Chapter 351 What are they shouting before the final victory?
Lu Yu had to let Marbury get the upper hand. Of all the people here, only Marbury was the easiest to get the upper hand.
Sure enough, there was a fierce look in Marbury's eyes.
Breakthrough, throw,
Missed.
In the counterattack, Lu Yu made a strong attack inside, but Duncan had no choice but to double attack and commit a foul.
Only then did everyone discover,
When Lu Yu started to show off his power at the last moment, there was no stopping him.
Brown, the head coach of the US team, sighed helplessly.
He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake.
If the American team had opened up the score from the beginning, perhaps now the Chinese team, no matter how powerful Lu Yu is, would not be able to lead the team in counterattack.
However, the game was dragged into a stalemate until the last minute of the game.
At this time, who else has Lu Yu’s finishing ability?
Maybe no one else except Jordan.
Thirteen seconds later, the U.S. team was three points behind!
The American team fought tooth and nail to score a three-pointer, but the Chinese team did not give its opponent a chance to score a three-pointer, allowing the opponent to go inside.
Marbury was forced to rush into the paint with the ball.
Lu Yu, who had just switched defenses, could only make up for it.
At this time,
Marbury jumped high.
Everyone thought he was going for a layup, but he actually raised his big foot.
Lu Yu made up for it, so he didn't see Marbury's movements at all.
When this kick hit the chest hard.
He felt a tight pain in his chest.
Damn it!
Get on the horse!
Lu Yu was lying on the ground, and before he could get up, he saw Zhu Fangyu punching Marbury in the face.
Following closely, the Chinese players rushed into the court and chased Marbury all over the court.
"It's over!" This thought kept swirling in his mind.
Zhu Fangyu, are you stupid?
Even if we win the game, we can’t fight on the playing field!
Do you understand, Sap?
Marbury lost the game and wanted to vent that he was unlucky.
Who made him deliberately anger the opponent from the beginning? Of course, Lu Yu angered Marbury in order to win the game.
But now... the fight started,
I really don't know if I am right or wrong.
The Chinese team won the US team, but the Chinese fans were not happy at all. They all denounced the US men's basketball team and Marbury with righteous indignation.
"The Chinese men's basketball team defeated the US men's basketball team by four points."
"Marbury: I didn't mean it."
"Lu Yu injured his ribs and withdrew from the Olympics. The future of the Chinese men's basketball team is uncertain."
"Harris admitted that there was a problem with the tactical arrangement and took all responsibility for the failure."
No one expected that Harris would step forward and take all the responsibilities. When interviewed by reporters, he admitted that the overuse of three players, Lu, Yu, Yao, Ming, and Wang Zhizhi in this game was the main reason for the loss.
There were mistakes in the game, and he proactively admitted that it was his decision to win against Serbia and Montenegro that led to the situation where the Chinese team faced the U.S. team players in the quarter-finals with insufficient physical strength, and he was willing to bear all responsibilities.
Someone will always take the blame for losing, and Harris took the initiative to stand up, which moved all the Chinese players.
After the fans learned that Lu Yu was injured and had to withdraw from the Olympics, they cursed Marbury one after another. If it hadn't been for his kick, Lu Yu wouldn't have been injured. Marbury still had the audacity to say it wasn't intentional?
Among the Chinese men's basketball players involved in the fight, two were suspended, namely Zhu Fangyu and Yi Jianlian.
The Chinese delegation also lodged a complaint with the Olympic Organizing Committee because it was because Marbury kicked someone first that it aroused the anger of the Chinese team members.
In the end, the Olympic organizing committee banned Marbury.
Unfortunately, this result cannot change the predicament of the Chinese men's basketball team in the following games.
In the training hall, the members of the Chinese men's basketball team were not in high spirits.
The core is injured and the team members are suspended.
The next game is a battle with Argentina's top four, which casts a shadow over the Chinese team's Olympic journey.
Unknowingly, everyone's expectations for the Chinese men's basketball team have become higher, including the men's basketball players themselves.
No one thinks that when they first came here, their goal was just to enter the quarterfinals.
Sure enough, in the subsequent game against Argentina, the Chinese men's basketball team lost to Argentina 78-84 due to a shortage of major players and was unable to advance to the finals.
The next game is the last game of the Chinese men's basketball team in this Olympic Games.
Lu Yu was sitting on the sidelines. His sternum was still very painful. The recovery time was expected to take two weeks, and the Chinese team's last game was just two days later, so it was doomed that he would withdraw from the Olympics.
He saw that the team members were not in a high mood during training, and he could probably guess what his teammates were thinking.
