On August 20, 2008, the Olympic men's basketball quarter-finals finally started in full swing after a day of rest.

The quarterfinals of the Olympic men's basketball team will all end on this day.

The match between the Chinese team and Australia was in the third game, and they played at Wuke at 8 o'clock in the evening.

For the other three matches, the match between the United States and Croatia was the first, starting at 2:30 pm, and the match between Lithuania and Greece was the second, starting at 4:45 pm.

The last game that started at 10:15 was the match between Spain and Argentina.

The match between the Chinese team and Australia was held in the evening, but the Chinese team led by Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, arrived at Wukesong Stadium at 3:30 in the afternoon.

Of course this is not for coming here to prepare for the competition.

After lunch break, the Chinese team players are here to see the game of their biggest opponent in the Olympics.

The US team is very powerful now. Many people say that this team has completed its transformation, and Chen Xiao and the Chinese team players are still quite curious.

When Chen Xiao and Yao Ming brought Chinese players to Wukesong, they were quite shocked to see the score at this time.

The game is almost over, and Croatia's score has not even reached 30 points.

Seeing this score, to be honest, Chen Xiao, Yao Ming and the Chinese players were really shocked.

Chen Xiao and the others were even more surprised after learning about the progress of the game from the assistant coach of the team next to them.

As soon as the game started, the US team played Croatia 20-1, and Croatia did not even make a goal in a sports game in the first seven minutes.

When Croatia can't make any shot, and even has difficulty in spending halftime, for the US team, of course, it's all an opportunity to launch a counterattack.

Even if Croatia knows that fighting the United States cannot make the United States run, if you cannot hit it, it is naturally impossible to control the rhythm, and then it will collapse directly.

In the first quarter, the US team directly scored 30-6, which was quite scary.

In fact, Croatia is in a bad state in this game. As the third in Group A, Croatia beat Australia to third place. Of course, he has hard strength, but no one wants to encounter a bad state that is rare in ten years.

In history, when Croatia encountered Spain in the quarterfinals of the Olympics, it was also very miserable. At the beginning, Spain was 12-1, and there was no score in the sports war in about six or seven minutes.

It's just obvious that Spain's counterattack ability is definitely not comparable to that of the United States, so Croatia's state of being not that bad at playing Spain, but playing against the United States is a fatal state.

In the first quarter, Croatia was directly defeated by the US team.

So in the subsequent games, Croatia was simply in pain, fighting as much as it was.

After the third quarter, I only scored 28 points.

If Croatia met Spain, the first three quarters were so miserable, Spain felt that everyone was European, and they would let it go if they looked up but they would not see each other. But what kind of team is the US team? How could it give you face and let you go?

The current American team is just when it needs to establish its authority. In history, facing Croatia, which is in extremely poor condition, Spain closed in the fourth quarter.

But Team USA is still fighting desperately in the fourth quarter.

In the end, in the quarter-finals between Team USA and Croatia, the United States defeated Croatia 98-40.

"Another 58..."

Seeing the final score, Chen Xiao didn't know what to say about Xiaopao's current evil taste.

From his perspective, Xiao Cannon's rotation lineup led by the fourth quarter was easy to beat Croatia with more than 60 points, but Xiao Cannon only won 58 points. Obviously, this was intentional.

When the US team played against Germany in the last game, Xiao Cannon did this.

Now, Xiao Pao and Xiao Tiantian seem to be giving away five or eight to other teams on the US team, and they are addicted to it.

But it can be understood if you think about it a little bit.

As a former teammate and good friend, Chen Xiao knew that in Xiaopao's mind, the 58 that Xiaotian gave him was an eternal shame in his heart. For Xiaopao, there was no more painful or shame than Wuba, so in the same way, winning the opponent 60, 70 or even 80 was not as happy as winning 58.

Therefore, as long as Xiao Pao has a chance, he will fight his opponent.

After the game between Team USA and Croatia, while the players of Team USA were celebrating proudly, Chen Xiao and Yao Ming took the players of the Chinese team and handed the stadium to Team USA.

When Chen Xiao and Yao Ming left with the Chinese team, NBC's guest commentator Barkley shouted: "When the Magic Boy and Yao left, they looked solemn, and they once again felt the pressure from the United States!

There is no doubt that this American team is definitely the strongest American team I have ever seen except Dream Team!"

Barkley said that this American team is the strongest American team he has ever seen except for Dream Team, and this is not necessarily a boast or exaggeration.

In history, Meng Ba in 2008 was very strong, but now Meng Ba is naturally stronger. In addition, there is a little difference between this Meng Ba and the Meng Ba in history. This Meng Ba has a tactical system of positional offensive.

To be honest, Meng Ba in history, no tactical system for positional warfare from beginning to end, because there is no team that forces them out of the tactical system for positional warfare, because they don’t need this, they swept the entire Olympics.

Let's just say that, this Dream Eighth Team may even be the only team in the history of the United States that has a systematic positional warfare tactics, although the core of this positional warfare tactics is Howard.

However, since Howard was the core of the US team's positional battle, his performance was indeed very good. In this game against Croatia, he scored 20 points and 10 rebounds and only played for 28 minutes.

Very powerful.

Not only Howard is now very powerful, but Team USA is indeed quite powerful now.

Chen Xiao and the others felt it.

"Xiao Chen, the US team is very aggressive now."

After Yao, who was walking side by side with Chen Xiao, said solemnly, Chen Xiao nodded.

