Chapter 4: Trash talk

Maybe it was because Zhang Yu was shot away, or maybe it was encouraged by the fathers and elders in his hometown, after Mla came on the field, he played extremely hard, his thin body seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and he threw suddenly, leading Serbia to play a wave of 8-2 small high tide.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Chunjiang hurriedly called a timeout, and the score was 26-31, and just over a minute later, the Chinese team was overtaken by five points.

Li Chunjiang was angry, his temper was already bad, and he scolded several players who had just come on the bench.

The second quarter only started for more than a minute, and Zhang Yu and Xu Yong could not be allowed to play again at this time, otherwise they would have to be tired to death. Li Chunjiang can only redeploy defensive tactics again, and after the pause, he will focus on defense, hoping that after three minutes, Zhang Yu and Xu Yong will be able to play.

Li Chunjiang is also a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, and in this World Youth Championships, several outstanding players of the right age did not come to the national team for training. The country does not attach much importance to this World Youth Championships, and the leaders put all their energy on the Olympic Games in a year.

Not only basketball, but also the national sports are like this at this time, waiting for the Beijing Olympics to add a stroke to their political achievements. In the past, China was eager to send all the good players to the age, but this year was an exception.

The more Li Chunjiang thought about it, the more depressed he became, it was rare to meet a genius like Zhang Yu, this time was the most likely to produce results, but he was affected by the Olympics and couldn't go all out......

At the end of the timeout, Serbia was unforgiving, and the two defenders continued to attack the inside of the Chinese team, frequently looking for physical contact.

The Chinese team's interior defense is actually not bad, the height of the two interior lines is enough, one is fast and one is strong. It's a pity that this is someone's home field, someone else's territory.

As the host, most of the physical contact between the two teams, the referee awarded the Chinese team a foul, and Su Wei soon had to go down to rest for two fouls. Fortunately, during this time, Li Xiaoxu broke out, shooting a mid-range shot and a three-pointer to help the Chinese team score some points, and was not pulled away.

At 5 minutes and 50 seconds in the second quarter, Zhang Yu and Xu Yong returned to the court, and the score was 32:42, and the Chinese team was already 10 points behind.

Zhang Yu came on the court to replace Yang Qin, still playing point guard, Li Chunjiang also has no way, there is no one available on the Chinese point guard line, and the only last resort is to let Zhang Yu, who is in the second position, play the organization guard first. When defending, Zhang Yu returned to the No. 2 position to continue to defend Mla Deng, the kid suddenly broke out in the second quarter, scoring 9 points in less than half a quarter, and the Chinese team first had to control his scoring momentum.

After dribbling over the half, Stefan was afraid of Zhang Yu's passing and did not dare to press. In the past, the half-time bag and the scramble were a good way for countries to deal with Chinese point guards.

But against Zhang Yu, Serbia did not dare to use this trick. Zhang Yu's ability to hold the ball is very strong, and he is not inferior to those excellent point guards. He broke through extremely quickly, rushed to grab, and was accidentally swept away. Just like now, Stefan was obviously very careful, but he was still rushed in by Zhang Yu in a quick disguise.

Milan Mawan is the player with the best defensive awareness in the Serbian team, and the Serbian coach learned before the game that the second and third positions of the Chinese team are the main attack points, and the key defense is how to break through the second and third positions of the Chinese team.

Milan Macwan immediately moved sideways to block Zhang Yu's breakthrough path, and raised his hands high.

Zhang Yu didn't force his shot, and threw the ball lightly without warning, and Makwan only felt a black shadow on his side quickly approaching

'Bang! Xu Yong hung his hands on the basket, and there was a big man lying to the ground behind him, which was Bambo from the Serbian team.

Boban relied on his height to try to seal Xu Yong's slam dunk, but the end was very tragic.

Xu Yong is 201 centimeters tall and weighs 210 pounds at the moment, although his height is much worse than Boban's, he is physically strong. In the case of already jumping and rushing, the weak Boban's temporary defense was only knocked off, and this slam dunk got a two-plus-one opportunity for the Chinese team.

The Chinese fans waved the national flag in their hands, but for a time the momentum of 3,000 people overshadowed the host.

The Serbian coach looked deeply at Zhang Yu, who was wearing the No. 14 jersey, although the Chinese team completed the slam dunk this time was Xu Yong, but the main credit was the No. 14 of the Chinese team.

In the CCTV live broadcast room, Zhang Weiping highly praised Zhang Yu's passing, especially the breakthrough at the beginning, there is only one word - that is, fast!

