All-round Athlete

Chapter 775 Team Qualification

The result of the match against the Jordan team was not beyond people's expectations. If the Jordan team did not have a high-level naturalized player like White, it might be at the level of the second team of the national team.

The next opponent of the national team is the powerful Argentina team.

In the latest ranking released by FIBA, the Argentine team overwhelmed the US team and became the number one in the world. However, the current Argentine team lacks their core defender Ginobili, and the main striker, Nocioni. Did not participate due to injury.

Luis Scola has become the absolute core of the Argentine team. In the NBA regular season last season, Scola has been promoted to a first-class power forward in the NBA by virtue of his 16+8 data. As for the Chinese team, in the power forward position, obviously no one can restrain Scola.

Argentina's second scoring point is Carlos Delfino, who is also a player that Rockets fans are very familiar with. In the season just experienced, Delfino broke out in front of him and played his best season in personal history, with 134 three-pointers The ball is also a career high. Although Delfino can't make up for the loss of Ginobili, he can give Argentina a great firepower supplement from beyond the three-point line.

In addition, old players such as Pulizioni, Gonzalez, Quinteros, etc., also continued to stay in the Argentine team. Generally speaking, although the Argentine team is a bit younger this year, it has extremely rich game experience. The basic framework of the golden generation of the Argentine men's basketball team is still there. If Ginobili and Nocioni are not absent, Argentina The team may really have a chance to overthrow the Dream Nine team.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team is the same as the previous game and has not changed. Argentina sent Scola, Delfino, Prigioni, Janssen and Gutierrez. In terms of the lineup, Argentina has a clear advantage, but in the first quarter of the game, the scores of the two sides have been rising alternately, and the gap has not been widened. In the end, with Luis Scola scoring four consecutive points in the last minute, the Argentine team led the Chinese team by two points 22 to 20, ending the first quarter.

After the substitute players came on the field, both sides fell into a scoring shortage. The Chinese team's substitute scoring ability is relatively average. They failed to grasp many good opportunities. They obviously lacked the offensive core and did not know how to play. However, this group of young people defended very hard, daring to fight hand-to-hand with the Argentine team, which also made it difficult for the Argentine team's substitutes to score points. Neither side scored for the first four minutes of the second quarter until Argentina brought in Delfino and broke the deadlock with a three-pointer.

The Argentine team ended the first half with a 39-33 lead of six points. This point difference is very satisfactory for the Chinese team, but for Argentina, it is a very bad result, because the Chinese team, Zhang Guan and Dayao hasn't even played yet. In the absence of the two main players of the Chinese team, the Argentine team only leads by 6 points. Obviously, the head coach of the Argentine team, Hernandez, cannot be satisfied.

After the intermission, Scola ushered in a big explosion. He almost swept the entire Argentine team's offense. With Scola's outstanding performance, the Argentine team widened the point difference to 15 points.

It is not an easy task to recover the 15-point difference from Argentina. Considering that they will face the German team tomorrow, coach Deng Huade replaced the full bench lineup in the fourth quarter, so that the main players Can retain more stamina. Argentina also made adjustments immediately, and also replaced the substitute lineup, so the fourth quarter game became a substitute. In the end, Argentina defeated the Chinese team 74 to 61, and Scola also scored a game-high 31 points.

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In the front row of the bus, coach Bowerman of the German team looked back at his players and found that the main players such as Harman, Greene, and Yagra had already fallen asleep.

Coach Bowerman sighed involuntarily, and a hint of worry appeared in his eyes.

This German team lacks Nowitzki, so the strength is naturally greatly reduced, but the players are fighting very hard. Like the Chinese team, they are also in a state of "fighting chicken blood". In the German team's first game, they lost to Argentina 74 to 78, a narrow gap of four points; in today's game, the German team fought hard in two overtimes and finally defeated Serbia 82-81.

The strength of Serbia is definitely stronger than the German team without Nowitzki, and the two overtimes also showed the difficulty of this victory. More importantly, the German team consumed too much energy in this game physical strength.

"Coach, the Chinese team really lost to Argentina. The score was 74 to 61, and the Argentine team took the lead!" The assistant coach held a mobile phone and narrated the latest World Championship report.

