Chapter 285: Top of the World
China's fourth opponent, Australia, is also quite strong, and they have Bogut on the inside, at least able to resist Yao Ming. γLatest chapter reading. γ
Once the game began, Australia attacked from the outside.
Mills, Newley and David Anderson all had three-pointers, but after Yao Ming drew two fouls on Bogut and sent him off the pitch, the Australian defense struggled to keep up.
Li Hai took the opportunity to make consecutive inside shots to establish the lead of the Chinese team.
He and Yao Ming then took turns leading the team, and Australia was never able to catch up with the score.
After Australia's counterattack was suppressed by the Chinese team in the third quarter, Li Hai hit two consecutive three-pointers to further extend the lead, allowing the team to enter the fourth quarter with a 19-point lead and easily win the opponent.
Winning all four games, as long as the final game is not a big loss to Argentina, they will qualify as top of the group.
Like the Chinese team, Argentina also has five active NBA players, and Li Hai is familiar with them.
The Chinese team didn't want to lose in a good situation, and the game was strictly guarded from the beginning.
Argentina also had a good idea, and Yao Ming's Rockets teammate Scola took the lead in deceiving Yi Jianlian with flexible steps to score points.
But then Yao Ming succeeded in two singles against Oberto, and Li Hai also scored under Nocioni's close defense.
In the first quarter, both sides invested a lot of troops in defense, and Lehi personally restricted Ginobili and constantly forced the opponent to fight physically.
In the second quarter, Li Hai turned on the scoring mode and was full of firepower, and Argentina immediately couldn't bear it, and was established by the Chinese team in a wave.
At this time, many people understood that Li Hai had actually been playing this time, and he tried his best to integrate himself into the team and improve the overall combat power of the team, but when he needed to burst out with strong scoring ability, he would not hesitate at all.
Compared with Yao Ming's cooperation in passing, it is easier for Li Hai to lead the team to play a small **
In the second half, Ginobili hit several difficult shots in a row, seeing that Argentina would have a chance to narrow the score gap, Li Hai and Yao Ming briefly cooperated several times, crushing the opposing players with absolute strength, and re-stabilizing the score advantage.
Argentina did not give up, and then found a chance to play a good attack a few times, but the Chinese team will soon return the color, and when the game entered the last three minutes, Li Hai played 2+1, and the outcome of the game was suddenly out of suspense.
Like the United States, they reached the quarterfinals with a winning record, and China will meet Germany in the quarter-finals.
The German team was also affected by the little butterfly to enter the quarterfinals and entered the knockout round, but there was no accident at all, and the German team Nowitzki and Kaman's inside line was also extremely strong, and the Chinese team could not afford to lose.
On August 20, the quarterfinals began.
The German team wanted to compete with the Chinese team on the inside at first, but Li Hai stood up directly and scored 15 points in the first quarter.
At the small forward position, the Germans simply had no one to limit Lehi, and their interior could not provide enough support, so the Chinese team led by 16 points in the first quarter.
By the time the Germans reacted to a defensive problem, they were already in a quagmire.
Li Hai attracted the defense and kept sending good balls to Yao Ming, and Yao Ming blew up the German team's interior line alone.
In the third quarter, a three-point rain of three-pointers brought the lead to 30 points, turning the fourth quarter into garbage time.
And Lehi scored 39 points and used his powerful scoring ability to intimidate his next opponent.
The U.S. team still defeated the opponent by a large score and maintained the same rhythm as the Chinese team.
In the semi-finals, China's opponent was Spain, whose lineup was more reasonable than any opponent they had ever faced before, and the main substitutes were all strong, arguably second only to the United States, who had only lost one game to the United States before.
Gasol has long shouted that he wants to fight for the gold medal, and both the Chinese team and the American team have a chance to win.
Against the Chinese team, Spain was also extremely cautious, and they adjusted the starting lineup to make the substitute lineup have enough firepower.
Both sides defended tightly and started to play inside without success.
Lehi was clinging to him, but for him, such a confrontation was nothing.
Spain took him seriously enough, but apparently still didn't know enough about his quality, he stepped on the three-point line to catch the ball, turned past the defender, and pulled up to hit the first shot.
He then hit two more three-pointers in a row, and the shot was extremely decisive.
In addition to attacking, he almost blocked Fernandes, Spain's most dangerous player on the perimeter, on the defensive end.
