In the next round, he originally planned for Yao Ming to move to the high post. He let Yao Ming stay farther away and still guarded the inside. However, Lu Yu did not pass back to Yao Ming this time. Instead, he paused at the elbow area and waited for Yao Ming to cut in and hit.
Passed the ball to Yao Ming.
Wallace wanted to make up for it, but found that he was stuck by Wang Zhizhi!
Letting Yao Ming shoot from this distance from the free throw line is simply giving away points, right?
The U.S. defense completely collapsed and they played a whole game. Unexpectedly, the Chinese team’s trump card in the end was the pick-and-roll between Lu Yu and Yao Ming.
Well, there was also a pick-and-roll with Wang Zhizhi!
Generally speaking, it is the pick-and-roll between Lu Yu and the inside players!
The American coach immediately called a timeout and switched to zone defense. Unfortunately, it was useless. For Lu Yu, zone defense was simply shooting training. He could only expand the defensive area. Once it expanded to the defensive area, he could play pick-and-roll again.
Even if Jin Jin tried his best to block the cooperation between Lu Yu, Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming, the two big men Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi still have one hand to pass the ball, and the two sharp knives of Zhu Fangyu and Li Nan are waiting to take action on the outside at any time.
The American team can only attack now!
There are only two ways to win the game, one is to let the opponent score less points, the other is to score more points than the opponent.
Since you can't do the first one, you can only choose the second one.
The U.S. team started to counterattack. To be honest, the Chinese team didn't have many ways to deal with the U.S. team's offense. After all, the defense of the small forward and shooting guard was the weak point at this time, and the U.S. had been seizing on these two points to attack crazily.
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Pierce's crazy output.
With only the last thirty seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Chinese team only led by three points.
The U.S. team called a timeout.
Wang Fei said to the players: "We can't let our opponents shoot three-pointers and have the chance to drag the game into overtime, guard outside shooters, consume the game time, and finally let them go in. After they score, they will definitely choose foul tactics.
Our players on the court are all accurate in free throws, so don’t worry about that!”
He is not worried about free throws, Lu Yu is worried... This is an international competition, and free throws are useless in normal times. If a free throw is missed and the opponent scores again, it will go into overtime. If both free throws are missed, there is no guarantee.
will lose the game.
After the American team came on the field, they indeed tried to find a three-point shot opportunity at first, but the Chinese team blocked the outside very tightly. Seeing that there were only 9 seconds left, Andre Miller suddenly saw O'Neal Jr. stuck in position.
A through pass put the ball into O'Neal's hands.
"coming!"
Lu Yu knew that O'Neal was going to hit hard, but he didn't dare to go over and attack because he was afraid that if O'Neal passed out, Andre Miller would actually make the shot, which would be the most cheating thing.
We can only look at Wang Zhizhi’s defense!
O'Neal dribbled the ball twice and then turned around. Wang Zhizhi immediately pounced on him. Seeing that he had no chance, O'Neal had no choice but to take a shot.
The basketball stumbled on the basket, and finally luckily fell out of the basket.
87:86,
The Chinese team is only leading by one point and there are only 8 seconds left!
"..." Lu Yu was speechless. Wang Zhizhi's defense was already very good, but he didn't expect O'Neal's luck to be better.
Wang Fei suddenly called a timeout!
Sun Yiping was startled, "Coach Wang Fei chose to time out? Wouldn't it be more of a waste of the opponent's time to serve directly at this time? Maybe Coach Wang Fei has other concerns."
Should I call a timeout at this time?
If the ball is served from the backcourt without calling a timeout, the opponent will probably foul directly. However, Wang Fei understands that Chinese players are most afraid of a full-court press. If they are intercepted under the opponent's basket, they will make fatal mistakes.
The most critical point is that he is worried about Yao Ming and Lu Yu's physical strength. If they are not physical enough at this time, it will affect the accuracy of free throws.
So Wang Fei chose to call a timeout.
Yao Ming was breathing heavily. He only rested for a while in the second quarter of this game. Like him, there was Lu Yu. The two of them were the players who played the longest time on the team, and they were also the most tired of everyone.
of.
This timeout is to arrange the sideline ball tactics and also to give them time to breathe.
"It was my fault for the defense just now..." Wang Zhizhi took a sip of water and apologized to his teammates.
"You've done a good job of guarding against him." Lu Yu patted him on the shoulder.
"Yes, Da Zhi, it's because of that guy O'Neal's good luck. It's not like you don't know about his shooting. He often falls in because of his soft wrist." Yao Ming also said with relief.
