Chapter 100: Meeting the United States in the group stage

Leaving Hui Wanqi's side, Wu Di was very glad that he had upgraded Zhang Song's memorably, and it was not difficult to remember the mailbox at all. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the opening ceremony, the men's basketball group stage will begin. During the Olympic Games, the national team implemented comprehensive control, and Wu Di had no choice but to take his heart back.

The list of 12 members of the Chinese men's basketball team has long been determined, Da Yao, Roughly, UAE, Wu Di, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, Liu Wei, Chen Jianghua, Li Nan, Sun Yue, Du Feng, Wang Lei.

Center Da Yao, roughly.

Forwards UAE, Zhu Fangyu, Li Nan, Du Feng, Wang Lei.

Defenders Wu Di, Liu Wei, Sun Yue, Chen Jianghua, Wang Shipeng.

The Chinese team is in Group B, and the rest of the teams are the United States, Spain, Angola, Germany, and Greece. The members of Group A are Lithuania, Russia, Iran, Croatia, Argentina and Australia.

Being in a group with the United States made the Chinese team all bad. Although the United States has four qualifying spots in the group, the higher the ranking, the weaker the opponent in the quarterfinals, so the weaker the opponent in the group stage, the better.

But in the case of Group B, the U.S. team basically can't beat it. And there is also a strong team, Spain, which wants to be in second place.

And the most important thing is that the Chinese team met the American team in the first game, and I don't know how the IOC arranged the schedule, so the Chinese team was directly dismounted.

Wu Di looked at the schedule and couldn't help but speculate about the IOC with deep malice.

This year's U.S. team is much stronger than it was in '04, with Kobe, Anthony, Paul, James, Bosh, Howard, Kidd, Wade, Prince, Reed, Boozer, and Delon.

This is almost an all-superstar lineup, and Wu Di must be a little dizzy. It's very difficult to get cheap on this lineup, and if it weren't for Waterloo in '04, a win over the United States might still be a little possible.

At the beginning of the game, Kobe Bryant also deliberately said something to Wu Di. Wu Di also pulled Sun Yue over and said a few words to Kobe, but Sun Yue's English was not very good, and he didn't know what to say after saying two sentences.

The game started quickly, Wu Di was standing on the court, ready to go back to the backcourt to defend. You must know that it was Howard who jumped the ball with Da Yao.

Sure enough, Howard grabbed the ball, and after Kobe received the ball, he handed it to Paul and asked Paul to organize the offense.

Younas did not specify too much defensive tactics for the Chinese team, but used joint defense. Da Yao and UAE sat on the inside, while Wu Di, Sun Yue and Liu Wei defended on the outside.

Wu Di defends James, and the Chinese team can only defend against James. Two people are almost the same type of player, and it is difficult for others to defend.

James looked at Wu Di and began to run, wanting to get rid of Wu Di receiving the ball and attacking. Wu Di didn't follow closely, putting James one step away to prevent his breakthrough.

James' breakaway is hard to defend, but his shooting is really not good. If the ball is in his hands, Wu Di will be happy.

But this point, not only Wu Di knows, the United States team is also clear, Paul broke through Liu Wei, Liu Wei tried his best to defend, but Paul paused, shook Liu Wei away, and shot outside the three-point line.

Coming back, Liu Wei dribbled, and the American team actually pressed with the whole court. Liu Wei's ball was almost stealed, and Wu Di went to pick it up and took the basketball from Liu Wei.

James also came over to force Wu Di, but Wu Di raised his arm to block, and he guarded against James' interference, blocking James and coming to the three-point line.

Da Yao immediately came over to block Wu Di, and Wu Di threw off James and entered the inside line. Howard immediately stepped over, and Wu Di tried to break inside, but Bosh came from the side, and Wu Di could only pass the ball to the UAE on the side.

After the UAE received the ball, he wanted to shoot, but he didn't want Bosh to turn around, and the UAE didn't dare to shoot, and passed it to Da Yao. Da Yao received the ball, immediately jumped forward, dodged James' interference, and hit the shot.

Wu Di's heart sank, the first attack was so difficult, this game was going to be mysterious!

Wu Di guessed correctly, the American team's offense played exceptionally well. The defense of the Chinese team is too weak in front of the American team, Wu Di is better, and Da Yao can withstand it, but the others really can't defend against the American team.

The Chinese team used a joint defense, but the American team immediately made a substitution, replacing James with Anthony. After Anthony came up, the U.S. team had three people on the outside who could shoot three-pointers, and shooting three-pointers was the way to break the defense.

NBA superstars have a very high three-point shooting percentage, which is why they can gain a foothold in the NBA.

The U.S. team shoots three points, Wu Di has no choice, he can only defend one person, Kobe Bryant and Paul both shoot three points, and it depends on Sun Yue and Liu Wei to defend.

Sun Yue's defense is still good, but Liu Wei is not good, the gap between him and Paul is too big.

In the end, the Chinese team fell behind by 16 points and lost the game.

The second game of the Chinese team was against Spain.

Spain's leading player is Pau Gasol of the Lakers and Wu Di's teammate next season. And his backup is his younger brother Marc Gasol, who is also one of the Lakers' bargaining chips in trading him.

The strength of the Gasol brothers is very strong, and they are much stronger than Da Yao and the United Arab Emirates. But it's a pity that Spain doesn't have a player like James, and they can't do anything about Wu Di.

The blocking between Wu Di and Da Yao made the Spanish team very uncomfortable. Wu Di entered the inside line, and the lethality was very great, and Gasol and others couldn't defend Wu Di at all.

China defeated Spain 92-83.

Then the Chinese team played against Angola, Angola and Germany are both teams that played in the qualifiers, and they are not strong teams.

These two teams did not pose much of a threat to the Chinese team, and the Chinese team easily defeated these two teams.

In the last game of the group stage, the Chinese team played against Greece, which is also a strong team. The star of Greece is Sparianos, who is known as the European Kobe.

The two sides played inseparably, but in the second half, the Chinese team suddenly strengthened its defense, Wu Di suddenly broke out, and after covering two cold, the fire even the ship's characteristics seemed to have erupted, and everyone else's defensive intensity came up.

The Greek team didn't react for a while, and the Chinese team pulled away the score all of a sudden, and then didn't catch up.

At the end of the group stage, the Chinese team won 4 wins and 1 loss, ranking second in Group B. The United States is top of Group B, Spain is third in Group B, and Greece is fourth in Group B.

Group A is first with Lithuania, second with Argentina, third with Croatia and fourth with Australia.