Chapter 781 780. Changing! Preemptive Strike!

"Dell, I think we need a power forward or a small forward who can hit the basket in the main lineup."

"I also know that it's not that my vision is too high, but that it's difficult to find such a striker in the CBA."

"What do you think of Yi?"

"He has so little experience, we are worried that he will not know what to do when he is on the field."

"well……"

Liu Mang and Silver Fox Harris sighed at the same time.

Just like what Harris said, it’s not like Yi Jianlian hasn’t played in the past four games. When playing against Argentina, when Yao Ming was pulled out by Scola and when Yao Ming was flanked inside, Yi Jianlian went up and couldn’t defend. If you stay, you can't attack.

Insufficient awareness and panic are Yi Jianlian's problems. In four games, he scored a total of six points and two rebounds.

Liu Mang is very satisfied with Harris' coaching. Harris is used to coaching in the NBA. When Liu Mang and Yao Ming are there, he is more willing to use the advantages of the two to beat Spain, which is still young.

It’s just that the Chinese team has strength. Except for Liu Mang, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi, the others are either veterans like Li Nan and Guo Shiqiang, or they can only do simple tasks, such as throwing open three-pointers, and the defense is okay. , but when it comes to scoring in the confrontation, few can do it.

"By the way, Del, what do you think of Mo?" Liu Mang thought of Mo Ke.

"Mo? You can try it..." Harris almost forgot about Moko.

The Chinese team has Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Battelle who can play centers. There is Du Feng at the power forward position. It is good to give Yi Jianlian a few minutes to let him experience the World Series. Yi Jianlian has potential, but Moko has no potential. , Moko, who was already in the youth team at the age of 13, has already formed skills and limited talent, but it is not a role player's style of play, but a core style of play, which requires a strong attack with the ball, but it is not very prominent in international competitions. Let Yi Jianlian play because Yi Jianlian looks like the future of the national team, while Moko is not.

But Moko's impact is still very good.

"Let Mo try!" Harris thought that the next opponent would be Serbia and Montenegro. They are strong inside and need more inside lethality. Except for Yao Ming, there is almost no way for the Chinese team to cause damage inside.

Although Divac and Peja are missing, Serbia and Montenegro are still a team with several NBA players and a large number of top European players, mainly three frontcourt lineups!

"Dell, will you still coach in the next Olympics?" Liu Mang asked suddenly.

"I don't know. If I don't make it to the finals this time, I guess I should go back to college to coach." Harris laughed, but he was very open-minded. The Chinese team's head coach is not good at this bowl of food.

"I hope it's you. Compared with other coaches, I think you are more suitable for us..."

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The two days passed quickly, and on August 23, the match between the Chinese team and Serbia and Montenegro arrived.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the players of the Chinese team and the Serbian and Montenegro teams had entered the Spartan Stadium to start the final preparation time.

How courageous is Harris? Being able to put Ace Jones and Nick Van Exel on the bench and let the little blacksmith shoot at critical moments shows how courageous he is.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team today is Liu Mang, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Mo Ke, Yao Ming.

Serbia and Montenegro, the starting lineup, the first name scared Liu Mang.

Popovich!

It's just Sechenko Popovich, a 1.91-meter point guard of CSKA Moscow, and the other four starters were the water dispenser administrator and pitcher Igor Rakocevic of the Timberwolves last season; The current Nets forward Vladimir Radmanovich, the Nets selected by the Nets in 2002 and has announced that he will enter the NBA's super inside potential rookie Nenad Krstic, the Raptors super rookie Darko - Milicic.

Soon, the game started, and Yao Ming and Milicic came to the middle circle to jump the ball.

As "the hope of Asian centers" and "the hope of European centers", Yao Ming and Milicic are only one year away from entering the NBA, and their performances in their rookie seasons are often compared.

But it’s better not to know, Yao Ming’s rookie year is really good, he made the playoffs with Francis, and Milicic said that he has more helpers, but the Raptors are at the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

Of course, age can be a big factor, but can Milicic be named in the All-NBA squad at the age of less than 24? This is really hard to say.

