On September 9th, the semi-finals officially began, and the four matches were all in one day, the match between the United States and Argentina in the morning, and two games in the afternoon, namely the Chinese team against the Spanish team, the Lithuanian team against the Turkish team, and there was also a game in the evening, which was Serbia against Slovenia.

Nelson Jr. asked the players to watch the U.S. vs. Argentina, who will be their opponents in the finals - as for the upcoming opponents, Spain? In Nelson Jr.'s eyes, this team is only used to train the Chinese men's basketball team.

Without Ginobili, Argentina was missing a pillar and eventually lost 75-87 to the Dream Team.

Durant had 38 points and 9 rebounds, setting a new single-game scoring high for the Dream Team and the first player on the Dream Team to score 30+ points in two consecutive games.

Odom had 13 points and 10 rebounds, Westbrook had 12 points and seven rebounds, Iguodala had nine points and four rebounds and Loew had six points.

For Argentina, Scola had 27 points and six rebounds, Delfino had 26 points, seven rebounds and three assists, Oberto had 10 points and four rebounds, and Prigioni had five points, five assists and four rebounds.

If Chamberlain is the first inside line in the World Championships in Turkey, then Durant is the first outside line, in order to defend him, the Argentine team is pressing and assisting in defense, outflanking and even trapping, and he is completely surrounded and intercepted, but it is useless, and the one who is killed is still defeated.

Seeing Durant suddenly throw buckles like a god, the outside face of the Chinese men's basketball team has changed, they are just watching from the court, if they are on the court, they can't play.

Liu Wei looks honest, but he is actually ruthless, this is normal, which of the veterans is an honest child? He watched Durant accurately shoot again and again, break through and score under the basket again and again, gritted his teeth and said: "This little red guy is very powerful, do you want to cut him?" ”

Chamberlain gave him a thumbs up and encouraged: "Awesome, I've wanted to do this for a long time, but I haven't succeeded, why don't you come?" ”

Liu Wei sneered: "Allah wants to do it, but this is an international arena, so you have to pay attention to the impact." ”

So far, the quarterfinals have been released, and the changes in the pattern of world basketball have been obvious.

Argentina, the 2004 Olympic champion, missed the semi-finals, and Spain, the 2006 world champion, was also on the verge of defeat. The American "Dream Nine", which is completely different from the "Dream Eight Team", has been crisscrossing all the way; The two "youth army" Lithuania team and Serbian team ranked first in Group A and Group D respectively, while the Chinese team suddenly came out and became another team in the world. 8 points, 38 points in a single game, and 55 points in the 1/8 finals against the Angolan team, these are the places where the "Dream Nine Team" surpasses its predecessors.

The "dream team" led by Shashewski not only played a pleasing game, but also showed the subtlety of team basketball.

The average age is only 23. The 6-year-old Serbian team's semi-finals this time represent the strong rise of basketball in the former Yugoslavia, and also benefit from years of accumulation.

Serbia has an extremely broad basketball base, and it is on this fertile ground that the current team has grown.

In recent years, Serbia has won the European Youth Championship in the U16, U18 and U20 age groups, and the old coach Ivkovic has a good hand to choose from.

Lithuania has always been the epitome of overall European basketball, and it was the team whose average age was less than 26 that sent Athens Olympic champions Argentina home at this World Championships.

The renewal of Lithuanian basketball has always been in a stable framework. This is due to their well-established youth training system, which is a near-standardized "assembly line" for the production of basketball players, even in the grassroots youth team, with experienced and high-level coaches.

Although the Spanish team is not optimistic about this year's World Championships because of the upcoming encounter with the Chinese men's basketball team, their lineup is actually perfect, the old superstar Gasol and the new genius Gasol Jr. complement each other, and the outside line is the partner between Calderón and the golden boy Rubio, both of which are experienced and driven.

In this way, with the addition of the Chinese men's basketball team, the world's top four hegemons in the next ten years will basically be released, and the Greek team and the Argentine team, which were once pinned on infinite hopes, have begun to decline.

After the U.S. team qualified, the Chinese team played, and the Spanish were indeed high-spirited, and it seemed that they were not afraid to face the opponent who had eliminated them at the Olympics.

"I like such opponents," Chamberlain smiled happily, "Abuse rookies is the most boring, this is the World Series after all, we need that kind of opponent with a little strength, otherwise if we win the championship, some people will gossip, then it will be boring." ”

The players on the Spanish team are more confident, but the two people off the field are not very confident.

These two men were Gasol the Great and Calderón, who had come to watch the game.

Pau Gasol is going to recuperate this summer, which is the request of the Lakers, Kobe Bryant has fallen under the Warriors' iron horse for two consecutive seasons, and he is about to go crazy, and he will sprint at full strength next season, so he asks his teammates to keep their best shape.

Poor Gasol is bent on playing for his country, and this incident clashed with the Lakers' uniform team, who firmly told him: either he will take a break in the summer, or he will leave for another team.

Big Gasol can only swallow his anger, his temperament is a little soft, if it was Chamberlain, he would have patted his ass and begged for a deal: Please, it's hard to find a strong interior line now, but the team that needs a strong interior line doesn't have it? Pau Gasol is definitely a strong insider.

The two did not appear at the same time, with Pau da Gasol being one of the commentators for the Spanish team, so he was present as a guest, while Calderón entered the mixed interview area, wearing a black T-shirt and looking not very in good spirits.

The players of the Spanish national men's basketball team seem to be very interested in allegiance to the country, and Pau Gasol almost had an awkward fall out with the Lakers because of the fact that he took the country to the team, although Calderon was not bound by the team, but he finally had no choice but to withdraw from the national team because of a torn muscle in his left hamstring during the warm-up game of the World Championships.

