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This also means that if neither side calls a timeout, Fiba's game can be played without a timeout until the end of the game.

The current U.S. team is riding a tiger. If they ask for a timeout at this time, not only the head coach will become a national sinner, but even if the U.S. team wins, it will become a global joke.

However, Chuck Daly came up with a stupid way, that is, to tell the substitute players about the adjustment first, and then replace all five players on the field at once, and creatively came up and down.

So in the 15th minute, the US team changed all the starters with one substitution——

Center: Mark Eaton (86)

Power Forward: Karl Malone (92)

Small Forward: Dominique Wilkins (93)

Shooting Guard: Clyde Drexler (94)

Point guard: John Stockton (88)

"The U.S. team is still strong, and this lineup is actually not much worse!"

Wu Jie looked at the brand-new U.S. team, and he had to admit in his heart that the U.S. basketball background was too strong. This lineup even had a higher degree of tacit understanding than before, because Mark Eaton, Karl Malone, and Stockton were all Utah Jazz player.

Chuck Daly will choose them to enter the dream team, and he has no intention of taking advantage of the tacit understanding of the three, and it may come in handy at this time.

The Chinese team also made substitutions immediately, which seemed to be just a normal rotation adjustment——

Center forward: Ma Donglong

Power Forward: Ruda

Small Forward: Liu Jingdong

Shooting guard: Yuan Feihu

Point guard: Wu Jie

But is this substitution really a normal rotation?

Of course not!

Lao Qian is not a mascot who can only sit in meditation. He can guess the intention of the US team's substitutions. At this time, it is necessary to replace two young players who are good at running and jumping. Naturally, they have their own intentions.

This lineup is obviously much stronger in terms of athletic ability. Liu Jingdong, who is slightly underequipped with Rudy Gay + Yuan Feihu, who is slightly underequipped with Wade, is obviously more suitable than the lineup just now.

But the U.S. team seems to have a more tacit lineup, and the speed is much slower than before, especially the two insiders have difficulty keeping up with the Chinese team's offensive and defensive rhythm.

Wu Jie no longer gave priority to scoring at this time, but made full use of his speed advantage to drive the team to launch waves of quicksilver attacks, and at the same time used his personal ability to disrupt the US team's defensive formation.

The US team's defense quickly became riddled with holes, especially the pick-and-roll cooperation between Wu Jie and Ruda, which seemed to tell Stockton and Malone what a real "pick-and-roll offense" is.

Wu Jie, as the initiator of all offenses, made the Americans realize for the first time that point guards can still play like this?

At this time, no matter whether the Chinese team is fast-breaking or in a positional battle, they can see this windy man freely shuttling through the defense set up by the US team. , immediately became riddled with holes.What followed were all kinds of flying fairy-like passes and easy scoring by Chinese players. Of course, Lu Da, Yuan Feihu, and Liu Jingdong followed up with various dunks!

The eyes and hearts of the American audience are bleeding. They have always been dunked on other people's heads, but when have they been dunked like this! ?

But now it’s a turn of events. The U.S. team’s defense is still full of loopholes, and their pick-and-rolls are blocked by Ma Donglong and Luda. Basically, they can only float outside and end with long-range shots. Accurate head.

As for Drexler and Wilkins, who are all capable, they can't integrate into the Jazz's style of play at all, and they can't use non-stop running to pull out opportunities like the two young players of the Chinese team. The current Hall of Fame superstars can only watch the show outside.

"Double-team! Double-team him!"

"Can't bag! Watch his passing line!"

"Council defense! Lock the restricted area!"

"Outside! Keep an eye on the outside! Don't let them shoot three-pointers easily!"

"..."

Chuck Daly was about to shout on the sidelines, but the American players on and off the court were getting bigger and bigger, and their reactions, judgments, and footsteps slowly slowed down. !

"How do you call? You fucking call and show me!"

After Stockton kicked the basketball hard, the words were about to blurt out towards the head coach who kept BB on the sidelines.

But he forgot that he was not Wu Jie, and the referee stepped forward with a cold face and gave Stockton a technical foul.

Now Luda not only has to add a penalty, but also returns the ball to the Chinese team.

