56. A new beginning
The match between the Spanish men's basketball team and the Brazilian men's basketball team was only able to start immediately after the match between the Chinese and British teams. Since the previous match was already past 8 o'clock, the next game immediately kicked off!
In other words, when Chinese players took a shower from the locker room and returned to the side of the basketball court, the game had already started.
What makes everyone happy is that when Wu Dawei and his teammates returned to the side of the court, the Spanish men's basketball team led the score.
Although he was not in the way of dealing with Espanyol, at this time, Wu Dawei was inevitably happy about such a result. Even though he should have supported Brazilian teammates Andre Valécho, at this time, of course, the country's interests are of great importance.
Although Brazil is a South American strong team and is also the 2009 Copa America champion, it can be seen that the Brazilian is still in pain in the game. The depth and thickness of the Spanish team are almost close to the United States of America, while Brazil cannot achieve such a balance between the main and substitutes.
So even if they did not have any disadvantages at the beginning of the first quarter, as the game progressed slowly, when both sides began to enter the rotation period, the Brazilian team became tired.
Originally, their starting lineup could only fight against Espanyol's starting lineup to a draw, but when both sides replaced the substitute, the draw situation disappeared instantly.
The Spanish team relied on the joint performance of Ricci Rubio, Sergi Ibaka and others from the bench and quickly gained a leading advantage on the basketball court, which forced Brazilian coach Ruben Maniano to let the main players quickly return to the basketball court before they fully recovered their physical fitness.
Although in this way, the Brazilian team was able to stabilize the gap in the score, even close the score and equalize. However, hidden dangers still exist, because in this way, the main players' playing time will increase significantly, which will lead to a sharp decline in their physical reserves.
Although the halftime break lasts for 15 minutes, high-intensity confrontation and high-density running are still likely to cause several core players of the Brazilian team, such as Valejo, Split's physical fitness declines too quickly or even overdraws, especially Leonard Barbosa, who is known for his speed. If there is no impact on the speed, his power on the offensive end will be greatly reduced!
But even though Ruben Maniano understood this truth very well, at this time, he still had to let Valejo and others stay on the basketball court at this time. He did not dare to put them on the bench easily.
Because this is the current situation on the basketball court, even Ruben Maniano, as the head coach, does not have a good solution.
The only thing that is good news for Brazil is that at least at the end of the first half, relying on Andre Valejo, Diego Split, Leonard Barbosa and others to hardly have any rest to fight. At the end of the first half, the Brazilian men's basketball team was able to lead Espanyol by one point with a 42:41 point advantage!
Although this advantage is even a bit insignificant, it is at least a "reward" for Ruben Maniano to use people like this in the first half...
When the first half ended, the behind score made the Spanish reporters on the sidelines very depressed. However, as special reporters of basketball, it is still possible to see what hidden dangers the Brazilian team coach would bring in the first half of the game.
So although some of them looked depressed, they still had some confidence in their hearts.
But in general, the atmosphere in the stadium is of course not conducive to the Spanish team. After all, the reality is that Espanyol has become the backward side. Perhaps this was something they had never thought of before the game began.
Overall, the situation is still very bad for the Spaniards.
For Wu Dawei, who hopes that Espanyol can win this game tonight, of course he doesn't want to see such a anxious situation. Because he has played anxious games in the group stage of this Olympics, and has played against Australia and Brazil. The Chinese teams are very anxious. So Wu Dawei knows very well how painful it will be tormenting in his heart.
Of course, he would rather see the Spanish team gain a great advantage in the first half, because in this way, the result of the second half of the game is almost self-evident. Although this will make the game less interesting, who will care about the viewing quality now?!
Everyone is competing for the final ranking results of a group!
Although everyone understands very well that the Chinese men's basketball team does not want to encounter the extremely powerful American men's basketball team in the first round of the knockout round. Therefore, in order to avoid the American team, the Chinese men's basketball team attaches great importance to the last game, but no one will joke about the Chinese men's basketball team's unwilling to meet Americans for this.
Because everyone thinks this way, it would be great to be able to meet the US team as late as possible and let others become cannon fodder first.
Isn't it just for this, the Brazilian team, who is now competing with the Spanish men's basketball team?
Although they ranked second in Group B before the start of this game, they seemed to be restless, but everyone knows the causal relationship of this game. If the Brazilian loses to the Spanish team in the game tonight, then according to their record of the match between the same record as the Chinese team but has lost to the Chinese men's basketball team, they will go directly from second to fourth...
Then Russia advanced to second place and the Chinese men's basketball team advanced to third place. Although it is still possible to qualify in fourth place, the biggest problem is to face the extremely powerful Americans in the first round of knockout matches...
This is definitely something that Brazilians don't want to see, and that's why they have to do their best in this game.
Although the Brazilians fought fiercely in the first half of this game and gained an advantage, when the fifteen-minute break passed and the second half of the game came, although the Brazilians were still not at a disadvantage at the beginning, their disadvantages soon emerged.
The fierce fighting in the first half caused several core players to quickly show fatigue in the second half of the game. In this way, the efficiency on the basketball court will naturally be greatly reduced.
The Spanish team was obviously waiting for such an opportunity. They had been waiting for a long time and quickly took the opportunity to reverse the situation on the basketball court and became the leading side in one fell swoop, while the Brazil team could only fall behind helplessly...
Although Brazil's head coach Ruben Maniano tried to stabilize the situation by adjusting the lineup and tactics during this period, it was obvious that the adjustment did not succeed.
The Spanish team quickly gained the upper hand and after gaining the upper hand, they firmly grasped the advantage on the court.
The entire third quarter game was the turning point of the game tonight. The Brazilian lost the advantage from leading to falling behind almost in the blink of an eye, while the Spaniards got the expected advantage, and then they began to take over the game.
The strong team's strength and bench thickness made the Brazilian team even more painful when the rotation period arrived. After the fourth quarter, the score was even widened to double digits!
In the fourth quarter, the score difference between the two digits is definitely a huge crisis for the side behind!
Because if the situation cannot be reversed in time, it basically means that the tone of the game will be laid.
This is not what the Brazilian team wants to see. They don’t want to lose, so in the last quarter, they certainly have to fight back to the death. Unfortunately, because they consumed too much physical fitness before, Valejo, Split and even Barbosa were already a little exhausted. In addition, the substitutes were not good, so the Brazilian team could only accept such a failed result in the end.
The game ended in the end, ending with the Brazilian's defeat and Espanyol's victory. The huge gap of 98:82 and 16 points, Brazil lost the game in the last quarter without any support.
In this way, all the games in Group B will be over. As the most powerful Spanish team in this group, they have achieved an excellent record of 5 wins and 0 losses!
Spain is ranked first and will face the fourth place in Group A in the first round of the knockout round as the top spot in the knockout round. Following Spain is Russia. They defeated Australia in the last game and gave them a record of 4 wins and 1 loss, ranking second in the group, and they will face the Argentina; and the Chinese men's basketball team ranked third in the group!
Although the Brazilians also had 3 wins and 2 losses, the record of fighting between them gave the Chinese men's basketball team the upper hand at this time!
In this way, they will meet the second French team in Group A in the first round of knockout matches! The Chinese team successfully avoided the powerful American team and handed the most difficult opponent to deal with to the Brazilian...
After the game on August 7, it means that the group stage has been settled. When the whistle of this game was blown, Wu Dawei knew that this was not a beautiful end, but just a new beginning!
The real test has just arrived! (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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