized players to improve the team's overall strength in order to have a chance to enter the Olympics.

But in fact, many strong teams also engage in naturalization. Spain's naturalization of Ibaka is a good example.

Coupled with the absence of Yao Ming on the Chinese team, this is their best chance to win the championship!

One of the most direct evidences is the overall evaluation of the team given by fiba in this Olympics.

The first ranked team is neither the American team nor the Chinese team, but the Spanish team!

This is something that has been rare in the past few years.

Of course, this is related to what was said before. The Chinese and American men's basketball team's roster is not the strongest lineup this time.

US men's basketball team: Durant, Westbrook, Deron, Harden, Curry, Eric Gordon, Iguodala, Gay, Love, Griffin, Chandler, DeAndre Jordan;

Chinese men's basketball team: Sun Hao, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, Zhou Peng, Wang Shipeng, Chen Jianghua, Ding Jinhui, Han Dejun, Wang Zhelin, Guo Ailun;

One can only be regarded as half of the American team, and the other is missing Yao Ming.

It’s not surprising that fiba is arranged like that.

It is against this background that the London Olympics officially started.

Because the Beijing Olympic Games are ahead of them, the British are deeply afraid of doing worse than China, so they invest quite a lot.

According to statistics, the Olympic Games attracted nearly 1 billion viewers around the world.

Including basketball, although superstars such as Kobe, James, and Yao Ming failed to appear at the Olympics, they still attracted the attention of fans around the world.

The one that gets the most attention is neither the Spanish team, which ranks first in fiba, nor the American team, which still has a gathering of superstars, but the Chinese team!

A very classic picture is that when the representatives of each team are waiting in the waiting area before the entrance ceremony, the camera sweeps across the teams.

Even Messi, who had just been elected Footballer of the Year, did not stay in the camera for more than two seconds, with the exception of one person.

Sun Hao!

When the camera showed Sun Hao, cheers filled the sky.

And the camera stayed on Sun Hao for ten seconds!

These ten seconds were later called the "Olympic Golden Ten Seconds" by fans!

Sun Hao was just going to say hello briefly at first, but feeling the atmosphere of the European fans around him, he smiled and waved to the fans.

And after he waved, the sound was one decibel higher, which made him feel inexplicably moved.

A few years ago, he canceled his cooperation with Adidas due to the incident involving Adidas employees, and his popularity in Europe has declined.

But it turns out that his crazy scoring performance in the NBA last season not only brought back the declining popularity, but also caused a surge.

This is very European.

Europeans have always worshiped the strong.

Napoleon almost conquered Europe. After so many years, various legends about him are still circulating in Europe.

What Sun Hao has done in the basketball field now is even better than Napoleon back then.

In addition, he is the "King of Europe", so this reaction is reasonable.

After the opening ceremony, the men's basketball game also started.

Olympic Shooting Guard Group AB, the American and Spanish men's basketball teams are in Group A, and the Chinese men's basketball team is in Group B.

With such a grouping, the group stage match between the American and Spanish men's basketball teams is naturally the focus of the group stage.

The final result came out: the Spanish men's basketball team lost to the US men's basketball team 63-81.

This result made many fans sigh with emotion such as "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", and also said that this was a slap in the face to Fiba's previous ranking.

However, as long as fans have watched the Spanish men's basketball team play in the Olympics before, they should be used to this.

Slow start is a typical tradition of this team. If this Spanish men's basketball team makes a strong effort in any group stage, then they probably won't go far in the end.

After the group stage, it will enter the knockout round, and the four teams in the top four will be determined.

They are China VS the United States, Spain VS Russia.

It was at this stage that many fans suddenly felt that Spain had deliberately lost to the United States team before, but fortunately they avoided the United States in the semifinals.

But no matter what, China and the United States encounter each other in advance.

This game was also quite intense and full of suspense.

Without Yao Ming, the Chinese team would not be able to stand in the fiba arena relying solely on Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi.

Fortunately, on the offensive end, Sun Hao is as invincible as in the NBA, and his scoring ability is off the charts.

Moreover, Yi Jianlian is also in a very hot state on the offensive end, giving Sun Hao enough support from inside and outside.

At the end of the game, the Chinese team defeated the US men's basketball team 102-96 and successfully reached the Olympic finals.

Sun Hao scored 43 points, and Yi Jianlian also had an outstanding performance of 26 points and 15 rebounds.

For the American men's basketball team, Durant scored 31 points, and Curry and Harden each scored 16 points.

At the end of the game, Durant looked up at the score for a while, and when he lowered his head, he shook his head in frustration.

Kobe didn't come, and James didn't come. This was his first time leading the team as the leader of the US men's basketball team.

After leading the Warriors to complete the dynasty last season, if he can also lead the US team to regain the Olympic championship, then he will have completed the basketball Grand Slam.

Just like Sun Hao did before, he turned this year into the "Durant Year".

Unfortunately, the person standing opposite him was Sun Hao.

After all, he still failed to win against his elder brother...

On the other side, the Spanish team easily eliminated the dark horse Russian team in this Olympics.

The Chinese team and the Spanish team finally met in the final.

This result is one of the main results expected by fans.

After all, everyone knows that the three strongest teams are Spain, China and the United States.

It would not be a surprise for any two of these three teams to meet in the finals.

Another confrontation between China and the West, except that China has become weaker and Spain has become stronger.

However, fans were still more optimistic about the Chinese team before the game.

Because the Chinese team defeated the American team to reach the finals, and because the Chinese team has Sun Hao.

In the past year, Sun Hao has achieved everything except failing to win last season's championship.

