Chapter 442: The group qualified
China's second game was against arch-rivals Russia, whose northern neighbor has also been impressive on the basketball court in recent years, and their leader was undoubtedly the all-around "AK47" small forward Kirilenko, who was also Ye Feng's opponent in this game. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In fact, Ye Feng has played against Kirilenko many times in the NBA, especially the Jazz and the Trail Blazers belong to the Northwest Division, and they have to meet four times every season, and Ye Feng is basically the one who wins every time. Although Kirilenko is comprehensive, firstly, he was born in 1981 and is 31 years old, Ye Feng is much younger than him, and secondly, Kirilenko is very agile but not strong enough, Ye Feng's strength is not much inferior to James, so naturally he has a great chance of winning.
At the same time, there is another player to watch out for in the Russian starting lineup, and that is Scheved, who has previously played for CSKA Moscow but has recently been signed by the Timberwolves. Despite being 1.98 meters tall, Sheved is very fast and can match those small point guards, scoring 16 points, seven rebounds and 13 assists in his first game. In order to deal with him, Deng Huade sent Sun Yue as the main defense, and Chen Jianghua as an alternate.
The process of the game was not unexpected by Deng Huade, although Sun Yue was still a little overwhelmed in the face of Shevid, but Ye Feng completely dominated in front of Kirilenko. Kirilenko is indeed an all-round defensive master, but Ye Feng basically uses his strength to eat, and even falls to a low back single, and Kirilenko has to call his teammates to help defend. This co-defense undoubtedly gave Ye Feng another opportunity to pass the ball, and Yi Jianlian was very happy to dunk on the inside.
In the end, Ye Feng scored a game-high 25 points, with 7 rebounds and 11 assists, Kirilenko put all his energy on the defensive end but had no effect, only got 10 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, it looks very comprehensive, but compared with Ye Feng's data, it can only be regarded as shabby. As a result, the Chinese team easily defeated Russia 83-70 and won the first victory in the group stage of the Olympic Games.
Then Ye Feng faced Australia led by his old friend Mills. Although Australia was easily defeated by China in the Stankovic Cup, Australia could only be regarded as their second team in the Sstankovic Cup, with a majority of young players, and now they have all assembled and are a strong force in Group B. Even if there is only one active NBA player on the team, Mills is not to be underestimated.
China played very hard in this game, especially in the backcourt, which was basically blown up by Mills alone, not to mention that he also had Crawford, Washington and Gibson who played in the Australian league by his side. Of course, there is another youngster who has impressed fans around the world this time, and his mad dog-like biting defense has left the Chinese defenders at a loss: Matthew Dellavedova, who currently plays for St. Mary's College in California, NCAA.
Ye Feng also did not perform well, although the Australian captain Nelson, who plays in the Russian league, did not cause him much trouble, but Ingles, who plays for La Liga giants Barcelona, made him very uncomfortable. The only advantage of the Chinese team is the inside, facing the starting interior line composed of Anderson and Baines, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi have both strength and flexibility, and directly burst Australia's inside, the two combined for 35 points, 22 rebounds and 4 blocks.
But with 6.8 seconds left in the game, Mills hit a three-pointer from beyond the three-point line. With Wang Shipeng's desperate three-point smashing out of the frame, the Chinese team unfortunately lost the game 79-81 and temporarily ranked fourth in the group with 1 win and 2 losses. For China, fourth place in Group B is a very dangerous position, and it is easy to get out of the tournament for the time being, and even if they enter the quarterfinals at this level, they will be in the same half as the United States, which is not good news.
So in the next game against Brazil, the whole Chinese team did their best. Brazil is considered to be a strong team with the ability to compete for the top spot in Group B, led by Barbosa, NeNe, Split and Vallejo, the team with the most NBA players in Group B. Deng Huade knew that this time the Chinese team's interior line would encounter a severe test, unless Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi were allowed to float outside to shoot, and the rebounding ball would also rely on the strength of the whole team to fight.
In the game, China's back line was undoubtedly blown up, but fortunately, except for Barbossa, no one else in the Brazilian defender group had the explosive scoring ability, so the Chinese team did not lose many points on the outside. The heaviest loss was just as Deng Huade had expected, the rebounding ball was completely controlled by the opponent, and the only thing to be thankful for was that the shooting rate of the Chinese team was not bad, and the outside and mid-range shooting were considered to be at the level of shooting.
In addition to shooting, the Chinese team also constantly used shooting to draw up space to cut into empty-handed, and the scores of both sides have been alternating upwards. At this time, Ye Feng stepped forward, he constantly used the cover to burst to the basket to score, or shot outside the three-point line, in fact, Ye Feng was the only player in the team who was allowed to hold the ball on the outside and shoot strongly, and his level of this game did not live up to Deng Huade's trust.
Ye Feng scored 35 points in the game, and also handed out 7 rebounds and 5 assists, almost single-handedly helping the Chinese team narrowly defeat Brazil 85-79. It can be said that the entire Chinese team made a wedding dress for Ye Feng, but everyone has a heartfelt smile on their faces, to be able to defeat such a powerful enemy, as long as the final result is to defeat the opponent, it doesn't matter what to do, not to mention that this victory has greatly aroused the morale of the team.
China's final opponent in the group stage was England, who were competing in the men's basketball tournament for the second time at the Olympic Games, and thankfully, Ben Gordon, who had just been traded to the Bobcats, refused to play for his country, which undoubtedly eased the pressure on the back line. China didn't give the hosts face at all, winning by 24 points 97-73, Ye Feng once again scored a game-high 34 points, eight rebounds and 10 assists, while only allowing the opponent's main player Roel Deng to score 15 points and six rebounds.
After the final match of Group B Brazil vs Spain, China became the third place in Group B with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses amid the world's exclamations, and reached the quarterfinals with their heads held high, Russia and Spain qualified with the top two of the group, and Brazil in the fourth group. As for Group A, the four teams that qualified were the United States, France, Argentina and Lithuania, so that the quarterfinals were ready to be matched:
A1 USA VSB4 Brazil, A3 Argentina VSB2 Spain; A2 France VSB3 China, A4 Lithuania VSB1 Russia.