"Audience friends, this is CCTV, the game we are broadcasting live for you today is the semi-finals of the Olympic men's basketball competition, a game between the Chinese basketball team and the United States team, after the last victory over the host Australia, our national team has created the best result ever to participate in the Olympic Games, and from today onwards, every step forward is creating new history." I don't know when it started, Mr. Zhang Lili's commentary style has also become very sensational.

"What Director Zhang said is very right, but in this game, our national team faced the United States team, which is known as the dream team, and in the group stage, we lost to the dream team by as many as 47 points, so in this game, our national team only needs to play its own style." When the Chinese team faced the strongest American team, Su Qun, who had always been very confident in Meng Xu, did not dare to say that the Chinese team could defeat the American team, because the strength of the American team was too strong, and each position was several grades higher than the national team, that is, Meng Xu could still compete with them.

"Okay, let's start with the starting lineups of both teams." It was difficult to hide the disappointment in his heart, and Mr. Zhang Lili also picked up the starting lists of both sides and began to introduce the starting lineups of both sides in this game.

"On the side of our national team, the starting center is Yao Ming today, this is also Yao Ming's second start in this year's Olympic Games, in the last game against Australia, Yao Ming played 20 minutes, scored 17 points, 13 rebounds double-double data. The starting power forward is Wang Zhizhi, according to the news from Sydney, Liu Yudong was injured in the last moment of the last game in the process of fighting for rebounds with Australia's interior players, and is likely to miss this game, I think this is also the reason why Jiang Gui sent Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi such an inside combination in this game. In the small forward position, Meng Xu started today, Meng Xu scored 36 points in the last game, which was the biggest contributor to the national team's victory over Australia, and nearly half of Meng Xu's 36 points came in the crucial fourth quarter. On the scoring guard, it is Li Nan who starts today, and the organizational guard is still Li Xiaoyong. After Mr. Zhang Li introduced the starting list of the national team in one breath, he breathed a long sigh of relief and turned his gaze to Su Qun.

"On the U.S. side, today's starting center is Alonzo Mourning, power forward Kevin Garnett, small forward Vince Carter, scoring guard Ray Allen, and playmaking guard Jason Kidd. Although many of the NBA's big-name stars did not come with the team in this Olympic Games, we can also see through the previous games that the United States team's advantage in the world basketball is still overwhelming, although some NBA coaches joke that as long as a few NBA bench players are enough to sweep the world, although this statement is a bit exaggerated, but it can also reflect the strength of the American team from the side. ”

After two games with Italy and Australia, Meng Xu also successfully ascended to the national team and was set up as the tactical core by head coach Jiang Quan, and after Jiang Quan announced this decision, Liu Yudong, the big man of the national team, was also the first to take the lead in favoring. In the past, although the national team gathered the best players in the country, but due to the relatively unfamiliar with each other, it is difficult for these people to form an effective cooperation, and it is difficult to use good tactics in the national team. Because there is simply no real tactical core in the current national team.

After the first two games, when the whole national team was celebrating the team's historic entry into the top 4, head coach Jiang Quan was reading the basketball books brought back from the United States all night, and when it came to John Wooden's (UCLA basketball tactics in detail), Coach Jiang Quan also saw the word "own tactical system" for the first time, and Jiang Quan was also surprised to find that many of Meng Xu's conditions met this requirement. In the end, Jiang Quan decided to establish Meng Xu as the tactical core of the national team, and build the tactical system of the entire national team around Meng Xu. And in this game against the United States, several players sent by head coach Jiang Quan are also players who meet Meng Xu's requirements, and this game is also a real attempt made by Jiang Quan.

When the game between the two sides began, perhaps because the United States team was relatively light on the enemy, after all, it had won the Chinese team by 47 points in the group stage, and in the first quarter of the game, the players of the American team also played more casually. Due to the strong destructive power shown by Yao Ming under the basket of the American team in the last game, so from the beginning of this game, Tom Novic arranged Alonzo Mourning and Kevin Garnett to pack Yao Ming, in this case, Wang Zhizhi also got a lot of opportunities, relying on excellent movement ability, and soft shooting touch, Wang Zhizhi repeatedly pulled the outside line to run out of the empty position when Garnett wrapped Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi also shot 3 of 6 in the first quarter, scoring a team-high 9 points.