The American fans at the scene have fallen into silence at this time, and the only sound left in the entire arena is the sound of ridicule and booing facing the American team.

But this is not to blame for Stockton breaking the defense. It is because the Chinese team's routine has changed too much.

Basketball is obviously a five-on-five game, but every American player feels like he is deeply involved in the vast ocean of the masses.

They were completely disoriented, and they were barely even able to play.

The defense this time was a manifestation of being dizzy. Stockton didn't know what happened. Anyway, Ruda hit him in the low post. The result was naturally a dunk dunk, plus another Two plus one without any suspense!

In the 10th minute of the first half, it was just halfway through the first half, but the score has become 34:17, which no one expected before the game.

If Ruda makes an extra penalty, the ball will still belong to the Chinese team. It is obvious that the point difference is already running towards 20+.

But what could Chuck Daly do now?

He really had nothing to do, because even he was confused by the unreasonable fast break and dazzling running of the Chinese team, and all he could do at this time was to go up and down again.

But he no longer has any hope for victory. The Chinese team is like carrying a head coach with him in the game. The various tactics and running seem to never repeat. The most terrifying thing is that these tactics are all extremely fast running and bombing. typed out.

So don't say it can't be called a timeout, even if it can be called a timeout, the countermeasures he just arranged will fail in a short time.

However, this was expected. He had already guessed that the Chinese team's offense could not be defended, so he wanted to use offense against offense.

The problem now is that these NBA stars are so defended by the Chinese team that they can't even play offensively. If this continues, their mentality will only explode more and more.

But... this pause...he dare not call it!

Because this pot is really too big!

Chapter 497 Do you know what we have experienced now?

Chuck Daly did not request a timeout in the end. As a result, the American players who were less and less able to play were pushed all the way. At the end of the first half, they were already 40:66 behind by a full 26 points!

The American players only felt that they were in a fog, and there was a feeling of being at a loss when they drew their swords and looked around.

But this is only the state of the first 10 minutes of the first half. As the score is getting bigger and bigger, the mentality of the American players has changed from dazed to nervous, and even unconfident. Many times, they dare not even make moves in singles.

Olajuwon is a typical example. After he used a fantasy footstep against Ruda but was almost blocked, he never dared to use his pirated footsteps in the eyes of the world.

This "piracy" is not only the opinion of the outside world, even he feels that his "dream footsteps" have been stolen, because he has indeed borrowed a lot of Ruda's game videos.

Facing the real master now, Olajuwon's psychological pressure can be imagined. Needless to say, technical deformation, basically as long as he is blocked once or twice, he will have no confidence.

Ewing was not much better either. At first he thought he had met a soft persimmon, but in the end he faced Ma Donglong who didn't eat at all. He also stole from Luda, but he was much worse than Dameng. "Rabbit Jump", in addition to fulfilling Ma Donglong's reputation as a defensive genius, he didn't even succeed in a decent singles in the entire first half, and all the points came from his physical fitness.

The performance of these two best centers in the NBA is so unbearable. Facing the pick-and-roll nemesis Chinese insider, Malone also cannot find the same scoring opportunities as he did in the Jazz.

On the contrary, the most despised Barkley performed well. This guy only got 3 minutes to play in the first half, but he contributed 6 points.

Although Ma Donglong took a rest at that time and Lu Da also moved to the center position, this big butt was really difficult to defend when rushing forward. Chinese players even felt that he was even more difficult to defend than that Jordan.

But for the US team, this contribution is really a drop in the bucket, because the outside performance with high expectations is far from outstanding.

Jordan's breakthrough is actually very sharp, but under Fiba's rules, it is difficult for him to break into the penalty area and cause damage, and it is difficult for him to pass the ball into scoring, because Bird alone has the ability to make three-pointers on the outside of the US team. "Flying Man" can only rely on mid-range shots to score points, but the Chinese team's defense also has great restrictions on mid-range shots. He only scored 10 points in the first half.

Drexler and Wilkins are in the same situation as Jordan. They can only rush and play like they play in the NBA, but facing the best inside combination in history, this style of play is destined to be useless. efficiency.

