Chapter 1022: 1022. An Eternal Nightmare!(1/2)
Chapter 1022 1022. Eternal nightmare!
Yi Jianlian slapped the ball cleanly and hit the backboard.
The ball was grabbed by Wang Zhizhi.
Kobe rushed for the ball, Wang Zhizhi raised the ball high, turned around, lobbed the ball, and led others with the ball. Liu Xiu rushed to the center circle and beat the chasing Deron to steal the ball.
Deron used the dog-skin plaster defense he learned from Kobe, and immediately applied it back to Liu Xiu.
This kind of defensive effect is very effective, and it also makes the opponent extremely annoying.
Hinrich's defense is similar, but a little more annoying. He is between Deron and Paul. In addition to being close to each other, he also has small moves.
Liu Xiu was used to being served by Kobe, Hinrich, and Deron tonight. He rushed to the frontcourt and pulled away to make an emergency stop. Deron didn't stop for a moment and jumped over his head, but he immediately moved towards Liu Xiu.
Xiu pounced... it was still too late.
Liu Xiu made a one-on-one chase in the frontcourt and hit a three-pointer!
The fans at the scene were screaming from the moment Yi Jianlian blocked the shot. When Liu Xiu made the shot, it turned into crazy cheers.
The Chinese team's lead expanded to 15 points again, 107 to 92.
Not only that, Liu Xiu's personal score increased to 49 points.
The morale boost that Kobe Bryant's super three-pointer just brought to the US team was defeated by Liu Xiu's goal!
When Hinrich ran back to receive Deron's serve, his steps became faster.
Old K, who was watching, noticed this, but did not say anything to ask the team members to slow down.
At this time, the players will have their own rhythm. If they are anxious, the rhythm will naturally speed up and cannot be suppressed. After suppressing it, the mental rhythm and playing rhythm will not be consistent, which may affect their performance.
Not every player is named Duncan.
It was right to give trust. Hinrich advanced to the frontcourt, picked and rolled with Kobe, took a step horizontally to avoid Li Nan's defense, took off, and shot a three-pointer...hit!
But looking back, Li Nan received a second pass from Yi Jianlian and scored a three-pointer!
Liu Xiu was not the only one who got high!
The current goal of the Chinese team players is not only to win, but to let Yao Ming sit on the bench and watch them win!
This goal, in other words, is to bring the game into garbage time! To bring the dream team into garbage time!
When the U.S. team attacked, Howard caught the ball and pressed forward. He relied on his broad shoulders to separate Yi Jianlian, who was coming back, and put the basket in for two points.
The use of body strength when attacking the frame is much better than that of the parallel import No. 1 pick.
Looking back, Wang Zhizhi caught the ball, turned around, grabbed the ball, and made a one-step throw.
The two teams fought back and forth!
After several rounds, the score difference fluctuated back and forth between 13 and 17 points. The Chinese team failed to continue to widen the score difference, but the US team also failed to substantially narrow the score difference.
The players of the U.S. team are now shocked and angry. Several players from the opponent team were already showing signs of fatigue towards the end of the third quarter.
But now, the people on the other side are playing better than they were in the third quarter.
It was as if they were risking their lives and were playing with their lives.
They thought about what the translators told them during the break - the other team wanted to bench Yao Ming.
Of course they understood what it meant, but at the time they regarded it as the warden's trash talk.
They were very sure that that guy would do such a meaningless thing. Even if it didn't work ten times out of ten, the other person would still try it the eleventh time.
But they didn't expect that the Chinese team players were serious!
I really want to beat them into garbage time!
When the U.S. team attacked, Anthony, who was taking the rotation, was extremely angry. He asked for the ball from the top of the arc for a single, stepped back, faced Yi Jianlian and shot a three-pointer... & hit!
110 to 121, 11 points left!
During the transition between offense and defense, Liu Xiu took the ball and decided to come on his own. He didn't score in the past 4 minutes. The opponent may not have had any subjective awareness after he scored 49 points, but the pinch on him was tighter. Only then could his teammates be so confident.
Multiple opportunities to score.
But now, he has to do it by himself, and his teammates can hardly bear it anymore.
You can wait until Yao Ming comes on the field and replace Wang Zhizhi and Li Nan, but Liu Xiu is serious about the idea of "letting Yao Ming be the cold shoulder"!
In his opinion, to play in a real-dream team, one must have such ambition and give his teammates such motivation in order to maintain victory!
