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Chapter 306 It would be great if I also had a big man

On September 2010, 9, after all the group matches were over and the 4 qualifying teams were all settled, the World Championships officially entered the knockout stage. According to the schedule of the World Championships, the four groups ABCD will be divided into four groups: The upper and lower halves will conduct a cross-elimination match to determine the quarterfinals of the World Championships.

Since the Olympics allowed professional players to participate, the influence and gold content of the World Championships have become less and less. Most European and American teams, especially the American men's basketball team with the title of Dream Team, regard the World Championships as a training place. Compared with the star-studded Olympic Games, the lineups of all the powerful teams going to the World Championships can only be called the second team. However, even so, the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team has not reached the quarterfinals for 16 years, and in China In the history of the World Championships of the Chinese men's basketball team, only the World Championships in 94 has reached the top eight once.

And now, when the Huaguo men's basketball team defeated the Greek men's basketball team in the last round of the group stage, qualifying as the second place in the group, and in the first round of the knockout round, after encountering their own defeated New Zealand, the Huaguo men's basketball team undoubtedly It ushered in an excellent opportunity, a chance to reach the quarterfinals of the World Championships.

The New Zealand men's basketball team is a new army that only started to rise around the new millennium. Because there is a giant like Australia on the top of the head, so from the beginning of the New Zealand men's basketball team, their scope of activities is limited to Oceania, but after the new millennium , the New Zealand men's basketball team got rid of the hat of the second child in the millennium, and killed the traditional leader of Oceania, Australia, in the qualifiers for the Olympics and the World Championships many times.

However, as a new team, although the New Zealand men's basketball team has a tenacious style, a tough autumn wind, and dares to fight on the court, no one is afraid, and even reached the semi-finals in the 02 World Championships, but overall However, the record of the New Zealand men's basketball team in the international arena is not ideal, and it is slightly inferior to the second-rate teams like the Huaguo men's basketball team.

It is also because of this that when New Zealand's Group D ranking was released and New Zealand ranked third in the group, the Huaguo men's basketball team and the Greek men's basketball team desperately wanted to win the final round and qualify as second in the group , to play against New Zealand in the knockout round, because compared with Spain, New Zealand is obviously the soft persimmon.

After the quarter-finals of Serbia and Croatia, Slovenia and Australia, the United States and Angola, and Argentina and Brazil in the first half, on September 9, the knockout round of the second half also kicked off.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, at the Kadir Haz Stadium in Istanbul, after the knockout match between Spain and Greece, the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the New Zealand men's basketball team kicked off.

"Although it has not been long since entering the world basketball arena, the New Zealand men's basketball team is not as weak as everyone imagined. The New Zealand men's basketball team once reached the top four in the 02 World Championships, and also scored in the last World Championships. The top 4, so we must not take this game lightly.” After players from both sides began to appear on the field one after another, and after seeing the Huaguo men’s basketball team showing an optimistic atmosphere everywhere, Teacher Zhang Lili in the CCAV studio hall, I also want to cool them down, although Zhang Li is also very optimistic about this game.

"Director Zhang is right. Many players in this New Zealand team play in the NCAA or European leagues. This is a very strong team. Several of their outside players Lynch Tower Te, Mike Fitchett and Kirk Penny are all players with very strong personal strength. In the group stage, New Zealand defeated the strong French and Canadian teams. Overall, this team The overall strength is still very strong.”

After taking the roster of the New Zealand men's basketball team and introducing the important ones, Sun Zhengping took a breath. Any team that can enter the round of 16 must have two brushes. They can beat France and France. Canada and New Zealand are no exception.

"This New Zealand center forward is really short!" When Yan Hua and Craig Bradshaw, who represent the jump ball of the two teams, walked into the center circle, Zhang Lili, who had a dignified face just now, was instantly happy. From a reasonable point of view, the height difference between Craig Bradshaw and Yan Hua is probably the difference between the two teams. Although he keeps shouting not to underestimate New Zealand, in his heart, Zhang Li is Really didn't take New Zealand seriously.

New Zealand's main center, Craig Bradshaw, stood in front of Yan Hua, and he was almost half a head shorter. Not only that, Craig Bradshaw and Yan Hua's weight were not on the same level, and their height Not even a single weight, it can be imagined how relaxed Yan Hua will be in the next jump ball and competition.

Just after Zhang Lili's voice fell, the game officially started. As expected by Zhang Lili, Yan Hua easily defeated Craig Bradshaw at the opening jump ball. The Huaguo men's basketball team won the ball for the first offense.

In the opening attack, Craig Bradshaw, who was in charge of defending Yan Hua, did not make any effective resistance and let Yan Hua make a shot.

New Zealand's main center, Craig Bradshaw, has a registered height of only 2 meters, and power forward Perot Cameron is only 03 meters. This kind of outside-level height is in front of Yan Hua and Yi Jianlian. It was a disaster level, and Craig Bradshaw was not considered strong, so after the start of the game, New Zealand's inside line exploded directly, not only let Yan Hua and Yi Jianlian wreak havoc on the inside line in turn , Even rebounds, New Zealand has no way to effectively guarantee.

Therefore, after the end of the first quarter, the New Zealand men's basketball team was doomed.

"Hey, if we can also have a big man, the result of this game will definitely not be like this." Looking at Yan Hua on the field, before the end of the first half, he was already mad With 14 rebounds, the New Zealand head coach Vucinic, who was standing on the sidelines, also began to feel numb. Vucinic is really envious of these big men in the Huaguo men's basketball team, Yao Ming in the past, and now Yan Hua and Yi Jianlian, each of them, made Vucinich envious.

In today's game, New Zealand's performance was actually not bad, especially the outside lines. They played against the Huaguo men's basketball team's outside lines throughout the whole process, but their inside lines were blown up, especially the rebounds. It was simply horrible. It doesn't matter if Hua Guo's outside players can miss two shots or even three shots, because they always hold the rebounds firmly in their hands, but the New Zealand men's basketball team, let alone multiple shots. In the hit, it only takes two attacks to fail, and the point difference between the two sides will be enlarged again.

(End of this chapter)