Chapter 398: The group qualifies
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The next opponent of the national team is the mighty Argentine team.
In the latest rankings released by FIBA, the Argentine team beat the United States team and became the world's No. 1, but the current Argentine team lacks their core guard Ginobili, and the main player on the front line, Nocioni, also did not participate due to injury.
Luis Scola has become the absolute core of the Argentine team, and in the NBA regular season last season, Scola has been promoted to the first-class power forward in the NBA league with 16+8 data. As for the Chinese team, in the position of big forward, there is obviously no one who can restrain Scola.
Argentina's second scorer is Carlos Delfino, a player who is also very familiar to Rockets fans, and just experienced a season in which Delfino broke out in front of him and played his best season, and his 134 three-pointers were also a career-high for him. While Delfino can't make up for the loss of Ginobili, it can give Argentina a huge firepower from beyond the three-point line.
In addition, veteran players such as Prizioni, Gonzalez, and Quinteros also continued to stay in the Argentine team. In general, this year's Argentine team is younger, but the game experience is extremely rich, the basic framework of the golden generation of the Argentine men's basketball team is still there, if Ginobili and Nocioni are not absent, the Argentine team may really have a chance to overturn the dream nine team.
The starting lineup of the Chinese team is the same as the previous game, with no changes. Argentina sent Scola, Delfino, Prigioni, Janssen and Gutiérrez. In terms of lineup, Argentina has a clear advantage, but in the first quarter of the game, the scores of the two sides have been alternating and have not opened up the gap. In the end, the Argentine team ended the first quarter with Scola scoring four points in the last minute to lead the Chinese team by two points at 22-20.
After the substitute players came on the field, both sides fell into a scoring drought, and the Chinese team's bench scoring ability was relatively average, and many good opportunities were not grasped, and they didn't know how to play after obviously lacking the offensive core. However, this group of young people is very defense, daring to fight hand-to-hand with the Argentine team, which also makes it difficult for the Argentine team's substitutes to score points. Neither side scored in the first four minutes of the second quarter, and it wasn't until Argentina replaced Delfino that they broke the deadlock with a three-pointer.
The Argentine team ended the first half with a lead of six points 39-33, which was very satisfactory for the Chinese team, but for Argentina, it was a very bad result, because the Chinese team, Zhang Guan and Da Yao have not yet played, and in the absence of the two main forces of the Chinese team, the Argentine team only led by six points, which obviously could not satisfy the Argentine coach Hernandez.
After the break, Scola ushered in a big explosion, he almost dominated the entire Argentine team's attack, and with Scola's excellent play, the Argentine team widened the gap to 15 points.
It will not be easy to recover a 15-point deficit from Argentina, and considering that tomorrow will face Germany, coach Deng Huade changed to a full bench lineup in the fourth quarter of the game, so that the main players can retain more energy. Argentina then made adjustments and also changed the bench lineup, so the fourth quarter of the game became a substitute to play the bench. In the end, Argentina defeated the Chinese team 74-61, and Scola also scored a game-high 31 points.
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In the front row of the bus, Coach Bormann of the German team looked back at his players and found that several main players such as Hamann, Greeney, and Yagra had fallen asleep.
Coach Bowman sighed involuntarily, and a hint of worry appeared in his eyes.
This German team lacks Nowitzki, and its strength is naturally greatly reduced, but the players are playing very hard, and like the Chinese team, they are also in a state of "playing chicken blood". In Germany's opening game, they lost to Argentina by a narrow margin of 74 to 78, four points; In today's game, Germany fought hard for two overtimes to win 82-81 against Serbia.
Serbia were certainly better than Germany without Nowitzki, and the two extra times showed how difficult it was to win and, more importantly, the Germans exerted too much energy in this game.
"Coach, the Chinese team really lost to Argentina, the score was 74-61, and the Argentine team led the whole game!" The assistant coach holds his mobile phone and narrates the latest World Championship report.
"Did Zhang Guan and Da Yao play?" Balman asked immediately.
