Chapter 717 Definitely Next Time

At 22:00 BJ time in 2012, at the North Greenwich Arena in London, the pinnacle Olympic battle between the Chinese men's basketball team and the American men's basketball team is about to begin.

At the side of the court, celebrities and dignitaries from all over the world, together with ordinary fans, stood up and applauded the ten starting players of the two teams.

"Before the game, the two teams in tonight's final were considered to be the two strongest teams in FIBA ​​basketball history. Therefore, everyone who is paying attention to this game is witnessing history. The spectators on the sidelines are watching. Witnessing history, the audience in front of the TV is also witnessing history."

Seeing the audience being so emotional, Teacher Zhang conveyed the importance and specialness of this game to China thousands of miles away with equally emotional words.

According to what Teacher Zhang means, the Chinese audience who are watching this game can also applaud the two teams that made history before the game.

Although the game time of this game is not considered prime time in China, it is definitely an extremely friendly time.

Therefore, there will be very, very many viewers paying attention to this game.

"After all, this game is the last game for the national team between Chen Xiao and Yao Ming!"

Even if you don't applaud the two strongest teams coming together, you still have to applaud Chen Xiao and Yao Ming for their hard work and dedication to the Chinese team over the years.

Therefore, at this time, many Chinese audiences in front of the TV were applauding this game just like the audience at the scene.

At this time, on TV, the starting players of the two teams were already playing.

On the Chinese team's side, center Yao Ming, power forward A Lian, small forward Xiao Zhu, shooting guard Chen Xiao, and point guard Hua Zai.

On the U.S. team, Oden is the center, James is the power forward, Durant is the small forward, Kobe is the shooting guard, and Ron Howard is the point guard.

The Chinese team did not change its starting lineup, while the US team changed its starting lineup.

The starting point guard was replaced by Luo Ge.

However, this is not a surprise. Although Chris Paul performed very well in this Olympics. As the starting point guard, he can organize and score, defend and steal well, but obviously, playing against the Chinese team, Xiao The role of the cannon may not be as great as that of Luo Ge.

Because obviously, when playing against the Chinese team, it will be difficult for the American team to break through to the basket and score or score from the basket. Players will take a lot of shots from the outside.

Chris Paul's outside shooting is also very good. In this Olympics, his three-point shooting percentage and two-point shooting percentage are both 50%. Although he doesn't take many shots, he is quite accurate.

However, these data will be useless when playing against the Chinese team.

Why do you say that?

Because the Chinese team's inside advantage is too great and the inside is too stable, the Chinese team's outside players don't even consider the problem of being broken through when they are defending. Therefore, the Chinese team's outside defense will be very fierce and tight. For example, Russia played Spain, forcing everyone in Spain to shoot hard under high-intensity defense, and finally scored 20 points in the half.

The FIBA ​​field is inherently small, and the advantage of the inside line is so huge. As long as the inside line is guarded, the outside players can press and defend like crazy without fear of being broken through. Because there is no defense for three seconds, the powerful inside line can always stay at the basket. .

In this case, the statistics of most of the players on the U.S. team certainly don’t count.

Because in most of their past games, the US team has not encountered such a powerful insider as China.

Spain's insiders are already strong. If Gasol hadn't been called for four fouls in a short period of time due to the "controversial black whistle", the US team's insiders would have suffered even more. However, the Chinese team's insiders were in front of the Chinese team's insiders. It’s simply not enough to watch.

Therefore, if Chris Paul starts this game, he will have very little shooting space, and he will need to shoot against people.

When it comes to strong shots against people, Ron Howard is taller and has a better wingspan. The stuck version of Jordan is also more stable in strong shots.

So, this is a very reasonable choice.

In addition to his organizational ability, Luo Ge is more suitable for the Chinese team in all other aspects.

As for organizational skills...

To be honest, you don't need any organizational skills to play against the Chinese team.

Because the Chinese team's defense can basically find no loopholes, personal offensive ability is more important than organizational ability.

What's more, James, Kobe, Durant and Luo Ge are actually not bad in organizational skills.

At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team and the United States team had a jump ball. Yao Ming and Oden had a jump ball. It didn’t take much to think about who would win. The United States team won the first wave of the ball in this game.

On the American team's side, Luo Ge dribbled the ball past halftime, but the Chinese team players did not interfere.

For the Chinese team, on the defensive end of this game, they only need to stand firm and apply pressure at the three-point line. There is no need to press full-court or half-court to consume physical energy.

