God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 592 Fulfilling the Promise
It's a pity that God doesn't seem to be on Argentina's side today, or the prayers of Chinese fans have defeated the Argentine fans who are far smaller than them.Except for Delfino and Ginobili who can score three-pointers from the outside, most of the other players are waiting for the loud noise of the basketball hitting the rim, and because of the height of the inside line, it is difficult for them to grab rebounds ball.

Argentine coach Hernandez decisively called a timeout. He could see that it would be no good to compete with the Chinese men's basketball team inside. The only way to win now is to use the players' fast speed, flexible movements, and good personal skills. specialty.In this way, it is necessary to adjust the lineup on the field. His idea is to play a relatively pure small lineup.

As I said before, the overall height of Argentina's players participating in the BJ Olympics is not high, but if they play a small lineup, it will be their advantage.Hernandez is not the kind of die-hard diehard, on the contrary, his thinking is very trendy.In fact, anyone who takes over the Argentine men's basketball team will put a small lineup in their options. After all, this is determined by the height of the players themselves. If you don't like a small lineup, you still have to take this as one of them. way.

After changing to a small lineup, the height of Argentina's lineup has further dropped. Now their point guard is 1 meters Prigioni, the shooting guard is 86 meters Ginobili, and the small forward is 1 meters. Fino, the power forward is Nocioni with a height of 96 meters, and Gabriel Fernandez who plays center forward with a height of 2 meters.

After this substitution, Argentina really speeded up, but this does not mean that they will be able to regain the initiative.The running of the small lineup is very good, creating a lot of shooting opportunities between running, but the outside players of the Chinese team are like mad dogs. Even Yi Jianlian often jumps to the high position to defend, which is also a disguise. It relieved the pressure on Yao Ming.

Now Chinese players are no longer weak chickens who are afraid of physical confrontation, they have even begun to actively seek physical confrontation.Although Argentine players are also very confident in physical confrontation, their priority now is to equalize the score. Physical confrontation will reduce their shooting percentage to a certain extent. This is what Argentina is currently trying to avoid because they have no rebounds.

The most important thing is that Jonas didn't intend to let the players block the opponent's defense from the beginning. It doesn't matter if the defense is four-on-five, as long as Yao Ming's physical strength can be guaranteed.The Chinese men's basketball team mainly choke the opponent's three-pointer, let the opponent go inside to score two points, and also avoid being fouled as much as possible, so there is no need to be afraid of them chasing points.

Every time an Argentine player hits a mid-range shot, Yao Ming can always return it on the offensive end. It is a piece of cake for him to hit the Argentine interior with an average height of less than 2 meters. The other players of the Chinese team are also happy to give the ball to the interior for him singles.

In addition to singles with the ball, Yao Ming always moves near the free throw line and lets his teammates run around him.Whether it is a three-point shot or an air cut layup, Yao Ming can always give the ball to the right person. If his teammates can't get out of the gap, he can also use mid-range shots to score.Maybe it was the guilt of the previous game. In this game, Yao Ming's mid-range shooting percentage was quite high. Nocioni and Fernandez couldn't stop him at all. They had no chance to block the shot and could only watch the basketball go into the basket.

For Argentina, the only good news is that their offensive firepower has gradually recovered. Although it has not returned to normal levels, it is always guaranteed that someone can shoot when attacking, even if it is not a three-pointer, at least not Strike the iron as often as before.Especially Ginobili, after he handed over the task of organizing the offense to Prigioni, he was liberated. After playing for the Spurs for so long, his off-ball ability is also top-notch, and Argentina has the right to shoot. Most of it was focused on him.And Ginobili did not live up to the expectations of his teammates, playing various air cuts very smoothly.

Relying on Ginobili's recovery, Argentina scored 27 points in the second quarter, but it was only a tie with the Chinese men's basketball team. They still did not narrow the point difference, let alone the initiative of the game.At the end of the first half, Jonas' face was flushed, while Hernandez's face was ugly. He didn't expect his team to be beaten in these 20 minutes.

During the intermission, Hernandez didn't come up with any good solutions. The only thing he felt annoyed was that he didn't bring any high-level forwards to BJ to participate in the Olympics this time, but it seems that there are no tall inside players with outstanding strength in Argentina.Of course, they can also choose naturalized players, but a team with such stars as Manu Ginobili and Delfino actually wants to naturalize foreign players, which is very strange, not to mention that they are still the number one player in FIBA. Team.

In the second half, Yao Ming continued his strong performance and beat Argentina's insiders to shame.Originally, Hernandez was looking forward to when Yao Ming would be exhausted, but now it seems that Yao Ming is far from exhausted. Of course, this is largely because his teammates consciously took on most For defensive tasks, Yao Ming only needs to stretch his hands under the basket.Fortunately, this is an international arena. If the NBA had three seconds of defense, he should have come down to rest long ago.

After three quarters, Yao Ming scored 35 points. He also contributed 12 rebounds and 3 blocked shots. These are usually his statistics for the entire game, but this time he still has 10 minutes to continue to improve his personal statistics.

Jonas didn't intend to let Yao Ming play the entire fourth quarter, but seeing that Argentina had another small climax taking advantage of the emptiness inside, Jonas hurriedly replaced Yao Ming on the court again.Although Yao Ming felt a little tired at this time, he was still full of energy in the face of the assignment of the head coach. After all, there were less than 8 minutes left before the end of the game. The men's basketball team is in the bag, so there is no need to keep anything at this time.

In order to ensure efficiency, Yao Ming squeezed into the basket surrounded by Argentine players without fear, and asked his teammates to hang the ball to the basket. In this way, he could easily score the ball by holding it up high. The efficiency is absolutely outstanding. Leverage.

With the efforts of Yao Ming, the Chinese men's basketball team quickly stabilized the situation. Although Argentina counterattacked with all their strength, they still failed to narrow the point difference.Time came to an end little by little in the eyes of everyone at the scene. The score was fixed at 87 to 80. The Chinese men's basketball team unexpectedly defeated Argentina by 7 points and won an unplanned bronze medal.

The hero of this game is of course Yao Ming. He scored 43 points and 15 rebounds. He also scored 7 assists, 4 blocks, and 3 steals. Although the final between the United States and Lithuania has not yet Hit, but he is already the No. [-] center forward in this Olympic Games.As long as Yao Ming can continue to maintain this state, the Chinese men's basketball team will definitely be able to make a comeback four years later.

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