"Doon, the key to winning tonight is on you, I want you to be able to fire infinitely!"

Before the start of the group stage against Spain, men's basketball head coach Younas spoke to Doon in a serious voice.

Whoever becomes the head coach of the men's basketball team will be very stressful, especially after the start of the group stage of the Olympic Games, the first game is a fiasco of losing by more than a dozen points.

However, after playing the Dream Eight team, Younas also knew very well in his heart that if he wanted to win in the group stage, he had to rely on Doon's individual ability.

And for how to fight the next battle, Doon is also clear in his heart.

The Spanish team is strong on the inside, strong on the defense.

In a way, the Spanish team is a bit like Spurs.

If the men's basketball team focuses on the interior, it will definitely be thankless.

Facts have also proved that Yao Ming often struggles to play the Spanish team and is easily deflated.

In addition, two days ago, after playing the Dream Eight team, Yao Ming was already very tired, and he looked like he was physically exhausted.

If Younas bets on Yao Ming tonight, Yao Ming will have a 20+10 performance.

But if it's a bet on Doon, it's different. Doon can not only attack on the inside, but also shoot from the outside.

Spain's outside size and physicality are far inferior to Doon's, which allows Doon to take and demand from the outside.

Besides, the Dream Eight team couldn't stop Doon from scoring on the outside, so how could the Spanish team stop it?

Tonight, Younas wants Doon to play alone, and whenever he feels he has room to shoot, he throws the ball out and doesn't play it to other teammates.

Just like Kobe Bryant playing the Spurs, he can often hit a critical hit, and Younas also hopes that Doon will slash 40+, or even 50+, to lead the men's basketball team to victory.

After all, once the group stage loses for the second time in a row, even if the next opponent is not as strong as the Dream Eight team and the Spanish team, the mentality of the men's basketball players will be different, and it will become more difficult to win later.

"Coach, don't worry, everything is in my hands."

Originally, Doon was ready to play as usual, but Younas let him fire infinitely, how could Doon refuse?

As soon as the camera turned, the imperial capital Wukesong Gymnasium, the starters of the men's basketball team and the Spanish team all came to the court.

Tonight, the Spanish team did not take the men's basketball team lightly, but sent Jose Calderón, Juan Carlos Navarro, Rudy Fernandez, Jorge Gabajosa, and Pau Gasol, the main lineup formed by five NBA players.

However, for Doon, the Spanish team is under 2 meters tall on the outside, and even if Doon is pinched on the outside, he can ignore the interference and shoot.

Seeing the starting lineup of the Spanish team, Doon's attitude towards attacking with the ball became more resolute.

Without further ado, the game started quickly.

Yi Jianlian can't jump Howard, but he can still jump with Big Gasol.

After winning the ball, Liu Wei dribbled across the half court.

Because the Spanish team can't defend physically and is not aggressive, Liu Wei didn't have a lot of effort to dribble like the last Dream Eight team.

Doon got the ball at the top of the arc, the Spanish team set up a joint defense, and Rudy Fernandez, who was only 1.98m from beyond the three-point line, showed his teeth and claws in front of Doon.

Seeing this, Doon did not hesitate and made a clean three-point shot.

The feel was okay, and the first shot went into the soul, which directly helped the men's basketball team to take a three-point lead.

However, the Spanish team was prepared and immediately grabbed the baseline ball and started a fast attack.

At the World Championships two years ago, the Spanish team relied on disciplined defensive counterattacks, defeated all opponents, and won to the end.

Now the Spanish team is repeating its old skills, and it is also using speed to drag down Yao Ming, who has a lot of weight, so that the men's basketball team will reduce one core player in advance because of the style of play.

In this regard, the men's basketball team has no good solution except for quickly returning to defense.

I have to say that the Spanish team must have studied the men's basketball team before the game.

The Spanish team took the initiative to speed up, forcing the men's basketball players to turn back and run, which will also further amplify the lack of physical strength in the second half of the men's basketball team.

This means that Doon will not only have to work the offensive end tonight, but also on the defensive end, especially in the second half.

