king of defenders

Chapter 712 1\4 Finals
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the Rio Olympic men's basketball competition also entered the 14th final stage, which is the 8-to-4 competition.

按照赛制规则，A、B两组交叉淘汰，A1vsB4、A2vsB3、A3vsB2、A4vsB1，中国队是A组No.3，也就是A3，将对阵B2的克罗地亚。

There were a lot of Chinese fans in the auditorium, but they all looked calm and not very excited, mainly because they didn't have too much expectation for the game.

First of all, Croatia is second in Group B after all, and the team is strong. Secondly, Meng Yun's injury on the Chinese team is something everyone knows.

In the match against Serbia three days ago, Meng Yun once made people think that his injury was not serious and did not affect his playing, or that the impact was not great.However, some media reports later pointed out that Meng Yun's injury was not optimistic. At least "the impact is not significant" must be incorrect, and a lot of evidence was given, including pictures and videos.

There is no shortage of smart people in this world. The head coach of the Croatian team Petrovic can discover the true situation of Meng Yun's injury, and so can others. Just study the game video carefully after the game.

Videos, pictures, plus some reasonable analysis
Even if the Chinese team kept silent and didn't mention Meng Yun's injury, but with all kinds of evidence, people still understand that his injury is not serious, but it is not serious.

This incident also made Serbia the target of fans' ridicule. Meng Yun's injury is no secret now, but Serbia failed to judge it during the game and made a wrong tactical arrangement, which eventually led to the loss. He was cheated by the Chinese team and became a laughing stock.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on Serbia, the so-called fans of the authorities, not to mention that now everyone understands that it is because of the analysis of the game video. Three days ago, the Serbian team had no game video to analyze.

In any case, Meng Yun's injury has been concluded.

Based on this situation, the outside world is generally not optimistic about the Chinese team, because the strength of the Chinese team is far behind that of Croatia. Even if Croatia loses the NBA player Bojan Bogdanovic, the Chinese team also loses Meng Yun. Comparing the two, after all, the Chinese team has been more affected.

Without Meng Yun, how can the Chinese team compete with Croatia?

Indeed, the Chinese team still has Yi Jianlian, but the Croatian team also has Saric. This 22-year-old young man is not as good as he is, and he is also an NBA player.

In addition, Croatia also has Mario Hezonia on the back line. He is 21 years old and participated in the draft in the same year as Meng Yun. Although his performance in the NBA is not as good as Meng Yun, it is not too bad.

In addition, Croatia has some other outstanding players, and it has a considerable advantage against the Chinese team without Meng Yun, so this game is regarded as a game without suspense.

For the fans of the Chinese team, it seems that entering the quarterfinals is enough.

"Hey, it looks like Meng Yun may not know how to fight."

Players from both sides played, Meng Yun, Yi Jianlian and others came to the field together, received the pass from their teammates, dribbled twice with one hand on the outside, and then took three big steps to score a layup, still with one hand.

It seemed that Meng Yun didn't intend to sit on the sidelines.

A fan's eyes lit up and said: "It seems that Meng Yun and the others have no intention of giving up like this. Meng Yun should still play, but seeing that he only uses one hand, the hand injury is probably not healed."

Another fan said regretfully: "It doesn't get better so quickly. I read online that it will take at least a week to get better. It's a pity, if Meng Yun is not injured."

"There are so many ifs." Someone interrupted: "In fact, it is enough to get here. The group qualified and ranked eighth, tying the historical record."

"Heh, is it enough to tie the historical record?"

"That is, why can't our Chinese team make it to the semi-finals? Could it be that if we couldn't do it before, we must not be able to do it now? Can't we pursue it a bit?"

Some people disagreed and quarreled.

Not far away are Croatian fans, watching it with laughter, you guys are arguing, the result is already doomed anyway, what's the use of Meng Yun even if he is on the top, really think he is the "one-handed king"?You are bound to lose. As for making it to the top four, I'm sorry, it's impossible now, and it's unlikely to be possible in the future.

At the same time, the players from both sides finished their warm-up and returned to the sidelines.

Guo Ailun's eyes lit up, he glanced at Croatia, and whispered: "The other party should think that Meng Yun's injury is still not healed? Meng Yun has always used his right hand just now. Hehe, if they know that these are all fake, Meng Yun's injury has actually healed, so I don't know what his expression will be."

Li Gen also said happily: "Yes, I am also looking forward to it."

A group of Chinese team players looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

Meng Yun rolled his eyes and ignored Guo Ailun's bad intentions. His injury has indeed healed. It takes a week for others, but three days is enough for Meng Yun.

Everyone was stunned when Meng Yun showed his teammates and coach that his left hand had healed this morning.

Gong Luming immediately called the team doctor over and asked the team doctor to examine Meng Yun. After the examination, the team doctor was also shocked and announced with an incredulous expression that Meng Yun had really recovered.

There is no doubt that the team doctor's heart is also confused. This is against the knowledge he has learned, and his years of experience have subverted the common sense.

He couldn't figure it out, but in the end it could only be attributed to Meng Yun's special physique, which may have a stronger recovery ability than ordinary people, or the injury is not as serious as it seems.

Gong Luming doesn't care about these things, anyway, it's a good thing that Meng Yun's injury has healed.

Afterwards, Gong Luming began to make arrangements, first to block Meng Yun's injury, and second, to tell Meng Yun not to expose it on the day of the match, so as to give Croatia a surprise.

In fact, it doesn't matter to Meng Yun, it doesn't matter if it's earlier or later, but since the coach said so, of course Meng Yun can't refuse, maybe giving Croatia a surprise can disrupt their position.

So Meng Yun almost didn't use his left hand during the warm-up stage today, and occasionally used it. In order to look more realistic, Meng Yun frowned slightly, as if his hand injury hadn't healed yet.

I have to say that if Meng Yun went to act in a movie, he would definitely do well.

During the warm-up, the coaching staff of the Croatian team was observing Meng Yun. There is no doubt that Meng Yun will definitely play, but the key is how Meng Yun recovers from his injury.

Originally, the head coach of the Croatian team was still a little worried, but seeing Meng Yun's performance, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and his heart was completely relieved. He smiled lightly and said, "Very good, we are sure to win this game."

Several teaching assistants nodded.

They didn't know that they guessed wrong from the very beginning and fell into the trap of the Chinese team unknowingly.

(End of this chapter)