Wang Fei came over.
He holds a tactical board in his hand and has a solemn look on his face. Serving the ball from the sideline is crucial. Once a mistake is made, the opponent will not need to foul, and may even directly overtake the score.
In Lu Yu's previous life, this kind of cheating thing never happened!
In fact, being able to compete with the United States like this has exceeded the expectations of many experts. Even Wang Fei did not expect to win against the United States at the beginning.
But now the opportunity is right in front of us, whoever can't seize it is the bastard!
"Everyone, come here, let me lay out the sideline ball tactics..." Wang Fei called all the players together: "Actually, there is nothing to arrange. The opponent is likely to adopt foul tactics. What we want to prevent is mistakes in the sideline ball, resulting in
The opponent scores directly. This is what I am most worried about when calling this timeout, because once this happens, the timeout I call will be stigmatized as incompetent! Because when I call this timeout, I actually give the opponent time to arrange defense.
But I think the opponent may have already made arrangements in the last timeout to press the whole court as soon as the score is scored. At that time, we will be caught off guard, so I chose to call this timeout, which seemed a bit retarded... Continue
Come down here and let me lay out the tactics..."
"Coach, let me interrupt..." Lu Yu said at this time.
"Huh?" Wang Fei was startled. He looked at Lu Yu and frowned slightly.
"I think since we've been caught off guard, it's better to be more thorough. Is this possible..." Lu Yu expressed his thoughts.
Wang Fei's frown slowly relaxed.
Players from both sides came on the field, the Chinese team served a sideline ball, and the American players stood ready. Wang Zhizhi stood outside the line holding the ball with both hands, and the Chinese team players began to move.
Yao Ming was the first to stand outside the three-point line. He was the tallest. As long as he could catch the ball at a high enough height, it would be difficult for opponents to intercept him. In addition, he was the most accurate in free throws. The US team used all their heavy troops to guard him.
Who knew that at this moment, a figure rushed out, and Wang Zhizhi threw the ball directly.
Only then did O'Neal see that the person receiving the ball was No. 10 Lu Yu of the Chinese team!
"Foul!" he yelled.
But what surprised the American team players was that Lu Yu caught the ball in the American offensive half. After receiving the ball, Lu Yu dribbled the ball towards the American offensive basket...
All the fans were dumbfounded. This guy Lu Yu...
Are you running backwards?
Did the Chinese team win?!
When the American team reacted and chased Lu Yu, a lot of time had passed on the timer. When they returned to the half court, they discovered that Lu Yu was like a cunning loach, too slippery to catch.
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In the end, time ran out, and the Chinese team narrowly defeated the American team by one point, 87:86.
Lu Yu threw the ball into the sky.
"The Chinese team is already the dominant player in Asia. This battle proves that the Chinese men's basketball team has the strength to compete with the world's number one American team. Let us congratulate the Chinese men's basketball team on its first victory in the group stage!" Sun Yiping said excitedly.
shouted.
Domestic fans are excited at this time!
We originally thought we would lose the game, but we didn't expect it to be a close fight. We didn't expect that at the last moment, the Chinese team withstood the opponent's counterattack and firmly grasped the fruits of victory.
Especially the last scene of Lu Yu carrying the basketball and running to the other half made the fans laugh out loud.
"Who came up with such a bad idea? Only a shameless guy like Lu Yu can do it, right?"
"What is a bad idea? This is called tactics!"
"Is this also called tactics?"
"Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: Take the enemy by surprise and attack him unprepared. The U.S. Men's Basketball Team certainly didn't expect that when we served the sideline ball, there would be players holding the ball and running away. Haha, I want to laugh when I think about it now. Lu Yu was so wretched when he ran.
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"You didn't see that Reggie Miller was stunned."
"Of course I saw it. The camera showed a close-up at the end. Reggie Miller's eyes were round and his face was blank."
"In terms of not following the rules, the Chinese team did really well this time!"
"Yes, we didn't expect that at the last moment, Wang Fei would call a timeout. I almost smashed the TV at that time. Isn't this fucking coach not that good? The result, wow, it tastes great."
"Yes, now it seems that this suspension is organized, planned and premeditated, and this operation has made a lot of money."
All fans are talking about the last half minute of the match between the Chinese team and the United States. Obviously, this scene will become a classic scene in the men's basketball event at this World Championships.
Scola, who was sitting in the audience, smiled bitterly: "Manu, I finally understand why you have this attitude towards the Chinese team's No. 10, because he is exactly the same as you..."
