The referee threw the ball into the air and the game began.
Just three minutes into the game, the Chinese team led by four points, 11:7. Harris immediately called a timeout and replaced Battelle and Zhu Fangyu.
Yao Ming and Lu Yu smiled at each other and walked back to the bench.
Radmanovic raised his eyebrows at Lu Yu. It seemed that his identity as a former teammate was still useful. Lu Yu was really a great brother.
Everyone in the Serbian and Montenegrin team breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Chinese team was going to give up the ball. At the same time, the Italian team players sitting in the audience looked helpless. They knew that the Chinese team's choice was understandable. The Chinese team gave up the ball, which showed that they
Falling out of the top eight is a foregone conclusion.
Old God Harris folded his hands in front of his chest, looking like he was strategizing.
As a result, two minutes later, he rubbed his temples with his fingers...
Why are these young guys so ignorant?
"Dear viewers, our Chinese men's basketball team seems to regard this game as a training ground for new players."
The person responsible for the commentary of this game is still the familiar Sun Yiping, whose unique tone is full of passion.
"Yi Jianlian continues to hit high jump shots... Without Lu Yu and Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi have become the offensive spearhead of the Chinese men's basketball team." Sun Yiping said excitedly: "They are also the strongest insiders on the offensive end of the Chinese men's basketball team...
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Not long after entering the second quarter, the Chinese team took an eight-point lead over Serbia and Montenegro at 28:20.
Immediately after Wang Zhizhi succeeded in another strong attack under the basket, Tomasevic already knew Wang Zhizhi's name before the game. After all, last year's Wang Zhizhi played like an All-Star after Nowitzki was injured in the playoffs.
Masevich had used all his energy to defend, but he still couldn't defend himself.
Today's Wang Zhizhi has long been reborn.
Serbia and Montenegro began to double-team Wang Zhizhi, but Wang Zhizhi changed his position from scoring arrow to organizer.
The inbound pass between Yi Jianlian and Yi Jianlian made opponents fearful. Yi Jianlian received a pass from Wang Zhizhi at the free throw line. Without hesitation, he raised his hand and shot.
Whoosh!
The basketball hit the net.
"Beautiful! Yi Jianlian played very resolutely. It seems that he has practiced hard this summer. We should be able to see a different Yi Jianlian in the NBA next season."
Radmanovic's face was ashen, and Drobnik behind him whispered: "The situation seems a little wrong. Didn't you say they will definitely give up the ball?"
Radmanovic said impatiently: "Didn't you see that Lu and Yao have gone down? Who knows why the remaining players are like taking medicine today..."
The only thing to blame is that Harris' words before the game were too 'inspiring'...
Harris is also helpless. What can he do? Is it possible to replace Lu Yu and Yao Ming?
I never expected Serbia and Montenegro to be so incompetent. They couldn't even handle the Chinese team without Lu Yu and Yao Ming. They couldn't give away heads even if they wanted to.
The eyes of the head coach of the Italian team suddenly lit up in the stands: Isn't the Chinese team giving in to the ball? No, no, no... They were giving in to the ball by substituting Lu Yu and Yao Ming, but the players on the field had no intention of giving up.
...This is the real athlete, this is the Olympic spirit!
Lu Yu and Yao Ming were sitting in the audience chatting.
"We bet 50 cents on whether we will win or lose in this game?" Lu Yu whispered.
"The leaders of the team want to lose..." Yao Ming answered seriously.
"But I think we can win. Harris even substituted Arab League and Moko, and Serbia and Montenegro were able to catch up by a few points. Harris didn't dare to lose blatantly, so he could only substitute Dazhi and Daba.
Da Zhi is playing so well on the field now that Serbia and Heilongjiang cannot guard against it." Lu Yu shook his head and then said: "Can't you see, they are holding their breath... I think Coach Harris seems to be thinking the same thing.
Helped the Chinese team win the game..."
Harris replaced Lu Yu and Yao Ming, which can be said to protect the main players in the following games. However, if all players are replaced by players who have not even played a few games, it is estimated that the Italian team will protest to the Olympic Organizing Committee.
Besides, Serbia and Montenegro didn’t offer any benefits, so why should we let them?
Harris also saw clearly. Since the players are determined to prove themselves, he must satisfy the players' ideas. After all, it is not terrible for a team to lose. The most important thing is that this team must have its own
Fighting spirit.
