Chapter 163: The Double-Line Quarterfinals (Part II)

After the men's football semifinals on August 24, Liu Han's schedule for this Olympic Games is running out, and every next game will be a hard battle, starting from August 26, Athens time, Liu Han will participate in the quarterfinals and semifinals of the men's basketball team on the 26th and 27th, and on August 28th, Liu Han will face the most severe test, the interval between the two finals is less than seven hours, if Liu Han reaches the final in both basketball and football, Then he will have two grueling finals in 12 hours, which can almost be said to have reached the limit of human physical strength. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fierce confrontation in modern competitive sports is not comparable to a few decades ago, and almost all athletes are professional today, not to mention that basketball and football are the most competitive competitions.

The Chinese men's Olympic team will face the Lithuanian men's basketball team in the quarterfinals, which is a very strong opponent, having won the European Men's Basketball Championship in 2003.

Liu Han has always been a little irritable during the rare intervals between games, after all, his son has been born, but he has not been able to see what his child is like, so he can only keep in touch with his relatives on the phone, seriously, all he wants to do now is to hurry home.

Anna has been calming Liu Han on the phone, although she also very much wants Liu Han to go home quickly, but she also knows what Liu Han's current identity represents, enjoying the attention of fans all over the world, Liu Han has to pay something for such a reputation.

On August 26, Athens time, the game between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Lithuanian men's basketball team started at half past two in the afternoon local time.

In the face of championship-level opponents, the Chinese men's basketball team did not dare to relax in the slightest, head coach Li Rui gave a detailed explanation of the characteristics of the Lithuanian team to all the players before the game, Li Rui paid a lot for the Olympic Games, his weight dropped by a full 12 kilograms in just three months, and during this time of the Olympic schedule, he had less than four hours of rest every day.

After the turmoil of the last two games of the group stage, the atmosphere in the Chinese men's basketball team gradually stabilized, and some guys with some "ideas" in their hearts realized their status.

In the face of the Lithuanian team that does not have an advantage on the inside, but has strong offensive firepower on the outside, the Chinese men's basketball team has put on a large and four small lineup in this quarter-finals, and Yao Min is still in charge of the inner line, although his movement speed has a lot of defects in defense, but Yao Min has a great advantage in the offense, the purpose of the Chinese men's basketball team in this game is very clear, that is, to fight with the opponent to attack, and the defense can be defended, and the appropriate intensity can be done.

In the past, the Chinese men's basketball team has never had a clear tactical system and ideas, all the playing styles revolve around Liu Han or Yao Min, and the players don't know the priorities on the court at all, but after Li Rui coached, he kept emphasizing the priorities of each moment to all players in his daily training and previous games, and at the same time, he also arranged the players' individual tactical play, which made the Chinese team have more offensive and defensive points in the game, and the playing style was more abundant.

After the start of the game, the Chinese team first began to exert its might, on the offensive side, Yao Min and Liu Han's blocking and dismantling cooperation was almost incomprehensible, and after Li Rui put Zhu Fangyu in the fourth position, it was even more difficult for the Lithuanian team to prevent the Chinese team's attack.

The Lithuanian team is a pure European style of play, the whole team rotates quickly, the center covers high, the outside shot is accurate, and the center of the Lithuanian team also has a good pass, after the retirement of the Lithuanian legend Sabonis, they are mainly based on the outside attack.

Sabonis had a lot of encounters with Liu Han when he played for the Trail Blazers, but Sabonis was beaten by Liu Han every time, and the star who once led the former Soviet Union to win the Seoul Olympics in 88 can be said to have set a benchmark for Lithuania.

The defense can't prevent the attack of the Chinese team, and the Lithuanian team can only try to ensure efficiency in the attack, but the Chinese team pays great attention to the outside defense today, and after Liu Han defended the core point guard of the Lithuanian team to death, their attack is not as smooth as before.

In basketball, the individual role of the star is the biggest change to the team, and having a very dominant superstar can make a qualitative change for any team, not to mention that Yao Min in the Chinese team has also shown his strong dominance on the inside.

There are always some people in China who have all kinds of criticism of Yao Min, thinking that Yao Min plays too soft, has no tough performance, and is too slow, slowing down the rhythm of the whole team, but for any professional with a certain basketball literacy, Yao Min's role is self-evident, think about it, when a team only puts one person on the inside to defend Yao Min, what will be the consequences, even if O'Neal and Yao Min are at most mutually explosive, not to mention other players.

And now the Chinese team still has Liu Han on the outside, so Yao Min's space is enough for him to show his strength.

At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team established a nine-point advantage, and the Lithuanian team failed to show its due strength at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

In the second quarter of the game, the Lithuanian team tried to fight back and almost equalized the score at one point, but after Liu Han returned to the court, three unreasonable ultra-long three-pointers in a row made the Lithuanian team immediately die down, and shot three points two or three meters away from the three-point line, such a player had to make all teams frightened.

By the end of the half, the Chinese team had extended the difference to 14 points.

Entering the third quarter, Yao Min dominated the game, he made consecutive shots on the offensive end, and also sent Yao's hot pot on the defensive end, and the Lithuanian team basically fell into a collapse situation.

The Chinese team extended the margin to 22 points at the end of the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the defensive actions of the Lithuanian team began to become bigger and bigger, and the two sides had several big clashes on the court, the Chinese team Zhu Fangyu and Yi Jianlian were blown technical fouls, and the Lithuanian team also had three players who ate technical fouls.

However, the flaws are not hidden, and in the end, the Chinese team still won the game with superior skills, Liu Han and Yao Min teamed up to completely kill the Lithuanian team at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and the 19-point difference is enough to show the gap between the two teams.