I have a lot of skills in the NBA

Chapter 103 The Weird Start
On August 8, BJ time, at 21:5 p.m., the match between China VS Philippines is about to begin.

"The Philippines' starting lineup is: Center: Poy Erram, Power Forward: Christian Standhardinger, Small Forward: Gabe Norwood, Shooting Guard: Stanley Pringle, Point Guard: Jordan Clarkson."

"The starting lineup sent by the Chinese team is center Zhou Qi, power forward Wang Zhelin, small forward Ding Yanyuhang, shooting guard Liu Zhixuan, and point guard Sun Minghui."

"From the point of view of the strength of the starting lineup, the strength of the Philippine team's back line is better than that of our Chinese team. Of course, it is the back line. The configuration of other positions is more than a bit worse than our Chinese team."

"In the Philippine team, the strongest player is Jordan Clarkson from the NBA Cavaliers. He is the backbone of this team."

"In addition to Clarkson, the Philippine men's basketball team also includes naturalized player Christian Stander Hardinger. This player has a very tough style of play, strong rebounding ability, and has played in the NCAA."

In the Tencent Sports studio, the guest speaker Su Qun and the commentator Ke Fan were talking, carefully analyzing the pros and cons of the two teams' lineups.

"Beep beep!!!" The game started.

"Snapped!"

The 2-meter-tall Zhou Qi and the 17-meter-tall Philippine naturalized player Boye Ram jumped the ball from the United States.

Although American players have some physical advantages against ordinary Asian players, they are not enough to face Zhou Qi, who has a superior jumping height and a superman with wingspan.

Zhou Qi won the jump ball by virtue of his height and arm length, and gave the ball to point guard Sun Minghui. Sun Minghui advanced quickly, but the speed of the Philippine team's defense was not vegetarian.

Seeing Ding Yanyuhang take the ball, the small forward Jiabo Ruowood quickly jumped up and stared at Ding Yanyuhang with open hands. He is tall, long-armed, muscular, and very imposing, and no matter what Ding Yanyuhang does, he just doesn’t jump. Ding Yanyuhang is also a little depressed. He can only pass the ball and pass it to Zhou Qi who is outside the three-point line.

Opposing Zhou Qi is the Philippine team center Boyeram. The matchup between the two can be said to be a thin, tall and flexible man against a short, muscular man. Zhou Qi has the advantage in speed.

So without any hesitation, Zhou Qi directly chose to break through the short and strong man with the ball. In the matchup of the center, he must defeat or even defeat Boyeram.

I saw Zhou Qi's fake shot, which directly hit the opponent's defense. Zhou Qi took a few steps forward, stepped on the free throw line, and took three big steps. Facing the defense of two people under the basket, he directly used his body to push away Christian Stander Hardinger's head-on confrontation.

The ball flew out of his hand calmly, and the Filipino small forward Gabriel Wood jumped up vigorously, but in the end he was a step too late and missed the opportunity. He could only watch the basketball draw a perfect arc in front of his eyes and fly headlong into the net.

"Shh!"

The Chinese men's basketball team took the lead.

The Philippine men's basketball team quickly launched a counterattack. Their naturalized players are not as skilled and dexterous as the Chinese men's basketball team, but their physical fitness is very good. They are not afraid of confrontation.

In terms of physical confrontation, except for Wang Zhelin and Zhou Qi, who are slightly better, the Chinese men's basketball team is obviously at a disadvantage.

Wang Zhelin has specially trained his physical strength this summer and has made great progress in physical confrontation, and Sun Minghui's body is also very good.

Strong physical talent allows Zhou Qi to have a strong defensive range, the coexistence of defensive awareness and technology, fast and flexible footsteps, super long wingspan, and even the ability to single-handedly defend against defenders' breakthroughs.

In these two positions, the Philippines did not take advantage of any advantages, but fell into a disadvantage, and Zhou Qi capped Boyelam.

But in positions 1 (shooting guard), 2 (point guard), and 3 (small forward Ding Yan Yuhang has not yet recovered from his knee injury and cannot perform at his full strength), the Chinese team appears to be stretched.

In the physical confrontation with the opponent, the Chinese team suffers from these three positions, which leads to teammates having to go up to help defend, and in this way, there must be loopholes. Under the organization of the core point guard Clarkson, the Philippine team also conducts the ball very quickly.

Therefore, after more than 6 minutes in the first quarter, the scores of the two sides suddenly stalemate at 10:9, and the Chinese men's basketball team only led by one point.

This obviously made Coach Li Nan unacceptable.

You know, the Chinese men's basketball team has Wang Zhelin, Zhou Qi, Ding Yanyuhang, Liu Zhixuan, and Sun Minghui. With such a strong lineup, it should be easy for the second team to play against the Philippines, but now they have played half a quarter, but they only lead by one point.

Moreover, Sun Minghui only relied on free throws to score two points, and Liu Zhixuan didn't even get one point, which is too unreasonable!
"beep"

Coach Li Nan quickly called a timeout and made an adjustment to the lineup, replacing Liu Zhixuan with Fang Shuo, who was more accurate with three-pointers; replacing Ding Yanyuhang with Abdul Saramu.

