Chapter 96: A Truly Powerful Enemy
Lithuania is a basketball powerhouse, and they can be seen in almost every world series, and they are often in the top three. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Their big men are almost all able to play inside and outside, with both inside and outside shots, which is very difficult to defend.
With the exception of a few players who play center, almost everyone can shoot threes.
However, their passing and tactical execution skills are particularly good, and they can always find opportunities to shoot in open spaces.
In this year's game, their leader is also a player Lu Xiaofeng is familiar with - Kreza, who later played for the NBA Nuggets.
In Lu Xiaofeng's memory, Kreiza later played well in the NBA, although he was not a star, as a small forward, he had a good height and weight, and a very good shot, but the speed was slightly worse.
In this World Youth Championships, his scoring is very stable, the first four games, are all more than 20 points, and he is currently on the scoring list, with an average of 27.5 points per game, behind Lu Xiaofeng, and the shooting rate is an astonishing 63%.
On top of that, he grabbed more than nine rebounds per game.
The key is that the Chinese team has no corresponding personnel to defend against him, whether it is Meng Da or Wang Lei, they are all shorter.
And Chen Dawei, who is about the same height, didn't play much in the first few games, and his weight is much worse.
Wu Qinglong thought about it for a long time, and he couldn't wait to pull his hair, but he still couldn't think of a good way.
Lithuania is not Puerto Rico, they have no weaknesses in almost every position, and once they wrap up Creza, I'm afraid that others will pop up again.
Their two main interior players, one at two meters and one at two meters and one with two meters and five, can grab more than 20 rebounds per game, while the frontcourt rebounds exceed 9, plus Kreza, all three are currently in the top 10 of the rebounding list.
The average height of the Chinese team is tall enough, they are taller than the Chinese team, and the shortest defender is also 1.92 meters.
It seems that from the inside out, it can't take advantage.
The only good news is that compared to his astonishing two-point shooting percentage, Kreza has only made one three-pointer so far.
But it may also be the reason for the lack of shots, after all, with his height and weight, others can't prevent him inside, and it seems that he doesn't need to shoot three points.
"Don Jr., UAE, be sure to protect the rebounds and pay attention to controlling the opponent's big man!"
"Wang Lei, you start today, try to limit the opponent's No. 11, the opponent's three-point shot on the outside is too accurate, I am not ready to wrap it."
"Xiaofeng, you must show me No. 9 to death, he scored 6 threes in the last game! Don't put it! β
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Wu Qinglong's pre-game arrangements are all clichΓ©s, and in the face of opponents who can't find flaws, he can only do his best to obey the fate of God.
looked at Lu Xiaofeng and Yi Jianlian, and he could only count on these two proud disciples to perform extraordinarily.
The names of the Lithuanian players are not in English, so what are the pronunciations of Nas, Hus, and Tas, except for Kreza, Lu Xiaofeng can't remember it at all.
All he knew was that he was playing against No. 9 and had a very good three-point shot, then No. 11 was Creza, power forward was No. 13, the tallest center was No. 15, and there was a No. 5 guard.
The race is scheduled for July 15 at 4:45 p.m., again at the Alexandra Marathon Arena.
As soon as the game opened, the opponent gave the Chinese team a dismount, and the opponent's two-meter-16 center jumped quite high, and the jump ball actually won Yi Jianlian.
Kreiza covered through a simple baseline screen, and after receiving the ball, he turned around and shot, Wang Lei did not follow, and could only watch the basketball fall into the net with a "swish".
China 0:2 Lithuania.
Zhang Qingpeng faced an opponent who was taller than himself, dribbled twice, failed to get rid of it, and hurriedly passed the ball.
The ball was interfered with by the opponent, but fortunately, Lu Xiaofeng reacted quickly and rushed forward two steps before receiving the ball.
No. 9 tried to break the ball, but did not stop his footsteps, Lu Xiaofeng took the ball and turned around, leaving him behind.
Lu Xiaofeng rushed to the front court quickly, and the No. 13 who defended Yi Jianlian came up, standing between Lu Xiaofeng and Yi Jianlian, wanting to delay the time and wait for the 9th to catch up.
Lu Xiaofeng didn't hesitate as he wanted, seeing that he didn't post it, he stepped on the free throw line and made a decisive jumper.
No. 13 hurriedly jumped forward to interfere, but unfortunately Lu Xiaofeng jumped very high and returned the other party a crisp two points, 2:2.
Lithuania attacked again, Kreiza got the ball again, and Wang Lei desperately caught up with him this time.
But Kreiza turned around to dribble, and the sudden step was a stop-and-go jump shot, Wang Lei was bounced away, and he could only look up at the basketball flying overhead and hit it hollow again.
