FIBA does not defend for three seconds. Inside players stick to the basket and use a lot of zone defense. This is naturally very unfriendly to players who are good at breakthroughs.
I have to say that the Dream Team was still too proud and conceited when selecting players.
Although this year's Dream Eight team has the highest player quality in the past ten years, it does not have enough shooters in reserve, which is indeed a bit short-sighted.
Under FIBA's rules, it is more suitable for players who can shoot.
In today's dream team, the only exception is Wade.
However, even Wade sometimes looks quite embarrassed because he gets blocked when he gets to the basket.
As for tonight, it was difficult for Wade to perform well because the referee was strict in catching walking and wrist flips.
If you really want to dissect Wade's breakthrough movement of flying close to the ground, it is actually suspected of turning his wrist. In the first three quarters of tonight's game, Wade was called for two mistakes because of this.
I have to say that the referee's presence was very strong tonight.
As a member of the restricted Dream Team 8, you will indeed feel on tenterhooks after getting the ball.
So, when the ball fell into James' hands in the last few seconds of the third quarter, it was relatively normal that James did not take action immediately.
If another walking or wrist-turning mistake occurs and the ball is transferred, allowing Duan to get another opportunity to shoot a buzzer-beater, will the point difference be further widened?
What's more, James at this stage is not known for his shooting.
In addition, when James participated in the World Championships in recent years, he came with an attitude of focusing on participation rather than merit.
Originally, when I played FIBA, my performance was average because I didn't adapt to the rules of the game.
Targeted by the referee tonight, James didn't score many points but made a lot of mistakes.
Considering that the Dream Team has lost a lot of games in the international arena in recent years, at every Olympic Games and World Championships, there are always a few stars who have to bear infamy and are criticized by American fans and even fans around the world.
James already has the burden of being a star, and he realized in advance that he might lose again tonight, so he wisely protected himself and was not prepared to make random shots to reduce his shooting percentage, and became the scapegoat for the Dream Team's failure to win the gold medal.
It can only be said that due to personal considerations, James' approach is definitely correct.
But now it’s the Olympics! When players go out to play, it is not simply about playing a game, it is just about personal or team honor.
Rather, it is closely related to the country and millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions or even billions of fans, sharing weal and woe.
And because basketball is a scoring game, every shot is related to the score and the final result of the game.
James' cowardly act was naturally questioned by everyone on the Dream Team.
During the next two minutes of inter-session time, many people from the Dream Team came to James for intense "communication."
This made Old K, who had originally made a new round of tactical arrangements and continued to ask Kobe and others to play step by step, also a little confused.
In the NBA, a single star is already difficult for the team's head coach to manage. Many times, the head coach is forced to dismiss because he cannot handle the relationship with the star.
The problem that Old K faces now is to bring a large group of NBA stars together and let them listen to his instructions to play and play team basketball.
The disputes and conflicts between players that occurred at this time undoubtedly affected his subsequent arrangements.
After Old K and all the other members of the coaching staff pulled away, the conflict was temporarily shelved and settled. As soon as Old K took out the tactical board, the whistle that the game was about to restart sounded not far away.
In response to this, Old K could only put a dark face on his face and put away his tactical board rather helplessly.
Then arrange the lineup for the beginning of the fourth quarter, and then emphasize defense, counterattack and discipline to them.
Before the start of the fourth quarter, the men's basketball team had a 17-point lead. It was undoubtedly very difficult for the Dream Team to come back and win in the next 10 minutes.
To achieve this, defense is undoubtedly the most important.
Once the men's basketball team scores more than 10 points in the next 13 minutes, the Dream Team will need to score 30 points in a single quarter.
You know, even in a 12-minute NBA quarter, it is rare for a team to score 30 points in a single quarter.
What's more, today's game time is only 10 minutes, and the players of the Dream Team still have no defense for three seconds, making it harder to break into the penalty area and score in the Olympic games.
It is also because the Dream Team cannot guarantee a high score of 30 points in a single quarter, so it needs to strengthen its defensive effect and use defensive counterattacks to race against time to narrow the point difference.
In the previous group matches, the Mengba team relied on defensive counterattacks to finally turn defeat into victory.
