Chapter 293: A Generation's Nightmare (I)

The Chinese audience in this world is indeed very satisfied with the performance of the three balls, but they do not know that this satisfaction only occurs in many planes when the Chinese people dream of it, and they have no idea what a happy world they live in!

At this time, the ongoing confrontation between China and the United States attracted the attention of the whole world, and in the past international basketball competitions, the Soviet camp always had the advantage in the "World Championships", but in the "Olympic Games", the United States team was the dominant team.

The Soviet camp collectively boycotted this Olympics, and the Americans should have no opponents, but the emergence of the Chinese team made the Americans' gold medal unstable.

The Chinese men's basketball team has indeed shocked the world in the World Series in recent years, especially in the last World Championships, the United States was punished first, and then the Soviet Union, including Yugoslavia, which was the third pole, also fell at their feet.

Such a galloping performance naturally made the Chinese men's basketball team the third force in world basketball in one fell swoop, and it is still the kind that goes hand in hand with the United States and the Soviet Union.

The current world basketball is mainly China, the United States and the Soviet Union, plus one Yugoslavia can become a spoiler, and the rest of the teams are difficult to compete with the top four.

In the absence of the Soviet Union at this Olympic Games, the confrontation between China and the United States has become the biggest attraction.

But what feels unreal is that there is no way back in this battle, and it is the United States team that must win.

This is because the U.S. men's basketball team has lost to China twice in the World Series in recent years, and it is even worse if you count the inter-club matchups.

So this time in their own turf, the Chinese team is equivalent to rushing to the high ground, American basketball has no way back, if it is defeated by the Chinese men's basketball team again, it will really lose face.

This has also allowed the Americans to pick the most luxurious squad at this stage, and even put two college star centers Hakim Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing into the Olympic men's basketball team early.

In fact, Ewing has long participated in the U.S. men's basketball Olympic selection as a high school student, and this year he was naturally selected.

But the United States felt that he alone could not fight against the terrifying Ruda, so Olajuwon, who won the Player of the Year award in the NCAA not long ago, was also selected for the Olympic men's basketball team, which belongs to double insurance!

In addition, Otis Thorpe and Karl Malone, two NCAA stars, are also one of the weapons against Ruda, and even Barkley, who should have been eliminated from the Olympic trials, was also selected because of his outstanding physical fitness, because the coaching staff of the U.S. team believes that his weight and athleticism that is not commensurate with his weight may be a cannon fodder against Ruda.

That's right, this future "flying pig" is just cannon fodder used by the Americans to deal with Ruda, and his task is to go up and make Ruda uncomfortable with savage fouls when necessary, and he is not expected to make other contributions at all.

But this task, which seemed to be extremely simple for Sir Ba, was carried out by him in the first half!

In the first half, Barkley only played 2 minutes, and his performance was that he didn't score a point, didn't grab a rebound, and naturally didn't have an assist, but he was fouled three times by Ruda in just two minutes, which can basically be understood as being played by Ruda three times in a row.

The Barkleys on the bench were stupid, and he felt like his every move was under Ruda's control.

The American team sent him up to exchange the inferior horses for the superior horses, so that he could disgust Ruda.

But it is clear that these three fouls were not his own will at all, nor were they carried out for tactical purposes, because each foul benefited the Chinese team and Lu Da.

"I was obviously going to take the initiative to foul and kill, and now I got the foul, but why do I feel like I am losing blood? What have I done? ”

After Sir Ba was replaced, his eyes were confused, and he fell into a state of thinking about life, and he could no longer understand whether his existence was meaningful.

But it's not just Barkley who will fall into an explosive state, Olajuwon and Ewing, the two double insurances who have also been beaten in doubtful lives, and the little Malone has also been beaten with a bag.

In the first half, don't look at the scores of the two sides, but these four insiders who will be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in the future were trained by Ruda alone, especially in the face of his unpredictable back singles and footsteps, no matter who the four of them matched, they couldn't find the state of the north at all, and they were shaken more than once and couldn't even distinguish between the southeast and the northwest.

In the first half, all four of them committed three fouls, which is actually nothing, what is really unacceptable is that under Ruda's incredible inside footsteps, as well as dazzling upper body feints, they always fly out like being teased as fools, which is really unacceptable to them who have always been the pride of the sky, too humiliating!