The Chinese team has gradually developed this fighting spirit.
A kind of fighting spirit that can only be found in the world’s top teams!
Harris secretly made up his mind: "Even if we really encounter Greece or the US team in the quarter-finals and lose because of winning this game, then I will shoulder the final responsibility!"
He knows that for the Chinese team, the results of this Olympic Games are temporary, but when the team has this kind of fighting spirit, it will affect generations of Chinese men's basketball players.
And this game will become a symbol of the maturity of the Chinese men's basketball team.
Sun Yiping, who was responsible for commentating the game, said: "The current score is 33:25. The Chinese team replaced Wang Zhizhi and Battelle to continue to stabilize the situation... Yi Jianlian was still too weak and was eaten up by Drobnik in the interior. Battelle
Although there has not been a single shot in this game so far, he has restricted Drobnik very well both on the offensive and defensive ends. Now the only scoring points for Serbia and Montenegro are their defender Fjanic and forward Rad.
Manovich...beautiful, Zhu Fangyu defended hard and hit a mid-range jumper to tie the score at 35:25, and the point difference reached double digits again..."
Radmanovic made a shot.
Immediately after Liu Wei's mid-range shot missed the basket, Vranic received the pass from his teammate, quickly took the ball across the half court, stepped on the three-point line one step away, and shot.
Whoosh!
The three-pointer fell neatly into the basket.
Lu Yu sat on the sidelines and frowned slightly: "Serbia and Montenegro started to counterattack..."
"Yes, they are already pretty good." Yao Ming nodded: "Their guard No. 13 is the guard who just made a three-pointer. He was very accurate when they played against us last time. The No. 7 who played with the Clippers
You should also have played against each other in the regular season. If we let them throw in a dozen three-pointers like they did in the diamond game, we might really lose."
"Is it time for Harris to call a timeout?"
Before Lu Yu finished speaking, Harris actually called a timeout. After calling the timeout, Harris looked at Lu Yu and Yao Ming sitting on the bench, and then moved his eyes elsewhere.
It was just a normal pause.
As a result, at this time, the two coaches, Harris and Yunus, suddenly had a quarrel.
"I am the head coach and I am responsible for everything..."
"We can achieve better results! And you agreed before the game. This is a joint decision made by the coaching staff. You can't make changes at will!"
"I said, I am the head coach!"
"I am also a coach invited by the Chinese Basketball Association. The coach is not responsible for tactics. Even in the NBA, some teams will choose to give up the game in order to get a suitable seat in the playoffs!"
"This is not the NBA. I don't have to report to any boss. They invited me here just to win."
"One victory does not mean victory!"
"Winning is victory!"
At this time, the entire arena was like a vegetable market, and the audience started talking, including the Serbian and Montenegro teams opposite and the Italian team sitting in the audience, who were also paying attention to the situation on the Chinese team.
Because the two coaches were arguing in English, the players on both teams could understand it.
To put it bluntly, whoever wins the argument may determine the fate of the Italian team and the Serbian and Montenegro teams.
It sounds ironic, but it's true.
Lu Yu's heart sank: What was supposed to happen finally happened...
Originally, it was a wrong decision for the Chinese men's basketball team to hire two foreign coaches, two famous foreign coaches. The two reluctantly worked together. Their tactical concepts, including the way they use players, are somewhat different. They have been looking for someone who can seek common ground while reserving differences.
Ways of living together.
Until today, it finally broke out.
Was Yunus wrong?
He didn't. As a coach, he has to be responsible for the Chinese team and get a better ranking for the Chinese team in this game, so this game must be given up.
The strategy set by the coaching staff from the beginning is to try to maintain the players' physical strength and prepare for the possibility of meeting the American team in the eight-to-four game.
Undoubtedly, this will give the Chinese team a great chance to achieve a historical breakthrough, and they may even be able to enter the semi-finals in the Olympic Games for the first time and compete for a medal.
But when Yunus saw Harris calling a timeout, he knew that Harris had changed his decision, so he immediately stood up to stop it, and then he and Harris started to quarrel.
Harris's idea is very simple, if the players want to win, I have to help them win!
The TV broadcast jumped back to the studio, and Sun Yiping said awkwardly: "There must be some differences among the Chinese team's coaching staff. Let's go into a commercial..."
