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On August 8, the quarter-finals of the knockout round of the Olympic men's basketball event began.

Chinese men's basketball team vs Australian men's basketball team.

Both the process and the result of this game made the Chinese fans who were extremely dissatisfied with the Australian men's basketball team and Bogut, one of the core players of their team, very happy in the past two days.

From the beginning of the game, the Chinese men's basketball team suppressed the Australian men's basketball team throughout the game, and suppressed it in all directions.

In the penalty area, Dayao beat Bogut in various ways. Although the two were both No. 1 picks in the NBA, the gap in strength was quite large. Bogut was no match for Dayao, and Dayao himself had learned a lesson from this bad-mouthed guy. The guy's thoughts are even more merciless.

In just three quarters, Dayao allowed Bogut to commit five fouls. His personal data was only a miserable 7 points and 6 rebounds.

While the inside was beaten, the Australian men's basketball team was also at an absolute disadvantage on the outside. Wang Chong didn't exert much force in this game. With Dayao as the main attacker, he didn't even play singles with the ball a few times.

But this does not mean that Wang Chong did not contribute on the offensive end. In this game, he made 8 of 5 shots from beyond the three-point line, and scored as many as 15 points from three-pointers alone.

91:66, this is the final score of the two teams.

The Chinese men's basketball team beat Australia by 25 points, which made Bogut's rhetoric before the game sound like a clown trying to please others.

This victory was a double blessing for China. It not only made Australia feel bad, but also successfully broke into the semi-finals of the Olympic Games, creating the best performance of the Chinese men's basketball team in the history of the Olympic Games.

While Chinese fans across the country were rejoicing that day, they were not satisfied just because the Chinese men's basketball team had achieved its best performance in history.

Now the Chinese men's basketball team has the opportunity to compete for medals and even Olympic gold medals. If it can win the gold medal in the Olympics, it will be a true fairy tale ending.

But if you want to win the gold medal, the next two games in the semi-finals and finals will undoubtedly be the biggest challenge for the Chinese men's basketball team.

The opponent of the Chinese men's basketball team in the semifinals was the Spanish men's basketball team, which defeated the Argentine men's basketball team.

The original silver medal winner in 08 should not be underestimated. Although they lost to the Chinese men's basketball team in the group stage, in the knockout round of the single-elimination competition, whether the Spanish men's basketball team will have a strong move to show, even Wang Chong is worried. Can not guarantee.

The other matchup in the semifinals is the American men's basketball team against the Lithuanian men's basketball team.

Compared with China vs. Spain, there is no suspense in this matchup. Lithuania cannot be the opponent of the American men's basketball team. It is a destined fact that the dream team will enter the finals. The only suspense is whether the other final team is China. The men’s basketball team is still the Spanish men’s basketball team.

Two days later, the semi-finals took place as scheduled.

With experience in the group stage, the Chinese men's basketball team and the Spanish men's basketball team have become familiar with and adapted to each other's playing styles to a certain extent. The second match in the Olympics will be even more intense.

As soon as the game started, Wang Chong immediately realized that the Spanish men's basketball team still had reservations during the group stage.

In this game, both their offense and defense were much sharper than in the group stage, and they also used a set of defensive tactics against Wang Chong.

This sounds nice to say, but in fact, there is only one defensive tactic to target a player like Wang Chong, who has distinctive characteristics, an absolute advantage in height and wingspan on the outside, and is almost invincible on the offensive end, which is double-teaming.

However, unlike the previous double-teams by various teams on Wang Chong, the Spanish men's basketball team went straight to the game to intensify Wang Chong's strength and double-team the whole court.

Although doing so will put other Spanish men's basketball players on the court in a 3-on-4 situation for a long time, the strength of other Chinese men's basketball players is obviously weaker than that of the Spanish men's basketball team, and even with three people, they can't A zone defense system can be easily constructed.

Of course, no matter what kind of zone defense it is, it is impossible for 3 players to guard 4 players. The Chinese men's basketball team only needs to play a little more patiently to easily create open shooting opportunities. Successfully score frequently.

But even so, the Spanish men's basketball team did not waver and resolutely carried out the idea of ​​double-teaming Wang Chong, because in their judgment, even if they allowed the Chinese men's basketball players, including Dayao, to attack, it would be worse than Let Wang Chong's offensive scoring be stronger.

