After yesterday's match with the United States team, Zhang Yu officially entered the attention of the majority of Chinese fans. His excellent performance, especially the feat of breaking the U19's highest score in a single game, has also put him on the radar of major NBA teams, and some teams have added his name to the top of the watch list.

In China, a large number of fans have called online for Zhang Yu to be selected for the national team. Industry insiders and men's basketball celebrities also support Zhang Yu to enter the 12-man national team squad.

17-year-old Zhang Yu, after these two games, has shown strength that does not match his age, at this time he has the strength to enter the national team, and as time grows, his strength will become stronger and stronger.

The reporter quickly found Younas, who was leading the players to train, and when asked whether he would bring the teenager Zhang Yu to the Olympic Games, Younas unexpectedly said that after hearing that Zhang Yu scored 50 points, he deliberately watched the video of the game that day, and was very optimistic about Zhang Yu's strength, and would recruit Zhang Yu into the training list after the World Youth Championships to focus on observation.

The optimism of the experts and the statement of the head coach have undoubtedly made Zhang Yu's popularity in China rise a lot, and his name has appeared in a conspicuous position on major portals.

However, this did not affect Zhang Yu and his team in Serbia.

The team found confidence after the defeat against the United States. Most of the players thought that against the strong American team, they only lost by 10 points, and qualifying was not a problem at all. Especially they also have a ** guy in their own team, who has the ability to decide the victory of a game alone. You know, not everyone can score 50 points against the American team, it's incredible!

The whole team became more positive and confident because of Zhang Yu's magical expression, and Zhang Yu was also admired by all the players. Even the unruly Xu Yong was impressed by Zhang Yu's strength after the game, and the dissatisfaction with Zhang Yu due to the snatching of the core position also disappeared.

On July 16, 2007, at 19:30 local time in Serbia and 1:30 Beijing time, the Chinese team ushered in the last opponent of this group, the Mali team.

The Chinese team lost the first two games against Serbia and the United States. Their opponents in this match, Mali, are a pair of difficult brothers with China, and neither team has won a single game. No matter who wins the game between the two teams, they will qualify, otherwise they will be eliminated.

In terms of strength, the Chinese team is undoubtedly stronger than the Mali team. In the first two games, although the Chinese team lost to their opponents, they fought with their opponents until the last moment. The Mali team lost both games, and the Chinese team can win the game as long as they play normally. What's more, the Chinese team has the best No. 2 position in this World Youth Championship, and it is difficult for the Malian team to stop this talented man who has just set a new single-game score in the World Youth Championships.

The CCAV still broadcast the Chinese team's game today, and continued to be explained by Sun Zhengping and Zhang Hexi.

The game is about to start, and Sun Zhengping began to introduce the starting points of the Chinese team in this game:

"Hello everyone, today we will continue to broadcast the group stage match of the 2007 World Youth Championship in Serbia, which will be played by the Chinese team in Group A against the West African country of Mali. The Chinese team's starters in this game made adjustments, Zhang Yu was promoted to the No. 1 position as point guard, the scoring guard was played by the substitute Gu Oak in the previous game, Xu Yong was still the small forward, Li Xiaoxu and Su Wei were the center forwards. What does Coach Zhang think about Coach Li Chunjiang's change of formation? ”

Zhang Li paused and said: "Gu Oak is a potential newcomer on the front line of the Shanghai team, and his body is very good, with a 90-centimeter running and bounce. The body is very good, the shooting is accurate, and the breakthrough is fast, but the lack of experience, Coach Li Chunjiang should have taken a fancy to the player's athletic talent. Gu Oak's breakthrough is very threatening, you must know that Zhang Yu not only has a super scoring ability, but also has a very good ability to break through the ball. Due to Zhang Yu's amazing performance in the last two games, the Mali team will definitely send heavy troops to defend Zhang Yu today. Gu Oak's breakthrough ability and speed will pose a great threat to the Malian team, which can help Zhang Yu share the defensive pressure, so that Zhang Yu has one more point to share the ball. ”

The game officially began, the black players of the Barry team had good athleticism, but the technique was very rough, and after the first quarter, the Chinese team was 22-11, leading by 11 points.

In addition to a wonderful breakthrough in the opening game, Zhang Yu took the lead to score two points, and then only made a mid-range shot, scoring only four points. The rest of the time is spent passing the ball for his teammates, and his own score is not high.

In the first quarter, Zhang Yu scored four points, handed out three assists, and grabbed three rebounds. The best player on the Chinese team today was Xu Yong, who scored 10 points at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter of the game, the Chinese team's substitute debut still controlled the situation, the Mali team's shooting rate has not been high, and the Chinese team contracted the formation to strictly guard the restricted area, making the opponent unable to break through to the basket to score. By the time Zhang Yu came on the court with 4 minutes and 10 seconds left, the Chinese team had a 20-point lead at 40-20.

Although Zhang Yu thought that it would not be a problem for the Chinese team to win the Mali team before the game, he did not expect the Mali team to be so indifferent.

Originally, he still thought that he had dominated too much of the ball in the first two games, scoring 81 points in the two games, an average of 40.5 points per game. When you meet a weak team today, you can brush up on more assists to give your teammates a drink. Unexpectedly, the Mali team knelt too fast, and it was only the second quarter, and the team was already leading by 20 points. If he continues to play like this, the coach will definitely not let him play again in the second half.

Xu Yong is really in good shape today, maybe it was because he was held back in the first two games, just watching Zhang Yu's performance, nothing happened to him. I grabbed the opportunity today, played very hard, and the game has cut 15 points and 5 rebounds so far.

Zhang Yu returned to the game, which would make him care about any more bullshit assists, taking advantage of the Mali team's players' morale plummeting and low morale, and seizing the time to grab points.

Zhang Yu's frenzy made him crazy to score 10 points in only four minutes before halftime, and almost made the African boys cry.

As Zhang Yu thought, after the end of the half, Li Chunjiang only let him play for a few minutes in the second half, and in the face of the Mali team, which was already 30 points behind, he was quickly replaced, and the game entered garbage time.

Zhang Yu took advantage of this time to brush his score to 19 points, scored a full 100 points in three games, and averaged 33.3 points per game to rank first on the scoring list.

Beasley, who is in second place, is averaging only 24 points per game, and Zhang Yu is averaging nearly 10 points per game above him.

Zhang Yu was replaced by Li Chunjiang's reserved body, but Xu Yong continued to stay on the court.

Li Chunjiang deliberately asked him to find a feeling in the Mali team, and the final score was fixed at 78-55, and the Chinese team defeated the Mali team by 23 points and advanced to the second leg of the group stage.

In this game, Zhang Yu played less than 20 minutes and got 19 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Xu Yong scored a game-high 29 points and 8 rebounds. Su Wei had 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Gu Oak and Li Xiaoxu scored 12 and 10 points respectively.

After the victory over Mali, the Chinese team entered the next round of the group stage.

On the second day, after all the group matches were completed, the second leg of the group stage was released.

The Chinese team is in a group with Brazil, Nigeria, Spain, France, and South Korea.

France, Spain and China in the group were all seen as the favorites by the media.

The first match of the next group stage will be played in three days against Spain, who have Europe's golden boy.