Chapter 401: Defeat in the first battle
The second half of the game begins. [No pop-ups. 】
A draw in the first half against a "world third-rate team" like the Chinese team is definitely unacceptable to the American team.
At halftime, the coach of the U.S. team criticized the players, which caused many players to transfer their anger to the Chinese team.
At the beginning of the second half, the U.S. team blew a whirlwind frenzy, Irving still organized the guard, but was no longer responsible for sorting out the team's offense, and after half time, he handed the ball to small forward James, who organized the team's offense, while the rest of the U.S. team actually ran tactics. You must know that in the entire first half, the U.S. team played only a handful of tactical cooperation, and most of the offense relied on individual ability to play singles, so it gave the Chinese team a lot of opportunities.
James constantly breaks through and hits the inside, and after getting to the inside, he does not attack, but looks for opportunities to pass the basketball to the open players on the outside, and does not hesitate to shoot as long as a player receives the basketball.
The five U.S. players on the court have very strong offensive strength except for Norway, and they maximize their offense after playing with the tactics, which makes it difficult for the national youth team to find the center of gravity of the defense, frequently leaking people, and giving the opponent a lot of opportunities to shoot in the open space.
Under such a powerful attack, the American team scored one after another, and the score gap was widened more and more.
At the same time as the offense changed, the U.S. team's defense also changed, no longer a one-on-one man-to-man defense, but a two-three mixed defense.
The 2-3 defense is a deformation of the most basic 2-1-2 defense, and the advantages are similar to those of 2-1-2, both of which are aimed at consolidating rebounds and protecting the basket, and strengthening the defense against the bottom line.
The use of this defensive tactic greatly limited Ren Qinwei's ability, so that he could not easily slip the bottom line and form an internal and external cooperation with Ji Fan, which greatly reduced the attack of the national youth team.
At the same time, the center of the American team has extremely perverted athleticism, and can quickly move from under the basket to the free throw line, which limits Ji Fan's breakthrough and his mid-range shot, making Ji Fan can only wander on the outside and cannot pass the ball smoothly to the inside.
For the outside, Ren Qinwei has no shooting ability, only Zhao Jiwei and Song Fei have shooting ability, but the long-range shooting ability is relatively poor, compared with Zhang Yufeng and Chen Tianyu, it can be said that it is an order of magnitude worse.
As a result, the situation of the game took a turn for the worse, and the American team quickly played a wave of 10:0 high C, stretching the score to 18 points in one fell swoop.
Yang Juncheng called a timeout. At this time, it is necessary to adjust the tactics.
It's clear that the engine of the U.S. team's offense is Duon James, who has a strong ball handling ability, a wide field of vision, and a sharp breakaway, and defenders must be able to keep up with the intensity and speed of his confrontations.
The defense of the U.S. team is a two-three defense, although this defense combines the characteristics of joint defense and marking, but the triangle position will leave a gap for the bottom line, so as long as you send an excellent three-point S player, place an inside player with excellent passing ability on the inside, so that the ball can quickly pass to the empty area in the bottom corner of the U.S. team.
Ren Qinwei can't shoot and can only slip to the bottom line, which is a fatal injury. Zhao Jiwei's lack of three-point shooting ability is also a limitation of offense. Seinfeld, on the other hand, lacked the ability to pass the ball and could not give the ball to the open space in time.
Yang Jun made a decisive change, replacing Ren Qinwei and Zhao Jiwei, and replacing Shen Feng, who has excellent shooting ability, and Zhao Changfeng, who has excellent passing ability.
As a result, the height of the national youth team on the court has dropped a lot, and the defensive ability has dropped a notch again, but the important thing at present is to score, even the previous lineup can't defend against the attack of the American team, it is better to turn the shield into a spear and break the scoring drought first!!
After the pause, Yang Juncheng's adjustment had an immediate effect, in the first round of the attack, Ji Fan divided the ball into the hands of Zhao Changfeng on the inside, and Zhao Changfeng passed the ball to Song Fei who was ambushed in the bottom corner from the inside to the outside.
Seinfeld catches the ball, raises his hand and throws!
"Huh!" Basketball hollow into the net, three-point hit.
"Beautiful!" The players of the national youth team were excited for a while, and finally broke the scoring drought.
Seinfeld roared at the sky, expressing the depression in his heart, he had finally played an important role at this moment when his tactical position had been weakened.
He is actually a very good attacker, at the time of selection, he was selected into the national youth team with an offensive breakthrough, but Yang Juncheng values his defensive ability, although thin, but he has strength, strong defensive awareness, and is a rare defensive player, so among the team's starters, he has become the team's fourth or even fifth choice, because Zhang Yufeng, Chen Tianyu, Ji Fan's offensive ability is better than him.
In the two warm-up games, he has been doing hard work, blocking, pulling, defending, grabbing rebounds, etc. This also led to his offensive ability being infinitely weakened, and even forgotten, but as a coach, Yang Juncheng will not forget, and this moment is the time to come in handy, so he did not hesitate to change Seinfeld's position on the court and stimulate his offensive ability again.
"Finally a goal!" Zhang Yufeng's clenched fists loosened slightly, his frowning brows also stretched slightly, and he had quietly petitioned Yang Juncheng to play just now, but he was rejected, and he could only watch his teammates play, and the feeling of wanting to help but not being able to help was really painful.
Chen Tianyu, who was sitting next to him, was the same, only hating himself for being injured and unable to play.
Team USA attacks.
Without Ren Qinwei's flank defense, the defense of the national youth team has weakened a lot, which makes it easier for the American team to attack.
The national youth team doesn't care about this, because their goal now is to compete with the American team, that is, to see who can shoot more accurately.
In the offensive round of the national youth team, Shen Feng ran out of the empty position and hit a long-range shot.
The game has thus entered a big battle, and the two sides have come and gone, so it is not intense.
The audience also shouted wonderfully, especially for the Chinese team, which was not something that ordinary teams could do to fight against the American team like this.
However, such a wonderful confrontation did not last too long, after all, there is a clear difference between the players of the national youth team and their opponents in terms of personal strength, the shooting rate is slightly reduced, the rebounds are a few less, and the United States team takes advantage of the mistakes of the national youth team to play a few fast-break transitions...... Taken together, the situation is even more tilted in favor of the United States.
At the end of the third quarter, the score came to 93:68, and the national youth team was as much as 25 points behind.
The mighty U.S. team continued to show their dominance of the game by scoring 33 points in the quarter, while the national youth team scored just 16 points in the quarter.
In the fourth quarter, the game went straight into garbage time, and both sides changed to substitutes, and the score was further stretched.
At 118:85, the national youth team lost the first game of the World Youth Championships!
(End of chapter)