"Did Zhang Guan and Dayao play?" Bowerman asked immediately.

"No, they still sit on the bench. The Chinese team still rotates ten people today." The assistant coach said.

Coach Bowerman frowned immediately, and Zhang Guan and Dayao continued to rest, which meant that the two strongest cores of the Chinese team would appear on the field with full energy.

"Coach, you don't have to worry about Zhang Guan and Dayao. Dayao had such a major operation last year. Even in Germany, it is impossible to recover in such a short time; and Zhang Guan has not played for two years. I think Maybe they are just the two mascots of the Chinese team, just to scare people." The assistant coach said.

"Mascot? Do you really think so? That's two places. Do you think the Chinese team will waste two places? If it were you, would Nowitzki be the mascot?" Coach Bowerman continued A few questions left the assistant coach even more speechless.

"I'll look at the statistics." Bowerman said, taking the phone from the assistant coach.

"Among the five starters of the Chinese team, the longest playing time was only 23 minutes, and the playing time of two substitutes even surpassed that of the starting players. Is the Chinese team deliberately preserving their energy?" Bowerman took a deep breath. In one breath, I felt more and more irritable.

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On the big screen in the arena, the score of the first quarter of the two sides was displayed. The Chinese team led the German team 25 to 7 by a large margin.

Yesterday's two overtime games did consume too much physical strength of the German team. At the beginning of the game, the main players of the German team entered a misfire state. In the first seven minutes of the game, they only scored two points.

As for the Chinese team, both Zhang Guan and Dayao made their first appearances, completely suppressing the German team in terms of offensive firepower.

Dayao played for five minutes before being replaced. During this period, he made one of three shots and scored two points. However, Dayao's existence is more to attract the opponent's defensive attention. Moreover, according to the requirements of the team doctor, Dayao's appearance time in a game should be limited to less than ten minutes, and the consecutive appearance time should not exceed five minutes, so coach Deng Huade kept looking at his watch. When the time reached five minutes, he called After a timeout, Dayao was replaced.

For a player who has undergone major surgery and has not recovered 100%, being able to score a goal in the first game is considered a very good performance.

In the next five minutes, it became Zhang Guan's personal performance time. The continuous rapid breakthrough made it difficult for the German team to parry. Zhang Guan tore apart the German team's defense line by himself.

In fact, the German team's defensive level is not weak, it's just that too much energy was consumed in yesterday's game, especially the starting players of the German team, their reactions and footsteps were obviously half a beat slower, and Zhang Guan, who is good at defending with speed, even It is powerless.

After Bowerman came on as a substitute, the German team's defense improved. The physical strength of the substitutes should be more abundant, especially their substitute center Tim Albright, who made consecutive jumpers and narrowed the point difference to 10 points.

Albright is the hopeful star of the German men's basketball team and is known as Nowitzki's successor. He has excellent long-range shooting ability on the offensive end and good blocking skills on the defensive end. In the game, Albright was also very decisive, showing no signs of stage fright as a young player. He dared to play and shoot, and he had the aura of a new German core.

However, Albright is not a superstar after all, and one person's outstanding performance cannot bring the whole team out of the downturn. Especially when Zhang Guan was replaced again, the 10-point difference was once again widened to 15 points.

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"Zhang Guan made a breakthrough, made a layup, and scored! Although he has not participated in a basketball game for two years, Zhang Guan is still in good shape. It is no different from the Olympic Games two years ago. I think there is only Zhang Guan in the world. Come to this point!" With the voice of the commentator, the third quarter of the game has entered the second half.

The decline in the German team's physical fitness became more and more obvious in the third quarter, and the most serious consequence was a sharp drop in shooting percentage. Even players who are usually good at shooting often missed open shots several times.

Without Dirk Nowitzki, the German team also lacked a pinnacle of stability, and even the biggest bargaining chip to turn defeat into victory.

Coach Deng Huade originally planned to replace Dayao again in the fourth quarter, but seeing that the two sides had already stretched to 20 points, Deng Huade gave up the plan to replace him. After all, Dayao's foot that has not fully recovered is not suitable for the game. Too high-intensity game.

