From today on is the king

Chapter 1601 1600. A new golden age!

Brother Renyi's cooperation is incredible!
Oberto's mobile flanking ability is far inferior to that of the past. Four years ago, when he was 29 years old, he took advantage of his lack of defense for three seconds to flank Duncan so much that he couldn't take care of himself. But now at the age of 33, his state has declined a lot. Not only in the NBA, almost all basketball players have a tendency to collapse at 30.

Argentina has no way to deal with it!

Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu on the outside can’t let go. In the five group matches of this Olympic Games, the former averaged 2.4 three-pointers per game, and the latter averaged 1.9 three-pointers per game. They took advantage of the opportunities created by Yao Ming and Liu Mang, and emptying Yi Jianlian to shrink the inside line was already the most daring defense they dared to do.

You can only start from the offensive end!

"Pablo, think about what I just said... Hey, don't go, you can't go..."

Prigioni ignored Liu Mang's trash talk and wanted to change direction to make a breakthrough, but the opponent's footsteps were too fast, and his mouth was full of trash talk, but his concentration was not disturbed by it...

Feeling Liu Mang's defense as if weaving a big net to cover him, Prigioni felt too shocked, this kind of defense was even more difficult to deal with than the Kobe he met a few days ago!
"This is the number one in the world? It's too miserable to meet this guy! Yes, he has won four NBA championships and one World Championship championship in the past five years..."

Instead of continuing to try to break through, Prigioni stepped back from the three-point line and made a tactical gesture.

Oberto pulls to the bottom line, Scola pulls out, Ginobili cuts to the inside, Nocioni goes to the corner and waits for an opportunity...

Liu Mang glanced at the half court, feeling very troublesome, the old man in front of him is really good at controlling the field!Don't look thin, the core strength is very strong, the ball control is very stable, and the steady style of the game Liu Mang dare not reach out at will. The ability of the Argentine performer is not inferior to him!
Scolara came out, Yi Jianlian was ready to switch defenses quickly, his speed was barely enough for Prigioni, but... Scolara came out and didn't go up to the pick-and-roll, and suddenly turned around inside and ran back, attracting Wang Shipeng's supplementary defense, and Prigioni lobbed the ball to Ginobili!

Ginobili slashed into the lane, Yao Ming took a step up to make up the defense, Ginobili made a huge change of direction, jumped behind Yao Ming and hit a backhand layup!

This ball caused bursts of exclamation at the scene!
In the past year, the Spurs have accumulated a lot of fans in China. Ginobili is second only to Duncan in the Spurs' popularity in China. The ball just now was purely based on personal ability. How good of a chance did Prigioni create for Ginobili?Not really, except that the pass was accurate, and Prigioni, who failed to attract the defense, was really useless. Yao Ming was firmly guarding the basket, and Ginobili's footsteps made good use of the goal.

Wang Shipeng, who made a mistake in judging the flanking attack in advance, immediately stated that the ball belonged to him, and Yao Ming patted him on the head to let him not mind.

The game has just begun.

The improvement of self-confidence is very important. Now Yao Ming is very confident in himself, his teammates, and the overall strength of the team. He does not waver when he makes a defensive mistake.

Yao Ming didn't waver, and everyone else's mentality was also very stable!

Changing offense and defense, continuing to play positional battles, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt and made a gesture of breaking through. Prigioni was afraid of Liu Mang's epic three-point ability that averaged more than 4 three-pointers per game in the NBA, so he could only choose to stick to the defense.

Sure enough, Manu Ginobili flanked him, Liu Mang passed the ball to Zhu Fangyu, and Nocioni switched defenses!
Zhu Fangyu was not in love with the fight, and immediately passed it to Wang Shipeng, who received the ball for three points...

The first goal was missed!
But Yi Jianlian was unguarded in the bottom corner, rushed in to grab an offensive rebound, and quickly threw it to Liu Mang who was thrown at a 45-degree angle!
Liu Mang received the ball and shot a three-pointer from a distance of nearly one meter from a 45-degree angle...

in!

