Chapter 898 Winning Early

The Chinese team led by 4 points in the first quarter.

The U.S. team was in disarray in its offense. It missed a single three-pointer from the outside line, and Cousins ​​​​was beaten inside, without the ability to attack independently.

The US team's scoring mainly came from the singles of Durant, Anthony, Irving and others.

Their offense was chopped up by the strong defense of the Chinese team and turned into individual units.

Although the U.S. team is very strong in one-on-one, even without tactics, they can beat China in one-on-one singles.

But in this way, the US team is too tired and the risk is too high.

After the start of the second quarter, Coach K made timely adjustments.

Green came on the stage. He can be regarded as the third insider besides Jordan and Cousins, although he is not orthodox.

Green's role is first in defense, and second in offense to change the team's style of play.

He began to go to the high position to support and cover, creating better shooting opportunities for outside players.

At the same time, the striker was replaced by Paul George and Jimmy Barrett, and the defensive ability was extremely strong.

Old K gave the order to die during the break, so he must fight back quickly!

Team USA without quick counterattacks is Team USA without a soul.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Green responded with a pass to Butler who made an empty cut.

Butler catches the ball and makes a layup - at this time Li Liang is still on the court.

He only took a break in the last minute of the first quarter, and then played again in the second quarter.

Gong Luming hoped that Li Liang would rest for a while, but Li Liang said that if I had to rest for a while, then I would probably not need to rest.

Li Liang was double-teamed by Butler and George, and the ball was given to Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi held the ball from the outside, but made a mistake under DeRozan's close defense.

The ball was cut off, Paul George went off quickly, and after catching the ball, he avoided Li Liang's defense and easily made a layup with his left hand.

"Can't even hold the ball? If you can't hold it, just pass it!"

Being beaten into a fast break by the US team, Li Liang was quite angry.

This is a very bad sign.

Sure enough, the US team's perimeter defense has further strengthened.

Li Liang still holds a lot of the ball, but the problem is that the ball cannot be in his hands forever, he must pass it to his teammates for excessive, run-and-run tactics.

But as long as the ball is in the hands of others, the chance of losing the ball becomes very high.

The United States' defensive strength is extremely high, and it is difficult for Chinese players to adapt.

The intensity of the main match and the warm-up match are completely two levels.

Green has a lot of expansion, double-teaming, and delay on the defensive end.

Yi Jianlian and Zhou Qi of the Chinese team were on the court, but they did not give full play to their superiority.

As Yi Jianlian was blown for three seconds in the offense, he looked up at the score, and it was 32:26, ​​and the US team led by 6 points.

The only score for the Chinese team came from Li Liang's emergency stop jumper against three shots after the breakthrough.

As for the US team, Green's support was very successful. Facing the Chinese team's iron bucket formation, the US repeatedly interspersed and moved, and mobilized the Chinese team's defense to gain opportunities to attack the basket.

In terms of cracking the zone defense, the old coach K is absolutely top-notch.

In the past, one of the important reasons why the U.S. team suffered continuously in the international arena was that the coaches and players did not adapt to the FIBA ​​rules.

The offense has nothing to do with the defense for three seconds and zone defense, and the defense lacks discipline and tacit understanding, resulting in being beaten by a strong European team.

It is a long-term plan for a coach like Old K who has been coached by the NCAA to move in, from talent selection to training.

Therefore, the current U.S. team has a strong fighting capacity and adapts well to FIBA ​​rules.

Gong Lu yelled a pause, and the situation seemed to be about to collapse.

"Let me play point guard, everyone should reduce passing and hesitation, and attack by yourself when you receive the ball. Also, Director Gong, let's lose one insider. If there are more than two, it's useless."

Li Liang directly asked Gong Luming to make a substitution on the bench.

Just leave Yi Jianlian on the field as an insider, and replace Zhou Peng, Xiaoding, and Zhai Xiaochuan at the same time.

In this way, the Chinese team deployed a lineup of one big and four big.

All of them are more than two meters tall, no guards, no centers.

This is the ultimate one-shot-four-grab tactic devised by Gong Luming and Li Liang after discussing it.

This set of tactics basically gave up all kinds of coordination on the outside, just grabbing.

This is a desperate tactic, which was originally reserved for the final stage of the game.

It is only the second quarter now, and the Chinese team has to start this style of play.

Because no more, maybe the final stage will be the first half.

...

The timeout ended and the two sides re-entered the field. The big lineup of the Chinese team surprised the American team.

As soon as the ball was served from the sideline, Li Liang held the ball, almost four steps away from the three-point line, and shot directly!

The ball hit the front of the basket and popped up, but Zhai Xiaochuan grabbed the offensive rebound, made a throw, hit and scored two points.

This is an assist for Li Liang.

Immediately, Butler made a high-throw pass to DeRozan inside, alley-oop!

Zhou Peng rushed forward and intercepted the ball in the air!

Being tall has its advantages.

The Chinese team has a chance to fight back.

Li Liang got the ball and passed it long to Zhai Xiaochuan who was going down quickly.

As a result, Zhai Xiaochuan's fast break layup was stabbed by Butler from behind.

If the ball goes out of bounds, the Chinese team still has the right to the ball.

Fast break is still quite difficult for the Chinese team.

He can't handle the ball steadily, so how can he break fast.

However, the situation of the Chinese team is stable.

Facing the superior American team in all aspects, the Chinese team used a seemingly stupid style of play to firmly resist the American team.

During the offense, Li Liang hardly passed the ball to his teammates anymore.

That is to say, Yi Jianlian has a chance in the low post and will pass the ball to Yi Jianlian for singles.

Or when there is a big vacancy, he will pass.

He holds the ball a lot, and others keep covering him in pick-and-rolls.

As long as there is a gap, Li Liang will make a move without hesitation.

In the second quarter, Li Liang made 4 of 7 three-pointers with a very high shooting percentage.

The US team's offense is getting smoother and smoother, and their three-pointers from the outside also found a feeling.

Both Paul George and Butler hit consecutive three-pointers.

But the point difference did not widen, and the Chinese team bit it!

In the middle of the second quarter, the U.S. team changed players. Durant and Anthony reappeared, and began to hit the Chinese team with precise half-blocks from the bottom line on both sides.

The weapons of the Chinese team's resistance are Li Liang's endless three-pointers and desperately fighting for offensive rebounds.

Zhai Xiaochuan, Zhou Peng, Xiao Ding, and Yi Jianlian were more aggressive in rebounding.

And Li Liang became the fastest retreating player.

His deterrence in the three-second zone is really not small-[Bill Russell's three-second zone fear], this skill has been upgraded to two levels.

He destroyed the US team's fast-break counterattack several times and put the US team's offense in trouble.

Old Coach K started pacing on the sidelines.

The U.S. team is still ahead, but still unable to widen the gap.

When the buzzer sounded at the end of the halftime game, Li Liang looked up at the scoreboard.

Li Liang played the entire second quarter. At the end of the half, the Chinese team and the US team scored 55:50, and the Chinese team was only 5 points behind the US team!

Li Liang scored 31 points in the halftime, 6 of 10 three-pointers, 60% of the shots, 7 of 7 free throws, 100% of the shots.

The Chinese team grabbed 8 offensive rebounds in the half, and it can be said that the whole people grabbed rebounds.

What's more, Li Liang still has a few skills in his hands, and he has to wait until the second half to use them when he needs them most.

The cheers of the audience almost deafened people's ears.

Brazilians are really passionate about basketball.

The morale of the Chinese team is even higher.

After returning to the locker room, Li Liang directly said to his teammates: "I declare that with our performance, we have already won this game!"