Facing Delong's defense, Liu Xiu continued to break through!
Deron didn't keep up, but the confrontation he gave gave Kobe, who was defending in the middle, a chance to get close to Liu Xiu... but he couldn't withstand it!
Liu Xiu still broke into the paint and made a throw while running...it went in!
51 points! Liu Xiu’s personal score increased to 51 points!
Became the second player in the history of Olympic men's basketball to score 50+ points in a single game!
The U.S. team attacked, Anthony played in the high post, took a step horizontally to a position just one step inside the free throw line, took off, and made a mid-range shot.
112 to 123, the American team held on to the score.
Both sides know that the critical moment has come, and now it depends on who can hold on, who may have a climax.
Offense and defense transition, the Chinese team attacks.
Liu Xiu continued to break through, but after stepping into the three-point line, he stopped, took off, and shot...
This ball is not in rhythm.
This position is not a good position either. Liu Xiu’s heels are still on the three-point line. Most people don’t practice this position when they practice shooting. They have to step back twenty or thirty centimeters to shoot three-pointers. Practicing here is thankless.
So Deron only guarded against Liu Xiu's retreat. Kobe, who was shrinking, was only worried about Liu Xiu's two-point step outside the free throw line. No one rushed to interfere.
Liu Xiu took a step forward, made an emergency stop and hit a long two-pointer!
The US team players all scolded Liu Xiu for scoring 53 points!
The score difference has reached 13 points again!
At the critical moment, Kobe stood up and hit Wang Shipeng in the low post, turning over and hitting a jumper.
It's Liu Xiu's offense again. This time Liu Xiu has just reached a big step outside the top arc, and Kobe directly attacks him!
Liu Xiu took a step to the left, changed direction and broke through to avoid Kobe's attack. Hinrich blocked it from the left, plus Deron and Kobe, blocking the breakthrough Liu Xiu one step inside the three-point line!
Li Nan and Wang Shipeng on the wings were both ready to catch the ball and shoot, but Liu Xiu did not pass.
He pulled it up before being stuck, faced Kobe Bryant, yelled "Kobe" and threw the ball!
The voice startled Kobe, who didn't stop and slapped Liu Xiu on the arm that had already thrown the ball.
Less than 0.5 seconds after the ball left Liu Xiu's hand, the referee blew the whistle and Kobe's thug fouled!
Kobe landed on the ground before he had time to think about what Liu Xiu was calling him for when he heard the fans cheering again.
I turned around and saw that the bottom line referee made a two-point signal.
The goal was scored! 2+1!
Liu Xiu received a system prompt that the 'Kobe Time' command had been completed. He scored 3 goals in a row and 'Kobe Time' was turned on!
Kobe was upset, but they had defended to the extreme. Even if he didn't hit the ball, the opponent continued to score.
But the cheers seemed too enthusiastic...
Kobe turned his head and looked at the big screen above the center circle. Sure enough, a record was about to be broken.
Brazilian player Oscar Schmidt led the team to a narrow victory over Spain 118-110 in the 1988 South Korea Olympics, scoring an unprecedented 55 points in a single game.
Now, Liu Xiu has scored 55 points and got an extra penalty!
Looking at Liu Xiu walking to the free throw line and listening to the hundreds of thousands of people at the scene shouting "MVP" crazily, Kobe's mind wandered...
When Liu Xiu talks about him with others, he will call him by his first name, which is Kobe, but when talking to him, he always calls him by his middle name.
At first, I heard Vanessa and his father Joe Bryant shout like that, and I deliberately learned to shout to tease him, but later I got used to it.
But why did he call his name when shooting this time?
At this time, Liu Xiu made a free throw, raising his single-game score to 56 points, setting a new Olympic single-game scoring record. The fans screamed again and woke up Kobe from his wild thoughts.
Kobe doesn't have time to think about what's there and what's not.
Why did Liu Xiu call Kobe when he was shooting? This will become a question that Kobe will not understand for decades to come.
He didn't want to ask Liu Xiu, he knew that this guy would never tell him.
The two teams took advantage of Liu Xiu's free throw to make substitutions.
For the U.S. team, the combination of Kidd, Kobe, Prince, Anthony, and Bosh was replaced.
What surprised Lao K was that Yao Ming was not replaced on the opposite side!
As expected of a silver fox! How dare you!
Yao Ming was also surprised. He thought his teammates were joking, but it turned out that they were really joking! The coach also bullied him!
To be continued...