5 is better than 2!

The Chinese team took the initiative!
Liu Mang’s defense on the outside line has stifled Prigioni’s talent in organizing offense. There are Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian on the inside. Scola has difficulty in singles in the low post.

Can only rely on Ginobili!

In the first half of the first quarter, the Chinese team played a beautiful team attack by relying on Liu Mang and Yao Ming's internal and external cooperation, Yi Jianlian's mobility and the threat of the two pitchers.

The Argentine team can only rely on Scola's occasional low-post singles, and can only rely more on Ginobili's personal ability to drive offense.

In the 5th minute of the first quarter, the Chinese team called a timeout and replaced Yao Ming with Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian on the inside, and Sun Yue and Wang Shipeng's partner Liu Mang on the outside.

Seeing that Yao Ming was resting, the Argentine team felt a little relieved. As long as Liu Mang was the only one, they could rely on Manu Ginobili and Liu Mang who had a good start to make up for it.

but……

They far underestimated the space easily!
This is a super rookie who can lead a team alone and average 20+10 in international competitions!
Without Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi opened up space, and Yi Jianlian had more space to move freely within the three-point line. With better movement space, Yi Jianlian's outside shots were more accurate!

The most important thing is... the counterattack of the Chinese team's lineup!
Sun Yue fought back with Iguodala in the Rockets, Yi Jianlian has super mobility and Liu Mang is the core assaulter...

Ginobili thought that he could take a break based on his overall strength to alleviate the problem of rapid physical consumption, but he had to continue fighting in the second half of the first quarter!

With Ginobili leading a group of teammates whose overall strength is stronger than the role players of the Chinese team, Argentina was only two points behind 22 to 24 at the end of the first quarter.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Argentine team was able to barely maintain the score and not be widened. But in the second half of the second quarter, after the Chinese team brought Yao Ming up again, Argentina was defeated!
After 20 minutes of the first half, the Chinese team led by 54 points 41 to 13!
The Argentine team upset the US team, the Chinese team studied no less than ten times in the past two days, and found that the most important point is to put pressure on the opponent from the beginning, forcing Ginobili to take the burden from the beginning.

If, like the U.S. team, they wave when they have an advantage, and relax when they are a little ahead, giving the rest of the Argentine team a chance to cling to the score and Ginobili to save his energy until the critical moment, there may be a dangerous situation.

Manu Ginobili is a super nerve knife who can hit 40.00% of the five tigers in the original time and space!A demon knife that can make even the strongest defense in the NBA unstoppable!

But... the biggest flaw of the demon sword is physical fitness!
In terms of confrontation, international competitions are no worse than NBA!Because rules are more conducive to confrontation.

In the NBA, Ginobili can still maintain a state not weaker than any super outside line for 20 minutes, but in international competitions, the highlight moment in one quarter is usually used by the head coach of the Argentine team as the last key player.

But this time, Ginobili had to fight hard against the Chinese team at the beginning, otherwise, under the impact of Liu Mang, Yao Ming, and Yi Jianlian, the three giants of the international competition, the current Argentine team would not be able to stop it at all.

Liu Mang had 12 points and 7 assists in the half, Yi Jianlian had 6 points and 7 rebounds, Yao Ming had 16 points, Wang Zhizhi and Wang Shipeng each made two three-pointers, and the point difference was stuck to more than 10 points!
Ginobili has tried his best, but the group of good brothers who won the world championship runner-up and Olympic champion with him around the age of 25 can no longer give him the support that he used to.

Seeing the Chinese team steadily maintain their lead, Ginobili can only lament the ruthlessness of time.

The old golden age is gone, the golden age that belongs to Argentina is gone...but!A new golden age has begun!Belongs to the golden age of Chinese basketball!

(End of this chapter)