Chapter 201: Stumbling into the finals
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After Liu Dong and Sun Yi exchanged contact information, they said that they would definitely take their girlfriends to New York to cheer him on when they were free. Sun Yue, who had been careful of her liver trembling all night, was finally free to contact Ziqi after asking for Ziqi's phone number.
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On August 3, the Chinese men's basketball team moved to Jincheng, the venue of the Asian Championships. Due to their outstanding performance at last year's Olympic Games, these young men, who are regarded as proud of their countrymen, felt the enthusiasm of the fans as soon as they got off the plane.
Since the flight arrived at Binhai International Airport at 9 a.m., many fans who were afraid of missing the time came to the airport the night before. Although they still had a tired look on their faces, their eyes were full of enthusiasm......
Looking at these lovely fans, Sun Yi clenched his fists, don't worry, we will never let everyone down. The package ticket for the best rookie in the NBA was played a little too early. He couldn't imagine how the Chinese men's basketball team, which has three active NBA players, would have an embarrassing performance in the Asian Championships held at his doorstep.
On August 6, at 7 o'clock in the evening, the host Chinese men's basketball team faced the same group of weak team India.
India, the world's second-most populous neighbor in South Asia, does not seem to have performed at the same level as its large population base in most of the more popular competitive sports. The only exception is probably cricket. However, how many countries are playing this project?
121 to 49!
There's not much to say, this game is simply simpler than the national team's loose intra-squad training match this summer.
"The debut of the Chinese men's basketball Asian Championships, seven people scored double-doubles, and the sword pointed to the championship"
Invincible? Vulnerable? 》
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This kind of follow-the-trend report is overwhelming.
On August 7, the Chinese team faced Kazakhstan, the second opponent in the group stage. This bitter country of the Chinese men's football team is really not very good at basketball.
74 to 56!
Although the score is not high, the Chinese men's basketball team has always kept the difference between the two sides above 20 points. A lot of the main players basically only played half the game.
On August 8, the Chinese men's basketball team, which defeated Qatar 92-61, taught the brothers of the men's football team another lesson. The host, who won all three games in the group stage, is undoubtedly the biggest favorite to win the Asian Championships.
After the first stage of the group stage, the 12 teams that advanced were once again divided into two groups to determine the final eight teams.
On August 10, the Chinese men's basketball team, which had a day off, defeated the United Arab Emirates 82-59 to continue their journey of victory in the Asian Championships.
On August 11, in the match with Lebanon, a strong team in West Asia, the extremely low-quality preparation of the Chinese men's basketball team this year finally showed itself under the high-intensity confrontation of the opponent.
The Lebanese team, which appeared on the field as mourning soldiers, used aggressive defense to press the offensive space of the Chinese team at the beginning. In particular, the small forward position that Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng take turns to guard has completely become a free zone for the opponent to attack at will.
That is, relying on the excellent performance of three NBA players, the Chinese men's basketball team has maintained a lead of about 10 points. But after all, basketball requires 5 people to work together to play well, and as long as there is a teammate who is holding back, the other players will feel tired. Not to mention, the Chinese team now has two players who are often invisible on the field.
84 to 76!
Although the game was won, Hu Jiashi, who was sitting on the rostrum and watching the game with the leaders of the Sports Bureau, had an ugly and ugly expression on his face at this time. This kind of waste, Lao Tzu usually provides you like a grandfather, and at the critical moment, he will drop the chain for me.
Some professional media workers who have been covering basketball for a long time have already seen some bad signs in this game. However, due to the general environment of national attention, he could only continue to sing praises against his will.
On August 12, the last match day of the second stage of the group stage began. Two consecutive high-intensity games have made the Chinese men's basketball team, which has insufficient physical reserves, completely become a tired division. You know, this is still an event held on our doorstep. What if the Asian Championships were held in the Philippines and Iran?
Jordan is the only team to have won all five of their previous matches, apart from the host China and defending champions Iran. Under the leadership of naturalized player Douglas, this West Asian powerhouse has become the biggest obstacle for the Chinese team to compete for the first place in the group.
In this game, the Chinese men's basketball team played extremely hard. Or should it be said that the three active NBA players of the Chinese team are playing very hard.
On the offensive end, Sun Yi can always use his super individual ability to score points for himself or create opportunities for his teammates. Of course, the teammates who can be a little more reliable are Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian.
