After the first game of the group stage against Spain, the Chinese men's basketball team was able to rest for a day and then face Russia on the 31st.

For a whole day, Deng Huade did not organize training, and in fact, there was no place for the Chinese team to train in the Olympic Village, so Deng Huade simply gave the players a holiday, and all the players were free to move.

Here we have to talk about the London Olympic Village.

To be honest, the London Olympic Village is much worse than the Yenching Olympic Village, which is a "mini-city" composed of more than 2,800 apartments. It is located in the easternmost part of London's Olympic Park, next to the London Bowl Stadium and the Natatorium. During the Olympic Games, a total of 17,000 people stayed, including athletes, coaches, etc. The Olympic Village has a large restaurant with a capacity of 5,000 people, from fruit to french fries, from flavours from around the world to British cuisine.

The spacious apartment has twin beds with bedside tables, lamps, sofas and wardrobes. Each room has a simple and modern bathroom, as well as a balcony. From the balcony, the athletes can look down on the entire community, overlooking the Olympic Park, where many events are held.

Other services in the Olympic Village include cinemas, supermarkets, banks, post offices, internet cafes, hospitals, and a state-of-the-art fitness centre. There are 8,000 volunteers who provide uniforms for the athletes.

The above is a brief introduction to the London Olympic Village that Wang Meng saw from the introduction, but in fact, the London Olympic Village is really different from what Wang Meng imagined.

"It sucks." This is Yao Ming's only assessment of the London Olympic Village. "Look at the bed, it's so small, it's only 5 feet 8 inches long, and I have to sleep with my whole calf out of the window, is that kidding me?"

"There are so few entertainment facilities!" Yi Jianlian shook his head in disappointment, "There is a Shakespeare International Theater in the Olympic Village for the entertainment of athletes, but there are only 10 billiard tables, a small movie theater and a computer game area in it. Your sister, there are 17,000 people living in the Olympic Village, and 10 billiard tables can be dry? ”

Compared to the lavish service of the Yenching Olympics, the London Olympics formed a stark contrast, which disappointed athletes from all over the world.

Wang Meng is very smart, he knows that in terms of playing, there is no country in the world that can compare to the United States, and the entertainment talent of Americans is too rich, so Wang Meng called Oden very cunningly early in the morning, and shamelessly followed the American basketball team James Wade Anthony and his gang out to fool around, "In broad daylight, these guys will never go to nightclubs." This is Wang Meng's idea.

Yao Ming was also very smart, and although he was not led by Auden like Wang Meng, he still found a grandiose excuse to go with him.

"I haven't played in the NBA in a year, can't I come back and see my old friends?" Yao Ming's words are righteous and righteous, so that people can't find a problem.

Hanging out with the players of the U.S. team is definitely a smart choice, especially with a living treasure like Howard on the team, which makes everyone laugh all the time.

Wang Meng feels that he is still comfortable with this group of guys from the American team, but it is too dull in the Chinese team, of course, it may be because he and other team members are not familiar with it.

After a comfortable day of relaxation, and then returned to the Olympic Village for a big meal, the Chinese men's basketball team recuperated and finally ushered in the second big game.

Russia.

Russia is also one of the best teams in Europe, although it is not as good as Spain, but under the leadership of former NBA star AK47 Kirilenko, it is also a strong team, stronger than the Chinese team in 08.

In the whole team, the star Kirilenko naturally needless to say, the core of the Jazz team, the block maniac, the best defensive ability, although the state gradually declined, but it is indeed a very strong player In addition to Kirilenko, Russia also has two players who have played in the NBA, namely the team's No. 2 man, center Mozgov and small forward Sergei Monia. The former is still a little famous in the NBA, and although the latter has only played soy sauce in the NBA for a while, his strength should not be underestimated.

Now that Yao Ming has been sacrificed, it is useless to hide it, Deng Huade simply broke the jar and broke it, and the starting lineup was changed to point guard Wang Meng, scoring guard Zhu Fangyu, small forward Yi Jianlian, big forward Wang Zhizhi, and center Yao Ming's super high lineup.

As soon as the starting list came out, it immediately caused a stir, and the Chinese team sacrificed an all-big lineup, except for Wang Meng, who was 1.93 meters tall, and the other players were more than two meters. Zhu Fangyu 2.01m, Yi Jianlian 2.13m, Wang Zhizhi 2.14m, Yao Ming 2.26m.

This big man lineup can give everyone a headache, and don't forget, although Wang Meng's 1.93 meters is not tall, but among point guards, 1.93 meters is already very tall, and among point guards, it is rare to meet players who are taller than Wang Meng, and Magic Johnson is not for everyone.

