Chapter 251: Advance to the Finals!
Whenever Sun Xiaotian holds the ball, many players of the Iranian team unconsciously frown, because the deepest impression that Sun Xiaotian brings to them in this game is only pain and unhappiness. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info As long as Sun Xiaotian holds the ball, the opponent will have the feeling of "that guy is here again".
However, for the fans of the Chinese team at the scene, at this moment, they are immersed in incomparable joy.
Sun Xiaotian stood at the free throw line, and the scene rang out with crazy cheers.
"Sun Xiaotian! Sun Xiaotian! Sun Xiaotian! The crazy shouts resounded throughout the stadium, as if to let Sun Xiaotian hear it, such a sound, very loud, and more and more sonorous and powerful, echoing throughout the stadium, as if the stadium had experienced an earthquake, was shaking.
Sun Xiaotian could hear everyone's shouts for him, and at this moment, he was already used to such treatment.
20 points difference!
Win or lose.
However, at this point, the game has no longer been about winning or losing for the Iranian team, they are more fighting for dignity. To put it bluntly, they are not convinced by players like Sun Xiaotian, which probably means "They are also Asians, why is the gap so big?" ”
And Iannakis is a cautious person, and he has no intention of replacing Sun Xiaotian with him.
"Defend this ball!" Haddadi emphasized it again, and as a result, the players of the Iranian team were completely in a state of preparation.
The person who defended Sun Xiaotian became Bahrami, this time, Sun Xiaotian was on the outside, slowly approaching him, and when Bahrami was about to block Sun Xiaotian's attack with his body, Sun Xiaotian suddenly accelerated.
As the No. 1 junior in Asia, Bahrami is not convinced by Sun Xiaotian. However, even if he was not convinced by a hundred or ten thousand, he could only watch Sun Xiaotian enter the inner line. The players on the inside of the Iranian team are all waiting for each other, and everyone vows to block Sun Xiaotian's attack.
However, at this time, Sun Xiaotian suddenly put away the basketball, and then, he took a step forward, and at the same time, threw the ball high with his right hand.
"Not good! It's a pass! "Many of the players of the Iranian team still remember Sun Xiaotian's pass, because he has done such a thing more than once in this game, everyone has come up to defend Sun Xiaotian, and Yi Jianlian on the inside line is almost empty!
"Pong" all at once.
Yi Jianlian jumped up, received Sun Xiaotian's pass, and smashed the ball into the basket with both hands.
"Bang dang!"
Suddenly, next to the court, the excitement of the hustle and bustle once again drowned out everything.
The Iranian team members are particularly frustrated, they are not willing to accept such a defeat, their country has almost taken a generation to climb to the top of Asia, and now, they have not seen enough scenery from the top of the mountain, but they have been pulled down by a Chinese genius.
Exasperating!
Hateful!
------------
No matter how unhappy they were, the Chinese team had already won the game, and when Sun Xiaotian was replaced, the audience was thunderous. Sun Xiaotian was like an influence, pointing to the sky with one hand and making a kingly gesture.
The score was finally fixed at 97-83!
In the whole game, Sun Xiaotian shot 14 of 25, scored 33 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds, and became a well-deserved king of the game.
Yi Jianlian scored 21 points and 13 rebounds and became the pillar of the Chinese team's interior.
It was also under the leadership of Sun Xiaotian and Yi Jianlian that the Chinese team withstood the Iranian team's counterattacks again and again.
In addition to Sun Xiaotian and Yi Jianlian in the Chinese team, Sun Yue scored 11 points and Wang Zhizhi scored 10 points. Regardless of the team's flaws, at least in this game, everyone can still work as a team.
For the Iranian team, Haddadi scored 30 points and 16 rebounds, and single-handedly played against the entire Chinese team.
Bahrami had 16 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists in the all-around statistics, but unfortunately he ran into Sun Xiaotian all over the court, and his statistics were somewhat bleak in front of Sun Xiaotian's statistics.
The other core of the Iranian team, the veteran Kamni, struggled a bit, scoring only seven points in the game.
Although it is good to reach the semi-finals of the Asian Championship, it is a defeat for the hegemonic Iranian team. This Asian Championship may be a wake-up call for the Iranian team, that is, what they need to do most to accelerate the talent replacement. Haddadi, Bahrami and Kamni who are past their prime, their generation can be called the golden generation, but they are nearing the end of their prime.
China has Sun Xiaotian, but Iran also has a rising star, and that is Kazmi, the first Iranian player in history to enter the Division I American college league, who needs to adapt quickly to the high-intensity game and make it grow quickly. In this Asian Championships, the Iranian team did not bring him, which has to be said to be a pity.
------
After stepping past the Iranian team, the Chinese team advanced to the final with their heads held high. At the same time, in the other set of matches, the home team of the Philippines and the South Korean team, the Philippine pair narrowly defeated the South Korean team 86-79 and met the Chinese team in the final.
In this Asian Championships, because of the host country and strong "public relations ability", the Philippine group won an excellent score. The three opponents in the group stage are Chinese Taibei, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Entering the second stage of the competition, the Philippines' opponents were Qatar, RB and Hong Kong, China, and successfully avoided the Chinese team, Iran and South Korea, laying the foundation for themselves to reach the final.
In the past, the strength of the Philippine men's basketball team was world-class, which is very different from the impression that the Philippines gives us now.
In 1913, the first Philippine national basketball team was born, and defeated the Chinese team in the Far Eastern Games held in the Philippines to win the championship. The 50s and 60s of the 20th century was the golden age of Philippine basketball, and they won the first men's Asian Basketball Championship in 1960, and then won the Asian Championship four times in 1963, 1967, 1973 and 1986, and the Philippine basketball team became one of the best basketball teams in the world. In 1954, they finished third at the World Basketball Championships and again at the 1958 Asian Games. As a traditional powerhouse in Southeast Asia, the Philippines' basketball level has always belonged to the upper reaches of Asia. However, after the Chinese men's basketball team joined the AFC in 1975, the Philippines has changed from a first-class team to a second-rate team in Asia.
In the semi-finals against South Korea, the Korean team's stamina left a deep impression on the fans, but the Philippine team's control of the scene was also very exquisite, the two teams were deadlocked until the last 47 seconds, and with Kim Min's nine three-point shots covered, the game basically lost its suspense.
In the final, it was not so much a contest between the Chinese team and the Philippine team, but a contest between the Chinese team and the Philippine international column.
That's right, the reason why the Philippine team has been able to go so far and rebuild its glory in this Asian Championship is because of its naturalized players!! (To be continued.) )