The most helpless thing for these three is when they defend, the opponent's number one star Douglas will always use all kinds of blocking and dismantling to avoid Sun Yi or Sun Yue's defense, either hitting or causing damage. Su Wei, the main center of the Chinese team, was replaced early because of too many fouls after playing for a few minutes. The veterans who came off the bench, Wang Zhizhi and Li Xiaoxu, are not interior players who are good at defense, and the inability to limit the opponent's scoring has become the biggest headache for head coach Guo Shiqiang.
The scores of the two sides went all the way to Biao.
With three minutes left in the fourth quarter, China led by just two points, 78-76.
The visitors, who have become more and more experienced, took the lead for the first time in the game after hitting a three-pointer with a breakthrough shot from the top star Douglas.
Such a game made it very difficult for the fans on the scene to accept. Some sporadic boos appeared on the home of the Chinese team in an extremely rare manner.
At the critical moment, it was the young player Sun Yi who stepped forward.
After a summer of hard work, he finally showed his power.
In the face of this extremely unreasonable way of shooting, the Jordanian team players were completely blinded after being hit by the opponent for two three-pointers in a row! O Allah! Such a perverted player, how should your slave be guarded!
Relying on Sun Yi's explosion in the last three minutes, the Chinese team narrowly defeated the opponent 88-85.
Two consecutive stumbling victories finally made some media can't help but start questioning the level of the young marshal Guo Shiqiang.
In fact, Coach Guo is still a very thoughtful head coach, the only problem is that he is too young. As a former national player, his seniority in the playing days is not even as good as many players in the team. This is very fatal for a young manager.
Without prestige, it's hard to convince the players. If you want to carry out rigorous training and implement your own tactics, it is an impossible task to do without the support of the big guys. And Deputy Director Hu, who was supposed to support the young marshal, had a hot fight with the players. These internal and external reasons made the young Director Guo decisively become a scapegoat.
On August 13, the Chinese team, which qualified first in the second stage of the group, faced the fourth-place ******** in another group in the quarterfinals.
In the face of this compatriot team, the Chinese men's basketball team at home defeated the opponent 101-83, and finally let fans across the country watch a game with peace of mind.
However, the good times were short-lived!
On August 14, in the semi-finals against Lebanon, which they had beaten before, the Olympic runners-up who played at home were all passive. With one minute left in the game, they were still trailing by two points at 67-69. Seeing that they were about to lose to their opponents, the three NBA players who almost scored the whole team broke out collectively at the last moment.
First, after Sun Yue received Sun Yi's breakthrough ball, she used a fake shot to get rid of her opponent who was defending herself. Then, after a summer of hard work, the jump break allowed him to hit the basket and pick up the basket successfully.
Lebanon offensive, tick! The referee gave an inexplicable three seconds, which made the away team's coach and players extremely dissatisfied.
When Sun Yi was attacking with the ball, he could hear the words shouted in English from the mouth of the opposing player very clearly, 'shameless'!
The other party's ridicule did not make the young man hot-headed, but aroused Sun Yi's determination to fight this attack.
Bang Bang Bang!
The dazzling dribble almost made the Lebanese point guard captain unsteady, and then pulled the ball after a retreat and turned to break through, directly letting the opponent sit on the ground and watch Sun Yi's entire shooting action.
71 to 69! The Chinese team overtakes!
The mentality of the away team, which was affected by the referee's decision, was a little unbalanced, and they missed a key goal in the face of the Chinese team, which had only three actual defensive strength.
Immediately afterwards, the Chinese team switched offense.
Sun Yi and Yi Jianlian made a blocking and dismantling cooperation, and the Knicks who broke into the interior did not have greed and distributed the ball to Allen, who was in the empty position.
With a slight click, the player who came from the opponent's defense flew in response. Yi Jianlian, who successfully deceived his opponent, went directly into the opponent's penalty area and prepared to vent the depression in his heart with a powerful dunk.
Backbite!
Foul! 2+1!
This slam dunk by the big forward of the Chinese team completely killed the suspense of the game. It's just that Yi Jianlian, who was lying on the ground, covered his right shoulder with a painful face.
Strains! Although Snyder had already confessed, it was still a little unacceptable to be injured at this time.
Relying on the outstanding performance of three NBA players, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Lebanon to advance to the finals, and lost a big player before setting foot on the court.
