Even Li Kaiming didn't expect that after an opening ceremony, many people in China were faintly dissatisfied with him, and when the grouping and schedule of the Olympic men's basketball game were announced, this dissatisfaction fermented into the mentality of watching the show.

Because there are a total of 12 countries participating in the men's basketball in this Olympic Games, which are divided into two groups of A, although Huaguo was not assigned to Group A, where Emilica is located, the strength of Group B is not weak.

In addition to Huaguo, there are the host country, the British host, the Eastern European giants, the South American giants Brazil, the kangaroo country with the highest score to reach the semifinals, and the real giants of Group B, the Spanish national team that defeated the Chinese men's basketball team to win the silver medal in the last Huadu Olympics.

The rules of the Olympic Games are based on the FIbA method, the early group stage, each team in the group has to play a game, win a game 2 points, lose a game 1 point, and finally the top four teams in each group points qualify, enter the knockout round, if the points are the same, the net score is compared.

The rules of the knockout stage are somewhat similar to the NbA playoffs, with the first in Group A versus the 4th in Group B, the second in Group A versus the third in Group B, and so on.

And some of the Chinese viewers who were waiting to see Li Kaiming's jokes were ready to eat melons and watch the show in the first game of Huaguo, because Huaguo's first opponent came up to be the Spanish national team, which was the strongest in Group B.

"There's a good show to watch now, if this highly-anticipated standard-bearer leads the team to lose the first game, then it's going to be good today......"

"There is a high probability of losing, although Spain's golden boy Rubio did not come over because of injury, but they have the Gasol brothers, Calderon on the outside, and the starters are all NbA level, even if Li Kaiming is good, he can't play five by himself."

"Hehe, let's talk about it first, the international arena is not like NbA, giving star players so many body hair whistles, I hope to play him in another game......"

The discussion on the Internet about the first game against Spain was also very hot, which also made the first game of the Chinese team attract the attention of a large number of Chinese people, more than half of whom came to watch the game because of Li Kaiming, an unfamiliar flag bearer.

As for the players of the men's basketball team, although there is already a lot of noise outside, for them, those things are inconsequential, because for them, there is a more important thing, that is, to win the opening game beautifully and make a good start to the Olympic trip of the Chinese men's basketball team.

So from this point of view, it is also beneficial to meet Spain, the strongest in the group, in the first game, as long as you can win the first game, the momentum of the Chinese men's basketball team will rise, and you can play more confidently in the subsequent games!

Of course, the premise of wanting to achieve this effect is to defeat Spain, which is not easy, and the peak Yao Ming and this group of people can only play back and forth with Spain for 35 minutes, and the physical decline in the game was pulled away by a wave at the end.

Now that he has a younger core, whether he can play the effect of Yao Ming leading the team has to be a question mark......

This is the true thought in the hearts of most Chinese fans, after all, this is also a real tempering of Li Kaiming on the national stage, and the intensity of the previous Asian Championships was too low to see anything at all.

Soon the time came to July 29, the 2012 London Olympics men's basketball event, the second game, Huaguo vs. Spain!

The attention of this game is very high, the game has not yet started, there are a large number of fans waiting in front of the stadium, including both Spaniards and Chinese, Jiang Shan also took Sun Jianguo and the second elder, wearing red Chinese support short sleeves, waiting for the opening of the venue.

Jiang Shan even drew a Chinese flag on her face, which looked very cute.

When the time came, under the guidance of the on-site staff, the fans poured into the stadium like a tide, and at this time, the players of both sides had already warmed up on the court.

It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and after all the pre-match preparations were ready, the starting lineups of both sides were also displayed on the big screen responsible for displaying the technical statistics.

Huaguo: Point guard Liu Wei, point guard Sun Yue, small forward Zhu Fangyu, power forward Yi Jianlian, center Li Kaiming.

Spain: Point guard Jose Calderon, point guard Rudy Fernandez, small forward Lilu Meria, power forward Pau Gasol, center Marc Gasol.

Spain's squad is extravagant, and they also have a golden boy Rubio who didn't play, and on the bench are 2003 second-round pick Navarro and Li Kaiming's old acquaintance Sergi Baka.

No wonder even most Chinese fans think that the Chinese team may not be able to beat Spain, because this Spain team can basically win medals.

The three referees signaled the starters of both sides to come on, Li Kaiming gathered everyone together, and then looked around and said, "Brothers, although this is only a group game, we are very familiar with this opponent, do you remember the feud in 08?" ”

There was a flame in the eyes of Yi Jianlian and the others next to him, "Of course I remember!" That's the closest we've come to a medal! ”

"Good! Since we all remember it, let's find a way to do a special shot! Give this group of proud Spanish cowboys a little Chinese shock! ”

Then everyone pressed their hands together, "321! Rush! ”

The players on both sides stood in the midfield, and Li Kaiming walked into the center circle and bared his teeth at Gasol Jr. on the opposite side, "Mark, long time no see!" ”

Little Gasol rolled his eyes, his heart was really unlucky, how to jump the ball with this guy, what is the point of jumping the ball?

Gasol Jr. is a very typical European center forward player, with superb skills, but he is not good at running and jumping, so after seeing that the center forward opposite is Li Kaiming, he is a little helpless.

