Chapter 581: A Big Victory

Since the game was played in the afternoon, the major media reported the first victory of the Chinese men's basketball team in this Olympic Games on the front page that night. The win over Spain was undoubtedly a huge boost for Chinese fans, who have rarely been able to beat such a top team in the world at the Olympics, and the performance of the men's basketball team today deserves a lot of attention.

But in a later interview with Chinese media, Yao Ming appeared calm, saying: "Beating Spain is important for us, but it doesn't mean we can qualify from the group. We have to give it our all for the rest of the game so that we don't waste the advantage we have built up so hard in this game. The rest of the opponents are also very high-level teams, and there are no underdogs in the teams that can make it to the Olympics, so we will not be complacent. ”

The reporters who came to interview looked at each other, but there was nothing they could do, Yao Ming's words were not leaky, and he was not arrogant and arrogant at all because of the killing of Spain, which can be regarded as saving character for the Chinese men's basketball team. However, when the reporters saw the opponent in the next game, everyone showed an inexplicable smile on their faces, and the Chinese men's basketball team was still very sure of a team like Angola, even if it did not beat Spain in this game, China also won against Angola in hard power.

The Group B match on the same day as China VS Spain also includes the United States VS Angola, but Younas thinks there is no need to watch this game, what is there to see about the abuse of the US men's basketball team? So he simply gave the players a holiday, let them have a good rest, and the next morning's training went on as usual, mainly to do some recovery projects for the players.

Don't look at the Chinese men's basketball team beating Spain, but only those who watched this game know how tired they really are. They were running like crazy for most of the normal game, and with the exception of Yao Ming, the other main players were basically drained of their physical strength, and they needed time to slow down now, and it was most appropriate to formulate some recovery programs for them.

This difficult task naturally fell on Chang Wei, but he was already familiar with it, the NBA schedule was often much denser than the Olympics, and he already had several sets of recovery training plans in his head. The next morning, the national players, who had slept beautifully, arrived at the training hall on time, and as the host, the training venue must have the best facilities, which is conducive to their recovery. Chang Wei and other assistant coaches mainly use a combination of jogging and massage to try to relax the muscles of the players, anyway, there is no game today, and relaxing the muscles will not affect their game status.

Younas was cautious about the match against Angola on the afternoon of 14 August, which was also the lesson he learned in the last game. Before the start of the game, everyone thought that Spain could easily beat China, at most at the beginning of the game there was a stalemate stage, but in the end, China directly defeated Spain with Yao Ming's supplementary basket, and shook off the glasses.

And now China is like Spain in the last game, and Angola is like China in the last game, and if one is not careful, China may also capsize in the gutter. Moreover, Angola has not won in the history of the two sides, and in this year's Stankovic Cup continental basketball tournament, China lost to Angola by 71-72 points.

Therefore, Younas hopes to minimize the surprise factor of this game and definitely not leave any chance for Angola to turn the tables. If they can beat Angola, then China's group stage record will come to 2 wins and 1 loss, and they will have the initiative to qualify.

The first match of Group B on August 14 was Germany vs Spain, which started at 9 o'clock, but Spain did not seem to have learned the lessons of the last game loss and seemed to be a little slow to heat up, and they were beaten by Germany at the beginning of the game with a wave of 8-0. Fortunately, Germany's shooting percentage could not be maintained, and Spain only trailed by one point at 14-15 at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Spain hit consecutive three-pointers from the outside, and before the halfway point of the quarter, the interior combination of Nowitzki and Kaman did not play as well as they should. In the next game, Spain did not give the opponent any chance, and defeated Germany 72-59 with the whole team scoring double-doubles, getting rid of the shadow of losing to China.

China's game against Angola is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m., with the power of defeating Spain, and the Chinese men's basketball team has occupied the initiative on the court from the beginning of the game. For Angola's relatively short interior line, Yao Ming is simply an unsolvable BUG, he and Yi Jianlian have turned over the river and the sea on the inside, dominating the basket at both offensive and defensive ends.

Yao Ming scored 8 points and 4 rebounds in the first quarter, and delivered 2 blocks to help the Chinese team take a 22-15 lead. In the previous game, Angola had no way to take Yao Ming, and now they are facing a more powerful Yao Ming, so naturally they can only watch the latter enter no man's land under the basket. Of course, Yao Ming did not forget to create opportunities for his teammates when he scored, and thanks to his passing, the Chinese team hit two three-pointers in a row after the start of the second quarter to further stretch the score away. However, no one relaxed and played very cautiously in each round.

Chang Wei is very pleased with this, there are countless examples of basketball games that once they play the wind and start to wave and eventually lose the game, and the Chinese men's basketball team also maintains a calm heart in the face of Angola that is not as strong as itself, and firmly controls the situation on the court, this is the temperament of a strong team, it seems that defeating Spain has indeed made them qualitatively sublimated in spirit.

In the face of the cautious Chinese team, Angola had no way to fight back, and the Chinese men's basketball team always maintained a lead of about 15 to 20 points. Even if Angola fought back, their flames were quickly extinguished, and there was no climate. In the end, the Chinese team won a big victory, they won 89-66 by as many as 23 points, and whether it was rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, or more than their opponents, the most important thing, the Chinese team only had 8 turnovers in the whole game, while Angola had 19.

Of course, the number one contributor to the victory of the Chinese team in this game is Yao Ming, who slashed 37 points, 14 rebounds and a big double-double, and at the same time had to send 6 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal.