Chapter 779 The only hope
Behind the match between China and Lithuania is the match between Spain and the United States. In order to compete for a place to enter the finals, the two teams played very fiercely from the beginning.
The two brothers of the Spanish team's inside team, Gasol, caused great trouble to the US team, especially Marc Gasol, who was not inferior to Dwight Howard alone. Although his body has not reached the level of Yao Ming, it is enough to make Dwight Howard feel uncomfortable.
This is equivalent to liberating Paul Gasol. Paul Gasol, who, in contrast to the previous way of playing with support, launched a variety of basket offenses like a real inside player. His offensive skills are very mature and rich. In addition, against Carmelo Anthony's height and strength advantages, the US team was disturbed for a moment, and it made the US team feel uneasy inside and outside.
Because of the near-three-point line, Paul Gasol used to shooting at a farther free throw line, but now he becomes outside the three-point line. With Marc Gasol restraining Dwight Howard, he can hit the basket, hook, jump shot, back, and board, etc. He doesn't know how to do many offensive methods. In addition, Carmelo Anthony is not good at defending, and his steps can't keep up with Paul Gasol's footsteps, which is really unacceptable.
When Yunas in the stands saw this, his eyes lit up. The American team's inside line is indeed a weakness, and it is a common weakness, but no one can take advantage of it because their defense is too oppressive and they always prevent you from launching an inside attack, and they have already forced you to attack in advance.
But the Spanish team is different. They have enough ball-handling players and flexible tactical advantages. Especially Paul Gasol, who can be both internal and external, makes Carmelo Anthony look like a fool. Once the oppressive defense of the US team's entire game fails, their weakness of being weak inside will be revealed.
And you should know that this time the US team only brought Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh and Carlos Boozer three real inside players. Chris Boozer and Carlos Boozer are power forward players, and their offense is also focused on the outside. Their defensive ability is very average, and their real center Dwight Howard is also not good at bass confrontation.
Because there is no outside lineup that can compete with them, they put the main offensive force on the outside, and the defense also starts from the outside, without considering the inside, so they only brought these three inside players. In the game, Carmelo Anthony plays the fourth position most of the time.
Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James both have a height of 2.03 meters. In many countries, this height can also play in the inside line, and they are not at a disadvantage in terms of strength confrontation, so the US team does not think their inside line is a big problem.
Among the twelve teams entering the Olympic group stage, the only Spanish team can play two seven-foot-long men, while the only Chinese team can play three seven-foot-long men. Apart from facing these two teams, the US team basically does not need to worry about the inside problem.
But what surprised them was that they met the Spanish team in the semi-finals, and in the finals they were facing another strong inside team in the Chinese team. It turned out that the Chinese team was seriously unbalanced inside and outside. However, after Stephen joined, the outside problems had been solved a lot, and the threat from the inside became larger.
However, it was too late to talk about changing the lineup at this time, so I had to deal with it passively. Seeing that Carmelo Anthony was really unable to deal with Paul Gasol, and Paul Gasol also turned against the weak style of playing in the league, playing very hard and iron-blooded, coach Shashevsky had to replace him with Chris Bosh. At least in terms of height, Chris Bosh did not suffer much, and he still had a slight advantage in his footsteps.
But Paul Gasol has already played in a state, and it is not something that Chris Bosh can stop it. The Spanish team won the last World Championships, but they did not have any results in the Olympics. They only reached the quarter-finals of the last Olympics and met the United States team and then lost.
The Spanish team is also ambitious for this Olympics. With a strong belief in winning the championship, wouldn’t it be so easy to let go? With Paul Gasol’s excellent performance, the Spanish team’s outside offense also opened up, especially Navarro. The players on the forward guard are a bit too tall to defend him, and Chris Paul is a little short to defend him. Jason Kidd, who is most suitable for defending him, was injured and unable to play.
At this time, the Spanish coach Etorenises replaced Joggabayosa and replaced Rudy Fernandez, who did not perform very well. Gabayosa performed very well in the last World Championships and was a contributor to the Spanish team's championship. This time he once again proved with his performance that the more critical the game, the better his performance.
