Updated: 2013-05-15

The Croatian team played two games with the Chinese team during the warm-up match, but at that time, the Croatian team was not their strongest lineup, and in the warm-up match, they did not show their strongest strength.

After warming up with the Chinese team, Croatia returned to Europe to play the undraft. In addition to their three teams that advanced, there are also second-rate teams such as Brazil, Slovenia, Canada, and Puerto Rico. They were able to stand out from the competition of so many teams and get the final ticket. The Croatia team surprised many people.

Three twelve teams advanced, Croatia was assigned to the first group, while German and Greek were assigned to the second group. Compared with German and Greek teams with a complete victory, Croatia was believed by many people to be their end, but who knew they had reached the quarter-finals.

However, when facing the Chinese national team that has already defeated them in the warm-up match, the Croatian team's path to progress is probably over, which is also the consensus of most people.

However, the Croatian team is never willing to go home like this. As a country with a deep basketball background, they will never be satisfied with entering the quarterfinals. Although their opponents are a powerful Chinese national team, they still have to use their own efforts and hard work to prove their dignity.

So the game was very fierce at the beginning of the game. The Croatian team played their most powerful energy, and the offense continued like a tide, leaving the Chinese team in a state of exhaustion and unable to establish a solid enough defense line.

Because they could only deal with their attacks hard, the Chinese national team was unable to launch a counterattack. At this time, Stephen truly realized the terribleness of European overall basketball. The existence of tactics is to better attack, get more offensive opportunities, give better opportunities to take action, and have a greater space. This is the value of tactics.

However, in the league, although tactics are also used, tactics are at best just an engine role in offense. Tactics are used to start off the offense, but they usually end the offense with personal abilities.

Stephen has seen the power of the tactics after full play. This is still the Croatian team with low personal qualities. If it were replaced by a more talented Spanish or Argentina team, wouldn’t the game be more difficult, and it would be difficult to deal with now.

The Chinese national team is like a small boat in a storm, rising and falling with the waves, but never overturned, although it gives people the possibility of ruining the huge waves at any time.

Those who agreed before the game that the Chinese national team could easily win seemed stupid. Does it really mean that basketball is round and anything can happen, or is it that the Chinese national team suddenly got beaten back to its original form? Now is the true strength of the Chinese national team.

However, no matter how hard the Chinese national team struggled, they were never knocked down by the Croatian offensive craze. It was rare that the Chinese national team showed how good their defensive resilience was. At this time, Yunas was really fortunate that the lineup he sent to the court was pretty good.

In this game, considering the height of the opponent's lineup, Yunas did not let Wang Shipeng do as in the previous game, and it was replaced by Zhu Fangyu. In the point guard, Liu Wei's health was no longer a problem, and he also took office in this game.

Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian formed the inside line of the Chinese team and must firmly guard the penalty area under the basket. This is also the main reason why the Chinese national team can stick to it until now. Although the offense cannot be played, if you can guarantee that you can take the rebound, you can launch a second attack, and the offensive opportunity will be greater than others.

It is precisely because of this that the Chinese national team was able to hold on until the first quarter and barely allow the Croatian team to expand the gap to double digits.

After the first quarter, the players returned to the bench and were all angry. It was not that they had not been led by others, but they were beaten by others, especially a team like Croatia, and they were powerless to fight back. This was really depressing.

We must launch a counterattack and we cannot always let them continue to attack like this, because the Croatian team plays tactics, not just shooting. The shooting rate may decrease if it is just shooting, but the effect of the tactics will not decrease. Even if it fluctuates, it is within a safe range.

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At Stephen's suggestion, Yunas adjusted the lineup on the court, but in fact he replaced Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi. There was no change in other personnel.

Then Stephen told the others that he was running according to his usual tactics, and Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi were also driven to the outside line by Yao Ming. Don’t you like to float on the outside line, so just stay at the outside line enough.

Stephen is determined to take root at the basket, focusing on strong attacks at the basket, and others shoot three-pointers from the outside. Although Yunas has tried this offensive mode, the Croatian team should not have expected that the Chinese team would make such adjustments, and they would be unprepared for the attack and surprise.

