Chapter 533: First Victory
The night in Sapporo is a little deeper, but the number of people in the street night market is increasing.
Summer is the season for cool outings, with delicious beer, barbecue dishes, a wide variety of snacks, and countless cultural performances.
At the World Championships, the Chinese team showed its strength by leaps and bounds.
The combination of Yang Di and Yao Ming is not a simple one plus one, the two of them can directly dominate the restricted area, dominate the rebound, and even Yang Di's defensive range is so large that it spreads to the two-point area.
The whole Italian team played very hard, and because there were no enough players to fight against them, they could only use the means of wrapping and clamping, once the pack, there were a lot of vacancies, although the outside players of the Chinese team were on the spot, they threw and threw out the feeling, and also scored a few three-pointers, and the score of the Italian team fell behind a lot all of a sudden.
At the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team led Italy by 8 points 25-17.
Yao Ming went to rest, and during the intermission, Younas was also ready to replace Yang Di.
"No, why rest, I don't feel the slightest loss of energy." Yang Di feels that this kind of confrontation is very easy, compared with the macho men in the NBA who can easily bench press 150 kilograms, these Italian players are like flowers in the wind, if it weren't for the considerable height and weight, Yang Di felt that he would not consume physical strength.
Especially in such a game, Yang Di feels that he can play 40 minutes in the NBA Finals, and it should not matter if he plays the whole game in this kind of game.
"No, you're going to listen to me this time." Younas also came up stubbornly, staring at Yang Di with angry eyes.
He still really saw the legendary thorn in the NBA, and even disobeyed his orders in public.
Yao Ming and A Dijiang grabbed Yang Di, "Yang Di, don't be impulsive, the competition system of the World Championships is very tense, there will be games every day, we must maintain sufficient physical fitness to be able to face the next game, have you forgotten that the next game is to play the American Dream Seven team, and if you run out of strength at this time, it will be difficult to do it tomorrow." ”
"How did you come to the conclusion that I'm going to run out of energy in a match like this?" Yang Di saw that the two of them were pulling him, but it was not good not to give them face, so he sat down angrily, and wanted to knock Younas to death with a stick.
Younas curled the corners of his mouth proudly, and then replaced Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi and the others.
In all fairness, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi are also good players in the world, at least in the interior matchup, they are completely at a loss with the Italian team, but without the huge involvement of Yang Di and Yao Ming on the inside, they have returned to the original decent style of play, the pressure on the Italian team has become lighter, and the outside line has opened up the space to shoot, and it has scored several threes at once.
Younas's head immediately oozed sweat, Italy seemed weak in the first quarter, but it was based on the situation that China has two super inside lines, and in the second quarter, Yang Di and Yao Ming went off the court together, and the Chinese team immediately showed a lack of support.
Two minutes later, both Limas and Adijiang suggested that Younas be replaced by Yang Di, and Younas nodded and agreed to replace Yang Di on the field.
But just like the practice a few days ago, Younas could not simply replace Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian off the court, after all, there was no big disadvantage in the confrontation between the Chinese team's interior line and Italy's inside, and he let Yang Di play as a small forward, and together with substitutes Chen Jianghua and Sun Yue, formed an outside lineup.
The speed of this lineup is very fast, and Yang Di is not averse to playing outside, anyway, his current projection is also very strong, and the international three-point line is shorter than the NBA three-point line, and he feels that he can shoot three points here.
This is also why some of the top players in the NBA are not very accurate in the NBA, but the three points in the international arena are extremely accurate.
Yang Di has a strong ability to face the frame, and after he comes on the field, every breakthrough needs to be stopped by two or three Italian people, so that Italy's defense is very constrained, and the score is reopened by the Chinese team.
After Yao Ming came back from rest, he returned to the situation in the first quarter, and the inside line was blown up by Yang Di and Yao Ming, and the rebounds were several grades worse.
There was no defense for three seconds in the international game, Yao Ming went to the basket to stand down, just like the giant spirit god, and Yang Di was defending a circle outside the penalty area, and the two complemented each other and joined forces to form a layered defensive front.
Italy's Belinelli is one of the best players, under the defensive pressure of Chinese outside players, he still threw several three-pointers, catch-and-shoot, dribble shot, and shooting skills made the NBA scouts who paid attention to this game look sideways, and for this famous Italian genius scouting report, he was given the title of A-level excellent.
In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Italian team 92-77 and easily won the first victory in the 06 Asian Championships.
"The twin towers of the Chinese team are the world's No. 1 level." After the game, the head coach of the Italian men's basketball team was full of praise for the two interior lines of the Chinese men's basketball team, Yang Di and Yao Ming, both of whom are worthy of being the top interior players in the NBA.
Yao Ming got 30 points and 9 rebounds, and Yang Di scored 25 points and 15 rebounds, and the scores of the two of them exceeded half of the Chinese team, almost reaching 6% of the Chinese team's scores.
Chinese fans are very excited, the Chinese men's basketball team has not won such a hearty victory in the international arena for a long time, especially since the opponent is still Italy, the silver medalist of the 04 Athens Olympics, and the famous European powerhouse, such a victory is even more golden.
Some die-hard fans at the scene were so excited that they almost burst into tears, with oil paint painted on their faces one by one, yelling at the camera and venting their excitement in their hearts.
Yang Di shook hands with some Italian players and prepared to leave, and then saw Belinelli running over, with the unique freedom and uninhibited of Europeans, and greeted Yang Di with a smile: "Yang, your performance is too good, I am your fan." ”
Yang Di also smiled, the international arena is different from the club, the club is a career, some games, I can't wait to live or die, the competition on the international arena represents the country, demeanor and atmosphere are more important, Belinelli is so free and easy, he also admires it in his heart.
He reached out and shook Belinelli, then half-hugged each other.
"You're doing really well, I think you're strong and have the quality to play in the NBA."
"Yes, I'm going to participate in the NBA draft after the end of this season, but the current draft pick is not high, and I don't know what the situation will be next year."
"I don't think a lot of rookies have the strength of you, if I were the general manager, I would definitely pick you in the lottery." Yang Di laughed, not completely complimentary, Belinelli shot ** Zhan, the style of play is steady, except for the defense is a little immature, the other technical and tactical abilities are very mature, and it is a very good instant combat power.
And he is only 20 years old, 2 years younger than Yang Di, and still has a lot of potential to tap.
Yang Di shook his head and smiled dumbly, what did he want to do so much, and he was not the general manager.