The two sides announced the starters. [Full text reading. 】

Team USA.

center, Devin Wiggins; power forward, Derek Norway; small forward, Duon James; Shooting guard, Kevin Booker; Point guard, Kyrie Irving.

This is the strongest starting lineup of the U.S. team, and it is also the strongest individual lineup, and all of these five players are expected to land in the NBA in the next three to four years, and they are all praised as talented players, among which Kyrie Irving and Doon James are the geniuses of geniuses, and they are considered to be the best players.

National Youth Team.

Center, Yang Jie; power forward, Seinfeld; small forward, Ren Qinwei; scored first, Zhang Yufeng; Point guard, Ji Fan.

This set of starters is not the strongest offensive lineup of the national youth team, but the strongest lineup of defense, among which Zhang Yufeng is a player who can be comparable to Irving or James at both offensive and defensive ends, and his existence is also favored by everyone is an important factor in the confrontation between the national youth team and the United States team.

The two sides are in position, the referee blows the whistle, and the ball jumps.

Yang Jie and Wiggins jumped at the same time, and it was obvious that Wiggins had an advantage in height, bounce, and strength, and easily photographed the basketball.

Irving received the basketball, advanced like the front court, and a lightning-like change of direction directly shook off Ji Fan, broke through to the inside line and made a quick stop jump shot to score the ball and score first.

Ji Fan shook his head helplessly, thinking that he had made enough progress, but when he really faced Owen, he found that there was still such a huge gap.

The national youth team attacked, Ji Fan broke through Owen, and even broke through from two directions without completely throwing Owen away.

Owen is not only physically excellent, but also has a sharp reflexes, and with his quick movement and quick judgment, it is too difficult to take advantage of him.

There was no way, Ji Fan could only choose to pass the ball to Ren Qinwei's hands.

Ren Qinwei continued to change direction, then broke through from the right side, and a tough three-step layup hit the board into the basket to score 2 points for the national youth team.

The U.S. team attacked, Irving's breakthrough ball, to Kevin Booker on the outside, and in the face of Zhang Yufeng's defense, he raised his hand and shot, but the force was a little less and bounced on the basket.

Ren Qinwei grabbed the rebound, and then rushed out quickly, and when he arrived in the front court, he found that the American players had quickly returned to defense, and if the fast attack failed, he could only reduce his speed and play positional battles.

The U.S. team uses a single defense marker, in their eyes, whether it is height, strength, personal ability has an advantage, as long as they come up with a pressing defense, the national youth team will soon be unbearable.

It's a pity that they thought wrong, after experiencing the experience and baptism in the international arena, the national youth team is no longer the national youth team that just participated in the World Youth Championships, and it is no longer the national youth team that the United States team ravaged at will in the first game of the group stage.

Yang Jie mentioned that the high position was blocked and dismantled by Ren Qinwei, and the American player did not choose to attack, but gave Ren Qinwei enough point guards.

They also made sufficient preparations before the game, knowing that Ren Qinwei's shooting ability was extremely poor, so now they selectively let him go and did not give him a chance to pass the ball to Yang Jie.

Ren Qinwei hesitated, seeing that no one came up to defend, so he didn't think much about it, stopped and raised his hand to shoot.

"Huh!" The basketball hollowed into the net, and his face showed joy, even he didn't expect it to go in.

"Scored, Ren Qinwei actually shot and scored, it's really rare!" The narrator was surprised.

"Hehe, is this young man very competitive? The U.S. team just wanted to cut off his pass and force him to attack on his own, because everyone knew that his shooting was poor, but now that he has made a shot, the next time the U.S. team defends, it will have to be weighed. The guest said.

"Looks like it's going to be a great game today! Unexpectedly, the first player to break out in the national youth team turned out to be Ren Qinwei. The narrator said, looking incredulous.

"You can't underestimate him." The guest said solemnly, "If you go back and study the data, you will find that Ren Qinwei is a very comprehensive player, and he is a very important part of the team, is the glue of the team, without him, it is difficult for the national youth team to make a difference, take the last game as an example, he got 13 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks, almost a triple-double." ”

"It's not obvious, it's not leaky, I didn't expect him to be so powerful." The narrator said that Ren Qinwei's opinion has also changed.

"Read on, I'm very optimistic about this young man." The guest said, his eyes focused on the court.

Now the score is 8:12, during the period when the two are talking, the two teams have started a white-hot battle, Owen suddenly broke out and scored 6 points in a row, and sent 1 assist, so that the team is in the lead, but the national youth team also played very tenacious, playing a very smooth attack under the tandem of Ren Qinwei and Ji Fan, and tightly biting the score.

The only thing that worries the players is Zhang Yufeng's state, the game is halfway through, Zhang Yufeng only shot once, and has not yet thrown.

"Huh!" Booker, who was on the perimeter, received a pass from James and hit a 3-pointer to stretch the score to seven points.

"Toot!" Yang Juncheng got up and called a timeout.

The team is already showing signs of collapse and has to adjust.

"Strange, why does Zhang Yufeng look absent-minded today? There is no offensive ** at all, just now I saw that he was still very active in the warm-up, and he was in good shape, why did he change after the game started? The commentator asked strangely, and also expressed the doubts of thousands of fans in front of the TV.

"Maybe it's because I'm still worried about the injury in the last game." The guest said, looking at Zhang Yufeng's eyes full of worry, "I heard that Zhang Yufeng was fighting with an injury in this game, so I think he is still thinking about the injury on his foot, so he looks absent-minded." ”

"Hey, hopefully his foot injury doesn't affect today's game." The narrator sighed, "Injuries are a real nuisance. ”

"Don't worry, since he can play this game, he must be mentally prepared, and I believe he will adjust soon." The guest said, very confident.

On the bench of the national youth team, Yang Juncheng looked at Zhang Yufeng after readjusting his tactics and said worriedly: "How is it?" Do you want to take a break first? ”

Zhang Yufeng was stunned for a moment and replied, "It's okay coach, I can do it." ”

Yang Juncheng nodded and said to everyone: "As I just said, as long as James breaks through when he gets the ball, he will wrap him up and cut off his passing route, understand?" ”

"Understood!"

"Get on the field!"

At the end of the timeout, the players returned to the field, and Zhang Yufeng walked at the back, still a little absent-minded.

"What's going on? Still worried about your injuries? Ren Qinwei retreated to his side and asked.

"No, I'm just looking for the feeling of the game." Zhang Yufeng said, fine beads of sweat overflowing from his forehead.

The reason why he didn't play well in the first half of the quarter was because he was worried about the ankle injury, because he could always feel a faint pain.

"That's good, find your form as soon as possible, if you don't play again, we'll really be taken away in the first quarter." After Ren Qinwei finished speaking, he ran to the field.

Zhang Yufeng nodded lightly and followed closely.

(End of chapter)