Chapter 313: What is a Team?
The fiasco of the women's basketball team and women's volleyball team made the American audience a little afraid to watch the men's basketball finals in the evening, and even the American men's basketball team itself was full of pessimism.
There is also a small episode here, the Chinese team did not take a closed warm-up training in the afternoon, but deliberately opened it to the American media.
It was not easy for the US media to conduct interviews during the training of the Chinese team, and it is estimated that they also had the idea of finding out about the enemy's situation.
Naturally, the Chinese team's training volume surprised American journalists and TV viewers, because it was obviously much larger than the American team, and they had never seen so much sweat in the warm-up before a game.
When Ruda faced the American reporter's question, he smiled indifferently and said: "If your training volume can be borne by ordinary people, then why should the championship be given to you?" ”
The Americans were hit hard by these words, but even more devastating was Ruda's last answer, when asked if there was a killer for tonight's endgame?
Luda said with a smile without waiting for the reporter to finish asking: "Tonight is not the endgame, but the beginning, and the championship style from now on will be defined by the Chinese men's basketball team!" ”
I couldn't accept this sentence just by listening to it, and a group of American reporters were about to ridicule each other, but Ruda turned around and threw it casually after finishing speaking, and actually threw the ball directly into the basket from the midfield.
This forced the Americans to be caught off guard, and what the reporters wanted to say was instantly rejected, and the American audience in front of the television was even more afraid to watch the evening game.
Ruda's interview did make Americans even less confident, many people think that the Chinese team is stronger, even if the key people are still working harder than you, then play a muscle bully!
This is exactly the psychological blow that Ruda wants to cause, in fact, in these three finals, he feels that the most unstable is the men's basketball team.
After all, the Chinese men's basketball team is led by him alone, and although the American men's basketball team is a college player, it definitely surpasses China a lot in terms of overall talent.
As long as these people can find a breakthrough, formulate correct tactics, and give full play to their own advantages, the two sides will be at least in a five-to-five situation.
This is also the reason why Ruda has been pulling hatred on himself, and the best way for the Chinese team to defeat the United States is to let the Americans focus their research on him.
It's best to let that group of stunned young people line up to send it to him, then there is really no suspense.
But the Americans really eat this set, including the American media, as well as many coaches in the NBA, everyone agrees that if they limit Ruda, they can easily beat the Chinese team!
This is obviously going down the wrong path, but the more Ruda cannot be prevented, the more the Americans will look for direction on this wrong path.
The Americans are still on the wrong path, but the Chinese team is already planning to come up with more killer features today.
Wu Jie and Ruda know very well what the weaknesses of this American team are, this kind of improvised team can only play some simple tactics, because you can't let these geniuses who have never played together beforehand, and will not play in a team in the future, play the Chinese team's non-stop off-ball cover and response, and it is impossible to play the heavenly girl after the block, let alone expect them to do it with the continuous and fast transmission of the ball of the Chinese team......
And these are the cornerstones of the Chinese team's victory tonight, and they are also their biggest advantage at present.
As for how to give full play to these advantages, it is naturally through the accurate projection that Chinese players are also good at!
The true form of the Chinese team's bombardment tactics can only be played after FIBA introduces three-point shots!
This year FIBA introduced three-point shooting in some international competitions, and even considered adding a new rule of "three-point shooting" in this Olympic Games, but finally gave up under the opposition of most countries.
However, at the next World Championships, FIBA has decided to introduce the three-point system, and it should be said that FIBA will fully use the three-point system in international competitions after the Olympic Games.
The Chinese team decided to let the world see in the direction of basketball after the introduction of three-point shooting in tonight's finals!
The venue for this men's basketball final is still the "Great Western Forum Arena", the home of the Lakers.
The Lakers' star "Magic" Johnson, as well as "Sky Hook" Abdul-Jabbar, were captured by the camera in the front row before the game.
But it's not just these two Lakers stars who are on the spot, many NBA stars are on hand tonight to cheer on their teams.
For example, Dr. J, who has been robbed of the "God of Dunk" by Ruda, Larry Bird, who was sprayed by Ruda with trash talk and couldn't fight back, thinks Ruda can beat Bill Ranbier, who can beat all the interior lines in the current NBA, and even Joe Bryant, who came to watch the game with three children, and his youngest son is wearing Wang Xiaoqian's No. 8 jersey......
