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Chapter 161 Xu Lang and Yao Ming's pick and roll!Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription!

Chapter 160 Xu Lang and Yao Ming's pick and roll!

Fortunately, this time the Greek team had some experience. There was no defensive chaos like at the beginning of the second quarter. Instead, under the command of Spanoulis, they immediately carried out a conversion of defensive tactics and defensive strategies.

But the problem is that although the Greek team switched defensive strategies in a timely manner this time.

However, facing Xu Lang's outside attack from time to time, and the Chinese team, which has plenty of physical strength and Yao Ming's suppression of the inside line, it is inevitable that the Greek team began to slowly lose the wind.

Finally, at the last minute of the second quarter, the Chinese team had widened the gap between the two teams to nine points.

Fortunately, the offensive ball is still in the hands of the Greek team.

The Greek team attacked, and Spanoulis held the ball from the outside. Watching his teammates move again and again, he couldn't get out of the embarrassing state under the strict defense of the Chinese team.

Without any hesitation, Spanoulis directly called his center forward to go beyond the three-point line to help him block Xu Lang's entanglement.

Then, I saw Spanoulis move laterally, just outside the 45-degree three-point line on the left, and completed a quick three-pointer.

"brush!"

And that wasn't the end of Spanoulis' point-chasing show.

After completing this three-pointer, Spanoulis turned back to the defensive end and once again predicted Xu Lang's passing route in advance.

Under everyone's surprised eyes, Xu Lang stopped Yao Ming, who was behind the inside and asked for the ball, and passed the basketball.

After the steal, Spanoulis yelled and directed his teammates to launch a counterattack.

He also dropped the ball quickly, and under Xu Lang's constant pursuit and defense, he came one step beyond the three-point line.

Taking off and making a hit, Spanoulis made a chasing three-pointer under Xu Lang's amazed eyes, using one of Xu Lang's best methods.

And with this three-point hit, the second quarter of the game officially ended.

At the same time, relying on Spanoulis, he made two consecutive three-pointers in less than 1 minute.

The Greek team also shortened the point difference that might have been behind by double digits to only three points at the end of the half.

After halftime, the score between the Greek team and the Chinese team was 51:48, which many people did not expect.

You must know that in the previous games, except when the Chinese team faced the US team, the half-time lead of the game did not reach double digits.

At other times, facing any opponent and playing any game, the Chinese team has at least a double-digit lead over the opponent at the end of halftime.

Even sometimes the Chinese team's lead at the end of the halftime game can reach more than 20 points.

It can only be said that after the semi-finals, no opponent or team is a soft persimmon.

"So, is there a possibility that it's not that the Chinese team is too strong, but that the team that lost to the Chinese team is too weak, such as this year's shameful American team!"

As a member of the former dream team, Barkley is actually full of opinions on this year's US team!
In fact, as early as when the U.S. team’s roster came out this year, Barkley had already publicly criticized a number of top NBA stars. Lost!
In the international arena where there is no three-second defense and the overall court area is a circle smaller than the NBA, the US team only has one pitcher.

Of course, these are not things that Xu Lang and others need to consider.

The screen returned to this game, and soon the intermission ended, and the second half of the game between the two teams officially began.

As soon as the third quarter came up, the ball was first on the side of the Greek team.

After Spanoulis dribbled the ball for halftime, he watched his teammates once again under the tight defense of the Chinese team, and it was difficult to get out of the offensive position.

Call the inside players up again to help them complete the pick-and-roll.

With the help of his teammate's pick-and-roll, Spanoulis quickly entered the three-point line.

Without any hesitation, Spanoulis, who had just entered half a step away from the three-point line, took off directly and completed a mid-range shot with an emergency stop.

It can only be said that Spanoulis' defensive judgment and reading ability are indeed the top among all outside players in this World Championship.

With the help of his teammate's pick-and-roll last time, after seeing that Xu Lang chose to retreat half a step to bypass the pick-and-roll to defend, Spanoulis immediately moved laterally and completed the shot from outside the three-point line.

And this time it was also a pick-and-roll. When Xu Lang chose to squeeze through the pick-and-roll, Spanoulis made a decisive breakthrough, stopped suddenly, and shot from a mid-to-long distance.

The perfect rhythm, complete vacancy, and decisive shot allowed Spanoulis to hit a mid-to-long distance pull-up jumper steadily this time.

After Spanoulis also began to exert force from the outside, the Greek team, which had been suppressed by the Chinese team in the second half of the second quarter, regained its offensive rhythm and game state.

It's just that although the Greek team has regained its offensive rhythm, facing Yao Ming and Xu Lang, two players who can't stand it at all on the defensive end, the Greek team still has no way to stop the Chinese team's attack.

This allowed the scores of the two teams to alternately rise in the remainder of the third quarter.

"This is the first time that Spanoulis has made an emergency stop jump shot. So far in this game, Spanoulis seems to have become the king of mid-range shots. Every shot is accurate!"

In terms of hard power, the Chinese team is still stronger than the Greek team.

But if you can't stand Spanoulis, the game feels really good!

