In the basketball world, starting from the 99 World Youth Championship

Chapter 210 Opening of the group stage

But as a head coach, there are not many things I can change. It is unrealistic for those disciples to suddenly eat nutritious meals like Zhang Tian, ​​and most of them have already passed their peak The period is over, so this is very likely to be their last competition.

Battelle has returned to the CBA. The NBA team has not offered him any contract. Wang Zhizhi has already negotiated with Bayi. He will report to the Mavericks in the new season.

In this way, there will be three Chinese in the NBA next season, which is an extremely exciting thing for the fans.

September 9th is the opening day of the group stage. The first opponent of the Chinese team is the Dream Team 17, and this group of duels will be held at 09:30 in the evening. You can watch the other two games of the same group on the spot showdown.

The first is the contest between France and New Zealand that started at 09:30 in the morning. In this game, the top seed in Oceania faced the French team. In ten minutes, six out of ten were very efficient and scored a game-high [-] points.

As for New Zealand, the number one seed in Oceania, only one person scored in double figures in this game. That person is Sean Marks, who is currently playing for the Raptors and the future general manager of the Nets.

This man scored 12 points in the paint, which is New Zealand's only fig leaf.

The following game is the highlight of the group. The European champion Italy will face the European No.5 Lithuania. These two teams have played against each other many times in the continent. Although Lithuania is a traditional powerhouse, Italian basketball’s defensive counterattack As good as their football is, this game proved it.

Jascovicius, the European super defender, faced the chain defense of the Italian back line when he came up, um, that is, flanking, but he just did it when he came up, which is really rare.

"Is Italy so brave? This is basketball, not football. Can defense alone win Lithuania?"

Hu Weidong in the audience was a little surprised. Of course, he substituted himself more into the role of Jaskovicius. The result made Hu Weidong very regretful. With his physical talent and condition, facing this kind of defense, 90.00% The probability of passing the ball.

Jascovicius, the strongest point guard in Europe, is obviously not the first time he has faced this kind of defense, because Italy will use this trick every time they beat them, which is really annoying.

Jascovicius, the undrafted pick in 98, a senior at the same university as Francis, chose to forcibly rely on strength from the left to collide with the Italian defender, but Alessandro Abio and Gianlucaba Hill is not disadvantaged in terms of height and strength compared with Jaskovicius. This guy has not yet reached his peak, so he didn't rush over, but he still stopped in a narrow range with a good sense of the ball Nei threw the ball, brushed, and scored.Lithuanian No. [-] slammed his chest hard. Fortunately, the goal was scored. If it didn't score, everything would be in jeopardy.

Italy played very well. After passing the ball continuously, they found good opportunities inside and scored. Their scoring method is more concise than Lithuania. Perhaps it is because there is no such tough player as Jaskovicius in the team.

The scoring of the last goal gave Jaskovicius inexplicable confidence, but it is a pity that this time, the goal was not scored, and Lithuania did not protect the rebound.Fortunately, they retreated in time and did not allow Lithuania to fight back, and the two sides began to grind their positions again. This kind of slow-paced game is very accustomed to Italy, while Lithuania obviously prefers to play fast-paced.

Zhang Tian looked drowsy from the audience, and the two sides tied at 30:30 in the first half

"The first half was so fierce, the offense in the second half will definitely be more hip." Although the game was not over, Zhang Tian had already drawn his own conclusions, and the 10-minute game in the second half was indeed similar to what Zhang Tian said. One of them scored 20 points, the other scored 18 points, and the one who finally scored 20 points got a good start.

Jaskovicius became the target of criticism from head coach Jonas, "I don't know what Cenarius is thinking. A point guard takes 12 shots from the outside, so I won't talk about it, but why there are only two assists? In one game, because of his poor outside play, we only had five assists in total, while the opponent had eight."

Jonas is a head coach who likes to dig into details very much. It can be seen from the press conference after the game, but Jaskovicius did not choose to take the blame.

"The loss in this game is not my responsibility alone. The team has five assists, and I alone have two. Isn't that enough to explain the problem? Before playing against Italy, he should have thought that the opponent would double-team tactics to deal with us, and as a result, we lost and the blame was all mine, which is really unfair to me.”

The mutual dumping of Jonas and Jascovicius became the main focus of the opening ceremony of the men's basketball team on the first day, and this indirectly dilutes the tension of the Chinese team.

"Calm down, just play according to our previous training, Xiao Zhang, if your teammates don't feel good, you can play freely."

Zhang Tian nodded. He hadn't played the No. [-] position for a long time. The number of times he played this position in official games was very few. Tonight, he was really looking forward to playing against the US team.Jaskovicius was too hard to lead to Lithuania's loss. This guy still didn't accept enough beatings from society. If he was at his peak, he wouldn't make that kind of mistake.Therefore, it seems inevitable that Yunus and the Lithuanian country will part ways. This must not be changed by Zhang Tian. In the previous life, Yunus came to China after leaving Lithuania, and then stayed there because of China. It was just too much money, and the economic crisis had already broken out in Europe at that time, and the economy of the entire country of Greece collapsed.

Although the game didn't start until after nine o'clock in the evening, Zhang Tian habitually arrived at the arena early for training.Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi are similar, and the three NBA players are so active, those veteran players naturally have no shame to continue to mess around, and they also joined in.The atmosphere in the whole team was very positive, which made Jiang Xingquan feel like he was dreaming of going back to the [-] Movement.

Jiang Xingquan didn't continue to talk about it except for his instructions in the afternoon. He knew that talking too much would easily put pressure on the players. After all, the Chinese team had never defeated the US team in international competitions. Except last time.

(End of this chapter)