Calderón's appearance attracted the attention of many reporters, and someone said to him: "Jose, now your situation is a little difficult, your opponent is the Chinese men's basketball team, they may not even be able to enter the top four, what do you think?" ”

Calderón said calmly: "The situation is indeed a bit difficult now, but it is not because our opponent is the Chinese team, but because our team lacks some experience. But it's not easy to get to this point, it's not easy to be successful, we still have to work hard for the next games, and I'm sure my team-mates can do better than they did when they had me. ”

The absence of Pau Gasol and Calderón has cost Spain a lot of strength, and journalists are also concerned about the issue.

In this regard, Calderón said lightly: "Whether we lose or win, we are still the Spanish team, whether we lose Paul or lose me, Spain must still go strong, lose us naturally there will be people on top, they should not think about who they lost, but should think about how to fight." ”

Before the start of the game, it was a special session for the cheerleading beauties, the stars who could not play were interviewed, and the players who were to play were around the head coach for the final tactical deployment.

Beauty with basketball, this was originally a unique scenery in the NBA arena, but in this World Championships in Turkey, cheerleading beauties from all over the world have also become the most eye-catching footnote in the event.

Whether it's whimsical costumes or amazing dances, the cheerleading beauties have been sought after by fans all the way and have become the most discussed topic for fans outside of the game.

Beauty makes basketball more exciting, although in the NBA, professional cheerleaders have become an indispensable part of every team, but in international basketball events, professional cheerleaders are not common.

In the 2006 World Championships in Japan, FIBA invited two European professional cheerleaders into the World Championships for the first time, which also made the fans' eyes shine.

At the World Championships in Turkey, the organizing committee learned from the successful experience of the World Championships in Japan, and decided to completely abandon FIBA's previous "tradition" of inviting local performance groups and letting cheerleaders perform only at key times, and instead recruited a number of professional cheerleaders around the world, and let cheerleaders dance enthusiastically in every arena.

As a result, in the World Championships, fans can finally enjoy the fierce competition at the same time, watch the wonderful professional cheerleading performances, "beauty slam dunk", "drag dance", "national dance" and other jaw-dropping performances are no longer "supporting roles" outside the basketball game, but have truly become part of the basketball feast of the World Championships.

This time, the Chinese team played against the Spanish team, and the "Red Fox Cheerleaders" from Kiev, Ukraine, came to play, and this cheerleading team is also well-known in the international arena, and it is one of the only two cheerleading teams to appear at the World Championships in Japan four years ago.

At the World Championships that year, the stunning appearance of the Red Fox beauties won many praises, so whether it was the next Beijing Olympics or the European Championships, fans could always see the dazzling figure of the Red Fox cheerleaders, and they almost became the representatives of the cheerleaders active in the International Basketball League.

It can also be seen from this that the World Championships really attach great importance to this competition.

Chamberlain was busy, twisting his head to watch the cheerleader's performance, not that he was lustful, but the red fox's performance was very distinctive, ten red fox beauties stepped on embroidered cloth shoes, dressed in a uniform pink red cheongsam, in a song full of antique music, the cheerleading girls amazed the audience with a self-created "Chinese style" static dance.

After the cheerleaders took down the court, the game was about to officially begin, and the messy arena was suddenly much quieter, and the fans watched nervously as the game was about to begin.

The lineup sent by the Chinese team is still Chamberlain + Yi Jianlian + Zhu Fangyu + Sun Yue + Liu Wei, and the lineup of the Spanish team is much more gorgeous: center Marc Gasol, the Grizzlies' new star on the inside, one of Chamberlain's new opponents in the NBA; Power forward Gabajosa, the interior pillar of the Raptors, combines the good tactical literacy and basic skills of European players with the tough style of American players, unpretentious on the offensive end and tough on the defensive end.

The small forward is Fernandez, the Spaniard's little flyer, whose bounce and speed are amazing, he played mediocre with the Trail Blazers, but he can also be a starter, in fact, this guy has the potential to become a superstar.

The two guards are Rubio and Navarro, and there is no need to explain these two, and the golden outside combination of European basketball is also the biggest variable in this game.

There is no suspense about Chamberlain's jump ball with Gasol Jr., although the latter's body is also outstanding, but compared with Chamberlain, the gap is simply unwatchable, and even his brother Gasol Jr. admitted when commenting: "Compared with Z, Mark is like a little white bear, he has some advantages, but he seems a lot clumsy." ”

Chamberlain slapped the ball to Liu Wei, the Chinese team attacked, Liu Wei waved his hand to signal his teammates to disperse, Rubio followed along, and suddenly stepped forward to force when Liu Wei was close to the three-point line, Chamberlain hurriedly responded, but saw that the ball was stabbed off, so he no longer had luck, and rushed forward quickly to return to defense.

Rubio picked up the ball nimbly after a steal, and then stepped quickly, rushing forward like a whirlwind, worthy of his nickname European Fox.

Rubio's dribbling is full of spirituality, the ball is very well-behaved in his hands, and his speed is also very fast, forcing all the way to the basket, picking up the ball and getting up to the basket with three steps to make a shot.

The mouths of the two of Pau and Calderon suddenly opened: Is this kid looking for death?!

Rubio glanced back before taking three steps, he saw that Chamberlain was more than ten feet away from him, so he was relieved to shoot, but at the moment he shot, Chamberlain seemed to step on a spring, and he flew up all of a sudden, and the example of more than ten feet was fleeting!

The big hand waved, like swatting a fly, and Chamberlain slapped the ball away!

After landing, he yelled at Rubio, who was full of shock: "Rookie, come to the NBA early!" I can't wait to teach you a lesson! ”