Chapter 112: What Can You Do in 2.4 Seconds?
The Lakers and Chinese teams played at the "Olympic Sports Center", when the "Wukesong Stadium" had not yet been built, and such important basketball games were basically arranged in the Olympic Sports Center, which could only accommodate less than 7,000 people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this era, even in economically developed Europe, the capacity of large basketball stadiums rarely exceeds 10,000 people, because there are not so many people to watch the game at all, and the venue is too large to appear too empty during the game, and the cost of maintenance and use will increase, which is unnecessary.
The United States, which doesn't watch football much, is the only country in the world that has a large number of basketball stadiums that can accommodate about 20,000 people, because the NBA before the 80s mainly relied on tickets to earn income.
Zhang Wei is used to playing in a big stadium, and this kind of small stadium with less than 10,000 people will make him a little depressed.
But when I think about it, there are at least 50 million people watching his game in China today, and that bit of unhappiness disappears in an instant.
"Fifty million? Last season's finals, was there 50 million people around the world tuning in? ”
"Didn't you watch the news? Last season's Finals saw viewership of 20 million for all six games, with the highest being 25 million. ”
"I still can't believe how a friendly match can be watched by more than 50 million people."
"Because they have a population of 1.2 billion, five times our population."
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The Lakers players were still surprised by the number of viewers of today's game until before the game, they were basically the first time to come to China, and the whole team went to the Great Wall to visit before the game.
Of course, Zhang Wei has been busy hooking up with the young lady these days, so she naturally found an excuse to push off the union activities and went to the jungle alone.
But fortunately, he didn't go with him, and these Lakers players didn't know that just this morning, some Chinese media published the news that Lakers players were openly engraved on the Great Wall.
The most embarrassing thing is not that one person did this, but that except for Zhang Fu, who did not participate in union activities, all the Lakers players engraved their names and jersey numbers on the bricks and stones of the Great Wall, and also took the initiative to take a group photo to keep the evidence and upload it to their ICQ album.
There is really no one to do such a stupid act, and now some American media have already known about this incident, and they are worried about how to report this kind of embarrassing behavior to the United States.
Zhang Wei should be glad that he temporarily quit the team because of hooking up with the young lady, otherwise he would have left an inscription on it with the inscription "Lyon is here for a visit", and then took a photo and sent it to his own space, at which time the American media could focus all their firepower on him.
Back to the game, the Chinese team has a strong desire to fight today, and the crazy performance in the Olympics has not only made them feel confident, and some players are now a little overconfident, which is not a good thing.
Lakers starters: Van Exel, Finley, Zhang, Mason, Mutombo.
This set of starts is the same as the last game against Japan, except that the playing time of these five will be longer.
Harris informed Zhang and the team's main players in advance before the game, and they will be given 20-25 minutes of playing time each today.
Chinese team starters: Li Xiaoyong, Hu Weidong, Sun Jun, Liu Yudong, Wang Zhizhi.
This lineup is basically the strongest lineup of the Chinese team at present, everyone has their own characteristics, but the real strength is still far from the real world top four, at most the strength of the top eight, and the strength of the Australian team is at most four or six, and it is not dominant.
But in Asia, after the sharp changes in the Olympic Games, the Chinese team really has no opponents, even if there is no later little giant, the Chinese men's basketball team at the moment is also the first in Asia.
Zhang greeted the Chinese players one by one after coming on the field, but unlike the Japanese players who asked him for autographs, some Chinese players had hostility in their eyes and did not smile at all when they greeted him, as if they had some grudge against him.
This made him very incomprehensible, he was so rebellious, and these people actually looked at him with such hostile eyes?
Zhang Wei was a little unhappy in her heart, she felt that her posture before the game was too low, but she was looked down upon, and he saw a wave of anger and jealousy from these people.
The commentators of China and the United States are introducing each other's players at this time, and they are all introducing themselves in a way that belittles themselves and elevates their opponents. On this point, they are on the same page. However, it is easy to understand that these people will praise their opponents before the game, and it will be more refreshing to win after a while, and if the process does not go well, there will be steps down.
