Chapter 236: Three Consecutive Victories
Entering the second stage of the competition, the Chinese team has three opponents next, one is Kazakhstan, one is India, and the other is Bahrain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlthough the strength of these three teams is relatively weak, the Chinese team does not dare to be careless.
The big win over Malaysia gave the Chinese team a breather. Especially Sun Xiaotian, after three games of adaptation, Sun Xiaotian slowly found the feeling on the field.
Compared with the NBA arena, the international arena emphasizes more physical confrontation, especially in Europe. For Sun Xiaotian, he actually doesn't like physical confrontation.
China's first opponent in the second round was Kazakhstan, which is located in Central Asia, but his basketball style is closer to that of Europe. And each of their players is physically fit, although the technique is rough, but they are particularly fond of physical confrontation, which is undoubtedly a challenge for China.
In addition to the difference in playing style, the biggest problem exposed by the Chinese team in the first three games is the weakness of the back line, which is not good for offense, and even worse for defense. It wasn't obvious enough against South Korea, but it stood out against Iran.
Chen Jianghua, Liu Xiaoyu and others were completely inferior when defending Kalamni. As long as Karamni exerts his strength, Chen Jianghua will fall with the wind. The Chinese team often used high guards to defend Kalamni. But once a dislocation is formed, the Iranian team will use someone else to eat Chen Jianghua alone, in short, there will definitely be a loophole.
Kazakhstan's main point guard is called Johnson, and he doesn't look like a Kazakh when he hears the name. Johnson is 1.83 meters tall and averages 13 points and 5 assists per game in this Asian Championships.
Another core of Kazakhstan is called Mikhail, who is 1.98 meters tall, but plays the position of center, averaging 12.3 points and 7 rebounds per game in this Asian Championships. This person is characterized by being short and thick, although his body is short, his physical fitness is like Hayes, especially the lower plate is very stable, and more importantly, he has good kung fu. Not only under the basket, but also three points.
Before the game, Yannerski focused on warning the Chinese team members that these two people are very dangerous and should be careful.
As Yannaski had expected, Jerry Johnson caused China a lot of problems, scoring 20 points in the game, while Mikhail scored 16 points despite coming off the bench.
The game between the two sides was very intense, and the two sides were deadlocked until the last minute, and finally relied on Sun Xiaotian to assist Zhou Peng to hit a key three-pointer, and the Chinese team passed 73:67.
Sun Xiaotian scored 19 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists in the whole game, becoming the key to the Chinese team's victory.
But then the media was still dissatisfied with the Chinese team's performance, especially the Chinese team's rebounding. The Chinese team grabbed 33 rebounds with the advantage of height, and Kazakhstan grabbed 38, of which the frontcourt rebounds were twice that of the Chinese team.
But in any case, the Chinese team is on the right track to win, mainly thanks to Sun Xiaotian's play. Sun Xiaotian's normal performance gave the Chinese team more confidence to defend the title. Speaking to reporters after the game, Janaskski said: "He's a barometer of our winning games now, he's very adaptable to international tournaments, which is a good thing for us and we're hopeful of defending our title." ”
Of course, there are still a few joys and a few sorrows when the Chinese team wins, and the happiest people to win should be the Chinese fans, but the Bulls sent a medical team to follow Sun Xiaotian, and they are terrified every day.
At the end of each competition, the medical team had to conduct a multi-faceted examination of Sun Xiaotian to ensure that his old injuries would not recur and that there could be no new injuries. So much so that some media joked that Sun Xiaotian played with a pacifier in his mouth......
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India and Bahrain are not an obstacle for the Chinese team, which gives the Chinese team players a rare opportunity to practice.
Although India is a country with a large population, the people of the country are obsessed with cricket rather than basketball. Although one of them is named Singh, who is known as India's rising star, in the eyes of Chinese fans, he is actually India's version of Ha Sheng Town, and he is not much of a threat.
79:45!!
The score is quite normal, and in this game, the Chinese team is more about training newcomers.
Sun Xiaotian played only 15 minutes, and after scoring 13 points in an understatement, he was pressed to the bench by Yannerski until the end of the game.
Although the opponent was relatively weak, the Chinese team still failed to win smoothly and beautifully. The team shot just 41 percent from the field, which is not at the level of an Asian powerhouse against an Asian weaker team.
In fact, this also exposed another weakness of the Chinese team, which is that the shooting is too poor. Although the Chinese team has won three consecutive games, compared to the first and second games lost to South Korea and Iran, there is no improvement except for Sun Xiaotian.
However, against Bahrain, the fans saw a different picture.
The Chinese team won the game 88-66 without suspense, and unlike before, the Chinese team added more air cuts and off-ball covers in this game, which is actually a very big change for the Chinese team.
In the Chinese team in Yao Ming's era, the outside players only needed to hand the ball to Yao Ming on the inside, then walk away, and then Yao Ming led the way to win the game... It is precisely because of Yao Ming's super existence that the game has become simple and weakened the tactics of the Chinese team.
However, in the post-Yao Ming era, China did not have a strong support point on the inside, and the outside players were not comfortable with the game and did not know how to play. Whether it is Deng Huade's Chinese team or their own Chinese team, the Chinese team has formulated a very rich strategy for outside players, but outside players often have a short circuit in their minds, forget about tactical execution, and want to give people the impression that the game process is too ugly and not enough to watch.
In this game against Bahrain, the Chinese team seemed to have a good chemistry all of a sudden, Chen Jianghua suddenly passed the ball, Zhu Fangyu found the feeling of shooting, and even Wang Shipeng staged a one-handed split dunk in the game.
In this game, Sun Xiaotian scored 16 points but handed out 11 assists. The national team has 11 assists in a single game, which is unprecedented, at least in recent years, it is rare in the national team games, in fact, this also reflects the fluency of the Chinese team's attack from the side. The 11 three-pointers in the game also made the outside media's doubts about the Chinese team's shooting disappear.
After the game, the locker room of the Chinese team was full of laughter, and there was no dullness when losing South Korea and Iran in a row, and Wang Zhizhi was the happiest in public.
In this game, Wang Zhizhi scored 7 points and 5 rebounds, including a devilish step in the early part of the third quarter, which shocked everyone on the scene.
At that time, Sun Xiaotian passed the ball to Wang Zhizhi, who responded to the outside line, and at this time, Wang Shipeng, who was at the far end, shook off the defender and tried to come out to catch the ball.
Dribbling to a distance of two meters from the basket, Wang Zhizhi dribbled with his back to his back, shook his shoulders along the way, and suddenly turned around to make a layup posture, and the player defending Wang Zhizhi was directly shaken. However, the old and spicy Wang Zhizhi took his left foot as the axis, turned back to turn forward, and stepped back to shoot. The defenders are shaken and can't tell the difference, and to avoid making a fool of yourself, you stand still and watch the ball go into the net.
Seeing this goal, the Chinese team's bench boiled.
Sun Xiaotian, in particular, made an exaggerated posture of holding his head, expressing disbelief.
"That goal reminds me of the boy chasing the wind back then!" At this time, Sun Xiaotian said it to reporters after the game. (To be continued.) )