Chapter 176: Regret
In the live broadcast room of the ESPN Olympics, the host Smith and the two commentators Barkley and Bill? Wharton was discussing the first quarter of the game between China and the United States. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Charles, how does this Dream Team compare to the previous ones?"
"Sorry, Smith, there's no comparison, the two U.S. teams I've been involved in have never had a score difference of less than 10 points, and this U.S. team doesn't deserve the title of Dream Team."
Charles? Ross Barkley became a guest commentator for ESPN after retiring last year, and his style of commentary is similar to the style of his play, which is so direct and unabashed.
"Don't look at me, Smith, I've never played in the Olympics, we didn't let the pros compete in the Olympics at that time."
"Well, who's going to judge the performance of our opponents?"
"There's nothing more to say, that's Liu's team alone, although the big men of the Chinese team feel softer than the outside, but the game revolves around Liu. But I have to admit that the young man is indeed stronger than I imagined, although we played against a few times back then, but at that time he was only a very accurate three-point outsider, unlike now, I dare say, Michael is definitely not as good as Liu at Liu's age. ”
Barkley played against Liu Han in the Rockets that year, but at that time, Barkley had already declined very badly due to a back injury, but his image of Liu Han was very good.
"Haha, Michael really can't compare to that kid, because Michael plays baseball so badly, and this guy is accurate to play football now."
Bill? Wharton agrees with Barkley.
"Then do you think the Chinese team has any hope of winning this game?"
"No, the victory must be the American team, but it is estimated that the point difference will be very small, Liu lacks helpers around him, and his teammates are not as good as NBA players, even if they are third-rate players in the NBA."
Back to the game, Liu Han did not rest in the second quarter, and still led the team to play, Jiang Xinquan did not dare to change Liu Han to the court, because once Liu Han was off the court, the Chinese team would have a hard time even passing the half.
However, Jiang Xinquan replaced Yao Min and Wang Zhizhi, who had a lot of physical exertion, and replaced the inside with Bater, the big forward was Liu Yudong, and the small forward position was replaced by the veteran Zheng Wu, and Li Nan also continued to stay on the court as a stable three-point point.
The U.S. team has also made adjustments, Jason? Kidd came out to replace Payton, and on the inside line, Wenbeck and Sharif? Raheem, up front, Steve? Smith came out to defend Liu Han.
After the Chinese team came to the front court after serving, they began to play according to Liu Han's arrangement during the break, Batel and Liu Han blocked and dismantled, Liu Yudong stood on the other side, and the others ran around the big man in the high position.
The U.S. team replaced the defense with a man-to-man defense at this time, and their joint defense in the first quarter was not successful, with a super shooter like Liu Han, the joint defense was equivalent to giving away points.
However, the U.S. team's current man-to-man defense also has problems, although the foot of the eight terte moves slowly, but the quality of his cover is quite high, Liu Han relies on the eight terte's cover to break into the inside line and attract the American team's bag, so that the American team's high position and baseline defense will have loopholes, otherwise Liu Han will easily make a layup.
Although Liu Yudong is moving slowly because of a knee injury, his mid-range shooting ability is still there, he has won the CBA scoring championship by relying on his extremely sharp mid-range shot, and in a high position, the U.S. team's defense will shoot as long as there is a slight slackness Liu Yudong will shoot when he receives the ball, and the shooting rate is very high.
The Chinese team relied on Liu Han's unremitting breakthrough and Liu Yudong's play to overtake the score at the beginning of the second quarter.
In defense, the Chinese team still defended the joint defense, and Liu Han let Kidd go two steps away, but Kidd's outside projection ability was really bad, and he didn't shoot in the open position several times.
However, the U.S. team is not without the power to fight back, Wenbeck also began to pull to the high mid-range shot, the inside Sherif Rahim also suppressed the Terte, the Chinese team lost a lot of backcourt rebounds, the Terte still lacked absolute height, the United States team seized the opportunity to play several secondary attacks, and the score has been tightly bitten.
Halfway through the second quarter, Jiang Xinquan replaced Liu Han, and the high-intensity game made Liu Han physically exhausted, he was not a superman, and he also needed a proper rest.
As soon as Liu Han got off the court, the U.S. team began to press all over the court, and the Chinese team also had problems with the offense because of the lack of Liu Han's effective containment.
Jiang Xinquan replaced Yao Min and other main players in a timely manner, and the team began to slow down and play inside, relying on Yao Min and Wang Zhizhi's strong attack on the inside to kill the American team.
With a minute left in the second quarter, Liu Han returned to the court, and after less than five minutes of rest, the U.S. team had already extended the margin to nine points, and Liu Han had to come on to stabilize the situation.
Liu Han stole Kidd as soon as he came out, Kidd just adapted to the easy defense of the Chinese team's defenders, Liu Han directly forced Kidd as soon as he came on the court, which made Kidd's dribble a loophole, Liu Han directly broke the ball and quickly launched a counterattack.
The players of the American team went all out to defend, Liu Han suddenly stopped to shoot three points when he came to the three-point line of the American team, which was his stunt when he first entered the NBA, and suddenly shot three points in the counterattack, the players of the American team obviously ignored this, and they forgot Liu Han's stunt for two years, Liu Han stopped outside the three-point line when Steve Smith of the American team had retreated to the basket, and Liu Han only had Kidd by his side, but it was obvious that Kidd's height was not enough to threaten Liu Han's shot.
After three points, Liu Han narrowed the gap between the two teams to six points.
Then the U.S. team attacked Chinese Baker high and shot through Yao Min's defense, but Yao Min's height interfered with Wenbeck's shot, and Liu Hangao jumped high to grab the rebound, and then advanced with the ball.
After arriving in the front court, Steve Smith only defended Liu Han closely, but Liu Han easily accelerated and stopped and then dribbled behind Steve Smith again, and then he rushed to shoot one meter across the three-point line before Kidd came over, and the basketball went into the net again, and after only two attacks, Liu Han successfully narrowed the difference to three points.
Before the end of the second quarter, the U.S. team made the last attack, the Chinese team's defense leaked, and Kidd relied on the cover to get rid of Liu Han and then assisted Carter, who ran back, to make an empty hand, expanding the difference to five points.
At the end of the first half, the two teams were tied at 47-42, and the United States team only led the Chinese team by five points.
Liu Han played 16 minutes in the first half, scoring 25 points and diarring up six assists, almost single-handedly against the United States. (To be continued.) )