As soon as the last game, Stephen rushed to the basket toughly. Just when he had the chance to score a layup, Stephen suddenly threw the ball to Wang Zhizhi, who had been ambushing outside the three-point line. The Croatian center did not follow him at all, and watched Wang Zhizhi shoot.

Wang Zhizhi's first trial shot failed, but Stephen jumped up and transferred the basketball to the outside line again. After getting the ball again, Wang Zhizhi did not make any adjustments and made another three-pointer, but this time he finally did not fail.

The Croatian team immediately returned a three-pointer, but after coming over, Stephen assisted Yi Jianlian and made a three-pointer, and then completed a steal from Praninic. When he turned around, Stephen made a three-pointer, and he didn't even give him any time to react.

After Croatia scored two points, Liu Wei received another pass from Stephen and made a two-pointer on the line. Then Stephen blocked Ukic's shot and made a missed shot. However, he grabbed the rebound and launched an attack again, but he still failed. However, Stephen was extremely brave and grabbed the frontcourt basket again.

Among a group of people, Stephen seemed to be unable to see it, but he could grab a rebound every time. Then Stephen passed the ball to Wang Zhizhi again. This time the Croatian team did not let him go, but Wang Zhizhi did not attack, but transferred the ball to Zhu Fangyu, who had a better chance.

After Stephen came to the national team, Zhu Fangyu also consciously adjusted his shooting speed. This adjustment was very effective. Before his opponent's opponent turned around, Zhu Fangyu had already thrown the ball towards the basket.

With Zhu Fangyu's shot, the Chinese national team scored nine points in just over one minute. Croatia's eleven-point lead became only two points. Croatia immediately called a timeout, but the timeout did not get any effect. Praninic's shot missed a lot, and then Yi Jianlian grabbed the rebound and passed it to Liu Wei for a long time. Liu Wei passed it back to Stephen. Stephen arrived at the basket and raised his hand to layup to help the team get two points.

After equalizing the score, although Croatia was not panicked, its offense was not as good as before, because they also needed to defend the Chinese national team's offense. This is the game, one rises and the other goes down, and victory is like a balance, either going backwards or going backwards.

With Stephen's two free throws, the Chinese national team once expanded its lead to five points, but the good times did not last long. Soon the Croatian team caught the gap to only one point left, but soon Stephen scored two points again, helping the team stabilize the situation.

There is no good way for Croatia to take Stephen. Stephen's appearance at the basket made them feel a little too lazy to deal with, and they don't know how to deal with it, especially Stephen has the toughness and confrontation of the players under the basket, and the mobility and flexibility of the players on the outside.

The Croatian team has no good intentions, but it does not mean that they are ready to give up the victory. At the end of the first half, they launched wave after wave of offensives, and soon received the effect, surpassing the score again.

Stephen immediately used his personal ability to score two points and overtook the score again, but the Croatian team also tried very hard to attack, and it was not easy to limit it. Gradually, they actually took the lead again and maintained until the end of the first half.

Although he was only four points behind, Yunas hesitated how to play in the second half. The opponent must launch a fierce attack after the rest, but Stephen was when he needed to rest and asked him to rest. However, if the score was expanded again, it would not be so easy to catch up with him.

"Coach, I'll continue to play in the second half. I have no problem with my physical strength." Stephen seemed to see his dilemma, and stood up and said. Playing for a few more minutes is not a problem for Stephen, especially for Croatia, who is not very strong in confrontation.

In this way, in the second half, Stephen still appeared on the court. The Croatian team did launch a fierce attack on the Chinese team's defense line, but under Stephen's guidance, they kept firmly safeguarding the score from being expanded and waited until Yao Ming came on the court.

After Yao Ming came on the court, Stephen played for a while and chose to end when he had only two points. At this time, Croatia no longer had its initial aura. Even without Stephen on the court, the Chinese team could barely deal with it.

However, it was unanimously considered an easy game before the game, but it was beaten to this point, which no one expected. This is also called relaxation. It is basically the most difficult game encountered by this national team.
Chapter completed!