In the semi-finals, the Chinese men's basketball team made a historic breakthrough and reached the semi-finals of the World Championships.
Before the start of the World Championships, no one thought that the Chinese men's basketball team could reach the semi-finals. The best result of the Chinese men's basketball team in the World Championships was only eighth, but this time it has reached the semi-finals.
The most important thing is that it may not only be the top four!
If China can defeat Yugoslavia in the next game, then the Chinese men's basketball team will be able to advance to the finals and compete for the championship, and the worst result can be runner-up.
The two teams in the other group are Germany and Argentina, both of whom are defeated by the Chinese men's basketball team. As long as they defeat Yugoslavia, the Chinese men's basketball team is very likely to defeat Argentina and Germany and win the championship title.
That's number one in the world!
Not only is it a historical record, it may even be the pinnacle moment of Chinese basketball for many years to come.
The prerequisite is to defeat Yugoslavia.
If it loses to the Yugoslav team, the Chinese men's basketball team can only compete for third or fourth place. Anyway, this result has satisfied the Chinese Basketball Association.
With the top four results in the World Championships, even Director Xin of the Basketball Association is looking down on Asian competitions.
Is there any other team in Asia that can achieve this result?
Definitely not!
In the future, it will be enough to send the second and third teams to Asian competitions. It doesn't matter whether they are close to the other, just think of it as training the new players at the grassroots level.
As for whether they can win against Yugoslavia...actually, Xinlan City doesn't have any expectations.
The reason is simple: Yugoslavia is too strong.
When it comes to the country of Yugoslavia, people who are a little older will know the movies "Walter Defends Sarajevo" and "The Bridge". Young friends should also be able to hum the well-known theme song "Ah, Goodbye, Friend."
However, compared to literary and artistic works, Yugoslavs are more proud of their sports achievements.
Whether it is the three major sports that attract the world's attention, or the less popular water polo, handball, etc., Yugoslav athletes have made great achievements in international competitions.
In Lu Yu's previous life, there was always an unsolved mystery in basketball: If Yugoslavia had not disintegrated, would the U.S. men's basketball team still be the dominant player?
After World War I, with the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a new country emerged on the west coast of the Balkan Peninsula—the Kingdom of Serbos, Croats, and Slovenes.
In 1929, it was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, meaning the Slavs of the South.
In the 1987 Men's Basketball World Youth Championship, Yugoslavia formed the Yugoslavia National Youth Team with Divac, Kukoc and Petrovic as the main players.
In that era when the inside was king, shooting guard Drazen Petrovich, who was only 196 centimeters tall, once scored 112 points in a single game in the Yugoslav League relying on shooting, and was known as the Mozart of basketball.
People always refer to people who are talented and accomplished in a certain industry and die young as so-and-so Mozart.
This is not a very pleasant title.
Divac and Kukoc form the inside twin towers of the Yugoslavia youth team. Divac has a height of 216cm and a very high basketball IQ.
The hero of consecutive championships and the best sixth man in the league.
Such a Yugoslav youth team first defeated the United States men's basketball team by 15 points in the group stage, and finally defeated the United States again in the final and won the championship.
That American team also included future NBA stars such as Payton and Larry Johnson, but it lost to Yugoslavia twice.
The 26th European Basketball Championship held in Yugoslavia in 1989,
The champion is still Yugoslavia.
Three years later, at the World Championships in Argentina, the Yugoslav national team, based on this national youth team, advanced to the semi-finals with great success. In the semi-finals, they met their old rival, the United States team, a team with the ability to
Neil Anderson, who joined Turner and Mourning on the U.S. team, has the superior physical fitness of black athletes.
But the charm of basketball is that it is not just physical play. The Yugoslavs’ basketball IQ and extremely pioneering style of play created huge defensive pressure and gaps on the inside and outside of the US team. Relying on shooting and open attacks, they won the semifinals with 9991
Defeated the United States team, and defeated the big brother, the Soviet Union, in the final without any suspense, and won the championship.
The entire match was dominated by the Yugoslav team.
When winning or losing is determined, give your opponent some opportunities to chase the score.
