July 31st, on this day, the Chinese men's basketball team did not play, but they did not rest, as the leader of Group A that has qualified, the Chinese team needs to pay attention to the next opponent, the record of Group B for now, the first place must be the Pampas Eagles led by Ginobili, after all, they are going to play against Serbia today without the glory of the past, you must know that Serbia just lost to the Iranian men's basketball team yesterday, and Iran was sanctioned by Argentina in the opening game, Coming to this Serbian side is not bothering the Pampas Eagles.

In this way, the Argentine men's basketball team will also win the first place in Group B, and this Pampas Eagles will be the last opponent of the Chinese men's basketball team in the Diamond Cup.

By the way, the FIBA Diamond Cup format is different from other competitions, and the tournament uses a post-group knockout format to determine the rankings, that is, the third place in the two groups plays against each other, and so on, the top two teams in the group also need the same matchup to determine the tournament position.

Sure enough, the Serbian men's basketball team did not bring any obstruction to the Argentine men's basketball team, and in just three quarters of the game, Serbia had lost the ability to resist, making the game fall into garbage time for a while.

"Come on, this game is meaningless, I can't see the real strength of the Argentine men's basketball team at all, I didn't expect it to be like the opening game." Roughly after the game went into garbage time, I couldn't help but speak.

Although the two sides are not in the same group, the Chinese men's basketball team is striving for the goal of breaking the results of the previous Olympic Games, so they are determined to break through the quarterfinals, of course, they will take this Argentine men's basketball team as an imaginary enemy.

I wanted to find out, but I didn't expect Argentina to win the two group games bloodlessly, which also cast a shadow on the hearts of the Chinese men's basketball team.

"Hey, Brother Zhi, what do you want to do so much? Won't you know if you have a fight tomorrow? Looking at everyone's heavy expressions, Li Yao had to stand up.

"Yes, just like Li Yao said, there is no need to think so much, only when you hand over can you know the true strength of the other party, and then you don't know the real strength of Argentina, don't you say? Li Yao. "Da Yao, as the core pillar of this Chinese team, the captain and spiritual leader also spoke, and even gave Li Yao a look at how long your kid will hide.

"That's right, you see that we won the game easily in the group stage without any effort, and it is estimated that Argentina is also scratching its head now, so let's stop worrying." Li Yao said speechlessly, what is this Brother Yao doing, why does he always want to push himself to the cusp, so that he can't be a quiet and low-key person?

"Also, we didn't use our best in the group stage, so why keep bothering others? As long as we play every game, it's fine. Roughly got out of the tip of the horns, and said with a chuckle, after all, he is also a man who has gone through countless big scenes, and some things are clear at all.

The Chinese men's basketball team will not be entangled in this issue again, and everything will wait to be seen in tomorrow's official game.

On August 1, on the day of Army Day, at 19.30 in the evening, the battle for the top spot in the Diamond Cup finally started between the Argentine men's basketball team and the Chinese men's basketball team.

Li Yao still debuted as the starting point guard of the Chinese men's basketball team, and now the starting five of the Chinese men's basketball team are already very stable, with center Da Yao, big forward Space Yi, small forward Zhu Fangyu, scoring guard Dapeng, and point guard Li Yao.

The Argentine men's basketball team put on their most common starting lineup: point guard Juan. Sanchez, shooting guard Manu. Ginobili, small forward Carlos Delfino, power forward Luis. Scola, center Fabirio. Oberto.

As the referee's whistle blew, the battle for the top spot in the Diamond Cup officially began.

Aged Fabirio. Oberto can't compare with Da Yao in terms of jumping ball, and the basketball was steadily picked by Da Yao and fell into Li Yao's hands.

Li Yao slowly controlled the ball and observed Argentina's defense on the outside, and although Space Yi could not play the copy of Princeton's style of play smoothly as roughly, it was able to open up enough space, plus in fact, after many experiments, Li Yao found that the starting lineup Da Yao pulled out of the space to make an offensive initiation point The effect is also very obvious, although it has lost the natural advantage of the inside line, but it has amplified the overall offensive space of the Chinese men's basketball team, giving Space Yi and the swing man various opportunities to cut and run. And if the other party lets Da Yao pull out, then Da Yao's accurate shooting will teach them to behave.

Li Yao implemented the execution of tactics very well, gently hoisted the ball to Da Yao near the free throw line, and immediately made a cross run with Dapeng, which instantly attracted the attention of the defender, Da Yao accurately threw the ball into Dapeng's hands, Dapeng directly pulled up, hit the three-point shot steadily, and won the first goal of the opening game.

But when it was Argentina's turn to attack, Ginobili who directly chose to break through with the ball was far from being able to defend by Dapeng, and the snake-like breakthrough not only left Dapeng behind, but also caused a defensive foul in Space Yi, at the moment of the whistle, Ginobili threw the ball out, "swish", 2+1 hit.

