Chapter 151 World Junior Championship Final (1)

With the referee's whistle, the final of this World Youth Championships officially began.

The National Stadium in Lille, Latvia, was already full, and there were scattered Chinese flags everywhere in the stands.

"Okay, the final of this World Youth Championship has begun, let's look forward to what the Chinese national youth team will do in this game" As Yang Yi's commentary began, more fans were waiting in front of their TVs to watch this "Sino-US war".

"Pop" the center of the youth team, Wang Zhelin, unexpectedly had the upper hand in the jump ball with the center of the American youth team, Meyers Leonard.

The basketball that was picked up by Wang Zhelin flew towards his own half, and at this time, the tall and strong of the national youth team and Jermi Lamb of the American youth team jumped up at the same time to compete for the basketball, but whether it was in the bounce or in the strength, the tall and strong had a slight advantage.

In the end, the tall and strong "pop" still overpowered Jerm Lamb, and after taking off the basketball in the air, he was firmly protected in his arms, and the youth team took the lead in gaining the ball.

Gao Dazhuang, who grabbed the ball, did not pass the ball to the team's point guard Guo Allen, but waved his hand to signal his teammates to take position, while he pushed forward with the ball.

However, no one questioned Gao Dazhuang's decision, including captain Guo Allen.

In fact, the players of the Chinese youth team know that in an all-round analysis of the Chinese and American youth teams, tall and strong is the only strong point of the Chinese youth team, and to defeat the American youth team in this game, we must hope for the outbreak of tall and strong.

As he pushed the ball to the top of the three-point arc, he slowly lowered his dribble center of gravity and kept his eyes on Jermie Lamb, who was defending him, and the ball was running at high speed under his crotch.

Jermie Lamb was highly focused, while Tim Hardaway on the flank deliberately shrank towards his team-mates, ready to help at any moment.

In fact, in the last meeting between the Chinese and American youth teams, the tall and strong breakthrough made Jermie Lamb extremely embarrassed.

After the game, Jermie Lamb couldn't figure out how a Chinese thousands of miles away could have such skillful dribbling skills, and the combination of speed, strength, and skill was perfect, and there was also a hint of pure black "street basketball", which made the dribbling of the Chinese team's No. 14 even more weird.

So at the beginning of the game, although the U.S. youth team disdained to play zone defense, but continued to maintain a consistent mark-to-man defense, the U.S. youth team head coach Paul Hewitt still made a corresponding strategy for the tall and strong breakthrough.

Among them, the help defense of the wing is the most important link, so at the beginning of this game, the formation of the American youth team shrank more to the basket.

At this time, the tall and strong suddenly lifted his center of gravity, accelerated violently, and the continuous left and right realistic swaying made Lamb lose his defensive position for a while.

The tall and strong suddenly changed direction, and he was about to take advantage of the situation to quickly break through from Lamb's side.

Jermie Lamb hurriedly took a step back, his body moving sideways to prevent and interfere with the breakthrough of the tall and strong, and Hardaway, who was on Lamb's flank, also crossed behind him in time, and suddenly formed two gates in the path of the tall and strong.

But the tall and strong suddenly made an emergency stop, and tightly buckled the high-speed basketball back into his hand, dribbled under the crotch and then stepped back, and the whole person retreated to the outside of the three-point line, and jumped directly in Lamb's surprised gaze.

As soon as the game began, Gao Dazhuang took the lead outside the three-point line.

Although Jermie Lamb flew over, in fact, the tall man had successfully completed the shooting action at this time, and Jermie Lamb's flying pounce became a symbolic action.

"Rebound," Jermie Lamb yelled at his teammates under the basket after he landed.

With a "brush", the tall and strong basketball passed through the net in a wonderful arc.

With a 3-point hit, the Chinese youth team's tall and strong took the lead in winning the first point of the game.

"Sorry, no rebounds," the tall man said to Jermie Lamb with his hands outstretched, pretending to be helpless.

"SHIT, shit luck," Jerm replied unwillingly.

"Luck is also part of strength" Tall and strong are not afraid to provoke the other party, in fact, tall and strong know that trash talk is also part of American basketball culture.

The two sides sprayed trash talk on each other, which can stimulate the desire of both sides to fight.

The U.S. youth team came on the counter-attack quickly, and the U.S. youth team, which is made up of NCAA stars, has excellent athleticism, so they play at a fast pace, especially when it comes to switching offense and defense.

Soon its point guard Hardaway dribbled the ball into the three-point line of the Chinese youth team.

The ball shuttled between Hardaway's legs in a continuous and slightly shifting manner, and the sound of "popping" made it difficult to understand Hardaway's rhythm of possession.

Guo Allen, who is responsible for defending Hardaway, has always maintained a distance of nearly one meter, Hardaway's breakthrough is also quite sharp, and the strategy adopted by the coaching staff of the Chinese youth team is also to let go of the shots.

However, Hardaway still adopted the strategy of assaulting the basket.

Hardaway slammed the ball and took a big step towards Guo Allen's left with his right foot, trying to use his super speed to flash Guo Allen.

As soon as Guo Allen opened his left foot and stretched out his hands to block Hardaway's breakthrough, he heard a tall and strong voice from the side.

Jermy Lamb of the "Peng" U.S. youth team was blocking Allen Guo's defensive lane, while Hardaway took advantage of his teammate's pick-and-roll to get rid of the defense and cut to the basket.

But in an instant, the tall and strong were pasted up, and the two of them hit the basket one after the other.

After the breakthrough, Hardaway rushed to the basket, ignored the defense of Wang Zhelin sitting under the basket, and chose to go directly to the basket.

"Drink" Wang Zhelin yelled and jumped to block, and the tall and strong also flew over from behind, completely blocking Hardaway's layup angle.

At this time, Hardaway protected the ball with both hands, spun in the air, and leaned on Wang Zhelin with his back and reached out to throw the ball into the sky.

"Not good" Seeing this scene, the tall and strong couldn't help but secretly say that it was not good.

Sure enough, Jermie Lamb plugged in at high speed behind him, and this ball Lamb completely hit the tall and strong and Wang Zhelin with a time difference.

While Gao Dazhuang and Wang Zhelin slowly fell, Jermie Lamb jumped high, received a pass from Hardaway in the air, leaned and flew directly to the basket with momentum.

"Bang dang" Jerm smashed the ball into the basket.

The fans at the "Oh" scene also applauded Jerm Lamb's empty reception.

After the goal of "Ah~Ha", Jermie Lamb also ran around the field excitedly, and looked at the tall and strong provocatively, making a cheering gesture for the audience.

Jeremy Lamb is a typical lanky swingman with a very athletic physique and an extra-long arm span, which makes him a good fit in the No. 2 position.

Lamb's bounce is very good, and the bounce speed is very fast, the jump speed is good, and the explosive power is also very good, and the death dunk that was played in the NCAA is quite fast.

However, if he was tall and strong to defend Lamb just now, he might be able to suppress the opponent by virtue of his strength advantage, but obviously Guo Allen still has a big gap with Lamb in terms of physical fitness.

"These Americans are very fierce at the beginning," Guo Allen said to Gao Dazhuang with a depressed face.

"That's for sure, the final is not as good as the group stage, and they won't have any reservations," Gao Dazhuang said indifferently.

"But a strong opponent is a better litmus test," Guo Allen glanced at Gao Dazhuang and said.

"Oh, yes, you stole my lines," Gao Dazhuang responded with a smile.

"Come on" Guo Allen and Gao Dazhuang bumped their fists with each other.