The Chinese men's basketball team stopped in the top 8, but their performance left a deep impression on the people watching the game.

In the first match, the Chinese team played against Angola.

The Chinese men's basketball team seems to have opened its mind after the game against the Lakers, giving Liu Yudong and Wang Zhizhi full opportunities to perform, and the ball is concentrated in their hands.

The two of them also performed well on the offensive end, with Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong playing with the block, repeatedly beating the opposing defender in the middle distance. After the center of gravity of the defenders was attracted by Liu Yudong, Hu Weidong was liberated. Hu Weidong hit consecutive shots, and the Chinese team firmly controlled the game.

Wang Zhizhi, who came off the bench, also performed well, and the low-post singles forced the opponent's substitute inside, and after the opponent changed to the starting inside, he focused on defense. He pulled out from beyond the three-point line and shot a three-pointer.

In the end, China 78:67 Angola, Liu Yudong got 18 points and 7 rebounds, Hu Weidong 17 points and 4 assists, Wang Zhizhi substituted 15 points and 5 rebounds, the Chinese team had three guns and fierce firepower, and led the Chinese team to win the first game together, and the domestic audience gathered in front of the TV immediately cheered.

In the second game, the Chinese team faced Croatia. At the 1994 World Basketball Championships, Croatia won the bronze medal. At the 1992 Olympics, newly independent Croatia won the silver medal in basketball. Croatia also won bronze medals at the 1993 and 1995 European Basketball Championships.

It can be said that Croatia is a strong team, and the score of the Chinese team 89:109 Croatia is a little ugly. The pace of the game was led very quickly by Croatia, and the Chinese team's outside defense was beaten into a sieve.

The third game was against Argentina, a South American powerhouse. In 2004, Argentina defeated the United States to win the Olympic gold medal, interrupting the hegemony of American basketball in the world.

Today's Argentina's strength is still slightly weak, Gong Luming gritted his teeth and replaced it with the twin tower combination of Wang Zhizhi and Liu Yudong. Chinese sports pay attention to a seniority, Gong Luming dared to change the formation on the spot, and the use of newcomers also took on a lot of pressure.

The Chinese team, which lost in the last game, walked on the edge of the cliff, and the result of the loss is likely to be eliminated from the group.

Two interior players with excellent shooting ability brought the team a lot of offensive space, Wang Zhizhi and Liu Yudong continued to shoot in the middle and long distance, when the opponent pulled the defense out, Li Xiaoyong and Hu Weidong scored inside.

Argentina was blinded by the twin towers' outward promotion and defenders' inward cuts. Argentina, which had a cold offensive hand, was suppressed by the Chinese men's basketball team throughout the game, and finally the Chinese team won a big victory 94:77! Hearty victory!

Wang Zhizhi lived up to Gong Luming's expectations and played a brilliant performance. He made 3 of 7 three-pointers and scored 21 points and 4 rebounds in one fell swoop, and he created space for the team's offense that data can't bring.

The fourth battle was a massacre. The Dream Three team broke the Chinese team at every point, and the Chinese team had no power to fight back, and the score difference of 66 was desperate. Under the strong physical confrontation, the whole Chinese team played abnormally.

The fifth match, against Lithuania.

Lithuania are traditional basketball powerhouses, having just won a bronze medal at the '92 Spanish Olympics and a silver medal at the '95 European Basketball Championships.

Their pride and future Yao Ming's idol, Avidas Sabonis, is one of the best centre-forwards in the world, and at 2.21 metres he won the 1988 Olympic Games with the former Soviet Union.

In 1992, the Dream Team, made up of NBA stars, replaced the U.S. national team, which was made up of college students and amateurs, and came to Barcelona. Before that, an American professional basketball player had never appeared in an Olympic arena.

The reason for these superstars to come to the Olympics was a miserable defeat, or to put it more exaggeratedly, because of one man: Avedas Sabonis. In the semifinals of the men's basketball team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Lithuanian led the former Soviet Union men's basketball team to a neat defeat of the United States, which was said to be impossible to beat.

