Chapter 433: A Historic Defense
The next day, almost all the newspapers in Chinese mainland were grabbed by the Olympic Games, and the most exposed of them was naturally An Jie, who served as the flag bearer. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the past, An Jie was just a Chinese who played basketball very well. However, after the opening ceremony, An Jie became a new star representative of Chinese sports. Suddenly, Anjie's status in the Chinese sports world has also improved a lot. And more Chinese also recognize this young man who only appears on the American basketball court.
An Jie was so excited that he could barely sleep the night after the opening ceremony, if it weren't for Wang Zhizhi's calm snoring and sleeping that affected him, An Jie wouldn't have been able to be excited all night.
The next day, most of the young players who were competing in the Olympics for the first time arrived at the training ground with black circles under their eyes. However, Deng Huade's serious attitude made several young players led by An Jie put away the hippie smiles just now.
"It's great, it looks like there's still a couple of guys in the team who are full of energy, no, too much energy! Fifteen groups of turnaround runs, ready to start!" As soon as Deng Huade whistled, even a big NBA name like An Jie had to be obedient, let alone others.
Deng Huade will not be excited about any opening ceremony or any sense of honor at all. He's here to win and he's working towards that goal right now.
An Jie thought that Deng Huade would give the team a day off today, but judging from the current situation, Deng Huade does not plan to give the Chinese men's basketball team any respite.
Among all the teams participating in the Olympic Games, the Chinese team is definitely the one in the third tier. For the current Chinese team, all opponents are strong opponents, so it is impossible for Deng Huade to let the Chinese men's basketball team relax their vigilance.
This trick did work, and when An Jie ran a few turnaround runs under Deng Huade's strict urging, his relaxed heart instantly lifted. What awaits them tomorrow is a big battle, the game has not started yet, where is the reason to relax in advance!
Anjie is becoming more and more engaged and serious in training. And all this will directly affect Anjie's game status tomorrow.
Relax before the game even starts, Dunward won't allow that to happen, but that's what the Spaniards did. As one of the few teams in this Olympic Games that can compete with the Dream Team, even if the Chinese team has An Jie, a super center, it cannot change the fact that the Chinese team is a weak team. Therefore, the Spanish team could not get nervous.
"Tomorrow's game should be a warm-up for us, Ann is not easy to deal with. With him to start us, it's just the perfect opponent. Marc Gasol was talking to his brother as he took a leisurely shot. An Jie is indeed very powerful, and the existence of An Jie seems to be the only meaning and highlight of the match between Spain and China.
"Don't be careless, Mark, don't be careless. Pau Gasol hasn't forgotten how Anjie, who was still on the Thunder back then, packed him and Bynum well. There is an An Jie in the Chinese team, so anything can happen to the Chinese team!
"Alright, alright, excessive nervousness won't do you any good. Hey, let's go watch the swim competition after training. Mark smiled and winked at his brother, his mood was just a microcosm of the hearts of most players in the Spanish team. Even before the light match began, the Spanish team seemed to have thought they had won.
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Compared with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the scene of the Olympic basketball game is much more deserted. What's more, the match between Spain and China seems to be so "no suspense".
Before the start of the game, the Spanish team just pretended to shoot on the court to warm up. The Chinese team, under the leadership of Wang Zhizhi, is doing systematic ball sense exercises.
"The Chinese just like to do superficial work. Marc Gasol said to himself disdainfully, in his opinion, the Chinese team is just a show. When it comes to fighting, they will be Spain's opponents.
It was with this mentality that the Spanish players began the first game of their Olympic journey. However, as soon as he scored the first goal, Marc Gasol paid for his carelessness.
"Yi Jianlian holds the ball with the basket on his back!Does he plan to play Mark Gasol with his back? An Jie actually pulled to the mid-distance position, is he opening up space for Yi Jianlian?" Zhang Weiping looked at everything that happened on the court in surprise, although the UAE is indeed the second strongest interior line second only to An Jie in this team, but let him play alone with Mark Gasol, it is inevitably a little too confident! You know, in the NBA regular season last season, An Jie was not able to beat Mark Gasol every time!