But none of these people have attracted the attention of the Chinese women's basketball team, especially Wang Xiaoqian, whose painting style is obviously different.
In tonight's game, the Chinese women's basketball team, which had just pressed the U.S. women's basketball team to the ground and rubbed it again, naturally all came to cheer for the men's team.
This makes the men's basketball team's will to fight even stronger, China's four big balls are played by the men's team, how can they be compared to female comrades?
"A man should be like a man, speaking men's words, doing men's things, and being a woman's sun."
Before the start of the fight, Ruda formed a circle with his teammates, and what he said could easily make the women's boxers shiver.
But this kind of machismo works well for men's basketball players.
They must not be ridden by the women's basketball team, and that's not what men are supposed to do.
The U.S. men's basketball team has no pressure in this regard, after all, their women's basketball team has already been killed first.
After the two teams left the bench, the starting team of the Chinese team has changed somewhat, and Qian Chenghai sent the starting five today: Sun Fengwu, Daniel Zhang, Kuang Lubin, Huang Yunlong, and Luda.
The Americans, on the other hand, sent a two-tower lineup in a very crazy way in order to limit Ruda's play: Doug Rivers, Michael Jordan, Chris Mullin, Hakiem Olajuwon, and Patrick Ewing.
The intention of this lineup is obvious, the Americans firmly believe that only by limiting Ruda can they have any hope of winning, and do not try to use tactics such as "Ruda's Law" to deal with the Chinese team.
But this can't be blamed on the lack of IQ of Americans, and the original plane's "Jordan's Law" was only thought of in another way after everyone was completely out of options.
But even so, the effect of the "Jordan Rule" cannot be said to be particularly good, otherwise the Bulls will not be able to win the first dynasty.
The U.S. team also gave an inspirational speech by the coach and captain Rivers before the game.
However, the first attack of the Chinese team hit the morale of the American team!
In the opening jump ball, Ruda beat Ewing to win.
This made Ewing complained by many American fans, including Olajuwon, who did not escape contempt, the height of the two of them at the time of the draft was 213cm, but today compared with Ruda's 206cm inner line, they are at most two or three centimeters taller, this kind of lying is already very serious!
Ruda faced these two legendary center forwards of the original plane, and there was indeed no height disadvantage, and the height data of the three of them was only a few centimeters apart.
Besides, he didn't rely on this height to eat, and today's first attack by the Chinese team showed the world that he was different.
After Huang Yunlong landed at the top of the three-point arc, he suddenly stopped and made a move to cover without the ball.
Olajuwon didn't pay much attention to it, he fell straight to the free-throw line and stood ready, ready to help defend the most dangerous Ruda.
Ruda received a pass in front of Huang Yunlong and immediately used the cover of his teammates to make a breakthrough.
Olajuwon's eyes widened as he bent over the free-throw line, ready to make up for Ewing at any moment.
Ewing was blocked by Huang Yunlong here, and he also hurriedly ran to the basket, preparing to grab a position to prevent Ruda from smashing Huang Long.
Ruda was a little amused when he saw this, these two people were really a bit frightened.
But he didn't break through at all, and seeing that no one came up to defend, he jumped directly at the three-point line at the top of the arc.
The shot was unexpected by everyone, and the American player didn't even think he would shoot in this position.
FIBA hasn't implemented the three-point rule yet, so even if you make a shot, it won't count you as a three-pointer, right?
But Ruda doesn't care so much, he not only shoots resolutely with this ball, but also has a somewhat similar shooting posture to Wang Xiaoqian, and the basketball draws a beautiful arc straight into the net!
After the Chinese team scored a long-range two points in the opening game, the American players felt a hint of foreboding.
This style of play is too abnormal, of course, the closer the basketball game is to the basket, the more efficient it is, although the three-point shot has changed the original offensive theory to a certain extent, but there are not many players who can shoot three-point shots with a high percentage of shots, so there are not many tactics to match it.
This three-point shot is also a means of making the offense more three-dimensional, or a means of assisting the interior through a longer offensive distance in the NBA, and it is not the main weapon in the offensive system for the time being, and even many NBA teams are resistant to this new rule that changes the inherent ecology of basketball.
But the Chinese team has long been looking forward to the introduction of three-point shooting in FIBA, and if they are not as talented as American players in explosiveness, speed, and confrontation, then in the technical field, especially in shooting, they are definitely the most talented and hard-working race.
