NBA peak

Chapter 458 Advance to the quarterfinals
China's shooters played the best game in the Olympics against France.

They made 27 of 14 three-pointers and scored 42 points in three-pointers alone, accounting for more than half of the team's points.

The French team frantically chased points under the leadership of Batum at the last moment.

But in the last 2 minutes of the game, Ge Feng scored a key three-pointer, which once again helped the Chinese team widen the point difference to 5 points.

Ge Feng didn't score much in this game, only 18 points were recorded.

But in this game, Ge Feng sent 18 assists to his teammates!
18 points + 18 assists, completely let the world see the bottomless three-point ability of the Chinese team.

After the game, China's three-point shooting ability surprised the whole world.

Many domestic fans sighed: "After so many years, the Chinese team finally has a few basketball players who can shoot..."

But at this time, more fans are still questioning the three-point level of the Chinese team, thinking that it is pure luck that the Chinese team can beat France with three points.

No matter what the fans say, this is the first time that China has defeated France in the Olympics.

After defeating France, China has completely become the favorite to win the championship in the hearts of fans.

Although there is an element of luck in China's victory over France, there is no doubt that luck is also part of strength.

People only look at the final result, and no one cares whether the athlete is lucky and makes some unreasonable shots.

If luck is good and it cannot be counted as a victory, Jordan will have to spit out at least two championship trophies.

After the victory over France, the nouns for Group A promotion have been determined.

The United States is first, China is second, France is third, and Australia is fourth.

The Chinese team advanced to the quarterfinals with the second place in the group!

The Chinese fans were overjoyed at this time.

At first, they just thought that if the Chinese team could qualify in the first round and advance to the quarter-finals, it would be a perfect completion of the task.

Unexpectedly, the Chinese team went directly to the second place in the group!

Now, the fans have gone one step further, even wondering if it is possible for the Chinese team to advance to the semi-finals and create a historical record.

Chinese fans only dare to think about the semi-finals, but the players and head coach of the Chinese team are even more crazy.

What they think directly is, since we can defeat the mighty France, why can't we defeat the United States?
In terms of strength, the US team, which has played out its best, is not much better than France.

Although there are many superstars in the United States, 1+1 is not necessarily greater than 1. This is an obvious truth.

In the live broadcast room of China Central Television, teacher Yang Yi, who was in charge of explaining the men's basketball game, said regretfully: "Hey, if the Chinese team can appear as the first in the group, their probability of advancing to the semi-finals will be doubled."

Yang Jian nodded.

What Yang Yi sighed was exactly what all fans hoped for.

The most likely order of qualifying for Group B is: Spain, Croatia, Argentina, Lithuania.

China and Lithuania are old rivals, and they are very familiar with everything in Lithuania.

If China can qualify first in the group, they will meet Lithuania in the top 8 promotion match, and then the Chinese team will have greater hopes of advancing to the semi-finals.

But China is now ranked second in the group, and their opponent is the third-ranked Argentina team in Group B.

Argentina is the 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist.

In 04, Argentina reached the final under the leadership of Ginobili and Scola, and defeated the Dream Six team in the final, reaching the pinnacle of the national team.

That year, a large number of Argentine players such as Ginobili, Scola, Nocioni, Delfino, Prigioni and Oberto rose to fame and became the golden generation of Argentina.

But now Argentina has slowly become lonely.

Although Argentina is located in the Americas, it is not the United States after all, and will not attach as much importance to basketball culture as the US government.

As Ginobili and Scola are aging more and more seriously, Argentina's basketball strength will inevitably decline a notch.

Oberto and Prigioni have retired from the national team one after another, and the strength of the Argentine team has also declined again and again.

Especially last year, Ginobili, the core of the team, announced that he would completely resign from all positions in the NBA and the national team, which made Argentina directly from the favorite team to win the championship to an ordinary world powerhouse.

Last year's World Cup, the Chinese team met Argentina on the way to the quarter-finals.

Last year's Argentina also had Ginobili, the European eagle. Their strength was completely higher than that of the Chinese team, so there was a feeling of underestimating the enemy.

However, in the World Cup last year, the Chinese team made Argentina pay a heavy price for their underestimation of the enemy, and it also made the world re-understand Chinese basketball.

With the complete withdrawal of Ginobili from Argentina this year, the new Argentina is a young American team built entirely with Diamond Scola as the core.

Argentina made mistakes last year, and they will not underestimate the Chinese team this year.

If Argentina shows its full strength to play against the Chinese team, judging from its strength and reputation on the surface, Argentina still has a high probability of winning the game and advancing to the semi-finals.

But the Chinese team is not without a chance.

This is the excitement of the Olympic Games. Like the World Cup and the NCAA schedule, it is a game to determine the outcome, and a dark horse may appear at any time.

On August 8, the Olympic Games is coming to an end, and the men's basketball competition has also entered the knockout stage of the quarterfinals.

The four-group matches for the quarter-finals have been determined.

The match between China and Argentina will be the opening match of the quarter-finals and will be the first to start.

Almost all Chinese fans who have the ability to come to Tokyo to watch the football, arrived in Tokyo on this day.

This is the Olympic Games in which the Chinese men's basketball team is most likely to advance to the top four, and it is also the peak that Yao Ming led the team never reached.

Yao Ming and many important national leaders came to the scene to watch the Chinese men's basketball game.

Although the ratings of the NBA have been getting lower and lower over the years, the popularity of basketball is getting higher and higher around the world.

Many countries have established their own basketball leagues.

The European Cup, CBA, NBL and other major basketball events have risen one after another, especially this year's European Cup, which has a faint tendency to overtake the NBA.

Basketball is no longer dominated by the NBA.

Today's basketball world is full of heroes and fierce competition.

The American dream team may no longer be able to play the unparalleled dominance that Jordan and Kobe led the team back then.

The American Basketball Association is a little anxious about this.

The development of the European Cup and CBA is what the US officials do not want to see.

Basketball is the national sport of the United States, so they do not want other countries' basketball leagues to surpass the NBA in scale.

So today, the US team came to the Tokyo Olympics with a mission.

For the Olympic gold medal in basketball, even if the U.S. team loses ten gold medals, they must ensure that the gold medal in the men's basketball team will be in their hands.

For the United States, this year's Olympic men's basketball is not a game, but a war!

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