Basketball starts with breathing

The referee threw the ball into the air and the game began.

After just 3 minutes of playing, the Chinese team led by 11:7 by four points. Harris immediately called a timeout and replaced Battelle and Zhu Fangyu.

Yao Ming and Lu Yu smiled at each other and walked back to the bench.

Radmanovic rushed to Lu Yu and raised his eyebrows. It seems that the identity of his former teammate is still useful. Lu Yu is really a great brother.

The Serbia and Montenegro team breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Chinese team was about to give up the ball. At the same time, the Italian team players sitting in the audience looked helpless. They knew that the Chinese team’s choice was understandable. Falling out of the quarterfinals is a foregone conclusion.

Harris, the old god, clasped his hands on his chest, looking like he was strategizing.

As a result, 2 minutes later, he rubbed his temples with his fingers...

Why are these young guys so ignorant?

"Audience friends, our Chinese men's basketball team seems to regard this game as a training exercise for new players."

The person in charge of the commentary is still the familiar Sun Yiping, whose unique tone is full of passion.

"Yi Jianlian continues to hit high jumpers...Without Lu Yu and Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi have become the offensive spearheads of the Chinese men's basketball team." Sun Yiping said excitedly: "They are also the strongest insiders on the offensive end of the Chinese men's basketball team... …”

Not long into the second quarter, the Chinese team took an eight-point lead over Serbia and Montenegro with 28:20.

Immediately following Wang Zhizhi, he succeeded in another strong shot at the basket. Although Tomasevic already knew Wang Zhizhi's name before the game, after all, last year's Wang Zhizhi played like an All-Star after Dirk Nowitzki was injured in the playoffs. Masevic has put all his energy into defending, but he still can't defend.

Today's Wang Zhizhi has already been reborn.

The Serbian-Black pair began to double-team Wang Zhizhi, but Wang Zhizhi changed from a scoring arrow to an organizer.

The internal pass between Yi Jianlian and Yi Jianlian made the opponent jealous. Yi Jianlian received a pass from Wang Zhizhi at the free throw line. Without hesitation, he raised his hand and threw it.

Swish!
Basketball hit the net.

"Beautiful! Yi Jianlian played very resolutely. It seems that he practiced hard this summer. We should be able to see a different Yi Jianlian in the NBA next season."

Radmanovic's face was ashen, and Drogbniek behind him whispered: "The situation seems a little wrong, didn't you say they will definitely let the ball?"

Radmanovic said impatiently, "Didn't you see Lu and Yao both go down? Who knows how the rest of the players are like taking medicine today..."

Blame Harris for being so 'uplifting' before the game...

Harris is also very helpless, what can he do?Could it be possible to replace Lu Yu and Yao Ming?
I never thought that Serbia and Heihe would be so ineffective. Even the Chinese team without Lu Yu and Yao Ming couldn't handle it, and they couldn't even send heads if they wanted to.

In the stands, the Italian team's head coach's eyes suddenly lit up: Isn't the Chinese team letting the ball?No no no... They were already giving up the ball by replacing Lu Yu and Yao Ming, but the players on the court didn't mean to give up at all... This is the real athlete, this is the Olympic spirit!
Lu Yu and Yao Ming sat off the court chatting.

"Let's bet fifty cents, is this game a win or a loser?" Lu Yu whispered.

"The leader of the regiment wants to lose..." Yao Ming replied seriously.

"But I think we can win. Harris even replaced the UAE and Moco, and Serbia and Montenegro also chased a few points. Harris didn't dare to lose blatantly, so he could only replace Dazhi and the bus. Now Da Zhi is playing so well on the court that Se Hei can't defend." Lu Yu shook his head and continued, "Don't you see, they are holding back their breath... I think Coach Harris seems to think too. Helping the Chinese team win the game..."

Harris replaced Lu Yu and Yao Ming in order to protect the main players in the next game, but if all the players who have never played a few times in the field are replaced, it is estimated that the Italian team will protest to the Olympic Organizing Committee.

Besides, Serbia didn't give any benefit, why let them?

Harris also opened his eyes. Since the players have the heart to prove themselves, he must satisfy the players' thoughts. After all, it is not terrible for a team to lose. The most important thing is that this team must have its own. Fighting spirit.

