273 Olympic journey, goodbye
Everyone understands that most of today's team can only be controlled by Zhang Chen, because now the Chinese team's internal and external lines are a little weak, and only Zhang Chen can help in this way. The Spanish team wanted to defend Zhang Chenlai, but after many attempts and still failed, they had to give up this tempting idea. However, they didn't let their guard down on Zhang Chen, who is the best scorer on the Chinese team - even though he's an outside player, that's exactly what he is.
"Huh!" The friction between the basketball and the basketball net is still beautiful and moving, everyone can hear the crisp and loud sound, Zhang Chen held his hands high, which represent one of the most perfect shooting techniques in the world basketball today, his arms bent into a proud arc, like a swan.
Zhang Chen scored two more points, and Spain now leads China by five points, with the final twenty seconds left before the end of the first quarter.
Spain's offense began, their basketballs began to drag on in the open hands, one dragged until the last five seconds before they attacked, and it looked like luck was on their side, and Fernandez's three-pointer fell into the basket as if it were eating and drinking.
The Chinese team trailed the Spanish team by eight points, and although they also threw a ball in the midfield, unfortunately luck did not allow them to shoot this ultra-long three-point shot. The Chinese team also entered the second quarter with eight points behind, and players from both sides returned to the bench, Zhang Chen originally wanted to sit on the stool, but he found that he was now quite weak in terms of breathing rhythm and his physical adaptation, and he couldn't sit down at all, otherwise his exhaustion would make his body unbearable.
After standing for almost a minute, Zhang Chen sat on the stool, and he didn't realize it just now, but now he never wanted to stand up when he sat on the stool, and there was exhaustion everywhere in his body, as if he was climbing a snowy mountain and crossing the meadow.
Tiredly took a towel and wiped it on his face, Zhang Chen took a bottle of water from the side and poured it into his stomach, the feeling in his body was finally more comfortable, and Zhang Chen leaned on the stool.
Today's game was too much physical exertion for him, and now Zhang Chen felt that his soul was not in his body, and his body seemed to have become a shell. In fact, Zhang Chen's fatigue has been forced to this point step by step these days, after all, a large part of the Chinese team's offense in the past few days has to rely on Zhang Chen, and their ball control is basically Zhang Chen's responsibility alone, which increases Zhang Chen's burden.
After a few days, Zhang Chen's body has already been exhausted, today is just a process from quantitative change to qualitative change, although Zhang Chen has been struggling to support just now, but it is difficult to cope with the current situation, he took a large and wide towel and covered his neck, and his whole head drooped.
Yao Ming came over and patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder: "How is it?" Isn't it tiring? ”
Zhang Chen raised his head and said that he was hungry: "It's a little, but you can still fight next." Yao Ming left gently, he didn't know what to say, he knew very well the current situation of the Chinese team, without Zhang Chen, they would lose the sharpest point of the attack, if Zhang Chen fell at this time, the Chinese team would probably be more than lucky. But looking at Zhang Chen's appearance, it seems that it is not a good choice to let him continue to play.
Younas also patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder with concern, and also asked a topic that Yao Ming had just asked, and Zhang Chen still replied very easily that he was fine.
Younas has been a coach for so many years, and it can naturally be seen that Zhang Chen's body is quite weak now, and if he continues to play like this, it is estimated that he will even be physically exhausted, but he also has the same considerations as Yao Ming - if Zhang Chen is gone, then the Chinese team will be really dangerous.
Everyone didn't stay on the bench for long, because the game quickly restarted, Zhang Chen played the first quarter, but he was still on the basketball court at the beginning of the second quarter.
The first ball is the ball of the Chinese team, Zhang Chen controlled the ball himself after half the court, handed it to Yao Ming on the inside, Yao Ming hit a hook to help the Chinese team recover the two-point difference, and the Spanish team's Gasol also used a hook to fight back with color, and the two teams re-involved in the contest just now.
Zhang Chen once again controlled the ball to the outside of the three-point line and passed to Yi Jianlian on the inside, Yi Jianlian missed the jumper, the rebound was grabbed by the Spanish team, and a fast break was launched, and the point difference became double digits.
This time after half of the possession, Zhang Chen decided to come by himself, he finally put the basketball on his right hand, and began to jump, but at the last moment when the basketball left his hands, he suddenly felt that he was a little weak, and the basketball was the same as he imagined, knocking on the edge of the basket.
Although such a jump shot is just a small thing, Zhang Chen still understands that his physical strength has begun to really have problems, and it has begun to affect his shooting rate. Thinking of this, he was a little distressed, but it was obviously impossible to get off the court, after all, even if there was a problem with his shooting, the Chinese team still couldn't lack him, at least the current Chinese team couldn't do without it.
