Chapter 905: The Quarterfinals
Because of the rules of the comparatively cheating, the Chinese team must go all out to prepare for the last game.
If you lose the last game, let alone win against Australia, even if you win against the United States, you will still be eliminated.
The opponent, Serbia, is not an easy team to play against.
Although in the previous games, Serbia played poorly.
The United States, France, Australia, lost cleanly.
Venezuela won and now has to compete with the Chinese team for the last qualifying spot.
Serbia is also lucky, even if they lose badly, as long as they win the last game, they will enter the quarterfinals.
The competition between the two sides is on the verge of breaking out.
Serbia's squad is young, but the players are talented.
Jokic, Bogdanovic, Calecchini and others are all young talents.
After the older generation of Serbian stars gradually faded out, they carried the banner of this basketball hot land.
It can be said that the people of the Balkans have the best basketball talent except for black Americans.
At a time when the land was not yet divided, it was home to a large number of unique basketball talents.
Even after falling into a split and becoming several small countries, each country still has a strong pool of basketball talent.
If the Chinese team wants to win this game, it will definitely not be too easy.
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Before the match, Li Liang made the best adjustment to his form.
He began to control his diet, cut back on other unnecessary activities, and sat cross-legged in bed to meditate.
This was taught to him by the strange old man when Li Liang was doing the shooting task in the system.
At that time, he was on a mission, which was to do a lot of non-basketball activities.
What rowing, jumping rope, playing handball, etc., and then the inexplicable shooting level increases.
The old man also said that when you need to get yourself into the best shape, try meditation.
Concentrate your attention.
Feel your hands, your arms, your waist, your legs.
Feel every muscle you need to shoot a basketball.
To be honest, Li Liang didn't believe it at first.
Later, he found out that it would be better to believe it than not to believe it, but what if it worked?
Therefore, before the start of this competition, Li Liang had to give it a try, maybe it would really work.
It also reflects from the side that Li Liang really attaches great importance to this game.
After all, if he loses, he won't be able to enter the quarterfinals, wouldn't it be too embarrassing for him to be the first person in NBA basketball?
You can't even achieve the best result of the Chinese team, what else are you going to be the first person to be?
Li Liang actually felt a trace of nervousness.
It's incredible.
The main thing is that the teammates are too vegetable.
Li Liang feels that after this trip to the national team, his psychological quality has been improved.
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On August 15, the men's basketball group stage entered the final stage.
Group A is the Chinese team and the Serbian team competing for the right to qualify, and whoever wins will advance.
The situation in Group B is much more complicated.
Because there is a high probability that there will be 4 teams with the same number of points, then it needs to be counted as a small score.
After arriving at the competition venue, Li Liang did not warm up.
"I'm in good shape right now, and the warm-up will take my form away."
I don't know where the strange theories came out.
Anyway, whatever he says is what it is, Gong Luming has no choice but to believe his ghost.
When the game really started, Gong Luming knew that Li Liang was not lying.
It's a game that must be won.
To be honest, Li Liang has never played such a game in the NBA.
As the saying goes, "Bruce Lee never grabs seven." ”
Li Liang has been in the NBA playoffs for four years, and he has never played a tie-break.
If there is any title of the king of the seven in the future, it is estimated that it will not be Li Liang's turn.
Every time, it is a clean and enjoyable victory.
When it comes to the Olympics, it will be different, and the final game of the group stage will decide to qualify.
Then qualified, the quarterfinals and semifinals are all a win-or-loser, and each game is a life-and-death battle.
Li Liang has not experienced such a scene, and it has been like this every year in the four years of college and the NCAA.
But wasn't he too vegetable, and he often didn't have the opportunity to appear.
This time at the Olympics, it's really exciting to play this kind of "win or go home" competition.
After the game started, Li Liang was in full swing.
The real firepower was on full swing, and they attacked Serbia with all their might as soon as they started.