Seeing this big man lineup, the Russian side was immediately a little confused, although their lineup also has big men, but compared to the height of the Chinese team, it seems a little weak.

As soon as the game began, Wang Meng continued to score like crazy in the last game, bullying Russia's starting point guard Sergei Bykov.

This Bykov is known as Wade of the Russian League, who is extremely sharp in breakthrough and has the strongest scoring ability in Russia and even in the whole of Europe.

The scoring ability he practiced on the scoring guard, when he met Wang Meng, it seemed to disappear, and it was difficult to shoot in front of Wang Meng unless he played blocking and dismantling tactics.

This has to talk about Wang Meng's perverted game system, since the start of the London Olympics, Wang Meng was stunned to find that this game system does not know that it can simulate the players of the NBA in the United States, and even the international players can also be simulated, so he wants to open the golden finger generally, no, it is in the state of opening the golden finger, Wang Meng knows the bottom of the point guard in Russia, has mental calculations or not, coupled with his own strength gap, so that Bykov has no way to face Wang Meng.

The Chinese team was led by Wang Meng from the beginning of the game to play a very strong attack, Russia did not have a little counterattack for a while, in the face of Wang Meng's attack, Russia can only use joint defense, if necessary, Wang Meng is trapped. With Yao Ming, the Chinese team can't just pull all the inside lines to the outside to shoot three points, although Yao Ming has the ability to shoot three points, but his pace is too slow, and it is not suitable for this style of play, but it doesn't matter, Wang Meng can use the heart eye skills to effectively pass the ball out to cause assists, when the heart eye skills are cooling, Wang Meng does not force a breakthrough, but hands the ball to Yao Ming on the inside to play alone.

Yao Ming has always been the big killer of the Chinese team, and the low-post offense is almost incomprehensible, although the Russian center is Mozgov who plays in the NBA, but Mozgov is undoubtedly much worse than Yao Ming, his average data per game in the NBA is only 4.3 points and 3.5 rebounds, compared to Yao Ming, an NBA All-Star, Yao Ming, who can cut 19 points and 9.7 rebounds in his NBA career, is the gap between the Phoenix and the Grass Chicken.

With almost no ability to resist, Mozgov was blown up by Yao Ming.

Although the joint defense is, but the joint defense can prevent breakthroughs, but it can't prevent the singles on the inside, Yao Ming has no way to contain the singles in the low position, and there is only one way to limit Yao Ming, that is, to wrap the clip defense, but Wang Meng also needs to wrap the clip, you can't two people to wrap Wang Meng, two people to wrap Yao Ming, then the other three let a player to defend?

Russia's offense was messy, and with the point guard locked up by Wang Meng, most of the offensive tactics could not be used, which became Russia's fatal wound.

In a basketball game, the core of the team is always the point guard, the point guard has always been the initiator and organizer of the offense, like the Heat, a team with two players with strong offensive firepower is a minority after all, and in the face of Wang Meng's NBA-level top defense, plus the defense of the prescient surname, Bykov has no way at all. Bykov even had a feeling that even if he called for a block, Wang Meng seemed to be able to anticipate most of the directions he might break through and stand in that position early.

The offensive point is limited by Wang Meng, if you want to win, you can only do a good job of defense and ensure the number of rebounds, but look at the lineup of the Chinese team, three players who are more than 2.10 meters tall, how do you let Russia grab rebounds?

Helpless, powerless, that's the only thing the Russian coach thinks.

At 45:36 at halftime, taking advantage of the opportunity of Wang Meng and Yao Ming to rest, the Russians fought back, wanting to take the opportunity to chase the score back, Deng Huade was not in a hurry, and waited until the score was tied before slowly letting Wang Meng and Yao Ming and others play.

Wang Meng and Yao Ming stood on the field one mile and one away, like two defensive gates, and suddenly cut off the Russian attack again.

At 98:81 in the whole game, Russia repeated the path of Spain and lost to the Chinese team, which won two consecutive victories.

The top scorer in this game was Yao Ming, who was in better shape after the last game, and scored 36 points against the soy sauce Mozgov in the NBA, the second-highest score of his Olympic career. His first high score was 39 points, which was the highest score in the history of the Chinese men's national basketball team before Wang Meng scored 61 points.

Wang Meng didn't score much in this game, only 18 points, 13 assists, and the double-double results seemed to be much inferior to the last game, but none of the people who watched the game would think so, and he put most of his energy on defending the opponent's point guard in the whole game, because of Wang Meng's defense, Russia's second scoring point and tactical Bykov only got 6 points and 3 assists, and what was even more pitiful was that he was defended by Wang Meng with 7 turnovers.

The Chinese team has won two consecutive victories, and if a dark horse continues to gallop, it will also make all teams pay great attention to it.

(To be continued)