"No, they continue to sit on the bench, and the Chinese team is still in a ten-man rotation today." The assistant coach spoke.
Coach Borman frowned suddenly, Zhang Guan and Da Yao continued to rest, which means that the two strongest cores of the Chinese team will appear on the field with full strength.
"Coach, you don't have to worry about Zhang Guan and Da Yao, Da Yao had such a big operation last year, even in our Germany, it is impossible to recover in such a short time; And Zhang Guan hasn't played for two years. I think they may just be two mascots of the Chinese team, just to scare people. The assistant coach spoke.
"Mascot? Do you really think so? That's two places, do you think the Chinese team will waste two places? If it were you, would you let Nowitzki be the mascot? Coach Balman's several questions in a row made the assistant coach even more speechless.
"I'll look at the stats." Balman said, taking his phone from the assistant coach.
"Among the five starters of the Chinese team, the longest playing time is only 23 minutes, and there are two substitutes who even play more time than the starters, is the Chinese team deliberately conserving physical strength?" Balman took a deep breath and became more and more irritated.
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On the big screen in the arena, the score of the first quarter of the two sides was displayed, and the Chinese team led the German team 25-7 by a large margin.
Yesterday's two overtime games did take a lot of energy on the German team, and as soon as the game started, the main players of the German team went into a state of dumb fire, and only scored two points in the first seven minutes of the game.
As for the Chinese team, Zhang Guan and Da Yao both made their debuts, and the offensive firepower comprehensively suppressed the German team.
Da Yao played five minutes before being replaced, during which he scored two points on one of three shots. However, Da Yao's presence is more to attract the opponent's defensive attention. And according to the requirements of the team doctor, Da Yao's playing time in a game should be limited to less than ten minutes, and the continuous appearance time should not exceed five minutes, so Coach Deng Huade kept looking at his watch, and as soon as the time reached five minutes, he called a timeout and replaced Da Yao.
For a player who has had major surgery and is not 100 per cent recovered, being able to score a goal in the first game is a very good performance.
In the next five minutes, it became the time for Zhang Guan's solo performance, and the continuous fast breakaways made it difficult for the German team to parry, and Zhang Guan tore apart the German team's defense with one person.
In fact, the defensive level of the German team is not weak, but it consumed too much physical strength in yesterday's game, especially several starters of the German team, whose reaction and pace were obviously half a beat slower, and Zhang Guan, who is good at speed, was even more powerless.
After Bauwermann was brought on as a substitute, the German team's defense improved. The bench was a little more physical, especially their backup center, Tim Albright, who hit back-to-back jumpers to cut the deficit to 10 points.
Albright is the star of the German men's basketball team and is known as Nowitzki's successor, with excellent long-range shooting ability on the offensive end and good blocking skills on the defensive end. In the game, Albright was also very decisive, without the slightest performance of stage fright of young players, daring to play and dare to shoot, quite a German new nuclear momentum.
However, Albright is not a superstar after all, and a good performance by one person cannot bring the whole team out of the slump. Especially when Zhang Guan was replaced again, the 10-point difference was once again widened to 15 points.
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"Zhang Guan broke through, went on a rebound, and the ball went in! Although he has not participated in basketball games for two years, Zhang Guan is still in the same condition, no different from the Olympic Games two years ago, and I think the world can only do this! With the words of the commentator, the third quarter of the game has entered the second half.
The decline in the German team's fitness became more pronounced in the third quarter, and the most serious consequence was a sharp drop in shooting percentage, and even the players who are usually good at shooting have missed several open shots.
Without Nowitzki, the German team is also missing a needle, and it is also missing the biggest chip to turn defeat into victory.
Coach Deng Huade was going to replace Da Yao again in the fourth quarter, but seeing that the two sides had opened up to 20 points, Deng Huade still gave up the plan to replace, after all, Da Yao's feet that have not fully recovered are not suitable for too high-intensity games.
