Chapter 780: 779. FIBA Killer
There are upsets every year, especially this year!
The Chinese team originally only ranked first from the bottom of this Olympic power list. Based on the performance of the last World Championships and the performance of the last Olympic Games, it is almost in line with the bottom one ranking.
Of course, because Yao Ming entered the NBA in 2002 and was selected to the third team of the NBA All-NBA last season as a second-year player, Wang Zhizhi also gained a firm foothold in the NBA. The most important thing is the addition of Liu Mang. Before I came out, I was still very optimistic about the Chinese team. I thought it would be no problem for them to enter the quarter-finals. They might even have a better record in the group stage if they were lucky. Not impossible.
But the Chinese team entered the group of death...
The Chinese team played against Spain in the first game. Almost no one is optimistic about the Chinese team. In other words, apart from New Zealand, the Chinese team is not optimistic about the other four teams.
Spain's strong and young lineup, coupled with Spain's excellent youth team, makes them considered by the world's mainstream basketball media as one of the candidates to beat the US team in the next decade, especially after Puerto Rico killed the US team yesterday, Spain are already considered favorites to win the title.
Just when people became extremely unfavorable to the Chinese team, the Chinese team came up with an upset!
Spain, ranked fourth in the world, was defeated by the Chinese team!
Mainly in the first quarter, after Liu Mang scored 5 points in a row, the Spanish team panicked, especially Calderon, who defended Liu Mang very poorly. When Liu Mang made 2 of 3 three-pointers, Calderon Deron began to fear. He was more afraid of Liu Mang than anyone else. He just sat in the most gorgeous auditorium on the sidelines to watch Liu Mang get the double MVP, and replaced him with Navarro to defend Liu Mang.
Changing to Navarro was even worse. Navarro didn’t have much impression of Liu Mang other than being the MVP of the NBA, and the MVP... Iverson is also the MVP, and his performance in international competitions is very average. Navarro felt that the NBA The stars are all over-the-top. The Grizzlies chose him and refused to let him join.
Then, taking over from Calderon, he made another 3-pointer after being missed by the touch.
When Liu Mang made 4 of 6 three-pointers, scored 14 points and 2 assists in the first quarter, and helped the Chinese team lead Spain by 6 points 21-15, the Spanish team began to panic. Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu are really good at open three-pointers. It’s just that when they play world games, they don’t have many open shots. The Chinese team only has Yao Ming, and European and American teams can do it. Use the whole team to fight against Yao Ming's one person.
And this time, the Chinese team has internal and external dual-core! The point is that the Spanish team is a little confused. Even the US team has never seen Liu Mang play like this before.
How can anyone throw a three-pointer like Liu Mang without hesitation, throwing out a three-pointer and bewildering Spain! Forcing the Spanish team to double-team early, which is completely different from the double-teaming of the zone defense. Liu Wei stood one meter outside the three-point line and opened up the space, causing the other three players in Spain to be forced to defend 4 against 3!
The head coach of the Chinese team, Yinhu Harris, was frightened by Liu Mang's style of play, which was completely different from the arranged tactics!
The key is that the other four main players are fully cooperating, and they play very easily!
The main reason is that Spain did not expect from the very beginning that the Chinese team would be so strong! If he knew that Liu Mang would fight like this, it would be good if he was prepared, but if he was completely unprepared, he would be defeated!
Silver Lake Harris deserves to be the head coach who has coached the Lakers. When encountering this kind of player, he can make a shot, so he let Liu Mang solve the problem by himself. Stay on the field, the rest of the positions are always pitchers as much as possible, the pitching team is open, it's terrible!
It was fine when the Spanish team was able to score in the first quarter by positional warfare, but when their accuracy in positional warfare declined, it was over.
The Spanish team's offense has two strong points, one is Calderon's organizational offense and Gasol's singles. Calderon met Liu Mang and rushed to the street... Gasol's singles efficiency has been declining...; Spain Another strong point of the team is their defensive counterattack. Relying on Gasol's rebound protection and long pass, and Calderon's points, they play smooth and gorgeous team basketball. can play more easily.
But when the Chinese team kept making shots, the Spanish team couldn’t counterattack. Calderon was defended like a mad dog by Liu Mang and couldn’t organize the attack. Only Gasol was left with hard steel, and Fernandez was too young to play. When Da Ren and Gasol Jr. were unable to share the pressure on Gasol and let Gasol have time to rest, the suspense was lost at halftime of the game!
At the end of the half, in 20 minutes, the Chinese team set a record in team history and scored 50 points in the half! For the first time in the Olympics, the Chinese team scored 50 points in the half! 29 points in the second quarter! It also created the single quarter team history scoring record in the Olympic Games of the Chinese team!