"With this win, our promotion to the group stage should be stable." Deng Huade let out a sigh of relief. This game can be said to be bloodless, and Deng Huade couldn't help lamenting his good luck in his heart. If it weren't for the German team and the Serbian team fighting for two overtimes yesterday, which caused physical problems in today's game, the Chinese team would inevitably fall into a hard fight.

In the last three minutes, the German team also gave up the game, both sides replaced the substitutes, and the final score was fixed at 82 to 64, and the Chinese team won the second victory.

The German team with one win and two losses is not without a chance, because their remaining two opponents are Angola and Jordan, which are also the two weakest teams in this group. If the German team can win, they will The record will reach three wins and two losses.

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Under normal circumstances, the two victories already have a great probability of securing a place for qualifying, which makes domestic fans a little excited. Although it is only theoretically qualifying ahead of schedule, it can be regarded as completing a small goal. Next, the national The team should strive to get the top three and avoid meeting the US team in advance.

From the point of view of the relationship between victory and defeat, after defeating the German team, the Chinese team has gained the first opportunity. If they all have three wins and two losses, the Chinese team can rank ahead of the German team based on the relationship between victory and defeat.

The third opponent of the Chinese team is the Serbian men's basketball team.

Yugoslavia was once the overlord of the world basketball, but now Yugoslavia has been split into six republics, but still shows a strong basketball strength. For example, in this World Championships, the three former members of Yugoslavia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Croatia, all entered the World Championships.

Serbia can be regarded as the successor of Yugoslav basketball. This is a relatively traditional European team. This kind of team often has a big center. The main center of the Sevilla team is Nenad Krstic, who was the starting center of the Thunder last season.

In addition, the Serbian team's backcourt core is named Milos Teodosic, known as the "Serbian Golden Boy", and his status in the Serbian team is similar to that of Rubio in Spain. Teodosic once participated in the 2009 NBA draft, but was not selected. Afterwards, NBA teams contacted him every summer, but he rejected him every time. It can be said that Teodosic is another top European guard who has not logged in to the NBA.

In addition, Serbia also has many players playing in the NBA, such as Pavlovic, Radmanovic and Milicic, but these three, like many NBA players, did not participate in this World Championship.

Although there are fewer titans playing in the NBA, Serbia is still very strong, and it is also a team that is considered to have a chance to win the championship.

In order to ensure that Angola can be defeated in the end, the Chinese team once again had reservations about the formation of troops. Both Zhang Guan and Dayao did not play. The Serbian team did their best and took a 16-9 lead in the first quarter.

There was no suspense in the next three quarters. The Chinese team has never been able to close the score, and the Serbian team, a team with talent and tactics, cannot be defeated simply by "playing chicken blood". Especially when the Serbian team's teamwork is played out, it can be said that there are more blooms, and every player can score calmly.

In the end Teodosic scored 19 points, Krstic had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, Viliczkovic had 15 points, Kaiserje had 11 points, Savanovic had 10 points, Rasic With 10 points, Sevilla scored in double figures against the six players, showing the Chinese team the strength of their team basketball.

As for the Chinese team, they were not depressed because of the loss. The focus of the whole team's game was still on tomorrow's final match of the group stage, the contest with Angola.

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On the return bus, coach Deng Huade received a call, and then a relaxed smile appeared on his face. He stood up and said to the team members in the car: "Gentlemen, I have good news for you. Angola beat the German team by 92 to 88, 4 points!"

"Oh?" Everyone showed surprised expressions. Everyone knows that Angola has always been a weak team, while the German team is a strong team that can beat Serbia, but they did not expect that the final winner of the contest between the two would be Angola.

I only heard Deng Huade go on to say: "In this way, the Angola team has two wins and two losses, the German team has one win and three losses, and we also have two wins and two losses. It can only be ranked behind us and Angola, which means that the German team has been confirmed to be eliminated, and we have also secured the place to advance to the knockout round! Tomorrow's match between us and Angola, the winner will be the third in the group, and the loser will be the third in the group. Be the fourth in the group and go face the US team that is the first in Group B!"

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