In order to reduce his offensive and defensive pressure, Doon's original idea of blindly holding the ball and playing alone had to be changed.

After defending the shot of the Spanish team, Doon motioned for Liu Wei to dribble across the half court, and then connected the team to find an opportunity first.

This move, on the one hand, is to slow down the pace of the game, and on the other hand, it is also to let others play first.

Soon, Yao Ming reached for the ball in the low post and was ready to single Gasol.

Yao Ming also saw that if the Spanish team played like this throughout the game, the longer he played on the field, the easier it would be to become a drag on the team.

Yao Ming could only be as efficient as possible in the first half, during his time on the court, to help the men's basketball team score.

As for the rest, they can only rely on young people like Doon and Yi Jianlian.

In other words, Yao Ming is not too difficult to beat Gasol alone, but Gabaiosa will cooperate with Gasol to fight together.

Yao Ming faked a real pass and passed the ball to Yi Jianlian, who burst into the basket after receiving the ball, and the dunk was interfered with by Gasol and failed to score.

Fortunately, Yao Ming protected the offensive rebound and scored a layup with a second offense.

After Yao Ming scored, the Spanish team played a fast break again, relying on a three-point chase from Rudy Fernandez, and the Spanish team also broke the scoring drought.

However, the problem is not big, and the men's basketball team continues to keep the pace down and play steadily.

Yao Ming took the ball in the low post to attract the defense and passed the ball back to Liu Wei, Liu Wei took advantage of this opportunity to drop a three-pointer, and the men's basketball team re-pulled the difference back to 5 points.

The Spanish team continued to play fast break, but this time they didn't take advantage of the opportunity, shooting iron, and the rebounding ball was protected by the men's basketball team.

Because Liu Wei just scored a goal, Yi Jianlian also has a lot of desire to attack, and Yao Ming's passing threat cannot be ignored by the Spanish team.

As a result, Yao Ming finally got a singles opportunity, and then relied on his height and reach advantage to hook a goal on the head of Gasol da with a hook.

Seeing that the point difference further widened, the Spanish team took the lead in calling a timeout.

However, this timeout is also more beneficial for the men's basketball team.

Originally, Yao Ming had consumed a bit more physical strength, so he just took this opportunity to take a break for a while.

However, after the timeout, the Spanish team reduced the number of defenders and replaced some forward players to strengthen the attack and defense on the inside.

Originally, Yao Ming had no problem playing Pau Gasol alone, but he was flanked and even directly bypassed, so there was no way.

Yao Ming couldn't get the ball, and Liu Wei didn't have much ability to attack independently, so he could only play for more than two minutes, and then go down with Liu Wei to rest first.

Doon made a temporary cameo appearance as a point guard, taking Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi to fight with the Spanish team for speed and conversion of offense.

During this period, both teams have been able to increase their points very quickly.

The men's basketball team failed to defend against the Spanish team's defensive counterattack, but it did not score its own points.

Moreover, the main force of the Spanish team has a lot of physical exertion, but Doon has a substitute lineup.

After more than seven minutes of the first quarter, the Spanish team also replaced the bench players one after another, and at this time, Doon was too advantageous to play alone.

At the end of the first quarter, Doon made 3 of 4 shots and 2 of 3 three-point shots, scoring 8 points in a row just by shooting.

With six points from a three-pointer and a transition offense during the period, Doon had already scored 17 points in the first quarter.

The men's basketball team also relied on Doon's excellent play to take an 8-point lead in the first quarter 29-21.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Yao Ming led the men's basketball team to lower the pace of the game and consolidate the advantage steadily, during which the difference was once expanded to 13 points.

However, the Spanish team relied on defensive counterattacks and slowly tore open the holes in the men's basketball team's defense.

Coupled with Younas's arrangement, the men's basketball team is dominated by outside offense.

As a result, once the men's basketball team does not shoot, it is easy to be counterattacked by the Spanish team.

It can only be said that the authorities are fascinated, Younas realized that Yao Ming was playing harder on the court, and also knew that except for Doon and Yi Jianlian, others rarely scored on the inside, so he wanted to rely on outside scoring to continue to consolidate the advantage.

