Chapter 493: Group vs. Team USA

At the moment, a few people really didn't think of any good options to give them reference, so they could only wait for the further development of the situation before making plans, in fact, these mainly depend on Lao Ke and Xiao Wharton, Ye Xuan and Gasol are still players, these things should have been none of their business.

After leaving the United States and going to Brazil to prepare for the Olympics, Ye Xuan's side also returned to combat state from vacation in an instant. Especially after coming to Brazil, Ye Xuan was very active, not only in the warm-up game, but even during training, Ye Xuan was very active.

However, I have to say that Brazil's Olympic Games were not very successful, perhaps because Beijing in 08 gave everyone too many surprises, so everyone's tastes were raised, but in any case, Ye Xuan was also the first time to participate in the Olympic Games, although he was not able to become the national flag bearer, but walking in the middle of this majestic team also made Ye Xuan feel a sense of pride.

On August 7th, the Olympic basketball game finally kicked off, in the first game, the Australian team easily defeated the French team 87-66, and then the match between the Chinese team and the mighty United States team, this time the American team is the dream team' Dream 12 team' Since it is a dream team, the players participating are naturally all big-name stars, and in the Dream 12 team, there are the Raptors' garbage brothers Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan on the guard line, Kyrie Irving, Klay Thompson and Ye Xuan's old teammate, Paul George. Forwards include Jimmy Butler, Kevin Durant, Harrison Barnes, Draymond Green and Carmelo Anthony. And the center is DeAndre Jordan and DeMarcus Cousins.

In terms of the lineup, this dream team can basically determine which strong teams are in the NBA league now, first of all, the Warriors have three selections, and secondly, the Raptors have two selections, and the Thunder, Pacers, Cavaliers, and Clippers have also been selected. Only Carmelo Anthony is still a member of the Dream Eight team at the Beijing Olympics.

Before the start of the game, Ye Xuan also came to the US team to greet melons and pickled peppers and others, of course, in fact, what Ye Xuan wanted to communicate with most was Durant, after all, after Durant became a free agent this summer, most teams in the NBA were pursuing him, and Durant himself was now waiting for the price to sell, I don't know what he was doing. And on the Olympic Games, Ye Xuan finally saw some clues, because the trio relationship between Durant and the Warriors seems to be very good, although Harris Barnes is also a free agent this summer, I don't know if the Warriors will renew his contract, but at least for now, he is still a member of the Warriors.

Ye Xuan couldn't help but think of a terrible possibility at this time, that is, Durant may go to the Warriors, and the Cavaliers are also to blame for this, so that the 73-win Warriors team was not able to win the championship, which also gave Durant an excuse to join the Warriors - 'I came to help the Warriors win the championship, not to join a championship team.' If that's the case, the Warriors are really terrifying.

However, Ye Xuan has no good way to prevent this from happening for the time being, can he still expect the league to veto his decision to go to the Warriors 'for basketball reasons'? It doesn't seem realistic. In any case, it is now the Olympic Games, and the competition will be divided into high and low after all. Not long after, the game officially began, and Jordan Jr. easily won Zhou Qi with a jump ball and gave the racket to Owen.

Owen was angry in the face of Ye Xuan, originally after winning the championship this season, the outside world has questioned him a lot less, but there is a voice that is singing the opposite, that is, there is an argument that uses Irving's inability to defeat Ye Xuan as an argument to show that the Cavaliers' championship is actually picked up - just like they did when the Warriors won the championship.

This makes a young and vigorous player like Irving naturally unbearable, but he still knows Ye Xuan's power, so after controlling the ball after half court, he did not hold the ball alone, but passed the ball to Draymond Green, Green held the ball in the high post to cover, and handed the ball to Klay Thompson with an easy hit, Tang Shen flashed Zhou Qi's block layup and hit the ball.

In the face of the United States team, the strength of the Chinese team is still too different, so the opponent's offense plays as he wants, but he can hit it, which is simply a crushing of talent, and it is no wonder that the American team has been able to dominate the basketball world for so many years, only in the 04 Olympics and 06 World Championships did it turn over.

However, Ye Xuan is not a vegetarian, after receiving the serve in the backcourt, he immediately started a fast attack alone, Ye Xuan's response also made the American team unable to react, and after Ye Xuan's side had rushed past the halfcourt, Owen who defended Ye Xuan reacted, but it was obviously too late to chase back, Ye Xuan's side was not blindly impacting the basket, and after quickly advancing to the front court, because of Green's supplementary defense, he was forced to stop, but Green's side obviously had no way to make up for the defense, and Ye Xuan was not in a hurry, While attracting Green's defense, while waiting for his teammates to arrive, sure enough, the UAE immediately rushed up from the backfield, but it was Owen who was responsible for defending him, Ye Xuan was not polite, and immediately passed the ball to Yi Jianlian.

Owen is depressed to death, it can have a hunch, today should be the only point that will play very depressed, after all, only his own point is against Ye Xuan, and after the misalignment, Ye Xuan passed the ball again, and he couldn't defend those big men, which made Owen very embarrassed.

And the rhythm of the next game is really very similar to what Owen expected, the U.S. team's offense is indeed very easy, but Owen, who was defended by Ye Xuan, basically didn't get much opportunity to attack, and finally got the opportunity to shoot and finally ended in iron, until the seventh minute of the first quarter of the game When Owen was replaced by Coach K, Owen's scoring data was still a big duck egg.

