Although the knockout round has not officially started, such a schedule has made many people speculate about the finals.

Not surprisingly, the final matchup of this Olympic Games will likely be the pinnacle showdown between the American men's basketball team and the Chinese men's basketball team.

Although they lost to the Chinese men's basketball team in the group stage, there are still many people who are more optimistic about the United States team, and the prestige of the dream team is not covered after all, and people are more inclined to lose to the Chinese men's basketball team in the group stage because if these stars are serious, they will not have any opponents at all.

It should have been like this, but there is a variable in it.

That is Hao Peng.

Within the Chinese men's basketball team, many people were surprised to find that after a few rounds of games, Hao Peng seemed to have become stronger!

Hao Peng, who had only played in the NCAA and Asian tournaments before, participated in the world's top tournament for the first time and the first time he encountered the world's top teams such as the United States.

In the battle with these strong teams, Hao Peng can almost say that there is a new experience and growth in every game.

Wang Xiao said before that Hao Peng's growth template card has not yet fully exerted its full effect, and on the stage of the Olympic Games, his potential is always being tapped and strengthened at a rapid speed!

After the group stage, if there is a clear horizontal comparison, everyone may be shocked to find that Hao Peng has become stronger at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends compared to before participating in the Olympic Games!

No one on the entire U.S. team could stop him, not even Dunn, who used the Mutombo Growth Template.

Even if it is Mutombo himself in the face of David. Robinson didn't have the upper hand either, and the two faced David 39 times in their careers. Robinson has won 29 times and is averaging 20+10 per game.

Now Hao Peng has further grown, while Dunn's level has long stagnated, and the level of the two is not at the same level at all, not to mention that Hao Peng also has a top point guard Jeremy Lin next to him, which can further stimulate Hao Peng's lethality.

And there are still two games before the finals, both of which are tough battles without exception, Wang Xiao believes that Hao Peng can further degenerate and become stronger in these two games!

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The Chinese men's basketball team's opponent in the quarterfinals is Lithuania, with only two NBA players, namely the Toronto Raptors' starting center Valenciunas, who started 80 games for the Raptors this season, averaging 25.8 minutes per game, contributing 12 points and 9.5 rebounds.

As for the other NBA player, it was center Domantas who had just entered the NBA Draft and was selected by the Magic with the 11th pick in the first round. Sabonis, he has not officially landed in the NBA yet, but Wang Xiao has a slight impression of him, this is a relatively potential insider, and he will play well in the Pacers in the future.

Of course, it's just pretty good.

Tying Sabonis and Valenciunas together is unlikely to be Hao Peng's opponent.

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On August 17, the Chinese men's basketball team and Lithuania started the first matchup in the 1/4 finals.

The starting lineup arranged by Wang Xiao here is still the same as before, and it is still his starting lineup of Jeremy Lin, Cheng Jie, Wang Meng, Yi Jianlian and Hao Peng.

On the Lithuanian side, two NBA players, Sabonis and Valenciunas, all started the game, and the two big men who are over 2.11 meters tall played as a center and a power forward.

Obviously, such an arrangement is that the Lithuanian head coach wants to curb Hao Peng's play through two big man centers, but this is obviously impossible to do.

What the U.S. men's basketball team can't do, how can Lithuania do it?

Although Valenciunas, who was defending Hao Peng, tried desperately to stop Hao Peng, he had little success.

In the first quarter of the game, Hao Peng shot 4 times under the basket, hit 3 shots, 4 of 4 free throws, and scored 10 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks.

But Hao Peng is not the key yet.

In the first quarter of the game, the Chinese men's basketball team scored 6 three-pointers, of which Jeremy Lin hit 2 goals, Wang Meng scored 1 goal, and the remaining 3 balls were all covered by Cheng Jie.

Efficient three-point shooting allowed the Chinese men's basketball team to score 34 points in the first quarter.

On the other side, Lithuania couldn't defend itself, but it couldn't break through the opponent's defense.

The outside line formed by Jeremy Lin, Wang Meng and Cheng Jie can be called an iron lock across the river, even the top players in the NBA have to weigh it, not to mention Lithuania's not strong outside line?

Not to mention that the Chinese men's basketball team still has a monster-like existence like Hao Peng on the inside, and any outside player who dares to break into the inside line will have to pass his hurdle.

From the beginning of the Olympics to the knockout round, Hao Peng can send an average of 4.2 blocks per game, which is the current blocking king of the Olympic Games, more than Dunn.

The Chinese men's basketball team scored 34 points in the first quarter, while Lithuania only scored 17 points under the ironclad defense of the Chinese men's basketball team.

In the second quarter of the game, the situation did not improve in the slightest, and Lithuania could only take advantage of the rotation of the Chinese men's basketball team and replace Zhou Qi and other substitute players to seize the time to chase some points difference.

At the end of the second quarter, the halftime score of the two teams was 56:33, and the Chinese men's basketball team led by 23 points.

After the start of the second half, the Chinese men's basketball team briefly changed to a full bench lineup, Jeremy Lin, Hao Peng, Cheng Jie, Wang Meng and others were resting off the court, Guo Allen, Zhou Qi, Ding Yanyuhang and others all appeared on the court, surrounding Yi Jianlian for the main attack.

This lineup is a bit like the tactical system of the Chinese men's basketball team when it competed in the Rio Olympics in another time and space.

This tactical system is obviously unreasonable and unscientific, even if Yi Jianlian is much stronger than himself at the same time because of Wang Xiao's relationship, and the rest of the Chinese men's basketball team has also improved, but the situation on the court is still reversed immediately.

In the first half, Lithuania, who was pressed by the Chinese men's basketball team, actually began to counterattack, and in 5 minutes, Lithuania chased 10 points in a row and chased the difference back to within 20 points.

But that's all, as Wang Xiao unhurriedly replaced the main force on the field, the situation was immediately controlled.

In the next 5 minutes, the Chinese men's basketball team re-expanded the difference to more than 20 points, and entered the fourth quarter with a 20-point difference.

As for the result of the fourth game, there is naturally no suspense.

Throughout the game, Lithuania failed to make any more waves, and several attempts to organize effective counterattacks were also blocked by Hao Penglin and Jeremy Hao.

In the end, when the whistle blew at the end of the game, the score of the two teams was fixed at 81:64, and the Chinese men's basketball team easily defeated Lithuania with a 17-point advantage and entered the semifinals!