Chapter 279: Russian Men's Basketball Team
On the first day of the Olympic Games, the Chinese sports delegation won 4 gold medals and 2 bronze medals.
And the names of Olympic champions such as Yi Siling, Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen have also begun to be reported by the media, and have become the most talked about by the people after dinner.
The men's basketball team and Spain fought for four quarters, but they lost helplessly, and the sports media could only look forward to the victory of the Chinese team in the next game. It's just that in terms of details, the players who should be praised and criticized are indispensable, and all of them are pulled out to zoom in on the performance by name.
Tang Wenlong, as the biggest star in the team, should be responsible.
However, he played the full 40 minutes, scoring 31 points, seven rebounds and seven assists on 11-of-19 shooting, and has torn apart Spain's defense countless times and moved the ball into the open space. CCTV's commentator Yu Jia said that Tang Wenlong had done everything he could and couldn't ask for more.
So after the game, no one criticized him, but there were many reports of exonerating him. Turning his head, he pointed the finger at his teammates who couldn't shoot in the open positions.
Heaven and earth conscience, Tang Wenlong really didn't want to blame any teammates, he knew that this was the case on the basketball court, and it was very normal for the ball not to be thrown. Even if he is as strong as him, when he was in the NBA, he encountered an opportunity to vacate the position, and he didn't dare to say that he hit every shot.
The competition is nothing more than competition, losing is just inferior skills, there is no problem in the fighting spirit and attitude, and everything else can actually be understood and forgiven.
Anyway, Tang Wenlong himself is very open. I feel like this game has been played very well. Spain are the second best team in the world. What's more, even if you lose in the group stage, isn't there a knockout round later, and it's not the final conclusion.
At the end of the game, it was already early in the morning, Tang Wenlong took the bus back and saw London late at night.
"It's a pity that London is full of reporters and cameras now, otherwise go on a night cruise on the River Thames and blow the night breeze on Tower Bridge. It's also quite interesting. Tang Wenlong looked at the street outside the window and thought to himself. And in the whole car, only he was left in good spirits.
Assistant coach Li Nan, who was secretly observing the state of the players, couldn't help but smack his tongue secretly, this guy is really terrifying, he has played the whole game with Spain, and he still has so much spare energy, as if he has not consumed all his physical strength, he really deserves to be a top superstar in the NBA.
Everyone returned to their place to rest, and after a night of silence, they directly ushered in the next day.
On the second day of the Olympic Games, the competition was even more intense. Some water sports began to join the competition. For example, light boats, sailboats, and so on. At the same time, diving, the most popular and competitive event of the Chinese team, also began to start today. It has attracted the attention of thousands of people.
The men's basketball team did not play the next day, and the Olympic Committee provided a local university gymnasium as a temporary training center for the Chinese team.
Deng Huade combined work and rest, and after a little training for the Chinese men's basketball team in the afternoon, he let the men's basketball team move freely, Tang Wenlong grinned happily and sneaked out to find his fiancée Fang Chuxia.
Tang Wenlong took advantage of the Olympic Games to form a London tour group with a bunch of relatives and friends. In addition to Fang Chuxia, Pingping, Xuanxuan and Fang Weisuo, there are also several married brothers and sisters. The parents couldn't stand the hardships of traveling, so they took the lead in returning to China. However, because there is no restraint from parents, young people under the age of thirty play very crazy, which makes Tang Wenlong envious.
On the evening of the third day, there were three games in Group B and one game in Group A, and the Chinese team and Russia took the lead.
As the team that broke out of the qualifiers, the strength of the Russian team this year is eye-catching, especially the veteran NBA star Kirilenko has just turned 30 and is at the peak of a player. Due to the NBA shutdown last summer, Kirilenko left the NBA and chose to return to CSKA Moscow, during which he won the title of Champions League MVP and Best Defensive Player.
Coupled with players with names and surnames in the NBA such as Mozgov and Sherved, the overall strength of the Chinese team does not dare to say that it will win against Russia.
Tang Wenlong and Kirilenko have played twice, and the latter is indeed a difficult opponent in the NBA, not only is he well-rounded, he can be inside and out, but he also defensively is hard and out, and he will not scare anyone one-on-one.
After the loud national anthem, the starters of both teams stood on the field.
The Chinese team made a change of formation, Ding Jinhui, who had a stronger impact, was moved to the starting No. 4 position, Yi Jianlian served as the No. 5 position, and the outside line was still Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng and Tang Wenlong's partner. The Russian men's basketball team has a lineup of No. 1 Severde, No. 2 Penkrashov, No. 3 Kirilenko, No. 4 Kiliaba and No. 5 Cowan.
Strangely, Mozgov failed to enter the starting lineup, and the Russian team's favorite Severde is also 1.98 meters tall, and the whole team looks tall.
"Looks like we're going to have to change formations." Deng Huade said to his assistant team coach on the sidelines, thinking that once Liu Wei couldn't stand it, he would immediately replace Sun Yue on the court.
At the beginning of the game, Yi Jianlian easily jumped to win the bulky Cowan.
Liu Wei gave the ball to Tang Wenlong on the flank as soon as he passed the half, Russia did not choose to defend the whole court like Spain, but he was also very vigilant against Tang Wenlong.
Looking at the slender Kirilenko with a pair of big long arms, when he is in opposition to Tang Wenlong, he opens like a spider, which is also the magic weapon he relies on to survive in the NBA, the legend is that the arm span exceeds 2.20 meters, in his height segment, he is definitely talented.
However, what Tang Wenlong thought in his heart was that the fighting nation was basically the kind of tall and strong bear-like players, such as Mozgov and Cowen, who were simply representatives, and Kirilenko was also different.
He was not ready to go head-to-head as soon as he came up, gently hoisted high, and distributed the ball to Yi Jianlian, who received the ball at the bottom line.
Yi Jianlian took the ball and turned around, faced the slow defense of Kiliaba, and directly dribbled the ball to break through.
But Cowen's pace was slow, but the defense was not ambiguous, and when he saw Yi Jianlian break through, he directly confronted him physically, and then the floor flow stuck to Yi Jianlian, squeezing Yi Jianlian away from the penalty area.
Yi Jianlian stopped his body, protected the ball with his back, and couldn't move in embarrassment.
Tang Wenlong immediately accelerated and rushed in, Kirilenko moved well in small steps, retreated to defend Tang Wenlong, and waved his long arms without leaking.
Tang Wenlong saw that there was no chance in the air, his body stopped suddenly, and Yi Jianlian found the gap in the pass and hoisted it to Tang Wenlong outside.
Taking advantage of the time of the basketball air pass, Kirilenko pounced and defended in front of Tang Wenlong, without losing his position at all.
The defense is really leaky, troublesome...... (To be continued.) )