Larry Bird will become the best outside player on the US team today because of his stable long-range shots and good accuracy in three-pointers. In the first half, under the obviously shrinking defensive system of the Chinese team, he passed His outside shooting ability, which is extremely rare in the NBA, scored a team-high 15 points.

But this kind of contribution is still not enough to make the US team better, because the overall shooting percentage of the US team in the first half did not even reach 40%, and only Bird was shooting three-pointers. One made a three-pointer.

Stockton and Jordan even had embarrassing shots from outside the three-point line, which is what makes it more difficult for the US team to score in the penalty area-since you are not a threat outside the three-point line, I naturally want to Invest more troops in the mid-to-short-range defense line, so what if you can't let you shoot three-pointers?

This kind of defensive contingency does not require the coach to shout and arrange on the sidelines. Ruda spends most of the time in the penalty area, and Ma Donglong is more like a power forward sweeping around. The cooperation of the two is enough to make the American team The super outsiders who are not good at long-range shots have hit their heads.

During the intermission, commentators from various countries were already discussing the impact of the "three-pointer" on the game, because compared to the American team's 8-of-2 three-pointer data in the first half, the Chinese team's three-pointer The ball data is an astonishing 18 of 8 shots.

This statistic was terrifying in the 80s. The number of shots taken by the Chinese team was more than double that of the American team, but the shooting percentage was much higher.

"Today, the Chinese team's running and bombing offense made the Americans overwhelmed, but don't ignore their wonderful performances from beyond the three-point line. In the first half, a total of five players from the Chinese team hit three-pointers, and even Ruda had one. Three-pointers are recorded. On the other hand, even if you don’t consider their poor long-range shooting performance today, you can see the data of these players in the NBA last season. Only Bird’s three-pointer percentage in the entire team exceeds 40%, and the highest three-point shooting percentage is actually Wilkins, but his three-point shooting percentage is only 28%.

"The Americans seem to have completely ignored the scoring method of the three-point shot, and even more ignored that without the ability to score outside the three-point line, opponents can unscrupulously pile up defensive forces in the penalty area. At this time, combined with Fiba's different rules, we You can see a group of superstars from the NBA throwing themselves into the net!"

"I think the Americans should give up the face-to-face duel. Their chemical reaction, tactical coordination ability, and shooting ability are far lower than the Chinese team. If they still hold on and refuse to call a timeout, I believe the score in the second half will break through soon. 30 points, is such a result more dignified than actively requesting a timeout?"

"..."

The US team is also thinking about this issue, because judging from the results of the first half, they seem to have no dignity at all, so where can they lose their embarrassment now?

"I bet fifty cents that the Americans will take the initiative to call a timeout in the second half!"

"What is there to bet on, they will definitely call a timeout!"

"Yeah, even if it's for the next meeting, they will probably ask for a timeout in the second half!"

"Hey, if they don't bark, why don't we bark for them!"

"Haha, great idea!"

"..."

The Chinese team has already begun to discuss how to punish the Americans for a while.

The bad idea of ​​calling a timeout on the other side was proposed by Han Li, who only got 5 minutes of playing time in the first half.

Qian Chenghai naturally had high hopes for Han Li. He could guess that Wu Jie would not stay on the basketball team for too long, and he would probably go back to football after two years.

So in the future, the main point guard of the Chinese men's basketball team will have to rely heavily on Han Li, so he has always let Han Li play the role of the sixth man.

But facing the U.S. team today, Qian Chenghai really didn't dare to let the big three rest for too long. In the first half, Lu Da played for 20 minutes, and Wu Jie and Ma Donglong also played for 15 minutes.

"Little Ma, take a look at my rebounding statistics! Isn't it pretty!"

Wu Jie didn't participate in the discussion, he was pulling Ma Donglong to discuss about brushing data.

In the first half, he was not very excited about his performance of 10 points, 10 assists and 4 steals. What really made him smile was the personal highest record of "6 rebounds" in the half.

His average rebound data per game in the national team has always been poor. After so many games, he only averaged 2.5 rebounds per game, and even the highest rebound per game was only 6.

But today he has the opportunity to break through history. Not only can he try to hit his first triple-double in his career, but he even has the opportunity to touch the quadruple-double data, which makes him unhappy.

