Chapter 460: Losing is not unjust
The second quarter of the game was in full swing, and the Chinese men's basketball team has been in the lead, although the lead is extremely weak, and it has not exceeded five points, but it is enough to keep the lead exciting.
Before the game, I am afraid that no more optimistic Chinese fans could not have imagined that the Chinese men's basketball team would win the American Dream Team in the first half.
It's completely unimaginable that such a strong dream team, which can almost be said to be the second strongest team in Olympic history, lost to the Chinese men's basketball team led by Yi Dun at half time.
Eden's half-time stats weren't stellar, but the stats in this game definitely don't show Eden's value.
Without Yi Dun's containment, how could Chinese outside players find so many vacant opportunities.
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On the bench, except for Yi Dun, the other players were panting, and the high-intensity game in the half made them tired enough.
Although Yi Dun was contained, they also had to run frantically to find a vacancy, which consumed a lot of their physical energy, especially Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue, who played half the game, and they couldn't hold it anymore.
Now physical fitness is a big challenge for Chinese players, and if they can't keep up, they may not be able to guarantee the hit rate of open shots.
After a short intermission, the game resumed.
As time passed, Yi Dun could clearly feel that his teammates were struggling to play, and he had no choice but to let Deng Huade on the sidelines call a timeout for substitutions.
It's not that there are no players on the bench who are good at three-point ability, but there is definitely still a gap compared to the four on the court.
By the end of the third quarter, the U.S. team had already overtaken the score, leading by five points at 87-82.
Yi Dun looked helpless, and the problem of a weak lineup became more and more obvious in the later stages of the game.
The U.S. men's basketball team can change players as they want to ensure that every player has full physical fitness on the court, after all, no matter who is replaced, these players have the strength to crush the opponent in the matchup.
The Chinese men's basketball team is not good, the lineup foundation is too poor.
With the final quarter of the game left, Chinese fans are still acceptable to the current situation, although their home team is behind, but it is not easy to play this step.
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At the beginning of the fourth quarter, just when everyone thought that the American team would take advantage of the victory to chase and directly make the game without suspense, a surprising situation happened.
In this quarter of the game, the American players seemed to be drunk, the shooting rate was simply not good, how to shoot and how not to shoot, not only happened to a certain player, all the players on the court lost their crosshairs.
Even the strongest stars will inevitably be inaccurate, and a basketball god like Jordan has a two-game shooting rate of only 11 percent in his career, and a poor performance of 12 of 36 in a single game.
It's just that like the U.S. men's basketball team, it is quite rare for players on the court to collectively mute fire, which is undoubtedly a big gift to the Chinese men's basketball team.
Now that the game has reached the fourth quarter, the physical fitness of several players of the Chinese men's basketball team is almost to the limit, but the comprehensive scoring efficiency is still higher than that of the American men's basketball team.
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Coach K had no choice but to call a timeout, there were only five minutes left before the end of the game, and now the Chinese men's basketball team was two points ahead, and he had to make some changes to the lineup on the court.
The timeout ended, and the personnel of both sides returned to the field.
Yi Dun saw that the American team put James on the court, and he could roughly guess the plan of the American team, which was nothing more than to use the breakthrough to create points.
James didn't play for too long in this game, and the protagonist of the first three quarters of tonight was Durant, who has already scored more than 30 points, ranking the highest in the game.
"Yi Dun, take it easy, the other party should start to play the inside line." Yi Jianlian whispered beside Yi Dun.
Yi Dun nodded, "Don't worry, they can't get in." ”
In the offensive round of the U.S. team, as Eden guessed, Deron Williams passed the ball to James and helped make a pick-and-roll, and James directly held the ball and killed it to the basket.
Eden stuck Chandler behind him and watched James rush towards him.
After crossing the free-throw line, James began to initiate three steps, which was a clear stance to score on Eden's head.
After James stepped into the reasonable collision zone and jumped, Eden jumped up and the two went head-to-head in the air.
Looking at this scene, Yi Dun, who is only 1.9 meters tall, is much smaller than James, but the end of this confrontation ended in Yi Dun's complete victory.
James didn't have time to make a move, he lost his balance in mid-air and fell directly to the ground.
It's hard to say whether James is the strongest man in the NBA, but he can't fault his current strongest active outside player in the NBA.
But such a strong player, like a mud in front of Yi Dun, did not pose any threat to Yi Dun at all, and even after Yi Dun landed, he could quickly stabilize his body and pick up the ball that James lost.
The old Coach K on the sidelines sighed, although he knew that James would be deflated in front of Yi Dun, but he still wanted to give it a try, in case James could really break through Yi Dun's basket defense, then this game would be easy to play.
As a result, Coach K was extremely disappointed, and the strongest outside player in the current NBA was completely inadequate in front of Yi Dun.
Lao K is actually a little fortunate in his heart, but also fortunately Yi Dun is very short, if Yi Dun keeps his current physical fitness unchanged and has the height of Yao Ming, then it is certain that Yi Dun can beat the American Dream Team with only one person.
