Repesa, the head coach of the Croatian team, simply did not believe that the Chinese team would lead the Greek team by 20 points in the first half. It would be normal if the Greek team led the Chinese team by 20 points in the first half. Repesa even thought the team leader was joking with him. But seeing the serious expression on the leader's face, Repesa knew that all this was true.
"Are you telling the truth? The Chinese team led the Greek team by 20 points at halftime?" Repesa asked cautiously.
The team leader nodded and said: "The score in the first half was 52 to 32. In terms of shooting percentage, rebounds, turnovers, fast break points... In short, in all statistics, the Greek team lagged behind in all aspects."
"Fast break points? Did you just say fast break points?" Repesa looked incredulous, and then said: "Did I hear you right? Will the Chinese team lead the Greek team in fast break points? They have a big Yao, how can it be possible to play fast breaks? It’s just one or two fast breaks occasionally, but the number of fast breaks is still ahead of the Greek team? Is it because the Chinese team has one fast break and the Greek team has no fast breaks?"
"But this is a fact!" the team leader continued: "I suggest you pause and watch the video of the next game."
"Could it be that the Greek team deliberately let go?" Repesa immediately rejected this idea: "If the Greek team deliberately let go, they would fall to the fourth position in the group, and then they would have to play the Lithuanian team. Could it be that the Greek team Do you think the Lithuanian team is easier to deal with than us
Coach Repesa hesitated for a moment, then motioned to the assistant coach to take over. Then Repesa and the team leader walked to the lounge with a TV.
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At this time, the Lithuanian men's basketball team had just had lunch.
Lithuania played an all-substitute lineup, deliberately losing to Australia, and also "killing" the Russian team. For Lithuania, the last game did not require much physical exertion. After the players had a leisurely lunch, they were Lithuania team coach Andnas Slelika gathered together to watch the match between the Chinese team and the Greek team.
"We finished first in Group A, which allowed us to avoid the United States before the finals, and our first opponent in the knockout round will be the fourth place in Group B. As of now, the fourth place in Group B The fourth will be the host Chinese team. Although the Chinese team is not as strong as us, but since it is an opponent, we have to understand it, so I called you together to take a look at the game between the Chinese team and the Greek team, so that you can Deepen our understanding of the Chinese team.”
The head coach of the Lithuanian team, Slelica, turned on the TV, turned around and continued: "The Chinese team has the world's first-class inside line. They have an advantage in the inside line, but the Chinese team's outside line, especially the point guard The ball defender is very weak, and this is also our main focus. In addition, I want to emphasize that the head coach of the Chinese team is my teacher Yunus. Coach Yunus is definitely familiar to everyone, and he definitely knows the best. For our people, I think coach Yunus will definitely make targeted tactical arrangements for us during the game, and we cannot take it lightly."
Yunus has taught in the Lithuanian league for many years and also served as the head coach of the Lithuanian national team. In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the Lithuanian team almost defeated the American Dream Team and finally won the bronze medal in the Olympics, which was all due to coach Yunus. At that time, the current head coach of the Lithuanian team, Slelika, was a player under Yunus, so it can be said that Yunus was Slelika's teacher.
At this time, the picture was already displayed on the TV. Since Slerika had his back to the TV, he did not see the picture displayed on the TV. However, the Greek team members opposite him all showed surprised expressions. expression.
"What's wrong? Why are everyone like this?" Slelica was a little confused. He looked back at the TV and happened to see the score between the two teams.
"52 to 32? The Chinese team is ahead? The Chinese team is 20 points ahead of the Greek team? How is this possible?" Slelica's mind suddenly fell into a short circuit and did not recover until more than ten seconds later.
"How did the Chinese team do it? Is it because coach Yunus has any special tactical arrangements?" Thinking of this, Slelica felt more and more how powerful Yunus was.
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The Chinese men's basketball team led the Greek men's basketball team by 20 points at halftime. For the fans, it was like a dream. During the halftime break, the fans at the Wukesong Basketball Stadium celebrated in unison, and the TV broadcasters also stopped broadcasting it for the first time. Instead of adverts for several minutes, the Chinese team’s wonderful goals in the first half were continuously played.
In the lounge of the Greek team, there was a gloomy look. The players of the Greek team originally came with full confidence, but in the first half they were completely stunned by the Chinese team. Before, the Chinese team had to score less than 30 points in the first half and still lead the Chinese team by 15 points. Now the situation is completely reversed. The Greek team only scored a pitiful 32 points, but was led by the Chinese team by 20 points.
This contrast has a huge blow to morale, and some young players even have doubts about themselves.
But coach Yannakis was thinking about another thing, he was wondering whether to give up this game.
Judging from the current situation, even if the Greek team fights back in the second half and finally reverses and wins, the point difference is still 20 points. Even if the Greek team closes the point difference and wins, it is impossible to win too many points. Maybe In the end, they could only win with a narrow margin of less than 10 points.
The Greek team lost to Spain by 15 points before, so if the Greek team only beats the Chinese team by 10 points, then the Greek team will be ranked third in the group when calculating the score ratio, which is obviously meaningless for the Greek team. Because the third place in the group has to face the Argentina team, which is second in Group A, the Greek team may prefer to play Lithuania. At least the Greek team knows Lithuania better.
"If we persist, we may be able to win, but there is a high possibility that we cannot win. Regardless of whether we can win or not, it will consume a lot of our energy. Rather than that, it is better to give up this game and reserve some energy to deal with it. Lithuania." Coach Yannakis looked at the players on the side, and he suddenly remembered that eight minutes into the second quarter, Papalukas sprained his foot.
"The intensity of this game is very high, especially Zhang Guan's defense is also very tough. For us, if we win, we will only be third in the group. If the main player is injured, even if we win this game, We also suffered a big loss. Anyway, this is just a group match, and we have already qualified from the group, so we should conserve our strength first and concentrate on preparing for the next game!"
Coach Yannakis thought of this and announced the list of players to play in the third quarter.
"Pelekanos, Blopes, Chatsaris, Printezis, Zikis, you will appear on the stage soon! Be prepared to play the entire second half of the game." Yannakis said.
Everyone in the Greek team was stunned. The five players sent by Yannakis were all substitutes. Then everyone immediately understood that Yannakis had decided to give up this game.
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