a day ago.

"Haven't slept yet?" said Jim Boyham, assistant coach of Dream Nine, to Mike Šashewski, who was still working on the footage.

"Mike (D'Antoni) and Nate (McMillan) are asleep, aren't they?" asked Old K, rubbing his eyes and looking up.

"It's all asleep, I don't understand, what else is there to worry about, this is Istanbul, not the imperial capital of the Celestial Empire, and Howard can't have eaten two fouls in a row in the opening minute and a half. Jim Boyham relieved.

Mike Shashewski shook his head and said: "But Kobe, LeBron, and D. Wade are also not in this team of the United States."

I always had some doubts, and although the outside world still looked more favorably on us, the opponent was an Olympic champion and he beat us in the final. There are too many uncertainties in a single knockout game, and ours is not without its flaws. ”

"The people of the Celestial Empire may not be able to grasp it. Boyham continued.

"But we can't always pin our hopes on our opponents. My biggest concern is still with Kraft Nguyen, who is by no means a guy who plays cards according to common sense. Old K said helplessly.

"That's right, why did that guy Woodson get two consecutive COY, if I were given a Kraft Nguyen, I would be able to do it. At some point, Mike D'Antoni, who had been asleep, also came to the conference room.

"Haha, it's a pity that reality doesn't have ifs, Mike, so you can only fantasize about it. Boyham relentlessly debunked.

Mike D'Antoni rushed forward and strangled his colleague's neck, and the two old men immediately started to fight happily.

After a long while, Lao K said: "If you want to make trouble, don't affect my work." ”

Mike D'Antoni said: "You're still wondering if we can't drag the Celestial Empire to death with a ball?"

Shashewski shook his head and said, "No, I'm worried, if Durant is completely killed, do we have a second stable scoring point to stand up?"

In the second half of the semifinals just past, Durant scored 38 points alone, helping the team defeat Lithuania and reach the finals.

The strength of Mengjiu is reflected in their defensive intensity, counter-attacking speed and individual scoring ability, but it has to be said that in the last item, Mengjiu's current ability is far inferior to Mengqi and Mengba.

On the guard line, Rose, Westbrook, and Gordon are all sophomores, Curry is just a first-year rookie, and Billups is aging.

On the forward line, Guy and Iguodala lack the desire to attack when they give their own teams, and they are not top pitchers, and when they reach the national team, they put defense before scoring, Odom also has this problem, but his defense is relatively worse, and Granger has been affected by injuries in the past season and has not returned to his best condition.

As for Chandler and Love?

The former's offense relies on air cuts or basket shots, and the latter is simply a soy sauce presence in this Dream Nine, and Lao K will not think of him at all if he does not rotate to the last person, and the future Wolf King's status in Dream Nine is lower than Boozer's low position in Dream Eight.

It should be said that the more critical the moment, the more significant the disadvantages of Mengjiu being too young, if it is another opponent, it is better to say, but in the face of the 08 Olympic champion as the team of the Celestial Empire men's basketball team, this drawback was suddenly amplified by the wireless.

The people of the Celestial Empire relied on their home advantage the year before last to pull Mengba off the team, saying that Mengjiu was sure of winning, I am afraid that even they would not believe it.

Westbrook called to provoke Ruan Erniu that night, ostensibly to pretend to be forced, but in fact, looking at it the other way around, he was not cheering himself up.

It is said that the World Championships have received little attention, and the big names are reluctant to come, but when they really hit the finals, how many people can completely calm their competitiveness?

On the night of the World Championship finals, the United States men's basketball team, wearing a navy blue jersey, took the lead in announcing its starting lineup:

Frontcourt: Lamar Odom, Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala

Backcourt: Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose

Lao K's tactical arrangement is very clear, that is, to play small ball, and to use the physical strength and speed advantage of the United States men's basketball team to consume the Celestial Empire men's basketball team from the first second of the game, and finally drag the opponent to death.

The starting lineup of the Celestial Empire men's basketball team was also announced shortly after:

C Yao Ming

PF Yijianlian

SF Nguyen Er Niu

SG Wang Shipeng

PG Liu Wei

Deng Huade's start was a little conservative, but judging from the scene, this was also the strongest start that the Celestial Empire team could send.