Even those who are kneeling will not object to this, because this is the magic weapon that the Chinese team has relied on to win in recent years.
One of their killer features today is the expanded projection range.
Of course, except for Ruda, who polished his three-point shot to the extreme in dream training, and today is deliberately showing off his three-point shot, the rest of the Chinese players are just expanding their shooting points further, which is also a new weapon they have been training for.
In the future, in addition to the label of "fast attack", Chinese basketball will also add "shooting" and "teamwork".
After the U.S. team scored a goal indiscriminately by relying on their physical fitness, the Chinese team played in a much more orderly manner.
In this attack, Rueda launched a strategy near the free throw line, and did not plan to go to the penalty area to fight with the two big men.
The two marksmen, Daniel Zhang and Kuang Lubin, began to run from both wings, while Huang Yunlong covered off the ball in the low post, and even Sun Fengwu was involved in running off the ball and positioning the screen after passing the ball to Luda.
After the tactics of the Chinese team worked, from a bird's-eye view, it really had a bit of a taste of scattered flowers.
At this moment, the fans in front of the TV were completely confused by this dazzling running, and the American players on the scene were even more dizzy.
Jordan didn't know how to defend himself, and the opposing player became Sun Fengwu, while Daniel Zhang was empty in front of him, and Rivers, who was supposed to change his defense, would be facing Kuang Lubin with Mullin, which was obviously a defensive mistake.
Ruda's pass was distributed to Daniel Zhang in time, who shot decisively from 20 feet in the bottom corner, and the basketball "swooped" into the net!
Daniel Zhang didn't have much change in expression after scoring the goal, and immediately ran back to prepare for the fast attack that the opponent might launch.
There was no particular reaction from the Chinese players, and many of them didn't think that shooting accuracy was something to be proud of, let alone talent.
They think it's a skill that they have earned with buckets of sweat and thousands of shots a day.
When the U.S. team attacked, the style of painting immediately changed again.
The biggest difference between them and the Chinese team is that the basketball rotation route allows fans in front of the TV to guess, in a word: too conventional.
Of course, this simple combination could not break the Chinese team's defense, and in the end, Ewing's strong hit failed to hit in the bag.
The Chinese team won the rebound and immediately launched a fast attack.
Today's U.S. team has improved in the speed of returning to defense, and the Chinese team has fallen into positional warfare in pursuit of success.
Ruuda continued to play in the high post, and the Chinese players also launched dazzling runs again.
This time, the outside players of the Chinese team did not get the opportunity to open the spot, but Sun Fengwu took the opportunity to sneak under the basket to receive a pass from Ruda with the help of off-ball cover.
When the U.S. team noticed a leak in the butt, Sun Fengwu had already raised his hand to complete the layup.
"Watch him, don't let him pass!"
The coach of the U.S. team was so anxious on the sidelines that the Chinese team opened the three attacks, almost all of which were centered on Ruda.
He still thinks that as long as he can defend this axis, he can limit the attack of the Chinese team.
But is that really the case?
The U.S. team failed to attack again, and the Chinese team continued to enter positional warfare that they were not good at.
This time, the Americans did defend Ruda tightly, and then saw that Ruda took the initiative to pull to the outside and made a block for his teammates.
The American players are once again at a loss, and Rueda has rarely pulled out to cover his teammates in the past, so how to deal with it at this time?
With the help of Ruda's high-quality cover, Sun Fengwu dribbled directly into the penalty area.
At this time, Olajuwon's athleticism was on display, and he defended big and small with a slow beat, and still did not let Sun Fengwu get a chance to go straight to the basket.
But Luda also rushed into the basket after covering, Sun Fengwu knocked the ball back, and Luda followed up and just received the basketball, which was directly a two-handed heavy dunk!
This two-handed dunk is different from Wang Xiaoqian's free dunk, Luda was still outside the right side of the restricted area when he jumped, but both the speed of the bullet and the speed of flying in the air were amazingly fast.
When Olajuwon turned around and looked up, he could only see Ruda's strong body covering all his vision, and he was knocked out of the bottom line without even reacting, which was no longer an ordinary embarrassment!
Ruda was hideous when he landed, his eyes were fierce, and he was tearing his jersey outwards while roaring at Olajuwon!
The impact of the picture brought by this dunk and celebration is really incomparable to the shock of the women's basketball team!