LeBron James' defensive ability is not bad, and his ability to fight is also very strong, but that refers to players of the same level. However, when he meets those strong players like Gabayosa, who are two meters tall and seven meters tall and weigh 112 kilograms, his ability to fight is a bit insufficient.
At least he could not stop Gabayosa's shooting outside the three-point line, and almost all Gabayosa's offenses came from outside the three-point line. In this case, the gap between the two sides was gradually widened, and Spain unexpectedly gained the lead.
First, Paul Gasol's strength helped the team open up the situation and open up space; second, Navarro's misaligned advantage allowed them to gain advantage on the offensive end; third, Gabayosa's performance, the US team's defense three-point defense ability is not too strong.
Yunas wrote down such content in his notebook, and then took advantage of the break to think about how the Chinese team should use these experiences to deal with the US team. If the Spanish team enters the finals, how should the Chinese team defend the Spanish team.
However, even though the Spanish team is leading the United States with thirteen points, Junas still believes that the United States has a greater chance of entering the finals, because the Spanish team's lead comes from the outbreak of several players, which gives them an advantage. The United States has only played its normal strength.
But in the second half, the leading American team will inevitably rebound. The arrogant and arrogant stars will definitely not be willing to be led by others and will definitely launch a counterattack. However, the Spanish team has basically shown all their strength. These teams can still maintain their state in the first half. Yunas is deeply suspicious, and he does not think that someone from the Spanish team will take over them and break out.
Player outbreaks are common on the basketball court, but it is difficult to win games by breaking out. Either your outbreak is very persistent, or it is breaking out in a critical period, usually in the second half or the last quarter of the game.
You explode at the beginning, but it is like winning a big win as soon as you enter the casino. Gambling has the chance to get out of the game, but it won't. Of course, this does not mean that the explosion at the beginning is not important. If it weren't for the outbreak of Gasol and others, they would never lead the United States, but this is not enough to win the game.
And if they can stalemate or even fall behind with the US team in the first half and then start to explode in the second half, there will be a possibility of victory. Now, Yunas is not optimistic that they can win the US team.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the second half, the US team launched a fierce attack on Spain. Although the Spanish team used all their strength to defend and could not even hit their own offense, they still couldn't do anything to the US team. The points were almost shrunk little by little until they were overtaken.
Sure enough, the United States cannot win by defense alone because their offense is too powerful and cannot be limited by defense alone. This is because their talent advantages are too outstanding. So, if you want to win the United States, you have to rely on offense and use offense to defend, so that they cannot attack with all their strength, so that they can win the game.
Yunas took this opportunity to evaluate the peak ability of each player of the United States. This cannot be evaluated by watching videos. The United States' tactics are not available. Their tactics are usually relatively simple. Most of the time, they use the players' personal abilities to score, but this is very effective because they have players far surpass other opponents in any position, except for the center position.
After the US team overtook the score, although Spain launched several counterattacks, it did not work. In the middle of the fourth quarter, Spain once grabbed the score to a point difference of only two points, but Kobe Bryant, who had been playing soybeans throughout the game, suddenly broke out and made three consecutive shots.
The last time he even made a shot in front of Paul Gasol and Marc Gasol, which widened the gap to ten again, which also hit the Spanish team's confidence. Since then, they have never launched a threatening counterattack.
Yunas immediately drew a circle on Kobe Bryant's name. Originally, on his roster, the biggest threat to the United States was LeBron James. His comprehensiveness and offense and defense were the biggest threat to the Chinese team. Fortunately, Stephen could face him, and then Carmelo Anthony's shooting ability.
Originally, Kobe Bryant could only rank fourth in his ranking, but now it seems that Kobe Bryant is the last killer weapon of the United States, and the player they rely most at critical moments and the most threatening player.
There is only one Stephen in the Chinese team who can score like this, but LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Kobe Bryant all need Stephen to deal with it. Can he cope with the three of them alone? Yunas is a little unbelievable, but he also hopes.
Chapter completed!