It's just that the referees intervened in the game to a greater extent tonight. The men's basketball team gained more advantages in the first three quarters. The pressure on the Dream Team in the next quarter will undoubtedly be greater.
This requires even more that the players of the Dream Team must stay focused and disciplined.
Old K told the players of the Dream Team all the key points of winning, but only a few of them listened.
After all, only a few players in this Dream Team have gold medals.
With no gold medal honors, no Olympic finals experience, and the current headwind competition situation, some members of the Dream Team have lost themselves.
Therefore, Du En also did not expect that the Meng Ba team would stretch their hips at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and the Meng Ba team's counterattack did not happen as Du En had imagined.
It was also because the Dream Team failed to narrow the point difference in the early minutes of the fourth quarter. After playing for more than 3 minutes, Du En went down to rest so that he could come back up and seize the points at the critical moment. Difference.
After Du En came off the court, Yao Ming gritted his teeth and led the team's offense, protected the rebounds, and fought back to defend.
It has to be said that no one in the men's basketball team is working hard for the gold medal that is so close and within reach.
Shoot immediately when there is an open space, hit the basket with all your strength when the iron is hit, and immediately foul when a rebound is taken away, so as to return to the backcourt and prevent being converted by the Dream Team.
Therefore, the referee did not need to blatantly help the men's basketball team in the fourth quarter. The men's basketball players on the court relied on their own efforts to maintain the point difference.
However, when the situation was good, Du En did not relax at all.
I drank half a bottle of energy drink off the court, rested for three or four minutes, and then hurriedly returned to the court.
84 to 70, with 4 minutes left in the game, the men's basketball team held a 14-point lead.
In order to prevent a mistake from happening at the last minute and being overturned by the Mengba team, Duen took the initiative to control the ball in the backcourt and moved it to the frontcourt steadily.
The players of Dream Team 8 knew that Du En was going to press the clock to win tonight.
Kobe and Kidd tacitly flanked Duen, hoping to prevent Duen from making a mistake.
However, Du En did not rush to pass the ball, nor did he panic when dribbling. He simply turned his back, grabbed the ball with one hand and raised it high to ensure that the ball was not interfered with, and then waited for his teammates to come forward to respond before passing the ball out.
The Mengba team just didn't want Du En to score again with the ball, so the others held the ball and stepped forward to attack with less urgency.
Then, the men's basketball team continued to press time, and Du En ran without the ball, distracting the Mengba team's defensive energy.
By the way, another advantage of the men's basketball team's pressing time is that it allows Yao Ming and other inside players to get some time to rest while playing on the court.
There were only a few minutes left in the game. Even if Yao Ming damaged his knee, he was not ready to leave the game. After all, Yao Ming was not willing to miss the opportunity to win the gold medal. It was also because the men's basketball team played too steadily, and the two scoring points of Du En and Yao Ming were still on the court at the same time.
The Dream Team was unable to use an early double attack to force the men's basketball outside ball holder to make a mistake.
With nothing to do, the Dream Team had no other good solution except to defend the body alone.
However, the men's basketball team plays very skillfully. Once the opponent approaches, they immediately stop and hold the ball with both hands, waiting for their teammates to come forward to respond.
You can hold the ball for up to five seconds. As long as you are not looking for a teammate and do not notice the defensive player reaching for the ball, you can basically protect the ball with no risk of failure.
The Men's Basketball Team resorted to such a tortoise style of play, and the Dream Team was really helpless.
After much deliberation, we can only try our best to prevent Du En and Yao Ming from catching the ball and let the men's basketball role players shoot three-pointers from the outside.
Because they were basically buzzer-beaters when time ran out, the shooting percentage was indeed not high. In the last four minutes of several shots, only Zhu Fangyu made a three-pointer.
But this was enough. Because the Dream Team had no time to score and was not sure to make a three-pointer, they could only rely on causing damage and constantly getting to the free throw line to score points one by one.
Although the scoring efficiency was very high, the men's basketball team's time-pressing style prevented them from narrowing the point difference to less than 5 points before the game was exhausted.
Even in the last two minutes, the Mengba team began to use foul tactics, sending the men's basketball players to the free throw line to regain the ball as soon as possible and increase the number of rounds.
However, after Yunus saw through this, he promptly replaced Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue with players who could shoot free throws.
