According to the qualifying rules of the 6-to-4 group stage, the 5th and 6th team can win two games. Most of the time, they can only win 1 game. It is not impossible to lose all the games and be eliminated.

Even if the fifth and sixth teams win two games by chance and the Chinese team loses all the remaining games, then if the records are the same, the points difference will be used to calculate qualifying spots.

In the first two games, the Chinese team already had a 48-point margin of victory.

The strength shown by the Chinese team in playing Greece is obviously comparable to Turkey and Russia in the group. Even if it loses, it will not lose too much, which means that the Chinese team is basically guaranteed to qualify for the group stage!

After playing two games and qualifying for the group stage, this... fans never dared to think about it before! Even if it was the Olympic Games in their own country two years ago, they would never dare to think about it!

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The Chinese team players yawned, slept on their stomachs, and only Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Wang Shipeng, and Zhu Fangyu listened seriously.

These four people are all big guys who are preparing to enter the management or directly lead the national team after retirement.

Others, salted fish...

On the podium, a fat and oily official from the Basketball Management Center was delivering a long speech.

After the Chinese team played the first two days of games, they got a day off. On the next 31st, they will play two games on September 1st. They will have another day off on the 2nd and play the final game of the group stage with the Turkish team on the evening of the 3rd.

Sun Ce, who was lying on the desk and yawning, was speechless to the people in the basketball center. After finally having a rest day, he even went to borrow the key to the classroom. He probably asked his secretary to stay up late last night and write an article about who knows how many times.

A long "hymn", praising the motherland, boasting about the leadership of the Blue Association, and praising the performance of the players in the past two days...

There is also a cameraman filming!

Of course, the cameraman didn't dare to take pictures of the players now.

In the early morning, he woke up the players who had worked hard for two days to do something like this just to make a video and send it back to China as news. Sun Ce felt that these people were just full.

Fortunately, the Basketball Management Center is not like the football side. The officials in the Basketball Management Center just like to engage in formalism and will not interfere with the coaching staff. However, the players and coaching staff can still accept it if they do things they don’t know how to do.

After recording a circle of everyone applauding passionately to welcome the leader's guidance speech, everyone except the four brothers lay down to rest.

After the eloquent speech of nearly 10,000 words, the officials of the Basketball Management Center left with satisfaction. Deng Huade speechlessly asked the players to go back and take a nap. They would gather at lunch time. They had to prepare for tomorrow's game in the afternoon and go to the scene in the evening.

Watch the game...a tough battle is coming!

Türkiye will play Russia tonight, and the Chinese team will play Russia tomorrow!

In Group C, Russia and Turkey currently have 1 win and 0 losses. They both won last night. The Chinese team has 2 wins and 0 losses. The other three countries have not won yet.

Currently, China, Russia, and Turkey are recognized as the top three in Group C. The strong showdown today and tomorrow will largely affect the ranking of the top three.

Russia is the country that is most questioned, because they defeated Puerto Rico by only 5 points, beating the opponent 99 to 94. The iron-blooded defense they showed in the European Championship seems to have been completely forgotten in Moscow in the World Series.

But no matter what, the Chinese team doesn't dare to be careless at all. It finally made the best start in the history of the national team. If you become complacent at this time, it will be over.

To talk about the advantages of the Chinese men's basketball team... they think very low of themselves and fight every game. It's not like football, which theoretically has a way to deal with any opponent before the game and "does its best" in the end.

In the tactical training in the afternoon, the Chinese team mainly conducted defensive training. The main lineup has Yao Ming to guard the basket, Sun Ce to counterattack, and Yi Jianlian and Wang Shipeng to keep up. This is very advantageous for the Chinese team that plays defensive counterattacks in international competitions.

The centers of the Russian team are Timofey Mozgov and Alesi Zhukanenko.

After the Knicks formed the super duo of Paul + Stoudemire in mid-July, Mozgov was the meat shield center of Russia's Khimki team. He was the inside man signed by the Knicks to deal with Howard.

Defensive gate.

The Knicks have deep pockets and gave Mozgov a three-year, $9.72 million rookie contract, breaking the record set by the Grizzlies' Marc Gasol for a second-round pick and an undrafted rookie.

However, as a defensive center, Mozgov currently has basically no mid-range shooting ability. Yao Ming should not be too relaxed when guarding the basket, and he does not even need to leave the three-second zone.

Another center, Zhukanenko, has a stable long-range shot, but the speed is too slow, which makes Wang Zhizhi defensive. Moreover, Zhukanenko is not like a Russian player. His style of play is surprisingly soft. In yesterday's game, he was hit by Arroyo's throw.

There were several of them, and I didn’t even bother to stretch my hands.

In the evening, Sun Ce and his teammates went to the Ankara City Stadium to watch the game between Russia and Turkey.

After watching the game, it’s not that the Chinese team wants to underestimate Russia, it’s really that the other side played too badly!

