On August 24, the 1998 Men's Basketball World Championship started.

Greece and Angora opened the World Championships.

Greece, Angora, New Zealand, and Brazil are in the same group. Except for Brazil, the other two teams are weak teams, which is basically equivalent to being led to the quarterfinals...

There is no suspense. The Greek team massacred the Angora team 79 to 54 and easily won the opening game.

On August 25, the Chinese men's basketball team ushered in a match with the Australian team at the Mont Athletic Stadium in Piraeus, Athens.

The Australian team's leading star is Luke Longley, who currently plays for the Bulls.

From 1992 to 1996, the Chinese men's basketball team had three matches with the Australian team, 1 win and 2 losses, and they played fiercely every time. The Chinese men's basketball team had a very obvious advantage on the outside, but the inside was always suppressed by the opponent.

The 6.25-meter-distance FIBA ​​three-point line specifications also do not have three seconds of defense, and there is no reasonable attack collision zone between the NBA and the A-A. With a big center like Luke Longley, the Australian team has too much advantage. With it as the core to play in the joint defense, those European powerhouses are very troubled.

This time it was different. After Zhang Hao won the jump ball from Luke Longley's head, he directly started the three-point shot mode more than one meter away from the three-point line.

The Silver Fox sent A Dijiang, Hu Weidong, Zhang Hao, Gong Xiaobin, Wang Zhizhi's lineup, Xiaoyao King and KING were responsible for rushing and pressing down to defend, Hu Weidong broke the score, A Dijiang allocated the ball, and Zhang Hao fired a long distance shot.

When it came to the rotation stage, Li Xiaoyong, Hu Weidong, Li Nan, Liu Yudong and Zhang Hao came on the court, and the four major pitchers lined up, and Zhang Hao broke through and passed the ball.

However, when the Chinese men's basketball team plays an advantage, it is not this stage, but a defensive counterattack from the second half of the second quarter to the first half of the third quarter!

Looking at Zhang Hao's more violent and wild defensive movements, his basic skills and awareness on the defensive end, his judgment needs to be improved, but the horizontal line movement of the top arc defense is more fierce, and his sense of oppression is stronger. It seems that even his physical fitness has been improved...

"How long has this dead child been making progress again?"

In the past 14 minutes of the game, the Chinese men's basketball team, led by Zhang Hao, played against the Australian team 23-11. At 8 minutes and 11 seconds in the third quarter, the Chinese men's basketball team led the Australian team 67-50 by 17 points!

In the last 11 minutes, Silver Fox sent Liu Yudong and Shan Tao to attack and defend against each other, Wu Qinglong, Li Xiaoyong and Sun Jun played on the outside. The lineup had no advantages and was still at a certain disadvantage. However, they were not afraid of the fierce confrontation of the Australian team and the dirty and big-handed style. Shan Tao's tall and fierce figure was not good at squatting under the basket, and he was not afraid of the hand-to-hand combat.

In the end, the Chinese men's basketball team steadily defeated the Australian team 78-69 and easily won the first victory of the World Championships!

Zhang Hao made his debut in the national team. He scored 26 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 4 steals and 3 blocks in 28 minutes. He once soared 13 points, 2 steals and 2 blocks in the past 14 minutes, helping the Chinese team to defeat the Australian team.

Wang Zhizhi played for 22 minutes, scored 9 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block, and performed quite well.

Wang Zhizhi's outstanding performance. His national teammates have already seen the Asian Championships last year. He continues to make progress and get better this year, and his teammates are not surprised.

But Zhang Hao... is too strong!

Even Wang Zhizhi and Luke Longli are much different from Zhang Hao.

In addition to the defensive end, Hu Weidong can also play Zhang Hao's data, but the efficiency will not be so high and the lethality will not be so strong.

Another point is that Zhang Hao's rough, fierce and wanton and indulgent defense has brought them an unprecedented temperament of wildness in the Chinese men's basketball team!

The Chinese men's basketball team fights are wild and rough, but playing basketball has nothing to do with being rough. But tonight, mainly in those ten minutes, the Chinese men's basketball team's defense was led by Zhang Hao, and the fouls continued, and the confrontation became bigger and bigger... But Zhang Hao can adapt to such a defense and counterattack and score!

After the final whistle rang, Zhang Hao received a system prompt that his life span of 15 days will be reached...

"It's really good to be isolated and helpless, with a golden medal, hard bonus.

The national team's outside team is very strong and has given great support. If it were the outside line of Yao Ming's era in the original time and space, I would probably be too difficult.

