Chapter Thirty-Six: None of Them Can Fight
"Now you know why I'm an MVP and you're just a little person!"
Zhang Yu was unforgiving, and continued to stimulate Jackson fiercely.
Jackson was annoyed after his mistake, his lungs exploded when he heard the words, and he looked at Zhang Yudi's eyes "whooshing" straight out of a small flame, and unconsciously, his mentality was out of balance
Zhang Yu's next offense, when he broke through Jackson, he easily shook him off with a feint, broke into the interior and easily hit a mid-range jumper when no one was guarded.
Under the constant verbal stimulation of Zhang Yu, Jackson became more and more unable to maintain his sanity, and his expression became worse and worse, gradually forming a vicious circle. Not only on the defensive end, it makes it easier and easier for Zhang Yu to score points. On the offensive end, the impatient mentality also made him make frequent mistakes under Zhang Yu's defense.
As a defender, once you lose your mind and fall into a state of going it alone, it is a disaster for the whole team.
The Italian coach had already called a timeout, but as soon as Jackson, who had just calmed down, returned to the court and faced Zhang Yu's endless trash talk again, it didn't take long for him to lose his composure again. Zhang Yu's taunting skills have now gone further, and the trash talk has been said by him, when has Jackson seen this kind of battle, and the words he used to fight back were just a few words over and over again, far from being Zhang Yu's opponent.
With 2:40 left in the first quarter, Jackson was impatient and had to take a break from the game.
At this time, the Chinese team was already 14-4, leading the opponent by 10 points, and Italy was forced to call a timeout again.
Zhang Yu beat Jackson down, he was in a good mood, it was rare for someone to take the call, but the trash talk was a little worse, and it was not fun
Zhang Yu smacked his mouth, feeling that it was not enough, and was ready to switch to the small forward position to see if he could drive Garinani crazy.
Li Chunjiang didn't intend to let him do this, and when he saw Jackson being replaced, he also replaced Zhang Yu.
So far in this game, due to Jackson's aberration, Garinani has not picked up the ball much, and has not been able to show any performance, only scoring two points. And Zhang Yu has already scored 8 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist at this time, not only is his appearance excellent, but his numbers are also very good-looking.
In the last two minutes of the first quarter, Reggie Jackson's departure made Gallinari more possessive. Don't look at his height of 208cm, his body is not clumsy at all, and his strength is not inferior to Xu Yong. When he began to increase the number of shots, Xu Yong immediately fell into passivity. By the end of the first quarter, Italy relied on Gallinari's last two minutes to recover some points for Italy. The score was 16-10, and the Chinese team led the opponent by 6 points in the first quarter.
After watching Gallinari's table in the last two minutes, Zhang Yu has already seen the general ability of this Italian, his ability to break through with the ball is average, and his scoring is basically based on shooting. The body is good, although the speed is not slow, but after all, the height of 208cm is there, and it is not fast, Zhang Yu already has a way to deal with him in his heart.
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Zhang Yu was still sitting on the sidelines to rest. Now that the Chinese team is still ahead, Li Chunjiang is not in a hurry to put Zhang Yu on too early.
Zhang Yu came to Li Chunjiang's side and said faintly: "Brother Chun, hurry up and send me up, I have a way to restrain that stupid big man." β
Li Chunjiang slapped the tactics board on his head and said angrily: "What Brother Chun, do you talk to the coach like this?" β
Zhang Yu touched his head and said with a sneer: "Aren't I in a hurry, Xu Yong just can't use his brains, to deal with this kind of big man pitcher, as long as he sticks to him and doesn't let him get the ball, he can limit his shooting." If you can't stick it, try to interfere with it, as long as it makes the other party feel uncomfortable, the worst can also affect his feel. β
After listening to Zhang Yu's words, Li Chunjiang said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will replace you in two minutes, you have a good rest first." β
In the 7th minute and 30 seconds of the game, Li Chunjiang took advantage of the dead ball and replaced Xu Yong with Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu changed to play the No. 3 position. At this time, the score has been changed to 20-18, and the Chinese team's lead is only two points in the blink of an eye.