When Spain realized that Lehi's defense was not enough, Lehi twice passed the ball to Yao Ming, who scored a slam dunk under the basket.
Before Spain could fully react, the Chinese team took a double-digit lead.
They hurriedly paused for arrangement, and the Chinese team also made lineup adjustments, directly becoming a lineup of Yao Ming with four three-point shooters, and it was another three-point rain.
The Spanish team and the Chinese team are basically still in the impression, but after the fight, they found that the Chinese team in front of them was so strong that they didn't know it.
At halftime, the Chinese team led by 19 points.
In the second half, Spain had some changes, and finally had a back and forth with the Chinese team, but now they don't need a goal from you and a goal, if they can't catch up with the score, the game will be lost.
When the opponent was a little anxious, Lehi made two successful steals to keep the team in the lead.
By the end of the quarter, several of Spain's players who had performed well had not rested, and under Gasol's leadership, they had a tendency to be imposing.
Li Hai hurriedly returned to the field, although the current Chinese team has become stronger, but when he is not on the field, the organization is several grades worse.
He returned to the court and scored six points in a row, interrupting the opponent's attack.
When the game entered the last three minutes, Li Hai assisted Zhu Fangyu and Liu Wei to hit three points in a row, and Spain was powerless to return to the sky and could only sit and watch the Chinese team advance to the final.
The medal task was accomplished, and on the other side, the United States team also defeated Argentina and China.
"Tactics, there is no need for tactics at all, no one in the American team can defend against me."
During the Olympics, Lehi was relatively low-key, but before the men's basketball finals, he became more domineering than he did with the Knicks.
"Lehi will regret it, and we will definitely greet him well." The stars of the U.S. team are also gritting their teeth.
Several of the core players of the American team have grievances with him, but they have already discussed that they must make Lehi look good.
The men's basketball finals have received a lot of attention from fans all over the world, which is better than the attention of the NBA finals, because many viewers in China who are not fans are also staying by the TV.
The Chinese team still sent the best defensive starters, Li Hai, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming.
The U.S. team is Kidd, Kobe, James, Anthony and Howard.
At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team won the jump ball, and now the cheers are also a tsunami.
James was the first to stick to Lehi's side, and Kobe and Anthony also paid part of their attention to Lehi, as long as Lehi got the ball, whether it was a pinch or anything, they would definitely strangle him.
"Lee, I'm going to lock you up today even if I don't participate in the attack."
"LeBron, if you don't attack, you can kill me, don't you have a bad brain."
Lehi reached out to ask for the ball while carrying James, and when he caught the ball, he was a shooting action, if it was someone else who was defending, James wouldn't care at all, but now it was Lehi, and he was picked up at once.
Lehi faked and took a step inside and made another shot.
It was Anthony who rushed over this time, but Lehi's ball was sent in when Anthony jumped up, and Yi Jianlian took a step forward to dunk vigorously.
The faces of the generals of the American team suddenly felt a little bad, and they attacked Kobe Bryant but did not shoot.
The ball came back to Lehi's hands, even if he was played by Lehi before, James was still pressed very tightly, they didn't care, Spain was too conventional in defense to be blinded by Lehi.
Li Hai did use the defensive attention on him again, and Zhu Fangyu hit a three-pointer.
He made the appearance of going to attack, and the result was a pass, and not to Yao Ming, which made the U.S. defense look a little funny.
But they changed the defense with ease, and they all tried, and as long as they gave Lehi the slightest chance, Lehi would definitely hit the shot.
The Chinese team's change of attack pattern caught the U.S. team off guard, and the next few attacks did so, allowing them to take the lead.
The U.S. team also made a change, replacing Kidd, who was not good at shooting, and began to enter the rotation.
The Chinese team also slowly began to rotate, but just when Li Hai was off the field, Wade, who had just been replaced by the American team, scored consecutive points, eroding more than half of the Chinese team's 9-point lead.
Lehi hurried on, in fact, he was ready to play the whole game before, but he only planned to save a little more energy when he saw that the team was playing well.
By the time the rest of the players start to lose their stamina in the second half, he'll definitely start scoring mode.
This time the U.S. team is prepared, it will be more difficult to score points than at the World Championships, last time he was not physically fit enough and was injured, and today it will never happen like that.
After Li Hai played again, the Chinese team also played one big and four small.
Li Hai, Zhu Fangyu and Li Nan all hit three-pointers, the United States team also opened, and Kobe Bryant and Anthony also hit three-pointers.
