Chapter 159: Parker's Expectation
The national Olympic team is celebrating warmly, celebrating their first advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games, although the Olympic football competition is not too important in the eyes of many football powers, but for Chinese football, this has to be said to be a major breakthrough, and the vicious circle of Chinese football is being broken. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Liu Han didn't have time to celebrate, he left the stadium in a hurry after the game, he had to catch the last flight from Adelaide to Sydney, although the Chinese Olympic sports team made a lot of efforts to allow Liu Han to concentrate on the game, but it was still unrealistic to rent a plane.
The football Olympic team has qualified for the group stage, while basketball is still facing a strong group stage opponent.
The French sports community has been in the limelight in the past two years, of course, the most important reason for this is because of football, they won the World Cup in 98 and won the European Cup in one fell swoop this summer, it can be said that French football has been considered a success, but in fact, their basketball level is also very good, due to France's relatively relaxed immigration policy, so that many Africans choose to immigrate to France, which actually brings enough sports talents to France, in addition to the training of traditional European basketball, As a result, France's basketball performance in recent years is also good, although it has not achieved any outstanding results, but in Europe, French basketball should not be underestimated.
This year, there is a very good talent player in France, that is, Tony Parker, who is a sophomore at UCLA in the United States, and Tony Parker, who is only 18 years old this year, is known as France's Allen Iverson, he was selected for the French national team last year, and has gradually become the team's starting point guard with his excellent ability.
In fact, for Tony Parker's growth, the French are very grateful to Liu Han, because Tony Parker has repeatedly said that Liu Han brought him to the United States to participate in training, and Parker also expressed his gratitude to Liu Han for the help he gave.
Three years ago, when Liu Han was banned for beating Rodman in a match, he followed his late fiancée Safina to Lille, France to film, where he met Frank Ribery and Tony Parker's cousin Elto Park, Elto Park helped Liu Han, Liu Han expressed his gratitude to Elto before leaving Europe, so Elto recommended his cousin Tony Parker to Liu Han. Liu Han eventually brought Tony Parker to the United States, where he attended Inglewood High School to train with Li Rui, and then Tony Parker successfully joined UCLA last year.
Now, the child who saw Liu Han for the first time and couldn't even luck the ball well finally has almost played against his idol on the court, and Tony Parker's heart is full of anticipation.
Liu Han, who returned to Sydney, was praised by the leaders of the Olympic team before he had time to rest, and he was able to lead the national Olympic team to the group stage, which is already a big achievement, which is also a big achievement for the leadership of the delegation, of course, all thanks to Liu Han.
Liu Han rushed back to Sydney in time to let Jiang Xinquan feel at ease, and now what he is most worried about is what trouble Liu Han encounters in such a two-line battle, which is depressing for the men's basketball team, and now the football Olympic team has appeared in the group stage, although this also means that Liu Han will continue to fight on two fronts, which will allow Liu Han to share a lot of energy, but now Jiang Xinquan can't take care of those, what he is most looking forward to now is to hope that this men's basketball team can also qualify smoothly in the group stage.
For the strength of the French team, Jiang Xinquan has a full understanding, to be able to reach the semi-finals in last year's men's European Basketball Championships, it is enough to see the strength of French basketball, after all, European basketball is still very powerful, their traditional European style of play emphasizes tactics and cooperation, and at the same time, the outside pitchers are also very outstanding, and the confrontation ability of European players is also stronger than that of Asian players, in terms of strength, this men's basketball team is weaker than the French team, but basketball games are slightly different from football. The role of a superstar in basketball is huge, and the Chinese team with Liu Han is not completely out of the question.
On September 21, 2000, at 2:30 p.m. local time in Sydney, the men's basketball match between the Chinese team and the French team officially began.
In fact, for the Chinese team, this game is a very important game, compared to the next opponents in the group stage, Lithuania and Italy, the French team is actually the weakest team, after all, the Lithuanian team is a standard European powerhouse, and has achieved very good results in the European Championships and the Olympic Games, and the Italian team is the champion of last year's European Championships, and the strength is also very strong, so for the Chinese team, this game against the French team must be won, Only a win against France will have a chance to qualify from the group.
In order to deal with the fast-moving forward lineup of the French team, Jiang Xinquan did not let the slower-moving Liu Yudong start in this game, but sent Hu Weidong, who was more efficient, the inside line was still the partner of Yao Min and Wang Zhizhi, and the defender was a combination of Li Nan and Liu Han.
The French team does not dare to underestimate the Chinese team, after all, Liu Han is present, and the stars who can win the MVP of the finals in the NBA will not be ordinary people.
In order to defend Liu Han, although the starting point guard of the French team is Tony Parker, the two-meter-tall scoring guard of the French team is Antoine Gaudio, who is responsible for defending Liu Han.
Rigaudio is a famous European star, he is two meters tall but moves quickly, and he also has a very accurate three-point shot on the outside, and his physical fitness is also very good, not inferior to NBA players, currently playing for the European basketball giant Olympiacos, is the team's top scorer and main defender on the outside.
The game officially began, and Yao Min, a jump ball in the middle circle, defeated the French team's two-meter-one-four tall center forward Bilba.
After the ball was dialed out by Yao Min, the French team's striker Serami squeezed Li Nan to grab the ball, and in terms of physical confrontation, although the Chinese team had received a period of American-style training before, it was still worse than European players in general.
The French team immediately launched a fast attack, Parker was like a small sports car to the Chinese team in the half, his speed is his best point, otherwise he would not be called France's Iverson.
Liu Han turned around and immediately returned to defense, but the speed disadvantage of the other players of the Chinese team was shown at this time, except for Hu Weidong who could keep up, Yao Min and Wang Zhizhi were a little slower.
Serami passed the ball to Parker, who had already entered the three-point line of the Chinese team when he received the ball, and he was ready to go to the basket, but Liu Han only followed behind Parker.
Parker sensed someone behind him and realized that the only one who could catch up with him was that person, but he didn't want to pass up the opportunity, he wanted to prove to the person he respected so much that he had always worked hard.
Parker took three steps, but he deliberately shifted the ball from his right hand to his left hand on the jump, thinking that this should avoid Liu's block.
However, what Parker didn't expect was that Liu Han didn't jump at the first time, but took a step slower than Parker to jump, but his rebound speed was much stronger than Parker's, so when Parker made a left-handed layup, Liu Han pinned Parker's layup to the rebound like an overwhelming one, and also knocked Parker out of the court.
As soon as the game began, Liu Han taught Parker a lesson mercilessly. (To be continued.) )