As the referee tossed the basketball high, the World Championship final officially began.

Allen defeated Odom in the jump ball and put the ball in the hands of Yao Ming in the backcourt, Yao Ming passed the ball to Liu Wei, who controlled the ball across the half.

"Ross's defense is very close, Liu Wei should be careful. The U.S. team is very good at pressing outside the three-point line, and once the ball is broken, it is immediately a counterattack. "Zhang Lili, who is in charge of the commentary, will definitely be on the side of the Celestial Empire men's basketball team tonight.

Don't say that Kobe didn't come, even if Kobe came, when it was about the honor of the country and the nation, Director Zhang's ass still sat upright.

Liu Wei protected the ball while sending the ball to Wang Shipeng who ran out of the flank in the confrontation, and Erniu and Yi Jian made a double block and left Billups behind.

Wang Shipeng, who was unguarded, received the ball with high difficulty and leaned back to shoot, "Brush!"

Three-point hit!

The Celestial Empire men's basketball team took the lead in scoring the first goal.

Dream nine balls, Rose quickly dribbled the ball into the front court, Liu Wei's confrontation was barely able to keep up, the speed was not Rose's opponent at all, if it weren't for Erniu's delay to the Bull leader, this rose would probably stab the penalty area of the Celestial Empire men's basketball team.

Dream Jiu's fast attack failed, the two sides fell into position, Ruan Erniu spared no effort to defend Durant, from before he received the ball, he began to block and defend him, with only one purpose, to make the big tarantula feel uncomfortable connecting the ball.

Rose's outside projection was average, he didn't dare to shoot directly, and he was afraid of Yao Ming's blockade on the inside, so he had to create the ball to Billups.

This is the biggest difference between FIBA and the NBA, when the big center can stand in the three-second zone without worrying about being blown to defend for three seconds, it is simply a catastrophic blow for those players who rely on breakthroughs to eat, which is also the biggest chance of winning for the Celestial Empire men's basketball team.

Billups also didn't shoot directly, but distributed the ball to Odom.

Odom received the ball on the bottom line, and the mid-range defense against Da Yao was a mid-range shot.

"Bang!"

Didn't hit!

Allen protects the backcourt rebound.

"It's so defensive at the beginning, can you hold on to the whole court?" Durant muttered in Erniu's ear as he returned to defense.

"If you can continue the feeling of the last game, of course I don't have anything to say, but tonight I promise you won't score more than 20 points. Ruan Erniu immediately shot back.

Durant kept his mouth shut and talked trash talk, where is he Ruan Erniu's opponent.

Durant in Sagittarius is still just an ordinary Twitter teenager, not a trash-talk master.

Ruan Erniu received the basketball at the top arc position, Iguodala defended it for the first time, and the first brother was already the best single defense player in the Dream Nine Formation, but Erniu's figure was obviously stronger than the first brother.

"Bang!" After the instant collision of muscles, Ruan Erniu took a big step into the inner line, and the first brother was knocked away by brute force by a small step, and it was this small step that gave Erniu enough space to break through.

Odom had to give up Da Yao and pounce directly on Erniu.

"Boom!"

Ruan Erniu directly knocked Odom into the air, completing the tomahawk split.

"Toot!"

2+1！

The United States men's basketball team not only paid for a foul, Odom also knocked Erniu's elbow, and the position of the inner eye socket began to bleed.

The lama had to stop the bleeding immediately, and Tyson Chandler was re-put on the court, and as soon as Chandler came on the court, Mengjiu's so-called small-ball tactics changed back to the traditional positional warfare style of playing with one big and four small.

Odom stopped the bleeding on the sidelines, while his wife Khloe Kardashian looked anxiously at the court, to be honest, the people of the Celestial Empire currently know far less about Khloe than her Kim Kardashian, who is gradually replacing Paris Hilton.

In this world full of sisters-in-law, people often ignore who Odom's wife is, but in a few years, Kohler will prove with his own practical actions what is called the world-recognized D-POY.

Briefly blinded by Khloe Kardashian's majestic curves, the camera lens turns back to the field again.

After Ruan Erniu added a penalty in the free throw, the Celestial Dynasty men's basketball team beat the United States 6:0 in the opening game.

