On September 1, the semi-finals of the World Championships.

Saitama Super Arena, Chinese team against Argentina.

There were also some fans from Argentina in the stands, who wore Argentine oil paint on their faces and wore the classic blue and white Argentine jersey.

In Argentina, the excellent basketball performance has also attracted some basketball fans.

Of course, there is no comparison with football, which is the most popular sport in South America and Argentina.

In the stands, fans from both sides waved flags, and many local people in Japan also came to the scene, and the stadium was quickly filled.

The announcer will explain the process in both Japanese and English, and both sides will stay on the field first.

China: Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, Yang Di and Yao Ming.

Argentina: Juan Ignacio Sánchez 1.93m, Manu Ginobili 1.98m, Andrés Nocioni 2.01m, Luis Scola 2.08m, Fabricio Oberto 2.08m.

The two sides have continued to play with the lineup that has always been the same, and they do not make changes easily.

In terms of height, Yao Ming's height of 2.26 meters stood there, like a high mountain, and Oberto looked up at him, under great pressure.

Oberto is 31 years old, and last year, he just turned 30, but he got a job with the Spurs.

The Spurs see him as an important rotation for the main interior line, Oberto shoots accurately and rebounds steadily, and the interior defense almost never loses position, making him a rare player in the NBA who can play both the No. 4 and No. 5 positions.

But Oberto's athleticism is average, and Yao Ming's jump ball, jumping with all his strength, can't touch the ball at all.

Yao Ming pulled the ball back, Yang Di reached out and grabbed the rebound, handed it back, and handed it to Liu Wei.

In the first wave of the Chinese team's attack, the shouts of "come on the Chinese team" immediately sounded at the scene.

Luis Scola, as Yang Di's defender, came up positively.

Liu Wei handed the ball to Yang Di, who was standing in the elbow area, and Yang Di received the ball and made three threats first.

Luis Scola was drafted by the Spurs in the second round in '02, but the Spurs have not been able to sign Scola due to a $3.5 million buyout fee from his parent club Tau Ceramics, and until now, Scola is still playing for Tau Ceramics and failed to make it to the NBA, and this year, he is 26 years old.

Scola is waiting for him, his defensive task is very heavy, and he has no bottom in his heart to limit Yang Di.

Yang Di turned around, crossed with his right foot after a tentative step, and then followed with his left foot, and the whole person quickly formed a cross step to the right to break through, the Argentines all paid attention to Yang Di, and as soon as Yang Di moved, they wanted to be like clockwork, and they all wrapped it over.

"Catch!"

Yang Di suddenly stopped and jumped up, shook his hands, and quickly passed the ball to the basket.

Yao Ming, who came around, happened to catch the ball, and immediately raised his hands after receiving the ball, and made a shooting action in front of him, with his arms raised very high, and he looked like he was half-throwing.

Oberto raised his hand to intercept it, and when he looked back, the basketball fell into the basket.

In fact, the center throws quite dangerously, because it takes more time for the center to lift the basketball, and the defender has enough opportunities to cut the ball.

But this time Yao Ming's attack, Yang Di passed directly to his chest, raised it and threw it directly, the rhythm and speed were very good.

2-0, the Chinese team scored two points in the opening game.

Sanchez is also 30 years old this year, and the main point guard of Argentina's golden generation. He took the ball steadily across the half-pitch and the Argentine players immediately started running.

Luis Scola and Oberto, who include the inside, are also moving.

Wang Shipeng's defense of Ginobili can be described as a great enemy, after all, Ginobili is the top breakthrough player in the NBA.

Ginobili went down the three-point line, then suddenly started and went straight to the basket.

Oberto came over and made an off-ball cover for Ginobili, Nocioni moved along the course to the line, and Scola moved to the free-throw line.

Sanchez handed the ball to Scola, and after Ginobili ran out of the opportunity, Scola, who was a mid-lay, hit the ball to Ginobili, and the moment Ginobili took the ball, he turned around, raised his hands, and made a realistic turn and shoot feint.

Wang Shipeng, who was nervous, jumped up subconsciously.

"Oops!"

Ginobili dribbled with his right hand and broke through unhurriedly, Yang Di made up for it, and Ginobili hit the ground and cleverly gave it to Scola under the basket.

Yang Di turned around, and Scola didn't go directly to the basket, leaned out, moved sideways to the right, passed under the basket, and hit a layup on the right side.

Yang Di separated him by one body, and Scola also had a movement of his body extending outward, it was impossible to cover it.

Scola easily picked up two points. 2 to 2.

"Mine!"

Wang Shipeng raised his hand to signal his responsibility.

Yang Di shook his head and comforted: "It's okay, continue to defend, I think it's good." ”

The Chinese team attacked, and Argentina really adopted a full-court press to expand the defense, and wanted to disrupt the offensive rhythm of the Chinese team, and it was best to cause the Chinese team's defenders to make dribbles or pass mistakes.

But now this trick doesn't work very well, Yang Di finished the bottom line ball, and when he saw that Argentina was pressing all over the court, he excitedly asked Liu Wei for the ball.

As soon as he received the ball, Yang Di rushed forward.

Scola moved the defense in small steps, and found that Yang Di was advancing too fast, so he switched to a sideways move to keep up.

At the three-point line, Yang Di collected the ball and stood, Ginobili, Sanchez and others also rushed over, panicked and formed a formation, Yang Di was not in a hurry to hand over the ball to Liu Wei, and motioned for everyone to pull away outside the three-point line.

Falling to the left area, Yang Di dribbled sideways.

Argentina immediately chose to assist in defense, jokingly, and let Scola defend Yang Di's face frame attack? It's too difficult.

Yang Di didn't pass the ball at the first time, took a step with his left foot, pulled the ball with his right hand, broke through to the left after a crotch, leaned over and accelerated to break through to the left, and neither Scola nor Nocioni could catch up with him.

Oberto came over to help defend, and Yang Di distributed the ball outside.

Wang Shipeng moved over to catch the ball, and the moment Yang Di divided the ball, the Argentine players quickly dispersed, and several people who assisted Yang Di moved very fast.

When Wang Shipeng received the ball and was about to jump shot, Nocioni had already pounced and interfered with his shot.

"Bell!"

The ball misses and bounces out.

Although the Argentine offensive and defensive conversion speed is very fast, Yao Ming and Yang Di and others under the basket have also been given more space, Yao Ming and Oberto grabbed the rebound, Oberto stretched out with one hand, and could only passively point the ball away.

Yang Di's eyes were quick and he jumped up with a faster reaction speed.

Because of leaning on Scola, Scola saw Yang Di's strength, and secretly exclaimed in his heart.

Then he followed Yang Di's jumping body, exerted force, screamed, and staggered forward, as if he had been pushed hard in the back.

"Toot ~"

The whistle blew, and Yang Di was whistled for a rebounding foul.