I just want to play healthy basketball

Chapter 314 Successive victories!
After the Chinese men's basketball team won the group stage of the Athens Olympic Games, the time soon came to August 8.

Also in the Indoor Arena in Helliniku, the men's basketball team will face the New Zealand team tonight.

Once today's game is won, the men's basketball team's goal of reaching the "final eight" before the Olympics will basically be achieved.

Therefore, this game must be played well, even if the opponent is the New Zealand team, it is not a strong opponent in Group A.

"What are they doing? Are they dancing? Provocative?" In the warm-up session, Battelle tried to shoot, and when he picked up the ball, he found that the New Zealand players were dancing in the midfield.

At this time, the rest of the men's basketball team turned a blind eye and continued to conduct warm-up training in an orderly manner.

He Li was also quite curious, and turned around after hearing the news, admiring the dancing postures of the players of the New Zealand team.

"This is the Maori war dance, a traditional dance of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand, derived from the ancient war dance before war.

Usually Maori use this to cheer themselves up, but also to deter opponents.

Now New Zealand's national team will basically show a dance before the game, including basketball, football, and rugby.

It can be said that this has also become a unique landscape for New Zealand players in the international arena. "

As the chief assistant of the coaching staff, Yunus came over and explained to the men's basketball players that Yunus has rich combat experience in the international arena and more knowledge than He Li and other domestic players.

"Don't get confused, it's not a provocation. Usually the New Zealand team will only dance the Maori war dance before fighting against a strong opponent."

Yunus continued to communicate with He Li in English, and then He Li acted as an interpreter and explained it to other team members.

"That said, it was good to beat the Spanish team before. Other teams should know how strong we are."

After listening to He Li's translation, Battelle said cheerfully.

It is also quite pleasant to be regarded as a strong enemy by the opponent.

"It's quite interesting." He Li looked at it for a while, and then went back to do warm-up activities.

After all, if you don't exercise your body, there will be potential injuries when playing games.

For the warm-up session, He Li has always been cautious.

Usually, when He Li starts the game, that is, when he plays in the first quarter, he doesn't choose to attack by himself, or make relatively large offensive operations.

In other words, even if He Li is required to make a shot, He Li is mainly shooting.

He Li will go to war with full firepower when he really feels that his body is moving.

This is why He Li usually has more breakthroughs in the second quarter and the second half.

Closer to home, after the warm-up is over, the game will start soon.

The starting five men's basketball players are Liu Wei, Li Nan, He Li, Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming.

After the start of the first quarter, Yao Ming helped the men’s basketball team to jump to the ball, and then Liu Wei advanced with the ball. He Li directed the other players to run, and finally passed the ball to Li Nan.

Afterwards, the men's basketball team relied on defense to counterattack, and He Li passed the ball to Yi Jianlian, who was going down quickly.

The men's basketball team scored 4 points in a row at the start and did not stop the New Zealand team.

Because the New Zealand team was not high enough inside, their second attack with the ball was to choose an outside shot, but this time it was a mid-range score.

But in the next round, He Li immediately responded with a three-pointer. Instead of narrowing the score, it even expanded it!

Immediately afterwards, the defender of the New Zealand team went inside and challenged Yi Jianlian. Yi Jianlian's lack of defensive experience was shaken away.

However, He Li helped Yi Jianlian get back the field in the next round. He Li and Yi Jianlian cooperated in the pick-and-roll.

Then Yi Jianlian made two free throws, and the men's basketball team played a 2-9 spurt in the opening 4 minutes.

As a last resort, the New Zealand team could only call a timeout first to interrupt the men's basketball team's fanatical desire to attack.

Now until now, the New Zealand team is somewhat similar to the men's basketball team eight years ago, because the inside line is not tall and mighty enough, so they can only rely on the outside line to make great achievements.

New Zealand players are not tall, so their tactic is to shoot from the outside.

Rely on the outside line to continuously transfer the ball and move positions, and use the speed and sensitivity of the small man to find open shooting opportunities.

And under the constant running, the New Zealand team seized the open space, and the level of catch and shoot was also good.

If it wasn't for He Li who was like Dinghaishenzhen, the New Zealand team scored a goal and He Li returned a goal immediately. Maybe the men's basketball team would still suffer a dull loss.

