Iverson and Duncan are the leaders of this American team, and the temperament of the two determines the temperament of the American team.

Duncan...... Regarding the temperament, the main responsibility is to be ignored, the main temperament of the American team this year is Iverson's temperament, unruly, unruly when he loses, and he doesn't deal with anyone.

Just like now, no one on the American side came to say hello to the Chinese team, and the Chinese team did not come over.

While being arrogant and wanting to kill the other party, Liu Mang and Buzeer just glanced at each other and nodded, each preparing for the game.

Feeling the cheers of the whole stadium, Liu Mang felt weird, even the fans wearing the Spanish national team jersey and the Greek national team fans came to cheer for him, most of the fans of the country, for the Chinese team, only knew Liu Mang and Yao Ming, "Big-YAO" and "ICE" The shouts of the two English names or nicknames resounded in the stadium.

The U.S. team didn't care about this at all, except for the fact that in 1996 it was on American soil and in 1992 when the Dream Team was born and swept everything, except for these two World Series, after 1992, except for the World Championships in which no NBA player participated in the NBA shutdown in 1998, the American team was booed everywhere they went, they were the public enemies of the world, this is not a shame, but what they are most proud of...... Except for being booed at the World Championships in Indiana two years ago, they lost so much that American fans booed them.

Liu Mang now feels a bit like a "child of destiny......

The referee signaled that the game was about to begin, let the starters come on and the substitutes went back to the bench.

The U.S. side fielded the starting pairing of Allen Iverson, Stephen Marbury, Richard Jefferson, Lamar Odom and Tim Duncan.

What's so good about this lineup...... It's that these guys are theoretically the strongest in every position on the U.S. team, and Larry Brown's lineup will always be that way.

On the Chinese team's side, the change of formation in the previous game continued, with Liu Mang, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Mo Ke, and Yao Ming continuing to start.

Liu Mang took a deep breath and stepped on the court, he had made all the preparations, let's do it!

After Liu Mang came on the court, he saw that Yao Ming did not go to jump the ball, but Moko went, and he was surprised, and the two of them also learned to be flexible, but Moko and Duncan stood in the middle circle and jumped the ball...... Nor was it possible to jump to win, and the U.S. team attacked first.

Iverson received the ball and advanced to the front court, saw Liu Mang staying in the three-point line, rushed to the three-point line and shot a jump shot directly!

Liu Mang was also ready to prevent Iverson from breaking through, but he didn't expect Iverson to shoot directly after stopping three points! It's too late to pounce, and that's still it!

What the hell...... Wait, it seems that the distance of the three-point line in FIBA is just Iverson's mid-range shooting area!

In the first five games, he used this to beat his opponent, and Liu Mang forgot that the American team also played like this.

Iverson scored a three-pointer against Liu Mang at the beginning, which was indeed very unexpected.

Liu Mang was a little flustered for a while, but after thinking about it, he stabilized his position, and after receiving the serve, he advanced to the front court, and defended him ...... Marbury.

Yao Ming is on the inside, and Duncan's card position is a little problematic, Duncan's defense under the basket is very strong, but the inside line of other European and South American teams, Duncan defends who pulls out and throws, Yao Ming originally wanted to go in, relying on the name of "the world's No. 1 center" played in this Olympic Games, to do a wave of Duncan, and found that it was not so easy to push.

When Liu Mang saw this scene, he immediately beckoned to block the demolition.

It's just a pretense! Seeing Liu Mang's gesture to block and dismantle, Marbury subconsciously glanced behind him, the defensive awareness was really poor enough, Liu Mang didn't wait for Yao Ming to come out, and broke through directly from Marbury's left!

It was the first time Marbury encountered Liu Mang's breakthrough on the left, and as soon as his head to the left and the rear turned back, he saw that Liu Mang had rushed past him on the right side!

Marbury can't guard against others, but he can't prevent Liu Mang! He hurriedly turned around and chased after Liu Mang.

As soon as Marbury turned around and was about to catch up with Liu Mang, he was blocked by Yao Ming!

"Ding...... Trigger at level 5 of the Demolition Master, the host has +10 speed and +......8 power for 2 seconds.

Liu Mang, who had just rushed to the free throw line, skyrocketed in speed! Odom rushed over to make up for the defense, and saw that Liu Mang was like Iverson, rushing directly to the basket!

Duncan is waiting for him, he is now a little used to not defending for three seconds, standing under the basket and not moving, as long as Liu Mang makes a layup, he will cap! He's confident! Quite confident in his own defense under the basket......

“F……”

Before Duncan could finish a word in his mouth, Liu Mang smashed the ball into the basket!