The two sides stood still, and the shouts of "come on" came from the surrounding audience from time to time, which was the fans of Huaguo cheering for their national team.

The referee came to the center circle, held the ball in one hand, and after a whistle, threw the ball into the sky!

Almost at the same time as the whistle sounded, Li Kaiming kicked the ground with both feet, pulled up on the spot, and flew into the sky like a rocket, and the little Gasol on the opposite side took off slowly, and Li Kaiming had already dialed the ball into the hands of his teammates!

After landing, Li Kaiming moved his muscles and bones, since he entered NbA, he has never been a starting center, he hasn't jumped for a long time, and he jumped today, and it feels good!

In the audience, Chinese fans saw that Li Kaiming easily defeated Gasol Jr. to win the jump ball, and they all let out shouts of celebration!

The ball was given to Liu Wei, who dribbled over half the court, and the Huaguo men's basketball team began to run around Li Kaiming.

The rules of basketball in the international arena are FIbA rules, which are generally similar to those of NbA, but there are some differences, the biggest of which is that there is no defense for three seconds in the international arena, and the center can be unscrupulous under the basket without fear of being whistled for technical fouls.

This leads to the fact that in the international arena, it is even more difficult to break through the layup in a positional battle, because you will find that you have finally broken through the outside defense, and when you get to the basket, you find that there is a mountain of guys guarding the basket on the opposite side.

Therefore, in the international arena, the requirements for projection ability are very high, and it has to be projection under high-intensity confrontation, because in the international arena, generally speaking, the level of referees is also uneven, so the penalty scale will be much larger than NbA, and many fouls that will be blown in NbA will not be blown in the international arena, let alone any star whistle.

Spain's defense is also very typical, defending a 2-3 combo on the line, and Gasol Jr. under the basket acts as the last line of defense to protect the basket.

After Huaguo came to the frontcourt, Li Kaiming blocked Liu Wei in the past, but Spain's defense was very tight, and Calderon directly chose to bypass Li Kaiming's cover, that is, to let Liu Wei shoot.

It seems that the Spanish coach understands Li Kaiming's power on the offensive end very well, and I don't know if it was Gasol and others who told him......

Liu Wei hesitated on the outside, and then chose to shoot, but unfortunately it didn't go in, Gasol Jr. under the basket protected the rebound, and then handed Calderon to dribble across the half court.

Huaguo's defense is also a joint defense, but it is different from Spain's, Deng Dehua has arranged a 3-2 joint defense with a relatively tight online defense, which has higher requirements for the help defense ability of the inside players, but now the inside line of the Huaguo team is Li Kaiming, and it is also Li Kaiming, who has 90 defensive attributes inside and outside, and it is naturally not a problem to be able to do this.

Spain is also blocking and dismantling inside and outside, Liu Wei didn't dare to bypass the cover like Calderon and let the latter shoot, but honestly squeezed the cover, Calderon used the cover of Pau Gasol to get Liu Wei stuck behind, and then rubbed the inside line while waiting for Pau Gasol to be in place.

After Da Gasol ran to the penalty area, Calderon passed a blow, Gasol was like a fish in water in the international arena, and in the face of Yi Jianlian, who could be defended, Da Gasol directly turned around and hooked his hand to hit easily!

0-2, Spain won the first point first!

In the audience, the Spanish fans had begun to cheer and wave the national flag, while the Chinese fans were quiet.

Huaguo served to the front court, Liu Wei pouted his butt to protect the ball, while looking back to observe the situation, Deng Dehua on the sidelines couldn't help but stand up and direct the players to run, he was also under a lot of pressure in this game, and it was a must-win game for him.

Li Kaiming blocked Sun Yue, Sun Yue took this opportunity to run to the outside line forty-five degrees without the ball, and got a short vacancy, Liu Wei directly gave a straight plug to Sun Yue, but Spain's defense was very in place, and the defense outside line directly switched to shoot Sun Yue.

This ball opportunity was fleeting, Sun Yue wanted to grit his teeth and force a shot, but suddenly Li Kaiming at the free throw line stretched out his hand to him, "Give me the ball!" ”

Although he was puzzled, he fought side by side with Li Kaiming for two seasons, and Sun Yue's trust in Li Kaiming did not need a reason, so Sun Yue, who had already jumped at this time, turned his throw into a pass and passed the ball to Li Kaiming in the air.

Zhang Weiping in the broadcast area perked up after seeing this scene, "Sun Yue, good opportunity, pass to Li Kaiming, this is the first time Li Kaiming has won the ball in this game, let's see how he will play!" ”

The moment Li Kaiming received the ball, Spain's bag came over, and the little Gasol on the line and the inside line rushed over, but Li Kaiming was extremely calm, in this case it is unrealistic to want to rush to the basket, and it is estimated that the big Gasol next to the basket is not easy to break through, so he can only shoot!

So Li Kaiming only dribbled the ball, and then connected with a big stride to retreat sideways, widening the distance of the outside defender, and now only Gasol Jr. pounced in front of him, Li Kaiming did not hesitate to pull up the jump shot!

The basketball spins in the air and hollows into the net along a perfect parabola!

Swish!

2 to 2, Li Kaiming helped the Chinese team win the first point of the Olympic Games!