Chapter 627: Reversal
"Da Yao, Da Zhi, we have to strengthen our defense in the fourth quarter, otherwise it will be difficult for us to reverse the situation on the court." After head coach Jiang Quan arranged the personnel and tactics, Meng Xu gathered Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and others around him before he appeared on the stage.
In today's game, in addition to the excellent performance of the Huaguo men's basketball team in the first quarter, the performance in the second and third quarters of the later quarter was very average, especially on the defensive end, all kinds of leaks, all kinds of misplacement, so if the Huaguo men's basketball team wants to chase points, then it must strengthen its defense, otherwise it will never be able to recover the point difference by relying on offense alone.
"I see." After Meng Xu finished speaking, Yao Ming took the lead in expressing his position, there is no doubt that Yao Ming and Meng Xu are the pillars of this Huaguo men's basketball team, the two of them support the attack and defense of the Huaguo men's basketball team, the Huaguo men's basketball team can achieve today's results, Yao Ming and Meng Xu are indispensable, and Yao Ming, as an important member of the team, at this time, must stand up and express his attitude and determination.
"Well, we get that, too." After Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu also nodded their heads one after another, and then shouted in unison one after another, bursting out from the small circle of five people.
"Shouting loudly has a P use." The Argentine players who are playing one after another, after hearing the chorus chanting of the Chinese men's basketball team, cast a disdainful look at the direction of the Chinese men's basketball team's bench.
"Xiao Meng, come on, this game is all up to you." When the Huaguo men's basketball players who were called together by Meng Xu scattered and were about to go to the court, Jiang Quan, who was standing on the sidelines, nodded to Meng Xu again, and said softly, when his pre-game arrangements and the team's tactics were no longer effective, and he had nothing to do, the Huaguo men's basketball team can only rely on the players' personal abilities now.
"Don't worry, Director Jiang, we won't lose this game." After nodding to Jiang Quan in response, Meng Xu directly turned his head and stepped onto the court.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Chinese men's basketball team and the Argentine men's basketball team sent all the main lineups very tacitly, today's game is the final of the Olympic men's basketball, and it is also the last game in the Olympic Games, so both sides don't have to think about what happens after this game, they just need to take out all their energy and win this game.
Winning is the glory and glory of the Olympic champions, losing means that they still need to wait for four years before they can stand on this stage again, as for four years later, it is unknown whether they have a chance to enter the finals again, so for this game, whether it is the Chinese men's basketball team or the Argentine men's basketball team, they will not have any reservations, and the goal of both sides is only one, that is, victory.
The full main lineup also means that the decisive moment of this game has come from the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game.
Huaguo men's basketball team, after the start of the fourth quarter of the game, Meng Xu appeared again in the position of organizing guards, after Meng Xu began to advance with the ball, Juan Sanchez, who defended Meng Xu and obviously suffered losses, chose to fight and retreat, and harassed-based defensive methods, because Meng Xu's offensive efficiency in the third quarter was relatively average, so when Yao Ming and Meng Xu appeared at the same time, Argentina tilted its defensive energy towards Yao Ming, Or since Yao Ming showed his super efficiency on the offensive end to the Argentine men's basketball team in the first quarter of the game, Yao Ming has become the key defensive target of the Argentine men's basketball team.
As for Meng Xu, under the existing rules of international basketball, Meng Xu's super breakthrough ability will be greatly discounted, or even unable to play, so throughout the game, Meng Xu is in the middle and long distance, using shooting to make a fuss, but in the third quarter, Meng Xu's hand is relatively average, 8 shots, only 3 shots, so Argentina did not press Meng Xu too hard.
After Meng Xu advanced to the top of the arc with the ball, Argentina did not change the defense, but continued to use Juan Sanchez, who was obviously slightly taller, to defend Meng Xu alone, perhaps because of Meng Xu's bad hand in the third quarter, so that Ruben Magnano sacrificed this almost gambling defensive strategy, focusing on the interior line, on Yao Ming's body, forcing Meng Xu, who had a poor hand, to continue to shoot on the periphery, with Meng Xu's shooting rate in the third quarter, the more Meng Xu shot, the more the Huaguo men's basketball team lost.
Ruben Magnano does think so now, originally before the start of the game, Ruben Magnano's defensive strategy was to encircle Meng Xu with all his might, but Yao Ming's outstanding performance in this game made Ruben Magnano have to make a choice between defending Yao Ming and defending Meng Xu, after observing the three quarters of the game, Ruben Magnano finally made up his mind to pinch Yao Ming's point, as for Meng Xu, if his hand has been similar to that in the third quarter, then let him keep shooting, If Meng Xu's touch is restored, then follow the strategy in the first three quarters to defend Meng Xu.
I have to say that the defensive attention of this Argentine men's basketball team is indeed excellent, especially Juan Sanchez, who is now defending Meng Xu, although there is a lot of difference in height, Juan Sanchez is still close to Meng Xu and is very focused.
Meng Xu, who had advanced to the top of the arc, did not take advantage of his height advantage and forcibly pulled out his hand in front of Juan Sanchez, but slapped the blue drive in place, while observing the position of his teammates around him and the opponent's defense, the fourth quarter had just begun, and it was not yet time for Meng Xu to take over the game, so Meng Xu hoped to assist his teammates to play a few first.
"This kid really hesitated!" Ruben Magnano, who was standing on the sidelines, also showed a smug smile after seeing the situation on the court, and the heart that was still a little hanging was finally put down, Meng Xu's hand in the third quarter was very average, and the three-point shot was only 4 shots in 1, in this case, the average player would not continue to "persistently" shoot three-pointers, and it was based on this kind of thinking that Ruben Magnano dared to let Juan Sanchez defend Meng Xu alone, of course, even if Meng Xu's heart is very big, he is still unscrupulous outside the three-point line. Magnano is not worried, it takes a process to find the feel, once Meng Xu can't find the feel in a short time, then the game is completely over.
One acceleration start and then one change of direction, Meng Xu easily got rid of Juan Sanchez, but after getting rid of Juan Sanchez, Meng Xu walked around with the basketball in the area within the three-point line on the left side for a long time, but did not find a suitable opportunity to pass the basketball in his hand.
Seeing that the time of a round was about to run out, Meng Xu had to make a sharp stop on the left side of the court, but Meng Xu's shot still failed to hit, and after the rebound was grabbed by Argentina's Fabirio Oberto, Meng Xu frowned and quickly retreated.