"Del, I think we have a big forward or a small forward who can make a basket on our main lineup."

"I also know that it's not that I'm too high-minded, but it's difficult to find such a forward line in the CBA."

"What do you think of Yi?"

'He's so little experience and we're worried he'll not know what to do when he's on the pitch.'

"Alas......"

Liu Mang and Silver Fox Harris sighed at the same time.

Just like Harris said, Yi Jianlian has not played in the past four games, when he played Argentina, when Yao Ming was pulled out by Scola and Yao Ming was caught in the inside, Yi Jianlian went up, and he couldn't defend it, and he couldn't attack it.

Lack of awareness and panic are Yi Jianlian's problems, and in four games, he got a total of six points and two rebounds.

Liu Mang is very satisfied with Harris's coaching, Harris is used to coaching in the NBA, and when Liu Mang and Yao Ming are there, they are more willing to use the advantages of the two to defeat Spain, which is still young.

It's just that on the Chinese team's side, there are strength, except for Liu Mang, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and the others are either veterans like Li Nan and Guo Shiqiang, or they can only do simple tasks, such as throwing empty three-pointers, and the defense is okay, but when it comes to scoring in the confrontation, few can do it.

"By the way, Del, what do you think of Mo?" Liu Mang thought of Moko.

"Mo? You can give it a try......" Harris almost forgot about Moko.

The Chinese team has Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Battle three who can play center, and Du Feng is in the big forward position, and it is good to give Yi Jianlian a few minutes to let him feel the World Series, Yi Jianlian has potential, but Moko has no potential, Moko, who is already in the youth team at the age of 13, has formed his skills and has limited talent, but it is not a role player's style of play, but a core style of play, which needs to be strong with the ball, but it is not very prominent in international competitions, so Yi Jianlian is on the court because Yi Jianlian looks like the future of the national team, And Moko is not.

But Moko's impact is still very good.

"Let's try it!" Harris thought that the next opponent was Serbia and Montenegro, the inside line was strong, and more inside lethality was needed, and the Chinese team had almost no way to cause damage on the inside except for Yao Ming.

Although Divac and Peja are missing, Serbia and Montenegro still have several NBA players and a large number of top European players, mainly three frontcourt lineups!

"Del, will you still coach at the next Olympics?" Liu Mang asked suddenly.

"I don't know, if I didn't make it to the finals this time, I guess I would have gone back to college to teach." Harris smiled, but he looked very open, the head coach of the Chinese team is not delicious.

"I hope it's you, I think you're a better fit for us than other coaches......"

……

……

The two days passed quickly, and on August 23, the match day between the Chinese team and the Serbian and Montenegro team arrived.

Yesterday, the United States team narrowly defeated the Greek team 77-71, with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses, and finally locked the place in Group B to advance to the finals.

In terms of rent, Lithuania is in first place with 4 wins and 1 loss, with only one loss to Greece, the United States is second with 3 wins and 2 losses, Puerto Rico is third with 3 wins and 2 losses, Greece is fourth with 3 wins and 2 losses, Australia is fifth with 2 wins and 3 losses, and Angola has lost all five games.

A rented here, and the Chinese team played for a day, Italy and New Zealand, when the Chinese team started, there had been more than a quarter of the game, and New Zealand was tyrannized by Italy without suspense.

This is a lot of pressure on the Chinese team's side.

It can be counted as a knockout system!

……

By 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the players of the Chinese team and the Serbian and Montenegro teams had entered the Spartan Stadium to start the final preparation time.

How powerful is Harris? Being able to press Ace Jones and Nick Van Exel to the bench and let the little blacksmith shoot at critical moments shows how bold he is.

Today's starting lineup of the Chinese team is Liu Mang, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Mo Ke, and Yao Ming.

On the Serbian and Montenegro side, the starting lineup, the first name scared Liu Mang.

Popovich!

It's just Sychenko Popovich, a 1.91 point guard for CSKA Moscow, and the other four starters are Igor Rakocevic, the Timberwolves' water cooler manager and pitcher last season; Current Nets forward Vladimir Radmanovic, Nenard Kostic, a super interior potential rookie who was selected by the Nets in 2002 and has announced his entry into the NBA, and Raptors super rookie Darko Milicic.

