Chapter 444: The Last Battle (2-in-1 Chapter)

After reaching the quarterfinals, China defeated France and Russia, two basketball powers, and pushed the team's best Olympic record to the final in one fell swoop, which means that they can win at least one silver medal, and there is no doubt that the Chinese men's basketball team has attracted the attention of the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Among the team, the most eye-catching is Ye Feng, who is a two-time champion and has won the MVP of the finals twice in a row, he averages second in the team in points, third in the team in rebounds, first in assists and steals, and more importantly, he averages 3.5 three-pointers per game, with a shooting rate of 45.2%, making him the first scorer on the outside of the Chinese team.

The reason why China was able to reach the finals has a lot to do with Ye Feng's command and dispatch on the court, under his instigation, almost every teammate has exerted extraordinary combat power, Yi Jianlian, who averaged 24.5 points per game, is the best proof, and others have of course benefited from it.

However, no one believed that they would be able to beat the American Dream Ten in the final.

This year's Dream 10 team, which represented the United States in the Olympics, is star-studded, and the age structure is quite reasonable, and the internal and external strength is very good. There are veterans like Kobe and Chandler in this team, as well as the Mesozoic generation like James and Anthony, and there are more new generation players, Durant and Griffin are impressively listed, and Ye Feng's two good friends Westbrook and Loew also came to London with the team, and it is clear that the United States is determined to win this gold medal.

Deng Huade also has no particularly good way, since the 2004 Athens Olympics, the United States has participated in the World Series every time it is an elite, with the current state of the Chinese team, it would be good to be able to pose a threat to them, and the outcome of the game can only be left to fate. However, he still cheered up, actively organized the team to train, and focused on telling them to pay attention to protecting the ball, and if it didn't work, he would hand over the ball to Ye Feng to deal with, Deng Huade believed that he had no problem.

There is no way to do it, although there are also players in the team who have played in the NBA, such as Yi Jianlian, but if you want to really compete with the top stars of the NBA, you can only rely on Ye Feng alone, he is the core who led the Trailblazers to break through and win the championship under the encirclement, and now he is also the core of the Chinese team.

On August 12, local time, the third and fourth finals of men's basketball at the London Olympics were the first to start at the North Greenwich Arena. Spain won the bronze medal in men's basketball at the Olympics with a thrilling 85-80 victory over Russia. However, the main players, including the Gasol brothers, were saddened that their original goal was to compete with the United States in the final, but by mistake they were eliminated by the United States in the semi-finals, and they had to compete with Russia for a third place.

The Chinese men's basketball team did not watch this game from the stands, and they were in full swing in the stadium next door to make the final arrangements. Although they are about to face the mighty United States, every Chinese player has an excited expression on their faces, and reaching the final has given them a lot of confidence, and now they feel that they can fight against the United States.

Looking at the strong fighting spirit of his teammates, Ye Feng secretly clenched his fists. Judging from the morale of the current Chinese team, it can definitely cause a lot of trouble to the United States in the finals, and even have a real chance to win the championship.

At 3 p.m. local time, the men's basketball finals finally started between the United States and China, although out of sympathy for the weak, there were not a few fans who supported the Chinese men's basketball team on the spot, but few people believed that they could win, at most they defended their dignity with desperate offense.

However, Ye Feng showed the determination of the Chinese team as soon as he came on the court, and he hit two three-pointers in a row to help the team lead 12-7, which was quite rare in previous games. Previously, Ye Feng had been showing himself as an organizer, and everyone seemed to have forgotten that he was also a scorer who scored forty or fifty points in the NBA.

The enraged Dream Ten team began to fight back, Kobe Bryant also responded with a three-pointer, and Durant's ball-holding breakthrough caused Zhu Fangyu and Wang Zhizhi to foul successively, and with 5 minutes and 15 seconds left in the first quarter, the United States regained a 15-12 lead.