"We need to be prepared for a hard fight, Yao, can you hold on?"

After Chen Xiao finished speaking, a smile appeared on Yao Ming's solemn face.

"As long as I'm still alive, I can hold on!"

The current American team really makes them feel a lot of pressure. Even if Howard is not his opponent, when the American team focuses on the inside, the consumption of him will inevitably be huge. When he meets the American team in the next game, it will definitely not be so calm and at ease.

He even needs to be prepared to fight with Howard Oden.

This will be difficult for him.

but!

“No one can stop our great path!”

Even if this game is the last game of his career!

Yao Ming has such a mentality, as does other Chinese players, and Chen Xiao has such a feeling.

At 8 pm on August 20, the quarter-finals between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Australian men's basketball team will begin at 8 pm in Beijing Wukesong Stadium.

As for Australia, although they are fourth in Group A, the Chinese team still attaches great importance to it.

Because Australia was able to qualify from Group A to European Championship champion Russia, the team defeated Russia head-on and defeated the Lithuanian team in Group A.

Although the Lithuanian team was released in the last game, even so, Australia scored 31 points in Lithuania 106-75, which is definitely something Lithuania doesn't want to see.

I have to say that Lithuania is in very good shape now. In the first two games of the group, the team's center Bogut lost the game because he was suspected of FD and XD being arrested by the police. However, after coming back to his senses in the next three games, he did play very tenaciously.

Therefore, before this game started, many domestic experts also reminded the Chinese team not to underestimate the enemy. Teacher Zhang once said: "Australia is not a team of Bogut alone. Bogut's absence has no effect on Australia. What's really scary about this team is their defender. CJ Bruton's three-pointer was accurate, and Lithuania dominated Australia's three-pointer game in this game. The substitute guard Patty Mills made his speed even make the American superstar point guard Chris Paul ashamed."

Teacher Zhang even told Chen Xiao privately that Mills was the fastest defender he had ever met. Some rugby team in Australia wanted to sign him at a high price to let him play running back. Of course, Mills refused, otherwise he would not have appeared in the Olympics.

When preparing for Australia, the Chinese team will inevitably encounter the warm-up match they played with the United States in the Magic City.

Brad Newley, CJ Bruton, and Patty Mills made the US team dizzy. The first two three-pointers were accurate, the speed behind was amazing. Coupled with the rough characteristics of Australia itself and their tight defense, they forced the US team to jump shots, almost suffocating the US team to death.

Therefore, before the game, the head coach of the Chinese team, Faye Wong, repeatedly emphasized that Australia will definitely shrink and defend in this game, preventing the Chinese team from making the inside offense and outside breakthroughs, and allowing Chinese players to shoot from the outside, so the Chinese team must shoot the ball.

Therefore, the key to this game against Australia is shooting. As long as the Chinese team can shoot correctly on the outside, they can break Australia's turtle shell and take away the victory.

Otherwise, like playing against the US team, it would definitely be a double-effect to start with Yao Yao in the inside.

Although the players of the US team are stronger and have better talent, they still cannot really play shameless "floor flow" games in FIBA, and they cannot grasp the standards well. As a famous rogue team, Australia will definitely beat the US team at this scale, and it is indeed unnecessary to let Yao Dashi compete with them at the basket.

Therefore, the key to this game is to see if Chen Xiao, Xiao Zhu and Wei Ge can open the outside offense at the opening.

In this game, in order to strengthen outside shooting, Wei Ge replaced Andy Lau as the starting point guard.

Chen Xiao, Brother Wei and Xiao Zhu both have very strong three-point shooting ability.

Therefore, on the court, the Chinese team jumped the ball with Australia. After Yao Ming defeated Australia's center Christian Sty to win the first offensive opportunity in this game, Brother Wei did not rush to push the fast attack under the interference of CJ Bruton, but used Yao Ming's cover to slowly push the half.

Brother Wei came outside the three-point line after pushing through the half. Yao Ming, who had just covered Brother Wei, did not rush to go to the basket, but stood around the three-point line with other Chinese players.

Yao Ming, Zhu Fangyu, and Yi Jianlian were all standing outside the three-point line.

Looking at the Chinese team's formation position as soon as they came up, Australia's head coach Brian Gore frowned.

This is an open conspiracy, which Australia has no way to resolve. The strength gap between Australia and the Chinese team is too big, so we can only take the initiative to shrink our lives.

He won the bet against the US team in that warm-up match. The US team made 3 of 18 three-pointers, Anthony made 0 of 4 three-pointers, and James made 1 of 4. Their contraction made the US team only have to attack the basket in the end, and their roughness made Howard 0 of 6 free throws in this game, and the US team made 20 of 33 free throws, just 60% shooting percentage.

Let's just say that, if Wade hadn't killed 8 of 12 in this game and scored 22 points, Kobe had 3 of 9, Anthony's 4 of 13, and Ron Howard's 1 of 4, then the US would have lost.

Playing teams like the United States and China is a life-threatening bet.

If fate is on his side and forces the Chinese team to kill at the basket like the United States, then Australia's chance will come.

When you come to the basket to fight, my ferocity can hurt you one or two, then I will win.

So, Gore is very nervous now because he knows that the Chinese team will definitely make Chen Xiao attack three-pointers as soon as they come up. Chen Xiao is a player that the American team does not have. His three-pointers are invincible in Fiba.

So, can this ball be scored?

With a clang!

Chen Xiao was the first to hit the iron with Ingles' three-pointer.
To be continued...