What the Chinese team needs to do in this game is to protect their physical fitness, and then control and suppress the rhythm of the game.

The American team is the one that needs to set the pace and increase confrontation.

Therefore, seeing the steady defense of the Chinese team, Luo Ge pushed the ball to the three-point line and passed the ball to Kobe next to him. He walked into the three-point line and led Chen Jianghua to open.

When Kobe faced Xiaozhu, who was half a step away from defense, he did not rush to pull up a three-pointer.

This kind of space, for Kobe, is actually like the ocean. He can directly pull out at will.

If he met someone other than the Chinese team, he would do this.

But this is the Chinese team, and this is a team that needs to suppress its passion and iron-bloodedness.

Kobe resisted the urge to shoot a three-pointer, turned around and dribbled against Xiaozhu, and wanted to turn around and break through, but Xiaozhu always followed Kobe back half a step, not giving Kobe a chance to break through him.

It can only be said that the space in FIBA's three-point line is too narrow and is too suitable for defense, especially for players who are not so athletic but have tall height and long arms.

This is also the reason why those NBA players with super athletic ability will be taught a lesson by some NBA role players when they come to the FIBA ​​arena.

Piggy is tall, piggy is long, and the space is narrow, he can trap Kobe like this.

Of course, it's okay for Kobe to be reckless if he wants to, but looking at Xiaozhu who is as steady as an old dog behind him and Yi Jianlian who is eager to help defend, Kobe pretends to shoot for a few times without shaking Xiaozhu, and then decisively He threw the basketball in his hand to James. After James received the ball, Ah Lian, who had been trying to help defend, quickly bullied him.

After James had two confrontations with Arab League under the basket, he looked out of the corner of his eye at Ron Howard, who had moved to the other side behind him, and Durant, who was connecting at the three-point line in the right corner.

James decisively lobbed the ball to Durant outside the baseline three-point line.

Maybe Ron Howard has a better chance, and his passing ability can also put the ball in place.

However, considering the way the US team plays in this game, the US team needs to know what Durant's status is like from the start.

Let's put it this way, in this game, the only player on the American team who has unlimited firing rights is Durant.

Durant was a little reluctant to receive James' pass because Chen Xiao was always in front of him.

Fortunately, Durant is indeed tall, 7 centimeters taller than Chen Xiao.

After Durant staggered to receive the pass from James, facing Chen Xiao who bullied him again, Durant dribbled to the left to quickly open the distance between him and Chen Xiao, and then made a standard change of direction. People, thus widening the space between themselves and Chen Xiao.

Not far away, I saw Durant changing direction and shaking Chen Xiao's Kobe, and I felt envious in my heart. He has long hands and legs, such good skills, can dribble so fast, and his body is so agile. He is simply the darling of God. .

No wonder Jordan accepted him as his apprentice and said that perhaps the only one who can surpass him and Chen Xiao in the future is Durant.

This basketball talent is so incredible.

Chen Xiao had actually caught up with Durant's first change of direction. However, Durant was not a partial player. He could move in both directions with both hands. This meant that even if Chen Xiao could follow If you stay for a while, it will be difficult to follow the second time.

Sure enough, Durant pulled the ball back again, and then changed direction again. This time, Chen Xiao was not so easy to follow.

Of course, Chen Xiao must be more calm and chic than Alphabet Song at this time. Although he could not prevent Xiao Du's change of direction, Chen Xiao was not worshiped by Xiao Du. Although he could not keep up with Durant's continuous It's a difficult change of direction, but Durant can only create space with him, but can't break through his defense.

Therefore, when Durant changed direction to the right and opened up space with Chen Xiao, in order to prevent Chen Xiao from getting close to him again, he didn't even have time to adjust and immediately stepped on the three-point line and shot.

A swipe!

2 to 0!

A very exciting attack.

"Good job, KD."

As half of Xiao Du's teacher, Chen Xiao couldn't help but praise him from the bottom of his heart.

"But that's not all you have."

Xiao Du smiled handsomely and shrugged with Chen Xiao.

Yes, this is not all about Chen Xiao. As a student, Xiao Du is very aware of the power of his teacher. After all, they just had a series in the playoffs.

If this game were the Bucks versus the Bobcats, his offense would never be so easy.

Chen Xiao will stick to him, entangle with him, fight with him, and exhaust him at all costs.

But because in the Chinese team, Chen Xiao's defense can only go as far as possible, making his offense as difficult as possible without fighting him hand-to-hand.

Because there is only one Chen Xiao in the Chinese team. If Chen Xiao focuses all his energy on the defensive end, what will happen on the offensive end?

