Chapter 1169: A European Powerhouse
At Wukesong Stadium, the two teams started at 2 p.m. and fought fiercely for two hours, after which the U.S. team defeated the Russian team by a narrow margin of 87-83.
After this game, the fans were admiring the performance of the superstars of the American team, and at the same time, they felt that Dream 12 was indeed not as majestic as its predecessors.
If the United States is the No. 1 eye-catching team in the men's basketball team in the World Championships, then the Chinese team is the team that the Chinese people pay attention to in the World Championships.
On the second day of the game, the Chinese team finally made its official debut, and the first opponent the Chinese team faced was also the strong Lithuanian team.
To say that in the international arena, the Chinese team is an old sufferer of Lithuania, and the country has not lost to the Lithuanian team in either the World Championships or the World Championships before.
Although China is a well-deserved hegemon in Asia, it has not been abused by Lithuania, although the Lithuanian team has never won the World Championship or the World Championship.
After 1990, Lithuania participated in the World Championships four times, won the top four four times and the third place three times, and won the second place and the third place in the World Championships.
Such a Lithuanian team can be called an old strong team, and its status in the international men's basketball team is simply not comparable to that of the Chinese team, and the good results of the Chinese team are only the top eight.
Because of the obvious gap in the previous record, before the game, the media and the Chinese men's basketball team were not so confident in the country's first game, believing that the first game of the Chinese team would inevitably encounter a difficult game.
In the media, and when the top and bottom of the men's basketball team were more pessimistic, Li Feng told reporters in an interview:
"I think we're a stronger team than Lithuania, which is down now, but we're up."
Li Feng's remarks were disseminated by many domestic media. Some people think that Li Feng is arrogant, but some people think that the Chinese team needs Li Feng's arrogant spirit.
However, after Li Feng's words were heard by the Lithuanian team, the current Lithuanian main star Kreza immediately ridiculed him:
"We've proven ourselves with our grades, but you don't have any grades to prove yourselves."
Kreza sarcastically said that the Chinese team had not yet achieved decent results, and Li Feng, who has always been a good retribution, heard Kreza's words, but surprisingly did not fight back.
At 7 p.m. the next day, the Chinese team and Lithuania finally started the first match of the World Championships at Wukesong Stadium.
This is the official landing of the Chinese team at the World Championships, and the Chinese team has played wonderful games in the previous four games, so at the beginning of today's main game, a large number of fans came to Wukesong Stadium.
It is a high-level commentary team. Note that they are sending a high-level commentary team, not a professional commentary team.
In the past, it was Yu Jia and Zhang who commented on the basketball game or other commentators, but today it was Mr. Sun Zhengping, a high-ranking internal official, who came to explain the game.
Mr. Sun Zhengping's voice is very distinctive, which no one can deny, but having a good voice is the foundation of a voice actor, not the basis of a basketball commentary.
The basis of basketball commentary should be professional, but Sun Zhengping can be very responsible and say that he is very unprofessional.
Mr. Sun Zhengping usually doesn't explain basketball games at all, and the number of courts he has seen in a year will never exceed ten games. Because he can pronounce the names of famous NBA stars backwards, and if he reads them backwards, it will be a whole section, and the next section can be corrected, and the domestic commentary broke out with a foul mouth "slot".
And Mr. Sun Zhengping's commentary style is pure saliva style, that is, how to read this player according to the information. The situation of that player is all a matter of information, and he doesn't use his brain to analyze why the situation on the pitch is like this, why these things happen. Filter this information through yourself and deliver it to the audience in a simple way.
Mr. Sun does not analyze or explain the game. He'll say good shots, goals, threes, how this player is.
Such a person can also explain the game, and the more high-level the game, the more he has to come out to explain, and today is the same, at the beginning of the game, Mr. Sun Zhengping said aloud in his own distinctive voice:
"Audience friends, audience friends, hello everyone, today's match between the Chinese team and the Lithuanian team is about to start."
"In the warm-up match, our Chinese team won all four games before, and today we officially came to play for the first time against the strong Lithuanian team, which is completely a challenge for us."