The Mengba team relies on free throws to score, and the men's basketball team also relies on free throws to score, even more accurate than the Mengba team!
From the perspective of free throws, the basic skills of male basketball players in this era cannot be said to be bad.
What is really lacking is the stability for various technologies to function normally under confrontation.
Duang——
With Kobe Bryant missing a three-pointer, the men's basketball finals of this Olympic Games are finally coming to an end.
With 6 seconds left in the game, Duane rushed to the basket and protected the rebound.
90 to 84, at this time the men's basketball team still has a 6-point advantage!
As if they had resigned themselves to their fate, the players from the Dream Team did not immediately come up to foul Du En.
Kobe refused to admit defeat and rushed towards Du En again.
But even if a foul is committed, the game is basically over.
"Am I dreaming? Did we really win? This is impossible! The men's basketball team actually defeated the Dream Team?"
"We beat the Dream Team! We are the champions! We won the gold medal!"
"Our players are amazing! The Dream Team kept making free throws and couldn't beat us!"
"I declare that tonight's game was the best performance of all the men's basketball players!"
"Damn it, if you can, keep taking free throws and give them to me! The Dream Team can't win with so many free throws. All I can say is that the men's basketball team is awesome!"
Seeing that the game was coming to an end, most of the fans at the scene could no longer control their emotions and began to chant loudly.
As Duane made the first free throw, a lot of shouts similar to "Dunn is awesome" rang out from the scene.
However, the second free throw was not only intentional by Duen, but also accidentally. The trajectory of the basketball was a little short, hit the front edge of the basket, and then bounced out to the outside.
Du En rushed forward and grabbed the basketball immediately.
Kobe, who was far away from the three-point line and did not enter the inside to grab the ball, could only look at the timer on the sidelines and shake his head.
At 2.36 seconds, Duan used a free throw to hit the iron, which took nearly another second.
There is no doubt that continuing to foul Du En will only add one more point to Du En's personal data.
Duan will definitely repeat his same trick, making the first free throw, and then trying to control the ball by hitting the rebound with the second free throw.
By then, even if Howard and others grab the rebound, they will not have time to execute the buzzer-beater.
Kobe actually guessed the outcome of the game before this foul.
Except for him, everyone else on the Dream Team is like James at the end of the third quarter, not capable of shooting three-pointers at all.
"it's over!"
Kobe already knew it when he missed his last three-point shot.
But because he was unwilling to do so, he fouled Du En again.
As everyone on and off the court focused their attention on Duan, as the game time completely ran out, the men's basketball event in this year's Olympic Games officially came to an end.
The men's basketball team, led by Du En and Yao Ming, defeated the Dream Team, which has been losing in international competitions in recent years, by 7 points...
Speaking of which, the gold medal that Du En and others are about to receive seems to have dropped a bit...
However, for the men's basketball team, for domestic fans, and for the domestic sports community, the Olympic gold medal in men's basketball is also a ground-breaking event!
"Win, win, get the gold medal!"
"We really did it! We are prosperous!"
"Dunn is awesome, we won!"
"Fuck, who the hell slap me? I feel like I'm dreaming. We defeated the dream team! Fuck, are you serious?"
After the game, the male basketball players on the field were stunned for a moment, then ran to Du En and hugged him.
Soon, the male basketball players off the court also rushed to the court. Even the leaders of the basketball management center couldn't restrain their excitement and wanted to squeeze forward.
"No, no, no, no. The whole country is watching. Be more solemn."
Du En noticed that his teammates were about to lift him up and throw him into the sky to celebrate, and he quickly stopped him.
In the end, Yunus was caught, which made the little old man happy. Duan held the game ball and looked for Kobe and others to communicate and hug each other.
"I won again, see you in the NBA, Kobe!"
"Don't take it too seriously Melon, you know, I'm winning wherever I go."
"Dwyane, your energy is beyond my imagination. You are so fast that we can't even guard you with zone defense. We have no choice but to rely on shots that you are not that good at to defeat you."
"Jason, you are so experienced, but you are unlucky not to get a more reliable teammate."
Du En sent away the opponents of Mengba Team one by one, and the next step was the moment of standing on the podium. (End of chapter)
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