333。 Group A first

The power of the dictatorship of the proletariat is powerful, Chamberlain had heard it before but did not understand what the truth of this sentence was, but soon he understood that after the reporters besieged him for a morning, he suddenly disappeared without a trace in the afternoon, and the news about his nonsense in the newspapers also disappeared completely, and all that remained was to sing praises for him, and there was still a lot of lace news about him on the Internet, but it was all before, and since the afternoon of the 21st, there has been no more vicious news.

Chamberlain didn't understand what was going on at first, but then, when the director of the men's basketball team talked to him, he understood:

"Xiao Zhang, you're still used to everything in China lately, right?"

"It's good to get used to it, and I'm enjoying my life and the game now."

"That's good, that's good, hehe, are you used to it?"

"Yes, life is quite habitual, eating is also very good, Lu cuisine and Sichuan cuisine are very good, it would be better if Sichuan cuisine was not so spicy."

"Oh, that's good, you don't like to eat too spicy, do you? Okay, I'll ask the chef to get you a table of non-spicy Sichuan cuisine from tonight! By the way, I heard that your target is in Sichuan? ”

"Yes, her name is Li Qun, and she is in Chengdu."

"And that life of yours? Hehe, young man, I'm just asking you about that life......"

"You mean XING life?"

"Ha Luha, young people are just straightforward, that's what I'm talking about, you can't solve it, can you? Do you want me to help you figure it out? ”

Chamberlain looked at the old man opposite in a daze, looked at the strange gaze that shot out of his faint old eyes, shuddered violently, and then shook his head wildly: "No, no, no, I'm fine, I can solve it, I don't need you to ......"

"Then forget it, hehe, if you can solve it, I hope you can solve it cleanly, don't be caught by reporters, this time it is the leaders of the central government who have spoken, so I can help you solve the media and reporters. But leaders can't help you forever, so it's better for you to refrain from doing so in the future. ”

After Chamberlain and the director were separated for a long time, they realized what was going on, and it was not that the reporters had lost interest in themselves, but that someone above had sheltered them from the wind and rain?

But the impact of this news on Chamberlain is far from being as simple as a central leader speaking out.

The men's basketball team's next opponent is Lithuania, known as the strongest team in European basketball, a European powerhouse that has won three European Championships and has participated in the men's basketball competition four times, finishing third.

The former head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, Younas, is a Lithuanian, and it was the Lithuanian team that won the first Stankovic Cup held in Beijing in 2005.

With NBA stars such as Klaiza, Marcyanskas and Sangeira, Lithuania has a deep roster and a strong basketball foundation and strength. The team has reached the semi-finals of the last four Olympic Games, winning three consecutive bronze medals from 1992 to 2000 and finishing fourth in 2004.

Among the teams that are confident and well-coached, the Lithuanian team is the most typical. As a veteran powerhouse in the world of basketball, since its regain of independence in 1990, Lithuania, a small European country, has always faced the world with a strong image in the world of basketball. In the past, when it was one of the Soviet Union countries, the main force of the Soviet men's basketball team came from Lithuania.

At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Soviet men's basketball team won the world championship for the last time, and the main player of the Soviet men's basketball team, Sabonis, was a Lithuanian.

From 1992 to 2004, the Lithuanian men's basketball team won three bronze medals and a fourth place in the Olympic Games, and they also won gold in the 2003 European Championships.

However, the former king of Europe is now in decline. The Lithuanian men's basketball team doesn't have the same international superstars as Spain or Germany, but it's not to be underestimated, and they have no shortage of talented players at all positions, playing European basketball that emphasizes teamwork more than any other team.

In the list of participants for the Beijing Olympics, the Lithuanian men's basketball team is missing two big players, Ilgoskas and Masiyanska. Therefore, the strength of the team has been affected to a certain extent. However, in last year's European Championships, the Lithuanian men's basketball team also relied on veterans such as Jaskovicius and Siskauskas without Ilgoskas, and finally finished third with a record of 8 wins and 1 loss, and directly got the ticket to the Beijing Olympics. As the saying goes, an emaciated camel is bigger than a horse. No matter who the opponent is, the Lithuanian men's basketball team still has the ability to continue their previous success in the Olympic arena.

The current Lithuanian squad has been a minor tinker with last year's European Championship runners-up and will be a powerful addition to the team against other powerhouses thanks to centre-forward Lavlinovic brothers, forward veteran Angela Angela and Denver Nuggets' Linus Kreza.

Previously, the Lithuanian team was ranked fifth in the world rankings. In the same group as Lithuania, only Argentina, who finished third in the world, finished ahead of them, and the top of the other teams was only ninth-placed Australia, so their path to qualifying from the group was particularly easy.

Although the Lithuanian team is not the most favored in Group A, they are the most powerful, and in the first game of the Olympic Games, they defeated the Argentine team in Group A, which is ranked more in front of them, which is also related to Lithuania's national conditions.