In the opening jump ball, Wang Zhizhi's bounce power at this time was not bad among Asian players, but it was far worse than the top black athletes, but Mutombo's bounce ability has been decreasing year after year in recent years, and his habitual shooting in the opening jump ball link made Wang Zhizhi win the scrum.
The players of the Chinese team in this period have a characteristic, that is, the skills are very comprehensive, and on this basis, there are one or two unique skills.
But it's still an old problem, this kind of comprehensive and unique skills refer to the Asian scope, once they come to the Olympic Games, their comprehensive skills have become less comprehensive, and the unique skills have become "one or two techniques that can be taken out", the reason why they can beat Argentina, Brazil and Australia, which are stronger than their own teams, is actually relying on card bonuses, and they are good at one or two skills to the extreme, plus the whole team feels explosive, which can defeat the opponent.
It was the same today, Van Exel wanted to use his physical confrontation to interfere with the opponent's dribble and wait for an opportunity to break the ball. But the two point guards of this Chinese team are rare players who are not afraid of pressing, one is Li Xiaoyong and the other is Wu Qinglong.
Wu Qinglong was in excellent form before 96, and the most prominent thing was his strong confrontation ability. In the future, the Chinese point guard, the most criticized is that it is easy to be cut off when encountering a bag, and once they encounter a strong opponent, it is difficult to even dribble through the midfield.
This also causes that as long as the opponent is close to the defense, the fans in front of the TV are always scared, feeling that they will be robbed in the next second.
Another Li Xiaoyong, his biggest specialty is steady and sophisticated, although the body is not particularly strong, but he is also not afraid of packs and pressing, and his assist and turnover statistics in the Olympics are also the best among all Chinese point guards.
Compared with Wu Qinglong's state decline, Li Xiaoyong showed his steadiness in the Olympic Games, even if he encountered the defense of the American team, it was rare to see him unable to dribble the ball and pass the ball, this is where he is great, China in this era can have a relatively reassuring point guard, and fans should stop finding faults.
Van Exel himself is not a particularly strong point guard, and he failed to succeed in two consecutive close-quarters presses, but was passed by Li Xiaoyong.
Sun Jun received the basketball to face Zhang Fu's defense, and his heart was a little drumming, which made Pippen call him a guy who was difficult to defend.
The Lakers players didn't look at this side at all, they couldn't rest assured about Zhang Mao's single defense, and even Mutombo was not ready to help him make up for it.
The Chinese players were all watching their opponents, and Sun Jun could only try to attack and look for opportunities.
Master Reasonable will be crazy about milking his own people: "Sun Jun is full of feints, he plays with a unique sense of rhythm, the absolute speed of the breakthrough is not fast, but the change of rhythm makes the defender a headache, scoring, three-point, passing is Sun Jun's signature, especially his back passing skills are unique in the Chinese basketball world." ”
Sun Jun was frantically milked, and he didn't feel right from the first step of the breakthrough, which was worse than facing Pippen in the Olympics, even if his sense of rhythm was really strong, but if the first step was prevented to death, most of the follow-up footsteps and feints would be strangled.
Zhang Wei also watched the Olympics and had some understanding of this Sun Jun, his uncle-like breakthrough rhythm is indeed very set, and his scoring ability is very strong. But in the past two years, he has seen masters from all over the world in the Lakers' training camp, and they all have their own unique skills, but they can only struggle for a base salary contract.
In this, some people's skills even make him secretly stunned, but their athleticism is really not enough to play in the NBA, just like Sun Jun's weird sense of rhythm is completely a one-handed skill, but his athleticism is too ordinary, Zhang Mao stuck the breakthrough route as soon as he came up, and then followed by a reasonable body collision, at this time Sun Jun didn't say what rhythm to change, he couldn't even control the ball.
Sun Jun still underestimated Zhang Fu's physical fitness, and as soon as he took a step, he found that Zhang Fu seemed to know where he was going to land early in the morning, not only stuck the route, but also bumped into him with a body that was two circles larger than him.
