37 to 56.

The Houston Rockets nearly erased a 20-point deficit in one quarter. Coach D'Antoni's midfield spur clearly played a role. But in this Sino-US basketball match, Chairman Yao Ming's words and Yang Yiming's memories of that Jedi counterattack can play a role, we still need to wait and see how much of a role it can play in the second half of the game.

In the competition field of the distant Shenzhen Universiade Stadium, a bell rang for the second half of the preparation.

"Go, boys!" Yao Ming bent down and went out of the locker room, waited at the door, and high-fived every Chinese men's basketball player who walked out of the locker room.

"Come on!" After high-fiveing Yang Yiming, Yao Ming also deliberately nodded at him and patted his shoulder.

"Hmm." Yang Yiming responded with a resolute look.

"Hey, Yiming..."Yang Yiming was about to run to catch up with his teammate in front of him, but heard someone shouting to him from the side. When I turned my head, I saw that it was Stella Qin who accompanied Chairman Yao Ming to the locker room to visit the group. Stella waved her hand and motioned for Yang Yiming to lean aside.

"How?" Stella asked in less sophisticated Chinese.

"How's that?" Yang Yiming asked rhetorically in English.

"You can talk to me about Chinese, I have improved my Chinese a lot now." Stella's Chinese pronunciation is not standard, but it is indeed much more fluent than when I first met her on Thanksgiving last year. "I ask you how you feel about the second half, do you have confidence? ”

"I'm confident - but you mean, don't you mean that you have the confidence to win against the Dream Team?" Yang Yiming asked Stella with his eyes, but met the other party's innocent big eyes, and nodded in affirmation. "Won the Dream Team?! That's a bit too ambitious. I just want to cause trouble for them, and I have that confidence. ”

"But I have a lot of faith in you." Stella punched Yang Yiming's biceps with her fist. She wasn't tall enough to jump up to get there, "I can make a bet and buy you guys win the U.S. in the fourth quarter." ”

"One bet?"

"That's right." Stella put her index finger to her lips, as if she was secretly doing a thrilling prank, and lowered her voice and said, "One bet is the maximum amount that can be bet in a single transaction, $10,000." I quietly put down $10,000 and bet that you would win the U.S. in the fourth quarter. ”

"Huh?! Why would you do that. Ten thousand dollars! …”

Stella punched Yang this time, making him lower his voice. Fortunately, there was a lot of noise in the passage to the arena, and the other Chinese team players were still rushing out, shouting cheers to cheer themselves and their teammates, and no one noticed what Stella said to Yang Yiming: "Because I have confidence in you!" Plus the odds I think are really good, 7.5 to 1, which is a good investment..."

"Investment? That's gambling – betting on ball! ”

"Shhhh Don't make such a fuss, just take my words to heart and keep up the good work! When Stella Qin said this, she suddenly put away her cautious and guarded expression, showing a righteous face. Following her line of sight, it turned out that Chairman Yao Ming had finished high-fives with the last Chinese men's basketball player, turned around, and came to the middle of Yang Yiming and Stella, who were talking on the edge of the passage. Stella smiled at Chairman Yao Ming, and without any panic, she changed back to English and said, "I'll cheer you up." Let him remember his reversal of the Cavaliers' Finals G6 and let him have confidence. ”

"That's right. I almost forgot that you all knew each other - if it weren't for Miss Qin's organization and invitation, this competition might not have taken shape. Chairman Yao Ming, who is also very fluent in English, once again patted Yang Yiming on the shoulder and encouraged, "Go ahead, Yiming." Remember that reversal, we had a chance today! ”

Yao Ming took advantage of the palm on Yang Yiming's shoulder and pushed him out of the Chinese men's basketball team for the last time. There are only 30 seconds left in the countdown to halftime, and the bell of the reminder is drowned out by the cheers of the live audience who witnessed Yang Yiming's appearance, and the second half of this Sino-US men's basketball match is about to begin!

