Chapter 231: Self-defeating

The Chinese team, which has won three consecutive Olympic victories, has reached an unprecedented height of influence in China. Wukesong Stadium once again ushered in the high tide of fans.

The Chinese team's performance exceeded everyone's expectations, originally everyone expected that the Chinese team would be strong this year, but everyone didn't expect the Chinese team to play to this point today. Li Cheng's play made everyone feel excited, after all, China also produced such a great defender.

Today, the Chinese team faced a strong opponent Greece again, and the Wukesong Stadium was already full. The cheers are getting louder and louder, and posters of Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and Li Cheng are everywhere.

Today, the Chinese team is completely relaxed, and after winning Spain, it is already worry-free to qualify, and after defeating Germany, the Chinese team will definitely be able to break the best result in the history of the national team. After all, the chances of Germany winning the Dream Eight are even less likely than the possibility of the sun coming out of the west.

The Chinese team completely put aside the burden on its body, although the Greek team is worry-free to qualify, but the resentment of being completely exploded by the American team is still there, is the resentment on the Chinese team today? Just when everyone was guessing, the game on the field had already begun.

Yao Ming still jumped the ball into the middle, and Liu Wei quickly crossed the half court with the ball. The famous skill of the Greek team is joint defense, so Younas repeatedly told him before the game to be fast. In today's game, Li Cheng is naturally the core of everyone in the Chinese team, and the performance of the Chinese team is completely pressed on Li Cheng.

Just after halftime, Liu Wei handed the ball to Zhu Fangyu. At this time, Li Cheng quickly entered the inside line, and when the Greek team had not fully set up the formation, Zhu Fangyu also quickly transferred the ball and handed it to Li Cheng. Li Cheng didn't stop taking the ball, and continued to accelerate and dunk directly. This time, the Chinese team played fast and was very successful.

On the other side, the Greek team also returned the color with a breakthrough, and Spann ran wildly with the ball, crashed into Yao Ming's arms and hooked the ball into the basket.

After a quick kick-off, the Chinese team still did not find a chance after many passes. At last. The ball was in Li Cheng's hands again. Li Cheng directly chose to break through. The best way to break the position and defend is to break through, after forcing the breakthrough, Li Cheng threw the ball to Yao Ming, Yao Ming's dominance on the inside line is still unparalleled, hit the board into the basket, and the Chinese team scored two more points.

Spann faced Li Cheng looking for an opportunity, and recently Li Cheng's name has resounded all over the world.

In today's game, the Greek team not only went around the front, but also learned the lessons of the German team. And let Spann keep an eye on Li Cheng.

Spann dribbled under his crotch to try to find holes in Li Cheng's defense, but Li Cheng faced people like James and Ray Allen in the NBA, and his defense was poor because of his body rather than awareness.

The NBA also has a bad body and becomes a typical example of a defensive specialist. Li Cheng once imitated Battier's defense. Now he's using it here. After all, the Spann face in this game is the absolute core of the Greek team, and Li Cheng still took the initiative to defend Span.

He has implemented Battier's kraft candy defensive method very well, but Li Cheng's imitation is still only in vain, and it is far from being like Battier. That's enough, though.

Span had no choice but to pass the ball to Vassilopoulos, Vassilopoulos immediately chose to go to the basket, Yi Jianlian interfered, and Vassilopoulos's layup was rejected by the basket.

Yao Ming should have picked up the rebound easily. But Vassilopouros, who had just missed the layup, actually picked up the ball with his fingers a little more, Yao Ming didn't catch the rebound, and then the UAE rushed up and flicked the ball again. The fierce rebounding scramble showed the fierceness of the inside battle between the two sides, and Li Cheng reappeared at this time. Hold the rebound in your arms. When Li Cheng rushed into the inside strong rebound, Liu Wei had already run to the basket of the Greek team. Li Cheng, who won the rebound, threw the ball to Liu Wei, who easily made a layup to score two more points.

As soon as the game began, the Chinese team began to accumulate advantages little by little.

But the Greek team is stronger than the Chinese team after all. Span, who attacked again, no longer fought with Li Cheng, but stuck and left. Although Li Cheng's defense is very good, the Greek team's offense is very good in combination with inside and outside.

Li Cheng always cares about one thing and the other. In the first quarter, the Chinese team relied on an unfamiliar fast break to maneuver with the opponent. Zhu Fangyu was in good shape and used three points to bite the score for the Chinese team.

With 1 minute left in the first quarter, Li Cheng made a steal in the middle of the court and directly assisted Zhu Fangyu to score, and the Chinese team led by 1 point again.

The Greeks attacked again, their fluid passing became their secret weapon again, and after their patient passing, the Chinese team's defense finally showed a hole, and their center Fortesis pulled out to score with a mid-range shot, and once again took a one-point lead.

At this time, Li Cheng stepped up again and made a strong shot at the 45° corner on the left side of the three-point line when the Chinese team's offensive time was about to expire. Again two points ahead.