Then Li Nan said seriously to several people: "You have also seen that the opponent is relying on physical fitness to force us, and there is only one trick. This is our disadvantage, but it must not be an excuse for our failure. After a while, you must fight tougher, and you must not back down even if you pay for a foul. He will let him be strong, and I will play with him!!!"

"Yes." Everyone roared loudly.

"Also." Li Nan stepped forward and patted Abdul Saramu on the shoulder, and said, "Lao Sha, you move actively, and at the same time you need to make more breakthroughs. Together with you and Sun Minghui, both of you have sharp front-to-back breakthroughs, and you can use this to tear apart the opponent's defense. Break through the ball and tear apart the opponent's defense."

Abdul Saramu nodded, and Sun Minghui hummed too.

……

The time-out is over and the game continues.

The Chinese men's basketball team attacked, and Sun Minghui quickly advanced to the frontcourt. After making a pick-and-roll with Wang Zhelin, he suddenly accelerated and changed direction, holding the ball and killing towards the basket.

Sun Minghui's speed has always been a point of concern for the Philippine team, so seeing him break through, the core player of the Philippines, Clarkson, immediately stepped up and blocked Sun Minghui's advancing route.

But at this time, Sun Minghui passed the ball to Abdul Saramu on the outside, while he himself quickly ran back around the baseline and came to the familiar left corner three-point line.

Abdul Saramu took the ball and made a gesture to make a shot. The Philippine team's small forward jumper Gabriel Wood was really fooled and subconsciously jumped up.

A mysterious smile appeared on the corner of Abdul Saramu's mouth, and then he took the ball back and passed Gabriel Wood in one step.

Abdul Saramu's first step was too fast, and his footsteps were also big, and he reached the free throw line in three or two steps.

At this time, guarding the basket, Christian Standhardinger and Jordan Clarkson pounced on Abdul Saramu. Facing the menacing attack of the other two, Abdul Saramu did not panic at all and behaved very maturely.He quickly divided the ball and gave it to Sun Minghui in the right corner.

"not good!"

"Defend his [-]-pointers!"

This time the Philippine team was taken aback. Shooting guard Stanley Pringle had no time to think, and quickly rushed to Sun Minghui in the bottom corner.

Hearing a "whoosh", Sun Minghui passed the ball again. With a long swing, the ball was passed to Zhou Qi who was near the free throw line. There was a big open space in front of Zhou Qi, without any hesitation, he took the ball and shot it.

This is Zhou Qi's best position, and basketball did not disappoint him. He obediently got into the net and rolled up the net waves.

"12:9, the Chinese team leads by 3 points!"

Seeing the Chinese team passing the ball continuously and showing no panic when encountering double-teams, coach Li Nan on the sidelines secretly nodded in satisfaction.

But before he could relax, the situation on the court became turbulent again.

The head coach of the Philippine team, Yan Guiao, also made tactical adjustments. The Philippine team instantly increased their defensive strength and suddenly became extremely aggressive in defense, which immediately contained the breakthroughs of Sun Minghui and Abdul Saramu.

In terms of offense, the Philippine back line suddenly began to convulse, and the Philippine team played vigorously for a while.

Especially Jordan Clarkson, who came back from the NBA, played like a fish in water, taking advantage of his body, shooting from inside and outside, frequently breaking into the paint, forcing layups, and constantly making fouls.

At this moment, the original leading advantage of the Chinese men's basketball team was lost in an instant, and the score became 12:13, and the Philippine team overtook it by one point.

Coach Li Nan looked up anxiously at the timer on the sidelines. There were only 35 seconds left in the first quarter. After hesitating for a while, he finally gave up and did not call a timeout.

On the field, Fang Shuo held the ball and pushed forward with the Chinese team. He quickly came to the frontcourt, played a pick-and-roll with his teammates, and passed the ball to Zhou Qi on the side.

Zhou Qi tapped his toes, started quickly, took the first step like lightning, passed the opponent's center in seconds again, rushed all the way to the basket, and hit the board in the air.

"14:13, the Chinese team overtook the score again!"

With 15 seconds left in the first quarter, the Philippine team has the ball.

The Philippine team played this ball very patiently, constantly consuming the time of the final attack.

At the three-point line at the top of the arc, Jordan Clarkson looked up at the timer. Seeing that the time was almost up, he faced Sun Minghui's defense and suddenly started to kill directly with the ball. Just as Sun Minghui retreated, he pulled the ball back with his right hand, and then took a step back to outside the three-point line, widening the distance between him and Sun Minghui.

The player next to him came up to make up the defense, but it was too late. With this step back, there was immediately room to shoot.

At this time, Jordan Clarkson made a calm shot.

"beep"

"Shh!"

The whistle blows, the ball goes in, the buzzer hits!

With a score of 14:16, the Philippine team ended the first quarter with a 2-point lead.

This result was a bit unexpected. Several players of the Chinese team came down from the field dejectedly. Everyone's face looked a little ugly. They were beaten like this by the second team of the Philippines, and they were led by their opponents. This was beyond their expectations, and it also made them feel a little confused.

(End of this chapter)