The Chinese men's basketball team lined up a quasi-NBA lineup of Zhou Qi, Yang Yiming, Ding Yanyuhang, Abdul Salamu and Guo Allen.

The opposite Dream Team five are Andre Drummond, Kevin Love, Klay Thompson, Victor Oladipo and Kemba Walker.

It seems that the Dream Team has no signs of being ready to release water because of their 19-point lead at halftime. They put out this lineup, completely to further widen the difference and close the game!

Sure enough, at the beginning of the second half, the U.S. men's basketball team took the lead. Zhou Qi jumped the ball to win Zhuang Shen, and Ding Yanyuhang's strong layup was blocked by Lefu. Kemba Walker countered and took the lead, dribbling behind his back twice in a row, shaking Allen Guo to the point of losing half a second of his center of gravity. But this half a second was enough for him to shake off all the people and kill to lick the basket.

A difference of 21 points!

Guo Allen dribbled the ball across the half court, and with the help of Zhou Qi and Yang Yiming's double blocking, he stepped back first and retreated to the empty space outside the three-point line to shoot. Although the shooting opportunities are good, they are not his strong point. The rebound was taken by Zhuang Shen.

Zhuang Shen made a short pass to Oladipo, who advanced diagonally, and there happened to be Lefu blocking Abdul Salamu in the path of the advance. In a 3-on-2 situation at halftime, Oladipo chose to run out of the open Thompson, who received the ball and turned and scored 2 points.

23 minutes!

The Chinese team quickly served the bottom line, Zhou Qi in the front court received the ball, and Zhuang Shen made a European step one-on-one, and finally bypassed the opponent's high board and hit a two-point shot.

In the Dream Team positional battle, Kemba Walker and Zhuang Shen successfully played a combination of blocking first and then dismantling, and Walker assisted the latter in the air relay and abused the basket to dunk. The positional tactics of the Chinese team were also successful, Zhou Qi and Yang Yiming rockets were connected with two stars, Zhou Qi actually controlled the ball, and he looked left and right to see his rocket teammates who were ambushed on the bottom line. Zhou Qi passed to Yang Yiming, who attracted two inside lines of the American team, and then passed the ball to the ground, and Zhou Qi just took advantage of the momentum to dunk it.

The Dream Team found an opportunity with the transmission again, and Kevin Love took the ball in the bottom corner and shot an open three-pointer. However, this time Zhou Qi was really inspired by the arrangement of Li Nan and Coach Du Feng at halftime, and flew out of the step. Lefu hesitated at the first chance and didn't make a move, and took a step to the side before throwing. Zhou Qi actually reacted faster, and turned around to interfere with the basketball thrown!

The basketball folded the line and flew to Guo Allen's hands. Guo Allen attacked all the way, and a fierce man plunged into the Dream Team penalty area, jumped into the air and turned back to pass. In the direction of turning back, teammate Abdul Salamu ran to the open position and caught the ball and shot a three-point shot.

The basketball was on the hoop, out and in, but in the end it went in!

18 points.

At the first regular timeout in the second half, China trailed by 18 points, 44-62. Although the score difference is only close to 1 point, at least it is close!

But is it really possible for Stella Qin to bet that China can beat the Dream Team in the fourth quarter? When he paused, Yang Yiming deliberately glanced at the position of the rostrum, Yao Ming was in the center of the stage, but there was no Stella Qin on either side. He looked at the bench of the U.S. men's basketball team again, unlike the Chinese team's grim expression, as if facing a big enemy, the five members of the dream team and the NBA comrades off the court laughed and quarreled, as if they didn't take the "point" they just lost to heart.

They really didn't look like they were going all out, and they had an opponent like ours in mind.

As long as they are a little more serious ...

We don't really have any chances to win a single quarter. Yang Yiming bit his lip and meditated in his heart with some anxiety.

- But even if it is an unrealistic task to beat the U.S. team in the whole game, isn't it a success to bet on the order to save energy and win?!