The Greek team is also relying on Spanoulis, the third quarter of the game is accurate enough to make people feel incredible mid-range shots, once completely evened the score gap between the two teams, and even almost completed the overtake.

Fortunately, the Chinese team with Yao Ming, who is physically strong, and Xu Lang, who is full of firepower, is not easy to deal with.

The Greek team has Spanoulis' mid-range shot and pass after the pick-and-roll.

For the Chinese team, there were also Xu Lang's successful singles breakthroughs again and again, and Yao Ming's brutal offense of dunking inside.

And compared to Spanoulis' style of play, which requires blocking touch and gambling luck, it is obvious that Xu Lang and Yao Ming's offensive stability is much better!

So as time went on, the game situation on the field slowly began to favor the Chinese team.

However, because Spanoulis also helped the Greek team hang their lives, the score gap between the two teams has been fluctuating within the range of three to five points.

Although the Chinese team has been looking for opportunities to break these balances and directly take away the game, but Spanoulis, who feels hot and has a perfect rhythm, has been dragging the Greek team, so that the score gap between the two teams has been stabilized at one. acceptable location.

In the end, until the end of the third quarter, the Chinese team only maintained a four-point lead and entered the last quarter.

Obviously, this game is the most difficult game the Chinese team has played since entering the World Championships.

Even in the match against the US team, Xu Lang and Yao Ming did not have such a hard time.

At the same time, in this game, Spanoulis also showed all fans and audiences the influence of a top rhythm control master on a game.

Everyone can clearly see that there is a certain gap between the overall strength of the Greek team and the Chinese team.

However, under the control of Spanoulis' rhythm, the Greek team was able to play against the Chinese team at the end of the three quarters.

Spanoulis has surprised too many people, including Yao Ming, who now feels that he is both painful and happy.

After all, Spanoulis will become his teammate next season. It is definitely a good thing for Yao Ming, a big center, to have a guard with such strong field control ability.

But on the contrary, the Chinese team is now under the suppression of a top field control master.

Although in this game, the Chinese team has always been in the leading position in the score.

However, all the fans and commentators, as well as the players of the Chinese team, feel that although the Chinese team is leading, it seems that they may overturn at any time.

This kind of game state and game atmosphere where the score is being bitten by the opponent at all times, and the score may even be overturned at any time, made the mental state of all the players of the Chinese team completely tense.

If it was the previous Chinese team, the Chinese team without Xu Lang, at this time, it is very likely that the Greek team will feel oppressed by every step of the way, and it will start to make various mistakes, which will directly lead to collapse!

Fortunately, the main player of the Chinese team is Xu Lang.

It's just that although the Chinese team has Xu Lang, it will not be overwhelmed by the Greek team's pressing state of chasing points.

But Jonas still knows very well that if this game atmosphere and game state are allowed to continue.

The Chinese team worked hard to take the lead for three quarters, and it is very likely that they will play in the fourth quarter, but it will become the last straw that crushes the Chinese team.

After all, once the Chinese team leads the game by three quarters and is overtaken in the fourth quarter, not everyone can bear the psychological pressure!

So in the fourth quarter, the Chinese team had to make some changes.

It's just that at this time, the Chinese team's weapons have been exposed, and Yao Ming is playing hard inside.

Xu Lang's breakthrough with the ball, the pick-and-roll offense between Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian.

These are basically all the offensive methods of the Chinese team!
However, although these methods had certain effects when facing the Greek team in the first three quarters, the effects were not as explosive as expected.

For a team like the Greek team, as long as they are not completely defeated, their game toughness and defensive toughness may directly entangle their opponents to death.

So now there are only two ways before Jonas, one way is to continue to maintain the status quo and compare toughness and patience with the Greek team.

After all, China still has a four-point lead. Only by maintaining these leads until the last second of the game will the Chinese team still win the game.

But for Jonas, he can believe that Yao Ming, Xu Lang, Yi Jianlian and other experienced players who have experienced big scenes can withstand this super oppressive pressure of chasing points.

But can he guarantee that the other players of the Chinese team, especially the players who mainly play domestically, can also withstand these pressures at this time and still exert their strength and performance as they should?
Once any player of the Chinese team can't withstand these pressures and becomes the opponent's breakthrough, it is likely to bring about various chain reactions, which will lead to the direct collapse of the entire Chinese team's defensive system and offensive rhythm.

And if you don't want to gamble on the toughness of other players in the Chinese team, then Jonas can only go another way, which is to break the Greek team's extremely tough defensive system in the first three quarters.

Or even if there is no way to directly break the overall defensive system of the Greek team, it is necessary to keep the defensive system of the Greek team at its limit, so as to push the pressure of the game back to the Greek team.

"It's just that who can really break the game now?"

Coach Yunus looked at the group of players of the Chinese team in front of him, and began to think about who could help him complete the tactical goal of breaking the game!
"Xu Lang, Yao Ming, pick and roll, there it is!"

Coach Jonas was a little excited and began to arrange the tactical arrangements for the fourth quarter.

Seeing the tactic that coach Yunus had arranged, Xu Lang and Yao Ming looked at each other, and then looked at Yunus with some admiration.