After this timeout, the Italian team also replaced Jackson again.
Coach Sun, who was in charge of commenting the game, introduced at this time: "After the timeout, the players returned to the field, the Chinese team was replaced by Zhang Yu after this timeout, and the Italian team was also replaced by Jackson. Jackson, a player who played well against Spain, scored 30 points on consecutive shots. But facing Zhang Yu today, he didn't have the state of the last game at all, and the number of turnovers in the first quarter was as high as 3, 1 more than the sum of the whole team......"
Zhang Reasonable agreed: "That's right! β
The fans in front of the TV are all black lines, will these two count?
Zhang Yu's height at this time was 197cm, which was 1cm taller than the number jΓΉ measured a month and a half ago, but still nearly 11cm shorter than Gallinari, and he looked half a head shorter.
The Chinese team attacked, and Zhang Yu used his speed to force Gallinari when he came up.
In the face of Zhang Yu's speed that is not inferior to the point guard, Gallinari's height of 208cm has become a burden at this time, and Zhang Yu easily broke through to the penalty area, attracting the opponent's interior defense, and assisted Su Wei with a ground pass to easily score two points.
"Crossing you is like crossing the road in the morning!"
When Zhang Yu returned to the defense, he whispered to Gallinari and continued to provoke his opponent with his trash talk, but the target was changed.
Gallinari had already learned from Jackson that Zhang Yu liked to spew trash talk, and he was on guard and was not provoked.
It was Italy's turn to attack, Gallinari was beaten by Zhang Yu, and the offense and defense were switched, and he also wanted to beat Zhang Yu to save face. Gallinari has an average offense with the ball, so he chooses to use his teammates' blocking and pick-and-roll, running without the ball on the baseline, wanting to get rid of Zhang Yu and get a chance to shoot. However, Zhang Yu is far more flexible and faster than Xu Yong. Gallinari slipped back and forth on the bottom line twice, but still didn't shake off Zhang Yu. Zhang Yu is like a dog skin plaster, sticking to Gallinari fiercely, making it difficult for him to catch the ball.
ran back and forth twice, and Zhang Yu was not easy. But Gallinari's taller and heavier body certainly consumes more body than he does.
Zhang Yu was also ruthless in his heart: "Lao Tzu is in love with you, see if you run to death first or I run to death first!" β
Jackson saw that there was not much time left to attack, and Gallinari still did not run out of the passing space, so he had to choose to come by himself. Yang Qin obeyed the coach's instructions, prevented the sudden shot, and Jackson's long-range shot missed, and the Italian attack ended in failure.
Throughout the second quarter, Gallinari finally realized what a maggot of the tarsal bone was, and Zhang Yu was like a ghost, always following him. In the second quarter, since Zhang Yu came on the court, Gallinari didn't even touch the ball a few times, let alone get a chance to shoot. Zhang Yu used his long arms several times to intercept the basketball passed to Gallinari halfway, and got two steals in the first quarter.
Forget it, what made Gallinari vomit blood even more was Zhang Yu's trash talk, he finally knew why Jackson was so abnormal in the first quarter, the opponent's mouth cannon is really not something ordinary people can bear. He also tried to counterattack, but Zhang Yu obviously practiced, he was not an opponent at all, and he was defeated in a few words. At this moment, how he regretted that he didn't find someone to learn trash talk, so that he had no power to fight back against Zhang Yu today.
Of course, Zhang Yu focused more on defense, which made his scoring drop to a certain extent, and he only scored 5 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist in the second quarter. But Gallinari, who was opposite him, was even worse, only scored 2 points since Zhang Yu came on the court, and these 2 points were obtained when the Chinese team was misplaced in defense, and he actually didn't score a point in the face of Zhang Yu.
Both teams played dull games in the second quarter, and their own points dropped as they both focused more on limiting the opponent's scoring.
At halftime, the Chinese team was 33-28, leading Italy by 5 points into the second half.