Healing Basketball

Chapter 752 752. The First Center!

The Italian team started fierce hand-to-hand combat at the beginning. Luca Garry and Angelo Giri, led by the twin towers, dragged the game into the quagmire of iron-blooded warfare from the very beginning.

Liu Xiu decisively adjusted his style of play, launched an offense around Yao Ming, helped Yao Ming feed the ball, and defended with all his strength.

Knowing that he will meet the Italian team in the group stage, Liu Xiu has already prepared for such a defense during the preparation stage.

In the first two games, he fought hard defensively. He played Japan out of instinct, and he played against Angola to prepare for the Italian team. Defensive whistleblowing is much looser than in the NBA.

In previous years, the Chinese men's basketball team was a little bit afraid when they encountered a fierce opponent like the Italian team. This was the case when they played Lithuania in the Athens Olympics.

That was Liu Xiu's first entry into the national team. He didn't understand some things, and his ability was not as strong as it is now.

At this time, he took the initiative to defend against the opponent's 203cm 104kg striker Adrian Micheloli. He fought fiercely again and again, and his posture was more fierce than the opponent, which inspired the bloodiness of his teammates... In Liu Xiu's Under the leadership, the whole team worked hard to help Yao Ming reduce the pressure of protecting the frame, allowing Yao Ming to devote more energy to the offensive end.

Yao Ming is not used as the main C in the usual games. For example, in the last game against Angola, although Yao Ming scored the most points in the game, most of them were catching the ball or turning around to shoot the ball. He did not consume much energy...Tonight, his physical strength is good!
In the second quarter, Yao Ming once again relied on his own strength to lead the team to deal with the Italian team in regular time. With 7.9 seconds left in the second quarter, Yao Ming grabbed a defensive rebound and hit the ball behind his head after landing. Liu Xiu at the free throw line, Liu Xiu received the ball and turned around to counterattack, Marco Belinelli retreated in place, and took the initiative to press up to fight after Liu Xiu entered the inside line... Liu Xiu knocked Belinelli away and smashed the ball in with one hand The basket also caused a foul by the opponent's thugs!
The referee confirmed that the goal was valid, and Liu Xiu got an extra penalty!

Liu Xiu also made an additional penalty, and the Chinese team returned an 18-14 single quarter to the Italian team in the second quarter, leading the Italian team by 32 points 30-[-]!

After returning from the halftime break, after the start of the third quarter, the Italian team had a problem... The scoring performance was very unstable!

In the opening stage, the Italian team played continuously. Belinelli was taken care of by Wang Shipeng, Sun Yue, and Liu Wei in turn. This quarter played very badly.

Bargnani did not participate in the World Championships, the biggest problem of the Italian team was exposed.

In the third quarter, Yao Ming tried his best to defend the frame, and Angelo Giri, Luca Gary, and Richard Lorca, the three insiders with strong impact and rushing ability, plummeted in scoring.

The reason why Yao Ming can defend with all his strength without worrying about the offensive end is because Liu Xiu seized the opportunity of the opponent's outside line to hit the iron continuously and launched a continuous counterattack to establish the lead!
After Belinelli hit the iron at the beginning, Liu Xiu, who grabbed the rebound, decisively issued the command of "Kobe time" and fought... Luckily, after the counterattack was successful, the Italian team won two consecutive rounds. Now, Liu Xiu grabbed the rebounds by himself, or relied on Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi to grab the rebounds, catch the ball and counterattack, and scored consecutively, triggering the 'Kobe time'.

After scoring 3 goals in a row, and then scoring 11 goals in a row, a three-pointer and a short-range emergency stop throw, Liu Xiu played a climax of 2 to 43 alone, making the score 32 to 11, expanding the lead To [-] minutes!
Although the Chinese team only scored 7 points in the rest of the third quarter, which was 8 point less than the Italian team's 1 points, they still led the Italian team 50 to 40 after three quarters, establishing a 10-point lead.

In the final quarter, the Chinese team and the Italian team played a very low-scoring quarter. The Chinese team only scored 9 points, and the Italian team scored 12 points.

最终，靠着姚明的22分8板3助攻3盖帽、刘秀的18分9板4助攻4抢断，中国队以59比52险胜意大利队，拿下小组赛第3场胜利，提前锁定16强席位！
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After the final whistle sounded, the players of the Chinese team hugged and celebrated as excitedly as if they had won the world championship.

The players of the Chinese team were full of unwillingness to lose to Lithuania's iron-blooded team in the semi-finals two years ago, and it became a psychological shadow of this group of people in international competitions.

After this tough battle, Liu Xiu said, hehe, the little Lithuanian team... let the US team deal with it.

Thinking of the U.S. team going head-to-head against Lithuania and Greece after hitting the mountain in Puerto Rico, and looking back at the match against Italy that nearly drove him crazy... Liu Xiu began to gloat.

For the game between the Chinese team and the Italian team, although more than 8000 seats were filled, the live viewership was not good.

It was early morning in the United States, and there were not many people watching the game. The Japanese hated the Chinese team after the opening match, and their enthusiasm for watching the game dropped sharply.

Even in China, this afternoon, the Chinese team played against the Italian team, which was rated as the ugliest team in this World Championship, and the ratings were not satisfactory.

But it doesn't mean that people don't pay attention to this game, but they are very concerned about it!
Group D has a chance to beat the Chinese team, only the Italian team and the Slovenian team.

The ratings of this game were not high, but the popularity after the game made people think that this was a popular event with extremely high ratings.

For the Italian team's loss to the Chinese team, people's evaluation is that the Italian team has done a good job defensively, but lacks a stable world-class scorer.

However, if Bargnani, a 'stable world-class scorer', is selected as the main offensive point of the Italian team, Bargnani's defense, which has already been scolded by the locals in the youth team, will make the Italian team's defense With collapse.

The Italian team's iron-blooded tactics are brought up by their twin towers. No matter which position Bargnani plays in the frontcourt, it will be a disaster for the Italian team's defense.

Some media commented that the Italian team is like the Spurs. Their strength lies there. There is not much room for improvement, but it is difficult to chew.

When the Italian team is playing against teams that are weaker than them and have no superstars, they are steady. But if the opponent has superstars, they have to be careful. They can only hope that the opponent will not explode. Once the opponent explodes, they can only strengthen defense.

When Liu Xiu started the third quarter successfully on the West Coast, the Italian team's strong and powerless feeling proved this very well.

After defeating the Italian team, the Chinese men's basketball team has 3 wins and 0 losses in the group stage, refreshing the best record after expanding the team to 24 teams in the World Championships. The previous best record was 94, with 2 wins and 1 loss in the group stage, killing Apart from Brazil and Argentina, in terms of the number of wins, the Chinese men's basketball team has set a record in the history of the national team this year, but the winning rate is still higher in the World Championships in 94.

However, the winning record was quickly broken.

到了8月22号，在姚明29分7板2助攻2盖帽的带领下，中国队在札幌国立体育馆以102比77稳稳的击败塞内加尔队，小组赛战绩来到4胜0负！
After this game, the Chinese men's basketball team locked in the first place in the group one game ahead, with at least 80% winning rate, which also exceeded the winning rate of the Chinese men's basketball team in the 94 World Championships, creating a new record in team history!

(End of this chapter)