When Mr. Sun Zhengping said this, the players of the Chinese team and the Lithuanian team were on the field.
The first lineups on both sides have also been lined up, the first lineup of the Chinese team is point guard Sun Yue, scoring guard Li Feng, small forward Yi Li, big forward Yi Jianlian, center Zhou Qi, and the main lineup of the Chinese team has not changed.
The main lineup on the Lithuanian side is point guard Jake Vik Hughes, scoring guard Dida Sebutis, small forward Lina Sreza, power forward Klimavisius, and forward Andreus Covisius.
Lithuania's main lineup has no international superstars, and the big name is Kreza who plays with the Nuggets, but Kreza also plays role players in the NBA, and his weight cannot be compared with Li Feng and Yi Jianlian.
However, this does not mean that Lithuania does not have strength, in fact, Lithuania is still very powerful.
Because the rest of their players have good quality and play in European clubs, these powerful players in Lithuania play a kind of team basketball when it matters.
Of all the teams in the World Championships, there is no second team that plays more closely together than Lithuania.
Lithuania can be said to be a representative of Nordic precision basketball, they are completely that kind of team basketball style of play, the whole team has a range, the whole team can fight for rebounds, the whole team can control the ball and organize, the whole team can often appear in the big ball control, small run without the ball in this situation.
The concept of Lithuania's team position has been quite vague, and the terrible thing is that in this state, the Lithuanian team can often play a very wonderful match, fast travel and rapid transfer, and Lithuania's ability to seize opportunities is very strong.
At the same time, they also bring their tall bodies to the extreme. Defensively, the use of tall stature and tenacious defense make it difficult for the opposition to enter the box and score.
Because of such playing characteristics, Lithuania often makes the United States very uncomfortable, and it will also make any team that lacks strength unbearable, the Chinese team has been very afraid of playing against Lithuania in the past, because Lithuania is particularly tough, and their tough way is different from Australia, but it is more effective than Australia.
The main lists of the two teams came out, and it didn't take long for the official game to begin.
Zhou Qi and the other party entered the circle to scramble, and at the beginning of the scramble, Lithuania showed a very strong defensive posture, and he fought to the death with Zhou Qi when he came up. Zhou Qi struggled to basketball a little, but the basketball went out of bounds.
Or Lithuania kicked off first, Lithuania started the game with a sideline ball, point guard Vic Hughes took the ball and watched Lithuania run a very clean no-ball bottom line cover, Sebutis ran very fast and received Vic Hughes's ball.
Usually the team plays such a no-ball match is very qualified, but Lithuania is a very sophisticated team, only one no-ball match is played here, and another one is immediately played with a no-ball match, and the other side of Kreza runs out without the ball and receives the basketball.
This Lithuania went on the offensive, and Kreiza called a high cover. Then he suddenly broke through the inside line of the Chinese team.
When the Chinese team's formation was torn apart and slightly confused, Kreiza immediately threw the basketball into the hands of Sebutis in the opposite corner.
Lithuania came up and played a classic tactic of breaking through the bottom corner, this tactic is common, and every team will use this tactic. But the success of this tactical application is often for veteran teams, such as the NBA's Spurs, and now Lithuania.
Sebutis took the ball on the bottom line for a little bit, and when he saw Li Feng on the opposite side, he pounced as if it was the wind. He immediately slipped the basketball into the hands of Covisius, who was plugged in the road.
Covisius is 2.18 meters tall, tall enough and physically strong. As soon as he got to the basket and received the ball, he immediately hit Zhou Qi hard, and used the cover of the basket to score two points smoothly.
As soon as Lithuania started today, it played in a very Lithuanian style, with tight cooperation, tough play, and no softness at critical moments.
Li Feng fought against Lithuania for the first time, and now he also feels that this team is really not easy to play.
Lithuania scored two points at the beginning, and the Chinese men's basketball team immediately kicked off quickly on the bottom line, passing the basketball out quickly, and Sun Yue took the ball and quickly advanced and passed it to Li Feng.
