Chapter 2 Serbia
The Serbian men's basketball team was formerly known as the Yugoslav men's basketball team, the international basketball hegemon, which was dissolved three times in 1991, 2003 and 2006. At present, Serbia is still a strong force in international basketball.
In this World Youth Championship, Serbia has seen the emergence of many talented young players, such as their captain Milan Macwan, who is 206cm tall and weighs 235 pounds, playing as a power forward. Center forward Boban Marganovic is the tallest player at the World Youth Championship at 221 cm. There's also their No. 2 player, Mla den Jeremić, who has excellent scoring ability.
There was still half an hour left before the game, Li Chunjiang finished arranging the tactics, and the players had already come out and began to warm up for pre-game shooting.
In the audience seats in the stadium, there are not many Chinese fans, and when they look up from the stadium, there are only scattered around, scattered small patches of red.
As the host, Serbia only left a small number of tickets for Chinese fans, making the Chinese fans on the scene less than 3,000, and the remaining 15,000 spectators were basically Sevilla fans, and the whole stadium was dazzling white.
During the pre-game warm-up, Zhang Yu didn't like to practice shooting like most players, and did nothing but do some basic warm-ups.
Xu Yong's stomach was full of unwillingness, and he dared not speak out about the tactics arranged by Li Chunjiang. But the core position for a long time is not guaranteed, how can there be no ideas in my heart.
Trouble with Zhang Yu? It seems that his ball skills are really not as good as others, so he can only choose to vent on the basket that he can't resist.
"Bang ......"
Zhang Yu laughed secretly on the side, he didn't expect Xu Yong to have music cells, this "bang" is very rhythmic
In the sound of Xu Yong's iron, the game started quickly, the substitute players left the field, and the players from both sides greeted each other, and each returned to his own position, waiting for the jump ball.
The Chinese team's jumping ball is the starting center Su Wei, who is 210cm tall and weighs 230 pounds, which is a very strong player at this age, provided that he has not changed his age, but Zhang Yu feels that this may not be big.
Jumping with Su Wei is the highest player in this World Youth Championships, Boban 1 Marganovic, this guy is 221cm tall, Su Wei stood on the opposite side and looked at it, and scolded in his heart, "!" The other party was almost as tall as Yao Ming, and the pressure in his heart increased rapidly, and he didn't have much self-confidence, so he didn't know where to run at once
Su Wei's bounce is average, the speed of the bounce is also average, the opponent is half a head taller than him, he has expected that it will be difficult for him to jump to win the opponent.
Sure enough, the referee blew the whistle and the game began!
Boban Marganovic jumped to his feet and was the first to touch the basketball.
The Chinese team didn't give Su Wei face, everyone retreated to the defensive position early to defend, and they didn't expect anyone to win the game at all......
Opposite Zhang Yu is the main scorer of the Serbian team, Mla den Jeremić, his height is also 196cm, weighing only 175 pounds, even Zhang Yu's physique is not as good, Zhang Yu saw him for the first time, and suddenly there was a feeling of tears in his heart.
"Finally see a ...... thinner than me"
Mt. Deng passed half court and stood up outside the 45-degree three-point line on the right side in a three-threat pose.
According to the information investigated by Zhang Yutong's team, Mla Deng has a certain three-point ability and is not weak in breaking ability, so he kept a step away from him, spread his hands, and used his excellent arm span to envelop the opponent's entire body.
Mla Deng was taken aback by Zhang Yu, surprised by the length of the opponent's armspan, and opened his arm, instantly violating most of his space. He lightly bumped Zhang Yu and quickly moved to the three-point line on the right side, and Zhang Yu followed closely.
At this time, Serbia's point guard Stefan Markovic suddenly accelerated past Yang Qin, the starting point guard of the Chinese team, and burst into the free throw line.
Su Wei came over to make up for the defense, half a beat slower, Stefan threw the ball to score first, and the host took the lead to score two points.
The Chinese team served, and as soon as Yang Qin dribbled past half court, he immediately passed the ball to Zhang Yu, who came out to answer, and then ran to the flank.