There has always been a lot of attention and attention to the Olympic Games in Lithuania, and since the European Championships are held every two years, the competition itself is also a European qualifier for the Olympic Games and the World Championships. Looking at the previous European Championship results of the Lithuanian team, the Lithuanian team has always had an excellent record in the European Championships related to Olympic qualification. For example, they finished third last year, were runners-up in 1995 and won the European Championships in 2003, the year before the Athens Olympics.

Although the Chinese men's basketball team played well this time and made a historic break to the top four, when they met Lithuania, more experts, including domestic basketball experts, were not optimistic about the Chinese men's basketball team.

"Sports Weekly" deliberately took out a large page to analyze this game, their Olympic special issue has been paying attention to the men's basketball game, and the predictions are very accurate, including the previous game against Argentina, they were optimistic that the Chinese men's basketball team can have the most laugh, but this time, even they have always supported the Chinese men's basketball team are shaken:

"The Dragons have been brave so far, there is no doubt that they played one of the strongest games in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, and they have achieved something that their predecessors have never achieved before, and these young people are proud of it. But they are not invincible, otherwise they would not have lost to the Dream Eight team, if the loss of the Dream Eight team is lost because there are not enough stars to fight against it, then compared to the Lithuanian team, the Dragon Team has too many weaknesses:

One: the skill is not as good as the person. This is the root cause of the Chinese team's inferiority to the opponent, the entire outside line, our players in many individual skills appear to be not solid enough, whether Liu Wei, Sun Yue or Zhang Qingpeng, compared with Jasco Visius, their performance in the position of point guard is like a child in the primary school men's basketball team, not to mention Chen Jianghua. In the face of Lithuania, a real advocate of team basketball, the Chinese team will make a lot of mistakes, compared to the Lithuanian players with delicate skills, our players' skills are too rough, which is a fact that we must face.

Two: There is no whole. The Chinese team has Yao Ming, Chamberlain, these top players in the world, as well as Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue and other very good players, but our integrity is a few grades worse than Lithuania, from the previous games can be seen that as long as Chamberlain is not present, our offense and defense are like a mess of scattered sand, the players are fighting separately, there is no good organic connection.

Although the individual ability of the Lithuanian team is not as strong as Yao Ming and Chamberlain, the five members of their team are more a whole, and the players are very tacit in the defense and the blocking and dismantling in the attack.

Three: it is difficult to show advantages. The Chinese team has Chamberlain and Yao Ming, but we can't play their advantages in the game, Yao Ming is difficult to get the opportunity to get the ball under the opponent's front defense, Chamberlain needs to enter the penalty area to play combat effectiveness, and the Lithuanian team in the penalty area is the best of all teams.

In addition, it is also a problem for our perimeter, even if Chamberlain and Yao Ming run into good positions, will our perimeter players give them passes? Can you get the ball in the hands of both of them? In the previous game, Chamberlain had to leave the penalty area several times to help his teammates cover on the outside, and using Chamberlain in this way is a great waste of his ability!

Four: Improper tactics. Nelson Jr. is a good friend of Chamberlain and Yao Ming, and his father is also a great master of tactics and strategy, but there is no doubt that as a son, Nelson Jr. can bear less than half of his father's ability, and we have seen that every time there is an emergency, the tactic he can deploy is to let Chamberlain play alone or let Yao Ming play alone, and the great thing is to come to a high-high cooperation, and there are too few arrangements he can make otherwise.

Five: Poor defense. Chamberlain is a super defensive master, he is the first person in NBA history to win the honor of the best defensive player in his rookie season, in the previous games, he also used his amazing defense to help the Chinese team too much, it can be said that if there is no Chamberlain, the Chinese team should lose the last game, Chamberlain is the iron wall that defends the Chinese men's basketball team!

But what about other than that? We all say that defense is the job of the whole team, but what has the Chinese team done in defense as a whole? It is difficult for the opponent's player to rotate in place to give the opponent's outside shooter a vacant opportunity, and the opponent's player is attacking our player too far away from them, so that the opponent is easy to shoot to complete the offense, our defense lacks continuity, and the player is easy to run the anchor and slack off, so it is easy to be targeted by the veteran opponent.

Six: The opponent is savage. Lithuania like to use unconventional moves in defense, they are the bad boys in the world of basketball, their interior players have a lot of small movements when defending, and some of the movements are very dirty, and in the previous game against Argentina, Scola was once broken on the forehead, which made Yao Minghui unable to adapt. Fortunately, now we have Chamberlain, but we must consider his violent temper, with Zhang Tianwang's anger, if one is not good, I am afraid that this game will become a free fighting competition.

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All in all, the match between the Chinese team and Lithuania, before the start of the game, the Chinese team was in the upper hand, no way, who let them not win in history?

Chamberlain doesn't care about this, he likes to break historical records, has the Chinese men's basketball team ever reached the top four in history? Now they are in fourth place at worst, even if they lose to Lithuania, they will still have to play against the Spanish team, considering that they have won the matadors before, they can at least win the bronze medal - in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, when did they win the bronze medal?

Chamberlain was confident enough to crush a Lithuanian team, and he felt like he was not in a problem.

However, he can ignore external troubles, but not internal worries.