This striker is a bit of a monster

Chapter 154 Seventh World Championships, breaking through history
After experiencing a life-and-death battle with Spain, China lost to Spain in the end, and Zhou Lin shed tears on the field.

The Chinese media also has an extremely tolerant attitude towards the 19-year-old teenager, and many media even used the word "distressed" to appease Zhou Lin's emotions.

In the battle with Spain, both Zhou Lin and Yao Ming helped the Chinese team score 16 points. For a rookie who just entered the national team, he is already outstanding enough, and he is also considered to be able to carry the country together with Yi Jianlian in the future player with team banner.

In fact, after entering the quarter-finals, although the Chinese team lost the game in the quarter-finals, there are still two qualifying rounds to play.

So the number of times you go to the national anthem before the game is the same as the other four teams competing for 1-4.

Before the match against the Turkish national team, the Chinese reporters made several jokes with Zhou Lin on this issue.

Of course, the Chinese team still has to be very strict in the next qualifying match.

As long as the Chinese team can win a game in the next two World Championships, the Chinese team can still make history.

Winning Turkey will compete with German and French competitors for fifth place in the group, while losing to Turkey will compete with German and French losers for seventh place in the group.

Hedo Turkoglu, Turkey's leading star, was the No. 00 pick in 16. After finishing his rookie contract with the Kings and Spurs, the discerning Magic brought Turkoglu to Orlando with a contract, and It started the peak period of the Turks' career.

From 2004 to 2009, Turkoglu reached the peak of his career in the Magic. He formed a pseudo-big three with Warcraft Howard at his peak and Sharad Lewis who joined the Magic at the end of his peak, allowing the Magic to reach the Eastern Conference. .

Turkoglu is the soul of that team's offensive organization. With a height of 208cm, Turkoglu is a veritable organization forward. He averaged 5 assists per game in his peak period, which is already higher than the average team's starting point guard. The number of times is even more, and his three-point shooting rate is really terrifying. In the years after joining the Magic, he can shoot about 40% of the three-point shooting rate in almost every season.

Coincidentally, the draft template given by NBA.draft to Zhou Lin is exactly this Turkish star.

In this game, Zhou Lin will also have a head-to-head confrontation with his own draft template before entering the NBA.

Of course, in addition to Turkoglu, Turkey has two other NBA players.

Ilyasova was selected by the NBA with the 36th overall pick last year.

There is also Memet Okur, who will be hated by Chinese fans in the future. In the two seasons of 06-07 and 07-08, in Yao Ming's best two years, he was defeated by Okur and Boozer. , Kirilenko, Deron Williams... the jazz team they belonged to was eliminated, and Okur was the one who defended against Yao Ming. Although he was inferior in height to Yao Ming, his physical confrontation completely offset Yao Ming. This gentleman's three-pointers have remained above 35% all year round.

In the NBA before the advent of the small ball era, there were not many big pitchers around 2.1m such as Turkoglu and Okur.

In Türkiye, there are three such players.

However, on the eve of the World Championships, Okur announced his withdrawal from the national team.

In fact, the Turkish men's basketball team was not favored before the World Championships, and their world ranking is not as good as that of China.

In the European Championships, he only achieved fifth results, and finally entered the World Championships as a wild card.

But this time in the group stage, they only lost one game to Greece and qualified with 4 wins and 1 loss, defeating Lithuania and Australia's two top 10 teams.

It looks like a dark horse, and it has a feeling of echoing the dark horse Chinese team in Group D.

And the most surprising thing is that the two NBA players who played the best in this game are not the two NBA players, but Edogan, an outside player who plays in the local league, and Krem, an inside player.

Of course, this is also because Turkoglu, the core of the team, once broke out before the World Championships that he did not want to participate in the World Championships because of his back injury, but he still participated in the World Championships in the end. Suspected of injury, of course there must be a gap.

It's just the game against Turkey, the Chinese team played a bit aggrieved.

In the first quarter, Yao Ming was forced to leave the field because of two fouls with the opponent's inside position. Turkey's defender Edogan was also the team's leading scorer. The team once fell into a 15-7 start. Then Zhou Lin and Wang Zhizhi scored for the team respectively, and the score caught up to 15-22. Ilyasova broke through Yi Jianlian twice in a row, scored once and made a foul, helping Turkey At the end of the first quarter, they took a close to double-digit lead with 26-17.