Soon as time passed, the fourth quarter of the game officially began. As soon as the fourth quarter of the game came up, the offensive ball was first on the Chinese team's side.

The Chinese team attacked, and Xu Lang dribbled the ball after halftime.

First, he directed other teammates to set up positions, and then when everyone in the Greek team thought that the Chinese team would start to force Yao Ming inside again, Xu Lang suddenly called Yao Ming to help him complete the pick-and-roll.

Obviously, Yao Ming's sudden move exceeded the Greek team's defensive expectations. This also caused the Greek team's inside center player who originally planned to stand on the inside to defend Yao Ming.

It's just that before the center player made his own decision, Xu Lang had already used Yao Ming's pick-and-roll to quickly enter the three-point line.

Although at the moment of Yao Ming's pick-and-roll, Spanoulis also quickly made a defensive choice around the pick-and-roll, and re-attached Xu Lang from the flank to complete the breakthrough inside.

But because Yao Ming's pick-and-roll quality was really good, Xu Lang got into the three-point line before Spanoulis.

Then, even though Spanoulis put Xu Lang on it, he could only constantly interfere with Xu Lang's breakthrough speed from the side, and could not completely stop Xu Lang's breakthrough movement.

As a result, the center player of the Greek team, who was still struggling to defend himself, could only be forced to stay inside to prevent Xu Lang from attacking the basket directly against Spanoulis.

After all, in the first three quarters of the game, Xu Lang had already completed three dunks inside the Greek team.

It was only after most of the Greek team's defensive attention was attracted by Xu Lang.

Yao Ming, who had just completed the pick-and-roll, did not follow the conventional tactics and directly cut inside after the pick-and-roll. Instead, he abnormally chose to stay at the top of the arc at the three-point line.

Because of Xu Lang, Yao Ming actually doesn't have any defenders around him now.

Then, Xu Lang's pass was late but arrived, a comfortable high pass, and the basketball was sent to Yao Ming's arms.

After Yao Ming received the ball, he took advantage of the opportunity to raise the basketball in his hand, stood outside the three-point line, and completed a tiptoe three-point shot without even jumping.

Although Yao Ming's three-point shooting this time was at least twice as slow as that of ordinary outside players.

But because Yao Ming doesn't have any defenders around him, plus Yao Ming's height and wingspan, even if he doesn't take off, no one can interfere with him.

Therefore, Yao Ming's three-point shot this time is basically a training shot!
In this uninterrupted, completely open shooting environment, Yao Ming, who felt very good in this game, made this three-point shot steadily and hit the board.

"Indeed, as A Lang said, if you don't think of it as a three-point shot, but as a mid-range and long-range shot under NBA standards, it doesn't seem to be very difficult."

After Yao Ming made this three-pointer, he felt that Coach Jonas' strategy seemed feasible.

During the timeout just now, the way coach Jonas thought of breaking the game was that Xu Lang and Yao Ming completed the pick-and-roll.

Compared with Yi Jianlian's immature shooting ability, Yao Ming's shooting range and long-distance shooting stability are much stronger.

You must know that in the past few seasons in the NBA, Yao Ming's mid-range and long-range shooting percentage has remained at around 45% all year round.

Mid-range and long-range shooting has always been a very common offensive weapon for Yao Ming.

It's just that because Yao Ming has been too strong in the paint in the past two years, many people have almost forgotten that Yao Ming can still have such an excellent mid-range shooting ability!
Then, Yao Ming, who was selectively forgotten beyond the three-point line, taught the Greek team a good lesson.

If Yao Ming can play in the last quarter, he can hit his normal mid-range and long-range shooting percentage in the NBA.

That is, if Yao Ming can shoot about 45% of his three-pointers on the FIBA ​​standard court.

Then the Greek team's originally somewhat indestructible defensive system is very likely to be smashed by Yao Ming, a center player.

And coach Jonas's tactic is even better. When Yao Ming pulls out to shoot a three-pointer, the competitiveness of the Chinese team's inside rebounds will not drop too much.

Because Xu Lang will go inside after passing the ball, so as to make up for the lack of inside rebounds of the Chinese team caused by the lack of Yao Ming.

You must know that in the past few games, Xu Lang, as an outside player mainly cruising outside the free throw line, has averaged more than 6 rebounds per game.

This also means that Xu Lang's rebounding ability is not weaker than ordinary inside players, and even stronger.

Then, in the fourth quarter, the next game time.

The Chinese team started a very strange offensive style of play. Yao Ming, a 140kg big center, pulled out and shot from outside the three-point line. Instead, Xu Lang, a point guard, rushed inside to grab rebounds and complete the second attack. .

This made the Greek team's defense immediately confused. If the Greek team's inside players came out to interfere with Yao Ming's outside shots, then Xu Lang would directly accelerate his breakthrough, and then face the Greek team's penalty area, which lacked inside players to protect the frame. , launching various shocks.

And if the inside players of the Greek team don't come out, it will become very difficult for Yao Ming to raise his hand and shoot from outside the three-point line.

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