25. Excellent half-court performance
Wu Dawei's return made the Chinese players on the court feel relieved. At the same time, the Chinese fans off the court finally felt that they no longer had to worry about the team's performance in the game.
Wu Dawei seemed to be like a cardiotonic agent, which made people feel at ease. When Wu Dawei returned to the basketball court, the situation on the court did indeed begin to improve.
Wu Dawei quickly showed his influence on the court, just like in the first quarter. When he returned to the basketball court, Wu Dawei was able to make the Australians feel tremendous pressure on both offense and defense.
Moreover, such pressure is not a problem that the Australians can solve in an instant. In addition, the state of China's outside scorer group has improved significantly compared to the last game with the Russian team. Therefore, the Australian team is facing a dilemma. If they do not choose to attack Wu Dawei, Wu Dawei scored 11 points in a single quarter, which is a big trend of going wild. However, if Wu Dawei is in charge, Wu Dawei will definitely pass the ball when he encounters double teams. Although China's outside scorer group is not very reliable, their condition is far from being as unreliable as in the previous game.
As the head coach of the Australian men's basketball team, Ian Steck finally chose to double-team Wu Dawei, which effectively curbed Wu Dawei's impact on the Australian team's basket; but at the same time, Wu Dawei also frequently passed the ball to his teammates at the inside and outside.
Since pinch attacks will cause gaps, when other Chinese players get a lot of opportunities to take off, even if their basic skills are not good, the feel is a bit illusory, and the Chinese team's condition in this game is much better than the previous game.
In addition to Wu Dawei's terrifying dominance on the defensive end, although Ian Steck has already reminded Qiao Ings, who faced Wu Dawei, to try not to participate in the offense, Wu Dawei's excellent ability to supplement defense can still provide great help to the Chinese men's basketball team on the defensive end!
In this way, when Wu Dawei returned to the court, the Chinese men's basketball team began to regain control of the rhythm. The team with Wu Dawei was always able to play wonderful defensive counterattacks on the basketball court.
Relying on Wu Dawei's excellent defensive ability, the chances of fast attack always appear exponentially!
When the first half ended, the Chinese men's basketball team, which was still behind before Wu Dawei took the field, began to regain the lead.
46:42, the gap returned to 4 points. The Chinese team took the lead at the end of the half for the first time in the group stage of this Olympic Games.
This is definitely a very good result. No matter what Australians think, at least Wu Dawei is quite satisfied with such a result.
When the reporter stopped Wu Dawei and wanted to have an interview with him at the end of the midfield game, Wu Dawei happily accepted the interview.
The reporter was a reporter from the local British TV broadcaster. The reason why he stopped Wu Dawei was of course because he was the best player in the first half. In the first half, Wu Dawei scored 18 points and 6 assists for the Chinese men's basketball team, and had 3 blocks and 2 steals on the defensive end; the second is because now, the outside world is indeed very curious about Wu Dawei.
Because before this game began, too many people were questioning Wu Dawei's performance. However, in this game, at least in the first half, Wu Dawei had another amazing performance that shocked many people.
Anyone who has watched the first half of this game can tell. If it weren't for Wu Dawei, then the Chinese team might have lost hope of winning the game in the first half.
It is precisely because Wu Dawei left the Australians helpless that they were able to take the lead and enter the intermission.
"Wu, let's talk about the first half game. You should know that before the game started, there were not many people optimistic about the prospects of the Chinese men's basketball team in this game, but you have now unexpectedly taken the lead!"
The first question of the female reporter was very sharp, but Wu Dawei was not very concerned about it. Faced with this problem, he even joked: "Everyone who is familiar with me knows that what I am best at is to make people stunned!"
After making a joke, Wu Dawei immediately answered seriously: "Yes, the situation we faced before this game started was a bad one. You know, we lost the first two games, which made our situation very bad. I can understand that people will have doubts, and for a while, we ourselves have doubts. There is no surprise. This is competitive sports. If you can't win, people will not trust you anymore. So everything we do in this game is to try to win back the trust of those who support us!"