It has to be said that the Spanish men's basketball team's strategy is very correct.

When Wang Chong was double-teamed, his chances of touching the ball were greatly reduced. He only scored 10 points in the first half, although the 11 points in the half were already the second-highest score for the Chinese men's basketball team, second only to the half. Dayao scored 14 points, but as a super scorer who averaged 30 points per game during the Olympics, Wang Chong was unable to score efficiently, which was a passive disadvantage for the Chinese men's basketball team.

In the first half of the game, without Wang Chong's firepower support, the Chinese men's basketball team was still able to compete with the Spanish men's basketball team with the performance of outside shooters mainly Yao Yao, A Lian and Zhu Fangyu. The two sides were inseparable, and the score was It has been rising steadily.

But as the game progressed into the second half, the Chinese men's basketball team's consistent weakness began to show up - physical fitness.

The first is Dayao. The rapid consumption of physical strength has greatly reduced Dayao's offensive firepower. And Dayao is not the only one who consumes too much physical energy. There is a gap between the overall physical fitness of the Chinese men's basketball players and the Spanish men's basketball team. Especially after Wang Chong was targeted by double-teams all over the court, the Chinese men's basketball players, who took on more offensive tasks, began to suffer from physical exhaustion.

From the beginning of the third quarter, the Spanish men's basketball team gradually took the initiative and widened the point difference little by little. When the third quarter ended, the score of the two teams was 71:65, and the Chinese men's basketball team was already 6 points behind.

Although the point difference is not big, the game situation in the fourth quarter will only get worse due to the overall physical strength of the Chinese men's basketball team.

During the inter-quarter break, Wang Chong sat on the bench and knew what he had to do in the fourth quarter, otherwise the game would probably be lost.

In the first three quarters of the game, it is not that Wang Chong didn't make any attempts, but the Spanish men's basketball team did a good job of double-teaming throughout the game, reaching an almost frenzied level.

No matter what action Wang Chong makes on the court, the two opponents will be inseparable. One is in front of him, and the other always stands between Wang Chong and the ball holder, not giving Wang Chong a chance to catch the ball.

Wang Chong tried to move without the ball to get rid of the opponent, but the effect was not obvious. After all, the opponent was two people. Whether he was running counterattack or sprinting, the stadium was only so big, and there would always be one person following him closely. With a little restraint, the other one can catch up and form a pincer attack again.

And Wang Chong can't rely on his teammates' pick-and-roll screens. If a player is blocked, other players will immediately come to cover, and the cover-up is almost seamless.

<divclass="contentadv">I have to admit that compared to James, Kobe and other players, Wang Chong’s ability to break double teams is still slightly inferior. Durant also has this weakness, not because of personal ability, but because he does not have James's strong body cannot reach the top speed of Kobe's first-line defender. Strength and speed themselves are the most critical factors to rely on to break double teams, but these two are not Durant's strengths, so in the case of double team attack , it is difficult to break through the encirclement by relying on personal ability.

But in the NBA, Durant rarely encounters double-teams, because in the NBA, no matter how weak a starting player is, he cannot be left out for a long time. It is so crazy to double-team a core player all over the field. Tactics, that is completely giving away points to the opponent.

Therefore, a double team can only be formed after the target player has the ball.

Durant's own technical characteristics are mainly shooting. He does not need to hold the ball to break through like James and Kobe. Therefore, when he holds the ball and finds that the opponent wants to double-team, he can take the lead and shoot. As long as he takes off and is in the position In the air, with Durant's height and wingspan, double-teaming is meaningless.

Even if the time is not ripe and he is unable to take off and shoot, Durant can still choose to pass the ball, and his teammates can use offensive scoring to punish opponents who easily double-team him.

The problem now is that under the current circumstances, this situation does not hold true. Wang Chong cannot count on others and can only find a way to break the double-team on his own.

Fortunately, he really has a way.

Wang Chong, who was sitting on the bench, closed his eyes slightly and entered the consciousness space of the system the next moment.

When he came to the badge module, Wang Chong glanced at the dazzling array of gray and white unactivated badges, and his eyes quickly focused on an ordinary badge.

"Movement without the ball: Improve the player's ability to move without the ball. Players can run more effectively through dense defense lines and increase counter-running speed. Occasionally, defenders will be confused and slow to react and run out of space."