Ruda also relied on the unsolvable low-post offense and face frame breakthrough, and in the first half, he single-handedly beat the interior lineup that the Americans had screened out, and scored 29 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists.

This explosive statistic made the American audience feel a chill of breath, but it also made everyone understand that Rueda was not serious in the first two games at all, at least the kind of fantastic back-to-back attack, which he only occasionally showed in the first two games.

But today, his low-post attack and face frame breakthrough are like not asking for money, constantly ravaging the four best insiders they can take out at this stage, and by the way, he also made a big ass who delivered food completely shut himself.

However, Ruda came up with such a devastating play, and the Chinese team only led by one point in the first half, which also shows that the American team also has its own means.

Today, the inside line of the American team was indeed blown up by Ruda alone, and it was still the kind of big explosion that was incomplete!

But the outside play of the U.S. team is eye-catching, especially Michael Jordan, whose athleticism makes Chinese players feel unlike, and Chris Mullin, whose style of play is similar to Daniel Zhang's, but even stronger in all aspects.

Michael Jordan averaged 28.2 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game in his rookie season, which would be ridiculously strong.

These Chinese players have all been upgraded by Wu Jie, but most of them are just buying a special talent, giving them one or two more prefixes before their athletic talent, and most of them are essentially two-and-a-half and three-star levels.

This kind of physicality can be used to compete with European players with team defense and excellent willpower.

But in the face of these five-star, four-and-a-half-star, and worst four-star talents of American talents, the gap between Chinese players in athletic talent can no longer be made up by other factors, and even Ruda can only focus most of his energy on the offensive end, otherwise he will be involved in too much defense Once there are too many fouls on his body, it will be a fatal blow to the Chinese men's basketball team.

So today he had an amazing performance in scoring, rebounding, and organization, but he only had 2 blocks and 2 steals on defense, which was a lot worse than his previous performances.

In the first half, he could only try his best to intercept without overly physical confrontation in the face of the unfortunate breakthrough of the American outside players, and did not dare to shoot the opponent directly as before, because playing like this at someone's home stadium would definitely fall into a foul crisis in the end.

This also led to Jordan's stunning performance in the first half with sharp breakthroughs and mid-range shots, as well as 5 assists.

The Chinese players naturally have the deepest impression of Jordan, this black boy can always complete the breakthrough in one step, and then in a position where the Chinese player feels that it is impossible to shoot, or in an impossible way, the ball is incredibly scored, or a very threatening ball is passed.

This is actually not difficult to understand, Jordan's explosiveness, speed, bounce ability, air ability, and core strength can make him make movements that are impossible in the eyes of many Chinese players, in fact, he has also played a similar effect in the NBA.

But it is not only Jordan who has no solution to his athletic talent that has injured the Chinese team, but also Chris Mullin, who has a longer attack distance and an extremely high-end position, although his athleticism is not top among blacks, but in the face of the Chinese team's outside line, he can still form a suppression of athletic talent, after all, he was also a four-star level before the injury.

This kind of physical advantage that cannot be crushed, but is enough to suppress, coupled with the very high-end movement and divine long-range shooting ability of this era, partners to break through the invincible Jordan, it is simply an insoluble mobile battery.

Mullin also had a good hand today, taking 12 shots from the outside in the first half, hitting a total of 8 goals, and actually scored 1 more than Jordan.

The outstanding performance of these two on the outside has kept the US men's basketball team clinging to the score, and several people on the outside of the Chinese team have been beaten into a foul crisis by Jordan and Mullin.

This focus battle inadvertently staged an inside VS outside battle.

In basketball, whether the inside is more threatening, or the outside is more likely to win the game, maybe today can give people an answer.

In the second half, the starting lineup of the United States team changed, with John Stockton replacing Doug Rivers, Karl Malone replacing Otis Thorpe, and the other three were Michael Jordan, Chris Mullin, and Hakeem Olajuwon.

In the first half, the starting XI on the U.S. team's No. 4 position was originally Thorpe.

The low-key power forward was actually the best on the American inside, scoring six points in the first half by picking up leaks, which is the same as Olajuwon and Ewing combined.

But under the violent rush of Ruda's fast attack, this unlucky guy who wanted to fight with his body was directly knocked out of the bottom line and flew into the press area, and finally had to leave the court for treatment with a back injury.

