Chapter 1603 1602. Showdown in the God's Domain
Too outrageous...
Calderon, Gasol, and Gasol, the three Spanish giants, don't know how to deal with Liu Mang's tyrannical strength of proficient in various playing styles.
So comprehensive! After seven years of career, Liu Mang has used more than 200 star cards of various stars and a large number of ordinary players with various skills that allow him to be based in the NBA. Liu Mang, who is about to turn 26, has entered the peak moment of his career! In the finals against the Suns two months ago, the opponent felt the most painful despair.
And Calderon is the one who directly felt that kind of despair, that kind of tyrannical strength that is overwhelming and has no way to deal with it. Now Calderon feels it again.
In the group stage and quarter-finals, Liu Mang's performance was generally relatively mediocre. Even when he played against Ginobili, Liu Mang's performance was very ordinary. But this time against Spain, Liu Mang's performance was low, high, and three-point. Singles outside the line...showed his strongest side from the beginning of the game!
Yao Ming is willing to go to the mid-range, using his huge body to set up pick-and-rolls for teammates who are running, and using his shooting ability to open up space for Liu Mang; Yi Jianlian is the best off-ball team player in the Chinese team, with a three-year NCAA career With experience, he successively met Jordan Mafal, Darren Collison, and Russell Westbrook, three lonely warriors with the ball stuck in their hands. The best ability he learned for Liu Mang is His off-ball cutting ability and offensive rebounding ability; Sun Yue has suffered a lot in the Rockets. Entering the NBA a year early can develop his abilities a year earlier. He can just be responsible for pushing the pass to Liu Mang, and Wang Shipeng will be responsible for the corner. Three points...
This lineup is used by Chinese team coach Silver Fox Harris as the main lineup for the first time in this Olympics, in order to make it difficult for opponents to guard against real strong opponents!
Of course, the most important one, the core that allows this lineup to exert its overwhelming power, is Liu Mang who has entered his peak period!
The unshakable realm of God!
Three-fifths of the first quarter was played. By the sixth minute, Liu Mang scored 11 points and 3 assists in more than half the quarter, helping the Chinese team to score 18-9. When the point difference was about to open to 10 points, Spain The team called timeout!
Liu Mang was so bad that the Spanish team didn't even dare to make substitutions!
The Spanish team's starting lineup is their strongest lineup. With four NBA stars and an 18-year-old quasi-NBA star, they don't have a better lineup. This lineup is the core of their ability to become third in the world.
However, when encountering Liu Mang who entered the "field" state, Liu Mang was double-teamed. Liu Mang passed the ball and assisted without double-teaming... Who could withstand 4 out of 5 shots?
The Spanish team has been waiting for another core member of the Chinese team to rest, that is, Yao Ming, who needs to maintain his physical fitness.
This is the core goal of the Spanish team when preparing for the semi-finals. Liu Mang, a physical monster, has never missed any game in his career due to injuries, consecutive away games and other factors. He can win the game in the last minute of double overtime. Running back and dunking, the Spanish team could only survive.
But I didn't expect that Yao Ming's style of play today was the same as that of the 2007 Finals. He was responsible for opening up the space, and Liu Mang was the only one to do it.
To sum it up...Liu Mang did the job of Kobe Bryant and Gasol of the Lakers by himself!
The Spanish team was prepared to use Gasol to consume Yao Ming. After Yao Ming came off the court, the team's tactic of surrounding Liu Mang failed!
The Spanish team wanted to use the Eagles' tactics to consume Yao Ming, and the Chinese team used the Lakers' tactics to counterattack!
The cores of both teams understand the core of the other team, and both teams use the best tactics they can. The difference is... Liu Mang is stronger! Better than Gasol!
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After the timeout, the Chinese team replaced Yao Ming and the Spanish team replaced Gasol.
In games with Gasol and Liu Mang, Yao Ming and Gasol Jr. are two heavy centers...the two of them are very useful in the tactical battle, but when it comes to giving it a try, unfortunately, the two are really burden.
When the opponent has a big man who can open up the space, even Gasol, who will be at his peak in the future, is not good at dealing with it; Yao Ming can be regarded as the third strongest insider in international basketball, but under the rules of international competitions, regardless of whether he is playing extra Sol and Milicic are both in a state of absolute restraint.
Another point is that both of them have poor physical fitness. Yao Ming has poor physical fitness to begin with, and Gasol is because he is fat.
The two teams had a tacit understanding and took down their heavy weapons.
The Chinese team replaced Liu Mang, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian.
The Spanish team replaced Calderon, Juan Navarro, Fernandez, Felipe Reyes, and Gasol in the lineup.
Without Gasol, Gasol leads the team by himself, has a complete three-second zone, and can finally show his abilities to his heart's content!
Liu Mang is paired with four pitchers... Although the one-star and four-star style of play can easily be criticized, it has to be said that this is the most suitable lineup for the superstar to fully demonstrate his abilities.
The best insiders and outsiders in the international basketball world... It may be that the two best players in the international basketball world lead the lineup that is most suitable for their output and start the competition!
If Liu Mang is the outside god in the international basketball world, then Gasol may be the inside god in the international basketball world today!
