If we win the French team in front of us, the men's basketball team will advance to the finals for the first time in history!
Hall 1 of the Carioca Stadium has been basically occupied by Chinese fans since the quarter-finals, and today's opening game was even more outrageous.
There are at least 12,000 people in the 16,000 seats inside the arena wearing the same red jerseys of the Chinese men's basketball team. From the moment the Chinese team players entered the stadium, the five-star red flags in their hands began to wave continuously.
Of the remaining 4,000 seats, half are French fans and the other half are fans from other countries watching the show.
Hall No. 1 of the Carioca Stadium has become the home court of the Chinese team. Fans from other countries have expressed: Scared! Scared!
As for the French fans, they had long been submerged in the massive offensive of the Chinese fans and failed to make any splash.
Tianchao fans: “There’s no way, we have too many people!”
Both parties will announce it soon.
As for the Tianchao team, the lineup remains unchanged.
The same is true for the French team, which sent out five players including Parker, Pietrus, Batum, Diaw, and Gobert.
Although he knew that there was little chance of winning, Parker still gathered his teammates around him and kept cheering him up before taking the field.
After all, they are all professional athletes and competing for national honor. It goes without saying that the French team players will do their best in the game.
On the other side, Wang Zelin also gave his teammates a big mouthful of rich chicken soup in the locker room.
"Everyone relax, everyone just needs to remember that today's game is no different from the previous games. Relax your muscles and make the shots that should be scored and we will win.
Even if you can’t make a shot, don’t be nervous. As long as I’m here, no one can take away those damn rebounds. Remember, the advantage is mine! The Chinese team will win!!!”
Although there is a psychological advantage, after all, it is the first time in history to reach the Olympic semi-finals, and the young guys of the Tianchao team are inevitably a little nervous.
But Wang Zelin's calm speech made them feel much more relaxed. Just like Wang Zelin said, with him here, the Tianchao team will win!
Beep~~~
With the referee's whistle,
Both sides stood up and prepared to go on stage. When they arrived at the technical stage, they stared at each other with glaring eyes. The atmosphere at the scene was extremely intense, which made the players from both sides instinctively excited.
Wang Zelin also saw Ginobili's figure in the front row of the audience. The Olympic journey of Yaodao has ended, but he will stay until the end of the Olympic Games.
Perhaps he wanted to witness with his own eyes the heights Wang Zelin had led the men's basketball team to, or perhaps because the other protagonist of this game was the French team led by his old teammate Parker. In any case, he would not miss this game.
Amid the cheers of tens of thousands of fans in China, Wang Zelin easily defeated Gobert and officially kicked off the competition.
The Chinese team's playing style was the same as before. Wang Zelin made a lasting breakthrough.
The French team's strategy is to double-team with three people, which is expected.
Wang Zelin's performance in this year's Olympics was inhumanly stable and he had a phenomenal impact, but the same cannot be said for the Tianchao team's outside shooters.
To put it bluntly, this choice is a gamble. The French team bets on the outside touch of the Chinese team in the opening game.
If the opponent is accurate, then the French team will have to prepare in advance to stop the semi-finals; if the opponent is not accurate, then the French team will have the confidence to have a good fight.
The French team prepared well before the game, but what happened in the next second caught them off guard.
Wang Zelin faced a three-person double team and did not choose to pass the ball. Instead, after breaking through to the left, he ran towards the bottom line and hooked the ball.
Two people count as vacancies, three people count as opportunities!
At this moment, Wang Zelin seemed to be possessed by Mamba, ignoring the three-man defense and hooking the ball out.
"Whoosh!"
The basketball is in the air, like a full moon scimitar, hitting accurately.
"This shot is unreasonable...fuck! Is this okay?"
"Your Majesty NB! Your Majesty is mighty!"
"The king is invincible! The Chinese team will win!"
The fans cheered loudly, and the commentator shook his head as he watched.
He ignited the whole game at the very beginning. I am afraid that only the Chinese team No. 20 dared to play like this.
When the French team attacked, Gobert hit Zhou Qi with a back in the low post. The power gap was too great. Zhou Qi was easily pushed away by him. A chance to turn around and dunk appeared. He was determined to respond with a goal.
"Don't even think about it!"
Accompanied by a roar, Wang Zelin suddenly jumped out of the crowd. At the moment Gobert took off to lift the ball to dunk, he staged a trick of picking melons behind his head and grabbed the ball from the air.
"Beautiful! King Gobert's bloody hat, the fans are excited!" Yu Jia shouted excitedly.
On the field.
"Bang!"
After encountering a blocked shot, Gobert lost his balance in the air and fell to the floor. This scene made many fans gasp.
As we all know, there is a kind of pain called pain that hurts even when you look at it!
All the French players on the field were stunned, but Wang Zelin noticed that the referee did not blow the whistle. Just because he couldn't miss it, he pushed forward decisively and launched a fast break.
"boom!"
A series of super dunks from all over the court exploded into the French team's basket.
At 4:0, Wang Zelin, the leader of the Chinese team, launched an unstoppable offensive as soon as he came up, which was unexpected.
Cheers erupted suddenly, and countless fans in front of the TV said they were about to get wet.
France attacks.
Wang Zelin mainly focused on Parker, staying very close to him, and mainly guarding shots.
With Zhou Qi and Yi Jianlian in the penalty area, plus Gobert, the three big men blocked the area under the basket. In Wang Zelin's view, Parker's breakthrough could hardly pose a threat.
Sure enough, Parker frowned when he saw the basketball situation after breaking through, but his reaction speed was super fast and he found Batum who was cutting in from the left corner.
Batum immediately started to catch the ball and rushed forward.
Seeing that Batum was about to perform a slam dunk, Wang Zelin took off in an instant, and with a snap, the basketball was pulled out of bounds by his slap and flew into the arms of a lucky fan in the audience.
"Continuous big blocks! Zelin's condition is amazing, he is so incomprehensible! With him on the court, the men's basketball team's defense is impeccable!" Zhang Lili was also full of praise.
The French team was attacking, and Wang Zelin allowed Parker to break into the three-point line again. This time Parker chose to make a jump shot, which was interfered by Wang Zelin and bounced out of the basket.
Zhou Qi blocked Gobert under the basket. Yi Jianlian had a height advantage against Diaw and easily protected the defensive rebound and quickly handed it over to Wang Zelin.
Slowly advancing to the scene, the Tianchao team ran several tactics but had no chance. Halfway through the time, the ball returned to Wang Zelin.
"Pull away! Pull away!"
Wang Zelin made gestures and shouted while controlling the ball.
The moment the penalty area was empty, Wang Zelin suddenly accelerated the breakthrough with the ball, and the French team continued to double-team with three people.
You should pass it on this time, right?
French coach Davies thought so.
But something they didn't expect happened again. One of Wang Zelin's three-man double-team passed the ball, and actually reached the inside again.
When Gobert came out of defense, he did not choose to pass the ball. Instead, he accelerated and sprinted, confronting Gobert and then taking action.
One versus four, can it succeed?
"Beep!"
"Whoosh!"
The ball was scored at the buzzer, and Wang Zelin once again played an unsolvable performance and scored 2 1 strongly!
And after scoring, he waved his right fist and roared angrily.
This is the first time he has made such a celebration in this year's Olympic Games, and he looks particularly excited.
Only then did everyone understand that Wang Zelin was not as calm as he seemed on the surface. He was also a human being. How could a living person of flesh and blood have no personal emotions?
The men's basketball team reached the semi-finals for the first time, and he also needed to vent his inner feelings.