On August 6th, the group stage is all over, according to the Olympic promotion rules, the top four of the two groups of Ab can be promoted, and the Amelica Dream 10 team on the side of Group A won all 5 games and ranked first in the group, from second to third for France, Argentina and Lithuania.

In Group B, the Chinese team has sprung up, winning all 5 games and ranking first in the group, and the Dream Ten team is far away.

The second to third places in Group B are the Woolly Bears, Spain and Brazil.

So the first round of the next knockout round against the two sides will also come out, according to the rules, the first opponent of the Chinese team in the knockout round is the old European powerhouse Lithuania.

Don't look at Lithuania as a small country and its presence in the world is not strong, but in the field of basketball, Lithuania's strength should not be underestimated.

Basically, every time he participates in the World Series, he can be ranked in the top ten or even the top five, the best result in the Basketball World Cup is the bronze medal in 2010, the bronze medal in the men's basketball team in three consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2000, the fourth place in the last 2008 Huadu Olympics, and the gold medal in the European Championships three times.

As can be seen from these heavy accolades and medals, although Lithuania finished fourth in Group A and advanced to the knockout round at the end of the crane, it is definitely not as simple as the rankings show, and they are definitely a very difficult group of opponents to deal with.

Of course, the current Lithuanian national team is still a lot weaker than its peak, Yao Ming's template Avedas Sabonis is the boss of the Lithuanian national team, but there is still a ruthless character in this Lithuanian team, Jonas Vallejonas, who was selected by the Toronto Raptors with the 5th pick in the first round last year, is a member of the Lithuanian national team.

The Olympic Games are very tight, with one game every other day, so the match between the Chinese team and Lithuania also kicked off on the afternoon of the third day of the group stage on August 8.

The Lithuanian players have the common characteristics of Eastern European players, that is, they are tall and big, and everyone looks like a Lithuanian strongman of more than 200 pounds.

Especially those interior players, who look like bears.

Lithuania has been producing excellent center forwards since ancient times, from the old Sabonis, to the current Vallecionas, and later the son of the old Sabonis, Sabonis Jr., are all very good center forwards.

But even so, with Li Kaiming's Huaguo team, everyone dares to touch it now, Deng Dehua pointed out the strategy of today's game in the team's tactics before the game: play fast! More shots!

Lithuania's lineup is destined to give the ball to the inside players, and then slowly grind the position battle, although their outside strength is not weak, but the team's style is like this, the outside line is not their main force.

So this game has to let Li Kaiming lead the team to play, and only when he plays an effect, the Lithuanian penalty area will gradually open.

Deng Dehua's arrangement is indeed on Lithuania's seven inches, Li Kaiming, a perverted all-round player, the Lithuanian side has not found any good means of restriction after the whole game.

On the contrary, it was the Huaguo team that kept pushing and counterattacking, and Li Kaiming broke through with the ball and then distributed the ball to the outside shooters, opening up the situation for the team one after another.

Lithuania's strategy of sticking to the basket lasted less than a quarter before it went bankrupt, because the Chinese team felt very good on the outside today.

Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian were each able to hit a three-pointer after receiving a pass from Li Kaiming from the outside, which made Lithuania fall behind by 8 points at the end of the first quarter.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Lithuanian head coach began to let the center go out to delay, and then actively fought for rebounds in the frontcourt.

However, the inside combination of Li Kaiming and Yi Jianlian of the Chinese team can basically protect most of the rebounds, even if they are occasionally grabbed by Lithuania, they basically cannot be directly converted into scores, so there are very few points conceded in this regard.

On the contrary, the Lithuanian side was busy grabbing frontcourt rebounds because the inside line was busy grabbing rebounds, which led to the Chinese team taking the opportunity to push more conversion fast attacks, Li Kaiming grabbed the rebound alone and rushed forward with the ball, and hit Lithuania two 2+1 in a row, and instantly stretched the point difference to double digits.

Since then, all the struggles of Lithuania have been easily resolved by the Chinese team, and the score difference between the two sides has been fluctuating around 10 points, and finally the game is over, and the Chinese team easily won Lithuania 83-74 and advanced to the semifinals of the Olympic Games!

Li Kaiming played 33 minutes, shooting 10-of-17, including 4-of-8 three-pointers and 4-of-6 free throws, and scored 28 points, 16 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals.

Coincidentally, in the 2008 Olympic Games, the first opponent of the peak Chinese men's basketball team in the knockout round happened to be Lithuania, and the Chinese team lost to the latter and ranked eighth.

Now, after the men's basketball team has changed its story, Li Kaiming led the Chinese men's basketball team to the top four of the Olympic Games in the first year, reaching a new height in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team!

At the scene of the victory over Lithuania, many Chinese fans who came to watch the game were so happy that they cried bitterly!

The love of Chinese fans for the Chinese men's basketball team is deep, and they want the Chinese men's basketball team to stand up and go further than anyone else.