Rose controlled the ball over half the court, and when Durant got rid of Ruan Erniu to no avail, he chose to break through directly, Liu Wei was expected, but the inside line Da Yao did not lose his position.

Rose jumped high and tried to drift to put the ball in the basket.

"Bang!"

The basket refused this layup, Yao Ming took the backcourt rebound, and a pass found the fast Wang Shipeng.

Billups didn't keep up, and Wang 7 went all the way to the inside.

"Bang!"

At the last moment of Wang Shipeng's layup, Durant inserted a pegboard hat from behind and slapped the ball the basket.

But just as Durant was about to turn around and get the rebound, the huge figure of the white No. 11 jumped high, caught the ball with both hands in the air, and smashed the basketball into the basket.

Allen quickly followed up and completed the dunk, and the Celestial Empire men's basketball team further extended its lead.

Lao K is still reluctant to ask for a timeout, because he thinks that the United States men's basketball team does not have much problem on the defensive end.

On the offensive end, this time Durant ran a big circle and finally received the basketball from Rose.

Erniu's protection is still with him, but Durant takes a shot when he receives the ball, relying on his height and arm span, which is also the most inexplicable way for Mengjiu to score in this World Championships.

FIBA and NBA defensive rules are not the same, in the international arena, it is difficult for Durant to cheat fouls by "swinging his arms and big loops", and for the principle of cylinder violation, the two sides are also different, not to mention that in the finals, the referee itself is more relaxed about physical confrontation.

Erniu did not hesitate to bump into Durant at the moment before he made a move, which was not heavy, but it was enough to make Durant lose his balance to a certain extent.

The referee's whistle in his mouth didn't go off after all.

"Bang!"

missed, it was Liu Wei who won the backcourt rebound, Ruan Erniu rushed forward quickly, Durant interfered on the side, but the basketball still passed to Erniu's hands.

The United States men's basketball team retreated quickly, and the Celestial Empire men's basketball team did not get a chance to break quickly.

Just when most people thought that Ruan Erniu would reorganize the offense, Manniu suddenly turned around Durant and passed Durant in a half, and then hit the basket again.

"Bang!"

Erniu didn't score, and that was because Chandler used a foul to prevent Ruan Erniu from scoring a goal.

Lao K finally sensed that something was wrong, and there was no problem with the defense of the United States men's basketball team, but Ruan Erniu's outburst completely disrupted the offensive and defensive rhythm of the entire Mengjiu.

The two-time MVP is not just a casual talk, the Tianchao men's basketball team with Ruan Erniu and without Ruan Erniu are completely two concepts, and he alone shocked Mengjiu's defense to pieces.

The old K had to call a timeout and began to make substitutions, replacing Rose with Eric Gordon and then replacing Chauncey Billups with Stephen Curry in the following round.

Due to Chandler's foul again while defending Yao Ming, the old K had to replace Chandler again for Odom and replace Iguodala with Westbrook.

Lama + Du Shao + Wei Shao + Round-faced Deng + Primary School Students, the crazy lineup of three defenders, Lao K is determined to fight to attack.

Deng Huade also began to replace, Wang Zhizhi replaced Yao Ming, Sun Yue replaced Liu Wei, this is to fight with the Mi people to attack!

Allen has also developed long-range shooting ability in the NBA, which is equivalent to the Celestial Empire men's basketball team having five pitchers on the court and can attack from the outside.

Curry, who was called "Corey" by Sun Zhenping, hit a three-pointer after a series of juggling dribbles, first facing Wang Shipeng's defense.

In the process of breaking through, Sun Yue distributed the ball to Wang Zhizhi on the outside, and Dazhi stepped back and shot back, facing Durant's defensive hit and returned a three-point shot.

Wei Shao attacked the basket and scored 2+1.

Ruan Erniu successfully ate Durant in the low post, arched the latter with his back, and hit two points to wipe the board.

……

With a fast switching offensive and defensive rhythm, under the leadership of Ruan Erniu, the Celestial Empire men's basketball team played well on the offensive end, and did not lose to the United States team at all.

Dream Jiu's biggest problem was exposed in the first quarter, or Lao K's worries were exposed by the Celestial Empire men's basketball team!