In 1991, the Yugoslav men's basketball team won the European Championship again, and people called them the "invincible team." At this time, their only goal was the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Facing this strong Yugoslavia team, the American Basketball Association decided to find the most outstanding players in the league to form the best basketball team in history. If you want to know how strong this team is, you only need to list the following names
:
David Robinson, Scottie Pippen, Stockton, Barkley, Ewing, Magic Johnson, Bird, Drexler, Karl Malone, and the basketball god Jordan.
FIBA changed the rules in 1989.
Professional players are allowed to participate in national basketball events.
Only the United States has the opportunity to form a dream team.
Just when the world was eagerly anticipating the duel between two top teams and dedicating an unprecedented competition in basketball history, the world made a black joke to the Yugoslav basketball team.
On the night when they defeated the Soviet Union, the Yugoslav men's basketball boys embraced enthusiastically. At this time, a man holding a Croatian flag rushed to the court from the audience and walked past the embracing Divac, Kukoc and Petrovic.
Divac noticed him, and after a quarrel, the 2.16-meter-tall Divac stretched out his arms, snatched the flag, and threw it to the ground angrily.
At this time, the reporters gathered in Argentina were like a swarm of sharks smelling the smell of blood. They shot and fired to record this moment.
This was a period when public opinion was being influenced by Western powers.
This incident was not only a precursor to the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
It is also an introduction to the fall of powerful sports teams along with powerful political countries.
Divac thought very simply. He wanted to show the world that Yugoslavia was a united whole. But the Croatians did not think so, and the media that controlled the discourse would not choose to settle the matter. They even fabricated Divac to tell Croatia that "
Flag" spat and stomped a few times.
At the 1990 LBA World Championships.
Serbia's Divac and Croatia's Petrovic can still play side by side.
Divac once said, "We are athletes, not politicians."
But politics still affected basketball. Yugoslavia's politics collapsed and there were signs of disintegration.
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Yugoslavia could not send a representative team to participate due to sanctions from Western countries. The strength of the separated Croatian men's basketball team was seriously damaged, and they lost to the United States men's basketball team in the final by 32 points.
Whether the complete Yugoslav men's basketball team can compete with the American Dream Team will never be answered.
The current Yugoslav team is not the complete Yugoslavia, but the Yugoslav Union jointly formed by Serbia and Montenegro.
It does not include several other countries, such as Slovenia and Croatia.
But even so, this Yugoslav team is still strong.
The 1998 NBA labor negotiations not only resulted in a shortened season and a bloated Kemp, but also a very important point: none of the stars were even willing to travel for the country. The Dream Team actually gave up the World Championship in Greece and replaced it with a
The starlight of the American team is dim, there is not even a starlight, there is no active NBA player, the American team is represented by a CBA representative team, and it has not even entered the finals.
In the Yugoslav final, Yugoslavia narrowly defeated Russia 64:62, and white magician Bodiloga won the MVP.
Due to historical issues, the only players Yugoslavia could recruit after 1998 were Serbia and Montenegro. Players from Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina could no longer represent the Yugoslav team, but the team still used the name Yugoslavia. Maybe
It is for the glory of the past and the dream of the future.
As Yugoslavia's most well-known player and on-court core, the stubborn Bodiloga rejected the Kings' No. 51 draft pick in 1995. He did not go to the NBA, but this did not affect his achievements in the slightest.
Bodiloga's substitute finally began to make a name for himself in the national team. Coincidentally, the Kings chose another Yugoslav player with the 14th pick in 1996 - Stojakovic.
Although Bodiloga had no intention of reporting, the Kings were still willing to put their money on Peja, which shows how powerful Yugoslav basketball was at that time.
The one who sits in the paint is also from the Kings - Divac. This big man who is best at passing the ball has inherited all the excellent traditions of the Yugoslavs and has also made his own mark in the NBA.
Radmanovic was recruited from the outside, and other players included Koturovic, Kabalkapa, Jaric, Drobniak, Tomasevich, Gurovic and Vujanic.
Their coach is the legendary Pesic.
Pesic is a magical figure. He coached the little-known German team to win the European Championship in 1992, which is a myth. Due to the division of the motherland, he left his son Pesic in Germany.
When the country needed him, Pesic immediately returned to Yugoslavia. After many years of exposure, Pesic also became a basketball player, but he represented the German men's basketball team. He became the second-best basketball player after No. 1
Wiski and Okulaya were the third scorers, and the German team was also one of the favorites to win the 2002 World Championship. This tragedy that the father and son belong to two countries is indeed caused by the turmoil in Yugoslavia in recent years.