"Okay, I'll help you get a slot, come over and grab/pick up a few more."

Ma Donglong has never paid much attention to statistics. If someone else was 19 years old and faced the data of the US team scoring 8 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists and 5 blocks at halftime, I am afraid that he would not know the virtues of success, but he still looks like a nerd. .

But when it comes to "statistics", Ruda didn't hold the ball for a lot of time today, but after halftime, he has already harvested 21 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals. A kind of American star still can't hold his head up in front of him.

The U.S. team's frenzied performance of the Big Three is naturally a gloomy scene. Now how to limit this iron triangle, even the coaching staff of the U.S. team are at a loss!

"That center is too weird. He can always get stuck in the way we have to go, and he doesn't eat at all. He doesn't even need to jump up to use his height and wingspan to interfere with our offense."

"That football star's breakthrough is not only as fast as lightning, but he can also maneuver freely on the way like a snake. Once we let him rush in with the ball, we can't catch it at all. If he is double-teamed, he can pass the ball out at any time. He is also true. been doing it all the time.”

"This time Lu didn't have a lot of offense with the ball, but he can always appear in the most deadly position with help, and he can always find one-on-one opportunities. I don't think anyone on this earth can play one-on-one. Restrict him under the circumstances."

At this time, the American players started a "spitting bitterness meeting". Although this kind of complaint somewhat exaggerates the ambition of others and destroys their own prestige, it can find an excuse for the miserable score in the first half to make themselves feel better. You can't attribute the responsibility to your own incompetence, can you?

Chuck Daly has something difficult to say at this time, that is, as discussed by the commentators of various countries, except for Bird, no one of their players can pull from beyond the three-point line, and their offensive space is simply stretched. not open.

This has to be said to be a major mistake in the selection. Now the entire team does not even have the three-point ability of the two point guards, Magician and Stockton. This is actually quite outrageous.

In this case, the highly mobile high center forward of the Chinese team played too much role on the defensive end. Chuck Daly even believed that this center forward was the key to making their offense completely ineffective.

So what we have to consider now is how to beat him down. In fact, there is no need to think too much about how to do it. We can only let these outside stars continue to force Ma Donglong. Break down this internal line barrier.

The American players did not resist this order, but they were a little unconfident, because that guy, who looked more like a 19-year-old than a 39-year-old, had only one foul in the first half when he was killing people and setting fires everywhere. Datu fouled twice.

But there was no other way. After the start of the second half, the U.S. team, which looked a bit lifeless, attacked the Chinese team's penalty area by the magician for the first attack.

Wu Jie did not expect that the terminally ill magician in the first half would play so resolutely in the second half, and was completely overwhelmed by the opponent's perfect sense of rhythm and physical confrontation when he was unaware.

This can also be regarded as the breakthrough style of a magician. His explosive power and speed are not top-notch, but his control over the timing and rhythm of the attack can be regarded as proficient, so his breakthrough is a bit like Zidane on the football field, which does not look explosive enough. Not sharp enough, but gorgeous enough and efficient enough.

However, the one guarding the basket is Ma Donglong who exists like a nemesis except for using absolute speed or strength to break through the defense.

Ma Donglong doesn't care how unpretentious the magician's breakthrough is. Anyway, as long as he doesn't meet Shaquille O'Neill or a pervert like Ruda, he can use his perfect positioning and blocking timing to turn the restricted area into a no-fly zone. You can't do anything without passing the ball.

The magician's goal is not to score or pass, he wants to make Ma Donglong foul.

But facing Ma Donglong, who is as steady as a rock at any time, even Lu Da is not sure about this kind of strong attack.

The magician couldn't find any opportunities to make fouls at all. Ma Donglong not only said that if you don't jump, I won't jump, but he also has a trick that if you don't dunk, I won't block the shot. When facing shots or layups, he basically relies on his height , wingspan, and big hands to interfere.

This kind of impeccable defense made the magician not only fail to make Ma Donglong's foul, but waited for the three-person double-team of Lu Da and Wu Jie.

This time, not only did he lose his chance to shoot, but his passing route was also blocked. In the end, the basketball that was completely thrown out didn't even touch the basket, and it bounced off the backboard.