6 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds, 1 steal, this is Meng Xu's data in the first quarter, in the first quarter of the game, Yao Ming has been staying under the basket at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, to attract the defense of the United States, and at the same time it is also a solid barrier for the national team on the defensive end, and the rest of the players, Wang Zhizhi, Li Nan, Li Xiaoyong are all moving back and forth outside the 3-point line to find opportunities, the main point guard of the original national team, the former tactical starting point, Li Xiaoyong was also completely reduced to a dribble guard in this game, Fortunately, his 3-point ability is not bad. After the end of the first quarter of the game, 27-25, the national team still led the United States team by 2 points, which was probably the first time in the history of the confrontation between the Chinese basketball team and the American team.

When the substitute players of both sides came on the court in the second quarter, the biggest advantage of the United States was revealed, the gap between the substitute lineup and the main lineup of the American team is not large, and the Chinese basketball team is different, because there is no familiar tactical system, this group of substitutes is basically a singles-based strategy, although Meng Xu returned to the court in the second half of the second quarter, or was beaten by the United States team in the second quarter 25-15, and by the end of the half, 42-50, the United States team has overtaken by 8 points.

After the start of the third quarter, the U.S. team, which had woken up, implemented a full-court tight defensive tactic against the Chinese national team, which is also the consistent style of the U.S. team in the international arena. Not to mention the current Chinese men's basketball team, it is as strong as Russia in the last round, and it also fell under the pressure of the United States team. Therefore, when the U.S. team skillfully used full-court pressing tactics, the number of mistakes of the national team also skyrocketed, and the main point guard Li Xiaoyong even had two 8-second violations. And in the 3rd quarter, Tom Novic also gave up the bag of Yao Ming, and instead wrapped Meng Xu, under the defensive strategy of Vince Carter and Ray Allen's pressing and bagging, Meng Xu also made 3 mistakes in the 3rd quarter. Therefore, when the third quarter of the game ended, 76-55, the Huaguo basketball team, which was 21 points behind, basically had no power to recover.

"Director Jiang, I'll go to the toilet, I can't hold it anymore." After leaving the game, Meng Xu immediately ran into the players' tunnel and entered the locker room. In the 3rd quarter, in the face of the tight defense of the American team, Meng Xu's weakness of poor ball control was once again magnified, although he was already 21 points behind, but Meng Xu still did not want to give up, and his reluctance to admit defeat was on the one hand, and on the other hand, because in Meng Xu's heart, this game was related to his future status in the national team and even in the world basketball world. After entering the system space, after adding all his remaining 25 attribute points to the ball control, Meng Xu's current ball control ability has reached 96 points, although he still lacks the support of ball control skills or talents, but the 96 points of ball control is enough to ensure that he can easily face the full-court pressure of the American team. ”

"Xiao Meng, do you want to play in the fourth quarter?" When Meng Xu returned to the bench, the final quarter of the game had already begun, and because he was too far behind, Jiang Quan simply gave up his plan to chase points, and instead sent all the substitute lineups.

"Up." Taking the water cup handed over by Yao Ming, Meng Xu nodded lightly, expressing his desire to continue playing.

"Hmm." Jiang Quan was also surprised by Meng Xu's answer, it didn't play much role at this time, and at the same time, Jiang Quan also appreciated Meng Xu's character of not admitting defeat.

When the fourth quarter of the game played more than 3 points, the Huaguo team called a timeout and replaced Hu Weidong with Meng Xu, which was very puzzling for this substitution, whether it was the audience on the field or the audience watching the live broadcast in front of the TV, although it lost to the American team, but there were still 3 or 4 games the day after tomorrow, this kind of waste of physical strength is really unwise.

"Meng, you don't have a chance anymore." After re-playing, the opposite of Meng Xu is the star of the New York Knicks, Alan Houston, although Meng Xu was once hacked by the media in New York, but Alan Houston does not think that Meng Xu has anything wrong, although Alan Houston, who was born in the New York gang, but his personality is diametrically opposed to those villains. In the two matchups with Meng Xu in the regular season, he also admired Meng Xu's excellent and clean defense very much, so in Alan Houston's heart, there was no malice towards Meng Xu.

"Even if I don't have the opportunity, I won't give up." After coming on the court, Meng Xu directly took over the responsibility of point guard, and the sideline ball sent by Battle went directly to Meng Xu's hands, facing Alan Houston's pressing, Meng Xu concealed the ball, and then turned around in a light spot to avoid Ala Houston.