On September 28, 2000, the men's basketball quarterfinals of the Sydney Olympics kicked off, the United States team ranked first in Group A will face the Russian team ranked fourth in Group B, Lithuania ranked second in Group A will face Yugoslavia ranked third in Group B, the Chinese team ranked third in Group A will face the host team Australia ranked second in Group B, and the French team ranked fourth in Group A will face Brazil, the first team in Group B, although the French team lost to the United States team in the final round. However, due to the victory of the Chinese team against the Italian team, the French team finally broke into the top 8.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the Sydney Olympic Basketball Stadium, because it is Australia's home stadium, the game will use the largest basketball stadium of the Olympic Games, even so, the current Olympic basketball stadium is still full, tens of thousands of Australian fans, and Chinese fans, respectively, holding the national flags of their respective countries, some even on their faces, with some national flag stickers on their foreheads, while constantly showing themselves to the TV camera.

"Due to the outstanding performance in the last game, in this game, Meng Xu replaced Hu Weidong as the starting small forward of the national team, is this arrangement reasonable, who should be strong in the national team, who is in good shape, let whoever is on it, although Hu Weidong is also very good, but this season is affected by injuries, the performance of this Olympic Games has fluctuated greatly, and the shooting percentage has been very low. In line with the attitude of not being afraid of offending people, Mr. Zhang Li immediately made some discordant remarks after getting the starting list for this game. In the current national team, many veteran players, such as Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong, were all promoted to the national team by Mr. Zhang Lili, so even if Zhang Lili sprayed them, the disciples had no way to take the former head coach.

Zhang is reasonable and old, not afraid of offending people, but Su Qun is not good, in line with the principle that more is better than less, Su Qun did not pick up Zhang Reasonable's words, but began to introduce the starting lineup of the national team to the audience in front of the TV: "In today's game, the starting center of our national team is Wang Zhizhi, the big forward is still Liu Yudong, small forward Meng Xu, scoring guard Sun Jun, organization guard Li Xiaoyong, I don't know how Director Jiang will arrange the tactics of this game, now there are 5 players on the field, They are all players with strong individual ability and excellent shooting, and the three outside players are also players with very good breakthrough ability. ”

"Australia is also a powerhouse in world basketball, having reached the top four of the Olympics and World Championships many times, especially Australia's two interior players, Matthew Nelson and Chris Ansty are both players with strong individual ability, and Chris Ansty is also a member of the NBA Bulls. Whether it is roughly or Liu Yudong has no advantage against them, so we must not take this game lightly. Taking over Su Qun's words, Mr. Zhang Lili also introduced Australia's two interior players by the way.

"Director Zhang is right, in this Australian team, there are many players who play in the NBA, this is a team that has always been strong, several of their outside players CJ Bruton, Glenn Saville, Sean Redhatch, these players are all players who play in the NBA or NCAA, although the strength is not up to the level of Meng Xu, but it should not be underestimated, their outstanding performance helped the Australian team in the group stage, successive victories over the former Olympic champions Russia and Yugoslavia, The overall strength of this team is actually above us. After taking Australia's starting list and introducing it in one breath, Su Qun also took a breath of relief, among all the teams that entered the top 8, the Huaguo basketball team may be the weakest, even if the French team lost to the Huaguo basketball team in the group stage, the comprehensive strength is stronger than the Huaguo national team, and in the last game of the group stage, the French team almost overturned the dream team.

"Okay, the game has begun, the Australian jump ball has been successful, roughly, there doesn't seem to be a jump ball jump win in the group stage, this game is still the same, I think Director Jiang should consider increasing Yao Ming's playing time." After the start of the game, Wang Zhizhi's failure to jump the ball as always, also made Mr. Zhang Li sigh for a while, no way, whether it is white or black, yellow people are born in a slight trend, Wang Zhizhi's height is 5 cm taller than Chris Ansti, and he is younger than the other party, but he just can't jump the other party.

"Director Zhang, this can't be helped, our yellow people's physical fitness is facing the white race, and we are born with no advantage." Su Qun's words at this moment also have some exculpatory implications for Wang Zhizhi, as a player selected by the Mavericks, Wang Zhizhi will enter the NBA sooner or later, and as the representative of CCAV in the United States, he will also have to deal with Wang Zhizhi at that time, so Su Qun is not easy to offend Wang Zhizhi. When it came to physical fitness, Su Qun remembered Meng Xu, and with a physical quality like Meng Xu, he was probably an outlier among the yellow race.

