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Only in the first half, Stephen scored 23 points, which made people see his scoring potential in the international arena. Although it was only a warm-up match, the Croatian national team played very hard, and it was completely regarded as an official game. The Chinese national team obviously did not make such psychological preparations.

During the intermission, Jonas made severe criticisms to the players, completely disregarding the criticisms of the players' feelings, fully demonstrating his "European Caesar" style, he did not name names, but faced all What the players said, Stephen is naturally included.

Stephen watched and listened with interest, tilted his head, and looked like a curious baby. To be honest, he has never been criticized so much since he was a player. Of course, it has something to do with his always positive and hard-working attitude. On the other hand, none of the coaches he met had this style.

Needless to say, Benjamin, **Vich likes to yell, but it is also personal. He rarely does this to Stephen, and in the United States, even coaches and critics must consider the feelings of the players and cannot rise to personal attacks. In other places, things like greeting female elders in the family rarely happen.

Jonas did not do this, but he criticized violently, regardless of the fact that Stephen played very hard in the first half, which fully explained his temper. Stephen was not angry, but just very curious.

It is true that in this game, except for Stephen, the other players did not play very well. Sometimes they are lazy or not. Although it cannot be seen from the outside, it can be seen from the results. Even without Stephen, the Chinese national team The strength of the national team is also stronger than that of the Croatian national team.

Although there is one Yao Ming missing here, but the main force of the family is not fully assembled, and there is an extra Stephen here, it is indeed a bit unreasonable to be led by the opponent, mainly due to psychological laziness, although it looks very good on the court. Positive, but essentially no desire to win.

This is mainly because the players still regard this game as a charity match like the previous three games, and feel that it is a game that does not care about the outcome anyway, and the opponent will definitely not play seriously, so this kind of psychological lazy.

Of course, there is also the idea that there is no need to worry about anything because Stephen is there anyway. This also played a role in fueling the flames. It is not without reason that Jonas got angry. After he got angry, he considered Stephen's feelings. Only when he found that there was no displeasure on Stephen's face, he was relieved.

He still pays attention to Stephen. Big-name players are big-name players. Even if any head coach treats them equally, there are differences in essence. There are differences in the role in tactics and the attitude towards players. Stephen entered the country After the team, he quickly took control of the team, which would have been impossible without the cooperation of Jonas.

However, it was also very useful for him to yell at him. At least Stephen felt that the teammates around him also seemed to have more fighting spirit and looked a little murderous. Is this right? Just now Stephen himself felt a little too relaxed.

And even if Stephen has the ability to defy the sky, it won't work without the cooperation of his teammates. If you work hard alone, no one else will work hard, and the opponent's defensive pressure will be on you alone. How, can you still beat five people?

"Is there any problem in staying on the court in the second half?" Jonas asked. Through these days of training, he found that Stephen's physical strength is not generally good. Often after a long journey, everyone else is exhausted. He is still in good spirits, and after each training, he has to go to extra training, and even after the extra training, he is in better condition than others.

"No problem." Stephen doesn't think this kind of competition intensity has any problems for him, except that the training facilities here are not perfect, and the feeling of training is not very good. On the field, through the match against the Croatian national team, Stephen can I feel that this is the real international arena. Even if I am facing such a team, I will lose if I am not careful.

Generally speaking, players in the international arena are better at shooting, and breakthroughs do not play an important role like in league games. Moreover, due to the lack of penalty scale protection, breakthroughs here are not easy to draw fouls.

The defense in the international arena is also very different from the league. Although the league has now allowed zone defense, it is still a fake zone defense for the sake of viewing the game, and zone defense has the greatest limit on breakthrough points. .

At the same time, although the confrontation in the international arena is not as strong as that of the league, due to the rules of the game and the protection of offense, the league's judgments on offensive players are always biased, but there is no such phenomenon in the international arena, making offense more difficult. .

However, all of this is adaptable to Stephen. If there is no such warm-up match, Stephen may not be able to adapt so quickly to the Olympic Games. Stephen established a certain tacit understanding with his teammates for the first time, and then came to play a mid-level team like Croatia. It was like going from easy to difficult, and gradually let Stephen adapt.