The Spanish team only scored 27 points and only 12 points in the second quarter.
On the Spanish side, they did not expect this situation at all, and they did not even think that they would fall behind the Chinese team by so many points. They were completely unprepared.
And the coaching staff of the Chinese team, Del Harris is ecstatic, this is a real MVP! At the beginning of the game, when Liu Mang played blindly, the coach wanted to call a timeout for the other three quarters, but Del Harris had a player who was more independent and not so accurate, so he chose not to call a timeout and let Liu Mang play. .
Luckily, Liu Mang defeated the Spanish team at halftime with a style of play that the Spanish team had never expected!
The Spanish team did not think of a countermeasure. In the second half, they could only try to rely on the offensive end. The effect was good, but they still couldn't defend the Chinese team. Zhu Fangyu and Zhu Fangyu take turns, with Yao Ming on the inside, Battelle, Wang Zhizhi, and Du Feng taking turns to play and defend the basket...
In the end, the Chinese team beat Spain by 96 to 78, 18 points! It was a big upset!
Liu Mang made 12 of 19 shots, 6 of 9 three-pointers, 5 of 7 free throws, 35 points and 10 assists, especially the 20 points and 4 assists in the first half, which was the key to defeating Spain!
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No one thought that the Chinese team could beat Spain. For the Chinese team, even Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi, who discussed their style of play with Liu Mang for a long time this morning, did not have much hope, because their style of play was a bit out of line up.
However, it was this extraordinary style of play that made the Spanish team unable to think of a countermeasure for a while.
Following Puerto Rico, the Chinese team is also popular in this Olympic Games!
And Liu Mang also gained the limelight after this game. His style of play is good at shooting suddenly; he likes the characteristics of shameless fouls but can force dunks; The combination of contradictions in his style of play allowed him to play a dominant role outside of the NBA arena!
Liu Mang's performance in FIBA is even better than in NBA!
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The scene of the women's three-meter springboard diving competition.
The seats are empty, and there are fewer people watching the competitions of small events.
A certain man, who did not want to be named, seemed to be an AC Milan fan, wearing the No. 8 jersey given by AC Milan in the summer of 2000, sitting on the sidelines, holding a camera, confused: Why is the lens black? The Greeks are not authentic! Selling bad stuff to tourists! Be sure to complain!
"Hey, your lens cover is not open."
There was a fluttering sound, and the man broke off the lens, and actually broke off a cover!
The man raised his head in embarrassment and said, "Thank you...it's you!"
As soon as the man raised his head, he saw a face that made him want to punch him.
The man just wanted to get angry, because he felt that his digital idiot characteristics would definitely be ridiculed by the guy in front of him, but unexpectedly, this guy just sat down like that, watching the diving competition without saying anything.
It seems that Chinese athletes are the favorites to win the championship today. However, the basketball group stage is in full swing. How can they have time to watch diving?
"Kobe, I'm so happy to see you!"
When Kobe heard this, he cried out to hell, but he was still a little moved: Is this guy feeling lonely because I didn't participate in the Olympics and have no opponents? This guy seems to be averaging more than 30 points per game. No one has better statistics than him. Sure enough, there is no best shooting guard in history. This guy is bored.
However, the guy in front of Kobe, what he said next made him internally hurt: "When I saw you, I thought that your American team also lost two games, and I felt much more comfortable."
This bastard actually came to find comfort in my heart! Kobe's emotion disappeared in an instant, and he roared through gritted teeth: "Ace Liu!"
Liu Mang's thoughts were too scattered, and he suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Kobe, haven't you been expelled from your national team? Why are you here?"
"You were just expelled from the national team. I didn't participate in the America's Cup last year! I didn't participate because the old man Larry Brown was upset!" Kobe became even more angry.
"Oh, so you were expelled from the national team last year, no wonder." Seeing that Kobe was about to jump, Liu Mang took advantage of the situation to make up for it.
"I just said that I don't want to participate! If you don't believe me, I'll take you to ask Colangelo!" Kobe was about to leave violently, and he dragged Liu Mang to find the chairman of the American Blue Association.
"Okay, okay, I see, you haven't been expelled from the national team, that's fine, really." Liu Mang put on a perfunctory look.
Kobe is going to blow up! I really want to hit someone! But if there is a conflict and a fight, it's okay. It's too rude to say that you can't beat the other party and then fight.
Kobe, who wanted to save face and suffer, was tricked by Liu Mang again.
really! Liu Mang feels much better now. He was going to watch the diving queen Guo Jingjing's three-meter springboard competition. He happened to see Kobe, and then he came up to have fun. Sure enough, the little blacksmith is so easy to get angry. But because he lived in a good environment since he was a child, he is relatively "graceful", which is the legendary death.