The audience who stayed in front of the TV gave up.
"The Chinese team is playing well, why is the coach making a quarrel?"
"Is it okay to be a foreigner coach..."
"Who wants to see ads? Let the ads go away!"
"Is the quarrel over? Has the game started?"
"I don't know if the quarrel has any consequences?"
The TV screen continued to play the last three minutes of the first half between the Chinese team and Serbia and Montenegro. The Chinese team was 35:31, and the Chinese team only led by four points.
Yunus sat on the sidelines, his face ashen.
Harris directed the players, especially Liu Wei, and kept shouting at Liu Wei, "Run, pass, Liu, you have to make tactics and pass the ball in advance..."
Harris is serious, he wants to win the game, he wants to win the game for this group of players, and also for himself.
Just now, when the argument between him and Yunus reached a fever pitch, the players on the field gathered around, and it was Battelle who stood up first: "Coach, I want to win this game!"
Then, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian...
"Whoever loses will have a grandson!"
"What are you doing if you don't win?"
"I want to win too!"
Harris received the support of the team members. The team members formed a circle and everyone's hands were folded together. Finally, Harris slowly walked over, everyone made a space, and Harris covered the top with his hands.
"Must win!"
"go!"
The morale of the Chinese team is like a dragon. No one cares about which opponent they will face after winning this game. For them now, they only have Serbia and Montenegro in their eyes. They just want to prove that they are also a good team.
What kind of player.
Lu Yu and Yao Ming were sitting next to Yunus.
"Dayao, it seems like there's nothing wrong with us?"
"What does it mean?"
"..."
Yunus took a deep breath. He knew that the matter was a foregone conclusion. Harris had the support of the team members. It did not mean that he was unpopular with the team members, but he still believed that both Harris and the team members had made mistakes.
s Choice.
The team members may not understand the analysis of the schedule, because their job is to play well, but as a coach, you must be responsible for the ranking and the medals.
Harris is so stubborn...
"Here you water." While Yunus was still thinking, Lu Yu's voice suddenly sounded in his ears. Lu Yu handed a bottle of water from the side and said, "Are you still thinking about this?"
"Yes, I don't think I did anything wrong." Yunus said: "After we enter the quarterfinals, the opponents we will face will most likely be the US Men's Basketball Team and the Greek Men's Basketball Team. We should be here
It’s time to prepare for the next round of opponents. As long as we can pass the quarter-finals, I think the Chinese team will have a chance to enter the semi-finals historically, and may even win a medal... This is what our coaching staff discussed before
Good decision..."
Lu Yu smiled: "I understand your thoughts, and I think Dayao understands the same, right, Dayao?"
Yao Ming nodded aside.
"But I think you should also understand our thinking. As players, we want to prove ourselves on the court. Compared to rankings, I hope there is something different in our basketball, something that can be passed down from generation to generation.
The spirit of not admitting defeat." Lu Yu said seriously: "And this spirit will allow the Chinese men's basketball team to truly complete the transformation from a weak team to a strong team in the world!"
Yunus was stunned when he heard this. He had always coached strong European teams and had never thought of this problem.
He always thought that the Chinese men's basketball team won the World Championships last year.
Isn’t it considered a world-class team?
But what he doesn't know is that the Chinese men's basketball team has transitioned too quickly and hastily from weak to strong, just because there is an extra Lu Yu, and Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian have become stronger.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
As for other male basketball players, their energy and energy are far from reaching the state of the top basketball teams in the world.
Or psychologically speaking, they definitely had luck in winning last year's World Championship.
Now is the best time to use their desire to win and help them establish a determination to win every battle and be brave in every battle. Even if they lose the title this year, this kind of spiritual thing affects
It will definitely not be one or two players, but the entire CBA league and the entire Chinese basketball!
This is much more effective than combining sports and education or league reform.
Because what changed this time was something deep inside.
"Besides, don't worry. Aren't Dayao and I sitting in the audience?" Lu Yu touched the bridge of his nose: "It's not certain whether we can win?"
He looked at the scoreboard not far away. When the referee blew the halftime whistle, the score was exactly 40:40. The Serbian and Montenegro teams gradually found their shooting rhythm and tied the score.
What Lu Yu didn't say was...
You two coaches argued like this and still won the game in the end. The Serbian and Montenegrin team was very embarrassed, okay?