Seeing that the score was tangled, the Chinese team let Yao Ming rest a little, and after replacing Wang Zhizhi, the Chinese team could shoot three points in all five positions, but Li Hai led the team to lower the tempo, with him to organize, the Chinese team made few mistakes, and the American team had no chance to overtake the score.
At halftime, the Chinese team led by 4 points at 58:54, which was a little worse than the best situation, after all, the main team of the Chinese team was more on the court than the opponent, but they were able to lead in the first half, and they were also like a rainbow.
"We have to push hard, the opponent must think that we are running out, but we have to work harder at this time...... Defeat them......"
"Defeat them, defeat the Yankees......"
"This is our turf and the championship is ours."
The team's momentum accumulated to the extreme, and the first half was not all due to Li Hai, but the Chinese players on the pitch all scored, and they were full of hunger for victory.
At the beginning of the second half, Li Hai faked a fax and hit it successfully.
He played a lot of fake pitches in the first half, and now he's going to play something new.
The U.S. team reacted quickly, or rather, they never let their guard down on Lehi.
Lehi then had a difficult time attacking several times, and the score between the two sides fell into a stalemate.
With the deepening of the game, although the Chinese team still maintains the lead, the physical strength of the two inner lines has declined a little, and in the substitutes of the inner line, Wang Zhizhi can top one, but Wang Zhizhi's pace in defense is too slow, and the United States team suffers too much.
At this time, Bryant hit two difficult shots in a row, and then assisted Anthony to hit a three-pointer.
Everyone in the U.S. team is a star with strong individual ability, and Lehi can only defend one, and this time it is much more difficult to score than last time, and there are some situations that were not expected before the game, and he released his bold words for the first half of the tactics, but that kind of tactic can only be used as a miracle move, and the U.S. team is not so good when they know it.
After Wade came on the court, he used a mistake of the Chinese team to counterattack and score, helping the United States team to overtake the score.
At the timeout, Lehi's face was a little worried, he was hungry for this gold medal, so he would be worried.
"Lehi, don't worry, it's our turn to perform, you don't need one to carry it."
"Yes, my old bones will not be soft, don't worry about passing the ball."
"yes, the captain's nickname isn't fake."
Li Hai laughed, he really felt the reliability of his teammates, which was completely absent at the beginning, and all the way to the final, the Chinese team also had a welcome change.
The Chinese team once again changed to a large and four small lineup, Li Nan did what he said, and hit three points again after he came on the court, and the Chinese team turned the score over again.
When Li Hai felt difficult, the lineup he had always admired finally showed the strongest brilliance, in addition to him, Zhu Fangyu and Li Nan were also at the extreme.
At the end of the third quarter, Li Hai made another fake pass, and the American team, which was completely attracted by their outside firepower, let Yao Ming easily and completely slam the dunk inside, and the Chinese team led by 6 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Chinese team changed to the main lineup, and the four three-point shooters were good offensively, but there were holes in the defense, as long as the three points were missed, it was easy to be counterattacked by the American team, so one big and four small could not be used as a routine.
In the final quarter, James' touch also came, and it was impossible for him not to really participate in the offense.
James, Kobe Bryant and Wade teamed up to play the strongest offensive of the American team, and they are also eager to win the gold medal and lead the American team back to the top of the world.
Except for Li Hai, the rest of the Chinese team is a little lacking in physical strength, even if they have been trained in the NBA, but the high-intensity confrontation with the American team is not ordinary.
Their defense looked a little shaky, but they held on and didn't collapse.
The spectators in the stands sang the national anthem, and the fans in front of the televisions stood up, fighting with the team, although they were not on the pitch.
"Get up...... Build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall...... We're all in one...... Advance! Forward, forward!"
"The score is only 4 points ahead, and the Chinese team is staring at ...... Li Hai hit a three-pointer, a three-pointer one step beyond the three-point line, and the Chinese team's lead came to 7 points, with only 2 minutes 05 seconds left. β
"Steal, Lehi's steal to set the winning game, Kobe Bryant can only pull people to foul...... Lehi steps to the free throw line. β
"Kobe missed the shot, Li Hai picked up the rebound, won, won, the Chinese team is the champion."
Li Hai raised his head to the sky and roared, the crowd in the audience jumped up, and countless fans in front of the TV roared, at this moment, the Chinese men's basketball team stood on top of the world.
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