The Chinese team has gradually gained this fighting spirit.

A fighting spirit that can only be found in a world-leading team!

Harris made up his mind secretly: "Even if I really won this game and lost against Greece or the United States in the quarter-finals, I will bear the final responsibility!"

He knows that for the Chinese team, the results of this Olympic Games are temporary, but when the team has this kind of fighting spirit, it will affect generations of Chinese men's basketball players.

And this game will become a sign of the maturity of the Chinese men's basketball team.

Sun Yiping, who was in charge of explaining the game, said: "The current score is 33:25. The Chinese team has replaced Wang Zhizhi and Battelle to continue to stabilize the situation... Yi Jianlian is still too thin, and was eaten by Drobniek in the interior. Although there has not been a shot in this game so far, he has limited Drogbniek both on offense and on defense. Now Serbia and Montenegro have only their defender Verjanic and striker Ladd to score points. Manovic...beautiful, Zhu Fangyu defended hard, made a mid-range jumper to make the score 35:25, and the difference was in double digits again..."

Radmanovic makes a shot.

Immediately following Liu Wei's mid-shot and missed the basket, Vranic quickly took the ball across the half court after receiving a pass from his teammate, and took a step away from the three-point line to pull up and shoot.

Swish!
The three-pointer fell neatly into the basket.

Lu Yu sat on the sidelines and frowned slightly: "The Serbian and Black Team started to fight back..."

"Yes, their strength is good." Yao Ming nodded: "Their guard No. 13, the guard who just made a three-pointer, was very accurate when he played with us last time, the No. 7 who played with the Clippers. You should have played against each other in the regular season, and if they made a dozen [-]-pointers like they did in the Diamond Game, we could have lost."

"Should Harris call a timeout?"

Before Lu Yu could finish speaking, Harris really called for a timeout. After calling the timeout, Harris looked at Lu Yu and Yao Ming sitting on the bench, and then looked elsewhere.

It would have been just an ordinary pause.

As a result, at this time, the two coaches Harris and Yunas suddenly quarreled.

"I'm the head coach and I'm in charge of everything..."

"We can achieve better results! And you agreed before the game. This is a joint decision of the coaching staff. You can't make changes at will!"

"I said, I'm the head coach!"

"I am also a coach invited by the Chinese Basketball Association. The coach is not responsible for tactics. Even in the NBA, some teams will choose to give up the game in order to get a suitable seat in the playoffs!"

"This is not the NBA, I don't have to report to any owners, they hired me to win."

"A victory doesn't mean victory!"

"Winning is victory!"

This time the whole arena is like a vegetable market, and the audience is talking about it, including the Serbian and Montenegrin team on the opposite side and the Italian team sitting in the auditorium, also paying attention to the situation on the Chinese team's side.

Because the two coaches quarreled in English, the players of both teams could understand it.

To put it bluntly, whoever wins the fight is likely to dominate the fate of the Italian team and Serbia and Montenegro.

It sounds ironic, but it's true.

Lu Yu's heart sank: what should have happened finally happened...

Originally, the Chinese men's basketball team had hired two foreign coaches and they were two famous foreign coaches. It was a wrong decision. The two were reluctant to work together. The tactical concepts, including the way players were used, had certain differences. They have been looking for common ground while reserving differences. way of coexistence.

Until today, it finally broke out.

Is Yunas wrong?

He didn't, as a coach, he was responsible for the Chinese team, to get a better place for the Chinese team in this game, so this game must be abandoned.

The strategy set by the coaching staff from the beginning is to try to maintain the physical strength of the players and prepare for the possibility of encountering the US team in the eight-to-four game. .

Undoubtedly, in this way, the Chinese team will have a great opportunity to achieve a historical breakthrough, and it may be the first time that the Chinese team can enter the semi-finals in the Olympic Games and compete for a medal.

But when Yunas saw Harris call for a timeout, he knew that Harris had changed his decision, so he immediately stood up to stop it, and then quarreled with Harris.

Harris' idea is very simple, if the players want to win, I will help them win!

The TV broadcast jumped the picture back to the studio, and Sun Yiping said embarrassedly: "There should be some disagreements between the coaching staff of the Chinese team, let's start a commercial..."

The audience standing in front of the TV quit.