With so many powerful players and coaches, officials from the Chinese Basketball Association are not optimistic that the Chinese men's basketball team can defeat its opponents.
Being able to reach the semi-finals has exceeded many people's expectations.
However, something unexpected happened.
Perhaps the reason begins when they find Radmanovic.
This middle-school boy, who was born in a family of military officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, did not play any role. Instead, it intensified the internal strife in the team. Children of military officers' families were not welcome here. This famous troublemaker began a series of troubles.
Performance art performance.
Originally, the Yugoslav team was bound to win this game, and many people were optimistic that the Yugoslav team could defeat the Chinese men's basketball team.
Before the game, something happened to the Yugoslav team.
The divisions and conflicts in the Yugoslav team will always be irreconcilable. Due to the victory over the "powerful" Dream Team, the topic of Pesic's son gradually subsided, but new topics of internal strife still continued - Peja was raped during training.
Beaten up.
In fact, this is not a new topic for a long time. Fighting and stubbornness are commonplace in the Yugoslavia team, but this time is too wrong. Divac, who has the highest prestige and the most say in the team, begins to integrate the team and educate the younger players, but there are contradictions.
It actually broke out on the court in the semifinals.
Radmanovic has always been the most restless factor. He often goes to bars in the middle of the night and even comes back with women.
The previous games were very intense, and he knew that he might not be able to play, but against the Chinese team, he felt that he deserved a chance.
So he made wild remarks on the bench and even quarreled with head coach Pesic.
At halftime, before the Yugoslavs opened up the score, Radmanovic actually took a few bananas and sat in the corner of the court to eat them.
Pesic's patience reached its limit, "Get out!"
Others in the team took Radmanovic to the stands, but this was far from over. Pesic, who was already furious, expelled Radmanovic from the national team in the semi-finals.
Let him go home!
This incident caused a change in the mood of the Yugoslav players.
The banana incident also completely exposed the contradictions in the Yugoslavia team to the eyes of fans and the media. After the start of the second half, Lu Yu led the players of the Chinese team to launch a desperate counterattack.
To be honest, originally the strength of the two teams was about the same.
This Yugoslav team is slightly stronger than the Chinese team. The current Chinese men's basketball team is far from its peak. For example, Zhu Fangyu and Yi Jianlian are still a little immature, Gong Xiaobin and Hu Weidong are older, Liu Yudong has not recovered from his old injury, and Yao Ming has just entered the team.
nba, the only players on this team who are still at their peak are Lu Yu and Wang Zhizhi.
Therefore, it is actually quite difficult for the Chinese team to win against the Yugoslav team.
But the banana incident affected the mood of the Yugoslav team, especially when the Chinese team made consecutive counterattacks, their mentality was on the verge of collapse.
In Lu Yu's previous life, the banana incident also occurred.
But their opponent was New Zealand, and the strength gap between the two sides was too big, which had little impact on the outcome of the game.
But when encountering this Chinese men's basketball team, the two sides are close in strength, and the mentality of the players will have a great impact on the game, especially when the game is against the wind.
At the end of the game, the Chinese men's basketball team won the game 101-96.
Lu Yu scored 37 points, 12 assists, 9 rebounds and 5 steals. Lu Yu feels that his rebound and steal statistics are getting more and more now. I wonder if it is because of his height.
As you grow taller, your arms will grow longer. Coupled with the improvement of agility caused by the wind breathing method, you will be able to steal more easily.
At this time, at the Basketball Center on the other side of the ocean.
"Dongdong!"
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Director Xin was smoking a cigarette and looking out the window. When he saw the panting assistant walking in, he probably guessed that the Chinese team might have lost.
"Young man is still young. If you lose, you lose. Is it necessary to run in such a hurry?"
Xin Lancheng took a puff of cigarette leisurely and continued: "Actually, I am very satisfied that our national team can achieve this result. As an adult, you must understand what it means to be measured and don't be so flustered next time."
Already."
"No, director, we won, we won!"
"Win...what, win?" Xin Lancheng was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly ran out the door.
"Director, why are you going?"
"Nonsense, with such good news, I must rush to report to the leader!"
