Chapter 611: Locking down the group first
The Lithuanian men's basketball team lost, lost to the inexplicable Meng Xu, this was called the focus of the dialogue by various media before the start, but there was no suspense in the process of the game, from beginning to end the Lithuanian men's basketball team was pressed to play, although the difference between the two sides was never large, but the Lithuanian men's basketball team did not have a chance to overtake or even tie the score in the whole game, the only more exciting thing is probably the three-point battle between the two sides in the game, Or it can also be said that Meng Xu is a three-point battle against the whole Lithuanian team.
Lithuania is a team that is very good at three-point tactics, and its team has a very good three-point ability from the guard to the center, especially the Lithuanian organizational guard and small forward, these two players who were named "Europe's No. 1 small forward" and "King of Europe" respectively, Ramnas Siskauskas and Salunas Jasikovises have shot more than 45% of three-point shots in the past few games, and it is the outstanding performance of these two people that has made Lithuania overturn "invincible" But in today's game, these two top players in Europe all played out of sorts, and they also fully demonstrated to the world today the gap between "the best in Europe" and "the best in the NBA".
On the defensive end, Meng Xu basically locked up Ramnas Siskauskas, but also divided his energy to help defend Sarunas Jasicovis, and occasionally rushed to the basket to help defend the Laverinovic brothers, Meng Xu used his ghost-like defensive ability to support a solid barrier for the Chinese men's basketball team.
On the offensive side, whenever someone on the Lithuanian men's basketball team hits a three-pointer, then the Chinese men's basketball team will definitely return a ball in the next offense, today's game, the Lithuanian team shot a total of 28 three-pointers, hit 10 of them, and shot 10 three-pointers in a single game, which looks very good, but their shooting rate today is very unsatisfactory, especially in the fourth quarter of the game, the Lithuanian team made 8 three-point shots, only two shots, There are even three no-touches that are very rare, and in the Chinese men's basketball team, Meng Xu alone shot 12 three-pointers and scored 43 points in the whole game, defeating Lithuania's three-point army by himself.
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"Meng of the Huaguo men's basketball team is the strongest player I have ever seen, this is an epoch-making player! A player who can change the history of basketball! I'm really sorry, even though we had done a lot of things about him before the game, but after the game I realized that we were still underestimating him a little bit and that was the main reason why we lost. ”
"As for the two three-to-three in the fourth quarter, it wasn't their problem, it was my miscalculation of the situation on the court, and because of the poor preparation before the game, we called too many timeouts in the previous game, and when it came to the critical moment in the fourth quarter, we didn't have the opportunity to take a timeout, all this is my responsibility, and it has nothing to do with Ramnas and Sarunas."
After the game, the head coach of the Lithuanian men's basketball team, Antanas Sireka, took all the responsibility on himself, trying to divert the attention and firepower of the media from the players under his command, especially Salunas Jasikovis, who played superbly to kill the United States team in the last game, but was strangled to death by Meng Xu at a critical moment today.
At the same time, in Antanas Sireka's view, the match with the Chinese men's basketball team is just an ordinary group stage, and winning or losing will not affect the qualification of the Lithuanian men's basketball team, so Antanas Sireka hopes that the result of this game will not affect the confidence of the players under his command, because after the group is over, there are more critical knockout rounds waiting for them, and Antanas Sireka also hopes to adjust the mentality of this group of players as soon as possible. After all, their performance in the fourth quarter can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, under Meng Xu's deliberate targeting, both Ramnas Siskauskas and Sarunas Jasikovises have been mentally unbalanced, two top three-pointers, actually shot three in a row, and what is even more terrifying is that when Meng Xu hit them back with ultra-long-distance three-pointers again and again, in the minutes before the end of the game, in the first half of the fourth quarter in order to chase points, the Lithuanian men's basketball team made 8 three-point shots, In the last few minutes, I didn't even shoot a single three-point shot! It's not terrible to not be able to vote, but it's the most terrible thing to dare to vote!
And this is also the problem that Antanas Sireka is most afraid of now and needs to be solved the most, so Antanas Sireka will choose to take a big bag and carry this black pot after the game, so that these media can let go of the players under their command and let them adjust as soon as possible.
After defeating Lithuania, the Chinese men's basketball team locked the first place in the group in advance with a record of four consecutive wins, and the Chinese men's basketball team also became the only two teams that still maintained a winning record with Spain in Group A after four rounds.
In the men's basketball game of this Olympic Games, there are two most unexpected teams, one is the invincible division of the United States team, known as the "dream team", the first four games of the group stage, the United States team lost two games, so that the "dream team" that has maintained a winning record in several consecutive Olympic Games is disgraced, and the current poor performance of the American team has also made many guys who are fantasizing about the United States team losing the Olympic gold medal, and see the hope of breaking the monopoly of the "dream team".
Another team that is a big surprise is the Spanish team that is currently ranked first in Group A with a winning record, you must know that Spain's performance in the European Championships is not good, only the fourth place barely boarded the last train of the Olympic Games, but after the start of the Olympic Games, under the leadership of the Gasol brothers, Spain defeated the two seeded teams in Group A, Argentina and Serbia and Montenegra, especially in the face of the European Championships defeated their two old rivals Serbia and Montenegro and Italy, Spain is like an autumn wind sweeping leaves, Spain and Lithuania are also expected by the mainstream media in Europe to complete the important task that the French men's basketball team has not completed in this Olympic Games, and break the monopoly of the American team on the Olympic gold medal.
As for the Chinese men's basketball team that just defeated Lithuania, although it now maintains a winning record like Spain, but in Europe, few people are optimistic about them, because compared with Lithuania and Spain, the flaws of the Chinese men's basketball team are too big, and the thickness of their lineup is not good, except for Meng Xu, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, these three players who play in the NBA, the remaining players are very average. And the Huaguo men's basketball team after Meng Xu left the court is a completely different team, a team that relies too much on one player, and is destined not to be favored.
Compared with the European media's downfall, China is now boiling, after locking the first place in the group in advance, going further in this Olympic Games has become the common wish and voice of all Chinese fans.