After Ye Feng attracted the defense, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi forced the ball under the basket in succession, and once again approached the score. But the U.S. team is not vegetarian either, and Coach K replaced Chandler to protect the basket, and at the same time replaced Iguodala to restrict Ye Feng. Unfortunately, Ye Feng is the most familiar person with these NBA stars in the Chinese team, Iguodala was his defeat in the NBA, and now he also has the upper hand one-on-one.

This made Lao K very embarrassed, and in desperation, he could only let Kobe Bryant and Iguodala limit Ye Feng together, and he didn't believe that other players in the Chinese team could pose a threat to his team. But he soon realized that this idea was wrong, and in order to give Ye Feng more balls, the two outside players in Deng Huade's starting lineup were Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu, who are experienced in the international arena and are accurate three-point shooters.

The double package of Ye Feng means that the outside line can only rely on Paul, a point guard, to face the two people on the other side, not to mention that Zhu Fangyu's most frequent position is still a small forward, and he completely occupies an advantage in height. Although Paul's outside defense is very strong, he still faces two people who are taller than him with one against two, and his strong stealing ability is not of much use, because he will always miss one person and give the opponent a chance to shoot calmly.

Under the cover of Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng hit three-pointers in a row, Durant was not to be outdone, and also fired frequently on the outside. The difference between the two sides has not changed, at the end of the first quarter, the United States temporarily led 34-30, Ye Feng scored 11 points and 3 assists in a single quarter, and Durant scored 14 points alone, worthy of being the regular season scoring champion for three consecutive years.

However, Lao K's dependence on the outside line still made Deng Ward see a glimmer of opportunity, many times the lineup of the American team on the court is one big and four small, of course, Durant's height is a "big", but in fact, he plays a "small" position, and often floating outside to shoot shows a lot of problems.

For the Chinese team, the inside line is what they are good at, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi both have shots, and one has excellent physical fitness, the other has solid footsteps under the basket, and the power of the combination of the two should not be underestimated. So at the beginning of the second quarter, the Chinese team immediately decided to attack from the inside, which caught the United States off guard. After Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi hit consecutive three-pointers, the Chinese team chased the difference to only 1 point.

Lao K smiled bitterly, this American team looks like there are stars on the inside and outside, but in fact, the strength of the outside line is stronger. Who's on the inside? Chandler is one of them, and he is also the starting center of the U.S. team, followed by Griffin and Loew, both of whom are too young players.

Griffin, the No. 1 overall pick in 2009, missed his rookie season due to injury, meaning he's only played two seasons in the NBA so far. His physical fitness is great, but his lack of experience is his biggest weakness. The same can be said of Loew, who joined the league just a year before Griffin, and while he became a statistic with the Timberwolves, he has little experience with top stars.

In the semi-finals against Spain, Griffin and Loew were badly abused by their opponents, and if it weren't for the hot outside of the U.S. team, it is not known who would have reached the final to compete for the Olympic gold medal. Of course, the inside line of the Chinese team is not as luxurious as Spain, but it is enough for them to drink a pot.

Seeing that the Chinese team was about to complete the overtake, Lao K immediately withdrew Chandler, and the on-court lineup of the American team became Paul, Kobe, James, Anthony and Durant, which is a purely small lineup, and may be one of the most firepower lineups of the American team.

While everyone has the ability to shoot from the outside, Anthony and James can also fall to the low post and play with their backs to make up for the weakness of the interior offense. However, Lao K changed this lineup, and he still hoped that they could hit the opponent with accurate shots, so that rebounding would be meaningless.

For a time, the offenses of the two sides became distinct, with the United States focusing on the outside and China on the inside. However, the U.S. team also strengthened the ball-handling breakthrough while shooting from the outside, and James' tank-like breakthrough caused Wang Zhizhi's fourth personal foul, and Deng Huade had to replace him off the court. However, Deng Huade did not replace Zhang Zhaoxu, but let Ye Feng take the No. 4 position, and the defensive experts Ding Jinhui and Zhou Peng rotated in the No. 3 position.

