Carlo Riccalcatti, the head coach of the Italian national team, has studied Lin Yu's game. He knows that Lin Yu is a top three-point shooter and also needs a certain passing ability.
Therefore, the defensive strategy he formulated was to block Lin Yu's three-point shooting and use his body to fight outside the three-point line, forcing Lin Yu to only break through and make mid-range shots.
But obviously, what Coach Carlo didn't expect was that Lin Yu had already developed his three mid-range shooting attributes to their full potential through more than two months of low-confrontation training.
In other words, Lin Yu is now a shooter with no blind spots in long-range shots.
Except for the lack of supporting ball or breakthrough, and mid-to-long-distance scoring, Lin Yu has no weaknesses.
In this game, Yunus also made targeted arrangements. He used Dayao's various screens to create various shooting spaces for Lin Yu.
All mid-range shots are above 90, and all three-pointers are above 90. As long as Lin Yu gets a little bit of space, he can throw the basketball into the basket.
After the first goal of the opening game, the Italian team's offensive round.
Daniel Caballero held the ball, rushed to the frontcourt, and then made a breakthrough.
The Chinese men's basketball team was trained in zone defense by Yunus for almost half a year, and it also played some role at this moment. There was more defense and less defense in some areas, and the Italian team failed to get a good opportunity.
On the weak side, Marco Belinelli has been trying to get rid of Lin Yu's defense, but he has never succeeded.
Belinelli, who will enter the NBA in the future and become famous with the Spurs, is still a young man with rich experience in professional games. However, in the face of pure strength, Belinelli is directly locked up and has no chance.
Belinelli had no chance, and neither did the strong side. Caballero could only hand the ball to Andre Bargnani.
The newly promoted No. 1 pick played against Ah Lian in isolation, and made a jump shot after facing the frame.
With a bang, the pop-up box popped up.
Dayao raised his long arms, easily picked off the rebound, and then used his pass to find Lin Yu.
Lin Yu was not in a hurry when he got the ball. He knew very well that the advantage of the Chinese men's basketball team was his partnership with Yao. Therefore, no matter how big the chance of a fast break counterattack was in front of him, he had to wait for Yao Ming to arrive in the frontcourt.
Launch an attack.
It was Yao Lin's pick-and-roll again, and Lin Yu passed the screen and directly stepped on the three-point line to hit another ball.
Whoosh!
The crisp sound of net wiping sounded, and the Sapporo Arena erupted into cheers again.
"I scored again. Lin Yu played unreasonably, but he still managed to score!"
In Italy's offense, Marco Belinelli on the weak side continued to be locked up by Lin Yu.
But on the strong side, the Italians' cooperation finally found an opportunity. They made a series of passes and runs on the right side.
Fantoni suddenly ran away, and Zhu Fangyu was caught off guard and lost his person.
Then Caballero's pass directly found Fantoni, and the mid-range shot was almost open. With a bang, the Italian got a goal back.
The score is 4:2.
Lin Yu took the ball from the backcourt and shouted: "Attack, attack! We have to run!"
Then, he quickly advanced to the frontcourt, playing the same style as the previous offensive round. After the pick-and-roll screen, the Italian was on guard.
They directly rushed out the defense in the penalty area, delayed the defense, and temporarily blocked Lin Yu, but they ignored Dayao.
Dayao made a pass, and halfway through the pass, he received a pass from Lin Yu.
The Italian's defense rushed forward, trying to close the loophole on Dayao's side, but missed Zhu Fangyu on the sideline.
A cross pass from Dayao.
Zhu Fangyu caught the ball and took an open three-point shot.
Whoosh!
Sapporo Arena is crazy again!
At 7:2, at the beginning, the Chinese team took the lead and effectively suppressed the Italian team on the scene, and all they relied on was a simple Yao Lin pick-and-roll.
Director Zhang was a little excited: "Sure enough, as we said before the game, the combination of Lin Yu and Dayao showed the power of 1+1 greater than 2, and the Italians were directly beaten by us and were confused!"
Yu Jia was equally excited: "After the 2004 Olympics, Lin Yu came into being, and the men's basketball team finally no longer walks on one leg!"
"It's such a blessing to have a strong perimeter player!"
Fans on the sidelines sighed, and Yao Ming on the court thought the same way. He has been too relaxed since the beginning of the game.
The men's basketball team's offense only requires him to pick and roll, then move forward, shoot when there is a chance, and pass the ball when there is no chance. It is too easy.
Thinking back to the Greek Olympics two years ago, that year, the men's basketball team only had one single player, Yao Ming.
After the opening 7:2, the Italians couldn't stand it any longer. Although their coordination was excellent and their tactical skills were excellent, they still couldn't stand it due to their absolute strength.
In particular, Marco Belinelli, whom Daniel Caballero valued very much, was directly locked up by Lin Yu without even the slightest chance.
The Italian team played even more difficultly.
Just after halftime, the Chinese team took a 16-point lead at 53:37.
In this game, the Chinese team played really smoothly!
After halftime, Yu Jia and Zhang Weiping in the commentary box began to summarize the first half of the game.
"Actually, looking at the first half of the game, we should not only see the 16-point lead. We should also see that Lin Yu and Dayao have been simply combined by Yunus. This is the most important thing.
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"Yao Lin's pick-and-roll, although this style of play is simple, is a bit invincible. At least the Italians cannot defend the Chinese team's Yao Lin's pick-and-roll. I predict that in the future, Yao Lin's pick-and-roll will become one of the strongest offensive tactics of the Chinese team!
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Daniel Caballero's face was a little ugly. Before the game, he said: They are both No. 1 picks, so there should be no difference. As a result, Yao Ming showed him in this game that the gap between the No. 1 pick and No. 1 pick will be huge.
In the first half of the game, Dayao scored 16 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks. However, Caballero was all about No. 1 pick Andre Bargnani. At the end of the half, he only scored 9 points and 3 blocks.
A rebound and a steal are not a level of performance at all.
If Italy's tactical coordination hadn't been better, I'm afraid the Chinese team would have directly defeated the Italian team in the first half.
Marco Belinelli, the young striker that Caballero had been waiting for for a long time, was also completely beaten by Lin Yu in the first half of the game.
In the first half, Lin Yu scored 17 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. At least in this game, Lin Yu proved that he is also a big killer on the fiba field.
And Marco Belinelli was blocked by him and made 1 of 3 shots, scoring only 3 points.
The Italian team's much-anticipated young shooter was so poorly defended that it was understandable that they fell behind by 16 points at halftime.
In the second half, the Chinese men's basketball team changed into a rotating lineup, and the Italian team began to counterattack, gradually closing the point difference to about 10 points.
At this time, Lin Yu was put on the court again, and after scoring consecutive three-pointers, he helped the men's basketball team stabilize the situation.
Finally, the game is over.
In Lin Yu's first international game after making progress, he directly scored 34 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks. Only Yao Ming's 29 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks could compare with him.
Compare.
The Chinese men's basketball team also relied on the explosion of two fiba superstars, beating its opponent by 19 points 95:76.