The morale of the American team has suffered a heavy blow again, and the referee will naturally not judge this kind of ball as a foul by Ruda, and FIBA will not let the cards they hold so black by the Americans, so a well-deserved 2+1 will definitely not be able to run.
Olajuwon is also considered to be hard-boned, and he can quickly get up from the ground after being hit so badly, and sure enough, he is young and has a lot of money!
But Ruda has formed a huge psychological shadow on him in these two games, and Ruda, including Ewing, looks at Ruda like a quail.
Rudaga hit a free throw, and the U.S. team turned around and relied on Jordan's mid-range shot to finally score two points.
But turning their heads, their defense leaked again.
This time, Ruda passed the ball to Sun Fengwu, who cut in from the baseline, and the latter saw that there was no chance to make a layup, so he stuffed the ball to Huang Yunlong.
At this time, it can be seen that the self-confidence of the Chinese players is obviously higher than that of the American team, and everyone dares to make moves.
Huang Yunlong had a chance to shoot after taking the ball, but when he found that Kuang Lubin, who was on the weak side of the court (which can be understood as the weak side without the ball, few defenders), was completely undefended, he immediately moved the basketball to the other side of the court.
Kuang Lubin's position to receive the ball is basically near the three-point line on the wing, but this is already within the range of Chinese outside players, and he did not hesitate to shoot after getting the basketball.
This time, the basketball knocked twice on the basket and rolled into the net.
The American coach's face showed a slightly weak expression, he really didn't expect that the Chinese team did not focus on fast attack today, but has been playing positional warfare that is not good at, the key coordination is so good, and the range is so far.
It's not that he doesn't want to call a timeout, but the Chinese team's range is too long, coupled with the running and moving the ball that makes him dizzy before shooting, how to deal with this kind of attack?
If Ruda knew what he was thinking, he would definitely sprinkle a handful of salt and say: Our positional warfare is average, it is compared with our own fast attack, and the unit of measurement here is not your American team.
But this is not a big deal, the positional battle of the Chinese team is of course much worse than its own bombardment, but it is not necessarily compared with the American team.
The next attack of the U.S. team was clearly influenced by the continuous play of the Chinese team, and when Mullin's long-range shot was deflected, they finally forgot about the quick return to the defense.
Of course, the Chinese team will not let go of any opportunity to play a fast attack, and immediately chased the ass of the American team to attack.
Sun Fengwu rushed forward with the ball, Kuang Lubin and Luda followed from the middle and left side, and the basketball was passed to Kuang Lubin, who was the first to turn into the fast attack.
At this time, Jordan actually caught up with the speed against the sky, and Kuang Lubin of course didn't dare to make a layup by himself, so he lured Jordan to jump up and returned the ball to Luda, who followed up in the middle.
Jordan had already jumped up with Kuang Lubin, and of course it was impossible to fly back to deal with Ruda.
Olajuwon and Ewing are also very fast, but they are traditional inside lines after all, and no matter how fast they are, they are still too far behind the pervert of Ruda.
When Ruda got the basketball, the two were still a few steps away from him!
This kind of unguarded good opportunity, of course, he was not polite to the Americans, just after stepping on the arc of the jump ball area with one foot, the whole body catapulted and took off again, rising to a height that people look up to at an explosive speed!
At this time, I saw him turn 180 degrees in the air, fold his body with his back to the basket, and finally perform a short glide, and finally completed the slam dunk that can be shocked at the slam dunk contest with one double hand!
"Oh God! He's obviously a heavy tank, but he can soar in the sky at will, who else can stop him!? ”
"It's a 180-degree turn and a two-handed back dunk, and I've never seen anyone perform such an amazing dunk in a game, and it's a dunk that can get a perfect score in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest!"
"It's the men's basketball final at the Los Angeles Olympics, but this guy is turning the game into a slam dunk contest exclusive to him!"
"Our basketball is being trampled! Our players are being humiliated! Our team is being ravaged! ”
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After Ruda staged two brutal dunks in a row, he finally made countless Americans turn off the TV angrily, and the commentators of several major TV stations were wailing in pain!
But outside of the United States, Ruda gained countless fans at this moment!
He has already put on a lot of amazing performances at the World Championships, including in the competitions leading up to this Olympics.
But none of these games can compare to today's Olympic finals, so Rueda won't miss any chance to dunk today - he's going to go crazy to attract fans!
This also means that if the Americans are like this, then their suffering has just begun.