It's a pity that I was careless, if I hadn't been injured.
The Chinese men's basketball team will not lose to Argentina.
I didn't see Ginobili's face burst into smiles after he found out he was injured.
Carefully analyzing the lineup of the Chinese men's basketball team, we can see that this lineup has big flaws. Yi Jianlian is still too young at this time, and the concentration of insiders is too serious. A team can't wait to bring five insiders.
The wings are weak, and the two strikers Zhu Fangyu and Li Nan cannot support the defense in the backcourt. The substitute lineup is equivalent to the fifth scum. Let alone the American men's basketball team, among the twelve teams participating in the Olympics, any team has better substitutes than China.
The men's basketball team is much stronger.
In the five games of the group stage, apart from Lu Yu's powerful harvesting ability, what really crushed the opponent was some tricky tactics.
Although trickery is also a type of tactics. If the tactics are properly arranged, the team's strength can be greatly improved. However, there is a saying that one can break through ten games. If four years later, the Chinese Men's Basketball Team encounters the powerful Dream Eight Team, the Chinese Men's Basketball Team will
Can we still take risks like this year?
Dream Team 8 is indeed arrogant.
The American team will lose to the European and American teams because the players of the European and American teams are not inferior to them in physical fitness. Coupled with the fiba rules, the American team can be restricted on the defensive end.
Especially a team with strong integrity like Argentina and Lithuania.
But only for this American team.
If it is the Dream Team four years from now, Argentina will be the younger brother.
But Lu Yu is confident that if they meet the American team again in four years, the Chinese team will be able to compete.
Because Yao Ming was still far from his peak at this time. He was only a second-year rookie in the NBA. Wang Zhizhi was quite good, but he obviously could not support the power forward position of the Chinese team by himself. Yi Jianlian was still very young and could not even play.
There is not much time, Zhu Fangyu is not stable enough, the shooting guard and point guard talents are stretched thin, and the substitute lineup is too weak. These are the current problems of this Chinese men's basketball team. Four years later, these will be solved to some extent.
.
Four years later, the Chinese men's basketball team truly rose to prominence.
Think about it carefully, compared with European and American basketball, Chinese basketball is more like a child who has just learned to walk. Are your expectations a bit too high?
Lu Yu took a deep breath and glanced around the training hall, but did not see Harris.
"How is your injury?" Yao Ming walked over and asked.
"It's okay, much better." Lu Yu smiled: "By the way, where is Coach Harris?"
"Huh?" Yao Ming paused, "Let's go to the meeting. Someone has to take the blame for losing, not to mention someone who originally had a chance to enter the finals, but now he lost the game."
The opponent in the battle for third and fourth place is the Lithuanian team. Can the Chinese men's basketball team without Lu Yu still beat Lithuania?
Yao Ming glanced at the players on the court worriedly. Everyone's mood had obviously hit rock bottom.
"yes……"
Lu Yudan said calmly: "Dayao, help me up."
"good."
Yao Ming pulled Lu Yu up and helped him walk to the court.
"Everyone, stop for a moment." Lu Yu suddenly shouted: "Since you don't want to practice, why not take a break and chat."
Zhu Fangyu was shooting a basketball, and the basketball he held above his head suddenly stood there.
Yi Jianlian also stopped dribbling training.
Wang Zhizhi glanced at Lu Yu, as if he had guessed something.
"We lost the game, and everyone felt disappointed and blamed themselves, because we had been winning before and lost to Argentina. Everyone must be unconvinced, right?" Lu Yu's voice was not loud, but everyone could hear it in the quiet arena.
Clearly.
"Some people may think that if it hadn't been for my injury, if it hadn't been for the suspension, we wouldn't have lost. But without three players, we still couldn't beat Argentina. This is the fact."
"Do you know who is the unluckiest?"
"It's Harris!"
"In order to let our players know what it's like to win and to give our players tenacity and determination, he shouldered all the responsibilities. We could have chosen to lose to Serbia and Montenegro, so that we would have enough physical strength to face the United States.
The team is coach Harris. He asked us to play the basketball game we wanted to play. We played the game, we were happy when we won, and we were frustrated when we lost. When we are frustrated, everyone thinks about Coach Harris."
"He has taken all responsibilities. He will be scolded by fans across the country. He will be blamed by the leaders of the delegation. He will become the first failed foreign teacher in the history of Chinese basketball."
"First Evolution"
"But if you think about it carefully, did he fail?"
"The Chinese team has entered the semi-finals, and historically entered the semi-finals as the first in the group. No coach has been able to do this, but he took all the responsibility for the loss. We cannot lose because of it."
If the ball gets frustrated and says we can’t do it, then all Harris has done will be in vain!”
There was silence in the arena.
Everyone is holding back their energy. Losing is not terrible, but what is terrible is losing the tenacity that belongs to the Chinese men's basketball team.
"Lu Yu, tell me what to do!" Zhu Fangyu was the first to stand up.
"Yes, everyone listens to you." Li Nan also stood up.
"Let's go express our stance to the group. Harris has no responsibility." Wang Zhizhi said solemnly.
Everyone is determined together, and they are willing to do anything as long as they can keep Coach Harris.
Lu Yu looked serious and said solemnly: "Winning Lithuania will be like us winning against Serbia and Montenegro!"
"No matter what, take a medal home!"
On August 28, the last game of the Chinese Men’s Basketball Olympic Games, the bronze medal match, the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team vs. the Lithuanian Men’s Basketball Team.
Because of the loss to Argentina, many fans began to curse Harris.
"Is there something wrong with Harris? Why do you want to win against Serbia and Montenegro?"
"Why don't we just watch the team win the game?"
“A rat’s eyes are short-sighted and can do a lot of harm to people.”
"One is an honor that is right in front of you, and the other is an honor that is far away and cannot be touched. Which one do you think he should take?"
"When we lost to the American team, I felt that he was not a good coach. How could he use his main force to the death?"
"It can't be said that the Chinese team actually played well." There are some people who understand among the fans: "Besides, the selection of games in the group stage must be a joint decision of the team, and the responsibility cannot be placed on the coach."
"This man is a navy soldier..."
"I'll give you double the amount that Harris gives you."
People who understand can't say many things clearly, because sometimes fans only see the winning or losing of the game, and few really analyze the reasons. What's more, what Harris values is the ethereal things like the spirit of the players, and the fans are even more concerned about it.
It's impossible to know.
On the eve of the bronze medal match, an uninvited guest came to Lu Yu's room.
Suddenly a head popped out from the door of the room. Lu Yu was bored and saw it at a glance, "Su Qun, why are you here?"
Su Qun smiled awkwardly: "I originally wanted to interview Lu Yu about his injury, but when I came, I bumped into the Chinese men's basketball team's bus. Yao Ming told me that Lu Yu was still at the Olympic Village, so I rushed
coming."
"You should ask the team doctor about the injury," Lu Yu said with a smile.
The team doctor has also completed the examination. In fact, Lu Yu's injury is not serious, but he will definitely not be able to play.
Su Qun was relieved after learning about it, but he was also helpless when he thought that Lu Yu's injury forced the Chinese men's basketball team, which could have won the gold medal, to compete for the bronze medal.
"By the way, Su Qun, I need your help with something." Lu Yu suddenly said.
"What's going on?" Su Qun was startled.
Lu Yu said: "Can you write a report for me? About Coach Harris."
"Huh?" Su Qun was startled, knowing that Harris was being scolded a lot now: "What do you want to write?"
"So, have you driven here? Let's talk while walking on the way to the competition." Lu Yu said.
"good."
When they drove to the competition venue, Su Qun heard another unknown version of Coach Harris's story from Lu Yu, and he promised Lu Yu that he would write the report truthfully.
After they entered the arena, the game was inextricable.
After Yao Ming received Liu Wei's pass in the paint, he pushed his back to the paint, turned around and shot a hook, and easily threw the ball in with a soft touch.
…
Wang Zhizhi stood outside the three-point line and raised his hand to hit a three-pointer.
…
Zhu Fangyu threw away the defender and cut to the basket to tie the score 2 plus 1.
…
Sun Yiping, who was in charge of the commentary, said excitedly: "The Chinese men's basketball team played very hard in this game, which made the Lithuanian team unable to react for a while. After the start, they gained a ten-point lead. The Chinese team blossomed a lot inside and outside, which made us
Seeing that the Chinese team did not lose the spirit of the Chinese team after losing the game, let us cheer for the Chinese men’s basketball team!”
The Lithuanian team immediately launched a counterattack after experiencing initial discomfort.
Harris called a timeout in time.
He did not lay out tactics, but just said when the players gathered together: "Everyone played well, I am proud of you. If you continue to play like this, no matter whether you win or lose, you are the best players in my heart."
Different from his previous reprimands, Harris had a satisfied smile on his face.
"Coach, don't worry, we will definitely win this game!" Yao Ming said.
"Yes! I will definitely win."
"The Chinese team must win!"
"We must win! Come on!"
All the team members shouted in unison, causing the members of the Lithuanian team not far away to look askance - What are they shouting before it is time to decide?