There is no doubt that this is not the main badge of a core player, because core players rarely rely heavily on running without the ball to find opportunities to score. The only exception may be the future Warriors star Stephen Curry.

The most representative figure in the league who plays without the ball is the famous Pistons player Hamilton, who is known as a mid-range shooter. His offensive scores account for a very high proportion of catching and shooting after running without the ball, almost He rarely plays singles with the ball.

Originally, Wang Chong did not intend to consider running without the ball badge. After all, as an iconic figure in stand-up singles, Durant's style is singles with the ball. Wang Chong, who has the Durant growth template card, is best at singles with the ball. , so the most cost-effective badge is actually the badge that can make Wang Chong's singles ability more efficient with the ball, rather than the off-ball movement badge, which can only be effective without the ball.

But the current situation no longer allows him to make multiple choices. He cannot increase his strength or speed in a short period of time to the extent that he can easily break through the opponent's double-team. Therefore, the best way he can think of is to use his superb invincibility. The ball runs away from the opponent and gets a chance to shoot.

The activated badge was immediately transferred to the badge wall, and the type of this badge was actually planned as an organizational badge.

Wang Chong had the impression that in the 2K game, off-ball movement badges should be classified as shooting badges, but if he thinks about it carefully, this classification of the system is reasonable.

Strictly speaking, off-ball movement is not directly related to shooting. It is a preparatory action to obtain an open shooting opportunity. In theory, it is the same as the emergency stop master, a gold-level badge held by Wang Chong himself. Since it is urgent Stop Master also belongs to the organizational badge, and it is not surprising that off-ball movement is classified into the organizational badge.

Wang Chong only made sure that the badge was in effect and then opened his eyes.

At this time, Yunus was still explaining the tactics of the fourth quarter to the players with a tactical board. All the Chinese men's basketball players, including Dayao, were panting and wiping their sweat with solemn expressions.

Of course they all know that the situation is not optimistic for them. If they can't find a breakthrough, they are likely to stop in the semi-finals. At most, they can only compete with Lithuania for the Olympic bronze medal.

What's even worse is that they can't count on Wang Chong at this time.

Everyone has seen the intensity of defense that Wang Chong encountered in the game. He faced double teams from the Spanish men's basketball team throughout the game. Under this situation, if you can still complain about Wang Chong's inability, then he will not be able to gain the upper hand in 4-on-3 for a long time. Do other players deserve to breathe? As long as they put in a little effort, Wang Chong wouldn't be restricted by such extreme defensive tactics on the court.

But at this moment, Wang Chong spoke.

"In the fourth quarter, I'll figure it out."

For a moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Wang Chong, but he continued with a calm look on his face: "I will try my best to get rid of the opponent with off-ball movement in a while. Everyone, help me cover without the ball." , as long as I have a chance to touch the ball, I will find a way to help the team win the game."

Movement without the ball?

Wang Chong also tried in the first three quarters, but it didn't work? Want to try again in the fourth quarter?

Although he didn't have much hope in his heart, since Wang Chong said so, he still wanted to give it a try.

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"The rest time has passed, and now the players from both sides are back on the field ready for the final game of the fourth quarter."

In the CCTV studio, Director Sun's tone was quite solemn.

"The current situation is extremely unfavorable for the Chinese men's basketball team. Not only is it 6 points behind, the players' physical fitness is already on the verge of reaching the limit, and there is no way to break the Spanish men's basketball team's double-team on Wang Chong."

Director Zhang also shook his head with some disappointment, "It seems that two fists are still difficult to beat with four hands. Wang Chong is indeed a superstar who can bring miracles to the Chinese men's basketball team, but he hopes that only one person can change the entire Chinese basketball team." The current situation is still a bit too unrealistic, we need more players to step up, instead of just relying on a few players like Wang Chong and Dayao on the court."

While he was talking, the game on the field had already begun.

The Spanish men's basketball team still sent two players to defend Wang Chongyan.

However, in less than 10 seconds after the game started, everyone saw Wang Chong suddenly emerge from the crowd on the inside, run straight to the outside to receive a pass from his teammates, and then neatly raised the knife and dropped it with his hand.

"Shh!"

The crisp sound of basketball hitting the net sounded.

Three points are valid!