On the side of the American team, although Owen was beaten to death by Ye Xuanke, they were still ahead on the field, in just over six minutes, they had already scored 21 points, although the Chinese team was constantly impacted by Ye Xuan, which caused some pressure on the opponent, so the American team played a little uncomfortable, but in the end there were still only 16 points, and the game was 5 points behind in the first quarter.

When the opponent makes five substitutions, Ye Xuan knows that this is the strongest part of the American team, whether they are starters or substitutes, they are all All-Star level strength, but it is difficult for other teams to do this, which is also one of the secrets of their ability to dominate the basketball world, always use the physical strength of the five to fight, and then use the rotation to defeat the opponent, no matter how strong the opponent's starter is, he always has a time to get tired in 40 minutes of high-intensity games, but the American team does not have this problem, no matter how it is rotated, All of them are able to guarantee combat effectiveness.

And the rhythm of the next quarter of the game also began to slowly fall towards the American team, Ye Xuan knew at a glance that it was not good, and immediately gave up the style of play to create opportunities for his teammates, and then took over the offensive banner by himself and started his own scoring performance. At the end of the first quarter of the game, the Chinese team was still 5 points behind at 28:33, and the next 12 points were all scored by Ye Xuan alone.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, because it has reached the main match of the Olympic Games, Ye Xuan is not ready to rest for long in this game, he still insists on the field in the second quarter of the game, and the American team is also smart, at the beginning of the second quarter, let the players opposite Ye Xuan carry out the ball attack, break through the ball and the like, although it will be more disadvantageous in the confrontation, and even once Ye Xuan directly steals and then pushes the fast attack, but this style of play also makes Ye Xuan's physical consumption very serious, which is not a good thing for Ye Xuan, In the second half of the second quarter, Ye Xuan's physical strength obviously had problems, and the offensive efficiency began to decline, and the American team also took this opportunity to expand the difference to more than 10 points in one fell swoop.

In the second half, the U.S. team began to play more and more seriously, and the gap in strength was gradually reflected, although the Chinese team was still resisting stubbornly, but obviously the strength gap was too large, and finally after the end of the third quarter of the game, the opponent beat the score to 79:65, leading by 14 points. In the last quarter, Ye Xuan also came on the court to prepare for a sneak attack, but the opponent did not give Ye Xuan this opportunity, after all, the substitute or the main force is similar for the American team.

In the end, the game ended, the United States team defeated the Chinese team 109:92, but in this game, the Chinese team also showed its combat effectiveness, not only forced the American team to force out the full state, but also scored 90+ points on the head of the American team, which is rare in the international arena, but unfortunately although the Chinese team was able to find opportunities on the offensive end, it was not able to prevent the opponent from hitting the ball when defending, so it was defeated in the end.

Ye Xuan also brushed a cool game in this game, brushed 6 assists in the first quarter, and then began to attack with the ball, and the score in the following quarters of the game also went up, and finally Ye Xuan's score also came to 44 points, and there were as many as 11 assists. However, Ye Xuan's playing time is long enough, he actually played 37 minutes, you must know that there are only 40 minutes in an international match, if it weren't for the last few minutes of the final quarter, Ye Xuan was replaced by the palace director to rest, then Ye Xuan's game would be full directly.

After losing the first game, Ye Xuan was still a little unconvinced, but overall, the performance of his teammates was good enough, and this time the match with the United States team was also the smallest game in the number of games between the men's basketball team and the United States team. However, in the next few games, the Chinese team needs to work hard, and it will be even better if they can qualify at the top of the group.

After the match between China and the United States, it was the match between Venezuela and Serbia, and in the end, Serbia from Europe was still a step ahead, defeating Venezuela in South America 86-62. At this point, the basketball game on the 7th has come to an end, and the next game of the Chinese team will start on August 9th, when the Chinese team will face their old rival, the French team.

Unlike the warm-up matches, the French team was almost fully assembled at the Olympics, with 34-year-old Tony Parker, 34-year-old Boris Dior and 35-year-old Florent Petrus participating in the Games, in addition to Nicola Batum, Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier. But I don't know what happened, in the first game of the Olympics, they lost to the Australian team, and they lost by 21 points.

In fact, there is a reason for this, first of all, the older main players of the French team came to Brazil from the United States to gather with the team when the Olympic Games were about to open, which means that there is basically no time to practice together, so the cooperation between the young players of the team and these older main players is not particularly powerful. That's why he was pressed to the ground and rubbed by the more skillful Australian team.

However, the Chinese team did not dare to underestimate the French team for this reason, and if they could achieve good results in the group stage, the opponents they would encounter in the quarterfinals would be slightly weaker. So after the start of this game, the Chinese team still played very seriously, at the beginning of the game, Zhou Qi lost the jump ball as usual, and the basketball was slapped by Gobert into Parker's hands.

In the face of the old opponent in the 14 finals, Parker naturally did not dare to be careless, carefully controlled the ball over the halfcourt, and passed the ball to Batum to organize, in the face of Yi Jianlian's defense Batum also wanted to use his own footsteps to play one, but his own pace was not necessarily much faster, in the end, it was not only a waste of offensive time, but also did not be able to create a shooting opportunity, only to pass the ball out to the outside, Fournier received the ball after the time was left to run out, can only force a shot against the defense, and finally the iron ends.