On August 1, 2004, in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and Montenegro, the second Diamond Cup intercontinental basketball tournament will be played in this once red city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Diamond Cup Continental Basketball Tournament is an intercontinental basketball tournament that began in 2000, and the participating teams are basically the champion teams of each continent, but due to influence, such as the United States, they have never participated, and the first competition ended in Hong Kong in 2000.

There are six teams participating in the Diamond Cup: Serbia and Montenegro, who won the 2003 World Championship, and they are also the hosts: Lithuania, the European champion, Argentina, the runner-up of the American Championship, China, the champion of the Asian Championship, Australia, the champion of Oceania, and Angola, the champion of the African Championship.

The Diamond Cup has a peculiar format, divided into two groups, with each team battling their opponents in the group to determine the first, second and third place in the group, followed by the first two groups competing for the first place in the first place, the second team for the third and fourth place, and the third team for the fifth or sixth place.

China was drawn in a group with hosts Serbia and Montenegro and Australia.

On the first match day on 1 August, China will play hosts Serbia and Montenegro, while Argentina will play Angola in the other group.

For his first opponent, the other players in the Chinese team are not very familiar, but Liu Han is very familiar with several players in the Serbian and Montenegro team, and there is a sharpshooter Peja who plays for the Kings in the Serbian and Montenegro team? Stojakovic, as well as Vanovic Ra, who plays for the SuperSonics.

Serbia and Montenegro were able to win the World Championship in 2003 is enough to show their strength, they are a traditional European team, advocating team attack and shrink defense, the players in the game rotation is very fast, and the outside firepower is strong, the Chinese team in this Diamond Cup competition is the strongest opponent.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team in this game is center Yao Min, power forward Wang Zhizhi, small forward Zhu Fangyu, scoring guard Li Nan, and point guard Liu Han.

After the start of the game, the hosts took the lead, Liu Han went to defend the most threatening Peja of Serbia and Montenegro team, but the opponent took advantage of this to make a big impact on the outside first, and Radimanovic opened the game with two three-pointers to sound the alarm for the Chinese team's outside defense.

The Chinese players looked a little shy after the start of the game, and they were led by the nose by the rotation of the Serbian and Montenegro team.

But then Liu Han took the initiative to stand up with the ball and the team started to attack, Yao Min and Liu Han cooperated tacitly, and the Serbian and Montenegro team with blocking and demolition tactics had no temper, and in the face of the strong point Yao Min on the inside, the Serbian and Montenegro team did not have too good defensive measures, and they also had to take care of Liu Han's existence, and now no one in the world basketball world dared to let Liu Han take a calm shot.

After that, the Chinese team invested energy in defense, the opponent rotated quickly, Liu Han instructed the opponent to change the joint defense, which still limited the opponent's play to a certain extent, after all, not all of them have the ability to shoot three-point from the outside, and the inside line of the Serbian and Black team is actually blue-collar, and the basic skills are very rough.

After resisting the attack of the Serbian and Montenegro team, the situation was gradually controlled by the Chinese team.

The Chinese team with Liu Han and without Liu Han are completely two concepts, Liu Han can not only play an unsolvable block with Yao Min, but also make balls for outside shooters such as Wang Zhizhi and Zhu Fangyu.

At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team led the host by 6 points.

In the second quarter, the two teams replaced the substitute players, and now the Chinese team had a loophole, although Li Rui had carried out large-scale adjustments and training for the team's defects, but the freezing three feet was not a day's cold, some players of the Chinese team still showed a lot of flaws, their movement speed and defensive awareness completely lagged behind each other, the Serbian and Montenegro team played a small climax at the beginning of the second quarter, not only tying the score but also overtaking the Chinese team by four points, and the Chinese team only scored two points in the first 4 minutes of the second quarter.

Before the substitutes of the Chinese team were almost beaten out of momentum, Li Rui decisively replaced Yao Min and Liu Han, and the Chinese team stabilized the situation with the singles of Yao Min and Liu Han, and the two teams were tied at 49 at the end of the second quarter.

At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, Liu Han continued to force the opponent to cause damage, although the contraction defense of the Serbian and Montenegro team made their interior defense quite tight, but Liu Han still used his personal ability to defeat the opponent.

And in the third quarter, in addition to Liu Han's play, even the other players of the Chinese team also scored, the young "Liandi" showed his excellent physical talent, and Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng also showed their three-point shooting ability.

With Liu Han attracting the bag, the players of the Chinese team have a lot of opportunities in the game.

In the third quarter, the Chinese team played a high score, scoring 34 points in 10 minutes of play, which is rarely seen in FIBA games, after all, in FIBA games, joint defense is never restricted.

At the end of the third quarter, the Chinese team led the Serbian and Montenegro team by 10 points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Serbian and Montenegro team took advantage of the Chinese team's Liu Han to score frequently on the outside, and Peja even hit three points in a row, and they closed the gap to 4 points.

However, when Liu Han returned to the game, the situation returned to the control of the Chinese team, Yao Min beat the center of the Serbian and Montenegro team just over the middle of the fourth quarter, and the opponent ate four fouls on Yao Min early.

In the end, relying on Liu Han's 24 points and 13 assists and Yao Min's 21 points and 13 rebounds, the Chinese team won 92-85 at the home of Serbia and Montenegro.

The Chinese team's victory over the host did not cause much of a sensation, after all, the Chinese team with Liu Han is not considered a weak team in the world basketball world.

On August 2, the Chinese team played another game against the Australian team, the Australian team is the weakest team in this Diamond Cup competition, only the 20-year-old center Bogut in their team is considered to have a certain reputation, and Bogut is only a good center in the NCAA now.

In the face of such an opponent, Li Rui boldly began to practice, Liu Han did not start, Yao Min was also replaced after less than 5 minutes of starting, he gave the opponent's proud center Bogut a good one in five minutes, Bogut was continuously eaten by Yao Min, and he paid two personal fouls in five minutes.

After that, Yao Min and Liu Han did not play again, and the other players of the Chinese team generally took down the Australian team by chopping melons and vegetables, and the opponent's fierce defense hindered their own performance, and they suffered from too many fouls.

97 to 71, the Chinese team played the Australian team without temper.