But this time it's different, because this time they have a new core......

After the Chinese men's basketball team advanced to the semifinals, almost all the media in China broadcast the news of the Chinese men's basketball team like the Chinese New Year, and the entire basketball world swept away the previous shadow of dullness and failure, and was full of hope again!

"Li Kaiming is currently the first in the Olympic scoring list with an average of 27.5 points per game, and in second place is Kangaroo Nation guard Patty Mills, who averages 21 points per game, what kind of dominance is this?"

"The next opponent is the winner of France and Spain, Spain has fought, and the French team is not afraid! We really have a chance to win a medal! ”

"I'm afraid that in this Olympics, the only one who can pose a threat to us is the Emerica Dream Ten team."

"I never dreamed that the Huaguo men's basketball team would be able to play this position one day, and there is hope to wrestle with the Amerika men's basketball team! This is definitely the greatest happiness for all Chinese fans! ”

"The operation of naturalizing Li Kaiming is really fantastic! And he is still young, and he can still play two Olympic Games, as long as we take advantage of this time to train domestic players, the rise of the men's basketball team is not a dream! ”

"Before, some people said that it was a bit inappropriate to let Li Kaiming be the flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but now what is inappropriate? It's a good fit! ”

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Just winning a knockout match made most Chinese fans fall into a carnival.

Of course, the impact on the Huaguo basketball world is not small, and some people are ready to join forces to put pressure on the top, saying that Liang Zhen is arbitrary and arbitrary, and he has messed up the Huaguo men's basketball team and basketball by himself, and is ready to force him to be laid off after Liang Zhen comes back!

As a result, only about 10 days later, under the overwhelming performance of the Chinese men's basketball team, all the conspiracies and tricks hidden behind them disappeared without a trace.

When the Huaguo team can achieve such results, even if the request to let Liang Zhen be laid off is agreed from above, the fans and the masses will not agree, the fans and the masses will agree, and Tianli will not agree!

Look, this is the effect of winning, no matter what kind of conspiracy or conspiracy, as long as you can win, it's not a problem.

There are people in this world who constantly talk about philosophies, telling people that it doesn't matter what the result is, what matters is the process of chasing.

But isn't this a compromise because you don't get the results you want?

If you can get the desired result, the result alone is enough to make people happy, why enjoy the boring process? What's more, in the real world, people say they believe in the process, but physically they still choose to focus on the result very honestly.

Don't look at what people say, look at what people do, it turns out that the result is the most important thing.

The result of Li Kaiming leading the Chinese men's basketball team to the semifinals not only caused an uproar in China, but also caused extensive discussions in the world basketball world, especially in the sports circle of Emerica.

Because someone remembered what Li Kaiming said in the previous interview, "The biggest goal is to lead the Chinese men's basketball team to do the dream team".

At that time, almost all reporters and fans thought that Li Kaiming was joking with them and teasing them.

"Are you kidding? Tease you? Li Kaiming shook his head at the phone, "Elliott, I've never joked around basketball, I'm serious." ”

Elliot Williams on the other end of the phone was silent for a full minute, and finally held back a sentence "Brother, you're awesome!" Manuginobili led the Argentine men's basketball team to overturn Emerica at the Athens Olympics is awesome enough, but I didn't expect you to want to lead the Chinese men's basketball team to defeat the Dream Team. No matter what the result is, my brother admires you! ”

"You admire that I have a hanging, hurry up and train, if you can't average 15 points per game next season, I'll break off my friendship with you! I, Li Kaiming, don't have a weak chicken brother like you! ”

Listening to the busy beep on the phone, Williams put down the phone with a grumbling expression.

I'm so angry, every time I go to congratulate this guy, it's me who gets hurt in the end!

But he's right, it's all from the Tigers, Senior Rose has an mVp, Senior Evans averaged 20+5+5 per game in his first year, and this guy Kaiming won't talk about it now......

Williams calculated it and found out that he was actually the most difficult player in the Tigers, how could this work?

Williams was instantly motivated to continue training......

The match between the French team and Spain After the Chinese team, after four quarters of fierce battle, Spain finally defeated the French team 66-59 and met the Chinese team in the semi-finals!

In fact, Spain's promotion was basically predicted by most people, although Spain did not perform well in the group stage, but after all, the team has a deep squad, and with the advancement of the schedule, Spain's form is obviously rising.

Deng Dehua also began to prepare tactics for the next opponent, after all, in the group stage, playing Spain was the last moment to rely on Li Kaiming's offensive and defensive efforts to win the game, and now Spain's state is warming, it must be more difficult to deal with than before, you must prepare in advance, by the way, take a look at the Spanish game video these days.

As for the players of Huaguo, under the leadership of Li Kaiming, they are training without distractions, although the current results have surpassed the best record in the history of the men's basketball team, but long before coming to London, Li Kaiming told everyone that he has only one goal this time!

That's the champion!