Chapter 214: The Battle of the Gods (Part II)
The Australians also know what Rueda wants to do, and now the hurting tactics have failed, but his own two have been beaten down, and one of the soft eggs has been scared.
The unnamed soft-egg center has been replaced by the Australian team, but isn't the new one a soft-eyed?
This will make it possible for Australia to have three interior players who are capable of playing, and the remaining two are even NCAA players who struggle to play.
But the Australians have one last resort, and they can use the word "drag".
In this era, the time limit for a half-time is 10 seconds, and the time for a single attack is 30 seconds.
So four minutes seems like a lot, but as long as the time for each offense is exhausted, it will not be so easy for Ruuda to score another eight points.
But this negative attitude immediately drew boos from the fans, and the audience in front of the TV also "bah" at the Australian team.
Today's performance of the Australian team can be regarded as exhausting the "title" of a strong team that it has accumulated for decades, which can be described as a typical case of losing and losing.
The Chinese team didn't expect Australia to be so unbearable, but this kind of tactic doesn't need the head coach to come up with countermeasures.
With a wave of Luda's hand, the Chinese team sacrificed a "full-court press" in the next defense.
To be honest, they didn't want to greet the Australians in the first place, because they didn't deserve it.
This is the top defensive tactic they used when defeating the United States, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia, and it is also the signature tactic of the Chinese men's basketball team.
In this era, some top teams will also use this tactic, but it is not at the same level as the Chinese team's full-court chain telescopic defense, and it is at least one level worse than the whole, oppressive, and elastic performance, so the Chinese team can take "full-court tight defense" as its own label on the defensive end, and it has been recognized by the world.
It is not unreasonable to see that the Chinese team can win the championship, creative run-and-bomb attack + full-court tight defense, these two sets of tactics were used in the early 80s to score points, or to widen/narrow the score gap, plus an unstoppable superstar, and there are no shortcomings in the rest of the positions.
What the Australians didn't expect was that the Chinese team would be able to use such a very physically exhausting defensive tactic at the end of the game, and immediately made a mistake under the press.
Rueda caught the ball in the chaos and scored two points with an easy dunk for his 74th point.
After completing a successful defense, the Chinese team immediately began to press from the Australian serve.
Although the Australian team has been able to enter the World Championships and the Olympic Games, it is actually the reason why there are few countries in Oceania at all, in fact, they do not have much experience in high-intensity games, and they can't even send the ball for a while in the face of this kind of defense that makes the United States and the Soviet Union anxious.
By this time, Australia had used up all their timeouts and could only force the ball out before the five-second foul on serve.
Li Yaguang can always have a better performance at a critical moment or at the end of the game.
Although he was now 30 points ahead, his special attributes still played a role, and the ball was intercepted by him, and then burst into the box and jumped up to pass the ball to Rueda from the air.
Rueda received the ball in the middle distance and was about to shoot, when the Australian player who came from the side to defend didn't have time to think and immediately flew to block.
"You're so young!"
Ruda smiled in his heart, of course this was just a feint, and after the opponent was in the air and couldn't make any adjustments, he leaned lightly on the opponent, and then calmly shot.
This is the most common deception foul in the future, and although it is not common in this era, there is no difference in the penalty.
The referee also secretly shouted "beautiful" in his heart, decisively blew the Australian player for a foul, and waited until the basketball board that was thrown fell into the basket, and immediately made a valid gesture to score a goal, which is a 2+1 that can enter the textbook.
The Australian players' faces were dead, and they felt like they were being played with throughout the game, almost like a college student beating a middle school student.
Rueda hit a free throw to the cheers of the audience, and the fans soon shouted "77", apparently encouraging him to continue scoring.
Ruda naturally did not disappoint, and he once again showed a new weapon in his next attack.
Australia's defense is still dominated by mid-range and close-range defenses, and if Rueda shoots from great distance, they really can't do anything.
Ruda chose to break through, but this time he not only used his own pair of iron elbows to open the way when he broke through, his body also swayed left and right in a wide range of breakthroughs, and his feet cooperated with the shaking body to start a big stride to change direction, just like a giant python playing a serpentine maneuver, which looked very visually impactful.
How could the Australian player have thought that Ruda's violent interior line could play such a trick, two defenders in a row were like stakes by Ruda's stride to change direction, and finally he ran into the basket and pressed the opponent to complete the layup.
"Limbo microstep?"
"Lost steps?"
Chinese fans were also stunned by this serpentine breakthrough, and everyone subconsciously shouted these words.
"What kind of breakthrough is this?"
The commentators of Europe and the United States were equally surprised, and there was no such thing as a "European step" at this time.
Although this kind of breakthrough has already appeared in the European arena, the speed of the breakthrough is far less than that of Ruda, and the shaking of the upper body and the confusion of the change of direction of the footwork are much worse, so it has not made much of an impression.
In fact, similar breakthrough steps have long been made in China, in the fifties and sixties, there will be a "left and right step" technology, in fact, it is also this kind of S-shaped stride change of direction, but the disadvantage is that the speed is not fast enough, the upper body is not confusing enough, and it is easy to be stopped by defensive players.
"This is a Chinese step!"
Soon, there was a commentary that named Ruda's breakthrough.
But there is no way, this improved "left and right step" is basically a new technology, which country's players use first, it is easy to be named this country.
"It's the 79th point!"
The fans at the scene were more concerned about Ruda's score, and this layup brought Ruda's score to 79 points, only one step away from 80+, and there were still two and a half minutes before the end of the game.
Ruda's next two shots were affected a little, after all, no matter how many big scenes he had seen in dream training, he was also a little anxious at this time.
But it doesn't matter, the Chinese team has a lot of tactics to score points at key moments.
In the last 1 minute and 30 seconds, after Australia blocked Ruda's shots twice in a row, his confidence rebounded slightly, and the idea of preventing him from scoring 80+ points was once again born.
In this defense, all five Australian players are staring at Ruda, ready to pack at any time.
Ruda grabbed the position with the opponent in the low post on the right side, and naturally the result was very easy to squeeze the opponent aside.
The two Australian outside players hurriedly surrounded him, and Rueda immediately started to run without the ball, quickly going around the bottom line to the low post on the other side.
Two Australians chased from behind, but were blocked by Huang Yunlong's strong body in a successful low cover.
However, the Australian players will no longer care about the other players of the Chinese team scoring, and the Australian players on the other side also choose to surround them.
However, they didn't expect that Rueda had just run low on the left and immediately ran back again.
This time, not only Huang Yunlong made an off-ball cover, but Liu Jianli also helped him make a second wall on the right side, which was a double cover.
Nothing like this has been seen before for an Australian player, with everyone blocked by these two walls.
Rueda catches the ball on the right side of the rib and shoots in the open space!
This kind of shooting was too easy for him, and Ruda didn't think much about it when shooting, and threw the ball completely with the mechanical memory saved from countless shots, and the result was naturally a perfect hollow into the frame!
"81 points!"
"Hooray!"
"Ruda! Ruda! ”
Just after Ruda hit this mid-shot that was enough to make him a god, the fans in the stadium frantically shouted his Chinese name.
At this time, Ruda first signaled the head coach to replace him, and then walked to the sidelines to take off his jersey, revealing an explosive muscle group, and then used Wu Jie's celebration action at the bottom of the box to show his No. 23 jersey to the fans and the world!
Of course, he didn't have Wu Jie's special bonus for using this celebratory action, but after scoring 81 points in the World Championships final, the effect was enough to leave an indelible impression on the world.
In addition, he didn't just do celebrations, but also said domineeringly to a camera on the sidelines: "Basketball, born for me!" ”
This sentence is actually more domineering than his celebratory actions, because the most arrogant and domineering line of all basketball players is - "I was born for basketball"!
Ruda directly reversed the causal relationship between the two, not to mention the shock caused to fans all over the world when this sentence was said, just those who are qualified to say so, there are few people in the entire history of basketball.
Because it requires a talent that transcends an era, and a battle that shakes the past and the present.
Rueda clearly has both of these elements and is ready to stick to 81 points, although with a minute and a half left to play, he will certainly be able to score some more.
But this kind of deliberate blank space can give fans more room for self-imagination, and Ruda feels that it is better than him to score a few more points.
In addition, he also feels that "81 points" corresponds to his "Bayi player" identity, after this game, he will completely become the symbol of Chinese basketball and Bayi team, so after two years, Ye Yuqi will personally deprive the Bayi team of its privileges in China, and naturally no one can say anything.
The current spokesperson of Chinese basketball is the Bayi team, but if Chinese basketball wants to really develop, the first thing to kill is the Bayi team.
"Incredible performance! We all know that when Chamberlain scored 100 points, when the 76ers and Knicks played a score of 169:147 in 48 minutes, the score is now 120:85, and Rueda scored 81 points, and he is undoubtedly better in terms of personal percentage of team points. ”
Ruda's 81 points are significantly higher than Chamberlain's, because in the 60s, NBA rules were missing, and interior players enjoyed more advantages. Ruda, on the other hand, is a 206cm tall interior lineman, and he is more targeted and defensive in the game, and every time he scores, it is more difficult and more technical! ”
"Many fans have called to ask a question, which is more valuable between Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game and Ruda's 81 points tonight? You only have to look at the opponents in two games to know the answer - today's game is the 1982 World Championship final, when Chamberlain was just a regular season game, and his opponent was the Knicks, who were 27-46. Add to that the difference between 40 minutes and 48 minutes, 120 to 85 and 169 to 147, and we should be able to know who has the higher gold content. ”
"I would say Ruda's 81 points are simply perverted shock!! I think even if Chamberlain is an active player, he will think that this night is more amazing than his 100 points back then! ”
After Ruda was substituted, the world's commentators no longer cared about the game that was still going on, they only had Ruda in their eyes, only the 81-point miracle he created on this magical night.
So what was Ruda thinking?
Tonight's takeaway, of course!
This battle was enough for him to earn income from upgrading his 5-star talent.