Li Feng took the ball at this time and saw that the Lithuanian team's defense today was really strong, and the Chinese men's basketball team advanced so fast, they not only completely retreated back, but also the defensive formation was not chaotic at all.
This looks like a well-trained elite soldier, and when he encounters this kind of team, Li Feng knows that he needs to put some pressure on them, so Li Feng immediately takes a step horizontally when he receives the ball, and when he reaches the three-point line in Lithuania, it is a three-point shot.
Li Feng is playing against Seb-Tis who is the typical European stand-out player, tall, nimble and excellent at confrontation.
Originally, Seb-Tis did not suffer against the vast majority of NBA players, but once he met Li Feng today, the gap immediately came out, and once Li Feng pulled up, the height was something that Seb-Tis couldn't touch at all.
Li Feng has an advantage in the confrontation here, but the feeling at the beginning of today's game is average, this three-point shot is not.
The rebound immediately dialed out the inside line of Lithuania, Rimatius, and point guard Jack Wick Hughes took the ball to protect it, and Lithuania's counterattack ran out at once.
At this time, although the Lithuanian players are tall, they are very quick to counterattack.
Compared with Tao Wan's retreat before Yu Li, the retreat of the Chinese men's basketball team is not as tight as that of Lithuania, because the Chinese men's basketball team has Zhou Qisu on the inside, and with this loophole, Kreiza went straight into the inside line of the Chinese men's basketball team from the right side, Jack Wicks made a wonderful pass to assist, and Kreiza took the ball and scored two points with an easy layup.
At the beginning of today, Lithuania scored 4 points in a row, and all of these 4 points were quick points under the basket.
It can be seen that the Lithuanian team is not only strong and accurate in shooting, but also very fast and efficient in attacking the basket.
encountered this situation at the beginning, Min Lulei hurriedly yelled at the players of the Chinese men's basketball team on the sidelines:
"Pay attention to steady the rhythm, steady the rhythm."
The current situation is to play fast-paced, China does not take advantage, only the advantage of playing slow-paced Zhou Qi can be brought into play, so Min Lulei is desperately screaming here, so that the Chinese men's basketball team can suppress the rhythm.
Min Lulei's roar, the Chinese men's basketball team suppressed the rhythm and slowly rushed towards the Lithuanian half.
In the Lithuanian half, Lithuania's defensive effect was immediately reflected, their defense has Australia's toughness, but there is no Australia's recklessness, card position, defensive ruler, are quite good.
Every aspect of the Chinese men's basketball team is taken care of quite uncomfortable, the positional battle tests the team's training quality, and the running bomb tests the team's talent.
It was difficult for Sun Yue to pass the ball to Zhou Qi outside, so he could only lazily pass the basketball to Li Feng.
Li Feng took a look at the ball, like a defense like Lithuania, it is impossible for you to tear apart their defense with simple coordination, and if you want Lithuania to score on the head, you must need a little tough means.
With this plan and mental preparation, Li Feng didn't hide anymore, took the ball and immediately swung quickly and forcefully from side to side, and then suddenly stepped to the edge of the Lithuanian penalty area, got up and shot a drifting wipe shot.
Li Feng's opening long-range shooting felt bad, but the hitting rate of wiping the board is still higher than that of ordinary shots.
The basketball thrown by Li Feng smashed into the rebound with a "bang", and then rebounded directly, and Li Feng scored the first point for the Chinese men's basketball team.
The Chinese men's basketball team finally scored here, and Mr. Sun Zhengping, who was commentating, immediately said excitedly:
"The Chinese men's basketball team scored the first point, Li Feng played beautifully, and today's offensive firepower of the Chinese men's basketball team was put on the outside first, and Lithuania was caught off guard by surprise."
Sun Zhengping is talking nonsense here, just now the Chinese men's basketball team was obviously blocked by the inside tactics, and then Li Feng made a shot on the outside, but in the mouth of Mr. Sun, it actually became a surprise of the Chinese men's basketball team.
Lithuania's strength is still underestimated in the eyes of the Chinese people, and even the Chinese team is now finding that they are more or less a little. (To be continued......)