Manu curled his lips: "His hair is not as long as mine."
Lu Yu hugged his teammates. Although he was tired and his legs were weak, he was very happy to win against the American team. This proved that the current Chinese team is indeed capable of competing with these strong teams.
It's difficult to be in the top eight in the world, because both the American team and the European team are teams with a certain level of strength.
But it's easy to get into the top eight in the world. As long as you're strong enough and can win against other teams, you can get into the top eight.
However, the goal of the Chinese men's basketball team this time is not to be in the top eight!
Lu Yu knew that the best chance to win the world championship was definitely not the 2008 Olympics at home. The Dream Team that year was so powerful that if there was a competition where it was easiest to win a ranking, it would be the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 Olympic Games.
In the 2004 World Championships and the 2004 Athens Olympics, in these three years, the Chinese men's basketball team was the easiest to get ranked.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team had a particularly good draw, but it was a pity that they did not seize the opportunity. Otherwise, it would not be the French team that won the silver medal, but the Chinese team.
Moreover, Lu Yu had no chance to participate in this competition.
At that time, Lu Yu had not yet made a name for himself.
But this year's World Championships and the Athens Olympics two years later, Lu Yu will definitely not miss these two opportunities, because the US men's basketball team was a bit weak these two times.
Now that the Chinese team has defeated the American team, other teams have begun to pay attention to the Chinese men's basketball team.
In addition to the Argentina team, the audience in the audience at this time was also the Spanish team, which had already been confirmed to advance to Group E, and the German team, which had advanced to Group F at the same time as China and the United States.
Nowitzki greeted Wang Zhizhi.
Gasol and Lu Yu said hello.
Lu Yu came over.
"Hey, Lu, your last ball was really... haha, I just couldn't help laughing..." Gasol couldn't help laughing.
He and Lu Yu are rookies in the same class, and they both participated in the All-Star Rookie Game at the same time. This time it is rare for them to play in the World Championships together. Although their friendship is not deep, they are a little more familiar with each other than other NBA players.
Lu Yu just smiled, his eyes falling on the long-haired Ginobili not far away...
This person is not only his biggest opponent in this World Championship, but will also be his biggest opponent in the NBA next year, if the Bulls can reach the finals again.
Lu Yu and his teammates left the gym. They were going back to rest. This game exhausted their energy, especially Lu Yu and Yao Ming. The two of them played almost the entire game.
The coaching staff did not leave, they stayed to watch the next game and prepare for the next game.
Half an hour later, players from Venezuela and Russia took the field.
If Lu Yu was here, he should be able to recognize that the leading player in Russia is ak47 Kirilenko, who just joined the Utah Jazz this year. Kirilenko was selected by the Jazz in 1999, and Andrei Kirilian at the time
At just 18 years and 4 months old, Coe became the youngest foreign player ever selected in the NBA draft.
Kirilenko spent another two years with CSKA Moscow, participating in the EuroLeague.
And became the first player in the European League to score a triple-double. 13 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 steals.
In 2001, he joined the Jazz.
The winner between Russia and Venezuela will advance to Group F in the second round, which will be the Chinese team's opponent in the next round.
At the end of the half, Russia still led by ten points.
49:39
However, the situation suddenly changed in the second half. Venezuela launched a counterattack and once took the lead, but Russia carried it to the end.
83:80
The Russian team narrowly won.
The next game is between Argentina and New Zealand.
This is the highlight of today's game. Argentina is a strong team, and New Zealand is also one of Australia's top teams. Logically speaking, it should be a match between Mars and the Earth.
The result was beyond everyone's expectations. The New Zealand team lost the game 85-112. Ginobili, who scored 24 points, single-handedly defeated the New Zealand team.
85 to 112, a score difference of 27 points
This is also the largest point difference in all games so far today.
Only then did everyone realize that in addition to the Chinese men's basketball team, another world-leading team has appeared this year, and that is the Argentine men's basketball team!
In the Chinese team’s dormitory, Zhu Fangyu was lying on the bed and muttering to himself: "We actually beat the American team..."
Yi Jianlian thought he was lamenting the hard-won victory.
As a result, Zhu Fangyu's words in the next second made him petrified on the spot: "It seems that the strength of the American team is not very good. Next year I will sign up for the draft. Then, like Yao, I will have a number one pick..."
Lu Yu: "..."
The Chinese men's basketball team only has one day of rest.
Tomorrow, the second round of the World Championships begins.
