After the group stage, there is a day off in between.

On this day, Sun Hao invited Beckham and Raul to have a meal together to thank them for coming to the scene to watch him play.

During the meal, Raul talked to Sun Hao about going to China with the Real Madrid team to do publicity next summer, and asked him some things to pay attention to.

"Sign more autographs and take photos of the fans, their enthusiasm will be beyond your imagination."

Sun Hao also told the truth.

Raul's personal image is good, especially Real Madrid's "Galaxy Battleship" last year, which is also popular in China.

Fans are very fanatical about this kind of high-quality idol.

After eating, Sun Hao called Gu Yi and asked him to communicate with Adi to see if he could hold a publicity campaign next summer.

Football and basketball are actually linked.

Just like the report at the beginning when "the Chinese defender scored a goal", it let fans know Sun Hao and deepened their understanding of Real Madrid.

If Adi does a promotion activity for Raul and Sun Hao during Real Madrid's trip to China, it will be a good thing to enhance his influence both for Adi and for the two of them.

It's like making two pieces of cake together, and while it may not blend perfectly, the cake will definitely get bigger.

Here, Sun Hao and Raul had just finished eating, and someone came to watch him play.

"Luka Luka!"

"Godfather!"

Sun Hao hugged Doncic Jr. when he saw him passing.

Doncic Jr. is more than 5 years old, and he still looks meaty.

But unlike little Gasol, it's not fat, it's just a little baby fat.

"He's very fond of basketball, and I want him to go to Los Angeles in the summer to train with you next year."

Shasa got the information really fast, and he already knew that he was traded to the Lakers.

But at the age of 6, Doncic can indeed start basketball training.

Unlike Curry and Durant, this is really his godson.

And the sooner you start training, the higher the ceiling will be.

Coupled with Doncic's young age, Doncic will come up again when he fades out of the league.

Well, proper father-son basketball.

……

The next night, the quarterfinals between China and Greece were scheduled for 7:30 in prime time.

The scene is still full of attendance.

However, unlike the previous Chinese team playing the United States team, the host of this game, the Chinese team has no so-called second home.

The big head KT board that can see Sun Hao at the scene is also very limited.

When warming up before the game, Sun Hao looked at the opposite side.

There are not many people familiar with this Greek team.

When it comes to the Greek men's basketball team, the first impression of most fans is definitely "European Kobe" and "Kill Bill" Spanoolith.

This Greek basketball president has won the Champions League three times in his career, and has been elected the MVP of the Champions League, which is another "European emperor".

Of course, that will be in the future, and now he is only 22 years old, which is considered a fledgling.

The second impression of fans is the Greek "little shark".

The baby shark's full name is Sophocles Sholchanitis.

Well, Greek names are basically hard for you to remember and distinguish.

And there's a small record, the name is the longest chosen name in NBA history.

It was this little shark who suppressed Howard and Bosh in history at the '06 World Championships and helped the Greek team defeat the Dream Seven team.

It's just that the current little sharks are only 19 years old, and they haven't even entered the national team yet.

In addition, the more familiar one should be Jack Chacaridis.

Old fans may have a little impression of him, in the 06~07 season, he was also one of the towel men on the Houston team's bench.

It's just that at that time, he didn't have much of a chance in the NBA.

If you really want to talk about it, he entered the NBA in the same year as Sun Hao in the 2000 first round and was selected by the Suns with the 25th pick.

In the first four years of his career, he also played the main rotation, and his strength was good.

But in reality, the current star of the Greek team is neither Spanoulis nor Chacalidis, but Papalukas.

In the '06 World Championships, Greece defeated the United States team and set three people on fire, Spanoluris, Little Shark, and Papalukas.

Known as "the strongest playmaker outside of the NBA", he handed out 12 assists in that game!

FIBA matches, or 12 assists in the semifinals of the World Championships, this concept can be understood from the mere numbers.

In addition to them, there is another Sun Hao who is not very familiar with, but it is also worth paying attention to is Dimitris Diamantidis.

Diamantitis is nicknamed "Octopus" and "3D", with a height of 1.96 meters, but his arm span reaches a terrifying 2.16 meters!

As you can tell from his nickname, this is an extremely good defender and three-point player, having won the Champions League Defensive Player of the Year six times in his history.

He will also be Sun Hao's number one defender tonight.

Of course, that's not all he's capable of, and he's also very good at assisting, playing from playmaking guard all the way down to small forward.