Soon, the game began, with Yao Ming and Milicic jumping to the centre circle.

As the "hope of Asian centers" and "the hope of European centers", Yao Ming and Milicic are only one year away from entering the NBA, and their performances in their rookie seasons are often compared.

But it's no better than I don't know, Yao Ming's rookie year, it's really amazing, there is a Francis who made the playoffs, and Milicic has more helpers, but the Raptors are at the bottom of the East.

Of course, age can be a big factor, but can Milicic be named in the All-Star team before he is 24 years old? It's hard to say.

It's time to jump the ball, Milicic saw Yao Ming, full of fighting spirit, his agent said that Yao Ming is his fierce rival on the road to future development, and he also knows how powerful Yao Ming is, so he is very warlike about this game, and, like the Chinese team, if he loses this game, he will be eliminated!

Just as he was about to jump the ball, Milicic saw Liu Mang coming over.

Seeing Liu Mang's ill-intentioned eyes, Milicic's heart suddenly burst out, what he was most afraid of in the Chinese team was not Yao Ming, but Liu Mang!

"What is he going to do!" Milicic was nervous.

Liu Mang walked up to Missilich, tilted his head and said, "Little ghost, go back and drive the tractor, your land hasn't been planted yet." ”

Yao Ming saw Liu Mang come over and say such a sentence, inexplicably, Milicic is a No. 4 show, with a salary of more than 3 million US dollars a year, and the future is immeasurable, the annual salary of tens of millions of dollars in the future is proper, plant a fart land!

However, when Yao Ming turned his head to look at Milicic, he found that Milicic was distracted, and he was muttering words that Yao Ming did not understand, not English.

Milicic spoke Serbian and Croatian, which roughly meant: "It's been a long time since I've been home to see my mother, I've been away for more than a year, she must be very tired from farming, I told her that Dako has made a lot of money......"

“？？？” Yao Ming's three views are a little collapsed, what does Liu Mang's sentence mean? Why is this No. 4 show suddenly as nervous?

As a simple Eastern European big man, Milicic is also 19 years old after all, and Liu Mang just borrowed Milicic's words when Milicic played with the Timberwolves, and Garnett taunted Milicic in training to make Milicic cry.

The only difference is that when Garnett said something similar, his tone was mocking, wanting to hit Milicic or trying to motivate Milicic, and at that time, Milicic had already locked in his parallel import, and he was older and felt humiliated.

And now Misilich was selected as a rookie for a while, and when he heard Liu Mang's words, he thought of his former Soviet mother, who inherited the hard-working essence of the older generation of the former Soviet Union.

The referee blew the whistle for the start of the game and threw the ball into the air, Milicic reacted a beat slower, and saw Yao Ming's lame bounce win the jump ball from his head, Misiriic reacted and was pitted by that hateful guy again!

Why are you caught?

Milicic thought of playing against Liu Mang for the first time, and he was deducted, and hurriedly returned to the defense in grief and anger.

Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, gesturing for everyone to pull away, and Yao Ming went to the low post.

Popovich's defense was very extensive, sticking to Liu Mang, trying to press, as an Eastern European player, Popovich's style of play was very strong.

Seeing that the Serbian and Montenegro team seemed to have a tendency to shrink, Liu Mang knew that this was to pinch him, so he protected the ball and waited for his teammates to settle down.

Moko and Zhu Fangyu went to the bottom corners on both sides, Li Nan was ready to respond and receive the ball at a 45-degree angle for three points, the space was not completely opened, Yao Ming was sandwiched by Kostic and Milicic under the basket, Moko was empty, and he came to the middle distance very actively, Liu Mang immediately passed the ball when Moko cut in.

As soon as Moko received the ball, Kostic immediately turned to defend Moko, but Moko was already rushing up!

Kostic underestimated Moko too much, and pounced directly to stop Moko, but Kostic himself was just a 100-kilogram 21-year-old young insider, and he was not the one who would average 16 points per game in the NBA playoffs in the future, and was knocked away by the 112-kilogram Moko!

Milicic has a good sense of defense, come over to make up for the defense, Moko is worthy of being the successor of Wang Zhizhi of the Bayi team, the offense with the ball is quite comprehensive, and he immediately passed to Yao Ming, Yao Ming smashed the ball into the basket with both hands in a gorilla-style dunk!