The difference between confrontation ability alone is very big. On the outside line, Hu Ge is 95 kilograms, Sun Jun and Wu Qinglong are all weighing more than 100 kilograms, and their basic skills are solid..."

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The first two match days of the World Championships ended, and the first matches of national teams of various countries ended.

Greece, China, United States, Russia, Lithuania, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Brazil won the victory, Angora, Australia, Italy, Spain, South Korea, New Zealand, Germany, and Canada lost the game.

The World Championships are in Group A and Group C. The team will face each other in the same group. On the same day, the same day as Group B and Group D, and they will play for a day off.

On August 27, the Chinese men's basketball team and the German team started the second group stage game.

Before, Zhang Hao also saw Nowitzki. He saw it in the draft and also saw it during the draw. When playing against the Australian team, when the German team waiting for the game was watching the game at the player's channel, Zhang Hao also saw Nowitzki.

But until now, I have fought and I haven't said a word.

Zhang Hao was cold on the court, while King Nuo was really aloof and cold...

Nowitzki just turned 20 years old, one year younger than Wang Zhizhi and Zhang Hao, but in the 4 years in the Bundesliga, his skills have been polished quite well, and his current position is small forward!

The Australian team's style is rough, while the German team's style is rigorous.

The tactics are straightforward, the defense is stable... It's just not very strong. Compared with German football, German basketball is not very good. It joined the FIBA ​​in 1934 and established the World Championships in 1950. It is currently the 13th World Championships. This is the first time that the German men's basketball team has reached the World Championships, and the Olympics has only scored once in 1980.

In addition to Nowitzki, the German team has players who played well in La Liga and Serie A. They broke out last year and reached the semi-finals. However, the explosive momentum this year seems to be gone. They were beaten 80-55 by Lithuania in the first game...

Except Nowitzki, the only German team performs well today is La Liga Real Madrid's substitute defender Guido Montlovski, who scored 19 points and 6 assists, but except for Montlovski's 19 points and 6 assists, Nowitzki's 23 points, the highest score for the rest of the German team is only 6 points.

In fact, there are many young players who have emerged in top European basketball leagues such as La Liga and Serie A, but these people seem to be a little nervous because they first appeared on the world stage.

81-60, relying on Wang Zhizhi's 13 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks, Zhang Hao's 15 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, and Hu Weidong's 22 points and 6 assists, the Chinese team easily won.

The help Zhang Hao and Wang Zhizhi brought to the national team is even better than the best situation expected by the old players!

They still don’t have a real concept. NBA Lianzhuang FMVP is so strong!

In the international arena, players like Zhang Hao are the ultimate killer weapon.

The Australian team still has the power to fight against the Chinese team. The German team first appeared on the World Championships stage and was beaten miserably.

After sitting on the bench for a whole quarter, Zhang Hao waved to the fans who were calling his name on the scene and was about to leave. Suddenly a Silver Horn King appeared in front of him, which scared Zhang Hao almost took a step away. The "Wolf Roar" almost showed it, and his iron-blooded style was almost exposed.

"Hello, are you doing something?"

Nowitzki scratched his head, smiled, handed out a jersey and a pen with his other hand, and said, "Shifo, can you sign for me? I am your fan!"

Looking at the young Silver Horn King in front of me, his smile was more similar to that in the TV series!

Zhang Hao remembers that Nowitzki's idol should be Kobe...

Should the idol who co-stars the Silver Horn King be the Lakers No. 8?

Without saying anything, Zhang Hao took the jersey and pen and unfolded the jersey. It turned out to be his No. 8 Lakers jersey.

After signing Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao thought about it, and then wrote another sentence on it: "Qazxdew, Readytobegreat?"

After signing the name, Zhang Hao returned the jersey and pen to Nowitzki.

Nowitzki took the jersey excitedly and looked at the Chinese words on it. He knew these two words and Zhang Hao's name, but the English sentence above confused him.

"Are you ready to be the best player?" Nowitzki can understand this sentence, but the previous word...

"Stone Buddha, what does this word mean... It's okay, I'll go back to look up the dictionary."

"There is no nickname in the dictionary. You are very similar to a person I know. This word is an abbreviation, and the complete one is private lver-Horn-the-junior-de n-king."

“KING?!”

"right……"

Looking at Nowitzki's excited face, Zhang Hao remembered Nash's expression when he was selected by the Trail Blazers...