Zhang Yu dribbled at the top of the arc and made a single gesture, and the other players immediately pulled him away from the defender.
"It seems that Zhang Yu, the first ball of the Chinese team, is going to play singles, Zhang Yu, the youngest player in the Chinese U19, only 17 years old, who emerged in the Asian Youth Championship last year and is now the team's main scoring guard. This is also a player with excellent physique, he is characterized by accurate shooting and fast speed, and the disadvantage is that he is relatively thin, probably due to his young age. Sun Zhengping said.
Zhang Weiping also said: "That's right, Zhang Yu and Xu Yong are the two best players in this batch of players in China, it is rumored that Zhang Yu's bounce and speed are stronger than Xu Yong, and you will know whether the rumors are true after watching this game." ”
Zhang Yu faced Mla Deng, a crotch dribble quickly broke to the left, Zhang Yu's shot is all-round left and right, the breakthrough is the same, the first breakthrough he chose to the left, this direction of the defender is more difficult to defend.
Mla Deng had already concentrated and prepared before Zhang Yu made a move, and the opponent was going to singled him for the first ball, and in front of the home fans, he had to defend it no matter what.
It's a pity that things developed beyond his expectations, and he didn't have time to react, Zhang Yu had already used an extremely high-quality crotch dribble to pass him.
Serbian inside, although Boban is amazingly tall, but his reaction is relatively slow, and he didn't expect Zhang Yu to break through so easily, and before he could react, Zhang Yu had already burst to the basket and scored the ball with one hand.
The captain of Serbia on the side, Milan Makwan also had no time to fill the position, and saw Zhang Yu make an easy layup.
Zhang Yu did not choose to dunk, he has a strong sense of protection of his body. Although slam dunk is a very easy thing for him, he always believes that at his age, he should try to avoid doing some difficult movements to reduce his chance of injury. So I finally took it and chose the safest layup.
"Beautiful, Director Zhang, Zhang Yu's crotch dribble breakthrough speed is very fast this time, and he cleaned the opposing defender in the blink of an eye, and the opposing player didn't react at all, it's really beautiful."
"That's right, Zhang Yu's breakthrough is very fast, and it doesn't look difficult to dribble under the crotch, but it is a very difficult technique to master, and if you don't do it well, it's easy to be stealed, so ordinary players don't do it often. Only players who are very confident, have solid fundamentals, and have excellent physical speed will do this move regularly. ”
The game continued, the Chinese team returned to defense, and Mla Deng was passed off like a piece of wood in front of his parents and fellow villagers, and his face was a little unbearable, and he immediately stretched out his hand to ask for it as soon as he fell into position.
Knowing he was going to get it back, Stefan immediately passed the ball to him and helped him pull the defender away.
It was another heads-up, and the other players all pulled away, allowing Mla Deng to play Zhang Yu alone and regain face.
Mla Deng received the ball and made another triple threat to observe Zhang's defense.
Mla Deng took a look at this and found that Zhang Yu's defensive posture was obviously much more standard than when he was defending, and the distance was well maintained, which could prevent him from breaking through and shooting at him. In addition, seeing Zhang Yu's speed and arm span, his heart suddenly became difficult. I have the intention to block and dismantle, but I can't pull it down.
"No, you must break through him!" Mt. Deng cheered himself up, dribbling to the right with a cross-step dribble and then breaking down to the left in an attempt to fool Zhang. It's a pity that his movements are not coherent enough, and the feints are not realistic enough, Zhang Yu was not fooled, and his footsteps moved quickly, blocking his breakthrough route.
Mula Deng didn't pass this time, and immediately had physical contact with Zhang Yu, his confrontation was very poor, and his basic skills were not solid, so he immediately messed up the rhythm and pace, and forced two more strokes
Honk...... The referee's whistle sounds!
Walking!
The referee blew the whistle in his mouth, and although Serbia was the host, it was unreasonable to make such a clear move.
Zhang Yu defended successfully, and the Chinese team had the ball.
The few Chinese fans in the audience blew their horns one after another to cheer for the players of their motherland!