Zhang Zhu successfully broke the ball with a physical contact, and then there was a shot that Chinese fans watching this game will never forget - I saw Zhang Zhu catch up from behind in two steps, and the meteor rushed to the moon to surpass Li Xiaoyong and Hu Weidong, who were one step ahead of him, these two people just turned around and ran back two steps earlier than Zhang Zhu, who went to pick up the ball first, but Zhang Zhu rushed through the midfield and went hand in hand with these two people. In the blink of an eye, the two of them didn't even have time to foul, Zhang Yi broke through the sound barrier in an instant as if he had turned on the afterburner, and this kind of pure speed of violent overtaking made Chinese fans only open their mouths wide, they had never seen this kind of perverted explosiveness and acceleration.
"He's flying?"
"How do I feel that Li Xiaoyong and Hu Weidong are running in place?"
"Did he run from the back to the front in just six steps, and I don't think his feet touched the ground at all?"
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The surprise of Chinese fans can be understood, they really don't see much of this kind of footage, CCTV has only really broadcast Lakers games since last season's playoffs, and it is still difficult to play this kind of scene in the playoffs, although the Chinese team encountered the Dream Three team in the Olympic Games, but the international basketball field is smaller than the NBA, and it is not easy to have this kind of violent scene.
Moreover, not only have Chinese fans never seen this kind of footage, but American fans have rarely seen such a violent full-court attack. Before Zhang Qi was born, it seemed that no one had played this kind of performance, and the American fans who watched this game at this moment also had the same big mouth as the Chinese fans.
That's right, this game is played in accordance with the rules of the NBA, and even the three-point line is the 7.25-meter distance that the NBA has re-restored, which means that the magic weapon of the Chinese team, the three-point shot, has been reduced by half by the NBA rules from the beginning.
Master Reasonable was also speechless for a long time, and it wasn't until Zhang Qiu completed the flying split and had returned to his own half to start defending that he began to explain: "It's amazing! It's really lightning fast, we can all see that when the watch starts at 24 seconds and Zhang Zhu advances from the backcourt to the frontcourt to score, there are 21.6 seconds left, which means that it only took him 2.4 seconds to complete an attack from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and it took less than three seconds before and after to complete a fast-break dunk after the break. ”
Zhang Qi himself is also very happy, he gave the Chinese lady a ticket, so his desire to perform today is not low, and this goal is almost one of his current masterpieces. Although he has scored this kind of goal a few times in the NBA, it was only this time in three seconds. That's the result of his summer training, and his explosiveness and acceleration are stronger than last season.
Master Reason continued to popularize science: "Zhang Fu's speed is one of the best in the NBA, especially his sprint speed after starting can rank in the top three in history. Let's put it this way, there are many types of speed: starting speed, changing direction speed, absolute speed, and sprint speed. Zhang Qiu's starting speed and change of direction speed are certainly not superior to small people like Stoudemire and Iverson, and his 110-kilogram weight is there. However, he is strong in his super large stride, historical absolute speed and rear sprint speed, plus the same good starting speed and historical physique, as long as he is killed under the basket, if the ball does not go in, it is a foul. ”
Zhang Zhu's ball made it difficult for those Chinese players who were hostile to him to rise up jealousy, Sun Jun was the runner-up in the slam dunk contest, although the speed was not fast, but the strength was definitely not bad, but Zhang Zhu couldn't even hold the ball in physical contact. Coupled with this long-distance attack that made their eyeballs almost fall out, what reason do they have to be hostile to such people? People and they are really not the same level of existence.
The hostility of some Chinese players is easy to understand, when Bruce Lee became famous all over the world and his fame spread to the mainland, he was also belittled by many Chinese martial arts people and onlookers, and until decades later, he was also blackened by countless people.
Zhang Mao is now the same truth, the more successful he is, the more jealous people are, and some Chinese players in front of him may simply look at him unpleasantly, jealous of his fame and physical talent around the world. But some people in front of the TV are different, they purely want to satisfy their pleasure by belittling others, so in their eyes, nothing is black, the darker they are, the more black they are, otherwise how can they look awesome, this group of people is the trolls later.