The first step is to leave the opponent behind, and what is more valuable is his calm judgment, in the face of the inside defense, he does not rely on his speed to blindly do it

The two sides fought again, and Mla Deng saw that the defender had become the difficult No. 14 again, and suddenly the chrysanthemum tightened......

"Boy, no matter how much you jump, you can't reach the basket!"

Coldly, Mla Deng seemed to hear Zhang Yu say to him in English that he was not very fluent in. He was a little stunned, what does this mean? Trash talk? You must know that players of their age, very few people can talk trash talk, one is the language barrier, and the other is that they have not learned.

To be honest, Zhang Yu's trash talk doesn't hurt or itch, as long as it's not the kind of idiot who has muscles in his head, he can't affect the other party at all.

When Mla Deng received a pass from his teammates, Zhang Yu immediately leaned in, took the initiative to make physical contact with Mla Deng, and bullied Mla Deng's body for not being as good as him.

It's not easy, usually it's the players who are older than him who bully him because he doesn't have enough strength, but now he can bully others, and there are not many opportunities.

"Soft egg, your people are looking at you, come and break through me!"

Zhang Yu kept spitting trash talk while holding up Mla Deng, and then ......

Then Mla Deng made a TMD pass, Serbia inside Bambo received the pass, the inside single, and the ball went in.

"Damn, this kid is too unplanted!" Zhang Yu thought fiercely in his heart, he finally caught a good bully, but the other party didn't fight with him.

After Su Wei went down, the strength of the Chinese team's interior defense dropped a lot, Li Xiaoxu's offensive ability was stronger, but his defensive ability was not as good as Su Wei's, and his confrontation was insufficient. Zhang Yu can't help it, he can't go to the inside line, and he is only 180 pounds, which is a little stronger than the opposite.

When Mla Deng saw Zhang Yu's gaze, Chrysanthemum tightened again, and quickly turned her head.

On the offensive end, Zhang Yu relied on the blocking and demolition to break into the interior to create damage, but he was caught in the paint area by a double bag. Seeing that there was no chance to shoot, Zhang Yu jumped up to fake the real pass, luring the opponent's two defenders to get up and block him, and his good ability to stay in the air allowed him to observe the passing route in the air, Li Xiaoxu received Zhang Yu's pass on the inside, Boban made up for it, Li Xiaoxu passed to the bottom corner again, and Xu Yong received the ball in the bottom corner.

I have to say that Serbia's rotation speed is much stronger than that of the Chinese team, and Mla Deng is misplaced in time to make up for Xu Yong.

Zhang Bo was unguarded outside the three-point line, Xu Yong passed the ball out again, and Zhang Bo hit a three-point shot.

Although Serbia's defense was good, it still paid the price for Zhang Yu.

The Chinese team defended, Zhang Yu relied on excellent defensive awareness, his slender arm interfered with Makwan's shot, the basketball was deflected, the Chinese team grabbed the backcourt rebound, and Xu Yong scored quickly.

With a score of 39-44, relying on Zhang Yu's excellent performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the Chinese team gradually narrowed the point difference.

In the second half of the second quarter, Serbia used a bag clip against Zhang Yu, but it didn't have much effect, although Zhang Yu only scored 2 points, but Zhang Yu got 3 assists through the pass, activated his teammates, and played well on the defensive end, repeatedly making up for the defense to interfere with the opponent's shot, causing the opponent to not score.

Because Serbia's defensive focus was on Zhang Yu, Xu Yong stood out in this section and scored 10 points in the second quarter.

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the half, Zhang Yu had already scored 11 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks and 1 turnover. Xu Yong had 18 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, the highest score in the half. With the excellent performance of the two, the Chinese team only trailed by 2 points at 49-51 and entered the second half.

Commenting at halftime, Zhang Weiping praised Zhang Yu as the brain commander of this Chinese team, Serbia made defensive arrangements for Zhang Yu, but obviously still couldn't stop Zhang Yu's excellent performance, he is the well-deserved core of this team. In the first half, Zhang Yu has not yet shown his offensive ability, and it is expected that Zhang Yu will also release his firepower on the offensive end in the second half to create more trouble for Serbia.

Xu Yong is excellent on the offensive end, but he is more of an impact on the inside, and he rarely shoots from mid to long range. His shooting has always been a shortcoming, which makes it easy to be limited by opposing defenses. He scored 18 points in the first half and Sevilla will surely find a way to limit his play in the second half.