The U.S. men's basketball team relies too much on Durant on the offensive end, or in other words, once it doesn't get enough opportunities to impact the basket, the U.S. men's basketball team can only rely on outside shooters to solve the problem.

But in addition to Durant, Gordon and Curry, the United States men's basketball team couldn't find a fourth reliable outside shooter, and Gordon and Curry didn't have the absolute right to shoot in this Dream Nine, and their shooting rankings often ranked behind Rose and Wei Shao.

Mike Šashewski is a coach who emphasizes discipline and tactics, and since Dream Nine is young, most of the players in the team are willing to follow the teachings of the old K.

As a result, Dream Nine's defense did reach a fairly high level, but it has to be said that on the offensive end, they didn't play like the Dream Team at all.

At 18:26, the Celestial Empire men's basketball team led by 8 points in the first quarter, this is the Celestial Empire men's basketball team that can't even kill Iran without Ruan and Yao in Asia?

Is it because Ruan Erniu and Yao Ming's strength is too rebellious, or is the Celestial Dynasty men's basketball team retaining its strength in the Asian Championships?

Many Celestial Empire fans in front of the TV are almost kneeling to watch the game, but it is actually the Celestial Empire men's basketball team that is playing with the United States men's basketball team, which is a grand occasion that has never happened in the imperial capital Olympic Games.

"Russell, do you still think you can win?" Ruan Erniu provoked Wei Shao again.

"Wait, there are still three quarters!" Westbrook waved his hand fiercely, threw the back of Erniu's head, and strode towards the player seat of the Super Mi National Team.

Ruan Erniu also quickly returned to the player bench of the Celestial Empire men's basketball team.

Bob Dunward continued to pour chicken soup into the men's basketball team during the break: "The team has nothing to fear, on the contrary, they should be afraid of you, you are the Olympic champions, you are the strongest team in the world......"

Most of the chicken soup is poisonous, just listen to some words, if the superstars of Mi Guo Mengba did not quit the national team, but came to participate in the World Championships, the Celestial Empire men's basketball team without home court advantage, even if it relies on Erniu and Da Yao to explode at the same time, maybe there is no chance of winning.

The so-called strongest in the world also has prerequisites.

However, then again, there are no ifs in this world after all.

Winning is winning, losing is losing, Dream Nine itself has weaknesses, and it was caught by the Celestial Empire men's basketball team, this is the game and competition.

The second quarter of the game began quickly.

Ruan Erniu continued to not rest, and after blocking Durant in the first quarter, he continued to bear the offensive responsibility of the Celestial Empire men's basketball team in the first half of the second quarter until Yao Ming returned to the court.

Durant continued to be entangled by Nguyen Erniu in the second quarter, and throughout the long half, he shot 1-of-5 from beyond the three-point line, plus a breakaway free throw, and only scored 5 points.

Erniu's prophecy to Du Shao in the first section is gradually coming true!

There are also media in the United States who have questioned Erniu's qualifications for being elected D-POY three times more than once, thinking that he is a guy who can only brush rebounds, and he is not a player with excellent single defense quality at all.

Due to the withering of the center in the league, in the position of C, there are few people who can find trouble in the matchup.

Kuroko always habitually ignore the facts, and Erniu can be in the wrong position to face the power forward and even the guard's single defense ability.

In this game, Ruan Erniu's defense of Durant at the expense of physical strength made people re-examine Ruan Erniu's single defense ability as the first three-time D-POY in the history of the league.

In the second quarter of the game, the best performance of the United States men's basketball team should be Wei Shao and Rudy Gay.

Westbrook doesn't care about Lao K's so-called tactical arrangement, the so-called indiscriminate punching to kill the master, compared with the general tactical routine, Wei Shao's unreasonable personal ability, on the contrary, it is easier to break the deadlock, taking advantage of Yao Ming's absence, Wei Shao is even more successful in continuous assault baskets.

With Durant frozen, Guy also stepped up in time, and he hit mid-to-long-range 2 points in a row to help Mengjiu shorten the difference.

At the end of the first half, at 37:42, the Celestial Empire men's basketball team still maintained its lead, but Mengjiu gradually eased up, it doesn't matter if Durant is guarded, as long as there are other people on the team who can stand up, they can still use stronger individual talent to kill the Celestial Empire men's basketball team.