The two sides started the contest back and forth, and what surprised the audience today was that Zhang Chen's shooting rate dropped a little in the second quarter, and he missed a lot of balls in a short period of time, which made them all feel a little worried. The inside line of the Chinese team also lost its tiger teeth in front of the Spanish team's rope Hengjiang, and their offensive efficiency was not high.
Therefore, in the second quarter, the Spanish team launched several waves of attacks, which made the Chinese team exhausted and tried to save the score, but unfortunately it ended in failure, and the Chinese team failed to really save the score after several efforts. With two minutes left in the first half, China was already 12 points behind.
This point difference is already quite dangerous, after all, the Chinese team only lost to them by 8 points when they lost to the United States team at that time, and now they have lost so many points in the first half, what about the second half?
Fortunately, in the last two minutes, Zhang Chen stepped up, he seemed to have regained his senses, first hit a jumper outside the three-point line, and then broke through to cause the opponent 2+1, and finally made the score gap 7 points, and at this time the first half of the game really came to an end.
Zhang Chen felt a bit like he had crawled to the locker room before returning to the locker room, and he felt as if his soul had been drained and he couldn't move. He still played the whole quarter in the second quarter, after all, the Spanish team launched attack waves again and again, and if Zhang Chen was off, the Chinese team would rely less and less.
The most embarrassing thing in the locker room is undoubtedly Zhang Chen, although Yao Ming and they are also injured, but after all, Yao Ming can still be alive, but Zhang Chen basically drained his last bit of strength when he broke through in the second quarter, and it was not easy to survive until now.
Younas was about to press Zhang Chen on the bench, and he said to Zhang Chen sternly: "Hey, Zhang, you can't play anymore...... Otherwise, there will definitely be unintended consequences...... It's a big game, but you can't change it alone, we're going to play well and you have to believe in us. ”
Zhang Chen forcibly stood up and walked to the player's tunnel, his eyes were full of a fierce battle intent of charging to the death and choosing to die, and he had to continue to work hard after dropping a sound.
Only then did the players of the Chinese team really understand where Zhang Chen's terrifying strength came from - he had to practice every day, he had to do his best every time he played, he was an out-and-out paranoid! It seems that God always favors people who work hard, and Zhang Chen's growth path is a road of blood and sweat rain or shine.
Although most of the people in the team are older than Zhang Chen now, they all admire Zhang Chen, not because of his terrifying score of more than 30 points per game, but because of his indomitable and indomitable will!
Zhang Chen really won everyone's respect, but Younas still grabbed him and said, "I don't want you to care about your own body, but I want you to trust your teammates...... Trust your teammates! ”
This sentence made Zhang Chen's eyes flash with a mysterious color, as if the stars in the sky had come to these eyes, and then he glanced at his teammates and found the kind of trust and intimacy between each other and that kind of firm eyes. After a while, Zhang Chen smiled brightly: "Okay...... Brothers, it's up to you! ”
Everyone just nodded, but Zhang Chen knew that everything was self-evident, and they already knew what they needed to do.
At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, Zhang Chen did not play, and the audience understood him, after all, he had played two consecutive quarters of the game.
After the Chinese team came on the field, they suddenly played a blood surname that caught the Spanish team off guard!
Yes, it's the blood surname! It's a bloodline that you put a lot of effort into every ball that looks hard to get your hands on, and you never give up every time you have the chance, and the same goes for defense. With the support of this blood surname, Yi Jianlian did not shoot in the middle of the shot, but was yelled by Yao Ming and took off the rebound, and then pressed the basketball into the basket on Gasol's head, and then Sun Yue directly entered the inside, single-handedly walked back and forth in the west wind, and was slapped out of bounds, but his shot finally fell into the basket crookedly.
Then there was his penalty shoot.
Then there was Wang Zhizhi's efforts, he missed a layup on the inside, and then he grabbed the rebound, but unfortunately the second shot still didn't hit, but he grabbed the rebound again! This time he was not polite, and used a basket, and finally let the naughty basketball obediently enter the basket.
And after Yi Jianlian threw a shot in the middle, he suddenly made a strong breakthrough from the free throw line directly to the inside, and finally hung on the basket with a violent dunk!
Everyone is using their own efforts to make this team better, to make today's bad situation better, by the start of the second quarter six minutes later, the Chinese team has chased the score gap to 3 points, the Spaniards not only failed to defeat the Chinese team in the third quarter, but also lost a lot of score advantages, the Chinese team is now morale.
Although he didn't play, Zhang Chen was even happier than he was on the field, the performance of the Chinese team played the kind of thing called blood surname, everyone dared to grab and fight, as if they were facing a rain of bullets in front of them, and they would not frown when they broke in. And they also completed a Jedi counterattack with the help of this blood surname, and the Spanish team had to call a timeout because of this!
Zhang Chen walked up and slapped each of his teammates' butts, and then laughed brightly with them, these balls really made all of them play in the style they should have, and now everyone feels quite relieved. When talking about his performance, he can also dance with his eyebrows, Zhang Chen's body still feels very weak, which makes him still unable to play, but his smile seems to give other people a reassurance.