Therefore, he took great advantage in this duel with Chen Xiao.

When he was attacking, Chen Xiao didn't dare to be the most serious in his defense.

When he was defending himself and Chen Xiao was attacking, it was James who stood in front of Chen Xiao and defended Chen Xiao, not him.

Therefore, he only needs to focus all his energy on the offensive end.

Thinking of this, Durant, who retreated, shook his hands tightly.

"If all this...

No, this time, I will definitely defeat him! "

There will be no ifs in this game!

Durant's first offensive performance was very good. When retreating from defense, James, Kobe, Ron Howard and Oden all gave their encouragement.

Coach K, the head coach of the US team on the sidelines, also breathed a sigh of relief while applauding.

"It's really great to have KD!"

Let's put it this way, in the last Olympics, even if faced with Chen Xiao who was not working hard on the defensive end, no one on the US team could attack Chen Xiao like Durant.

Even if Chen Xiao doesn't work hard on defense, as long as he puts his hands up due to his height and wingspan, he will be a huge defensive deterrent and pressure for Kobe, Wade and James.

But for Durant, he is taller, longer, and so comprehensive than Chen Xiao.

Anyone who knows Durant knows that to defend Durant, small players will have the best effect if they stick to him. If Chen Xiao doesn't stick to him, no matter how strong Chen Xiao's defense is, the effect will be very limited.

It can only be said that in the past, he and the players of the American team were persecuted terribly by Chen Xiao and the Chinese team.

Now that they have Durant who is not afraid of Chen Xiao in FIBA ​​and can compete with Chen Xiao, Coach K and the others feel really happy.

And just when Coach K was happy, on the court, the Chinese team had already tied the score with Yao Ming's two-point mid-range shot from the corner of the free throw line.

Faced with James' close defense, Chen Xiao did not attack after receiving the pass from Chen Jianghua. After calling Dayao to come out for the pick-and-roll, Dayao passed the ball to Dayao. Dayao faced Oden who retreated from Chen Xiao's flank. Easy two point hit.

"Xiao Chen (xiao-chen, Xiao-Chen), are you prepared to play like this in this game? If so, you can't win."

"Xiao Zhan, your provocation method is useless."

Chen Xiao smiled and patted Xiao Zhan on the shoulder before turning around and returning to defense.

He is not a fool. Even if he wants to score, he will not be tough with the current Xiao Zhan.

The current Xiao Zhan is Xiao Zhan who gained weight and played the fourth position for a season.

Hard and strong.

It's not that he's afraid of Xiao Zhan, but now is not the time.

Now when his teammates come out of the locker room, their morale is at an all-time high, their morale is at an all-time high, and their physical fitness is at their best in a game. If he doesn't organize his teammates to attack at this time, will he be better?

Historically, without Chen Xiao, the Chinese team, under the leadership of Yao Ming, could often play 50-50 with the US team in the first quarter when morale was high at the start.

Chen Xiao has been a leader in the NBA and the Chinese team for so many years, and he is not a bragging leader.

Therefore, feel free to provoke me and attack me as hard as you can.

"Xiao Zhan, maybe next time, I will attack."

Hearing the trash talk from Chen Xiao, who didn't know whether it was provocation or teasing, the smart Xiao Zhan fell into frowning thinking for a while.

By the way, he was originally playing a provocative game with Chen Xiao, but now why is Chen Xiao making him feel uncomfortable?

Why do I feel like I'm being plotted against?

Then, after the first quarter, Xiao Zhan was convinced that he had really been plotted by Chen Xiao!

Because in the first quarter of the game, after every assist, Chen Xiao would pat him, then turn his back to him and say: "Little James, maybe next time, I will attack."

In the entire first quarter, Chen Xiao did not take a shot, but the score on the court was 26 to 24, and the Chinese team was still 2 points ahead!

Therefore, at the end of the first quarter, Chen Xiao had just assisted Wang Shipeng to hit a 3-pointer to lead the score. When he wanted to shoot Xiao Zhan again, Xiao Zhan's originally dark face turned purple.

"Xiao Zhan, I will do it next time."

I believe you!

Ma De, your mentality is broken!

As for Kobe Bryant, Du, Luo Ge, Rose, Xiao Pao, Xiao Ku and other players on and off the court of the US team, it was obvious to the naked eye that Xiao Zhan was shattered by Chen Xiao.

Once there is no offense, the mentality of the defensive players will be completely destroyed.

All I can say is, the king of trash talk...

"It's so scary!"