The Greek team does not lack talent and strength, it only lacks experience.

After the warm-up, the starters on both sides appeared one after another.

On the Chinese side, Harris made adjustments to the starting lineup.

Hu Weidong is older after all, and his body reacted a little after the group stage.

Harris is also bold in employing people, and directly put the teenager Zhu Fangyu into the starting lineup.

In this way, the Chinese team is Sun Hao, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian, and Yao Ming.

For Sun Hao, the familiarity of this lineup has come up all of a sudden.

The 08 Olympic Games, which is known as the strongest men's basketball team in history, except for Sun Hao, are all starters.

On the Greek side, Papalukas, Spanolys, Diamantis, Chakalidis and the tool man center.

The familiar chest-pounding fist roar, only this time the Greek fans were roaring for their home team.

Although the Chinese team performed well in the group stage, there is also Sun Hao.

But after all, the Chinese team is not a traditional strong team, and the record in the history of the Olympic Games is also very bad, and the Greek team has a chance to fight.

Yi Jianlian jumped high and pushed the ball back to the Chinese team's half, Sun Hao advanced to the front court with the ball, and directly stretched out his hand to beckon Yi Jianlian to come out to block the demolition.

The Greek team changed defenses, Sun Hao faced Chakalidis, and retreated to three points from a distance after shaking directly.

"Huh!"

Sun Hao changed the style of play in the group stage, attacked at the beginning, and attacked it!

In fact, in the group stage, except for the stalemate against Spain, he scored 31 points, and he has been playing at other times.

Now that it's the knockout stage, there's no need to keep it anymore.

Taking the initiative to attack and forcing the Greek team to adjust its defense, this is obviously more beneficial to the Chinese team.

The Greek team went to the front and played high.

Like Yugoslavia, where China has played at the World Championships, the Greek team is also the kind with a very tall average height.

Papalukas broke through Li Nan with the ball and gave the ball to Diamantidis.

The latter's three-point shot was interfered with by Yi Jianlian, who switched defenses, and went out of the basket.

The defense depends on ability and enthusiasm, and the Chinese team won all the group stage with high strength, and it has just started, and the defensive enthusiasm is the highest.

Sun Hao continued to find Yi Jianlian in the front court to block and dismantle, but this time Diamantitis did not change.

Sun Hao grabbed the pick-and-roll and then made a three-point shot, but he somewhat underestimated Diamantitis's reach.

This "octopus" stretched out its claws to interfere with Sun Hao, and Sun Hao's shooting mamba possessed the body and smashed out of the frame.

But!

Under the basket, Yao Ming stuck the opponent, grabbed the offensive rebound with his open hand, and leaned on the opponent to hit a small hook hand.

5 to 0!

Although this time it was an away game, the Chinese team was not ready to give the Greek team a chance!

Papalukas continued to break through Li Nan, who was a little unguarded.

However, Yi Jianlian's defense was very fast, and Papalukas shared the ball again.

Chacalidis, who received the ball, attacked the basket and was directly fanned out of the court by Yao Ming!

Yao Ming, who was behind the block, waved his fist and roared at the sidelines.

When it comes to the knockout round, it is not only Sun Hao who no longer retains his strength, but also Yao Ming!

The morale of the Greek team was somewhat frustrated.

Papalukas shook off Li Nan's three-point shot from the outside.

Yao Ming, grab another defensive rebound.

The Chinese team pushed the defense to counterattack.

The awareness of the Greek team is already very good, but Sun Hao is very fast.

Sun Hao quickly attacked to the front, and after seeing Diamantitis's pursuit, a fake shot was passed to Yi Jianlian, who followed up.

After Yi Jianlian received the ball, Dapeng spread his wings, and a trademark slam the ball into the basket with a signature slam dunk.

"Bang!"

7 to 0!

The opening momentum of the Chinese team is like a rainbow!

The Greek fans at the scene were a little uncomfortable.

Shibei was impressed on the third day, and it was really stupid to look at this Chinese team with the eyes of the past.

And none of the opponents that this Chinese team defeated in the group stage were weak.

Diamantitis' three-point shot is out of precision, Papalukas' magic is no longer there, and they will have a hard time tonight.

Greek fans won't give up on their national team, though.

When the Greek team advanced with the ball, many of them stood up, beat their chests, swung their fists, and screamed!