For a player who performs like this, it's hard not to have high expectations for him and his team.

On the day of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, the men's basketball finals officially began.

The game attracted a considerable number of live and television viewers.

It's the same in China. Basketball fans are no less enthusiastic than they were during the 2008 Olympics.

This includes the bonus of Sun Hao's performance in the past year, and also the special significance of this final.

Because as long as the Chinese team can win the championship in London, then they will complete three consecutive Olympic Games! Olympic dynasty!

In the past, only the American Dream Team could do this.

But now, the Chinese men's basketball team also has the opportunity to do it!

Once they really do it, then this will be the most direct proof that the Chinese men's basketball team is on top of the world!

The highly anticipated finals of the London Olympics have officially begun.

The starting lineup arranged by the Spanish team is Calderon, Navarro, Fernandez and Gasol!

And as soon as they came up, whether it was a few guns from the outside or the Gasol brothers inside, they all rushed towards the men's basketball basket like crazy.

The Spanish team is different from ordinary teams. From the tactical quality of the coaching staff to the execution of the players, they are among the best in the world.

At this point, he will seize the point where Yao Ming is not present and beat him to death.

Moreover, the effect is remarkable!

Needless to say, Wang Zhizhi's defense was also very difficult for Yi Jianlian.

After all, Yi Jianlian is still a player who is better at offense than defense, and his defensive power at the basket is incomparable to Yao Ming's.

Putting aside the outside impact, the Gasol brothers have already made Yi Jianlian feel like he can't beat four hands with two fists.

In the first half of the quarter, the Spanish team beat the Chinese team 12 to 2, and the Chinese team was exhausted on the defensive end.

The chain reaction of the defensive end being too tired to deal with was that the offense could not be launched, and the Spanish team even hit several defensive counterattacks.

This also made some Spanish fans at the scene excited.

You must know that although the Spanish men's basketball team has been strong in the past few Olympic Games, it has never won the championship.

This time the American men's basketball team failed to reach the finals again, and the Chinese team also lost Yao Ming. Coupled with this start, everything indicates that they will have the last laugh this time!

And after defeating Sun Hao, the former king of La Liga, they could even pretend to be a friendly champion after the game!

How wonderful to imagine!

It was at this time that the Chinese team adjusted its on-court strategy.

One of the biggest changes is that they have shifted their focus from defense to offense.

Defense drives offense, and offense can also drive defense. The strategic concepts of basketball have always been contradictory.

In the past, because of Yao Ming, the Chinese team could integrate offense and defense, but now that Yao Ming is gone, they can only think differently.

In terms of this adjustment, as Harris's successor, the current Chinese men's basketball coach Yunus' adjustment is still in place.

Then, the fans at the scene saw a new tactic of the Chinese men's basketball team.

That's right, small ball tactics!

Without Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi cannot play the fifth position in the current starting lineup of the Chinese team, so the fifth player must be Yi Jianlian.

Since Yi Jianlian is playing five, and five players on the Chinese team have outside shooting range, this guy knows it's time to play small ball.

Then, Wang Zhizhi's support reached the upper limit, and the Chinese team's small ball seamlessly connected.

Sun Hao should not be too familiar with this tactic. The start of the game is a three-pointer after catching the ball in a "figure-8" movement.

Then, Yi Jianlian used a "whirlwind tactic" in the next round, receiving Sun Hao's pass and flying directly to dunk and score.

That's not all. In the next round, Yi Jianlian bounced to the top of the arc after a pick-and-roll, and received a pass from Sun Hao and hit a three-pointer with his open hand!

This is why Yi Jianlian can get a 5-year, 100 million contract in the current league!

This is the answer to the small ball era!

This time, the sense of space on the court suddenly emerged.

Although the venue of the Fiba arena is smaller than that of the NBA, it is correspondingly less difficult for players to assist in defensive rotations.

but! It also depends on who is right!

For Sun Hao, this kind of space is completely enough.

There is a domestic fan whose description is widely discussed on social media. He wrote:

That figure was like an irresistible force, disintegrating Spain's proud "Spanish Square"! A Western empire was destroyed by the sun from the East before it rose!

At the end of halftime, the Chinese team had already led the Spanish team 41 to 34.

Spanish fans are still too happy too early.

Or perhaps, they are still not familiar enough with the Sun Hao who once ruled Europe.

But the interesting thing comes from the second half.

Spain has also started playing small ball!

Don’t you have Yi Jianlian? I have Ibaka!

If you really think about it, Ibaka is the real core of the Warriors' small ball tactics!

Then the second half turned into an unprecedented small ball battle in the fiba arena.

No one on either side was guarding the other.

The reason why small ball tactics are highly entertaining is that it is easy for them to be unable to defend each other and then attack each other.

This is what fans are seeing in London now.

But watching this unprecedented scene made people excited.

Not all the spectators at the scene watch basketball, but even those who don’t watch basketball find basketball very entertaining to watch!

This is another wave of basketball promotion that has changed direction!

The two teams fought until the last minute, and then at this time, Sun Hao stepped forward without any suspense.

The fan who previously wrote "Spanish Square" is online again:

At this moment, people were reminded of the fear of being dominated by Sun Hao, that giant who averaged 40+ points per game in the NBA, 110 points in a single game, and regarded scoring as if he was picking something out of his pocket!

The Spanish team is unable to resist!

92 to 83!

Sun Hao scored 11 points in the last minute and scored 47 points in the game, scoring more than half of the Chinese team's points, helping the Chinese men's basketball team finally achieve the Olympic dynasty!