The match between China and Lithuania was also one-sided, with Sabonis calling for wind and rain on the inside. And the immature Wang Zhizhi Battle was powerless in front of him.

82:116 was the final score. At this point, the group stage of the Chinese team is over. In the knockout round, they met the runner-up Yugoslavia. The Chinese team, which has not yet adjusted from consecutive defeats, suffered another heavy defeat and handed over a 77-128 answer sheet. So far, the Chinese team has stopped in the quarterfinals.

On the other hand, the ambitious Dream Three United States team's journey to win the championship also had a lot of waves in the final against Yugoslavia.

At the end of the first quarter, Malone had 2 fouls, Pippen had 3 fouls, Yugoslavia had 8 free throws, and the United States had 0.

Yugoslavia had the upper hand in terms of offensive success and patience. The pace of the game was slow, and the Dream 3 team was unable to play a fast-paced attack wave.

In terms of high Yugoslavia, they were not at a disadvantage at all, so it was difficult for the American team, which switched to positional warfare, to penetrate the opponent's defense. Yugoslavia led 21-14, with the Dream Three scoring frighteningly low and the flashy lineup completely ineffective.

With a second lineup of David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Anfernee Hardaway, John Stockton and Richmond, the U.S. began to chase in the final five minutes of the first half. With a one-point deficit at 34-35, Wilkens switched to O'Neal, who turned and forced a strike to regain the lead.

Wilkens offered Robinson and O'Neal's twin-tower lineup to control the air in the box in a slow-paced game. After being passive for most of the first half, at halftime, relying on the advantage of bench depth, the Dream Three team used the second and third lineups to erase the difference and lead by five points, 43-38.

At the beginning of the second half, there was a clash on the field. Malone clashed with Divac when grabbing the rebound in the front court, and the arms of the two big men were about to start fighting, and everyone in Yugoslavia immediately rushed up to surround Malone when they saw that the main general was in trouble.

Reggie Miller, who was outside the encirclement, saw that it was difficult to squeeze into the auxiliary fist, so he made a move to surround Wei to save Zhao, and went straight to the opponent's head coach.

Wilkens cleverly replaced Malone, who had a fever, and replaced Barkley to continue to impact the inside, and soon Divac, who was also feverish, ate two fouls in a row and graduated honorably. At this time, Yugoslavia's inner line suddenly lost its towering trees. Admiral David Robinson began to make a difference, and his athleticism combined with his height and arm length made it difficult for Rebraca, who replaced Divac. The quick pace allowed the U.S. team to quickly establish a strategy of breaking through and then distributing the ball to Robinson, who received the ball and put the ball in the basket so quickly that the slow Yugoslavs were like spectators. By the middle of the second half, the U.S. had already led by 12 points at 67-55, and the balance of victory and defeat gradually shifted to the Dream Three.

Barkley also left the field with five fouls in the 9th minute of the second half, which shows the fierce confrontation between the two sides. With more than 6 minutes left at the end of the game, the Dream 3 team led by 15 points, but Yugoslavia did not give up and was still desperately playing every attack.

Wilkens changed the formation again, fielding a fast lineup with Robinson as the center and four defenders of Hardaway, Miller, Stockton and Richmond, abandoning the positional attack and doing their best to speed up and pursue the counter-attack after the steal, which worked, leaving Yugoslavia exhausted in the rapid attack and defense.

With three and a half minutes left in the game, 83-63, the winner was decided. Off the field, the players of the Dream 3 team began to show relaxed expressions. In fact, Yugoslavia has exceeded most people's expectations, leading in the first 15 minutes and on par with the Dream Three in the first 30 minutes.

In the last 1 minute, Wilkens replaced Robinson, who had 28 points and 7 rebounds, and let O'Neal, who was itchy and idle, go up and move, and O'Fat came on the court as a steal, allowing the Dream Three team to score the 95th point. Finally, in Stockton's dribble, the clock ran out of the last 24 seconds, and the Dream Three team won the gold medal without danger.