Duncan originally saw that Liu Mang had already rushed in front of him, but he couldn't have imagined that Liu Mang would jump and dunk directly in front of him, because there was no space! Moreover, Liu Mang bounced up as if a jet was installed under his feet, and he pulled it up and buckled it!

Relying on Yao Ming's blocking and dismantling, Liu Mang triggered the blocking and dismantling master, and also had the opportunity to trigger the strongest first step! When jumping under the basket, if there is room to jump on the spot, greatly reduce the opponent's physical interference, and the strength is +5!

Duncan was too confident in his defense under the basket, trying to defend Liu Mang alone and Moko, who had the opportunity to cut in the air because of Odom's supplemental defense, so he stayed under the basket and was directly dunked by Liu Mang!

Speaking of which, it's to blame Marbury, it's good that Marbury doesn't chase it, but this chase, Duncan is lying down......

"Ah......" Yao Ming raised his head to the sky at the three-point line and roared, cheering for Liu Mang while returning to the defense, and he didn't know that he thought he had deducted Duncan.

Duncan still didn't have any expression on his face, silently picking up the ball, getting used to it......

This slam dunk was too uplifted, offsetting the pressure brought by Iverson's three-point surge at the beginning, not to mention, it also boosted the morale of the Chinese team!

Liu Mang didn't hesitate this time, he replied with an expressionless face, and forcibly pretended to be forced!

Playing the Olympics, Liu Mang feels the coolest thing is that he can directly roar tactics, not afraid of being heard by the other party, and he can't understand when he hears it, and shouts to his teammates when he returns to defense: "Brother Nan, wrap up Iverson with me, don't care about Marbury, Bajie apprentice, don't care about Jefferson, take two steps back to defend, pinch the inside, Duncan goes to the middle distance to help Da Yao defend, Da Yao don't come out under the basket, save your physical strength to guard the basket, Moko, stare at Odom, he is the most powerful one." ”

"Boss, just say don't call me Bajie!"

"Okay Bajie."

“……”

When it came to the U.S. team's offense, Iverson advanced to the frontcourt, and before he reached the three-point line, he saw Liu Mang and the Chinese player who didn't know who was coming towards him, Iverson immediately passed the ball to Marbury, and now he, the biggest improvement, began to train hard is one, and the other, is willing to pass the ball.

When Marbury received the ball, he originally thought that Iverson would take the defense away, he received the ball, and then attracted the defense back, and then passed to Iverson, got an assist, and mixed up with the reputation of being happy to pass, but he didn't expect that there was no one around him at all!

Marbury was! It's so contemptuous of people!

Breakthrough?

Marbury didn't, the guy opposite who said "Lao Tzu wants to fight" with "Lao Tzu wants to fight" on his face was in the middle distance, only defending the cut and breaking through the defense, and Yao Ming under the basket.

Pass?

Neither did Marbury, he was! In the group stage, if he hadn't played the Greek team in the second half of the consecutive breakthroughs to cause damage, the United States team might not have been able to pass the group stage, or it was up to him to beat Greece 77-71 to enter the group stage, he felt that he was better than Iverson, but the opponent wrapped Iverson, just because Iverson scored a three-pointer......

Wait, three points!

Iverson can vote, I can vote too!

Thinking of this, Marbury shot directly from outside the three-point line! He was a little bit accurate in the open shot.

But the sound of "clang...... sound, Marbury probably forgot that the first five games combined only made two three-pointers, and the three-point shot was decisive......

But!

Odom was fast and nimble and judged the rebounding position! Marbury's ball hit the back edge of the basket and bounced towards the free throw line, and Odom rarely grabbed an offensive rebound aggressively!

Odom was just about to make a riotous turn and shot, when Zhu Fangyu and Moko came over.

When you encounter a bag, pass the ball! And to be handsome! As soon as Odom turned around and met the two of them, he made a pass-through and threw it towards where Marbury had just shot......

"Beep"

The referee's whistle blows, out of bounds! Chinese sideline ball.

The first time he shot, Marbury felt that something was wrong, and he immediately remembered that the three-point line here was shorter, but he threw it out according to the three-point feeling of NBA training, so he immediately returned to defense, who knew that Odom grabbed the offensive rebound and passed the ball......

After coming and going, the American team felt a little deflated, too unlucky! Why is this Olympics so unlucky! The saddest thing was Odom, his glass heart, who never wanted to pass the ball to Marbury again.

It's time for the Chinese team to attack again, Liu Mang received the sideline ball and advanced it across the half, this time Iverson came to defend Liu Mang, Marbury's defense Iverson felt that it was enough, to press without pressing, to be conscious or unconscious.