But just after playing the Dream Team two days ago, most of the players in the men's basketball team tonight are in average physical condition and don't shoot well.

Seeing that the difference had narrowed to 8 points, Doon could only quickly return to the court to put out the fire.

Soon, Doon broke through with the ball, and fed Yao Ming two cakes with the help of Doon's attraction defense, helping the men's basketball team expand the point difference to double digits again.

Maybe it's time to run, not long after Doon came up, the Spanish team's shooting began to hit the iron.

The men's basketball team has a big advantage in height and naturally protects a lot of rebounds.

Because Yao Ming was still on the court, the men's basketball team did not rush to counterattack, but lowered the pace of the game and played steadily.

Younas also noticed that Yao Ming was a little slow down on the field, so he quickly withdrew Yao Ming.

It didn't take long for Doon to lead the men's basketball team on the court to keep turning back and forth and making transitions like in the first quarter.

Relying on Doon's attraction defense and accurate passing, the men's basketball team blossomed more and played a wave of 7-2 small climax, which once extended the difference to 18 points.

However, after a pause to change players, the Spanish team re-strengthened their defense and the protection of rebounding balls.

And Doon also felt the physical impact of his hands because he needed to do a lot of things on the court, as well as the constant switchback run, and his performance at the end of the second quarter was not as brave as at the end of the first quarter, and only 6 points were scored on 5 shots.

By the end of the second quarter, 56-41, the men's basketball team had only taken a 15-point lead under the leadership of Doon, and Doon's personal score had come to 31 points.

Doon played well in the first half, but it wasn't easy to win tonight's game.

Doon took the substitutes with the Spanish team in the first half, and returned the favor in the other way, but only slightly advantaged.

The physical exertion of substitutes is more than in the past, and this is also a problem that cannot be ignored.

Therefore, if the men's basketball team wants to win, it must maintain the advantage that has been established in the first half in the second half and defend with all its members.

One thing to say, after Younas became the head of the men's basketball team, his biggest contribution was to strengthen the defense of the men's basketball team.

And this is precisely the reason why in this Olympics, Doon did not seize power and seize the command in the hands of Younas.

At most, when Doon is on the field, he arranges his teammates' running positions and offensive tactics that should be played, and doesn't care about anything else.

And Younas has two brushes in building a defensive system, and now that it is the Olympics, the attitude of the men's basketball players is not to say.

Even though the game was difficult in the third quarter, the men's basketball players on the court were working hard to defend.

In the third quarter, it became a defensive battle, the Spanish team wanted to rely on tenacious defensive counterattacks to turn defeat into victory, the men's basketball team stuck to the main, and also relied on building an iron wall on the inside, forcing the Spanish team to shoot more on the outside.

And the men's basketball outside players can't sit back and watch the Spanish team shoot in the open space, as long as their legs can still move, they must run out and jump up, and reach out to interfere.

70-58, after the third quarter, the men's basketball team still had a 12-point lead.

If we can play like we did in the third quarter, we can basically win tonight's game.

"How many more pauses?"

"Two."

During the break, Doon asks Younas, who is quick to answer.

Each team at the Olympics has two timeouts in the first half, three in the second half, and one timeout if there is extra time.

Doon had been so focused on the game that he hadn't noticed a couple of timeouts in the third quarter.

Hearing that there were still two timeouts in his hand, Doon breathed a sigh of relief.

"There's only ten minutes left, and everybody hold on a little longer.

The next thing we have to do is defend and protect the rebounds.

I'll push every ball to the last few seconds, I'll give it to me and I'll leave the rest to everyone. ”

Doon first arranged for the other men's basketball players to work in the fourth quarter, and then said to Younas: "Unless we can't score, the Spanish team scores more than five points in a row."

Otherwise, use the timeout for the last four minutes and the last two minutes, when we need to rest.

We're going to have a hard time in the next quarter, and if you see someone who can't keep up and can't prevent it, please replace it with a more energetic substitute as soon as possible. ”

Since the break was only 2 minutes, by the time Doon had said that, the time was almost over.

