Chapter 317: The Situation Is Becoming Clearer
After three rounds of matches, the Chinese team achieved two wins and one loss, and their opponent in the fourth round was the German team.
The German team is regarded as the team that most resembles the Chinese team, and their trump cards are also two interior players, namely Kaman and Dirk Nowitzki, who is now dominant in the NBA. Many people even believe that the strength of the German team is stronger than that of the Dragons, and their inner line Kaman and Nowitzki may not be as good as Yao Ming and Chamberlain, but the outside line is much stronger.
Even avid Chinese fans can't help but share this view.
Nowitzki has a long range, is good at attacking from the high post, and has the means to score regardless of the high and low positions, and is a real kaleidoscope of attacks. If he meets the Germans, Oxlade-Chamberlain will have to follow him out, so that his toughest penalty area defender will be greatly reduced. Kaman is much worse than Yao Ming's ability, but he is definitely an excellent penalty area player, and when the two meet, it is unknown who will die.
But Nelson Jr. doesn't take the German team seriously, if you want to say which player he is most familiar with, it is Nowitzki, the German tank is what he brought into the NBA, and the current Mavericks team is built by his old man, which is one of the reasons why they were able to black eight last year, Nowitzki only pouts his ass, he knows what this guy wants to shit.
Chamberlain also had this confidence, so after the start of the matchday, he entered the Wukesong Arena early and watched the game accompanied by Winnie Shirley.
The first to play is the Greek team and the Angolan team, there is no suspense in this game, everyone knows that the Greek team that can wrestle with Spain will definitely be able to bloodied the Angolan team, the difference in strength between the two is too much, even in Europe, where there are many strong teams, the Greek team is a strong team.
Sure enough, after the game was over, Greece defeated Angola 102-61. All of Greece's players on the court scored, with backup center Brosis scoring a team-high 22 points, core Spanoulis averaged out with just six points and three assists, Plintagis with 14 points, and Papalukas with eight points, three assists and three rebounds.
The Angolan side could only play superstar tactics, with Mingas living up to his nickname of Trumpet Brand, scoring a game-high 23 points on the inside, Costa contributing 16 points, and the others combined for 22 points.
Compared with the Greek team's slaughter of the Angolan team, the second game will be much more exciting, before 1-2 Russia faced Australia with the same record, for these two teams, this battle is a battle of life and death, there are only five rounds of the Olympic group stage, and there is only one round left, no matter who loses in the two teams, it is basically equivalent to saying goodbye to the Olympic field.
Both teams are naturally unwilling to leave the highest stage in the world so early, the game is very intense, but this time the Russian team played really average, the entire Olympic series did not play at the level they should have, you must know that they are the champions of the last European Championships, if they come up with a real level, it is not a big problem to play the first and second in the group.
The Olympic men's basketball team is divided into two groups, Group A is average, and only Argentina is more threatening. Group B is the group of death, the United States team, Spain and Greece have won the triumvirate, but now the Dragons are coming out of the middle of the way, and if there is no accident, all three Olympic medals will go into Group B.
After the start, Australia led all the way, Kirilenko did not have the style of the NBA killing Quartet at all, watching him repeatedly blown up by opponents on the defensive end, Chamberlain shook his head vigorously, is this still the AK-47 that led the Jazz to cause them huge problems in the playoffs?
In the end, Australia took the lead to the bottom of the group, beating Russia 95-80 for their second group stage victory.
After that, another tough game in Group A began, and the Lithuanian team, which is currently ranked first in Group A with three wins, met Croatia, who had won 2 wins and 1 loss. In the first half of the game, the two sides fought hard defensively and played fiercely, but Croatia maintained the lead with their relative advantage in rebounding.
However, in the second half, the Lithuanian team launched a powerful counterattack with the excellent performance of the substitutes, and with a wave of 22-3 points****, the Lithuanian team defeated Croatia 86-73 and won four consecutive victories.
Lithuania's bench team played well in this game, scoring 50 of the team's scores, including Lukowski with a game-high 20 points, Kreza with 18 points, Jasetis with 12 points, and "King of Europe" Jascovisius with only 9 points. Croatia's Ukic scored a team-high 13 points.
In the last game of the afternoon, the Argentine men's basketball team defeated the Iranian men's basketball team 97-82, thus jumping to second place in Group A with a record of 3 wins and 1 loss, and the group qualification has been decided. Spurs star Ginobili completely dominated the game, especially when he scored 15 points in the third quarter of the game to help Argentina lay the foundation for victory.
Ginobili scored 32 points on 10-of-14 shooting, while Scola contributed 20 points on 9-of-13 shooting. Iran's Ahadadi had 21 points and 16 rebounds, Islami had 19 and Nick Khan had 13.
With that, all the matches in Group A are over, and the remaining two matches will be the heavier events in Group B, with the Olympic Dragons taking on European giants Germany and the Dream Team taking on Spain.