"This guy is so strong." Australia's point guard CJ Bruton, after Chris Ansti jumped the ball successfully, slowly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, because it was a winner-or-lose game, so in the first quarter, the two sides will not use all their strength, but will slowly test each other, and then gradually exert strength. But just when CJ Bruton was directing his teammates to run and dribbling to the middle line, Meng Xu rushed over directly and pressed CJ Bruton. After 10 seconds of continuous dribbling, CJ Bruton was never able to get rid of Meng Xu's close defense, and had no choice but to call his teammates to block and cover, but Matthew Nelson just pulled up, and he was cut off by Meng Xu, looking at the back of the No. 5 player of the Huaguo team who was already hanging on the basket, CJ Bruton was also surprised.

Born in Wichita, Kansas, USA, CJ Bruton, was a very versatile guard in the NCAA period, proficient in breakthrough shooting, was drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the second round in 97, but was not signed immediately, so CJ Bruton has been honing himself in the NBL, while waiting for the NBA call. CJ Bruton, who loves street ball, thinks that his ball control is first-class, and he often improvises in NBL games, but this time, he didn't expect to be directly cut off by Meng Xu from his own hands in the first round.

"Hey man, you should go to the street court instead of coming here." After getting off the basket, he shook his finger at CJ Bruton, Meng Xu said sarcastically, there is no one who dares to bring the game of streetball to such a formal game, even white chocolate does not dare to play like this in the game.

“fack。” After hearing Meng Xu's sarcasm, CJ Bruton, who was originally provoked to be angry, saw Meng Xu staying at the free throw line, waiting for him to catch the ball in the backcourt, and then was ready to come up and force him at any time, he immediately couldn't control his anger, and his uncle couldn't bear it anymore, but after looking at the head coach on the sidelines, he could only temporarily endure his anger and scolded Meng Xu, and at the same time thought in his heart that he must play him once to get back on the field.

"What is Xiao Meng doing?" Watching Meng Xu's pressing of CJ Bruton on the field, assistant coach Min Lulei looked at head coach Jiang Quan with a puzzled expression, the tactical arrangement before the game was not like this.

"He wants to disrupt the rhythm of the game in Australia, the enemy is strong and I am weak, and only by surprise can we have any hope of winning." For Meng Xu's behavior of violating his tactical arrangement, Jiang Quan was not only angry, but also nodded to express his appreciation for him.

If Meng Xu heard the conversation between Jiang Quan and Min Lulei, he would definitely nod his head in agreement. Before the start of this game, Coach Jiang Quan introduced to all the players that as the strongest individual player in the Australian team, Australia's tactics were basically launched from CJ Bruton, so Meng Xu wanted to disrupt Australia's rhythm by forcing CJ Bruton, after all, no matter how strong CJ Bruton is, there is still a big gap between him and the top point guards in the NBA, as long as he can break him twice, it will definitely disrupt his mentality. And before the start of this game, Coach Jiang Quan also gave himself a very high degree of tactical freedom, which can be said to be left to his own play. At the same time, this game is also the first time that Meng Xu and several bigwigs of the national team played at the same time, and while giving CJ Bruton a dismount after the opening, he can also show his strength to these bigwigs, maybe they don't need to shake their bodies a few times, and these bigwigs will surrender to themselves. After all, everyone is together for honor, and it doesn't matter who is the boss or who is the core.

"Isn't this CJ Bruton known as the NBL's No. 1 point guard? Why is it so bad, under Meng Xu's pressure, he can't even control the ball. "Maybe it's the additional state of death entanglement that has taken effect, this time in the face of Meng Xu's pressing, CJ Bruton stumbled when dribbling, and almost missed twice in a row.

In the end, only 2 minutes into the first quarter of the game, Australia's head coach called a timeout, and there was no way that CJ Bruton was too embarrassed in these two minutes, and was directly stealed 3 times by the No. 5 of the Chinese basketball team, and was directly beaten with an 8-0 climax.

In the end, relying on Meng Xu's 8 points in the opening stage, at the end of the first quarter of the game, the Huaguo basketball team led Australia by as many as 15 points 28-13, and by the end of the half, 39-45, relying on the excellent performance of the bench lineup, the Australian team still retained a glimmer of hope for a comeback.