Marc Gasol himself thinks the same way, he thinks that this Chinese named Yi is simply not self-sufficient. So when Yi Jianlian turned around and broke through with a very fast step, and by the way, he used his shoulder to push Mark Gasol out of the way to gain space, Mark didn't even react!
"What!?" Mark turned in shock to find that his brother had pounced on the basket. But Yi Jianlian did not have the slightest fear, he had Mark Gasol behind him to chase back, and Paul Gasol in front of him to make up for the defense, he was stunned and successfully broke through to the basket and completed a wonderful two-handed dunk!
"Good shot! Well done!" In China, countless fans couldn't help but wave their fists and applaud when they saw Yi Jianlian complete this goal! Yi Jianlian successfully completed a violent dunk on two NBA All-Star level interior heads, isn't this still exciting?
After the goal, Yi Jianlian yelled at the audience, and An Jie also stretched out his hand and high-fived Yi Jianlian hard. What about the two Gasol brothers? Look at me, look at you, you can't believe what just happened!
Who said that the Chinese team is just a team that relies on Anjie? Other players in this team can also make contributions on the field! Yi Jianlian's goal only allowed the Chinese team to tie the score, but the morale and encouragement brought by that goal were something that the Spanish team could not catch up.
After that, An Jie held the ball in the frame and plunged into the inside. His sudden attack attracted the two Gasol brothers to block the basket at the same time.
However, An Jie suddenly started to pass the ball in the process of breaking through and sent the basketball to Yi Jianlian.
At this moment, Yi Jianlian has run outside the three-point line, and there are no players from the Spanish team within a radius of 1.5 meters around him.
Faced with this big vacant opportunity, Yi Jianlian made a three-point shot. It was difficult for Anjie to squeeze inside under the card position of the two Gasol brothers, but the basketball was hollowed into the net, so that Anjie no longer had to worry about rebounding.
"The connection between An Jie and Yi Jianlian seems to be very tacit, the Spanish team is five points behind! Audience friends, the Spanish team is now five points behind us!" Yu Jia shouted excitedly on the commentary platform, although An Jie is not the person with the most points in the Chinese team now, but he and Yi Jianlian used their own efforts to beat the momentum of the Chinese team!
On the outside, Spain's point guard Sergio Ruhr, shooting guard Jos Calderón and small forward Rudy Fernandez have all been underwhelming. On the contrary, on the Chinese side, Liu Wei and Wang Shipeng scored a few goals. The inside and outside did not take advantage, and the Spanish team was in a backward position after the first quarter of the game!
The whole of China was boiling, and the whole of Spain was shocked. Although the Chinese team only led by two points at 19-17, this was enough to make Spanish basketball fans angry!
In the second quarter of the game, An Jie and Yi Jianlian took turns to rest, and the Spanish team thought their moment was coming. However, the veteran Wang Zhizhi used his excellent performance to make the Spaniards respect this young man chasing the wind.
In the Olympic Games, Dazhi naturally can't score points by footsteps, after all, in the NBA, Ibaka has seen countless guys with better footsteps than Dazhi.
But today, Wang Zhizhi used his unexpectedly tough and fiery shooting touch to make Ibaka think that he was really playing against Nowitzki.
Although Chen Jianghua is inferior to his opponent in technique and physically, he has repeatedly used his desperate breakthrough to score points under the basket. It is obvious that even after falling behind in the first quarter, the Spanish team still did not pay attention to the Chinese team!
In the first half of the second quarter, under the leadership of Wang Zhizhi and Chen Jianghua, he wrapped up the lead, and in the second half of the second quarter, An Jie turned on the scoring mode.
Pau Gasol was beaten to death by Anjay's back. changed Ibaka to defend, and Ibaka was played with by Anjie with various steps. When Marc Gasol finally got on the pitch, Anjie's sense of attack had already been developed. Now that Mark has just come up, it is no longer helpful.
On the other hand, the Spanish team's offense, except for the veteran Carlos Navarro, is still collectively dumb among the outside players. Navarro, on the other hand, was the most serious in yesterday's training and the only one who didn't dare to underestimate him.
At 43-38, the half was over, and the Spanish team did not even take a one-minute lead.