At the beginning of the second half of the third quarter, the Spaniards changed their defensive line, blocking the outside line of the Chinese team, and at the same time controlling the air supremacy of the inside line, and all of a sudden, the Chinese team was trapped in the cage again, and their shots were more difficult. On the defensive end, the Spaniards' inside and outside lines took turns firing and carried out a new round of indiscriminate bombardment, and with their efforts, the Chinese team's interior line was reduced to rubble.
When the Spaniards really burst out of all their strength, the Chinese team was also unable to defend, although they had worked very hard, but the gap in strength was not something that could be made up by hard work.
By the end of the third quarter, the Chinese team was 8 points behind the Spanish team, and the score gap was chased back by them, and the Chinese players returned to the bench, everyone was heavy-faced, this situation was not what they wanted, but it was so.
Yao Ming sat next to Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen patted his thigh and said, "Boss Yao...... Just do your best. ”
Yao Ming smiled at him: "Yes, just do your best!" ”
A new quarter began, and although the Chinese fans were upset by the Spaniards at the end of the session, when they saw Zhang Chen on the field, the cheers were overwhelming, wave after wave, and soon turned into a sea of sounds.
Zhang Chen waved his hand at everyone, and then stood in his position, he had to do his best to do a good job in every attack and every defense.
In this game, many people tied the victory or defeat of the game to Zhang Chen, but Zhang Chen put all this pressure on his shoulders but did not complain, at this time he really reflected the ability to convince everyone. In front of Zhang Chen, it seemed that the sword mountain and the sea of fire could be stepped over in a chic step without hesitation.
The first shot of the final quarter went to Spain, who, after a couple of shifts, hit a jumper by a small forward to turn the deficit into 10 points and return to double digits. Zhang Chen regained control of the ball, kept the ball on the opponent's half, and made a shooting feint outside the three-point line, and immediately passed the basketball to Yi Jianlian on the inside.
Yi Jian United quickly inserted, and a basket ended the offense, and the score returned to within 10 points.
Spain's attack fell into the basket in the eyes of the spectators with regret, and the basketball returned to Zhang Chen's hands, this time Zhang Chen jumped directly when he was still one step away from the three-point line - the basketball flew into the basket crookedly, although it was not too crisp, but finally scored.
The score gap returned to seven points, and after Zhang Chen returned to the court, it seemed that his touch had recovered and he was able to shoot a lot of goals.
This is how the game kicked off, but the next development was not so harmonious, because the Spaniards completely started to attack again and again, their offense from the inside to the outside, connected by the offensive hub in the middle into a complete whole, under the cooperation of this overall basketball, their offensive efficiency is also quite high, and the Chinese team is once again in the predicament of being beaten.
Therefore, in the next game, although the Chinese team is also working hard, they failed to win against Spain.
Zhang Chen also fully recovered after returning in the fourth quarter, just shooting three three-pointers in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter and scoring nine points, but the Chinese team basically scored alone in the first five minutes, so the gap between their scores did not narrow.
In the last five minutes, Zhang Chen's hand felt a little problematic, and the other players of the Chinese team began to wake up one after another, but they woke up a little late, the Spaniards began to suppress the Chinese team's attack with offense, and used defense to defend the Chinese team's offense.
Zhang Chen also led the Chinese team to launch a counterattack in the last minute, he hit a three-pointer, and assisted Yao Ming to hit a layup, but unfortunately the Spaniards saw the recruitment of troops to block, and finally let the Chinese team's counterattack come to naught. When the Chinese team used foul tactics, the Spaniards' free throws were also quite stable, leaving the Chinese team almost without a chance.
In the end, the game ended in the defeat of the Chinese team, but the Chinese team's performance in the game was remarkable, and now they were defeated by the Spaniards, even if it is not good, it is a fourth-place result, which is an unprecedented achievement and is worthy of everyone's praise.
At the same time, the kind of blood surname played by the Chinese team in this game has also become the best evidence that the Chinese team has justified its name, and every attack they have touched the hearts of the Chinese people, and they are quite good to be able to play to this extent.
Spain will be on the road to the final battle for supremacy after beating China, where they will face the United States for the final title, while China will have to compete with another team for third place.
No one can blame the performance of the Chinese team in the match with the Spanish team, it can be said that they are also glorious despite the defeat, the final score is 94:90, and the Chinese team is only four points behind, which is not a huge point difference. At the same time, the mental strength shown by the Chinese team in this game has truly become a symbol of the Chinese team moving to another level.
Zhang Chen has naturally risen with the performance of the Chinese team, and his own points per game average is still the highest among all players, and second place Wade is also five points behind him.
In the final game of this year's Olympic Games, the Chinese team defeated the Argentine team in the Olympic Basketball Stadium and finally won an unprecedented third place.
(To be continued)