"High hopes are only hopeful, but what comes is not despair" - Akara Sports Newspaper

"Gasol Calderón Appears in Turkey, Hoping that Spain Will Go Bravely" - Turkish Star

"The inner turret has become a super blacksmith, how can you take over my brother's class with such a feeling?" - "The Philadelphia Sentinel": "In the face of Chamberlain, the much-relied Gasol Jr. showed his immaturity and immaturity, although he did a good job of limiting Chamberlain in the NBA before, but we have to see that the Grizzlies have enough excellent interior line, and Gasol Jr. had a helper at that time.

Today, Gasol Jr. finally lost his helper, he had to take charge of Chamberlain alone, and then, he saw the horror of the NBA's king. In the whole game, he only got 6 shots, but only hit 2 shots, and finished with 5 points and 6 rebounds.

The cold hand is not the biggest problem, but more of a problem is his timing, when Oxlade-Chamberlain chooses to break through, he really shouldn't be able to defend strongly, and as a result, we don't need to say, he became the biggest laughing stock at the World Championships.

This game should make him realize that he is still far behind Pau Gasol. ”

"Nash's 19 points hit a new personal high, and his inefficiency was sluggish, and he became a cancer" -- "Minnesota Weekly": "So far in this World Championship, Rubio, the golden boy who is regarded as the leader of a new generation of European basketball on the outside, has averaged 11 per game. 4 points, 3. 6 rebounds and 6. With 8 assists, he is already a top defender in terms of just a few points, but after watching the game, you can find that his influence on the game is far from reaching the point of a super defender.

Especially judging from yesterday's game with the Chinese men's basketball team, although Rubio is good, he still has a lot to improve, especially to deliberately strengthen his offensive enthusiasm, of course, he had better improve his shooting percentage.

In the whole game, he made a personal high 15 shots in this World Championship, scored only 14 points, his efficiency on 5-of-15 shooting was really difficult to call qualified, he also had 3 turnovers and 4 fouls in the whole game, he continued to hesitate and hesitate when the team needed him, and when the time was not right, he began to shoot frequently......"

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For the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Spanish team, the post-game report is naturally one-sided, for the Chinese men's basketball team, it is naturally flattering, and for the Spanish team, the media have raised the dog stick to beat the water dogs, and even the Spanish domestic media can't stand it and criticize the Spanish men's basketball team's attitude towards the game.

The fans were very dissatisfied, the Spanish men's basketball team lost the fighting spirit to fight to the end at the beginning, which cannot be blamed on the fans, they were not on the scene, but watched it on TV.

The small screen of the TV can weaken many things, such as the shock of a real game.

The moment Chamberlain shook down Gasol Jr. and leaped over him, the fans were shocked, they thought death had come! The fans in front of the TV just saw a wonderful action, and they couldn't feel the despair that the fans at the scene experienced!

In this way, let alone the players who faced Oxlade-Chamberlain, the Spanish team did not collapse at that time, and it was already considered well-trained.

Spain's famous show "Sleepless in Spain" did an urgent survey to ask fans to rate the players.

In the survey, it was found that Marc Gasol was one of the most disappointing starters, with an average score of only 4 out of 10 in the "satisfaction" survey.

Gasol Jr. didn't care about this, but Gasol Jr. was anxious, and he said in an interview with reporters: "I have high expectations for Mark, and so do the Grizzlies, and I believe that he will be the core of the interior and help the team achieve great results, whether it is in the national team or the NBA." ”

Gasol did do a lot for his brother, but along the way, Mark Gasol did not live up to his brother's expectations of him, indeed, Gasol had an amazing performance in the group stage: against Lithuania, he supported the team for two and a half quarters, establishing an 18-point advantage, but he was in foul trouble and was powerless.

Facing Lebanon, Gasol wreaked havoc in front of the weak team, scoring 25 points in the third quarter, which made people see Paul's style.

However, in the next four games, he went lower and lower: against Canada, Scariolo, who had a training mentality, did not let Mark play for long; against Greece, in this life-and-death battle, he beat soy sauce in the second half; Against Serbia, it feels good, but the bulky body can't adapt to the fast-paced attack......

In the end, it is the Chinese men's basketball team, originally Gasol Jr. as one of the most successful players in the NBA's defense of Chamberlain, the Spanish men's basketball team was full of expectations for him, but unfortunately, in this game, Gasol Jr. was brutally defeated by Chamberlain, and it only appeared for less than two minutes in the first half.

After that, even when he played in the fourth quarter, he never found the feeling of the basket. In the first three attacks, the ball was handed to Gasol, but he was cut off by a mistake and missed two layups, wasting three opportunities in vain. It wasn't until three minutes after the start of the game that he found some touch with a turnaround jumper.

But it's one of his "few" touches, and compared to his older brother, the clumsy laughing Gasol always feels like he's half a beat slow on the offensive end.

In the fourth quarter, against Chamberlain, Gasol Jr., although he was bent on shame, fell into a scuffle on the inside, and he tried to make layups twice in a row, but these two times he made a hasty shot before the action was formed, and the consequences can be imagined - one after another.

In fact, apart from using his sturdy body as a barrier on the defensive end, and the occasional two mid-game ball assists, Gasol Jr.'s game can be described as lackluster, his hand has fallen to freezing point across the board, and his confidence is almost ruined.

It's not surprising that Gasol Jr. is well-known in international basketball and the NBA, largely because of his flexible touch and superb shooting skills, from this World Championships, Gasol Jr. showed that his attack range, shooting flexibility, shooting percentage, free throw stability and hand adjustment ability are much inferior to his brother Pau Gasol.