"This group of young men, don't they want to make history!" Zhang Weiping swallowed his saliva, the Chinese team, which is now gaining momentum, is not something that Spain can destroy with a casual effort in the second half. Although it is said that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, but today, Zhang Weiping has to have hope for the Chinese men's basketball team.
In the third quarter, it was clear that the Spanish team had strengthened their defense against Anjie. However, it was Yi Jianlian who led the Chinese team to take the lead!
Maybe he wants to prove that he still has the strength to play in the NBA, Yi Jianlian played hard today, and his state is also very hot. There was a ball that Sun Yuezhong couldn't shoot, and Yi Jianlian carried Paul to pick up the offensive rebound and quickly jumped and dunked twice. Yi Jianlian's tough style of play today was something that Deng Huade didn't expect.
After all, An Jie is just a young man, and he is also a young man who does not have a deep affection for Chinese basketball. Yao Ming is gone, and this team still has to rely on Yi Jianlian to cohesion. Today is the first game of the Olympic Games, and Yi Jianlian certainly wants to use his actions to infect his teammates!
As it turned out, the guy's efforts were not in vain. Seeing that Yi Jianlian, the big brother, is fighting so hard, how can An Jie be soft?
He bombarded the Spanish team's interior line indiscriminately, and the Spanish team's seemingly indestructible inner iron triangle was torn to pieces by An Jie and Yi Jianlian! If it weren't for the poor defensive skills of the Chinese team's outside players, allowing the Spanish team's defensive line to wake up, An Jie and Yi Jianlian might have extended the Chinese team's advantage to double digits.
72-67, the Chinese team still maintains the lead!
In the fourth quarter, the Spanish team went crazy. They didn't expect that they would be pressed and beaten by a weak team! The terrifying strength of this team was all forced out by the Chinese men's basketball team.
The advantage of this is that the efficiency of the Spanish team at both ends of the pitch is greatly improved, and the downside is that they are restless and will always have an untimely shot or a crucial mistake from time to time.
Due to the limited level of outside players, the Chinese team does not have the ability to play transition offense. However, An Jie, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi's efficient attacks were able to help the Chinese team grasp these mistakes of the Spanish team.
As the minutes and seconds go by, FIBA has a shorter time per quarter than the NBA, and there are not as many pauses as the NBA, so the game process will be much faster than the NBA.
The less time there is, the more desperate the Spanish team becomes. In the end, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi may have played a little abnormally due to physical reasons, but An Jie once again carried the scoring banner of the Chinese team.
Mark Gasol gritted his teeth and leaned on An Jie, who held on to Mark's power point, and was not in a hurry.
Mark took a step forward and found that An Jie was not only unmoved, but his center of gravity did not waver in the slightest!
After that, Marc Gasol suddenly picked up and half-turned, looking at the movement as if he was going to hook his hand!
An Jie didn't jump, he just raised his hands in front of Mark, and sure enough, Mark withdrew his hand as soon as he was halfway through the action, it was just a feint!
Seeing that he had been defended by Anjie, Marc Gasol quickly hit the ball to the outside.
Carlos Navarro, the meritorious hometown of the Spanish team, burst into the ball when he received the ball, Liu Wei not only slowed down a lot, but was hit by Navarro, and Liu Wei almost fell.
Navarro broke a step inside the free throw line and was ready to end the game with a throw he was most sure of.
The ball's flight arc looked perfect, and everything looked so beautiful until the big hand appeared on the ball and the basket.
"An Jie! He rises from the ground!" Zhang Weiping suddenly stood up, An Jie's defense is likely to be a defense that changes history!
"Smack!" A second before the basketball fell, An Jie was finally able to fan the basketball away! Due to An Jie's excessive force, the basketball flew directly to the half court of the Spanish team, and no one could pick it up.
Navarro hugged his head in pain, not because he was violated by Anjie, but because the attack just now was the last chance for the Spanish team in this game!
As soon as the basketball was out of bounds, the referee from Ireland blew his whistle in this game.
Yu Jia and Zhang Weiping, who were sitting on the commentary platform, first glanced at each other, and then the two hugged each other.
"Team China...... The Chinese men's basketball team defeated the mighty Spain by two points!", the audience could only hear Yu Jia and Zhang Weiping's excited shouts......