Ruda, on the other hand, lost his balance in the air after hitting Thorpe, and threw the ball into the basket with a lever throw that did not look at the basket before landing.

If you look at it this way, he's more of a monster than Jordan.

Wu Jie said that this is true, because Jordan's five-star physical talent only has two prefixes, but Ruda's five-star physical talent has a full four prefixes, and he is really a little more perverted than the original Jordan in terms of physical fitness.

The lineup of the Chinese team in the second half has also changed, and the five are: Sun Fengwu, Li Yaguang, Daniel Zhang, Huang Yunlong, and Ruda.

It's a small lineup, and no one is taller than 2 meters except Ruda.

In the second half, Qian Chenghai no longer planned to replace the three youngsters Song Tao, Song Yingjie, and Zhang Jixian, because their performance in the first half was the same as Barkley's.

The athletic ability of these three people has been improved, and their physical talent is only inferior to Luda in the current Chinese men's basketball team, among which Song Tao's athletic talent has reached four stars, and the other two also have three-and-a-half-star athletic talent.

But unlike the more precocious black players, even if the three have upgraded their athletic talents, they are mainly reflected in agility, flexibility, balance, etc., but in basketball, the effect of explosiveness and speed, as well as confrontation ability and core strength is the most obvious.

It took a few years for these three to slowly build up their core strength and weight, but it would take more time to polish, and the yellow race could not rush in this regard, and basically had to show their athletic talent after the age of 22.

Therefore, at this point in time, in the face of NCAA talents who are one or two years older, they naturally seem to be powerless, and insisting on sending them up will not only have no effect on workout, but also hit their self-confidence.

Rueda only had a three-minute break in the first half and was not ready to leave the game in the second half.

Whether the Chinese team can win today depends on whether he can lead the whole team on the offensive end, and they must score more points than the American team.

At the start of the second half, Rueda continued to use Olajuwon as a breakthrough, and used a profiteering frame breakthrough to pass the college star on the same level as Ewing on the ball for the first time.

Where has Olajuwon seen a center who can break through like an outside line, and once again was confused by the feints in Ruda's breakthrough.

Malone was not far away, and he had to rush over to make up for the defense.

But in Ruda's eyes, he is also a soft persimmon, and when he saw this, he happened to meet him head-on.

Two strong men with somewhat similar statures collided passionately in the air, but naturally flew out to meet Ma Long, who had few opponents in college.

The American audience doesn't find this strange, Malone has broad shoulders, a good skeleton, excellent arm span, and some of the best static physical talents in the NCAA.

But after all, he hasn't entered the NBA to experience more systematic training, but Ruda has a stronger and more mature body, not only is the dynamic physical talent one notch stronger, but the bodies of the two are also bigger than him, so it was naturally Malone who was knocked away.

"Boy, in China, you only have to be played!"

Ruda faced Ma Long, who seemed to be weak, and naturally threw away the trash talk mercilessly.

He's trash-talking more than once today, and almost every time he finishes a great offense or defense, he's going to give these future superstars an aggressive trash talk!

This immature Malone was lying on the ground holding his numb chest, he felt that his internal organs were swayed by Ruda, a chest tightness and a violent beating of his heart, and it took a long time to recover.

But after standing up, he didn't dare to say anything to Ruda, because he really didn't dare to mess with Ruda, who even the superstars and villains in the NBA were submissive.

But he immediately expressed his dissatisfaction with Olajuwon's eye defense, and just now Ruda deceived Olajuwon almost with a feint, which made him have to make up for the defense.

The Americans are also unhappy with Olajuwon's performance right now, and he is like a soft egg today, allowing Ruda to crush and knead into balls, like flour on the kitchen table.

Olajuwon said that he didn't want to be so weak and bullied, but as soon as he got tough, he was either scared in the confrontation or deceived into a foul.

The Chinese is like an indestructible piece of steel when he hardens, but the most terrifying thing is that he can not only harden up, but also change from fierce to soft play at any time, using his whole body to shake him unsteadily.

So today, not only is he getting softer and softer, and the more he fights, the less confident Ewing becomes, including Ewing and Ma Long is also a virtue, they all feel like they are in military training, it is a state of complete control.

China's Li Yaguang and Daniel Zhang also feel this way, and they are also in a helpless state in the face of Jordan's breakthrough.