"Kobe, would you like me to teach you how to use the camera?" Liu Mang finally kindly wanted to teach Kobe. The main reason was that the two of them were sitting together, and Kobe was tossing a camera like a retarded person. You might think they came together.
"No! I will learn it myself soon, isn't it just a camera? I can't learn anything!" Kobe refused decisively.
"All right, all right, you're amazing, play by yourself, if you don't learn it later, I'll teach you." Liu Mang said helplessly, really, even if you want to be a good person once in a while.
Kobe ignored Liu Mang, and took a SLR camera, tossing around there, trying to take pictures of beautiful women in swimsuits; Liu Mang did not continue to tease the little blacksmith, and began to think about the next question.
After defeating the Spanish team, the Chinese team met Argentina the next day and was beaten. Argentina's Ginobili, Scola, Fernandez, Prigioni, Nocioni, Oberto, Delfino, Walter Herman... the entire lineup is almost all current or future NBA players, which is better than Spain, because most of these people have entered their prime or are over 25 years old, and they are all in their prime. , Compared with a group of young teams under the age of 25 in Spain, it is much stronger.
77 to 86, Liu Mang scored 29 points and 5 assists.
After two days of rest, on the 20th, the Chinese team beat New Zealand by 32 points 102 to 70. Liu Mang scored 29 points and 9 assists.
But in this afternoon's game, he met Italy and lost again. Liu Mang had already worked hard to score 31 points, but the Italian naturalized team, which has gathered the best European players, deserves to be the original Olympic runner-up. The confrontation was so strong that Liu Mang felt like he was wrestling.
The loss against Italy was not much, 7 points difference, 62 to 69, China lost except Liu Mang and Yao Ming, others could not score, Liu Mang scored 31 points, Yao Ming 19 points, the team had a total of 62 points , Two of them scored 50 points, and the others only scored 12 points, and they were grinded to death by Italy.
In the game against Spain, Spain was caught off guard, and then other strong teams in Europe and South America were prepared. Liu Mang did not play so well, not because he couldn't score, but because he couldn't connect with his teammates. , especially when he met Ginobili, he didn’t beat Ginobili, he scored 29 points, Ginobili 31 points... When he couldn’t connect with his teammates, Liu Mang’s score also changed. It's tough, and Yao Ming just didn't get through it.
Liu Mang really wants to have a teammate who can cut into the basket and eat cakes. Du Feng can’t, neither can Battelle. Wang Zhizhi is not good at it. The only one who can do it is now officially 17 years old. The international arena is still a big killer, Liu Mang feels his ass hurts, and can only wait for this guy to grow up.
Thinking of this, Liu Mang couldn't help but sigh, when this guy grows up, people like Guo Shiqiang and Li Nan will have retired long ago.
My own country is really miserable. When there is an outside line, there is no inside line. When there are big men who can cut and shoot, the outside line is basically over.
Playing four games, Liu Mang averaged 31 points, 7 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game, and his shooting percentage was 49%, which was very efficient. However, the Chinese team only had two wins and two losses, the same record as Italy and Montenegro. Argentina is 3 wins and 1 loss. Spain ranks first in terms of net rating higher than Argentina, and Argentina is second. The two teams will fight directly for the first place in the next game.
New Zealand lost all four games and was out early.
Liu Mang thought of competing with Italy and Serbia and Montenegro for two promotion places, mainly because of the direct competition with Serbia and Montenegro.
To be honest, whether the match between the Chinese team and the Serbian and Montenegro teams will be fierce or not, and whether they will try their best to win depends on the Italian side.
It is to fight for a position with Serbia and Montenegro, because the last match between the two teams happens to be the two teams playing against each other. The winner may be directly ranked third, and the loser may not necessarily fall out of the top four. Serbia and Montenegro have won against Italy, as long as Italy Even if they lose to the Chinese team, they can enter the knockout round, but the Chinese team must win because they have lost to Italy.
Liu Mang sat for a while, saw Guo Jingjing easily won the championship with the last jump, stood up and clapped his hands, and then left. When he left, Liu Mang felt as if he had forgotten something, but he didn't think much about it. He went to find Harris Discuss the game with Serbia and Montenegro.
After working for more than ten minutes, I still don’t know why when I aimed at the female diver, it was the little blacksmith with a close-up of the upper body or the lower body. I finally gave in. I wanted to learn how to use it from Liu Mang, but when I saw Liu Mang, he just left. ...gone...didn't even say hello.
The good teacher taught me to use a camera!
"This bastard, what the hell are you doing here!"