With 11.3 seconds left before the end of the first quarter, the Greeks still made a patient pass and scored on a layup. Since then, the first quarter of the game has ended with the two sides tied at 22. A hearty first quarter of the fans who watched it were so happy in their hearts.

Li Cheng did not rely on his own personal ability in this game, and helped the Chinese team establish a score advantage as soon as he came up. Because in the face of these not too strong teams, Li Cheng can lead the rhythm of the whole team alone. But this time, Li Cheng's target is the American team, and Li Cheng has always had an unspoken idea in his heart, which may be crazy, but Li Cheng decided to carry out this madness to the end. He wants an Olympic gold medal!

Therefore, Li Cheng must now use the strength of the whole team to confront the opponent, instead of relying on him alone. Because when playing against the United States team, Li Cheng could never use the strength of one person to drive the performance of the whole team.

The second quarter of the game started in anticipation of the fans, Papalukas handed the ball to Span in the gap between Liu Wei's defense, and Span who took the ball went down. He found that he seemed to be breaking through too easily, but when he thought about it, the Chinese team members who defended him were just "rookies", so he didn't think much about it. At this time, he still regarded Li Cheng as a rookie, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

When he got to the inside and was ready to go to the basket, he realized that he was wrong, how wrong it was. In fact, Li Cheng had been waiting on the inside line for a long time, and Span, who came in, was in the middle of being sturdy by Li Cheng's hat.

Wang Shipeng took advantage of the situation to control the ball, and the Chinese team advanced all the way. Li Cheng also rushed forward frantically after landing, three to three!

Li Cheng, Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng. Span, Papalucas, Diamantidis. Wang Shipeng handed the ball to Liu Wei, and Liu Wei continued to move forward. Papalukas clung to Liu Wei. None of the three members of the Greek team paid attention to Li Cheng stopped, and Liu Wei rushed forward half a meter to make a layup.

Looking at Liu Wei's movements, Papalukas and Diamantidis all sneered in their hearts.

"Find the cover" both jumped up.

But the next second they couldn't laugh, Liu Wei changed the direction of the ball when it was about to shoot, and handed it to Wang Shipeng, who was short of his position, Wang Shipeng jumped high with the ball, Span noticed that Li Cheng had stood still, but he had no choice, and scolded in his heart, "Two fools." ”

Then he could only jump up with Wang Shipeng. If he doesn't jump the block, Wang Shipeng can easily hit the board into the basket, and if he jumps up the block, Li Chengcheng who is waiting behind can easily succeed.

But Li Cheng was not close to the basket, so he could only bet and bet that Li Cheng would miss the shot.

Sure enough, as Span expected, Wang Shipeng handed the ball to Li Cheng, and Li Cheng had a large space in front of him, and he aimed and aimed, and only after making sure that it was foolproof, he slowly shot. How could a shot aimed at N not go in?

Greece's head coach, Panagiotis Gianakis, immediately called a timeout. As the player came down, he reprimanded:

"You were beaten like this by a rookie who was only 20 years old, you really gave me a long face!"

"Not really." Someone answered.

"What's that like?"

"It's that they're too cunning."

"Cunning? The Chinese are inherently cunning, don't you know? Don't give me excuses, take out our defense, show your toughness, and go back to them. ”

"Alright, now you guys listen. We fight positional warfare, and we don't fight with them for speed. They're playing speed wars, and we'll just ignore them. If we fight a good joint defense, I don't believe that the Chinese can still break our joint defense! ”

"Even if the guy named Li Cheng is very good and his shooting is accurate, we have to use the strength of our team to trap him and reduce his offensive space, and in the end he is waiting for him only to die."

"Do you know where our greatest strength lies? This time the Chinese team is very strong, and the strength is outrageous. But they have shortcomings, their core is too young, and the youth is terrible. Therefore, no matter how talented he is, his experience is not as good as ours. That's our strength, our greatest strength. ”

"So, use our advantage to hit them hard!"

In fact, Li Cheng really didn't know that he would still be regarded as a rookie, in fact, he didn't blame Giotis-Giannaguis. He didn't have a way to deal with Li Cheng here, so the choice he made in the end was to respond to all changes with the same, so he asked his team to play and defend according to the rhythm of the previous game.

Li Cheng is inexperienced, he may be very good one-on-one, but his experience in breaking the joint defense is almost zero. So that's the advantage of the Greek team, and that's the only chance that Giotis Giannagis feels he can get in this game.

Perhaps both of their teams have run out of desires, but the Greek team still has a little concern. If Germany had beaten the USA this time, it would have been a humiliating affair for them to qualify, even though they would have qualified. And Giotis Giannagis doesn't want to be crushed by the Chinese team, so he wants to win this game very much.

Then Giotis-Giannagis thought of a way, he tried his best to weaken the influence of Li Cheng in the hearts of his players. As long as Li Cheng is a weak rookie in the hearts of his players, then his players will not be afraid, so that they can play normally.

But Giotis Giannagis is clearly a bit self-defeating, and the Greek players are not overly fearful, but they are a little underwhelming, which is very deadly. (To be continued......)