Chapter 495: The Quarterfinals and the Quarterfinals
Compared with the clear ranking points gap in Group A, the battle situation in Group B makes people feel a little dizzy, because everyone thought that the Spanish team, which was the dominant team in Group B, actually overturned, and lost two games in Group B. Although there is no doubt about the qualifying situation in Group B, there is a big difference in the rankings between the teams, but in the end, the final ranking is determined through factors such as the relationship between the winners and losers stipulated in the event, and the Croatian team is actually ranked first in Group B, while the Spanish team is second, The third is Lithuania, while the fourth is Argentina.
In this way, the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games will also come out, the United States team in first group A will face their bitter opponent of the year, the Chinese team in second group will face their old rival Lithuania, the third team in group A will face the strong Spanish team, and the fourth team in group A France will be ranked with Croatia, the top team in group B.
In fact, this time the quarterfinals are still very saying, first of all, the United States team and the Argentine team are a pair of enemies in the international arena, you have been playing for more than ten years, every time the confrontation is very intense, of course, the most important thing is that the Argentine team defeated them in the 04 Athens Olympics, and finally won the Olympic gold medal, which is also the first time that the United States team has lost the championship of an international competition since the formation of the dream team. First of all, the number of encounters between the Chinese team and the Lithuanian team is actually very large, and many times they are in the first round of the knockout round, such as the Beijing Olympics, when they met the Lithuanian team in the quarterfinals, the head coach at the time was still a Lithuanian, Younas, so this time against Lithuania, the Chinese team will definitely not be merciful.
And the grouping of the Spanish team is actually very sad, although it is facing the Australian team, but the combat effectiveness of this Australian team is still very good, plus the players of the Spanish team are also seriously aging, most of the main players are over thirty years old, this is still in the case of Ye Xuan's teammate Pau Gasol next season has withdrawn from the national team, so it will take some twists and turns for the young Spanish team to defeat the Australian team, of course, the worst thing is still to come, If they can beat Australia, the next opponent should be the United States, after all, it is still a bit difficult for this Argentine team to beat the United States. In other words, even if they were lucky enough to defeat the Australian team, the Spanish team still could not escape the clutches of the American team in the end.
The time soon came to August 17th, the first basketball game is the game between the Chinese team and the Lithuanian team, this schedule is very favorable for the Chinese team, first, the Chinese team's last game was on the 15th, that is, the day before yesterday, but the Lithuanian team's Group B was the last game yesterday, that is, the Lithuanian team is equivalent to playing this game back-to-back. Second, the saddest thing about the Lithuanian team is that they played the last group yesterday, which means that they only finished the game last night, and they will continue today, and they can't even have enough back-to-back 24-hour rest, probably only 14 hours of rest.
In any case, the game started immediately, and in order to ensure that this game could hit the opponent, Ye Xuan was also very willing to use a scope prop to let his hits get the bonus of the system again. At the beginning of the game, Zhou Qi successfully used the advantage of height and arm span to give the racket to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan quickly started to prepare to give the opponent a dismount after receiving the ball, but the opponent obviously also studied Ye Xuan's style of play, so someone immediately stepped forward to delay Ye Xuan, who knew that Ye Xuan was very decisive here, and directly used a skill that had not been used before, that is, the ball was divided.
This is actually what Ye Xuan only discovered during this lottery, the 'Smush Parker's human ball is more talented than the talent drawn in the last lottery' because Ye Xuan was plagued by injuries at that time, so he forgot about this thing, and after finding it in this lottery, he took it out and practiced it, and now it is used. Sure enough, no matter where the audience was, they couldn't help but cheer warmly after seeing such a provocative and chic action, but Ye Xuan didn't stop his steps, but took two steps after passing the opponent who came to block, and then grabbed the ball again in his hand outside the three-point line, and then pulled it up to be a three-point shot, the ball!
The whole process of scoring goals is smooth, it is simply playing the opponent, and the player who was played by Ye Xuan is obviously not particularly convinced, this round of ball control came up and wanted to call the block to help pass Ye Xuan, and then he also used the color, but Ye Xuan was not so easy to pass, grabbed a step, dodged the block and demolition in advance, and at the same time, he also took out the opponent's ball, and then it was naturally Ye Xuan's performance moment, but Ye Xuan did not stage any difficult dunks, But after half the court, he didn't run two steps and pulled up a three-point shot again, and the ball hit again!
In just 20 seconds of the opening game, the Chinese team led directly 6:0, and Ye Xuan's fast-break three-point shot was more like a demonstration than a simple shot, which also reminded Ye Xuan's national team teammates of what Ye Xuan said before the start of the game. Needless to say, the rhythm of the subsequent game is needless to say, because of the existence of such a perverted player as Ye Xuan, the Lithuanian team played very passively, was controlled by others everywhere, and played to death.
At the end of the first two quarters of the game, Ye Xuan played a full 20-minute game, and in these 20 minutes, the Chinese team finally saw another form of Ye Xuan, that is, the legendary form of brushing points, in the 20 minutes of the half, Ye Xuan frantically cut 44 points and 3 assists, helping the Chinese team to score 55 points in the first half, while the Lithuanian team was a tragedy, only 41 points scored, and they lost 14 points at the end of the half.
But obviously Ye Xuan was not ready to let go of the opponent, and in the second half, he still kept putting pressure on the opponent on the field, so that the opponent's defensive formation was scattered all the time, not only gave Ye Xuan a score of 50+ within a few minutes, but also leaked a lot of loopholes, so that Ye Xuan also brushed a few assists by the way. But that's what the international arena looks like, there has never been any garbage time and mercy on his subordinates, otherwise the U.S. team wouldn't have won by 50 or 60 points at every turn.
