"What else can we say? This is a beautiful defeat. The opponent is the United States. They have Kobe, LeBron, and Kidd... We only lost by 11 points, which is already a very good result. I have to say
What's more, the 11-point difference means that we are just one point away from pushing the American team to a desperate situation. If we meet again, we must do this."
In the post-game interview, Lin Yu was very optimistic. It can be seen from his speech that he seemed to think that the men's basketball team had a chance to win the US team.
In this game, the performance of the men's basketball team was indeed not bad. In the first three quarters, they almost tied with the American team. It was not until the fourth quarter that they lost the game due to Lin Yu's lack of physical fitness.
If Lin Yu's physical fitness can support it, then it's really hard to say who will win the match.
In other words, in this game, the men's basketball team really shocked the American team, and Coach K almost couldn't sit still.
Fortunately, in terms of lineup depth, the men's basketball team is far inferior to the US team.
Yunus' post-game summary was similar. He first admitted his mistake: "I made a mistake. I allowed Lin to consume too much in the first three quarters. The correct approach was to give him some rest time.
This will ensure our combat effectiveness in the final stages.”
Then, he added: "We still have room for improvement. Lin has just joined the team less than a month ago and he has not yet fully integrated into the team."
The implication is that once Lin Yu is fully integrated into the team, the men's basketball team will be even stronger.
On the other side, Dayao also said in the interview: "Although we lost this game, our performance was already very satisfactory. We played our own style and showed our strength. This game should be able to prove that,
We can qualify from Group B."
In the three interviews, the two major players and the leading coach of the men's basketball team all looked very confident.
This also quickly improved their own evaluation.
Before the start of the Olympic men's basketball game, the men's basketball betting odds ranked behind the United States, Spain, Argentina, Lithuania, Greece, Croatia and Russia, and were similar to those of Germany and Australia.
It seems to be a very unreasonable odds, because in the last World Championships, the men's basketball team ended up ranked sixth.
Converted to this Olympics, the men's basketball team should at least get a top-six odds.
Many betting experts have analyzed that the reason why the men's basketball team's odds are ranked behind Croatia and Australia is because they are assigned to Group B.
"The Chinese men's basketball team will obviously not be a rival to the American team and the Spanish team. Therefore, they need to compete with Greece and Germany for the remaining two qualifying places. Compared with the strong European team Greece, the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team is obviously even worse.
A little bit, so their real opponent will always be the German team of Dirk Nowitzki and Chris Kaman."
"For the Chinese men's basketball team, being assigned to Group B means that they must decide a qualifying spot through a life-and-death battle with the German team. Obviously, this has resulted in a very low fault tolerance rate for them, and the corresponding response to Spinach's
On the odds.”
This is the situation before the men's basketball team plays against the United States team.
After this game, the betting company immediately adjusted the odds. The men's basketball team jumped ahead of Croatia and Russia, and the odds are similar to Greece.
This means that authorities have believed that the strength of the men's basketball team has reached the level of a quasi-powerful team in this Olympics.
If the U.S. team is the only one, and Spain and Argentina are considered strong first-tier teams, and Lithuania and Greece are considered strong second-tier teams, the men's basketball team has already relied on a defeat against the U.S. team to help it squeeze into the threshold of the second-tier strong teams.
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"So, we are now level with the lower level..."
On the second day of the game, the men's basketball game was suspended for the day.
On the one hand, it is necessary to rest after playing a day's game. On the other hand, Wukesong also needs to be freed up for the women's basketball game.
Some players from the men's basketball team went to Wukesong to support the Chinese women's basketball game.
The other part, like Lin Yu, stayed in the Olympic Village.
Lin Yu used this time to go to the "World of Basketball" and have a real-person forum visit. He asked Gu Haisen to get himself an account with a V-added real-name authentication, and posted a post——
"It's finally my turn. I'm Lin Yu. Do you have anything to ask?"
Then he answered questions online and promised to give away his own signature sneakers, a total of 63 pairs. Why 63 pairs? Because this number is the single-game scoring record in the playoffs shared by him and Jordan.
Nike plans to use this record to produce a special commemorative sneaker for Lin Yu.
Lin Yu wanted to say no, because if nothing unexpected happened, he would soon break this record. Who gave him the characteristic of "Lin Realm". Only by breaking the record can he obtain characteristic points.
While being a keyboard warrior, Lin Yu also browsed the news for a while, both domestic and foreign.
When he saw this news related to the odds of the Olympic men's basketball team, Lin Yu had a sudden idea and calculated the conditions for qualifying for the group and how they would be grouped in the knockout rounds after qualifying.
As a result, he found that if the men's basketball team only needs to win Angola and win a victory from Greece or Germany, it will basically qualify.
In other words, it is not difficult to qualify.
With the current strength of the Lin-Yao combination, it's hard to say whether they can beat Greece, but they should be safe against Germany.
But the problem lies after qualifying.
If they only win two games in the group stage, the men's basketball team will appear fourth in Group B and will face Lithuania or Argentina in the first knockout game.
Even if they encounter Lithuania by chance and win, they will also face Spain in the second round. Such a schedule would be too bad.
And if we win against Greece to ensure the top three, then the matchups in the knockout rounds will be roughly the same, with Lithuania or Argentina in the first round, and the United States in the second round.
In other words, if third or fourth appears, the men's basketball team will definitely encounter Spain or the United States, the two strongest teams in this Olympics, in the second round.
Meeting these two teams is basically like booking a spot for elimination.
"So, the best choice is to fight against Spain in the group stage. If Spain wins, it will be second in the group. The first match will be Croatia, Australia or Russia, and the second match will be Argentina or Lithuania. This is the easiest matchup in the knockout rounds..."
Lin Yu, who wanted to understand all this, immediately made up his mind: "Instead of facing the United States or Spain in the knockout round, it is better to fight against Spain in the knockout round!"
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Lin Yu didn't care much about the women's basketball game, but Dayao was the opposite and showed great enthusiasm.
There may be some relationship with Ye Li, but Lin Yu always feels that Dayao is a little too enthusiastic and will soon get into trouble.
Because he thought about the female monster Lauren Jackson, who was widely rumored by the media to have a close relationship with Yao Yao. She seemed to be the absolute core of the Australian women's basketball team in this Olympics?
The closing ceremony warmly embraced Dayao, and there was also a HugGate, but I don’t know if this so-called HugGate can still be staged in this time and space.
And once it happens and public opinion hits, he has to order a customized washboard for Dayao. After all, Ye Li is now Dayao's legal wife.
Lin Yu thought with a hint of wickedness. As a bystander who didn't know the truth in his previous life, he also wanted to know what happened between Lauren Jackson and Dayao in this time and space...