After four rounds of matches, the qualification situation of Group A can basically be predicted, in Group A, the European powerhouse Lithuania has won all four games and has advanced to qualify, because Argentina finally lost in the confrontation with Lithuania, so Lithuania, the biggest dark horse of this Olympic Games, has locked the first place in the group stage in advance.
At present, after Argentina's victory over Iran, each team in Group A has played four games, Argentina is currently ranked second in the group with 3 wins and 1 loss, and the opponent in the last round is Russia, even if it loses to Russia at that time, Russia with 2 wins and 3 losses is not capable of challenging Argentina's status, and Argentina is sure to qualify.
According to FIBA rules, the Olympic men's basketball competition is a group of six teams, divided into two groups, A and B, and a single round-robin is played within the group. 2 points for each win, 1 point for a loss, and 0 points for a waiver. The rules for qualifying from the group are:
1. The four teams with the highest points will qualify for the final points.
2. If the two teams have the same number of points, then the first match between the two teams wins
3. If the three teams have the same number of points, then the points of the match between the three teams are compared.
4. If the three teams have the same number of points, and the points of the match between the three teams are also the same, then the points won and lost are compared to the match between the three teams.
5. If the three teams have the same points, the points of the matches between the three teams are also the same, and the points scored and lost in the matches between the three teams are also the same, then the points scored and lost by the three teams in all the games in the group stage are also the same.
6. If the result cannot be compared with the above rules, the team that qualifies will be determined by drawing lots.
According to this rule, it is Australia, Croatia and Russia that are now in chaos. It is worth noting that Australia and Croatia are currently tied on six points, but Australia are in the front of the table on goal difference, but the group stage acceptance will be reordered according to the above rules.
Australia face Lithuania, Croatia and Argentina in their last game.
Croatia will have the least difficulty in winning, and if Croatia beats Iran, Croatia is expected to accumulate eight points behind Lithuania and Argentina, but because of the group stage defeats, Croatia will not be able to surpass Lithuania and Argentina in the top ranking.
After Croatia's victory, if Australia defeats Lithuania, it will be difficult for Russia to overtake Australia even if it wins; If Australia loses to Lithuania and Russia beats Argentina, then both Australia and Russia are 2-3, and in the group stage, Australia beat Russia, so Russia is still eliminated.
If Croatia loses to the weak Iranian team in the last round, and Australia loses to Lithuania, and Russia defeats Argentina, then Croatia, Australia, and Russia will all lose 2-3. In this case, it is necessary to compare the three teams according to the same number of points.
The points of the match between the first three teams, Australia won 1 and lost 1 between the three teams, Croatia won 2-0, and Russia lost 0-2, so Russia was eliminated again. If Croatia loses to Iran and Australia defeats Lithuania, Russia will be eliminated.
Judging by several cases, Russia has already been confirmed to be eliminated, because Kirilenko's slump and teammates did not help him at key moments, and the new European champions did not achieve the desired results at the Beijing Olympics and had to accept the fate of returning home.
Fortunately, the Olympics were held in Asia, and although European fans paid a lot of attention to the Internet, television, etc., not many people came to the venue, so the result had no impact on the competition.
Asian fans are watching the Chinese men's basketball team, the Dragons and the Dream Team, and the first to play is the Dragons, and their opponents are the German team, which also plays the two-tower tactics.
For the Chinese men's basketball team, the game with the German team can even be called a life-and-death battle, after defeating Spain and Angola men's basketball team, the Chinese men's basketball team basically locked in the hope of qualifying, but if it can beat the German men's basketball team, it is very likely to make history.
The importance of this game for the German men's basketball team is self-evident, they only won one of the first three big games, and if they lose again today, it will be similar to the fate of the Russian team, and they will have to pack up and go home.
Historically, the Chinese men's basketball team did not have an advantage over the German men's basketball team, and the Chinese men's basketball team only achieved a record of 2 wins and 10 losses in a total of 12 meetings between the two sides. Nowitzki + Kaman PK Yao Ming + Chamberlain are the ones that the media pays the most attention to.
For the fans of the Chinese men's basketball team, this is a potentially history-making battle, when the Dragons played against Spain, no one thought they could beat the mighty European king, that game, the fans thought they were going to be slaughtered, so many senior fans did not come to the scene.
This game is different, before the men's basketball players played, several celebrities in the history of men's basketball began to enter, Yao Ming's parents and his girlfriend Ye Li entered together, and then Gong Luming, Liu Yudong, Gong Xiaobin, Adi Jiang and other men's basketball names who were once famous all over the country were present.
Nelson Jr. also attaches great importance to this game, the previous victory against Spain, many Europeans think that Spain stumbled and the Chinese team won by luck, this game is naturally a good opportunity to test the true strength of the Dragon Team - the German team is certainly not the opponent of the Spanish team, but European fans do not think that the Dragon Team is their opponent.
The starting lineup sent by the Chinese men's basketball team: center Yao Ming, power forward Chamberlain, small forward Zhu Fangyu, scoring guard Sun Yue, and organizational guard Liu Wei.
The starting lineup of the German men's basketball team is Wissochi, Hamann, Green, Kaman and Nowitzki.