Wu Dawei's words were not so much answering reporters' questions, but rather to the Chinese fans on the scene.
"... Then tell me about your performance in the first half. You played great and forced the Australian team to double-team you, but this doesn't seem to stop you from affecting the game!"
The reporter's question sounds more like a compliment, but Wu Dawei was really helpful after listening to it. He laughed and said, "Thank you, I'm honored to be exaggerated by a beautiful woman! But this is even more thankful to my teammates. They gave me great support in the first half. This is not something I can do alone! It is precisely because my teammates can score incredible goals that the Australian team is so passive!"
Wu Dawei's answer made the scene applause sound. Of course, it was all screams from Chinese fans who came to the stadium to cheer for the Chinese team. After asking Wu Dawei two questions, the reporter did not leave him for too long. After all, the fifteen minutes of the half-time break is very important for a player who still has to play in the second half.
Wu Dawei, who returned to the locker room, finally got a chance to rest. All he had to do now was to keep his energy well. The Chinese team got a hard-won lead at the end of the first half. What they had to do in the second half was just to keep such an advantage.
As long as they can maintain such an advantage in the second half, this game will be sure to win for the Chinese men's basketball team! The leading situation in the first half also made the atmosphere relaxed when the Chinese men's basketball team entered the locker room during the halftime break.
This is the first time they have won the lead in the half in the Olympics, which of course makes the men's basketball guys feel happy. Wu Dawei is no exception. As a member of the Chinese men's basketball team, only when you integrate into a team in an immersive way can you find that every progress of the team will make you feel so excited.
Although the teammates around you are not as strong as you, this will not affect Wu Dawei’s relationship with them. As long as everyone works together, it’s fine. After all, strength cannot be forced. You cannot ask a team that is not even in the top 30 in the world’s actual strength, and can gain the upper hand in the competition with the top 10 in the world.
After all, improving strength is not something that can happen overnight, and it also takes years of accumulation to achieve it.
"Hey, Lao Wu!"
Sitting next to Wu Dawei, the handsome hairstyle guy Yi Li, who lives in the same room with Wu Dawei in the Olympic Village. The rib striker came over mysteriously and said, "I just met Zhao Shuangmei."
Wu Dawei curled his lips, the meaning was very obvious, so what?
"She said you are so handsome..." As soon as Yi Li finished his first half of his sentence, Wu Dawei in front of him burst into laughter, "Of course!" After laughing, he became narcissistic and did not give Yi Li the chance to say the second half of his sentence at all.
However, seeing that Wu Dawei became this kind of virtue, Yi Li took the opportunity to swallow the second half of the sentence into his throat and stopped talking. He thought to himself that he should really let the girl see your current virtue, not just looking at the style on the basketball court...
During the break in the midfield, not only the Chinese players were in a good mood, but as the team's head coach, Deng Huade was in a good mood at this time. After all, the team played very well in today's game.
Wu Dawei has an extremely outstanding expression as always, and what is important is that other Chinese players can finally come forward to help Wu Dawei. This is an improvement, an improvement worth celebrating.
And it is this kind of progress that finally allowed Deng Huade to see the team's hope of qualifying in the group. Even if the competitive environment of the group they are in is so fierce, as long as the team can maintain such performance or even improve, then the Chinese team will not have no hope in this Olympics.
"You guys, you did a good job in the first half! We completely fooled the Australians! Did you see Bogut's expression? He was completely frightened!"
As soon as Deng Huade entered the locker room, he shouted loudly to the players: "Because he felt that the opponent they were facing before the game should be a primary school student team, but when he started playing, he realized that they were more like a group of primary school students!"
Deng Huade spoke in English, but there were still many players in the locker room who could understand English. Even if they couldn't understand English, those who could understand would translate it to them.
Suddenly, the entire locker room burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was suddenly inspired by the fat Deng Huade. Perhaps Fatty Deng is not the best basketball coach, but there is no doubt that he is indeed a coach who is very good at motivating players. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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