Nowitzki held the jersey like a treasure. Zhang Hao was worried that the guy would suddenly take out a gourd and look at him, so he quickly flashed his head.

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After the first two rounds of the group stage, five teams maintained a complete victory, including China, Lithuanian, Yugoslavia, Brazil, and Russia.

Team USA lost after three World Series!

Italy defeated the United States 87-81.

The US team not only did not have NBA players, but even Kobe, Brand, Odom, Jason Terry, Artest, etc., no one was willing to participate in the competition. The best players were UCLA's Balang Davis and Duke University's Sean Bathir. Of course, they were very strong, but they had no dominance in the past three quarters of the world competition.

The Chinese team's Group B, Australia and Germany lost both the first two games of the group match and were eliminated early. After defeating Germany, the Chinese team has already confirmed to advance to the quarterfinals and will compete with Lithuania for the first place in the group on the 29th.

On the 28th, the last round of the match between Group A and Group C began.

For the US team, the last game of the group stage was Yugoslavia. Since the US team is currently 1 win and 1 loss, the Italian team is also 1 win and 1 loss. In the last game of Italy, the US team can only reach the quarterfinals if it defeats Yugoslavia.

Under tremendous pressure, Bathir and Balang Davis really exploded, and the two led the team to beat Yugoslavia 92-87.

Not only that, the US team also relied on a huge 54-point gap between South Korea and North Korea 111-57. After the group stage, relying on a 56-point group stage net victory, Yugoslavia, which had a 41-point group stage net victory, ranked first in Group C.

After the game, the Italian team fought desperately to beat South Korea and massacred South Korea 92 to 40, but they lost to Yugoslavia 21 points, and the US team only won 6 points. The same record of 2 wins and 1 loss was only stopped in the group stage.

After the game on the 28th, in Group A, Brazil won 3 wins and 0 losses first, Greece won 2 wins and 1 lost second; in Group C, the United States won 2 wins and 1 lost first, and Yugoslavia won 2 wins and 1 lost second.

On the 29th, the last round of the group match between Group B and Group D started.

The match between the Chinese team and Lithuania team started at 3:30 pm.

The Chinese team really wants to win the first place in the group and create the best record in the group stage in the history of the national team, but unfortunately, the Lithuanian team led by Sabonis is too strong. The Lithuanian team is the seed team in Group B, ranking fourth in the world, only after the United States, Russia and Yugoslavia. The strong style of the Eastern European teams has caused great trouble for the Chinese team, but the most important thing is the experience in the international arena. Zhang Hao learned a lesson this time and got a very difficult experience. The Chinese men's basketball team lost to the Lithuanian team 67-75.

In the end, in Group B, Lithuania won 3 wins and 0 losses in the group first, while Chinese team won 2 wins and 1 lost second in the group second.

The Group D match was also finished today, with Russia winning 3 wins and 0 losing first, and Argentina winning 2 wins and 1 losing second.

After the No. 29 game, the match between the quarterfinals was revealed.

On September 1, the Brazilian team, who was ranked first in Group A, will fight against Argentina team, who was ranked second in Group D, Lithuanian team, who was ranked first in Group B, will fight against Greece, the American team, who is ranked first in Group C, will fight against China team, second in Group B, and the Russian team, who is ranked first in Group D, will fight against Yugoslavia team, who is ranked second in Group C, in advance.

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Team USA in quarter-finals!

If you can play against the Greek team, the Chinese team definitely doesn't want to play against the United States, Yugoslavia, or Italy.

But isn't this losing to Lithuania? I can only play first in Group C. Fortunately, the US team actually beat Yugoslavia. At least it is much better than playing Yugoslavia... This is Zhang Hao's idea.

In the minds of most Chinese players, the US team is a prehistoric beast!

After the group stage, two days of preparation time were obtained. On the afternoon of August 30, the Chinese men's basketball team began training.

Feeling the pressure revealed by his teammates, Zhang Hao asked after a training class: "Why don't you seem very happy? You're going to be knocked out soon, come on."

After Zhang Hao finished speaking, Wang Zhizhi took out the paper and pen from somewhere, wrote the three words "I'm very excited" and placed them next to Zhang Hao's head.

Hu Weidong replied: "Haozi, don't underestimate the American team. Although they did not send NBA players, their college students are also very powerful!"

"Very awesome? American college students are quite awesome," Zhang Hao pointed to Wang Zhizhi next to him: "This is the first striker of the Associated Press in the 1997-1998 season. Wooden won the fifth place in the ACC League Player of the Year."
Chapter completed!