Because it was a collision in a reasonable collision area, the referee did not blow the whistle, and Yi Dun led his teammates to start a counterattack after getting the ball.
When the ball arrived in the front court, Yi Dun took advantage of Chandler's position and directly made a violent dunk on Lefou's head.
Lefou's face was a little embarrassed, he didn't know that Yi Dun had made up his mind to join the Timberwolves, maybe he came to Yi Dun before, and he didn't have much hope.
It's true that the Timberwolves have no advantage over other teams, and Love doesn't think Eden will be interested in the Timberwolves.
With this violent dunk of Yi Dun, it directly ignited the bench of the Chinese men's basketball team, and there are less than five minutes left before the end of the game, and now the Chinese men's basketball team is still four points ahead!
This situation stunned fans all over the world, and they could never have imagined that the Chinese men's basketball team, which has not had much presence in the Olympics, could force the American Dream Team into such a desperate situation.
Turning his head, this time James definitely didn't dare to surprise Yi Dun again, as long as he was not a fool, he would definitely be able to clearly understand Yi Dun's horror.
Just when everyone was dumbfounded, Anthony stepped up and decisively took over the team's offensive banner.
In the lineup of this year's Dream Ten team, Anthony is definitely not the one with the most strength and fame, and his career has been almost ten years now, and he has not won any decent honors in such a long career.
The highlight was probably the 08-09 season when he partnered Billups to reach the Western Conference Finals, only to lose to the Lakers, who won the championship that year.
In addition, Anthony only has one scoring title and one best second team at hand.
is just such a player, as soon as he arrives on the stage of the World Series, he can immediately burst out with quite dazzling energy.
In the previous game against Nigeria, Anthony only played 14 minutes, but the result was a staggering 37 points, and the offensive efficiency was terrifying.
Durant was in control of the game in the first three quarters of tonight, and after Durant was dumbfounded, Anthony immediately stepped up.
Back to turn over mid-range shots, dry pull-out three-pointers, block and tear three-point shots, block and dismantle emergency stop shots, Anthony showed a variety of offensive methods, in less than three minutes, cut ten points in a row, and directly led the U.S. men's basketball team to score a lot.
Yi Dun was a little crazy to watch, but he couldn't help it at all, and Anthony's outburst couldn't blame Sun Yue, who was opposite Anthony.
Sun Yue has actually done well enough in this game, he has cut 20 points so far, and he is desperate enough on the defensive end, but it is definitely unrealistic to expect Sun Yue to completely prevent Anthony.
If Sun Yue can prevent Anthony from death, then the Lakers will not be able to give up Sun Yue.
Being able to kill Anthony is enough to prove that this player has the best outside defense in the league, and such a player can definitely have a foothold in the NBA even if his offensive ability is rubbish.
The best example of this is probably Tony Allen, whose offensive ability is not trash, but it is not much better, but with his strong outside defensive ability, countless teams are willing to give him a contract above the middle level.
If Sun Yue has such defensive ability, then Yi Dun doesn't have to worry so much.
There are less than two minutes left before the end of the game, and the Chinese men's basketball team has two timeouts, so they directly called a timeout to let the players rest a little.
Now Yi Dun is too envious of those players with excellent projection ability, if he also has excellent projection ability, he will definitely not be so passive on the field.
But thinking about it, I don't want to practice an excellent basket in this life, Yi Dun can only sigh secretly.
The U.S. men's basketball bench is now silent, and the players are getting a taste of tension for the first time at the Olympics.
Although they are now in the lead, they are only four points ahead, and there is no guarantee that there will be no surprises in the remaining game time.
If they lose, the Dream Ten team will be completely doomed, and they will completely lose their hope of winning gold.
When the time comes, when they return to China, what awaits them is definitely what a thousand people mean.
The Chinese men's basketball team is not much better, they are also very nervous, although they are falling behind, but it is not the kind of backwardness that cannot be recovered, they still have hope of winning, but this requires them to show their best state in the next time.
Just when all the players were extremely nervous, Coach K breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't be too nervous, we won this game." Coach K said to the American players in a firm tone.
The players looked at each other, and they didn't know what the confidence of Lao K was when he said this.
"Remember the EDEN information we got earlier? You won't forget his free throws, will you? Old K said slowly.
The players were dumbfounded, how could they not know what Old K meant, Old K was going to use shark cutting tactics against Yi Dun.
These NBA stars now have a sense of shame in their hearts, they never imagined that on the Olympic stage, they would be forced to use such indiscriminate tactics as shark slashing tactics.
Of course, tactics must be noble and lowly, as long as you can win, it is good tactics.
But in the eyes of fans, the shark slashing tactic is a relatively indiscriminate tactic, and it is a tactic that is used when conventional tactics cannot be effective.
The U.S. men's basketball team has never used this tactic against any opponent in their Olympic history, and they didn't expect Eden to become the first person to eat crabs.
