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After Stephen came on the court, he didn't score consecutive points unstoppably as many Chinese fans expected. Instead, he started with defense first. Because there was no LeBron James on the court, Stephen stood directly in front of Kobe Bryant, and It is to let Zhu Fangyu defend Carmelo Anthony.

Kobe Bryant's control of the ball is not as obvious as LeBron James, but as the biggest player in this dream team, even with LeBron James on the court, Kobe Bryant also has absolute freedom. Needless to say off the field.

Kobe Bryant has had a good season this season. Compared with the previous two seasons, he always missed the first round or even failed to make it to the playoffs. At least he reached the finals this time, but it does not mean success for him. However, the team's prospects are much better than before, at least he can see the hope of the championship.

But the team succeeded, but his personal status was seriously challenged by Stephen. In the past, no matter what, he was definitely the number one shooting guard in the league. All these records allowed Stephen to break a clean sheet this season, leaving nothing for him.

Also leading the team alone, Stephen won the first place in the Western Conference. Even if he lost to the San Antonio Spurs in the semifinals, it still had a taste of defeat. At the same time, he also achieved the feat of averaging [-] points per game in the season. Let him reshape his former glory a little bit dimly. [

In his heart, he doesn't accept being surpassed by others. In fact, he doesn't even want to be tied. Even if he can only be Jordan's successor, he can only be himself.

The original Kobe was unwilling to be the next Jordan, but when he found out that it was not so easy to be an independent self, coupled with the occurrence of the QJ incident, but when he was about to start being the next Jordan, the glory had not yet begun , was surpassed by the young Stephen.

His feelings towards Stephen are very complicated. From the bottom of his heart, he believes that Stephen is a very capable young player. He knows how much effort, perseverance and will are needed to achieve the performance there, and how much personal ability is required.

While admiring him, he was a little bit jealous, and also a little bit dissatisfied. Jealousy was jealous of Stephen's youth, jealousy of Stephen's physical strength, and jealousy that he had won almost all the honors that individual players could get at a young age. He thought that if Stephen didn't have such a body, he would definitely not be able to achieve his current achievements.

But no matter what he thinks in his heart, at least on the surface, Kobe is still very friendly to Stephen. When he saw Stephen coming, he even pulled the corner of his mouth to show his iconic smile. You have to live with your face.

As soon as Stephen posted it, Kobe immediately felt the difference from the defense just now. Stephen's defense can only be described in two words, that is, it is in place, and it seems to be sticky. Kobe was not reluctant, and passed the ball back to Chris Paul with a flick of his hand.

Facing Liu Wei's defense, Chris Paul didn't need to be too complicated at all, just an accelerated change of direction got rid of Liu Wei behind him, leaving Liu Wei with a background.

It has to be said that under the current training system in China, the shorter the player, the less likely it is to get a chance, and in the international arena, the gap with the opponent is even bigger, just like Chen Jianghua, who is favored by many fans, Although he has the speed, but the strength confrontation is lacking a lot.

And like Chris Paul, among players of the same size, although the strength confrontation is not top-notch, it is still in the first-class range, and if Chen Jianghua trains his strength to the level of Chris Paul, The speed will definitely drop a lot.

This is physical talent, some advantages are innate, just like Yao Ming's height, it's not that no one is taller than him, but that people who are taller than him or people with a similar height to him don't have his sports Strong ability, not as high as his golf quotient, let alone his soft touch.

Taken together, this is talent. Just like Stephen, a person who purely trains strength is definitely stronger than him, but he is definitely not as good as him in speed. People who practice dead strength do not have explosive power, and people who have explosive power do not have dead strength. It is impossible to have both fish and bear's paws in everything, and whoever is better depends on who has more of both.

However, halfway through Chris Paul's breakthrough, someone stood up and blocked it. Needless to say, Stephen doubted it. Chris Paul lost no time in passing the ball to Kobe Bryant, but before Kobe could make a move, Sun Yue had already Make it up, and when Kobe Bryant passes the ball to Dwyane Wade, the Chinese team has completed the rotation.