Looking at Dapeng's annoyed expression, Li Yao could only shrug his shoulders on the side and say that there was no way, this is the "demon knife", not to mention Dapeng, even many players in the NBA who are good at defense are very troubled by him, that is, you know that he is going to break through, but you can't find a good way to cut off his breakthrough, and he often makes fouls. Isn't that what Wade's S-rank skill Lightning Step is.

patted Dapeng on the shoulder, Li Yao didn't say anything, after all, he was a veteran, and it was not his turn to comfort him as a newcomer.

Li Yao looked at the retreating Ginobili and showed an evil smile, "Demon Knife" Since you used the spirit snake to break through and give us a dismount, then I don't return the **, no, but also the color, then I am very faceless?

Holding the ball to the front court, Li Yao immediately put up his fingers and made a gesture, and the other four national team members present instantly understood that this was a signal that Li Yao wanted to play singles, and they withdrew one after another to make room for Li Yao.

The first step of lightning was activated in an instant, facing Juan. Sanchez's defense, Li Yao left him behind in just one step, Argentina's defensive space was very open, facing some empty penalty areas, and the opponent's interior line wanted to make up for the defense at this time It was too late, Li Yao no longer put it away, he wanted to give Ginobili, an old-timer, an impressive self-introduction.

One step inside the free throw line is to introduce himself to Ginobili with a tomahawk-style dunk.

This dunk instantly ignited all the fans present, they could hardly imagine being able to see such a strong dunk in the game of the Chinese team, although the Chinese team played the Australian men's basketball team two days ago and relied on defensive counterattacks to play fast break and violent dunks many times, but whether it is in appreciation or quality, no one can compare with Li Yao's dunk.

"Who am I?" Li Yao shouted angrily to the audience on the sidelines after landing on the ground, and took advantage of the situation to make the standard listening gesture of "answer".

"Li Yao, Li Yao, Li Yao." The audience at the scene was also very cooperative and shouted, some fans who were far away didn't know what was going on at first, with the shouts of the audience and Li Yao's gestures, they also understood, and they also cooperated with the shouting, and the enthusiastic atmosphere in the stadium reached its peak for a while.

"Back to the defense." After Li Yao finished pretending to be forced, he commanded everyone to defend with a wave of his hand. But as soon as he turned his head, he saw Da Yao's smiling expression, and suddenly remembered that he was not in Stanford, but in the national team, and hurriedly looked at Da Yao with apologetic eyes, he didn't want Da Yao to misunderstand.

"This kid, you should have played like this a long time ago, don't think about tactics next, play according to your style in the NCAA." Da Yao said with a smile, the reason why he has been pushing Li Yao in front is that after he quits the national team, Li Yao can become the pillar of this national team, instead of being suppressed by some old qualifications, you must know that now there is his own and general influence, if the two of them withdraw from the national team, someone will definitely jump out, so Li Yao must use his strength to crush and convince the public.

"Really?" Li Yao asked uncertainly, to be reasonable, although the national team has been winning recently, but Li Yao played like a fish in water in the second lineup, and the rest of the time was extremely uncomfortable, he had already thought of this situation, so he proposed a second set of defensive counterattack lineup, but even the second set of lineup Li Yao was more concerned about his teammates, and could not play according to his own style, so he chose to go to the basket even if he had the opportunity to break fast in the face of Australia.

Today's dunk is completely to introduce himself to the senior of the "Demon Knife". But who would have thought that since Da Yao proposed like this, Li Yao couldn't help but feel a little moved.

"I can't be real, let me see that your MOP is not in vain." Da Yao said with a serious face.

"Okay." The corners of Li Yao's mouth hooked up a trace of arc, and he said confidently.

The next game process made the Chinese men's basketball bench sitting on the court fall into a stupor, and Li Yao, who got Da Yao's permission, showed them what the real him was, that Li Yao, who was completely different from the previous training games and previous games.

The sharp breakthrough on the offensive end and the tacit understanding between him and Da Yao have all become a sharp weapon to tear apart the opponent's defensive formation, and the individual defensive ability and excellent defensive awareness on the defensive end are also surprising, and even in the opening 8 minutes or so, he has contributed 3 blocks and 1 steal on the defensive end.

"Is this the real strength of Li Yao, the NBA leader? No wonder I could only be drafted with the 40th pick in the second round. Sun Dasheng said with a self-deprecating smile.

"I didn't expect Li Yao to be even stronger than we imagined." He was also quite shocked.

In the end, in the battle for the top spot in the Diamond Cup, Li Yao's true character led the Chinese men's basketball team to win the defending champion Argentina 84-78.