"If we win this game, we should be able to qualify for the group stage." Deng Huade breathed a sigh of relief, this game can be said to be bloodless, and Deng Huade couldn't help but sigh his good luck in his heart. If it weren't for the two overtime fights between the German team and the Serbian team yesterday, resulting in physical problems in today's game, the Chinese team would inevitably fall into a hard battle.
In the last three minutes, the German team also gave up the game, and both sides changed to the bench, and the final score was fixed at 82-64, and the Chinese team won the second game.
Germany, with one win and two defeats, are not without chances, as their remaining two opponents, Angola and Jordan, are also the two weakest teams in the group, and if Germany can win, they will have a record of three wins and two losses.
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Under normal circumstances, there is a great probability that two wins can lock in a qualifying place, which makes domestic fans a little excited, although it is only theoretically ahead of schedule, but it can be regarded as a small goal, and then the national team will strive to get the top three to avoid meeting the United States team in advance.
In terms of the relationship between victory and defeat, after defeating the German team, the Chinese team has gained the first opportunity, if it is all three wins and two losses, the Chinese team can rely on the relationship between victory and defeat to rank in front of the German team.
The third opponent of the Chinese team is the Serbian men's basketball team.
At that time, Yugoslavia was the hegemon of world basketball, and now Yugoslavia is divided into six republics, but it still shows strong basketball strength. For example, in this World Championships, Serbia, Slovenia, and Croatia, three former Yugoslav members, all entered the World Championships.
Serbia is the successor to Yugoslav basketball, a more traditional European team that tends to have a big center. Sevillea's main center is Nenard Kostic, who was the starting center for the Thunder last season.
In addition, the core of the Serbian team's backfield is named Milos Teodosic, known as the "Serbian Golden Boy", and his status in the Serbian team is similar to that of Rubio in Spain. Teodosic was drafted in the 2009 NBA Draft, but was missed, and was contacted by NBA teams every summer, but he was rejected every time. It can be said that Teodosic is another top European guard who has not entered the NBA.
In addition, Serbia also has a lot of players playing in the NBA, such as Pavlovic, Radmanovic and Milicic, but these three, like many NBA players, did not participate in this World Championship.
Although there are fewer players who have played in the NBA, Serbia is still very strong and is also a team that is considered to have a chance to win the championship.
In order to ensure that they can defeat Angola in the end, the Chinese team once again had reservations in the arrangement, and neither Zhang Guan nor Da Yao played. Serbia was the main team, taking a 16-9 lead in the first quarter.
There was no suspense in the next three quarters of the game, the Chinese team was never able to close the score, and the Serbian team, a talented and tactical team, could not be defeated by relying on "playing chicken blood" alone. Especially when the Serbian team's team cooperation is played, it can be said that there are more points of flowering, and every player can score calmly.
In the end, Teodosic scored 19 points, Kostic scored 14 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double, Velickovic scored 15 points, Keserje 11 points, Savanovic 10 points, Rasic scored 10 points, and Sevillea scored a double-double on the six, showing the Chinese team the strength of their team basketball.
The Chinese team was not frustrated by the loss, and the focus of the whole team was still on the final game of the group stage tomorrow, against the Angolan team.
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On the bus on the way back, Coach Deng Huade received a phone call, and then a relaxed smile appeared on his face. He stood up and said to the players in the car: "Gentlemen, I have good news for you, Angola defeated Germany by 92 to 88, 4 points!" ”
"Oh?" Everyone looked surprised. Everyone knows that Angola has always been a weak team, while the German team is a strong team that can beat Serbia, but they did not expect the contest between the two, and the final winner is the Angolan team.
I only heard Deng Huade continue: "In this way, the Angolan team is two wins and two losses, the German team is one win and three losses, we are also two wins and two losses, based on the relationship between victory and defeat, even if the German team wins the Jordan team in the end, it can only be ranked behind us and Angola, that is to say, the German team has been determined to eliminate, and we have also locked in the place to advance to the knockout round!" Tomorrow we will win the match against Angola and we will finish third in the group, and if we lose, we will finish fourth in the group and face the United States, who are the winners of Group B! (To be continued.) )