The second quarter was a template showdown between Turkish magician Turkoglu and Chinese magician Zhou Lin.

In the 3 minutes of the second quarter, Turkoglu first made a three-pointer from outside the three-point line, and then assisted Ilyasova for a layup, leading the Turkish team to continue to expand the score advantage, and Zhou Lin also He began to use his strengths, broke through Turkoglu's defense twice, succeeded in a layup once, and gave Wang Zhizhi a dunk by breaking through the ball once.

At this stage, Turkoglu's three-pointer is indeed more stable than Zhou Lin, but Zhou Lin, as a passer, has a side that Kotteglu can't do, that is, Zhou Lin's breakthrough, Zhou Lin's Speed ​​and agility are better than Bikoglu.

Compared with Turkoglu's style of passing the ball in search of subtle opportunities in positional battles, which are often obtained through the movement of his teammates, Zhou Lin's passing is more derived from breakthroughs and points, attracting Defenders, use their own breakthrough attributes to create offensive space for teammates.

In the battle of templates in the second quarter, Zhou Lin contributed 4 points and 3 assists, and Turkoglu scored 5 points and 2 assists, which was evenly divided.

At the end of the half, the Chinese team entered the second half 39-46 behind by 7 points.

And Yao Ming, who carefully controlled the number of fouls in the first half, completely lifted the ban in the third quarter and scored 10 points in a single quarter. Nas let Liu Wei put on his training uniform and sit aside, while the young Chen Jianghua took up most of the playing time.

Facts have proved that although Liu Wei has been criticized for his poor passing and control ability, the Chinese team is really not good without Liu Wei as the master, because other defenders are really unstable, whether it is Chen Jianghua or Zhang Qingpeng, or they can reach 1. Wang Shipeng at the No. [-] position, or the tall point guard Sun Yue, are not as easy to use as Liu Wei, not only on the dribble, but also on the defensive end.

It was also the absence of Liu Wei in the third quarter that caused the Chinese team to make 8 turnovers in a single quarter, which became a huge turning point.

The score in this quarter was 32-15. The Chinese team's single power outage made the suspense of the game gradually disappear.

Turkey entered the fourth quarter with a 24-point lead.

Although, in the fourth quarter, Sun Yue scored two three-pointers and Yao Ming was still scoring points. In addition to his offensive performance, Zhou Lin also gave his template Turkoglu a block from outside the three-point line.

In the middle of the fourth quarter, the score was once chased to only 12 points, but as the Turkish team began to play steadily, they continued to use breakthrough points to create outside shooting opportunities, and offset the offensive end with the Chinese team to take the lead. Keep it till the end.

79-65, the Chinese team lost the first round of qualifying by 14 points.

Zhou Lin's performance with 11 points and 5 assists was slightly inferior to Turkoglu's 14 points and 5 assists.

On the same day, the German team lost to the French team 73-75.

The Chinese team will compete with the German team for the No.7 ranking in the World Championships in the second round.

The Chinese team is very familiar with the German team that just played against each other in the Sri Lankan Cup. The last time the Chinese team was defeated by Dirk Nowitzki in the Stankovic Cup, this time, the Chinese team If the team wants to break the dusty record for a long time, it must beat the German team.

Fight for No.7.

This is the last World Championship match of the Chinese men's basketball team that had a chance to hit the top four. In order not to regret, Liu Wei still chose to play this game after wearing protective gear despite the recurrence of an old injury.

In this game where the Chinese team was united, they got a big lead at the beginning of the game. Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng, and Zhou Lin each contributed a three-pointer in the first quarter. Yi Jianlian also made a mid-range shot against Nowitzki. The core player Yao Ming is even more overwhelming in the paint.

In the first quarter, the Chinese team took a double-digit lead 26-16.

In the second quarter, Dirk Nowitzki still showed the value of an NBA superstar and the absolute core of the team. Ki's offense is somewhat unstoppable.

Nowitzki scored 12 points in a single quarter, plus Pascal Basil's two three-pointers. At the end of the second quarter, the German team caught up with only one point. Yao Ming made a buzzer shot to win the World Championships. With the first three-pointer, the Chinese team entered the second half 1-49.