Opposite Iverson, Liu Mang turned his body sideways, not giving Iverson a chance to steal, Iverson failed to complete the sudden steal for the first time, nor did he continue to press, and retreated to the three-point line with Liu Mang.

"Big brother, it's been a long time, by the way, I won the championship, and you didn't come to see how we abused the Lakers, it's really too much." Liu Mang kept babbling in English.

Iverson looked up at Liu Mang and ignored it.

"Cut, my psychological endurance has improved a lot!" Liu Mang didn't choose to break through, he was forced to the inside by Iverson and was covered by Duncan and Odom, and it was uncomfortable, and the strong shot was unreliable...... Let's just keep blocking and dismantling!

Iverson's defensive awareness is much stronger than Marbury's, when he was young, Iverson, whose speed and explosiveness had not yet decreased, entered the top ten of the best defensive players all year round, not Marbury could compare, staring at Liu Mang intently, after Yao Ming blocked up, Iverson dodged Yao Ming's arm to go around to chase Liu Mang, and Duncan on the inside line also defended.

After Liu Mang bypassed Yao Ming, he saw Iverson circling the block and demolition, Duncan was pounced, Liu Mang stepped back, retreated to a meter outside the three-point line, and stepped back to throw a sniper!

When Iverson and Duncan pounced, Liu Mang had already shot three points!

Two goals in a row!

Liu Mang scored 5 points in a row, 5-3 to overtake the score!

The first two rounds of testing allowed the Chinese team to clarify the defensive goal, blocking Marbury's basket under the basket, Zhu Fangyu was ready to pinch Duncan and Odom at any time, Liu Mang and Li Nan pinched Iverson to break through, Marbury and Richard Jefferson, both of them were not suitable for FIBA's three-point line, and the more they shot, the less confident they became.

In the past two days of preparation, in addition to training, the Chinese team is to watch the United States team five games, except for Angola, which is really a number, and no pressure can be given to the American team, Liu Mang and others found that the other four games of the American team played very badly, winning only six points against Greece, or relying on Marbury to kill the basket to win the game, and only won 10 points against Australia. Andrew Bogut, a freshman at the University of Utah in Australia, made a name for himself in the first game, scoring 19 points and 12 rebounds against Duncan and giving the U.S. team five blocks.

Yao Ming is undoubtedly a strengthened version of Bogut, and there is also a mid-range shot, Liu Mang and Yao Ming's blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, creating huge problems for the American team, forcing the American team to move the defense to the line, and Moko has a lot of opportunities under the basket.

And the U.S. team really can't shoot from the outside, so they can only rely on Duncan's one-two or Iverson and Marbury's strong breakout, Odom's fancy singles, and as for Richard Jefferson, he can't get the ball, he doesn't pass the ball, and he is once again caught in a singles circle.

When Larry Brown's little offensive play was stifled and he didn't even get out of the game, the U.S. team started playing one by one again.

It's not that singles can't work, if you change to Kobe, Carter, Maddie, or Wade in two or three years, even if it's Anthony now, the effect may be very good, but the key is that these are the people who play singles, and the efficiency is too low!

And these people in the American team, except for Duncan and Richard Jefferson, no one else can form an effective defense, including Iverson, he is fast, and he can catch up with Liu Mang, but he gives Liu Mang space to jump, and it is useless to catch up!

After playing for more than four minutes, the Chinese team scored a high score of 13 points! 13-7, 6 points ahead of the U.S. team!

Team USA called a timeout! Start substitutions.

The Chinese team mainly cooperated with the offense at the three-point line, which well avoided the problem of not defending for three seconds.

Larry Brown doesn't coach the offense, but he does!

James, Wade, Sean Marion, Duncan, Okafor, all who can defend are sent up.

The Chinese team has also begun to make substitutions, for Chinese players, in fact, the biggest problem is physical fitness, so on the defensive end, Harris let Yao Ming stay under the basket and not come out, and the poor physical fitness on the outside is that the players need to find their own way to score, but also defend, and fight against people who are stronger than them, especially point guards, only Liu Wei can advance the half court under the defense of the American team.

But now that there is Liu Mang, the pressure on the offensive end of the Chinese team's outside line has plummeted, since it is difficult for others to maintain accuracy in the face of the opponent's defensive three-point shooting except for Liu Mang, then defend to the death.

Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu were actively defending just now, and now they were replaced, replaced by Liu Wei and Zhang Jinsong, and continued to go up to the death, and Du Feng was replaced under the basket, Yao Ming also continued to play, Yao Ming, who played NBA, physical fitness is the best for the Chinese team In addition to Liu Mang and Wang Zhizhi, the best, after all, in the case of such a big weight in 2008, he also knocked out the German team, and now the defensive method is clear, the offensive end can be played more easily, and Yao Ming's physical fitness has been maintained well.

Playing this Olympic Games, Yao Ming really feels that having a good defender is good! It's not the kind of guy who counts if he has more assists, but a good defender who can work with the inside.

Regarding Liu Mang's matter of asking the boss for help, Yao Ming wanted to do it more and more.

……

Pause back.

Liu Mang saw the lineup of the American team, these five guys, James is in good health, Wade was almost selected for the second defense in his rookie year, only more than 20 points less than Prince, Marion is the only one on the Suns team who can defend, Duncan will not say it, although Okafor is a rookie, he almost averaged 5 blocks per game in the NCAA, and he is quite a mature defensive center.

"Do you want to score!"

Liu Mang's head is big, and he finally caught the American team's starting defense badly, leading by 6 points, and the opposite side actually sent such a lineup!

Larry Brown's guy wasn't ready to play offense at all, and he didn't understand the offense, so he sent out such a lineup.

Liu Mang's egg looked at James who pushed over painfully, and scolded in his heart: What a great star!

Liu Mang stepped back decisively, stepped on the free throw line and waited for James to push over.

The rest of the Chinese team is the same, all of them have collectively contracted.

The defensive requirements given to the players of the Chinese team are to watch the man defend.

The current Chinese team is completely different from the previous Chinese team, mainly in the heart, the two group stages combined, 12 teams, the Chinese team's record and goal difference are ranked third! This feeling is completely different, the fighting spirit is strong, and there is Liu Mang's flickering when he plays the American team...... And two days of full research, when defending, very purposeful.

The defensive goal given by the coaching staff is that when encountering different opponents, the defensive strategy is different, except for Anthony, Odom, Duncan, and Iverson, in the face of others, they all shrink!

What else can James and Wade do? The inside is a pot of porridge, there is no shooter on the outside, the first three-point shot is missed, they have just finished their rookie season, they are not the all-round scorers in the future, and the shooting is the worst one, James has a three-point shooting rate of 12% in this Olympics, Wade is a little better, 16% ......

Duncan and Okafor are both rebounders, but they can't stand the other four! Liu Wei, Yao Ming, and Du Feng blocked Duncan, and Liu Mang grabbed the defensive rebound.

However, the American team couldn't score, and when it was time for the Chinese team to attack, Liu Mang's head was about to explode.

It's too strong!

Just look at those five people, it's too strong!

After Liu Mang advanced, he couldn't shoot three points in the face of James, so he could only continue to block and attack with Yao Ming.

This time, Okafor and Duncan were already on guard, both of them were inside lines with excellent defensive awareness, Duncan came up to resist Liu Mang and stuck Liu Mang's first step.

One person tops, one person blocks, the Pistons' twin tower defensive tactics! Replaced by Duncan and Okafor, it is the defensive trick of the American team in this Olympics!

But Liu Mang's reaction is also very fast, with a strong sense of offense, when Duncan blocked, he grabbed the ball and took a step to the left, jumped directly after stepping into the free throw line, and it was a direct left-handed stride throw!

Okafor hurriedly pounced and hit Liu Mang, although he was fouled, he gave Liu Mang a hard blow, and also fanned Liu Mang's throw.

Or is it sabotage! Liu Mang fell to the ground and took Yao Ming's hand and got up.

These two guys, the defense is really good, if Okafor is one step faster, it is likely that he will not even be able to make a foul.

However, if Okafor had that mobility, he would not have been picked up by Howard in the draft, his only weakness is physical fitness, which is too far worse than Duncan, known as the next Duncan, but physical fitness is not a level, let him do Duncan's blocking just now, he can't do it 100%.

Liu Mang is therefore more focused on taking advantage of this, which is what he has watched the five group stage games of the United States team and the impression that Ginobili will use against the American team!

Liu Mang stood on the free throw line and hit one of the two free throws, but he was still a little miserable, mainly because of the pain.

Next, the two sides began to defend very targetedly, with the Chinese team blocking the inside line and the American team relying on strong defensive players in every position of the team to defend.

The Chinese team's offense basically pointed at Liu Mang, Yao Ming was a threat point in the high position, so that Duncan only dared to block, not chase, Liu Mang relied on killing to score.

The offense of the American team, James and Wade tried to shoot a three-pointer, but they didn't dare to shoot, in fact, this is the worst point of the American team's outside line, except for Iverson, others hit the iron twice more, and the outside line didn't dare to throw!