But there is no need to worry now. He Li not only gave great support to the men's basketball team in outside shooting, but also did a very good job in assisting in defending outside offense.

With the support of He Li, Liu Wei and Li Nan can safely and boldly press and steal.

Once the steal is successful, the men's basketball team has an excellent chance to counterattack and score.

In just 10 minutes, the men's basketball team achieved a lead of 25 to 14, a full 11 points.

"I can rest a little longer for this game."

He Li understood how to play the group stage. When meeting a weak team, there is no need to work so hard. He played for two or three quarters.

Ever since, before the start of the second quarter, He Li discussed with Harris.

Harris is going back to the Mavericks after taking the Olympics. He understands He Li's considerations and concerns very well, so he also gave a satisfactory answer.

As long as the men's basketball team is not in a dangerous situation in this game, He Li can rest until the fourth quarter.

Of course, He Li has no objection to this. If the other players in the men's basketball team are really up to the challenge, He Li is happy to be off the court, waving towels and serving tea to other players.

Speaking of the second quarter of the game, Yao Ming and others heard that He Li could not make it, and they were still a little uncomfortable at first.

However, the situation quickly settled down. Just as the New Zealand team narrowed the score to about 5 points, Battelle suddenly stood up.

Battelle turned around and broke through near the baseline one after another, then rushed to the basket and dunked vigorously.

This is mainly because the insiders in New Zealand are generally about two meters tall, and the height of some insiders, including their hair, may not be less than two meters.

In other words, Battelle, a pure power center, beats them like the eldest son.

The physique is dominant, the strength is dominant, and the abuse is complete.

Why don't you catch them picking wool?
The CBA attaches great importance to the data of domestic players in international competitions, and the players themselves are also very important to this data.

After all, it is not a good thing to be able to enter the national team. No one wants to be like Liu Yudong, who is obviously very strong, but is sprayed by domestic fans as an expert in civil wars and an amateur in foreign wars.

Having said that, with the support of Battelle's performance, the men's basketball team's outside shooting percentage is not high, but the overall efficiency is good.

At 7 minutes into the second quarter, the men's basketball team played a 2-9 spurt in 2 minutes, once again widening the score gap.

Come on, if it continues like this, don't say that He Li doesn't need to play again, and Yao Ming won't come up either.

Masochistic, everyone is certified.

It was discovered that the New Zealand team could be abused to score points. After the data was collected, everyone was excited.

And looking at the current trend, the second half is basically garbage time.

That being the case, Yao Ming, the core player of the NBA playoff team, will not be able to play.

"What's the point here? Let's rest off the court with He Li?"

The players on the bench are scrambling to play. As long as Yao Ming does not play, when Battelle gets tired from playing, there will naturally be a vacant spot.

And New Zealand's insiders need height but not height, and strength but not strength. The domestic forward players are better than them.

Even if the domestic forward players are not very hard, isn't it all due to their peers?

49 to 31, the men's basketball team, which had a 17-point lead at halftime, basically settled the game.

Harris is thinking about the future and feels that this game is a rare opportunity for training. When he encounters it, he will let Zhu Fangyu and other young players play to find out how he feels.

The New Zealand team took advantage of the inexperience of the men's basketball players on the field and scored several goals in a row.

Fortunately, Wang Zhizhi is not a vegetarian. At this time, he also started to play misplaced. Although he didn't go inside much, his shooting percentage today was five or six points higher than before, which is equivalent to directly evolving from Kobe to Jordan.

With the blessing of a large number of ball rights, Wang Zhizhi also stabilized the situation without waiting for Battelle to play to chase points.

At the same time, veterans such as Du Feng and Li Nan also began to exert their strength.

After all, opportunities to score points like today are rare.

Since the men's basketball team has maintained a lead of more than 10 points, it is not impossible to be a little more aggressive.

As for defense, isn't that what the New Zealand team did worse?
It's better than bad.

In this way, the scores of the two teams rose alternately. After Battelle came on the court, they fought hard again, which helped the men's basketball team to cheer up a lot of morale.

The point difference between the two teams widened to about 15 points, and it was still the same until the end of the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, Yi Jianlian also felt a little bit into the feeling of playing with the wind.

Liu Wei saw that Yao Ming was not on the court, and he didn't really want to feed Battelle, so he followed He Li's appearance and played pick and roll with Yi Jianlian.

