Chapter 282: The Battle for Rankings

The news that made Tang Wenlong ecstatic was that the Spanish men's basketball team actually lost to the Russian men's basketball team that had just lost to the Chinese men's basketball team in their final game!

74 to 77, which made Tang Wenlong suddenly see the hope of winning the first place in the group.

Winning the group not only means playing against the weakest team in Group A, but also enjoying the perfect format of the knockout round, and the winner of Group A will play in the final. Of course, the premise is that the top of both groups can enter the final stage, and the top of Group A is self-evident, and whether they can enter the final is almost blurted out.

"According to the Olympic knockout format, the first and third places in our group will not meet the United States until the final, the fourth place will meet the United States at the beginning of the knockout round, and the second place will meet in the semifinals." Deng Huade analyzed the Olympic competition system for Tang Wenlong on the bus back, his eyes glowed green, and his ambitions have also swelled since he defeated many international teams.

"The next game must be won!" Tang Wenlong said categorically that the Chinese team, which has lost 3-1, can only compete for the first place in the group if they win the last game against the British team.

Speaking of which, because of Spain's unexpected loss to Russia, now it is not only China and Russia that have 3 wins and 1 loss, but also Spain, the three teams have won each other, and Group B has directly become chaotic.

The hosts, the British men's basketball team, have been the most tragic, having failed to win a single game so far.

Faced with the challenge of the powerful Chinese team, the basketball media in London were all wailing, and they turned their cameras to focus on other Olympic events.

As for the host British team that came in with a wild card, except for Ruel Deng, a good man in the NBA, the other players are crooked melons and cracked dates, local chickens and dogs, and even have no experience in international games a few times, and a few are even overseas naturalized black players.

After all, it is really difficult to find a few talented basketball seedlings in the British Isles, the whole country likes to play football, does not like to watch basketball, and there are few basketball facilities, and even have a prejudice against basketball, thinking that basketball is a women's sport. Unless you are particularly tall and know that you can only play basketball, if you have a height of 1.85 meters or 1.95 meters, why don't you play football? It's good to be a goalkeeper.

The Chinese team won easily, and after Tang Wenlong looked at Ruhr Deng, there was nothing to do with the British team.

In the end, Yi Jianlian shined in this game, scoring a double-double of 25 points and 12 rebounds, of which 5 rebounds were frontcourt rebounds.

It's a good thing, as the group round-robin enters the final stage, another teammate finally awakens. If the whole team had been in this state from the beginning, they would not have necessarily lost the first game against Spain.

On the same day, Russia also defeated Australia, and the final record was also 4 wins and 1 loss, but because the Chinese team had defeated Russia, the Chinese team was ahead of Russia with 9 points on the same record.

What makes Tang Wenlong even happier is that even if Spain wins Brazil tomorrow, the Chinese team will be ranked first with the same record and the same number of points among the three teams.

China's victory over Russia was 79-69 and won by a full 10 points. So add in the 69-74 loss to Spain, and the win-to-loss ratio is 148-143, while Russia's win-to-loss ratio is 147-153, and Spain's win-to-loss ratio is 148-147.

Spain really don't want 10,000 in their hearts, after the inexplicable loss to Russia, all the good things are shattered, if the real second place enters the knockout round, the semi-finals will meet the United States.

But the most embarrassing problem is that if Spain loses to Brazil tomorrow, the Brazilian team will be the same as Spain, with 3 wins and 2 losses, and the two teams with the same points will see the winners and losers of their respective games, and Spain will fall to fourth place all of a sudden, so that the first game of the knockout round will meet the United States! Worse off.

The Spanish national team wanted to cry without tears, and I don't know how it could have encountered such a situation.

On the other hand, after the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the British men's basketball team, Chinese media reports immediately gave the news that the Chinese team locked the top spot in the group in advance, which was really an unprecedented first time!

As the core of the team and the biggest player of the Chinese team, Tang Wenlong has naturally received countless praises, and he has averaged 29.1 points per game in these games, which is the scoring champion of this Olympic Games. In second place is Australia's Mills, who averages 21.5 points per game.

On the final day of the group stage, there are the last matches of Brazil and Spain left in Group B, while Group A is the United States and Argentina.

Tang Wenlong did not go to the scene, but watched the game in a resting place, and now Brazil has won two games, namely Australia and England, and even if they lose this game, they can still qualify.

Brazil naturally wants to avoid the United States, so beating Spain is the best chance for them!

Spain is silent, a big hole has been dug by China, and it can only grit its teeth and swallow it, whoever let them lose to Russia, can only blame themselves.

Therefore, the two teams that could have been able to play can only fight desperately on the field in order to have a better schedule for the promotion match.

Spain suppressed Brazil in the first quarter and won by nine points 26-17. Pau Gasol went on a blast and hooked the ball in with his soft touch on the inside in succession.

Brazil, on the other hand, relied on the courage of Babos to bite the score. Especially after the start of the second quarter, a powerful dunk from Nene directly ignited the enthusiasm of the South Americans, and they screamed and attacked the Spanish position.

Fortunately, today Da Gasol is really like a divine help, and he can still score steadily under the attack of Nene and Split, and continue the firepower for Spain.

At the end of the third quarter, Spain still led Brazil by nine points at 66-57.

In the fourth quarter, Brazil's offense became even crazier, and a small forward named Marcus Vinicius suddenly stood up from the bench, not only shooting three points from the outside, but also rushing into Spain's interior to hit a layup, scoring 5 points at once, and stretching the gap to only 4 points.

"What a stubborn opponent." Tang Wenlong was also taken aback when he looked at Brazil's crazy appearance on the field, and felt that the same team had changed a lot before and after.

This is the bonus of the glory halo of the national team, and the Brazilian team is like a chicken blood, and the more fierce it becomes.

Gasol Jr. received a pass from his brother to complete the dunk inside, and Vinicius immediately rushed in to complete a violent dunk on the back side, and Fernandez was actually cleaned up by him in one step.

"It's too fierce!" Tang Wenlong didn't think it was a matter of watching the excitement and praised the Brazilian team.

Then in the fourth quarter, the Brazilian team relied on enthusiasm to play with Spain, and Spain made consecutive mistakes when passing the ball inside and outside, giving the Brazilian team an opportunity to easily counterattack. Pau Gasol had already scored 25 points by this time, but was obviously too tired to be presentable, and the Spanish coach still refused to use Ibaka, watching the team walk into the abyss, and then the score was tied and overtaken.

Brazil made a comeback in the fourth quarter and won 88-82 against Spain!

At the end of the day, the Brazilians themselves were stunned, and they actually won like this, and we became third?

On the other hand, the face of the Russian men's basketball team has all turned into the color of pig liver, and he scolded Spain in his heart for not being useful, and he couldn't even submit to a small Brazil, and the old men became the second place (to be continued. )