After the substitution, Yao Ming is still the most important point of the Chinese team, and his excellent performance is also the key to the team's ability to bite the score. Driven by him, the other Chinese players present played more relaxed, except for Chen Jianghua.

Chen's direct opponent, Paul, only entered the NBA in 2005, but after three seasons he has grown into the league's top point guard, and his role as a backup for Kidd on the Dream Eight team does not diminish his brilliance. As a rising star of China's point guard, Chen Jianghua also played very well in Guangdong, but there is still a certain gap compared to Paul, which is normal.

But Chen Jianghua still struggled to face Paul in every round, and he didn't allow himself to be the breakthrough for his opponent. However, he soon found out to his dismay that he was completely inferior to Paul in terms of pure technique, and the opponent could often break through his defense in a second or two when he held the ball, but when he held the ball, Paul's defense was like kraft candy.

In fact, Paul didn't plan to do his best at first, he had already heard about the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team, and he didn't feel that anyone could threaten him. But what he didn't expect was that this small defender, who came off the bench like himself, actually had such an amazing speed of advancing with the ball, and he had to go all out in the game, which made Chen Jianghua feel very heavy pressure.

However, under the tremendous pressure given by Paul, Chen Jianghua also grew at an unimaginable speed. Maybe he will be embarrassed at first, maybe he will still be difficult to stop Paul when he plays at full strength, but he still absorbs the nutrients from the failure after failure. For a young man like him, it's good to be able to play against high-level opponents.

Despite this, Chen Jianghua still lost to Paul at the end of the first quarter, and he only scored 2 points and 2 assists, while Paul scored 6 points, 4 assists and 1 steal. But the Chinese team only trailed by three points to the United States 17-20, largely due to Yao Ming's dominance on the inside, and he caused a lot of problems for the United States both offensively and defensively.

During the break, Younas praised Chen Jianghua a lot, and in order to show encouragement, he decided to continue to let Chen Jianghua appear in the second quarter, and he was joined by Wang Shipeng and Li Nan, two shooters, and Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming formed an inside line. Earlier, Younas planned to let Yao Ming rest, after all, in his opinion, it is still difficult for China to win this game, so why let Yao Ming play to the death? However, Yao Ming's desire to fight was strong, and his physical strength was enough to support him, so Younas decided to give him more time.

In the second quarter, Chen Jianghua was still like a small sports car with his foot on the accelerator, dribbling the ball on the court, which made another point guard who came off the bench, Deron Williams, miserable. He could indeed use his strong body to forcibly stop Chen Jianghua's breakthrough, but the latter's starting speed was too fast, and his movements were very flexible, and he would go straight to the inside line with one turn and one turn.

As a last resort, Lao K could only send Wade to play point guard, Chang Wei smiled wryly on the sidelines, he knew better than anyone how strong Wade was. As the number one star of the Pistons, Wade has a very good offense, but his defense is also good, and the most important thing is that his speed is also outstanding, otherwise it would be impossible to get the reputation of "The Flash", Chen Jianghua will be in trouble.

As Chang Wei expected, Chen Jianghua immediately fell into a stalemate, if he could still use speed to get rid of the 05 double control of Paul and Delong before, then now he is almost helpless in front of Wade, if it weren't for Wang Shipeng to help him control the ball, he may have given Wade a few steals. Younas thought about it for a while and replaced him with Liu Wei.

To be honest, Chang Wei still admires Younas's courage, he still chooses to fight against the United States at this time, but this may be the effect of previous training that gave him confidence. Just look at the lineup he has on the court now, the shooter on the outside, Liu Wei is also responsible for delivering shells to the inside, and the combination of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian has to score deep into the basket.

In the cheers of the fans at the scene, the Chinese team became more and more courageous, and they tied the score at 37 with 3 minutes and 17 seconds left in the second quarter. However, in the following time, the Chinese team suddenly had no touch, except for two fouls caused by Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian under the basket, everyone else failed to hit, and the American team took the opportunity to play a small climax, and at the end of halftime, they led by nine points at 50-41. Of course, this is beyond most people's expectations.

At halftime, everyone didn't relax, they all grabbed the time to replenish their energy and massage their sore muscles, and only 9 points behind in the first half made them ambitious, maybe this game can really work a miracle?

But Chang Wei understands that it is very difficult, and most of the American team has the ability to decide the outcome of a game, while on the Chinese side, only Yao Ming. Da Yao only rested for three minutes in the entire first half, and although he has always paid attention to improving his endurance in the NBA, he is still a tall interior player who exerts more physical strength than anyone else.

If the Chinese team wants to continue to insist, it must rely on Yao Ming's attack and defense on the inside, Chang Wei and Younas are very aware of this, and the biggest question is whether Yao Ming can afford it. However, before he exhausted his physical strength, he still needed to continue to fight on the field, Wang Zhizhi may have been very strong, but now he is too far from Yao Ming's strength.

Of course, Younas will not use Yao Ming ruthlessly, if Yao Ming is injured because he has played too long, he will definitely be sprayed to death by the majority of Chinese fans. So in the second half, Younas did not intend to start Yao Ming, but gave him a few minutes of rest.

However, Younas soon discovered that the team could not do without anyone, but Yao Ming could not be missing, especially when the United States team was preparing to open the score in one fell swoop. Originally, he planned to give Yao Ming a three-minute rest, but less than two and a half minutes into the second half, he hurriedly let Yao Ming come on the court, because the U.S. team relied on a small surge set off by Kobe Bryant to stretch the difference to 15 points.

Yao Ming re-stabilized the situation after returning to the game, but he was obviously unable to stop the American Dream Eight team with full firepower, and could only barely help the Chinese men's basketball team maintain a point difference of about 10 to 15 points.

Now there is only one way for Younas, that is, to continue to attack, so maybe there is still a chance, otherwise the Chinese men's basketball team will not think about holding out to the end in this game, you must know that this is the goal they set for themselves from the beginning.