Jokic opened with three consecutive balls and switched defenses after blocking and dismantling, and was scored by Li Liang's one-on-one single.
It's not the same three times.
A direct three-point shot.
After a worship of Buddha, he broke through the basket in the middle and made a layup.
A pull-up jump shot after a breakaway.
Li Liang's overall state has reached its peak.
You can see it from the state of his dribble and shots.
There is no mud and water in handling the ball, and the bowl is pressed very hard when shooting, and every ball hit is hollow.
At the beginning, Li Liang alone took all the scores of the Chinese team - 15 points!
He shot 1-of-2 from three-pointers and 6-of-7 from two-pointers.
Soon, after the first quarter of the game, the Chinese team was 31:19, leading the Serbian team by as many as 12 points.
Serbia was clearly stunned and didn't know how to respond on the offensive end.
On the defensive end, Li Liang got the ball and opened his hand.
Even more terrifying is in verse 2.
Because after the end of the first quarter, the [Heavenly King] medal on Li Liang's body lit up!
Li Liang directly asked Gong Luming to continue to put himself on the field.
Such a good state cannot be wasted.
As a result, Li Liang's outside line frequently fired cannons, one shot at a time.
So, such a situation arose on the field.
Li Liang dribbled past half the court, pulled up the outside line and threw it - in.
Jokic runs to the baseline to serve.
Serbia's offense missed, Li Liang got the backcourt rebound, advanced to the halfcourt, a block, pulled up the outside line and threw it again!
Entered again......
Jokic was behind his ass and hadn't made it to the three-point line yet.
Ran to the baseline to serve again.
After three or four times like this, Jokic began to doubt his life on the court.
Where am I? What are you doing? Who are you playing with? What is my function?
A service machine without feelings?
Li Liang shot a terrifying 6-of-8 three-pointer in the second quarter.
He scored 20 points in a single quarter and 35 points in the first half alone!
Li Liang's scoring ability is really quite terrifying.
He also did everything he could, first forcing his [Heavenly King] state out.
Then, in the attack, use various skills such as [Kassel's Smile], [Mid-range Hit Rate Booster], and [Ten Thousand Buddhas Dynasty] to make your offensive efficiency rise to the peak.
As these skills continue to be used, the level of the skills themselves increases, the cooldown time becomes shorter, and the effect gets better and better.
At the end of the half, there was no suspense about the result.
The Chinese team led Serbia by 29 points at 72:43!
Theoretically, 29 in the first half and 29 in the second half, adding up to 58.
In fact, Serbia is not so weak, but it was really blinded by Li Liang.
Completely blinded, this scoring explosiveness is really terrible, and it can't be stopped.
Even the Chinese players themselves have been blinded.
After the first quarter, Yi Jianlian thought, this is just like Marbury at the beginning.
In 14 years, Guangdong and Beijing played the semifinals, and the third game was in Dongguan, Marbury scored 19 points in the first quarter.
As a result, in the second quarter, Li Liang's performance was even more exaggerated, and the entire bench of the Chinese team felt like it was about to be turned over.
With a lead of 29 points, Serbia did not lose their fighting spirit in the second half and continued to catch up.
But the difference is just too big.
Li Liang's state disappeared in the second half, and he was not so crazy.
The team's offense was at a low ebb.
But the situation is still under his control.
Serbia narrowed the deficit to 13 points at one point in the fourth quarter.
Their offensive surge gave the game hope for a while.
But Li Liang relied on his rich experience and the steal of [Death Entanglement] to ruin Serbia's last hope.
The heaviest, the Chinese team defeated Serbia 100:89, with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses, and qualified from the group.
Although China defeated Australia, they lost to France and the United States, and Australia defeated France, so according to the difference between the winners and losers, the Chinese team is still ranked last in the group and will play the quarterfinals with the winners of Group B.
However, this seemingly bad ranking at the end of the group has brought the Chinese men's basketball team to the pinnacle of history.