Just like the Olympics two years ago, the defensive end was as weak as anything. Turkey, led by Turkoglu, Okur and Asik, scored 91 points in a single game, while the Russian team only scored 67 points.

Asik was a second-round pick in 2008. His signing rights had just been sent to the Bulls by the Trail Blazers. He had just signed a two-year, $3.8 million contract with the Bulls. He squatted in the paint and Mozgov

Can't even squeeze.

The most bizarre thing is the Russian team’s point guard, 24-year-old Igor Viartshev, who is 190 centimeters tall and weighs... 76 kilograms!

When the Turkish team replaced Okur at the center to open up space, the Turkish team's 38-year-old veteran who was born in 1972 came as a substitute point guard. Anka Molva, the water fountain manager of CSKA Moscow, went up to sit in the low post, and Te

Koglu connected in the high and low posts. The veteran who was originally used as a mascot and locker room leader suddenly scored 8 points and 2 assists in the second quarter in a single low post.

The bamboo pole defender of the Russian team was bullied so miserably.

In this game, the Turkish team was like a teaching model, guiding the Chinese team on how to deal with Russia tomorrow.

Not to mention, what the Turkish team can do with Turkoglu, Asik, and Okur, the Chinese team can do it with Yao Ming and Sun Ce!

Moreover, the Chinese team has Yi Jianlian, an athletic power forward that the Turkish team does not have!

Sun Ce watched the performance of the Russian team, which was initially predicted to be the second strongest team in Group C, and finally understood what the weakest group is...

If the Chinese team hadn't had him, Yao Ming would still be able to play, and the five countries in Group C wouldn't even be able to put pressure on Turkey!

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On August 31, 2010, the Chinese team defeated Russia without any blood, 87 to 71.

There is an example of the Turkish team easily defeating Russia. The Chinese team just copied the cat and the tiger and won easily. The Chinese team took advantage of the Russian team's weaknesses. The opponent sent Mozgov and left Yao Ming on the court for defensive counterattacks.

The opponent replaced Mozgov and replaced Zhukanenko with shooting ability, then used Wang Zhizhi to come up and attack Biao in a positional battle.

Yao Ming was the top scorer in the paint today, scoring in double figures for the first time in three games, with 15 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks. Yi Jianlian had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.

In addition to these two players, there are two other players who scored in double figures, Zhu Fangyu and Sun Ce.

Zhu Fangyu received many open shots and made three three-pointers, scoring a total of 14 points. The highest scorer in the game was Sun Ce, with 19 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.

There were not many assists, but he tied for the highest assists in the game with Wang Zhizhi who had 6 points and 4 assists.

However, in the World Championships, even if you are a core organizer, your assists in a game will not be too high. Four or five is considered normal. The first two games were mainly due to the opponent's really unable to guard Sun Ce, Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi's defensive counterattacks.

By this time, the opponent was already on guard.

However, it was too easy for Sun Ce to sit in the low post and beat Russia's 76kg and 81kg Khvoztov. The opponent switched defenses to other positions, and his speed could not keep up with Sun Ce.

Suddenly it was three consecutive victories!

The Chinese team is currently ranked first in the Group C standings!

Moreover, the Russian team lost two games, and the one they lost to the Turkish team was by a huge margin. After the Chinese team defeated Russia, Turkey then defeated the Greek team 76-65. The Greek team also lost two games, and the record became

1 win and 2 losses.

That is to say, except for the Turkish team and the Chinese team, which have 3 wins and 0 losses, other countries have won 3 games against the odds, and the Chinese team has a 64-point margin of victory in 3 games...

Locked in the top two in the group!

Sun Ce felt so surreal after defeating Russia. Who could have expected the current situation before coming to Turkey?

He never thought about how different it would be after the national team had a core point guard. He still underestimated the difference between Yao Ming, the second world championship scoring champion in Chinese history, who averaged 25 points per game in the 2006 World Championship and the original 2010 World Championship scorer.

Yi Jianlian, who averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds per game in the World Championships, would be so scary if he had a core point guard who was good at passing the ball!

In these three games, if Liu Wei, Sun Yue, Guo Ailun and others who played during the rotation of the lineup had not been negative, the point difference would have become even greater!

It's not that these three are bad, but in the world of basketball, the point guard line composed of these three really hinders the three core inside players of Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming, as well as the two stable shooters Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu.

Generally speaking, Sun Yue, who has a B-level ability evaluation under FIBA ​​rules, can be regarded as the best performer among the three.

Liu Wei is old, 30 years old, at the end of his career as a domestic defender; Guo Ailun is only 17 years old, motivated but immature; Sun Yue's talent was wasted by Aoshen for 4 years... but they are still playing in the World Series. For a team

In the crucial point guard position, even if Sun Yue is not such a hindrance, his role is still negative, because point guards from other countries help the inside perform better.
Chapter completed!