The defense of the Chinese team, which was riddled with holes, was just one more Stephen. All the loopholes seemed to be plugged. The reason was that Stephen spared no effort to assist defense and change positions, and at the same time, he had a keen ability to capture opportunities. ability.

Stephen did not score points when he came up, but chose to start with defense, which was a very correct choice. After he came up, the point difference between the two sides stopped expanding, and then the Chinese team began to use defense to drive offense. It's not easy for me to score, and you don't want to score easily. With this kind of game attitude, the Chinese team narrowed the point difference to only eleven points at the end of the third quarter.

This kind of performance once again confirms how much Stephen has promoted and improved the current Chinese national team, not only in offense and defense, but in overall improvement, especially after Stephen came up, other players were afraid There are fewer foot problems, and even if you make a mistake or make a mistake, you can make up for it in time.

At the same time, it also drives confidence. After Stephen came up, he only scored two points, but he sent out two assists, and some were indirect assists, especially Liu Wei, who had always been regarded as a sinner and a big loophole, in such a short period of time Scored six points in a row, causing Chris Paul to foul once, because Stephen created opportunities for others, and at this time, the most inconspicuous player in the team took advantage of the most.

During the break between the third and fourth quarters, Jonas told all the players that he did not expect to win this game. To the surprise of many people, Yonas continued, next to The translator at the same time told everyone what he said.

"This is just a group match. As long as we can secure three victories in the five games, we can guarantee to enter the quarter-finals. Therefore, the victory of this game is of great importance to the US team. It is not unacceptable for us to lose to the best in this group, and indeed in all teams."

"The key is what we want to get out of this game. If we can reach the quarter-finals and continue to win, we will definitely meet the US team. So the purpose of this game is to pass We need to recognize the gap between us and the opponent in the first game, and then we will naturally be able to do better in the second game, so we should not worry, relax, and don’t care too much about the outcome of the game or falling behind, but we must Do your best to compete and push out the opponent's abilities as much as possible, and the purpose of this match will be achieved.”[

Jonas found that as the time of the game became less and less, when the team was behind, the players began to play a little impatiently, and they were a little anxious when handling the ball. It's not obvious, but it's revealed.

This is when the players find that the possibility of winning is not high, they naturally form this kind of psychologically. It seems that trying to win is actually a kind of self-defeating behavior, and this is not what Jonas wants. , he hopes to be able to get as much information as possible about the American team in this game, and then analyze it from it. This kind of direct confrontation is the most useful for intelligence collection, because if they compete with other teams, the development situation will definitely be the same as that of the other teams. The Chinese team is different.

What he wanted was for the players to give their best and not to think about winning or losing. Especially he was more worried that Stephen would not be willing to admit defeat, and if he tried his best in this game, it would be a bad thing instead.

In this regard, he looked down on Stephen a little bit. At least when he was in the San Antonio Spurs, Stephen learned what it means to give up strategically, not to mention such a simple truth.

After listening to Jonas's words, everyone's heart was clear for a while. Originally, they were not very confident in defeating the US team, but the performance in the first half made many people have expectations. Now seeing the gap, A few of them no longer have much confidence deep in their hearts, and they naturally give up on themselves when they play games.

Now that Yunus said that this game does not care about the outcome, what is needed is to fully recognize the opponent's ability and the gap between the two. They become more relaxed and no longer have so much psychological pressure.

The same people, some people need to be under pressure to work harder, but some people are more suitable to express themselves without pressure. The former kind of people, without pressure, will not have any impact on their performance, but for For the latter kind of people, there is a big difference whether there is pressure or not.

With such a relaxed mind, the two teams returned to the court. Both sides made fine-tuning of the lineup. Liu Wei was off and Wang Shipeng was replaced. Brown James, replacing Dwyane Wade.

As soon as she came on the court, Sun Yue made a breakthrough under the basket and scored two points. It didn't matter who was defending in front of her. This layup also brought the point difference between the two sides back to nine points. Together, they blocked Kobe Bryant into a corner and assisted Stephen to successfully steal the ball from Kobe.