Chapter 131 - Making History and Advancing to the Final Four

Li Yao and Wade did not care about the people around them on the call, and the other three heroes of the Four Heroes and Da Yao all heard the call between the two clearly. X

Da Yao was very shocked, it turned out that Li Yao was not joking, he was serious, Da Yao could hear the strong fighting spirit from Li Yao's words, and couldn't help laughing at himself, it turned out that he had always thought that he would put the honor of the country on his shoulders, and wanted to win a glorious glory for the Chinese men's basketball team at home before he quit the national team, but his determination was so ridiculous compared to Li Yao.

Da Yao also secretly made up his mind at this time to fight for a breakthrough in history.

And not only Wade was stunned on the side of the four heroes, but even the other three heroes were shocked by Li Yao's words, in their eyes, the Chinese men's basketball team has improved significantly after Li Yao joined, but it is definitely unrealistic to want to go all the way to the finals, let alone want to get gold and jade from them, is Li Yao now so inflated?

"Get ready, our opponent in the final is likely to be the Chinese men's basketball team." Kobe Bryant, who happened to come over on the side, smiled slightly and said to the confused Four Heroes.

"Kobe, you're not kidding, are you? How can the Chinese men's basketball team enter the finals? James said in disbelief that although they are friends with Li Yao, they don't think that the Chinese men's basketball team is enough to defeat all opponents and compete in the finals.

"Respect a warrior's declaration of war." Kobe Bryant said faintly, Kobe Bryant can clearly understand Li Yao's fighting spirit from the release of Wade's phone just now, as if he was himself in the previous two years, even if the teammates around him are not strong, he still relies on his own hard work to bring the Lakers into the playoffs, and he can best understand Li Yao's fighting spirit at this time when he has played alone against the Phoenix Suns who are in full swing for two years.

"Yes, Kobe Bryant is right, but we should respect a fighter's declaration of war." Wade said in a heavy tone, Li Yao's tone just now reminded him of himself in the 06 finals.

"Although respect is one thing, we may really meet the Chinese men's basketball team in the finals, you must know that the opponent of the Chinese men's basketball team in the quarterfinals, the Croatian men's basketball team, cannot hinder them, and the opponent in the semifinals, whether it is the Lithuanian men's basketball team or the Greek men's basketball team, the Chinese men's basketball team has the power to fight." As the brains of the team, Chris. Paul carefully recalled the list of matchups for the next 1/4 finals and found that the Chinese men's basketball team still has a very good chance of hitting the finals.

"Interesting, really interesting, I would like to see how this kid Lee can take the gold medal that we have booked." After listening to everyone's analysis, James said with interest.

"Although I admire Lee more, the gold medal must belong to our dream eight." Kobe's fighting spirit at this time was also hooked up by Li Yao's words.

"That's right." The Four Heroes of Wind and Dust also said in response.

On August 20, the men's basketball 1/4 finals finally officially started.

The first to appear was the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Croatian men's basketball team, the third place in Group A and the second place in Group B.

Speaking of the Croatian men's basketball team, many people will feel unfamiliar, because this men's basketball team seems to be another team that cannot find NBA players in this Olympic Games in addition to the Angolan men's basketball team, which can also see the influence of the NBA on the world men's basketball pattern.

However, when it comes to the Croatian men's basketball team, we have to mention one person, Tony Kukoc, who has been playing basketball since he was 14 years old and won the title of "Europa Magician" when he played in Europe. Tony Kukocz won the World Championship for Yugoslavia in 1990, won the Olympic silver medal in 1992, joined the NBA in 1993, won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls from 1996 to 1998, and was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in the 95-96 season.

However, in recent years, the Croatian men's basketball team has been in decline, and after Kukoc said goodbye to the national team, the only one left was the under-qualified Kirisek, who found an excuse to be completely absent from the 2007 European Championships. In such a predicament, Repesa, who took over the hand, was also able to calm down, he used the current horses at hand, but he paid close attention to the rapid attack and defensive these two moves, although it was very different from the style of the Croatian team led by Petrovic and Kukoc, but the team quickly improved.

This team inherits the characteristics of the former Soviet team, with skillful skills and average internal and external strength. But one thing that is unusual is that they don't have a big man with the ability to play alone, but they always make sure that the interior players don't score too little. Because several of their guards, even small forward Mark Thomas, can be used as playmaking guards, can break through and share the ball, can block and dismantle the back of the wonderful pass, and the big man has to do something simpler. Croatia is a team that is looking for speed, but also for the whole.

For this kind of team that likes to play fast attack, Li Yao is really happy. Fast break? In this game, he will tell the Croatian men's basketball team what will be a real fast break.

At the beginning, the Chinese men's basketball team still maintained their starting lineup since the beginning of the Olympic Games, center: Da Yao; Power Forward: Space Easy; Small forward: Sun Dasheng; Shooting guard: Li Nan; Point guard: Li Yao.