Although the effect was not as good as He Li's cooperation with Yi Jianlian, fortunately, the opponent was not strong, and Yi Jianlian had enough talent to bully the New Zealand team's insiders.

Ever since, after the game was over, Yi Jianlian scored 15 points, the second highest score in the game.

The highest score in the game was Battelle with 24 points!
As for He Li and Yao Ming, they scored 11 and 8 points respectively.

The main force of the men's basketball team, He Li, added up to 58 points, while the New Zealand team only had 60 points in total. One can imagine how miserable the New Zealand team was abused by the men's basketball team in this game.

And this is because the men's basketball team took the initiative to remove the two main players, He Li and Yao Ming, in the first two quarters.

"He Li, will you sign for me?"

After the game, He Li gained a group of New Zealand fans.

Fortunately, they did not let He Li see who is the world's number one "hor fun".

The word "fan" has just become popular in the past few years, and because He Li's surname is He, fans of He Li in China spontaneously took the homonym of He Fen-hor fun, and used it as a self-proclaimed name.

……

After successive defeats of Spain and New Zealand, the men's basketball team's advancement to the quarter-finals is already a certainty.

Although the next match against Argentina and Serbia and Montenegro is the top priority in the group stage, at least everyone's pressure can be released first.

Before the match against the Argentine team, the players of the men's basketball team managed to open Bosnia and Herzegovina-Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne on the computer in the room.

This game just came out last year, and it is very popular at home and abroad.

Unlike domestic players who can only play LAN in Internet cafes, there is Battle.net in Europe.

Of course, playing games is just an occasional adjustment, and not all male basketball players are Internet addicted teenagers.

At least Yi Jianlian is still like an ascetic monk. Others are playing games in the dormitory, but he has not exiled himself. He runs to the arena to practice alone.

Instead, standing behind others, pretending to be onlookers, watching everyone play games, and actually holding a bucket to practice upper body strength, this is no one.

It can be seen that Yi Jianlian is actively preparing for the NBA draft in the next few years.

Yi Jianlian not only wants to achieve results in the Olympics, but also wants to make some achievements in the NBA in the next few years.

Closer to home, the time soon came to August 8, when the men's basketball team played against Argentina.

At the beginning of the game, He Li assisted Yi Jianlian to break through and score a layup.

But the Argentine team immediately made a fast break, and Ginobili made a three-pointer from a 45-degree angle on the right, overtaking the men's basketball team by one point.

Not to be outdone by the men's basketball team, Liu Wei quickly picked up the ball and tried a long pass. He Li received the ball one step outside the center circle, followed by a dribble towards the top arc, and returned with a chasing three-pointer.

3 is better than 5!

The on-site commentator shouted: "Unbelievable, this is really a fight between gods!"

However, not long after the men's basketball team took the lead, the Argentine team continued to play inside, trying to make Yao Ming foul and put pressure on Yao Ming.

Yao Ming quickly accumulated two fouls in the first quarter. Yao Ming also expressed his anger and kept reaching for the ball, wanting to get back with singles in the paint.

In order to avoid Yao Ming's superiority, Harris removed Yao Ming first.

Although there is not much difference between Yao Ming and Battelle's defense, there is a gap on the offensive end.

The Argentine team is not weak inside. Without Yao Ming as an inside offensive point, it is really not easy for the men's basketball team to gain an advantage by relying on He Li to score from the outside.

Unfortunately, Yi Jianlian had a bit of pain in his wrist when he was physically confronted during the layup.

In order to avoid aggravating the injury, Yi Jianlian went down for an examination first.

The men's basketball team's internal line has changed one after another, which has caused some problems in the overall defense.

The Argentine team is not a weak team, but a strong team, so they quickly found the loopholes in the men's basketball team and played a small climax of 8 to 2.

Unexpectedly, He Li and Li Nan hit a three-pointer one after another. Ginobili was successfully defended by He Li when he broke through.

Faced with the situation that the score was overtaken by the men's basketball team, the head coach of the Argentine team did not pay attention.

It is precisely because of this that with 1 minute left in the first quarter, He Li made another three-pointer. During this time, the Argentine team had no results. At the end of the first quarter, the men's basketball team still took a 4-point lead.

The head coach of the Argentine team may not have expected that by the end of the game, the men's basketball team won the 4 points.

(End of this chapter)