Chapter 235 Win the Championship
So it seems that it is useless to pull the space again. As a No. 5 position, Mo Ning's main role is defense, and this is also true of McDace.
Yao Ming needed to save his energy for the fourth quarter, so he went down in two minutes in the third quarter. Bartel and Liu Yudong came up. Liu Yudong still played the role of the first half, using his movement rate and range advantages to call the American team out of the inside.
However, the God of War felt very average, but the rebounding was snatched by Bartel a lot. After the tough guys, the quality of the American team's rebounding was also declining. Wenbeck has never been a good rebounder. He is just an enhanced version of Liu Yudong, who is completely space-based and has low posts, but more often he likes to solve the battle with shooting. Otherwise, the Bucks would not have chosen to trade him as an All-Star because their playing style coincided with the Big Dog.
Compared to Wen Baker, Liu Yudong's advantage lies in his desire to win. The opponent knows the significance of this game very well, so every goal, every rebound, and every defense, the God of War will try his best. Although it often looks like a moth to the flames, without this attitude, the Chinese team will have collapsed long ago.
After seeing the tough guys go down, Zhang Tian suddenly stopped going inside and threw it from the outside. Tomjanovic could only be speechless. What the hell is this? Zhang Tian is obviously a second-year student and is playing in the Olympics for the first time, but why is he more skillful in controlling the situation of the game than his head coach?
Zhang Tian completely seized the lifeline of the United States. Payton and Hartt were one of the outside defense gates and one of the inside defense hubs. As a result, they all went down because of Zhang Tian. They played against the Chinese team, Iverson, Carter, and Steve Smith, and other defensive scoundrels, because in front of Zhang Tian, you can't get up at all.
Those who didn't get up, making their employer difficult. Ray Allen missed a three-pointer in a row, which was a sign of a decline in physical strength, so Tang Shuai could only bite the bullet and replace Stephen Smith. As a result, the All-Star pitcher was not yet warm, so Zhang Tian used the opponent's assisting defense on the wing to play continuously in the interior.
As for the cooperation between the King of China Investment and Kidd who was replaced, they did not have a tacit understanding at all. Their double-teams were far less effective than one person's single defense. Mike Dais was in trouble. He was either dunked by Zhang Tian or scored points by other insiders. This second-tier show in 1995 is really about to cry.
After Zhang Tian finished the first three quarters, the scoring reached 20 points and assisted 7 times. At the end of the third quarter, the Chinese team led by five points 67:62. These five points were all brought by Hard Te and Payton.
"Zhang did not disappoint. This young man performed so well. Seeing him, I seemed to see the big Soviet man at the 1988 Olympics. No, Zhang's performance is much more dominant than Avedas. He is on the outside." Stankovic is completely unscathing for his praise. He is sitting with people from Blue Shoes, Basketball Center, and Olympic Organizing Committee to watch the game today.
Hearing the praise from the godfather of the European basketball world to Zhang Tian, Zhang Tian's "Uncle Li" was very happy. Of course, other leaders were also very happy. Before the Olympics, they had never thought that the men's basketball team could reach the final. They thought that Zhang Tian might be able to enter the semi-finals when he went to the National Olympic Team.
"Yes, Xiao Zhang is a good comrade who never competes and never robs of merit. We are thinking of signing up for him to be the top ten outstanding young people next year."
The old man Stankovic has been with the European basketball team for decades in the Olympic Organizing Committee. What do you not understand? "Basketball is basketball. It is a very pure thing. If it is mixed with too many other externalities, it will lose the meaning of the sport itself, and its charm will be further reduced."
Isn't Stankovic's words a microcosm of the ratings of the future NBA finals? After the old gangster brought the finals to a new level, Xiao Hua overturned all of this, and the ratings of the finals were getting worse day by day.
In the fourth quarter, Carter and Iverson came up, and Kidd also needed a rest, but Iverson came up, just an attacker, and his personal ability was unquestionable. However, he scored two points on the offensive end and lost three points on the defensive end, because no one in the Dream Four team gave him a wipe. There are countless tool people in Philadelphia, but in the national team, he became someone else's tool people.
Iverson's defense cannot be blamed, after all, he is in shape, and it is good to be able to attack and score instead of hitting the iron.
The Chinese team adjusted their defensive strategy and they narrowed their defense line because there was no reliable three-pointer on the field. At this time, the most accurate person among the players they played was Carter.
Carter is a very selfless person. He saw his teammate asking for the ball and divided the ball out. As a result, his teammates responded to him with a thunderbolt. Garnett's physical strength recovered, but in less than two minutes in the fourth quarter, he made two consecutive fouls, which accumulated four fouls. Although Wang Zhizhi also had four times, both sides reciprocate, and the Chinese team definitely made a profit.
Garnett cannot go on, and Wenbeck proved that he is a fool. He can't do anything except scoring, and Raheem is similar, so if the hard special is sent off, the inside defense of the Dream 4 team will be gone. Yao Ming got a rest in the third quarter and was full of vitality in the fourth quarter. Continuous mid-range shots and dunks made Mo Ning very angry.
Mo Ning also used the zombie hook to fight back, but his scoring stability was not as good as Yao Ming. Zhang Tian still continued to attack. The combination of Iverson and Payton failed, and Payton seemed to give up defense and instead started the offense.
The two sides played very quickly and chaotic in the last quarter, but in this chaotic battle, the rhythm was still on Zhang Tian's side. In the end, the Chinese team defeated the United States with a score of 87:82 and won this hard-earned gold medal.
The Dream Four team failed to defend their title, and Tang Shuai's smile was very bitter. Zhang Tian's 30 points, 10 assists, 7 rebounds, and 4 steals really had a unique style. It was a slutty meaning. He completely surpassed other players by the magnitude.
The members of the Dream Four team are not much bitter, just silver medals, anyway, the ranking of the Olympics is not linked to your salary. So what if you win the medal?
After the Chinese team won the championship, it means that the entire Sydney Olympics will come to an end. No one expected that the Chinese men's basketball team could win such a heavyweight medal.
Chapter completed!