At this time, Younas has also arranged the roster, except for Sun Yue to replace Liu Wei, the rest are the original starters of this game.

After the game resumed, the men's basketball team followed Doon's style of play, Sun Yue dribbled through the half court first, and Doon pressed the game time at the top of the arc.

The Spanish team didn't think about getting on the pinch at first, and Doon pressed it into the last three seconds before pulling out a three-point shot.

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The ball went in, and as soon as it came up, he scored a three-pointer, and the difference was stretched to 15 points, which is undoubtedly great news for the men's basketball team.

The Spanish team immediately counterattacked, but the men's basketball team successfully defended the ball with active defense.

It wasn't until the men's basketball team continued to press the clock according to the previous steps that the Spanish players on the court realized the seriousness of the problem.

Navarro and Gimenez stepped forward to flank Doon, who passed the ball to Wang Shipeng, got rid of his opponent and reached for the ball again.

The men's basketball team just doesn't shoot, it just presses time, and the Spanish team has nothing to do.

Unless you predict the passing route and complete the steal, you can only watch the men's basketball team gradually consume the game time.

After more than 4 minutes of the fourth quarter and Yao Ming went off the court first, the Spanish team actively played inside, wanting to use this as a breakthrough.

The advantage of the men's basketball team is still above 10 points, and Doon simply goes to the inside to help defend and limit Gasol's play as much as possible.

It is worth mentioning that seeing that victory is in sight, Yi Jianlian's hard work is also quite good, and he grabbed two rebounds at the critical moment in the fourth quarter.

In addition, the two timeouts of the men's basketball team played their due role, and Yao Ming also returned to the court after the break to strengthen the frame, which made it impossible for the Spanish team to turn defeat into victory at the last moment.

84-79, relying on Doon's stable performance in the last 10 quarters, and the contribution of the men's basketball team to win.

The men's basketball team finally overcame the difficulties of physical strength in the final quarter, and then defeated the Spanish team by five points to win the first victory of the group stage of this Olympic Games.

"Our opponents played well, but I have to praise Doon for a great performance today, it was as if we lost to Doon alone."

"Yes, we made Doon play too comfortable! He scored 49 points and obviously we weren't good enough defensively. ”

"It's a shame we couldn't stop Doon today. Doon is probably the best player in the world, he always hits goals that are difficult for others to score, and he can do anything on the pitch. ”

"If we had flanked Doon from the beginning, the result would have been different.

But it has to be admitted that Doon was so strong that he beat us with just his shots.

But there's nothing to regret about being able to play against such an opponent. ”

Doon's performance tonight not only won over the fans, but also the Spanish players.

Doon is like Jordan who participated in the Barcelona Olympics that year, and his opponents have become his fans after the game.

To do this, Doon had to spend some time signing autographs for the Spanish players, an experience that the last dream team had never had.

But in the following period, Doon quickly got used to it.

On August 14, the men's basketball team easily defeated Angola 98-66, basically confirmed the group stage qualification, and advanced to the quarterfinals.

On August 16, the men's basketball team defeated the German team 69-61 thanks to Doon's outstanding performance of 31 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.

After winning three consecutive victories, the men's basketball team decided to advance to the quarterfinals with the second place in the group, so in order to ensure the victory of the quarterfinals, the main team only played for ten minutes, and took the initiative to give up the last group game.

The move was against the spirit of the Olympics, but most domestic fans expressed their support.

After all, the quarterfinals are a knockout game that is guaranteed to be won or lost, and the men's basketball team's goal this year is to win medals, and they definitely don't want to fight too hard in the group stage, and then overturn in the gutter of the quarterfinals.

So in the end, the promotion of Group B is that the Dream Eight team won all five games.

The men's basketball team is 3-2 and ranks second because it has beaten the Spanish team.

Spain also won three and lost two, finishing third.

The Sheila team relied on the men's basketball team and Angola to send warmth, and the group was fourth with two wins and three losses.

The next opponent of the men's basketball team in the quarterfinals is the Croatian team, which is the least famous and ranked third in Group A.

(End of chapter)