Facing the defending champions, who narrowly beat Jordan by two points, a dark cloud of foreboding loomed over the final venue.
Since the start of the Asian Championships, the New Jersey Nets' power forward, who has contributed 17 points per game, is the second scorer of the Chinese team, second only to Sun Yi, a young player who averages 26 points per game. Defensively, the impact is not very great. Because the defense of the Chinese men's basketball team this time has been so bad that it can't be worse.
Su Wei, as the main center of the national team and the only interior defensive player, judging from his performance in the previous games, he is definitely not the opponent of Iran's number one star and Memphis Grizzlies substitute center. Even if Yi Jianlian is not injured and changes to play center, it will be difficult to take advantage of the opponent.
At present, all Chinese players can eat Haddadi steadily, only Yao Ming, a super center of the Rockets who is recovering from injury.
There is no point in discussing these now, and fans can only hope that the boys of the men's basketball team who have not played well can be ashamed in the finals.
On August 15, the Asian Championships took a day off. This should have been a rare opportunity for the boys of the men's basketball team to adjust their condition and recuperate, but they were held by the bureaucrats of the basketball management center to hold a stinky and long ideological mobilization meeting.
If head coach Guo Shiqiang can take this opportunity to lay out the tactics and strategies of the final in front of the leaders and the players who are not very obedient, it will also be regarded as fulfilling the responsibility of the head coach of the national team. It's a pity that the young marshal of the Northeast, who grew up in the system, sat there and only cared about applauding the gushing Deputy Director Hu.
To be honest, Director Guo, who has a straightforward personality, is not a person who likes to pat horses. may be the position of the head coach of the national team, and I hope that Hu Jiashi, who is in charge of national team affairs, can continue to support himself.
This ideological mobilization meeting has no meaning except to waste the players' precious rest time. Sun Yi, who felt that the situation was grim, returned to the dormitory and pulled his teammates in the Knicks to discuss the countermeasures for tomorrow's finals.
At seven o'clock in the evening on August 16, the stadium in the center of Jincheng was full of home fans with the five-star red flag icon painted on their faces. As for the overall performance of the national team in this Asian Championships, to be honest, it is indeed very unsatisfactory. But these lovely fans still came to the scene without regrets and cheered for the heroes in their hearts.
The players of the defending champion Iranian men's basketball team, not only did not get nervous about the host's fanatical home atmosphere, but showed eager expressions one by one.
They have been preparing for this final for two whole years. Only by defeating such a Chinese men's basketball team can the real rise of Iranian basketball be proven.
The Persian team has three players to keep an eye on, with point guard Kamrani being top-notch playmaker and three-point accuracy being the outside core of the Iranian team. The forward Bahrami is known as the No. 1 small forward in Asia. , this cargo is very characteristic of mid-range shooting and breaking. Grizzlies center Haddadi, who has excellent playmaking ability, is the other half of the team's brains. Whether or not these three players can limit the play of these three players is the key to the Chinese men's basketball team defeating the opponent.
"Xiao Yi, come on!"
After returning to China for more than a month, this is the first time Sun Yi has seen his parents.
"Dad, Mom, why don't you say it in advance when you come, I'll arrange a seat for you." In this Asian Championship final, each national team member has the benefit of several family tickets.
"What votes don't vote, you've been under so much pressure lately......"
"Okay, why are you talking about this, my son's father believes that you will not disappoint the fans across the country." Sun Wenyuan rarely leaked domineeringly.
"Oops!"
Sun Yi looked at Jin Feng's expression of pretending to adore and his father's painful look, as if he had returned to his previous carefree student days.
"Mom, I think you are particularly suitable for development in the entertainment industry, maybe you can get a movie queen or something."
"Stinky boy, don't run. Hum! It's getting more and more unreasonable, and even the old lady dares to ridicule. Jin Feng snorted and waved his fist. glanced at the serious appearance of the husband next to him, and said in a greasy voice: "Wen Yuan, you said that if I really want to make a movie, will it be popular?" ”
"Yes, surely, must, fire!" In fact, if Sun Wenyuan wants to say, he should add another sentence, 'If you want to play a role like Mama Rong'.
Hum! Count you as acquaintances. Jin Feng withdrew the jade hand that was secretly placed on the opponent's waist. (To be continued.) )