During the tactical stage of the competition, the Spanish team was restrained everywhere. When it came to the star showdown, the Spanish team's performance bucked the trend and improved, and Gasol entered an unstoppable strength!
The outside line of three NBA players, with a power forward who can cut and shoot, Gasol showed his ability wantonly.
It has to be said that there is a gap in the role player lineup. At this stage, Liu Mang tried his best, but he could barely compete with Gasol. In terms of three-point stability, Calderon, Fernandez and Navarro are better than Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu. Their three-pointers from long distance can be regarded as ordinary three-pointers, while these two who play in the CBA, three-pointers are three-pointers.
Fortunately, Liu Mang was in excellent condition today and kept the score difference above 5 points.
It seems that the Spanish team has maintained the advantage on the field from the second half of the first quarter to the first half of the second quarter. Gasol is very strong in the international arena. If there is no Liu Mang, the strongest player in the international arena may not be Anthony and McGrady, but Gasol!
But facing the strong Liu Mang, Gasol has tried his best, and the Spanish team as a whole has provided Gasol with the maximum help, but the Spanish team still failed to overtake the score.
At the seventh minute of the second quarter, with three minutes left in the first half, Yao Ming came back!
For three minutes, Yao Ming was no longer responsible for opening up space, but let Liu Mang take a breath outside the three-point line. It was not about physical strength, but about Liu Mang racking his brains and thinking hard in the game and applying the method to deal with the Spanish team.
After Yao Ming went up, he started a strong attack!
After Liu Mang dribbled the ball across half court and passed it to Yao Ming, who was blocking Gasol in the low post, he opened up space with Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu and Wang Zhizhi, and watched Yao Ming play one-on-one.
If Yao Ming was double-teamed, he would pass the ball, and if he was not double-teamed, he would play one-on-one with all his strength.
The Lakers would not use this style of play easily when facing a heavy center like Gasol, but if Yao Ming really had to go all out in a singles game, Gasol would find it difficult to defend!
It's just that this is a huge burden on Yao Ming's physical strength.
But if there are only three minutes, and there is Liu Mang as a backup, Yao Ming is fearless!
In three minutes, Yao Ming scored 6 points and 2 assists, Liu Mang and Wang Zhizhi each scored a three-pointer, and scored 12 points in three minutes!
If Calderon hadn't scored two three-pointers in the last minute of the first half, Gasol hadn't hit a low-post single-shot, and Yao Ming hadn't come up to attack this wave, the score difference would have been widened!
At the end of the half, the Chinese team led the Spanish team by 9 points with 59 to 50!
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The fierce attack, the two great inside and outside gods of the international basketball world that could not be defended, the Chinese team and the Spanish team played the most gorgeous game!
In terms of viewing, this game is undoubtedly the best game in this Olympics, even surpassing the offensive battle between the US team and Argentina.
The fans watched it lively, and the players were also very excited!
It was so cool!
Liu Mang scored 24 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal, and 1 block in the first half, and Gasol scored 21 points, 6 rebounds, and 8 assists. The two played an epic half-time showdown!
Neither Liu Mang nor Gasol are sure if they will have the chance to play such a crazy game in the Olympics in the future. This feeling made the two reluctant to leave after entering that wonderful state. They hope that this game can continue forever.
Liu Mang doesn't know what Yao Ming's condition will be like in four years. Even if he silently protects a giant center from serious injuries, his condition will inevitably decline. Not every giant center has O'Neal's talent. O'Neal is the only one in history who can play an All-Star at the age of 37 with a weight of 140 kilograms.
Gasol doesn't know whether Calderon, Fernandez and others will degenerate in four years, and he doesn't know how far Rubio and Gasol will advance in the future. He doesn't know if there will be a chance to play such a game with the strongest opponent...
But this is basketball, and the game always has to be decided.
And... Liu Mang and Gasol both want to win! Both want to step onto the final stage!
After the start of the second half of the game, Liu Mang and Gasol once again started a duel in the realm of God. In the international arena, they are the strongest gods!
Yao Ming can only play as a role player to open up space, and top players in the international arena such as Calderon and Gasol can only choose to do the dirty work, because even if they play at their best, they can't be compared with these two. In this case, we should do our best to create the best opportunities for these two to show their strength.
Liu Mang's outside singles, breakthrough passes, low-post blocking, and relying on "barricades" to predict Gasol's high-post organization offense, relying on his NBA-level inside defense to assist defense...
Gasol uses his basketball IQ to deal with Liu Mang's extraordinary ability to predict high-post blocking, relying on the strongest low-post technology in the international arena, relying on the vision brought by his height, and relying on the fact that there is no defense for three seconds in the international arena...
The two supreme gods who can dominate both offense and defense in the international arena continue their epic duel!
The duel must be decided.
In the World Championships two years later in the original time and space, what did Kevin Durant rely on to defeat Gasol's dominance of personal ability in the international basketball arena?
It depends on three-pointers!
Players' shooting range will become wider and wider, which is an unstoppable trend.
And in this world, no one can shoot better than Liu Mang!
At the critical moment of the fourth quarter, Liu Mang exploded!