The younger brother, who is regarded as the successor of the great Gasol, if he can't find a way to adjust his state, this mantle may be difficult to pass on to him.

Seeing the media swarming against his younger brother, Gasol was really anxious, and he had to find a topic to explain to his younger brother, so before the start of the 5-8 qualifying battle, he specially accepted an interview and told the reporter that he was ready to wear the national team jersey again and participate in the 2011 European Men's Basketball Championship in Lithuania.

In the interview, Pau Gasol was quite confident, he said: "I think our team is definitely capable of defending the title...... In fact, I felt very uncomfortable not being able to play in close proximity to the team this time, and I would love to be able to join the national team in 2011, but I can't guarantee it yet. ”

When asked to choose between the Olympics and the World Championships, Gasol replied: "To be honest I don't know, I've played a lot of high-level games, I'm very demanding of myself, and I can't tolerate bad games. I'm not thinking about when I'm going to retire now, and hopefully I'll be able to participate in both tournaments. ”

Gasol is now full of resentment against the Lakers' uniforms, and it is the latter's explicit prohibition that has prevented him from getting the opportunity to accompany the team to the World Championships in Turkey, and can only work as a fan and commentator in the stands.

In fact, this is an exception, the reason why Pau Gasol began to accept the Lakers' request was because the Spanish team still had Calderon at that time, who knew that the old man would pull up his leg muscles in the warm-up game? The two are the core of the Spanish men's basketball team, and the two cores are not there, and it is natural for the team to lose.

Big Gasol thought that if he could play, the Spanish team would not lose to Lithuania in the group stage, and even if he met the Chinese men's basketball team in the knockout round, he might not be without a fight.

The failure of the Spanish men's basketball team this time is that Gasol Jr. was destroyed by Chamberlain's confidence and combat effectiveness, and the strength of the guide zhì inside line was greatly reduced.

The results of the semi-finals were released, and in the end, the four group winners entered the semi-finals, and no team became a dark horse to the end. However, Serbia is already a dark horse, and no one could have imagined that this new army could go so far.

In this way, all that remains is the 5-8th place qualifying and more importantly the two semi-finals.

After qualifying in the semi-finals, Spain were completely devastated, and in the end they lost to Argentina, finishing in sixth place.

Spanish fans and the media were angry, when Chamberlain watched the game, some fans at the scene pulled up a banner and asked the Spanish men's basketball team to return home quickly and not be ashamed, which made him feel sorry for the Spanish men's basketball team.

In Argentina's match against Spain, Scola was still everywhere throughout the game, recording a double-double of 22 points and 11 rebounds, while Navarro was a blank spectator for 27 minutes, allowing Rudy Fernandez to support the team on the court and allocate his playing time to the younger Luer.

In fact, whether it is Luis Scola, who is still unrelenting, or Navarro, who is about to hand over, the moment the bell rings at the end of this battle for five or six places, their eyes are filled with loneliness - this is the end of the journey of this World Championships, and how far is it from the end of the reign of the Latin duo?

In the 2004 Athens Olympics, the Dream Team lost the Olympic gold medal for the first time, and in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Dream Eight Team achieved redemption, and since 1994, the United States has let the championship fall away year after year, in the first decade of the new century, the weakness of the Dream Team and the complete disintegration of the former Yugoslavia have left a blank period in the world basketball world.

The new king is coming, Spain and Argentina, two forces from Europe and South America respectively, just like the passionate Latin dance, sweeping the basketball world and infecting every audience.

The Spanish and Argentine men's basketball teams have been moving forward step by step, with the same combination of internal and external combinations, and the same teamwork and individual art interpretation to the extreme.

At the beginning of the century, Spain's golden generation led by Gasol, Navarro and Gabajosa began to gain a foothold on the international stage, and then Calderón, Fernandez and other rising stars perfected this lineup, and Spain's red is sweeping the basketball world with a momentum of fire; Argentina is led by the starting five tigers of Oberto, Scola, Nocioni, Sanchez, and Ginobili, and their offense and defense are like a tide, pouring into the world's attention.

With a tide of blue, mercury and a close-knit team defence, they became the first team in history to win a silver medal at the 2002 World Championships, and two years later, on the Aegean Sea, they gave the Dream Six another defeat in the semi-finals, and they made the Italians bow in the final to reach the top of the world in Athens in 2004.

In the 2008 Olympic Games, they met the strongest Dream Eight team after Dream One, and played the highest level of confrontation, although the defeat was still glorious, in the summer of 2009, they tasted their long-cherished wish in Poland and won the first European Championship in history.

In an interview after the match, Scola said: "We thought we would play Spain in the final, but we met in a narrow battle for fifth place. ”

This game, which has become a chicken rib in the eyes of fans, actually has some meaning, and it is the last struggle of the two golden generations of Spain and Argentina.

Even though the Spaniards and Argentines can cite a lot of "what ifs" to explain and refute that they "would not have been so down", the first core of both sides, Ginobili and Gasol, have bid farewell to the World Championships because of the desire to relax their tired bodies after years of fighting; Before the game, the two teams were blocked by injuries, Nocioni temporarily announced his withdrawal from the World Championships before the game, and Calderón also missed the World Championships due to injury.

But the eternal fact is: feng shui takes turns, emperors take turns, and now the world basketball world is no longer the world basketball world they remember.

The future world basketball world belongs to four teams, that is, the four giants who are about to start the war!