2:4γ
Lu Xiaofeng took the ball directly in the backcourt and went to the front court with No. 9.
"Datang, cover!"
Tang Zhengdong hurriedly ran up, but the No. 15 big center didn't move, shrinking in the three-second zone.
Zhang Qingpeng's defender, the No. 5 defender rotated, he was about the same height as the No. 9, Lu Xiaofeng did not play strongly, as soon as his hand was raised, the ball flew towards Zhang Qingpeng.
Zhang Qingpeng hesitated when he received the ball, didn't dare to shoot three points directly, and after a pause, he rushed inside.
The opponent is guarding the joint defense, Zhang Qingpeng's pace is still slow, and after two steps, the other three formed a trap situation, and hurriedly wanted to pass the ball to the vacated Yi Jianlian.
But his pass couldn't avoid the long arm of No. 13 and was stealed.
As soon as Lu Xiaofeng saw him break through, he felt that it was not good, and began to retreat.
Sure enough, seeing the 13th steal, the 9th ran to the front, and the 13th saw the one-on-one in front of him, so he threw the ball towards the 9th, but was caught by Lu Xiaofeng, who was pinching the time and estimating the distance.
The opponent underestimated his bounce in this ball, Lu Xiaofeng took a big step forward and jumped up, grabbing the basketball flying in the air with one hand.
"Vote! Ah! It's in the pile! β
"Hurry back to defense!"
"Good shot! Lu Xiaofeng snatched it back! β
"Huh! That's a really high jump! The other party didn't expect it at all! β
"Huh? Pass...... Oh! Strike! β
No. 9 rushed over, Lu Xiaofeng rushed up after landing, only took two steps, just crossed the center line and pushed with both hands, and the basketball flew to the right side of the basket.
"Allian!"
Yi Jianlian saw that Zhang Qingpeng was robbed, and when he saw that he couldn't take it back, he suddenly turned around, and when he heard Lu Xiaofeng's shouting, he jumped up.
"Bang!" A bang!
Yi Jianlian grabbed the ball from Lu Xiaofeng, and a blank catch! 4:4γ
Lithuania's No. 13 forward just made a mistake in passing, took two steps forward, and before he could react, he was out of position, and when he turned around, Yi Jianlian was already hanging on the basket.
"Lu Xiaofeng's reaction was too fast!"
"This ball is passed just right, right next to the basket, Yi Jianlian doesn't need to adjust the ball!"
"This vision, this pass, Lu Xiaofeng can always surprise us!"
was intercepted by Lu Xiaofeng, and the opponent didn't dare to serve directly to the front court, which was still a well-behaved positional battle.
This time, I don't know if it was Wang Lei's active defense, or Kreza himself didn't adjust well, and the two-point shot was iron.
"Rebound!"
Tang Zhengdong touched the ball first on the 15th, but was still snatched away by the opponent, and he was really a good rebounder.
No. 15 grabbed the ball and didn't attack directly, but threw it out again and gave it to No. 9.
No. 9 took the ball and saw that Lu Xiaofeng had already pounced, and he was one step away from him, so he didn't dare to throw and passed it to No. 5.
No. 5 reorganized the attack, but this time called cover.
No. 15 raised it to give him a block, Tang Zhengdong didn't follow, and No. 5 made a three-point shot directly at the top of the arc.
The shot was a little bigger, but the basketball smashed into the small box on the rebound, bounced back, and plunged headlong into the Nets.
I don't know if it was luck or deliberately shot like that, but I went in anyway and hit a three-point shot, 4:7.
Lu Xiaofeng asked Tang Zhengdong to cover again, this time he didn't go to the right, he blocked the left side, Lu Xiaofeng went to the left to get rid of No. 9, but Kreza, who was defending Wang Lei on the bottom line, came up.
Lu Xiaofeng just wanted to attract him up, and immediately passed the ball to Wang Lei in the bottom corner.
may be that he was not confident in his three points, Wang Lei hesitated, did not shoot directly, and wanted to shoot in the middle of the shot.
"Beep!" The referee's whistle blew.
It turned out that before Wang Lei dribbled, one foot habitually kicked back and went out of bounds!
Dribble with your back to the sideline, and don't kick your legs back!
These are all bad habits that you don't usually pay attention to.
"Defend!" Lu Xiaofeng shook his head, there was nothing to say, he yelled, reminding his teammates.
Kreiza singled Wang Lei again, Zhang Qingpeng couldn't help but want to wrap up, one was recovered, Kreiza immediately passed, No. 5 made a decisive shot, hit three points, 4:10.
Seeing that he couldn't defend against the other party, and his own attack didn't improve, Wu Qinglong shouted a timeout.