This lineup can be said to be the best lineup for the Chinese men's basketball team, and under the premise of outstanding offensive strength, the defensive ability can still maintain intensity.

In the middle circle of the jump ball, Da Yao has never disappointed Li Yao, except for the vinegar monk-like physical fitness of the Dream Eight team's monsters, Da Yao has not lost to others in the jump ball.

Li Yao is actually very lucky, since the rebirth, during the Stanford period, there has been Brooke. Lopez, a big center, has never lost in the NCAA mid-jump ball, and thought that after being selected by the Heat, he would also suffer from the pain of weak inside. Gasol got it, so that the Heat can be regarded as having a strong interior line of their own, plus several Chinese Great Wall of the Chinese men's basketball team, Li Yao, the point guard, is really happy, and there is never a shortage of good interior partners.

Li Yao received Da Yao's jump ball and controlled the rhythm steadily.

As introduced before, this Croatian men's basketball team is a team with strong offense and weak defense, especially their inner line, which is simply not on the same level as several Chinese Great Wall, so Li Yao is very decisive to let Da Yao and Space Yi take turns to stand near the free throw line as the central axis offensive initiation point, whether it is Da Yao's strong inside play or Space Yi's air cut interspersed with the inside line, it has brought huge trouble to the Croatian men's basketball team.

And the Croatian men's basketball team wants to get it back on the offensive end after suffering a loss on defense, but will Li Yao give them a chance?

Don't you like to play fast offense with speed, and the full-court tight defense reappeared, which instantly suppressed the offensive rhythm of the Croatian men's basketball team.

Although the leader of the Croatian men's basketball team, Rokołkić, has good strength, but his proud speed advantage has turned into a void in front of Li Yao, and he found that he could not get rid of Li Yao's defense in terms of speed, which also broke the offensive chain of the Croatian men's basketball team.

There is no way, Roko Ukic can only pass the ball out and want to organize the offense again, but the other outside lines can't get rid of Li Nan and Sun Dasheng's defense in terms of speed and body, the only thing that can occupy a certain advantage in speed is their center, but the inside line that does not have the ability to play alone usually has a chance to score after they break through the ball, and now in the face of the Chinese men's basketball team's full-court tight defense, they can't solve it at all, and the weaknesses of the inside line are undoubtedly exposed.

When Rokoukic sorted out the offensive formation again, he found that there was not much time left to attack, so he had no choice but to make a hasty shot, and of course the goal did not score.

The Chinese men's basketball team that grabbed the rebounds showed the Croatian men's basketball team what speed basketball is.

Da Yao threw the basketball to Li Yao for the first time, and Li Yao's side started instantly, and he went all the way.

Rokoukic knew that the ball was gone after he shot, so he chose to retreat at the first time, but his shortcomings on the defensive end were also exposed, and he was accelerated by Li Ya at a side oblique angle in an instant when he moved laterally, and he didn't even need to use cross over, rushing past Roko Ukic's defense, Li Yao's front was an empty frontcourt, how could Li Yao give up this opportunity to pretend to perform, and the free throw line jumped and glided dunk detonated the enthusiasm of the audience in Wukesong Stadium.

The shouts of "Chinese Flyers" resounded throughout the Wukesong Gymnasium.

After landing, Li Yao shrugged his shoulders and signaled that there was no difficulty, which suddenly made the atmosphere of the scene even hotter.

"This kid is starting to pretend again." Da Yao smiled helplessly and said.

Under the full-court tight defense of the Chinese men's basketball team led by Li Yao, the Croatian men's basketball team always has little offensive time left every time after the formation is settled, and the result of hesitation and hasty shots is a little too low.

The Chinese men's basketball team is clearly implementing the point of Li Yao's arrangement to beat the opponent's inside, and gradually opened the score.

When the score was pulled away, Li Yao decisively replaced the full-court tight defense with a regional joint defense, because the full-court tight defense is very physically demanding, especially when Da Yao is on the floor, if the opponent does not have the ability to hold the ball alone, Da Yao alone cannot let the Chinese men's basketball team use the full-court tight defense. Now that the score is ahead, you can relax your defense and relieve everyone's physical strength.

However, Li Yao, who has outstanding defensive ability as a single soldier, has very well limited Rokoukic, the offensive starting point of the Croatian men's basketball team, so even if the full-court tight defense is removed, the Chinese men's basketball team still maintains a huge advantage.

With the unremitting efforts of the Chinese men's basketball team, this advantage was maintained until the final whistle of the game.

In the end, the Chinese men's basketball team won the game with a huge lead of 21 points at 80-59 and became the first team to advance to the top 4.

At this time, the Wukesong Gymnasium became a sea of enthusiasm, and everyone hugged each other to celebrate.