Others looked at Stephen with a feeling of watching a monster. Because they were not psychologically prepared enough to deal with such a cruel game, most of the first half cutscenes felt a little tired, but watching Stephen, just He was the only one who played the entire first half, and he was both a father and a mother. He had to score by himself, organize his teammates, drive the defense while attacking, but it still didn't look like he had gone through a fierce game. After resting for a while, his breathing calmed down, which really made people wonder how his body was constructed.

Stephen was able to conquer these teammates of the national team so quickly. Under the advanced ability, his hard work and dedication also played a big role. With such amazing talent, Stephen's training is even harder, even harder than Yao Ming You must know that Yao Ming is already synonymous with the hard training of the national team, and Stephen works even harder than Yao Ming.

Moreover, whether it is on the training field or the competition field, Stephen never steals skating, always responds positively, and does not look down on this level of competition. From their point of view, Stephen came from such a high-end place in the United States. It was the highest level of competition again, and it would definitely be dissatisfactory to play this kind of warm-up match, but Stephen was not at all.

After returning to the court, Stephen didn't show much. His teammates raised their fighting spirit and played very proactively. Stephen also reduced his offense and passed more balls to his teammates. At this time, he cooperated with Stephen Sun Yue is the point guard, Stephen is the shooting guard, Zhu Fangyu is the small forward, Du Feng is the power forward, and Yi Jianlian is the center.

Except for Sun Yue, the other three are from the same club. After being scolded by Yunus, the three of them started to work hard, and because they are usually in the same team, their cooperation is very good. Stephen is not sure about their usual tactics, but he can find the trajectory of their tactics, and the passing is also in place.

Slowly, the Chinese national team began to close the score, and at this time the three-point shooting percentage of the Croatian national team finally began to decline, and the score gradually narrowed to four points. At this time, the head coach of the Croatian national team, Ivan Suna La called a timeout, rearranged his tactics, and also replaced their "three-point king" Marko Thomas.

This guy took the lead as soon as he came on the court, hit a three-pointer at the top of the circle, then came back and completed a steal in the hands of Zhu Fangyu, and then came back to make another three-pointer, and the score that was just drawn quickly came to double digits , Yunus also called a timeout, replacing Zhu Fangyu and Yi Jianjian, and replaced Li Nan and Ding Jinhui.

Then, in addition to asking the players to strengthen their defense, they also asked Stephen to increase his own offense. After all, Stephen is the most sure scoring point for the Chinese team now. He didn't say anything else and let the players return to the court.

After Stephen came up, he shot a circle top three-pointer exactly like Marko Thomas, and then completed a steal in the hands of Zoran Planinic, and then came back with another three-pointer, almost the same as Marko Thomas' performance just now.

But Stephen didn't stop there. After coming back, he blocked Damir Makota's shot, flew directly to catch up with the ball, and quickly advanced the fast-break layup to score a layup. Steph didn't settle for it, and after the Croatian side missed a shot, Ding Jinhui came back and missed a shot, but Steph snatched the ball away from Vujacic's already grasped hands, and passed it back beyond the three-point line. In the hands of Li Nan who has been waiting for a long time, Xiao Li Fei Dao is a good example. Stephen has heard of this name, but he has never seen it in the competition. He wants to try it today. Whether it is true or not.

The result did not disappoint Stephen, Li Nan still stably threw the ball into the basket even though the opponent had already stretched his hand in front of his eyes, which did not disappoint Stephen.

Although Li Nan shot the three-pointer in the final overtake, it was Stephen who made all the contributions in this wave of chasing points, two three-pointers, one fast-break score, one steal, one block and one rebound , and finally came another assist, and all this was completed in less than 2 minutes.

This kind of dazzling, lightning-quick, and impossible-to-defend wave of chasing points is rarely seen by domestic audiences, especially today's game was broadcast on CCTV. Seeing this, not only the crowd The audience was very excited, even the audience in front of the TV wanted to jump up and celebrate.

Even the commentators applauded excitedly, thinking that this wave of chasing points is worth today's fare, and those who can come to watch the game are really eye-catching.