James and Wade also began to rush inside like a dynamite bag, but because there were too many people on the inside, both of them had poor offensive efficiency, Wade did not have a chance to get close to the basket and directly strengthen, James couldn't get in under the basket, Duncan pulled away and used a small forward to defend, and he didn't shoot.

From the second half of the first quarter, the offensive efficiency of the two teams plummeted, and by the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team was 18-13, leading the United States team by 5 points!

After the second quarter, the defensive battle intensified, Larry Brown is no different from coaching the NBA, the more difficult the U.S. team is to attack, the more he has to send a defensive lineup, James, Wade, Richard Jefferson, Marion, Duncan, Okafor, Larry Brown catches these players to death!

Boozer, Anthony, Odom and other FIBA killers have all been abandoned, these people are either poor in defense or not focused in defense, Larry Brown's way of employing people has given the Chinese team the opportunity to maintain a slight lead by relying on Liu Mang's sporadic scoring and the contraction of the whole team!

At the end of the half, the Chinese team struggled to 34-31, leading the United States team by three points into halftime!

……

Liu Mang scored 24 points in the half, and he was about to explode! got 24 points, only succeeded in 9 shots, hit 4 shots, two three-pointers and a dunk at the beginning and a counterattack dunk, the other 14 points were all free throws, and later in order to avoid too many fouls by Duncan and Okafor, Wade, Marion and others came to attack, Liu Mang blocked and dismantled too fast and explosive, they fouled directly, and did not give Liu Mang the opportunity to start attacking the basket.

Liu Mang played depressed, 14 of 18 free throws, and only led by 3 points, which is even more uncomfortable than playing Italy and Argentina, mainly because the feeling of being bitten by the United States team all the time is too torturous, a careless attack in a row does not score, the opponent is likely to fight back to overtake the score!

So Liu Mang has been in a high-pressure state!

Liu Mang didn't know how surprised his teammates were by his performance! If you play like that, you can still score 24 points in the first half! Except for Yao Ming who scored 6 points by relying on the mid-range shot, the others threw in a three-pointer on Li Nan, Moko entered the basket and caused the rotation defense of Stoudemire to foul two free throws and get a point, and that foul also made Stoudemire, who had a ridiculously poor defensive awareness, was immediately replaced when he had already fouled Liu Mang twice before, allowing Duncan to come up and play with fatigue, so that Liu Mang had a better chance to score.

Moreover, Liu Mang played like this, and he kept being vigorous, and before halftime, he destroyed the air cut of Richard Jefferson, who was rotated up, and did not let the American team narrow the difference to one point before halftime.

Liu Mang's performance, he didn't know how much he touched his teammates! He didn't know how much confidence he brought to his teammates!

led the U.S. team at halftime, even if the players of the Chinese team were prepared before and were fooled by Liu Mang to be high-spirited, in fact, there was no such expectation in his heart! But now, relying on Liu Mang to rush inside like a bag of explosives, causing fouls again and again, and trying to maintain a slight lead, his teammates have seen hope and have more fighting spirit!

didn't bother Liu Mang, who was constantly drinking Jianlibao that sponsored the Chinese team, watching Liu Mang drink things that didn't cost him to death, no one laughed at him, seeing that Liu Mang's pair could already wring out the water, and the mood of others was even more surging, and they had to help Liu Mang win this game...... No, it's to help yourself win this game!

Liu Mang drank several bottles of Jianlibao, and today I don't know how much electrolyte water I have drunk, but I still feel that it is not enough, I am too tired!

I've never been so tired, even if it's the finals.

The opponent is indeed not as strong as the Lakers, and even the Nets are stronger than the American team, the NBA team's cooperation and player structure are not comparable to the American team, it can be said that the tacit understanding and player structure of the American team are the worst among the 12 countries participating in the Olympic Games, but they have strong personal ability and good defense, so they can all enter the finals.

In fact, in the second quarter, the Chinese team's defense was a little untenable, but fortunately, on the side of the American team, Larry Brown used those six people, and the others went up as long as they made mistakes on the defensive end, such as Iverson, who was replaced immediately after Li Nan threw a three-point shot, and Stoudemire, who was replaced immediately after being made two fouls by Liu Mang and one foul by Moko, was replaced as long as the defense made mistakes, giving the Chinese team a chance to lead.

Liu Mang opened the system panel, and in the second half, there were going to be changes.

Originally, I wasn't going to use it, but in order to get the buff of "The Light of the People", the strongest superstar point guard of the era, in the third quarter, must be used!