The world of basketball

Chapter 124 Victory over Türkiye
The Turkish national team eliminated the existence of the Australian national team in 14. In the decisive stage of the fourth quarter of the game, they played inextricably with the Chinese team.

With the last 5 minutes left in the game, Li Nan replaced the final lineup - Zhao Rui, Guo Ailun, Abdul Saramu, Zhou Qi and Mu Xiaobei.

On the Turkish side, there is Kanter, the veteran Southwest Guller, Fultz, Osman and Akeyo, a lineup with tough defense and mainly playing positional battles-in fact, their core Kanter is the kind who can't run. type of center forward.

The score remained tied at 67:67. In the third quarter, the offensive state of the two teams was not good. The substitutes frantically hit the iron one after another, but fortunately, both teams could not score. The point difference was not widened, which gave the main lineup a sufficient Break time.

Mu Xiaobei put Kanter on his back, and then turned around to face up to the singles. Facing Kanter, his speed advantage was very obvious.

But then Zhao Rui came out, Mu Xiaobei handed the ball to Zhao Rui, Zhao Rui caught the ball at the top of the arc and immediately pulled up a jumper.

Swah——

The three-pointer went hollow into the net.

"Good ball Zhao Rui, Coach Li Nan has been targeting Kanter's slow speed throughout the game, and the shortcomings that cannot be prevented are playing pick-and-rolls. Let Zhao Rui play off-ball pick-and-rolls and Guo Ailun play pick-and-rolls with the ball. The Chinese team can die. This is to a large extent the reason for clinging to the score, and it is obvious that the Chinese team has put a lot of effort into the study of Turkey." Yu Jia said.

"Zhao Rui performed well in this game. The team played Zhao Rui at the last moment because he saw the characteristics of Zhao Rui's daring to shoot, and Zhao Rui felt hot in this game. This is also a very important point." Zhang Weiping said.

Osman broke through with the ball, but Abdul Saramu did not lose his position, but followed Osman's breakthrough with his dexterous footsteps and strong physical fitness.

At the last moment, Li Nan took down Ding Yanyuhang, who was relatively weak in defense, and Saramu, who was relatively strong in defense and relatively stable in positioning shots from outside the three-point line.

Fultz's breakthrough was also followed by Guo Ailun. He originally wanted to rely on his physical fitness and strength to resist Guo Ailun, but found that the physical fitness of this yellow man was not much worse than him, and he lost his center of gravity for a three-step layup. At this time, Fultz's speed of passing the ball was much slower, and the pass was much softer. Zhou Qi quickly cut off the pass with sharp eyes and hands.

Zhou Qi gave the ball to Guo Ailun. In terms of impact and speed, Guo Ailun is definitely the strongest in the national team, and his ability to launch a counterattack is definitely the strongest in the national team.

Zhao Rui's impact is not weak either. Behind him, Mu Xiaobei, Zhou Qi, and Abu are not far behind, and each has their own positions. , Mu Xiaobei catches the ball and makes a three-pointer.

Swah——

Mu Xiaobei counterattacked and hit a three-pointer.

In these two rounds, the Chinese team led by six points at once.

In the decisive stage of a game, every round and every point is crucial. Turkish coach Buxas requested a timeout. Obviously, they are not very sad for the Chinese team. From coaches to players to fans, they I think the Chinese team, a traditionally weak team, don’t need to be too concerned. It’s just luck that they survived the first round of the group stage. After all, there are two weak teams in their group.

The defensive strategy they formulated was to focus on Mu Xiaobei and Zhou Qi, and the others didn't need to pay too much attention.

But so far in this game, Mu Xiaobei scored 29 points in [-]th and [-]th, Zhou Qi scored [-] points in [-]th and [-]th, and the two of them only scored [-] points in partnership.

In other words, Guo Ailun, Zhao Rui, Yi Jianlian, Abdul Saramu, and Xiao Ding slapped Turkey in the face with their own strength.

The so-called knowing yourself and the enemy will never end in a hundred battles, and the so-called arrogant soldiers will lose. This is the most important core argument that Li Nan encourages the players to build confidence for the players.

At the end of the timeout, Kanter hit Mu Xiaobei with his back singles. Kanter squeezed Mu Xiaobei with his wide buttocks, then turned around, squeezed Mu Xiaobei's muscles to gain space for his shot, and then waved his His big elbow pressed against Mu Xiaobei's chest, and then he scored with a small hook under the basket.

Mu Xiaobei was a little distressed. Kanter wanted the ball too deeply. In this position, Kanter can beat Mu Xiaobei regardless of his physical talent such as height, strength, or technique.

Two months of training left Mu Xiaobei with a lot of flesh on his body. Fans compared a picture of Mu Xiaobei when he first entered the league with the current picture, and found that Mu Xiaobei was indeed much stronger.

Mu Xiaobei's training results in the past two months can be seen from his body shape, and his strength and confrontation ability have grown.

Mu Xiaobei played a ball-holding pick-and-roll for Guo Ailun at the top of the arc, then Guo Ailun took a step back but found Kanter defending him, then Mu Xiaobei cut to the basket, Guo Ailun put the ball inside, Mu Xiaobei faced Facing Akeyo, a monkey-tailed small throw was scored.

Mu Xiaobei could see that the Turkish head coach's adjustments to their defensive strategy just now were suspended, such as Kanter's attack, and Mu Xiaobei at the fourth position to defend against air cuts, and then rotated defense like this.

But this kind of rotation defense requires a strong tacit understanding, and it is obvious that Turkey does not have such a tacit understanding.

More importantly, Mu Xiaobei has the ability to play low singles as an inside core, but in the national team he sacrificed a lot of his tactical status and integrated into the team as a role player.

This is the culture of the national team, and it is also Li Nan's coaching style-playing defensive counterattacks instead of slow-paced offenses.

Mu Xiaobei himself didn't have any complaints or anything else, this is in the national team, obeying the coach's instructions is the most important thing, don't cause trouble for the team.

In the final stage of the fourth quarter, Turkey's offense was a bit difficult. Kanter scored a few goals in singles, and Osman scored two goals in cuts, but Zhao Rui and Guo Ailun's three-pointers were completely opened.

At the last moment, Turkey was unable to recover, and the Chinese team won the game and got a good start in the second round of the group stage.

Turkey was a bit unwilling to lose. They really restricted Mu Xiaobei and Zhou Qi. Although they had a very high shooting percentage, they didn't have much chance to hold the ball.

Turkey didn't lose this game to Mu Xiaobei and Zhou Qi, but to the Chinese national team players they didn't know. He didn't know that besides Mu Xiaobei, Zhou Qi, and Yi Jianlian, the Chinese team also had A lot of really good basketball players.

Among the remaining two teams, Greece and Dominica, as long as they win a game, they can enter the quarterfinals.

Entering the top eight also means that the Chinese team will be eligible for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which will greatly improve the international status of Chinese basketball.

While the national team was playing hard games, Director Li Nan and Director Li Ke also watched the video of the game between Greece and Dominia day and night, preparing for the next game.

(End of this chapter)