"The Chinese team is playing well, why is the coach arguing?"

"Can a foreigner coach be okay..."

"Who wants to watch an ad, let the ad go away!"

"The quarrel is over? The game has begun?"

"I don't know if the quarrel came out?"

The TV screen continued to show the match between the Chinese team and Serbia and Montenegro in the last 3 minutes of the first half. The Chinese team was 35:31, and the Chinese team only led by [-] points.

Yunas sat on the sidelines, his face ashen.

Harris instructed the players, especially Liu Wei, and kept shouting at Liu Wei, "Run, pass the ball, Liu, you have to play tactics and pass the ball ahead of time..."

Harris is serious, he wants to win the game, he wants to win the game for this group of players, but also for himself.

Just now, when the quarrel between him and Yunas heated up, the players on the field gathered around, and Battelle stood up first: "Coach, I want to win this game!"

Then, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian...

"Whoever loses has the grandson!"

"Why don't you win!"

"I want to win too!"

Harris got the support of the players. The players formed a circle, and everyone's hands were folded. Finally, Harris came over slowly, everyone made a space, and Harris put his hands on the top.

"Definitely!"

"GO!"

The morale of the Chinese team is like a dragon. No one cares which opponent they will face after winning this game. For them now, they only have the Serbia and Montenegro team in their eyes, and they just want to prove that they are also a good team. kind of player.

Lu Yu and Yao Ming were sitting next to Yunas.

"Dayao, it doesn't seem like we have anything to do?"

"What is it like?"

"..."

Yunas took a deep breath, he knew it was a foregone conclusion, Harris has the support of the players, it doesn’t mean he is not popular with the players, but he still thinks that both Harris and the players have made mistakes s Choice.

The players may not understand the analysis of the schedule, because their job is to play well, but as a coach, they are responsible for the rankings and the medals.

Harris is so stubborn...

"Give you water." While Yunas was still thinking, Lu Yu's voice suddenly sounded in his ear. Lu Yu handed a bottle of water from the side and said, "Are you still thinking about this?"

"Yes, I don't think I did anything wrong." Yunas said: "The opponents we will face after reaching the quarter-finals will most likely be the US men's basketball team and the Greek men's basketball team. We should be in this It's time to prepare for the next round of opponents. As long as we can pass the quarter-finals, I think the Chinese team will have a chance to enter the quarter-finals historically, and maybe even get a medal... This is what our coaching staff discussed before. Good decision..."

Lu Yu smiled: "I understand what you think, and I think Dayao also understands, right, Dayao?"

Yao Ming nodded at the side.

"But I think you should also understand our thoughts. As players, we want to prove ourselves on the court. Compared with rankings, I hope that there is a different thing in our basketball, one that can be passed down from generation to generation. The spirit of not admitting defeat." Lu Yu said seriously: "And this kind of spirit will allow the Chinese men's basketball team to truly complete the transformation from a weak team to a world-leading team!"

Yunas was stunned when he heard this. He has always coached strong European teams, and he never thought about this problem.

He always thought that the Chinese men's basketball team won the World Championships last year.

Isn't it the best team in the world?

But what he didn't know was that the transition of the Chinese men's basketball team from weak to strong was too fast and too hasty, just because there was one more Lu Yu and more Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian who became stronger.

As for other male basketball players, their spirit and energy are far from reaching the state of the top basketball teams in the world.

Or psychologically speaking, they definitely had luck in last year's World Championships.

Now is the best time to take advantage of their desire to win and help them establish a determination to win every battle and be brave in every battle. Even if they lose the title this year, this kind of spiritual thing will have an impact on them. Definitely not one or two players, but the entire CBA league, the entire Chinese basketball!
This is much more useful than the combination of sports and education, and the restructuring of the league.

Because what has changed this time is something in the bones.

"Besides, don't worry, aren't Dayao and I sitting off the court?" Lu Yu touched the bridge of his nose: "It's not certain whether we can win or not?"

He looked at the scoreboard not far away. When the referee blew the whistle at halftime, the score was exactly 40:40. Serbia and Montenegro gradually found the rhythm of shooting and tied the score.

What Lu Yu didn't say was...

You two coaches are so arguing, and you finally won the game. Serbia and Montenegro are very shameless, right?