First-class explosiveness, strong impact with the ball, and a lot of offensive options under the basket are the characteristics of Moko, sometimes used well, the effect is very good, although his ceiling is far inferior to Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi has a gap, but the reasonable use of his ability has really played a miraculous effect!

The Chinese team started the game with a fierce inside match!

The offense and defense switched, the Serbian and Montenegro team attacked, and Popovich advanced with the ball.

Anti-Popovich, just by this name, Liu Mang is very motivated, and he began to defend Popovich directly in the half.

Popovich didn't expect Liu Mang to be so active, pouting his ass to protect the ball, and rubbing forward little by little.

Popovich finally crossed the halfway line to the three-point line, and what he saw was that the other four people of the Chinese team took the initiative to fight hand-to-hand with his four teammates!

Fight hard! Just start to fight like this? What's going to do?

Moko finally got the opportunity to play, and he received two orders, one is to rush to the basket on the offensive end, and the other is to fight Milicic hand-to-hand on the defensive end, how to make Milicic uncomfortable.

Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu except for the first game against the relatively "gorgeous" Spain, the three points are very accurate, and the back is more accurate to play the weak chicken New Zealand, when they play Italy and Argentina, they are all very poor in the fierce physical confrontation, and now they are playing Eastern European teams, it is estimated that it is not much better, so the task given to them by the coaching staff is that the offensive end can open up the space, and there is a chance to shoot decisively, whether to score or not, but the defensive end is more fierce than the opponent!

Even Yao Ming was under the basket, and he spared no effort to press Kostic, and Kostic was forced to withdraw from the three-second zone, and Yao Ming joined the national team in his teens because he did not defend for three seconds and was also used to FIBA's style of play.

And Kostic is different from many European insiders, although he is white, he is the kind of interior line of the American black, a hardline interior line who works in the standard three-second zone, so he is so valued by the Nets, who spent a large price of 1 million euros to buy out his contract with Moscow Victory, just to bring him to the NBA next season.

However, what Yao Ming is most afraid of is the inside line of this black American type in this era!

Duncan Yao Ming is not false, rookie Yao Ming beat the peak Duncan once, let alone Kostic?

This is the beginning of the competition! Just fight like that?

Popovich was frightened by the strong fighting spirit of the Chinese team!

Rakocevic finally broke free from Li Nan's hand-to-hand combat and came up to respond, Popovich was about to collapse by Liu Mang's oppressive defense, and he fought so hard at the beginning, can he play the next game? Does this guy want to play in the next game, can he stand it physically? We're better than you!

Liu Mang said...... What is physical fitness?

Popovich passed the ball to Rakocevic, who received the ball and could only throw it, and time was running out.

"Bang ......"

Iron!

Yao Ming pushed Kostic out of the three-second zone, guarded the defensive rebound, and immediately threw it to Liu Mang who ran back to the free throw line, Liu Mang received the ball and immediately pushed the counterattack, chasing Rakocevic to Li Nan outside the three-point line for the first time, and when it came to the opponent's three-point line, Liu Mang's long pass was delivered as soon as possible.

Rakocevic and Popovich have retreated to the three-point line, Li Nan chased down the three-point shot and missed, but Liu Mang followed up with a rebound to score two points!

The tactics discussed by Liu Mang and Harris were to catch the opponent off guard at the beginning! If you can play an advantage from the beginning, you can play an advantage.

Just like the fourth quarter of the game between the Chinese team and the Serbian and Montenegro team in Liu Mang's memory, in the fourth quarter of that game, the Chinese team limited the Serbian and Montenegro team to only 9 points, and the final quarter reversed, proving that the Chinese team can win by pressing defense and counterattacking!

Liu Mang's idea was to beat the Serbian and Montenegro team out of rhythm from the very beginning! Although Serbia and Montenegro are Eastern European teams, they are not the Yugoslavia they used to be, only Serbia and Montenegro are composed of two countries, which are not so strong! Then, it's time for his show.

Others have fitness problems, but he doesn't! Put Wang Zhizhi on the bench just to rotate the lineup time!