It is a pity that God does not seem to be on the side of Argentina today, or that the prayers of the Chinese fans have overcome the Argentine fans, who are far fewer than them. With the exception of Delfino and Ginobili, who can also score three-pointers from the outside, the rest of the players are mostly waiting for the basketball to smash into the basket, and they also struggle to grab rebounds because of the height of the inside.

Argentine coach Hernandez decisively called a timeout, he can see that there is no good end to fighting with the Chinese men's basketball team, and the only way to win now is to give full play to the characteristics of the players' speed, flexibility and good individual skills. In this way, the lineup on the field has to be adjusted, and his idea is to play a relatively pure small lineup.

As mentioned before, the overall height of Argentina's players participating in the Beijing Olympics is not tall, but if they play a small lineup, it is their advantage. Hernandez is not the kind of die-hard who eats the old, on the contrary, his ideas are quite trendy. In fact, anyone who takes over the Argentine men's basketball team will put a small lineup in their own alternatives, after all, this is determined by the height of the players themselves, no matter how much you don't like the small lineup, you still have to use this as one of the methods.

After changing to a small lineup, the height of Argentina's lineup has further decreased, and now their point guard is 1.86 meters Prigioni, the point back is 1.96 meters Ginobili, the small forward is 2 meters Delfino, the big forward is 2.01 meters Nocioni, and then a 2.04 meters tall center Gabriel Fernandez.

Argentina did pick up speed after this substitution, but that didn't mean they could regain the initiative. The small lineup's running is very good, and there are many shooting opportunities created between the runs, but the outside players of the Chinese team pounce like mad dogs, and even Yi Jianlian often pounces on the high post to defend, which also relieves Yao Ming of the pressure in disguise.

Now the Chinese players are no longer weak chickens who are afraid of physical confrontation, and they have even begun to actively seek physical confrontation. Although the Argentine players are also confident in physical confrontation, their priority now is to equalize the score, and physical confrontation will reduce their shooting percentage to a certain extent, which Argentina is trying to avoid at the moment because they do not have rebounds.

The most important thing is that Younas didn't plan to let the players block the opponent's defense from the beginning, and it doesn't matter if the defensive end is four or five, as long as Yao Ming's physical strength can be guaranteed. The Chinese men's basketball team mainly pinched the opponent's three-point shot, let the opponent go to the inside to score two points, and also avoided being fouled to the greatest extent, so that there was no need to be afraid of them chasing points.

Every time an Argentine player hits a shot, Yao Ming can always return it on the offensive end, and it is a piece of cake for him to play the Argentine interior line with an average height of less than 2.05 meters, and the other players of the Chinese team are also happy to give the ball to the inside line and let him play alone.

In addition to playing with the ball, Yao Ming always moves near the free-throw line and allows his teammates to run around him. Whether it's a three-point shot or an open cut layup, Yao Ming can always get the ball to the right person, and if his teammates can't get out of space, he can also score with a mid-range shot. Perhaps it was the guilt of the previous game, Yao Ming's mid-range shooting percentage was quite high in this game, and Nocioni and Fernandez were completely unable to stop him, and they had no chance to block, so they could only watch the basketball go into the frame.

The only good news for Argentina is that their offensive firepower is gradually returning, and although it has not returned to normal levels, it is always guaranteed that someone can shoot when attacking, if not three-pointers, at least not as often as before. Ginobili, in particular, was freed up after handing over the task of organizing the attack to Prizioni, and after playing the ball for so long with the Spurs, his off-ball ability was also top-notch, and most of Argentina's shooting power was concentrated on him. And Ginobili did not live up to the expectations of his teammates, playing a variety of empty cut positions.

With Ginobili's recovery, Argentina scored 27 points in the second quarter, but it was only a draw with the Chinese men's basketball team, and they still did not narrow the point difference, let alone the initiative in the game. At the end of the first half, Younas's face was red, and Hernandez's face was ugly, he didn't expect his team to be pressed and beaten for 20 minutes.

At halftime, Hernandez didn't come up with any good ideas, and the only thing he was frustrated about was that he didn't bring any high school strikers to Beijing for the Olympics this time, but it seems that Argentina doesn't have any tall interior players with outstanding strength. Of course, they can also choose to naturalize players, but it is strange that a team with stars such as Ginobili and Delfino should also naturalize foreign players, not to mention that they are still the number one team in the FIBA rankings.

In the second half, Yao Ming continued his strong play and beat Argentina's interior to the ground. Originally, Hernandez was still looking forward to when Yao Ming ran out of energy, but now it seems that Yao Ming is far from exhaustion, of course, this is largely because his teammates consciously take on most of the defensive tasks, Yao Ming only needs to stretch out his hand under the basket. Fortunately, this is on the international stage, and if the NBA had defended for three seconds, he should have come down and rested a long time ago.

Yao Ming had scored 35 points after three quarters, while he also contributed 12 rebounds and three blocks, which is usually his stats for the whole game, but this time he still has 10 minutes to push his personal data forward.

Younas didn't plan to let Yao Ming play the fourth quarter, but seeing that Argentina took advantage of the emptiness of the interior line to play another wave of small climaxes, Younas hurriedly replaced Yao Ming on the court again. At this time, although Yao Ming felt a little tired, he was still energetic in the face of the head coach's assignment, after all, there were less than 8 minutes left before the end of the game at this time, as long as he gritted his teeth and held on to the rest of the time, the Olympic bronze medal would be won by the Chinese men's basketball team, so there was no need to keep anything at this time.

In order to ensure efficiency, Yao Ming fearlessly squeezed under the basket in the encirclement of the Argentine players, and asked his teammates to hoist the ball under the basket, so that he could directly lift the ball high and hit it very easily, and the efficiency was absolutely barred.

With Yao Ming's efforts, the Chinese men's basketball team quickly stabilized the situation, and although Argentina fought back with all their might, they were never able to narrow the gap again. Time came to an end little by little in the eyes of everyone on the scene, the score was fixed at 87-80, and the Chinese men's basketball team unexpectedly defeated Argentina with a 7-point advantage and won an unplanned bronze medal.

The hero of this game is, of course, Yao Ming, who scored a big double-double of 43 points and 15 rebounds, as well as 7 assists, 4 blocks, and 3 steals. As long as Yao Ming can continue to maintain this state, the Chinese men's basketball team will definitely be able to make a comeback four years later.