It's time to jump the ball. When Milicic saw Yao Ming, he was full of fighting spirit. His agent said that Yao Ming is his strong opponent in the future. He also knows how good Yao Ming is, so he is very motivated for this game, and , like the Chinese team, if you lose this game, you will be eliminated!

Just when the ball was about to jump, Milicic saw Liu Mang approaching.

Seeing Liu Mang's malicious eyes, Milicic's heart suddenly twitched. What he was most afraid of in the Chinese team was not Yao Ming, but Liu Mang!

"What is he going to do!" Milicic was nervous.

Liu Mang walked up to Misilic, raised his head and said, "Little devil, go back and drive the tractor, your land hasn't been planted yet."

Yao Ming saw Liu Mang walking over and said such a sentence. It was inexplicable. Milicic is the No. 4 pick, with a salary of more than 3 million US dollars a year, and his future is promising. ah!

However, when Yao Ming turned his head to look at Milicic, he found that Milicic was distracted and muttering words that Yao Ming could not understand, not English.

Milicic spoke in Serbian and Croatian, roughly meaning: "It's been a long time since I went home to see my mother. I haven't been here for more than a year. She must be very tired from farming. I told her that Darko has already Made a lot of money…”

"???" Yao Ming's three views were a bit broken, what did Liu Mang's words mean? Why is the No. 4 show suddenly so neurotic?

As a simple Eastern European big man, Milicic is still 19 years old after all. Liu Mang just borrowed Milicic’s time when he was playing in the Timberwolves. Garnett mocked Milicic and made Milicic cry in training. That's all.

The only difference is that when Garnett said similar things, his tone was mocking, and he wanted to hit Milicic or motivate Milicic. At that time, Milicic had already locked his identity as a parallel importer. And I'm getting older, and I feel humiliated.

And now Misilic was selected as a first-round rookie in his rookie year, and he was very high-spirited. Hearing Liu Mang's words, he thought of his mother from the former Soviet Union who inherited the hardworking nature of the older generation of the former Soviet Union.

The referee blew the whistle to start the game and threw the ball into the air. Milicic was a bit slow to react. Seeing Yao Ming's lame bounce to win the jump ball from his head, Milicic reacted. The guy is screwed!

Why did you catch me alone?

Milicic thought of the first time he played against Liu Mang, he was dunked, and hurried back to defend in grief and anger.

Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, gestured for everyone to pull away, and Yao Ming went to the low post.

Popovich's defense was very expanded, sticking to Liu Mang, trying to oppress him. As an Eastern European player, Popovich's style of play is very tough.

Seeing that the Serbia and Montenegro team seemed to be shrinking, Liu Mang knew that they wanted to pinch him. He protected the ball and waited for his teammates to get in position.

Moko and Zhu Fangyu went to the bottom corners on both sides. Li Nan was ready to respond and catch the ball for a three-pointer at any time at a 45-degree angle. The space was not fully opened. Yao Ming was sandwiched by Kostic and Milicic. Actively coming to the middle distance, Liu Mang immediately passed the ball when Moko cut in.

After Moko received the ball, Krstic immediately turned around to defend Moko, but Moko had already rushed up!

Krstic underestimated Moko too much, so he rushed to stop him, but Krstic himself is only a 21-year-old young insider who weighs 100 kilograms, and he will not be able to average 16 per game in the NBA playoffs in the future. The one who divided him was knocked away by Moko who weighed 112 kilograms and rushed up!

Milicic has a good defensive awareness and came to defend. Moko deserves to be the successor of Wang Zhizhi of the Bayi team. He has a very comprehensive offense with the ball. He immediately passed the inside pass to Yao Ming. Yao Ming dunked like a gorilla with both hands. Smash the ball into the hoop!