In the third quarter of the game, Ye Xuan was really ruthless, not only did he score 11 points again, but also brushed 8 assists in the first quarter of the game, helping the Chinese team score 31 points again in a single quarter, and won the opponent by 8 points in a single quarter, expanding the lead to 22 points at once. This is also what many people didn't expect before the game, they didn't expect the combat effectiveness of the Chinese team to be so strong, although they knew that after Ye Xuan joined, the overall strength of the Chinese team was improved, but everyone thought that the Chinese team should be mixed into the top eight and top four or something by Ye Xuan alone, but it seems that the Chinese team is now in this momentum, and neither the French team nor the Croatian team can stop them in the next game.
In any case, the Lithuanian team was completely planted this time, and at the end of the game, the Chinese team defeated the old rival Lithuania team 103:85, entering the semifinals of the Olympic Games for the first time in history, and Ye Xuan also created a history, that is, he became the first player in the history of the Olympic Games to cut down 60+10 monster data in a single game. In fact, if Ye Xuan wants to continue to brush the data, it is estimated that he will be able to score 100 points, but in this way, his teammates can only go to the show.
In any case, Ye Xuan also relied on his excellent performance to help the Chinese team enter the semi-finals of the Olympic Games historically, and the Basketball Association saw this situation, and then looked at the grouping, the next game against either the defeated French team or the little-known team of Croatia, it seems that the Chinese team is already unstoppable to enter the finals, so their original slogan of fighting for four and three is outdated, and now it should become a sword for the gold medal. Of course, the Basketball Association also knew the strength of the American team, so it quietly yelled a few words that he was happy and happy, and finally the slogan to the outside world became to impact the medals.
On the 18th, the remaining three quarterfinals were also held as scheduled, and the Spanish team was the most popular 89:88, defeating the Australian team with a difficult victory, and finally relying on Gasol Jr.'s aerial relay to overtake the score, which completed the quasi-stunner. The French team was defeated by Croatia, 83:79, and the score gap was also very small. In the end, it was naturally the sad Argentine team, 105:78, the United States team showed no mercy and won the opponent by 27 points at once.
The semi-finals also came out, the United States team met Spain, the final opponent of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese team faced the not very popular Croatian team. Everyone said that although Pickled Pepper and Ye Xuan did not reach the finals again this year (they both reached the finals in the first two years of their cooperation), God was fair and let them meet in the finals in this way.
August 20th, the semi-finals began, first of all, the Spanish team and the United States team of the game, the double defense played very fiercely, the Spanish team even once occupied the peak, but unfortunately in the critical third quarter of the game they still dropped the chain, lost 6 points in a single quarter, and it is these 6 points, so that they no longer have a chance to turn around, although they desperately wanted to chase the score at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, but waves of counterattacks were suppressed by the American team, and finally 76:82, Spain lost the game, This Olympics should also be the curtain call for Spain's golden generation, and it is estimated that these people will not be seen in the next competition.
The match between the Chinese team and the Croatian team, in fact, the people who pay attention to it are relatively smaller, after all, the gap between the strength of Croatia and the strength shown by the Chinese team is really a bit different, and the game also tells everyone that the gap between the two teams is indeed a bit big. In fact, if there was no Ye Xuan, the Chinese team would still have a hard time playing Croatia, after all, the European basketball concept and playing style advocated by Croatia are very advanced, and the cooperation between them is very skilled, so naturally they also play very well, but after Ye Xuan joined, not only strengthened the Chinese team's attack on the outside line, but also let the Chinese team have someone on the outside to connect with each other, plus Ye Xuan's defensive ability is also very outstanding, so the Chinese team can suddenly improve so much.
Needless to say, the game with the Croatian team is over, at the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team has already led by 10 points, Ye Xuan's data of 13 points, 4 assists and 3 steals in a single quarter also makes the Croatians feel desperate, at the end of the half, Ye Xuan's data has risen to 27 points, 9 assists and 7 steals, because of Croatia's style of play, their passes have become very frequent, and Ye Xuan's ability to steal and cross the ball is not bragging, So the data of steals is simply going up, and Croatia is not only limited on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end because the inside line is not dominant, so the rebounding protection is not very powerful, as a result, at the end of the half, the Chinese team got 49 shots, which is a relatively rare number of shots in the NBA, and the Croatian side is tragic, because of Ye Xuan's steal, so they lost a lot of offensive opportunities, so there were only 31 shots in the half, and they scored 41 points, The Chinese team relied on 49 shots to score 69 points, leading the opponent by 28 points at halftime.
At the end of the third quarter, Ye Xuan successfully got his first triple-double in the Olympic Games, and it was also the first triple-double in the national team, and this is an alternative triple-double because Ye Xuan's rebounds are only 3, and the data of the triple-double are scores, assists and steals.
That's right, it's a steal, the tactics of the sad Croatian team really made Ye Xuan too happy, the steal data was brushed, and in the second half, the opponent still deliberately reduced the transfer of the ball within Ye Xuan's attack range, but still let Ye Xuan get three steals, and his steal data rose to 10.
In the end, the Chinese team also defeated the Croatian team 115:70 and advanced to the finals of the Olympic Games, in which they will face the strongest opponent the United States, which is a contest of great disparity, but the Chinese team can reach the finals, which means that they have achieved the breakthrough of the Chinese team in the men's three major medals 0. So after the victory over Croatia, the fans in China have already started to celebrate.