It's like a 3D surround, and the whole arena is filled with the kind of sound that makes people's blood boil.

The morale of the Greek team is back!

Papalukas took a deep breath and continued to break through Li Nan.

This time, the Greek team has more off-ball small cooperation on the weak side.

Sun Hao should be familiar with this.

Because when they played against Greece's Panathinaikos in the Champions League, the latter had a lot of such small combinations.

Of course, this is not surprising at all, because the head coach of the Greek team is the head coach of the Panathinaikos team, Ioannakis!

Spanoulis received a pass from Papalukas and shot at Yi Jianlian, who was switching defenses.

Although the cheers of the fans at the scene rekindled the fighting spirit of the Greek team, the Chinese team's defensive enthusiasm is still very high.

And Yi Jianlian's defensive movement is really outstanding!

Spanoulis was a bit difficult with the ball, which could get past Yi Jianlian's defense.

But his eyes were determined.

The ball swirls in the air and crosses an arc.

"Huh!"

Basketball goes to the net.

Spanoulis's three points, in!

He broke the opening scoring drought of the Greek team!

The scene erupted in cheers.

It is accompanied by many waves of Greek flags.

This 22-year-old has a big heart!

Falling back to the defensive end, the defensive enthusiasm of the Greek team also came up.

Yao Ming's high position responded, Li Nan's cut was interfered with by Chacha Kalidis, and the rebound was also won by the latter.

The Greek team countered a wave of fast breaks, and Spanoulis got wind at his feet after receiving the ball, and went past the Chinese team's defense to make a fast break layup and score 2 points!

7 to 5!

Spanoulis scored 5 points in a row to help the Greek team catch up with the score!

Sun Hao played blocking and dismantling with Yao Ming in the front court, and this time he was more wary of Diamantitis, a fake shot really burst into the inside, and rushed to shoot before the help defense.

"Huh!"

Dove spokesperson!

9 to 5!

Papalukas continued to shoot for the basket, this time he chose to attack strongly, but was distracted by Yao Ming.

The basket guarded by the little giant is not so easy to break!

The Chinese team played an offensive and defensive transition again, and Li Nan received a pass from Sun Hao and caused a foul on the free throw line.

Steady two free throws!

In this Olympic Games in history, the Chinese team entered the top 8 by virtue of the group stage defeat against Serbia and Montenegro.

In that game, Li Nan was fouled at the last moment, and he also hit both free throws steadily against interference.

This is the characteristic of Chinese players in this era, maybe the ball control or something will be worse, but the basic skills of shooting and free throws are very stable.

11 to 5!

Spanoulis's performance of scoring 5 points in a row is amazing, but it is obvious that the Chinese team is stronger!

Papalukas took the ball up front again, and this time he gave it to Spanoluris.

He has realised that he is not in great shape tonight and it is better to give the ball to Spanoulris, who is in better form.

Spanoulis glanced at Sun Hao, and instead of choosing to force a breakthrough, he beckoned Chacaridis to block and dismantle in the high position.

That's when there was a small detail on the field.

Spanoulis didn't stop where he was when he called for a pick-and-roll, but was already dribbling the ball.

He knew that Sun Hao had a strong ability to block and dismantle, so he took the initiative to lean on the side of blocking and dismantling.

It is this initiative that makes him look very smart.

He accelerated to the basket, turned his head to look at the deceptive action in the bottom corner, jumped up from close range, and directly "lay down" to avoid Yao Ming's back-toss to hit the board.

"Bang!"

After the ball crossed Yao Ming's defensive board, it bounced off and fell into the net!

Spanolys, got his 7th point of the quarter! And all 7 points for the Greek team!

The Greek fans at the scene have exploded.

After Papalucas, they see hope in basketball again!

And this hope, only 22 years old!

Sun Hao also took a look at the future "European Kobe" at this time.

Well, it's said that it's a European Kobe, but it's actually a miscommunication.

Because Spanollis's nickname in Europe is "Kill Bill", the English is "kill.bill", and the abbreviation is KB.

Spread and spread, and this became the European Kobe.

In fact, just look at the style of play, Spanoulis is a master of playmaking, and that kind of playmaking is better than attacking defenders.

However, he is also very capable of attacking the ball, and his seven points are the best proof of this.

If I have to say, he's actually more like "European Nash".

Nash, Sun Hao remembered the jealous Steve again.

But at this moment, Sun Hao suddenly remembered something.

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