First-class explosive power, strong impact with the ball, and many offensive options at the basket are the characteristics of Moko. Sometimes he uses it well and the effect is very good. Although his upper limit is far inferior to Yi Jianlian, and there is a gap with Wang Zhizhi, he can be used reasonably. His ability really worked wonders!

The Chinese team started with a fierce insider cooperation!

Offensive and defensive transition, Serbia and Montenegro attack, Popovich advances with the ball.

Anti-Popovich, Liu Mang is very motivated just because of this name, and he started to put up defense against Popovich directly at halftime.

Popovich didn't expect Liu Mang to be so active, he pouted his buttocks to protect the ball, and rubbed forward bit by bit.

Popovich finally crossed the center line and came outside the three-point line. What he saw was that the other four members of the Chinese team took the initiative to fight hand-to-hand with his four teammates!

Play hard! Just started so hard? What are you going to do?

Moko finally got a chance to play. He received two orders, one was to rush to the basket on the offensive end, and the other was to fight with Milicic on the defensive end. He could do whatever made Milicic uncomfortable.

Except for Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu's three-point accuracy in the first game against the relatively "gorgeous" Spain, they were more accurate in the second game against the weaker New Zealand. When they played against Italy and Argentina, they were both shot poorly due to fierce physical confrontation. , Now playing Eastern European teams, it is estimated that it is not much better, so the task given to them by the coaching staff is to open up the space on the offensive end, and to shoot decisively if they have the opportunity. The opponent is more vicious!

Even Yao Ming was under the basket, and he did not spare any effort to press Krstic. Krstic was forced to withdraw from the three-second zone, and because Yao Ming did not defend the three-second zone, he was also very accustomed to the FIBA ​​style of play. Joined the national team at the age of 10.

And Krstic is different from many European insiders. Although he is white, he is an insider like an American black insider, a hard-line insider who works in the standard three-second zone, so he is valued so much by the Nets. He spent 1 million euros The big price bought out his contract in the Moscow Victory team, just to bring him to the NBA next season.

However, what Yao Ming is most afraid of is this type of black American insider in this era!

Duncan and Yao Ming are right. The rookie Yao Ming beat Duncan once, let alone Krstic?

This is the beginning of the game! Just fight like that?

Popovich was frightened by the strong fighting spirit of the Chinese team!

Rakocevic finally broke free from Li Nan's hand-to-hand fight and came up to respond. Popovich was about to collapse due to Liu Mang's oppressive defense. He fought so hard at the beginning, can he play the rest of the game? Does this guy want to play in the next game? Can he stand it physically? Our substitutes are better than you!

Liu Mang said... What is physical fitness?

Popovich passed the ball to Rakocevic, and Rakocevic had to throw the ball. Time was running out.

"Kang..."

Iron!

Yao Ming pushed Kostic out of the three-second zone, guarded the defensive rebound, and immediately threw it to Liu Mang who was running back to the free throw line. After a while, when the opponent was outside the three-point line, Liu Mang's long pass was delivered immediately.

Rakocevic and Popovich have retreated to the three-point line. Li Nan's chasing three-pointer missed Popovich and Rakocevic's defense, but Liu Mang followed up. A tip-up scored two points!

The tactic Liu Mang and Harris discussed was to catch the opponent by surprise at the beginning! Play the advantage right from the start.

Just like the fourth quarter of the game between China and Serbia and Montenegro in Liu Mang’s memory, the Chinese team limited Serbia and Montenegro to only 9 points in the fourth quarter of that game, and the reversal in the final quarter proved that the Chinese team relied on Press the defense and counterattack, you can win!

Liu Mang's idea was to beat Serbia and Montenegro out of rhythm from the very beginning! Although Serbia and Montenegro are an Eastern European team, they are not the former Yugoslavia. They are only composed of two countries, Serbia and Montenegro. They are not that strong anymore! Then, it was time for his show.

Others have fitness issues, but he doesn't! Putting Wang Zhizhi on the bench is just to rotate the lineup time! Because in the original 2004, there was no Wang Zhizhi! Of course, without him, Liu Mang!