Jordan is also more and more confident on the offensive end, because he finds that often as long as there is an acceleration, or an emergency stop to change direction, the Chinese player on the opposite side will either be directly passed by him, or will inevitably produce a hard stun, and then still let him do whatever he wants.

This is a huge difference in physical fitness, but after he broke through with the ball in the first half, it was still taken by Ruda's obscenity that did not dare to go straight to Huanglong, either shooting outside the penalty area, or immediately sharing the ball after entering the penalty area to attract Ruda's defense.

But in the second half, he plans to find a chance to touch this guy who makes the American basketball world helpless!

"That's what I'm waiting for!"

Ruda faced Jordan, who was at the peak of his running and jumping ability, and did not jump up first and wait for the opponent to fall first, and then used the advantage of height and arm span to complete the block.

It's the way to play against opponents who are less athletic than him, and Jordan will only be better than him in terms of bounce and airborne ability, given the huge difference in size between the two.

If he really guards Jordan like this, eighty percent of them will be completed by someone to complete a super pull, and if he doesn't do it, he will become the background emperor.

So he first took a good position, and then raised his hands and waited for Jordan to come to the door, while deliberately leaving a limited space in the baseline position and waiting for the young Jordan to drill in.

Although Jordan's current athletic ability is at its peak, after all, he has just debuted and has not experienced the beatings of the Bad Boy Army and the Green Army, where can he fight him as an old hunter.

This time Jordan launched a breakthrough from the left side, he naturally did not dare to fly up and dunk against Ruda, at this time he happened to see that there was a gap in the bottom line, so he made a decision in the electric light, first in the high-speed march to break through to the right, seeing that Ruda's defensive footsteps seemed to be deceived by him, he immediately changed his yearning for the left side for a second time, and entered the penalty area along the bottom line.

At this time, Jordan felt that he should break through Ruda's defense, but to be on the safe side, he still did not dunk directly after jumping, but planned to leap from the left side of the basket to the right, use this large air slide to completely fly over Ruda's defensive range, and finally use a backhand lever to score the ball from the right side of the basket.

If this goal is really scored by him, it will be enough to go down into the classic "super glide backhand pull-up layup", and Ruda, the Chinese football god, will inevitably become the background of the American football god countless times in the future.

Jordan is also confident that he can do this, because he is confident that even Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will not be able to stop such extreme layups.

But unfortunately, if you don't watch out, this kind of layup really can't be stopped.

Keruda is all too familiar with Jordan's offensive habits, and he deliberately leaked this gap in order to lure Jordan into making his trademark super pull.

So when Jordan was sticking out his tongue and jumping, Rueda was also moving quickly laterally, and always kept Jordan in his effective defensive range.

After Jordan completed a long glide in the air, he realized that the expected shooting space did not appear, and Rueda kept his long arms high in it, including after both of them jumped.

At this moment, Jordan curled up in the air like a prawn, squeezing his limit of time with all his might, hoping to wait for Ruda to fall first, so that he could throw the ball to the basket.

Ruda naturally won't give Jordan this chance, although he is not as heavy as the opponent's bounce and stagnation, but this time he always occupies a favorable position in defense, and the timing of the jump is just a beat slower than Jordan.

At this time, he was enough to keep pace with Jordan's whereabouts, and naturally he covered Jordan from beginning to end.

Jordan ended up stretching his body in the air while stretching his arms as far as he could to shoot in hopes of avoiding the block.

But Ruda's reach didn't give him this chance at all, and a big hand flicked the ball at the limit distance, and finally made the basketball refract and fly out of bounds!

The ball was barely covered, but after all, it was completed and Jordan was able to fly to the limit!

The "Great Western Forum Arena" was silent for a while, and nearly 20,000 spectators all trembled their lips and stared at the result of this human limit flight being intercepted.

"Come to my house, right? The spider said to the fly! ”

After Luda landed, he first squeezed Jordan, slammed the other party directly out of bounds, and then used a condescending posture to say this trash word that made the latter's face red.

"You...... Don't be complacent! Next...... I'll be sure to dunk you on the head! ”

Jordan was squeezed by Ruda when he landed, and not only almost hit his ankle when he fell to the ground, but also almost bit his tongue.

This will naturally be a little annoyed and angry, and when he heard this, he raised his immature little face and replied.

But in Ruda's eyes, this Jordan has a trace of the temperament of an old rascal, but is a bit like a bullied little milk wolf.