The third quarter of the game also became a turning point in the game. The young "Zhou Yi" combination dunked alley-oops at the beginning of the game, and then Zhou Lin broke into the inside and completed a dunk on the opponent's inside. Nowitzki grabbed the offensive board in front of him and then dunked.

The three consecutive dunks in the third quarter also pushed the momentum of the Chinese team to a high point. Then Sun Yue blocked the German forward Edmora Okuraya, and Wang Shipeng hit the buzzer. At the beginning of the quarter, both in terms of momentum and scoring, they showed unparalleled suppression.

Nowitzki's two independent shots from the golden rooster are just a sign of being alone.

The outside shooters of the German team were completely lost in the third quarter. The 7-0 three-point shooting percentage also made Dirk Nowitzki say that he couldn't help it.

As the only player on the team who has played in the NBA, the level of other players is really far behind Nowitzki.

Yao Ming made an angry show at the end of the third quarter, and his dreamy footsteps made German center Jagra fall to the basket.

In the third quarter, the Chinese team took another big lead.

74-59.

The Chinese team entered the fourth quarter with a 15-point gap.

In order to consolidate the victory of this game, Yao Ming took the lead in the early stage of the fourth quarter, and the offensive end continued to give lessons to the German team's inside line.

Seeing that the score was heading towards 20 points, Dirk Nowitzki was also a little anxious. He was a bit suspicious of raising his elbow on the offensive end. After elbowing Yi Jianlian for the third time, he was fined a technical foul.

Since then, the German team has no control, and the score is getting bigger and bigger. With 5 minutes left, they are 69-89 behind the Chinese team by a full 20 points.

Dirk Nowitzki was substituted, the German team announced their surrender, and the German chariot, who covered his face with a towel, was undoubtedly a bit autistic.

The Chinese team also withdrew all the main players with 3 minutes left in the game.

Although the final score was chased back by the German team's substitute, the Chinese team still won the game.

94-77.

The Chinese team broke through history and won No.6 in the 3 World Championships in Japan with a score of 2006 wins and 7 losses.

Yao Ming finally won the title of scoring champion in the World Championships with an average of 25.7 points per game, but regrettably lost to the best team. Of course, Dirk Nowitzki, who scored second on the scoring list, was the same.

Because although the Chinese team made a breakthrough in history, they only ranked seventh in the end.

Although Gasol missed the final due to injury, Spain won the World Championships, which also made the tournament organizing committee determined to give Gasol the center spot.

The other four selected players are Anthony of the US team, Manu Ginobili of the Argentina team, Papa Lucas of the Greek team and Garbachosa of the Spanish team.

Of course, besides Yao Ming, Zhou Lin is also the surprise of this Men's Basketball World Championships.

Averaged 14.7 points, 4.7 assists and 3.7 rebounds per game.

Among them, the score ranked No.17 in the World Championships, 0.6 points higher than LeBron James.

As a small forward, Zhou Lin's average assists per game actually ranked fourth, second only to Argentine defender Sanchez's 5.77 assists, Puerto Rico defender Carlos Arroyo, and the US team's Chris Paul 4.88 times.

As for the total number of assists, Arroyo, who only played 6 games, will be ranked in the top three.

For the Chinese team, this is also a nearly perfect journey to the World Championships. Next, the Chinese men's basketball team will participate in the Doha Asian Games, but Zhou Lin and Yao Ming, who are competing in the NBA, will be absent, and most of the domestic media have already put Focus on the 2008 BJ Olympics.

Back in China, the Chinese men's basketball team, as a meritorious team, was highly praised by the leaders of the General Administration of Sports. In addition, Zhou Lin, who played for the national team for the first time, also won the favor of many domestic sponsors because of his good performance in the World Championships.

As a manufacturer of basketball sneakers, Anta finally signed Zhou Lin, 5 million in 2000 years before tax. This huge contract also attracted hot comments from many media.

The current exchange rate of RMB to US dollar is about 8 RMB to 1 US dollar.

Anta's contract averages 400 million a year, which is about 50 US dollars.

Compared with the 4-year 380 million US dollars offered by Reebok, it is still slightly lower, but in China in 2006, this was already considered a sky-high contract.

In addition to the endorsement fee, Anta will also give Zhou Lin the signature shoes of the "Control" series. Zhou Lin has also become the first NBA player under Anta.

Signature shoes, as well as the light of domestic products, are also the reasons why Zhou Lin finally chose Anta.

(End of this chapter)