Chapter 1278 1277. Birthday Night Competition (Asking for Double Monthly Tickets)
August 25th is the first off-season day after the start of the World Championships. In the following finals, except for the quarter-finals, the opponents are selected according to the ranking. Starting from the quarter-finals, each team has a rest time after each game. The winner rests and waits for the opponent of the next game, and the loser can also rest and wait for the opponent of the ranking game.
The final will be held on September 3rd, and the 4th is the closing ceremony of the World Championships.
If you can still relax a little after winning two games in the group stage, in the finals, the Chinese players dare not be careless at all, and they will be eliminated if they lose.
Every game must go all out.
The Chinese team successfully refreshed the group stage ranking of the world's top men's basketball international competition. After ranking second in the Olympic group stage two years ago, this time they won five consecutive victories and won the first place in the group stage.
Chinese fans feel that the "maintaining the fourth place and competing for medals" announced by the Basketball Association this time is promising!
The Chinese players are also very happy. This feeling of winning glory for the country is very special.
However, when they paid attention to the opponent of the quarter-finals, Serbia and Montenegro, they felt a little overwhelmed!
Judging from the group stage, China, Argentina and Spain are the three teams with the best performance.
As for the US team, they lost to Greece by two points. They did not play to their full potential against Turkey and were outplayed by Turkoglu. Fortunately, they won and stumbled to the first place in the group stage. Unlike the last Olympics, they lost two games in the group stage. At least they saved face.
Wade, Antoine Jamison and Sean Battier are the three players who made great contributions because they can shoot...
However, there are other teams that give headaches to the four teams that ranked first in the group stage.
For example, Serbia and Montenegro.
This year's Serbia and Montenegro team is very different from the Serbia and Montenegro team two years ago. Their surnames all end with C, which means various "strange"...
Except for Milicic, everyone else looks completely different from the Serbia and Montenegro team they played against two years ago.
Including Milicic, there have been earth-shaking changes compared to two years ago.
Milicic, averaging 19 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3 assists, 3.2 blocks, and 1.6 steals per game. Milicic's statistics are all in the top two in the Serbia-Montenegro team!
Milicic ranks first in scoring, rebounding, blocks, assists, and steals in the Serbia-Montenegro team. Among the players in the Serbia-Montenegro team who have taken more than 5 shots, Milicic's 52% shooting rate is also the highest, and the number of three-pointers hit is 9, which is also the highest in the Serbia-Montenegro team.
The most important thing is that Milicic's average blocks per game ranks first among all players in this World Championship!
The name is still called Serbia-Montenegro, but in 2005, Serbia and Montenegro had disintegrated. It was just because when they qualified for the game, the country was still called Serbia-Montenegro. But in fact, this Serbia-Montenegro team no longer has many members of the former Serbia-Montenegro team. It is a team composed of young players from Serbia.
Before, the Chinese players focused on their own group matches and did not do much research on other teams. With this schedule of five games in five consecutive days, no one could predict who the opponent would be in the final round. It was not until the last game that it was confirmed that the opponent was Serbia and Montenegro.
Another point is that Serbia and Montenegro are not the imaginary enemy of the Chinese team, and they are not in the same group, so they will not deliberately study a declining basketball emperor.
The characteristic of a young team is that they are sharp. The first game of the group match played with Argentina until the last moment. Argentina relied on Scola's three-pointer from the bottom corner at the last moment to beat Serbia and Montenegro 79 to 77.
Although Serbia and Montenegro have replaced young players, most of the players are born in the 1980s. Most of the players born in the 1970s in the last Olympics went back to their hometowns to farm or raise cattle, but they are Serbia, and most of the players still play in the tough Eastern European style, with extremely strong defensive impact. As strong as Argentina was, it only scored more than ten points on Serbia and Montenegro in each of the first three quarters, and it was not until the last quarter that it scored 24 points to turn the tables.
There are three tall players in the Serbia-Montenegro team. The tallest player, 21-year-old Kosta Perovic, has been noticed by the NBA. He is 2.17 meters tall and is the key to the Serbia-Montenegro defense when Milicic is resting.
In the game against France, Serbia-Montenegro only allowed France to score 50 points.
It was the black muscle monsters in Nigeria who won over Serbia-Montenegro by more than 20 points.
But Nigeria has so many muscle monsters, but the Chinese team can't!
However, Serbia-Montenegro is not without examples of being defeated by technical teams. Argentina scored a buzzer-beater, and Venezuela also relied on its outstanding performance outside the three-point line to beat Serbia-Montenegro 89 to 85.
So although the Chinese team is worried about the group of white strong men from Eastern Europe, they are still very confident.
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In the past, except for the 2004 Athens Olympics, the Chinese team held a press conference on the first rest day after each Olympics or World Championships group stage, to reflect, summarize, and say they would work harder next time…
This time, the Basketball Association was quite stylish. Instead of holding a press conference at the host city to deal with reporters, a group of officials in the imperial capital held a press conference to publicize their achievements. The national team was fully committed to preparations.
The preparations for the match against the Italian team were actually very similar, both were a group of muscular monsters.
However, compared to Italy, where most of the players are black, Serbia and Montenegro are all white, so if the technical team plays well, the chances of winning are relatively high.
And... the Chinese team definitely has a strength advantage, so they are in a very good state of mind.
After a day of concentrated preparation, they only conducted simple training to preserve their physical strength. Soon, on August 26, the day of the match between the Chinese team and the Serbia-Montenegro team arrived.
"Happy birthday..."
At noon, the national team held a simple birthday celebration for Liu Mang. Unlike the last Olympics, they did not wait until the group stage to beat the US team to give Liu Mang a surprise. Today, the Chinese team has enough confidence to beat Serbia-Montenegro.
Liu Mang blew out the candles in the shape of 24. This small birthday cake was bought by Coach Zhang.
The management of the Chinese national team is relatively strict. Since Liu Mang returned to the team on July 30, except for August 12 and 13, when they took a holiday to get together with their family, the rest of the time was a collective action, either staying in the hotel or staying in the training ground arranged by the Japanese side.
If they want to see their family, they come to see their husbands, their sons, and their boyfriends.
Seeing the little girl take out the candle with the number 24 and put it on the table, and then run to the side to eat with the small cake, Liu Mang felt a little emotional. He had already turned 24 without realizing it. In his NBA career, he just changed into the No. 24 jersey at the age of 24, which was also a good meaning.
Playing the first knockout game on his birthday, he must win!