733. Fight for it!
Liu Ren's jersey number in the national team is No. 9, the number used by the basketball god in the Olympics, and his ambition is self-evident.
"Imperial Court Stage, Imperial Court Stage, Hello Audience Friends, this is the Imperial Court Station Sports ......" Director Zhang's old Beijing accent is always so familiar, the Sino-American basketball battle, how can I get Coach Zhang, Director Zhang's hair is now all white.
Today's game is the home of the Chinese team from the schedule, and Liu Ren and they are all wearing white shirts with red trim.
The U.S. team wore a jersey with an inky base and red as a trim.
After the national anthems of both sides of the game were played, the game began, Yi Jianlian and Whiteside jumped the ball in the middle circle, and the referee blew a whistle and threw the ball into the air.
Yi Jianlian worked hard, when the referee threw the ball to the highest point, he turned the ball back with the bounce that he was optimistic about at the draft, which exceeded that of many blacks, Whiteside did have a very strong static physical fitness, but the explosive speed was not as fast as Yi Jianlian, and it should be said that most of the league's interior lines were not Yi Jianlian's opponents in terms of bullet speed.
Liu Ren got the ball and advanced to the frontcourt.
As soon as Liu Ren arrived outside the three-point line, James immediately came to the defense.
The Olympic James is not the traffic commander during the NBA regular season, what he directly played was his defense in the playoffs, his muscles and strength kept acting on Liu Ren, and the perfect combination of defensive skills and physical fitness gave Liu Ren a lot of pressure.
Liu Ren dribbled the ball steadily in his hand under James' interference.
Li Muhao is coming to the position! Leaning on Anthony with his back to ask for the ball, Liu Ren passed the ball over.
Li Muhao's one-on-one singles ability is very reassuring, and Liu Ren, a small forward who is 5 cm shorter than himself, feels that there is no problem.
As Liu Ren expected, Li Muhao's height and weight are low and there are not too many problems with Anthony alone, Anthony's defense is really getting worse and worse, this is something that can't be helped, James's defense has declined, not to mention Anthony, who is already average in defense, Li Muhao relied on his height advantage to turn around and get an easy layup.
But! At the moment when Li Muhao shot the basketball, a big black man wearing a No. 17 ink-colored jersey was printed on the ball.
Whiteside gave Li Muhao a big hat at the beginning!
Anthony grabs a defensive rebound!
Anthony Ma passes to James, and Team USA strikes back!
Kobe ran to a 45-degree angle to attract the defense, James passed to Harden, Harden rushed to the basket to attract the rest of the Chinese players who were chasing back, and then threw it in front of the basket, James followed up with an empty dunk.
This is the tactic that the U.S. team used most frequently in this year's Olympics, defending and counterattacking, completely unstoppable.
The game continued, the Chinese team balled, Liu Ren continued to hold the ball to look for opportunities, and to play the success rate! Liu Ren feels that he must play the success rate, otherwise it is too terrifying to be counterattacked, and now the high-quality defense of this lineup cannot be played at all, and the physical strength of the American team will be consumed, and the success rate must be played!
Since he didn't defend for three seconds, Liu Ren felt that it was too difficult to let the two inside players score in the three-second zone!
Liu Ren finally understood how strong Whiteside's interior dominance is, as long as he enters the inside, the shadow of being blocked is hanging over his head, and Whiteside's defensive deterrence under the basket is further improved without defending for three seconds.
Ji Zhe can only rush to grab rebounds and open three-pointers, his role is to defend James, his power confrontation with the power of the big forward plus the speed and agility of the small forward, is one of the best people in the Chinese team's defense outside except for Liu Ren, and players like James and Anthony may have the best defensive effect with Ji Zhe, because he can ignore things on the offensive end and use all his energy and physical strength to deal with his own defenders.
Ji Zhe plays a great role on the defensive end, but the offensive end is not very useful, Sun Yue is okay to connect the team in a high position, Yi Jianlian, Li Muhao ...... The U.S. team has no advantage!
Team USA is ridiculously strong! In just three or four seconds, Liu Ren calculated all the situation on the court and possible playing styles in his mind, and came to a conclusion.
Liu Ren made a gesture to fight alone!
Liu Ren suddenly took a big step back, retreating to a distance of more than a meter from the three-point line.
What are you going to do? James has some questions, so far from the three-point line, shooting?
But Liu Ren really voted!
"Whew", hollow three-point to bring up the Nets.
Super long-distance three-point! Liu Ren is just one and a half meters away from the three-point line!
It looks amazing, but in fact it's about the same as the NBA's three-pointer half-meter from the top arc, because FIBA's three-point line is much shorter than the NBA's.
This is the situation that Liu Ren guessed during the training camp, it was not necessarily to deal with the American team, when playing those strong European teams, this trick has a great effect, and it may not be effective against the American team, but it must be very effective against European teams, because NBA players have become accustomed to longer three-point distances, and European teams rarely shoot three-pointers so far.
James was caught off guard by Liu Ren because he had adapted to the FIBA three-point line for a while.
Liu Ren blew his palm, it feels very good today, and Liu Ren is more confident.
Liu Ren's three-pointer brought cheers from the audience, but immediately the U.S. team let everyone know what a dream team is.
Harden rushed directly to the inside line to face Yi Jianlian's defense and played 2+1, and was forced by Howard to evolve into the league's No. 1 scoring guard last season. Even if the inside line plus Yi Jianlian can't do it!
It's too easy for the U.S. team to score, and all five of them are masters who can't stop anyone if they want to score.
Fortunately, the Chinese team has Liu Ren as the starter, and the American team can break through, and Liu Ren can do the same!