Now the Dream Team players generally understand why Lao K said that they have won, and they have used shark slashing tactics, if they don't win, then they may not have the face to return to the United States.
There is no need for Lao K to arrange specific tactics, the players on the court are very familiar with the shark slashing tactics, and they know too well when to send Yi Dun to the free throw line.
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The game continued, the players from both sides returned to the court, and Eden and the four shooters all took to the court, ready to play the final battle against the U.S. men's basketball team.
Eden glanced at the clock, and there was 1 minute and 43 seconds left before the end of the race.
In the offensive round of the American team, Anthony still attacked, and the goal failed to score, which made Yi Dun happy.
At this last moment, any team that does not score a goal may affect the final result of the game.
After Grabbing the rebound, Eden began to counterattack, and if they won this offensive round, they would only be two points behind.
Sun Yue controlled the ball to the front court, and Yi Dun immediately felt that something was wrong, and he didn't use the bag and clamp tactics on himself?
At the moment, only himself and Davis, the thick eyebrows, are left, and the other four Dream Team players are defending one-on-one.
Yi Dun was even more overjoyed in his heart, could it be that the coach of the American team wanted to send warmth? At such a critical juncture, he actually gave up on his own bag?
Doesn't this give yourself the opportunity to wreak havoc on the basket.
There is no need for Yi Dun to say hello, Sun Yue has already passed the ball to the basket, his passing skills are no worse than Liu Wei, the ball is quite comfortable, Yi Dun easily received it.
Just as Yi Dun was about to squeeze away the thick eyebrows Davis turned over and dunked, Davis directly hugged Yi Dun with both arms, and the referee's whistle also sounded.
Yi Dun turned his head and looked at the thick eyebrows with a shocked face, he naturally knew what the hell the American team was doing, but he couldn't believe that the American team would use such a trick in the World Series.
The thick eyebrows were red when Yi Dun saw it, if it wasn't for the last resort, he didn't want to use this kind of criticism, but it was more acceptable than being scolded when he lost and returned to China.
Because the game has entered the last two minutes, if it fouls the player without the ball, it will give the Chinese men's basketball team the opportunity to make two free throws and one throw, so the opportunity to foul the thick eyebrows is very good, and he fouled Yi Dun at the moment of receiving the ball, avoiding the penalty of two free throws and one throw.
Eden got two free throws and walked to the free throw line.
At the last moment, this kind of free throw is extremely testing the player's mental endurance, but fortunately, Yi Dun was born with a big heart, but it has no effect on him.
But the big heart belongs to the big heart, and Yi Dun's free throw level is there, even if there is a big heart, it is impossible to improve Yi Dun's free throw level.
Only one of the two free throws was hit, which is considered a normal level of play.
Turning the head to the offensive round of the U.S. men's basketball team, point guard Paul hit a mid-range shot and continued to open the difference.
Now Yi Dun doesn't care much about the outcome of this game, and can force the American team to use shark cutting tactics, and it is not unjust to lose this game at all.
It can be clearly felt that the offensive round of the American team is dragging out time, and they want to rely on the point difference in their hands to lead, coupled with the shark slashing tactics, to grind the victory of this game alive.
The current Chinese men's basketball team is completely helpless in the face of this situation.
Yi Dun's free throws are still so "stable", and the free throw line has always been one of two free throws.
"Doot toot!" The referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and in the end, the U.S. men's basketball team won the game with a hard-fought score of 122-115.
It was not wrong to say that it was a difficult win to win the game, and the American team can be said to have done everything they could, and in the end they only won by seven points.
If it weren't for the last-minute shark slashing tactics, the outcome of this game would be really hard to say.
Yi Dun, Dazhi and the others naturally felt a little regretful on their faces, but they also knew very well that being able to achieve the current result was almost the best result, and they could accept it.
Although the U.S. men's basketball team won the game, they are not very happy now, and it is really too torturous to win this game.
Even the shark slashing tactics were used, which made them feel like they were invincible.
The most important thing is that Yi Dun's strength makes them deeply jealous, according to their guess, Yi Dun will definitely enter the NBA, if it is not their teammates, after meeting Yi Dun in the game, it will be a painful situation.
You must know that the average strength of NBA teams is actually not much different, and it is definitely much smaller than the difference in strength between the American men's basketball team and the Chinese men's basketball team.
Now Yi Dun with the Chinese men's basketball team almost killed the all-star dream team, when the time comes, Yi Dun with a not weak NBA team, who will be his opponent? !
For a while, there was only one thought in the hearts of many players, that is, they absolutely wanted to win Yi Dun and definitely become Yi Dun's teammates.
Just as they looked at Yi Dun with fiery eyes, Yi Dun beckoned to Kevin Love.
Lefu pointed to his face in disbelief, he didn't expect Yi Dun to wave at him, what does this mean? Do you want to join the Timberwolves?
Thinking of this, Lefu felt his heart beat abruptly, as if it was about to jump out of his chest.