Chapter 185: High Expectations
Italy's small lineup is indeed a little troublesome, mainly on the defensive end, whether it is Yao Ming or Wang Zhizhi who came off the bench, they can't prevent it from outside the three-point line, and the opponent once tied the score with several consecutive three-pointers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Hai fell directly into the low position at this time, anyway, the Chinese team has the ability to shoot on several insides, and when Yao Ming is not on the court, Wang Zhizhi and Du Feng can also be pulled out.
For Lehi's move, Italy did not have many methods, but only strengthened the pressing.
The fierce persecution of Li Hai is not afraid, he has seen more in the NBA, and he knows how to use his physical advantages and skills, and directly let the Italian interior line go down to rest again.
And when the opponent clamped him, Wang Shipeng and Du Feng on the outside hit three points one after another, allowing the Chinese team to firmly grasp the lead, and by the end of the half, the team led Italy by 6 points at 46:40.
At halftime, the team further clarified the tactics, the offense is dominated by the inside line, and the three-point opportunity must be decisive, but the defense is to expand out and strictly guard against the opponent's three-point.
In the second half, the Chinese team still started from Yao Ming, who scored 4 points in a row on the inside line and directly expanded the score gap between the two sides to double digits.
Italy also know where their advantage lies, and they are quicker to shoot three-pointers.
The Chinese team fouled all the opponent's inside lines and continued to attack on the inside.
Italy's Barres felt hot, hitting two three-pointers in a row to close the score, and Lehi had the idea to change the guard who shot decisively, but then Belineri also hit a three-point shot under the cover of his teammates, and Lehi concentrated his attention and first completely prevented the opponent from killing one point.
As for Italy's three-point Li Hai, the Chinese team's three points are not bad, Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian tossed several times on the inside, the Italian team's Li Hai's marking was relaxed, and he immediately seized the opportunity to return a three-point.
In the third quarter, thanks to the strong play of Italian guard Bares, they recovered one point, and the gap with the Chinese team returned to five points.
In the final quarter, both sides were fighting fiercely in front, their physical strength decreased slightly, and their shooting percentage also decreased a little, and the score was deadlocked for a while.
But soon Yao Ming returned to the court and let the opponent's main center make five fouls, and without 1 minute apart, Li Hai's breakthrough made the opponent's main power forward also foul.
This time, Italy has no inside line at all, and the Chinese team is also relieved to completely expand the defense, focusing on three points, and not giving the opponent a chance to catch up with the score at all.
At 2:56, Lehi's three-pointer gave his team's lead to 11 points.
Then Italy hit two three-point shots, and the Chinese team took the opportunity to seal the victory.
At 89:81, the Chinese team got off to a good start against Italy, Yao Ming scored a double-double with 28 points and 10 boards, and Li Hai scored 26 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.
The victory of the Chinese team made many people start to be optimistic about the team's journey to the World Championships, and the American Dream Seven and Puerto Rico fought at half time to gain an advantage, and finally won the game 111:100, but many people felt that the times had changed, even if the American team showed the determination to win this time, but did not play an absolute advantage in the game.
The match between the Chinese team and the United States team also made many people look forward to it.
This time, the U.S. team is very young, and three young players, Wade, James and Anthony, are the captains of the U.S. team, which makes the team full of momentum.
Their twelve-man roster is guards Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, Kirk Hinrich, Joe Johnson, interior Chris Bosh, Brad Miller, Elton Brand, Dwight Howard, and forward LeBron James, Antoine Jamison, Sean Battier, Carmelo Anthony.
In the evening of the next day, the match between the Chinese team and the United States team officially began.
Both teams changed their starters, with the Chinese team replacing Wang Zhizhi in the starting front position, while the United States replaced Jamison and Brand with Battier and Howard, and only Paul, James and Anthony were still starters like in the first game.
The Chinese team expects Wang Zhizhi to play at his peak and work with Yao Ming to suppress the interior of the US team, because the interior of the US team in the first game looks to be their weakness.
But the beginning of the game proved that this line of thinking was wrong, Wang Zhizhi now has no advantage in the interior attack, but the defense can't keep up at all, and the American team has played the big and four small that Li Hai has been talking about, although this big and four small is slightly different.
Yao Ming's new player Battier, who scored first, took advantage of the Chinese team's defense to shoot three points at the bottom line.
But the trouble for the U.S. team is undoubtedly Chris Paul, and Liu Wei can't keep up at all, allowing him to completely bring the rhythm of the U.S. team.
Before the halfway point of the first quarter, the United States team led by 6 points, and the Chinese team quickly made adjustments, allowing Yi Jianlian to replace Wang Zhizhi, who had not fully recovered physically.
Lehi immediately understood that to deal with the American team, the defense should be driven by the offense.
He made a co-operation with Yao Ming, cutting in and receiving the ball and directly causing Howard to foul.
He secretly reminded himself that it was time to bring out his strongest attack power, and the Chinese team needed his attack power more than the Knicks.
After hitting the free throw, he greeted his teammates, and he wanted to attack with all his might to help Yao Ming open up space.
Defending him was Battier, and the U.S. team should have started Battier to do the dirty work so that the rest of the guys could do their best to attack.
Battier's defense is good, but his physical fitness is not top-notch, and he has to cooperate with the team to be more efficient, but now the American team is not very good defensively, their strong individual ability and because of the large number of rotating players, they can maintain full physical strength and high-intensity confrontation at any time.
After Howard missed, Lehi went straight to the ball, advanced to the frontcourt, and Lehi hit a three-point shot without warning, and Battier sealed it all on his face, but he was completely undisturbed.
When he was attacking with all his might, he saw the defense very clearly.
Then, he broke through to the layup under the cover of his teammates, and chased the score behind at once, seeing Li Hai's performance on the offensive end, the Chinese team also adjusted the defense, let Li Hai mark the opponent's nominal power forward Battier, instead of letting him defend one of the two as previously planned, Anthony or James.
The U.S. team actually attaches great importance to Lehi, but they didn't expect the Chinese team's unsmooth opening to directly stimulate Lehi's attacking power, they were not comfortable for a while, and when Lehi shot three points again to help the team overtake the score, the U.S. team took the lead in calling a timeout. (To be continued.) )