In this way, the defensive intensity of the Chinese team's outside line increased rapidly, although the American team felt hot, but it was still forced to make a few mistakes, and the Chinese team took the opportunity to play several conversion attacks, and did not let the point difference continue to expand. Although the Chinese players are not comparable to the American players in terms of physical fitness, they are now completely defending with their fierce and fearless spirit, even if they are fouled, which is why they have not fallen into the disadvantage until now.

After Ye Feng came to the No. 4 position, the pressure suddenly relaxed, he could command his teammates to run at the top of the arc, there were two pitchers Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu on the outside, and Ding Jinhui and Yi Jianlian on the inside could slip the bottom line at any time to cut empty, he didn't need to score by himself at all to let the team compete with the opponent.

At halftime, the Chinese team unexpectedly trailed by only one point at 59-60, which was a drop in glasses. Although Durant scored 17 points alone, Kobe Bryant and James also scored double-doubles, Ye Feng's performance in the first half was not inferior, and even exceeded, he got 16 points and 8 assists, these 8 assists also made Yi Jianlian score 14 points, Zhu Fangyu 12 points, Wang Shipeng 8 points, and is fully capable of competing with the United States.

The third quarter kicked off with Paul's ultra-long-range three-pointer, but then Ye Feng scored eight points in a row to help the Chinese team take a second lead at 67-64, which greatly encouraged his teammates, and the U.S. team quickly fell into passivity. But unlike the Chinese team, they have too many stars who can take charge of their own team, and Kobe Bryant and James teamed up to score 6 points to tie the score directly.

Before Deng Huade could react, Lao K took the lead in calling a timeout, and he asked the players on the court now to focus more on the defensive end. With the starting lineup of the American team in the second half, both offensive and defensive strength is superior, his purpose is to block all the scoring points of the Chinese team, and then quickly open up the difference, and continue until the end of the game. The draw with China has already annoyed the NCAA coach.

Under his deliberate targeting, the Chinese team's offense quickly became muted. No, it should be said that most of the people are dumbfounded, because Ye Feng is still fighting. He constantly used feints to tear through the U.S. perimeter defense, score layups under the basket, or pull teammates to the high post to cover, and then hit a three-pointer. He continued to give the Chinese team life again and again, even if his teammates kept hitting the iron, he still did not give up, and he continued to attack, attack, and attack again.

Other Chinese players on the court also discovered this, and without discussion, they silently began to block, cover, and grab rebounds for Ye Feng, giving up all the right to shoot to this young man who was selected for the national team for the first time. Even if he is as senior as Wang Zhizhi, he is willing to be the green leaf that foils him, let alone others.

With Ye Feng's bottom corner three-pointer at the last moment, the Chinese team tied 82 with the United States team at the end of the third quarter. The stark differences between the two coaches have given countless Chinese fans renewed hope for an Olympic gold medal.

Shortly after the start of the fourth quarter, Bryant hit a three-pointer to kick off his scoring pattern. Although he is old, this should be the last time he will participate in the Olympics in his career, but he still has the residual power of scoring 81 points in a single game, and he is also the most feared player of the Chinese team. However, Ye Feng stood up in time to compete with Kobe, and the Chinese team was not at an obvious disadvantage.

With 4:32 left in the game, James picked up his fourth foul and had to return to the bench with K Sr. Iguodala in his place. However, Iguodala has a strong defense and an average offense, and the gap with James is indeed a bit big, and his appearance has become a turning point in the whole game.

The U.S. team lost an important breakthrough point with the ball, and Iguodala couldn't contain Ye Feng. In the last 4 minutes, Ye Feng scored 16 points alone, and led the Chinese team to exceed the score for the third time with the last 1 minute and 15 seconds left in the game. Although Kobe Bryant is still working hard to score, and Paul and Anthony's shots are also contributing to the United States, Ye Feng can always hit a miraculous three-pointer when the United States is about to equalize and continue to maintain the lead.

It wasn't until the last 4.3 seconds of the game that the U.S. team finally relied on a three-pointer to narrow the gap to 2 points, but it was too late, Ye Feng didn't give them any chance to turn the tables, and finally the Chinese team unexpectedly defeated the United States 101-99, and the team won the Olympic men's basketball gold medal for the first time in team history.