Liu Ren suddenly went to the three-second zone with his back against James and passed the ball to Yi Jianlian with a low hand, at this time Whiteside felt that Liu Ren was more threatening, and Yi Jianlian received the ball and dunked in the open position.
On the other hand, the U.S. team played a simple ball directly, Kobe Bryant stood in a three-threat stance and forced Sun Yue to squeeze Sun Yue with his body and then threw it high, and James scored a dunk through Yi Jianlian.
The Chinese team has Liu Ren on the field, the offensive firepower has been continuing, more than half of the first quarter, played to the fifth minute, the score of the two sides is deadlocked, the United States team led the Chinese team by two points 17-15, and the United States team possessed the ball.
Coach K called a timeout, and the U.S. team began to make substitutions.
The U.S. team is really full of people, and the strength of the team has not decreased at all after the substitution, and the five-man team of Westbrook, Irving, James, Paul George, and Cousins is not inferior to the starting lineup just now.
This is the Dream Team, Durant hasn't even played, they can form two lineups that crush all opponents, and there are still a bunch of superstars who are not in the game.
The strength of the Chinese team has been greatly reduced after the substitution, Liu Wei, Liu Ren, Ding Yanyuhang, Zhou Peng, Wang Zhelin.
After entering the rotation, the strength of the Chinese team has dropped a lot, especially on the defensive end, this group is more than a little bit worse than the starters, only Liu Ren has an advantage, but it was also offset by James, and soon the American team easily played a wave of 14-6, and after the first quarter, the American team suddenly stretched the difference to 10 points.
During the break, Liu Ren and Yannakis were discussing together how to solve the crisis.
But in the face of absolute strength suppression, all tactics and strategies are in vain!
"Patty, we're in trouble again." Liu Ren was really helpless, when several defensive players were replaced, the score difference was opened almost instantly, and the Chinese team had no resistance at all.
Giannakis frowned: "Our tactics can't be played, the opponent's confrontation is too strong, and the offense and defense are not what our players can fight." ”
Giannakis didn't care about talking to Liu Ren, because Liu Ren could basically ignore those things when he was there, and he could lead the team forward by himself.
"Then we don't play tactics, let me play singles I think it's better than now."
"Singles?" Yannakis didn't like the word, and as a European coach, if it weren't for the fact that Liu Ren was called the best basketball player in the world, the pride of the Chinese, he wouldn't even want Liu Ren to play alone.
"No one can stop me!" Liu Ren made no secret of his pride.
Giannakis still frowned, he didn't distrust what Liu Ren said, but in his deep-rooted thinking, the American team has never been beaten by other countries by relying on a certain player, and in his impression, the individual ability of American players is the strongest in the world, even if they can't play in the middle of the field, they are the absolute core of other teams.
Giannakis usually doesn't watch the NBA, he knows that Liu Ren is very famous in the NBA, but there is also news that the Lakers' overall lineup is the first in the NBA, and there is no suspense about winning the championship.
Although Giannakis now feels that the Chinese team is worthy of those European teams, there is still a big gap between it and the American team.
Giannakis was very melancholy, and when the second quarter was about to start, Giannakis wanted to replace Liu Ren and think about whether Liu Ren should take on the opponent alone.
"Patty, you're going to replace me?" Liu Ren asked strangely.
"There are three quarters to go, a full 30 minutes, and we need you to keep your energy up for the rest of the game." Giannakis said.
"Uh, Patty, there's 30 minutes left...... Won't it be long before I play the full game? ”
"30 minutes left? We'll just play for 30 minutes. Liu Ren said nonchalantly that playing 40 minutes of a game is a normal thing for a top NBA player.
Yannakis was stunned, to be honest, after seeing the performance of the American team against the second team of the Chinese team, he didn't know how to arrange the rotation, Liu Renfawei couldn't stop the opposite side, and the first lineup was barely on par with the opponent, which was expected by Yanakis before, but the gap between the second lineup was too big.
Let a few main players play the whole game? Yannakis was taken aback by this strange idea of his own!
Giannakis is a European coach, and Asian and North American coaches are different, European teams rarely have such a thing as an absolute core, the gap between their player levels is not very large, and each player's playing time is relatively average, so every European player has been giving it his all, and in the same way, they can't play too long in a game, otherwise their physical fitness can't hold it.
The same is true of the Chinese men's basketball team in the past, the strength of the national team players is average and average, they usually practice less, their physical fitness is poor, and a game can ensure 20 minutes of high-intensity games.
Although some of their European coaches are very capable, their vision is really not very good, they disdain the kind of individual heroism basketball in the United States, the rotation of the American team is not worried about physical strength, each of them has the ability to play the whole court and maintain a high level, but each of them is so strong, there is no need to play the whole court!
You have to give others a chance to behave! Risking injury to participate in the national team competition, isn't it just to show your face and increase your fans!
This year's Chinese team is completely different from the Chinese team that Yannakis took over in 2013, Guo Allen is famous for his hard work in the CBA, Ji Zhe and Yi Jianlian have been playing for a long time in the CBA, and it's no problem to play a little more, this is no longer the team composed of a group of old men and uncles in 2013.
"Fight?" Giannakis saw that Liu Ren, Guo Allen and others were eager to try, and the appearance of other rotation players who were completely beaten was completely different, and the vigor and fighting spirit of the young people were not at all the appearance of the Chinese team that Giannakis had led before when they met European and American teams and surrendered directly.
If you win this game, you will face Argentina, the weakest team in the top four of Group B, in the quarterfinals, and if you lose, you will play against a strong Lithuania.
Giannakis is ready to gamble, today's game sent the main force originally the Blue Association was unhappy, since everyone is unhappy, why do you care so much!