August 25th is the first off-day after the start of the World Championships. In the following finals, except for the quarter-finals, opponents are selected based on ranking. Starting from the quarter-finals, after each game, each team

Each team has a rest period, the winner can rest and wait for the opponent in the next game, and the loser can also rest and wait for the opponent in the ranking match.

The finals will be held on September 3rd, and the closing ceremony of the World Championships will be on September 4th.

If we can still relax a little after winning two games in the group stage, in the finals, the Chinese team players will not dare to be careless at all. If they lose, they will be eliminated.

You have to give it your all in every game.

The Chinese team successfully refreshed its ranking in the group stage of the world's top men's basketball international competition. After ranking second in the Olympic group stage two years ago, it won five consecutive victories and ranked first in the group stage.

Chinese fans feel that the Blue Association’s announcement of “guaranteing four cards” is promising!

The Chinese team players are also very happy. This feeling of winning glory for the country is very special.

But when they paid attention to their quarter-final opponent Serbia and Montenegro, they felt a little overwhelmed!

Judging from the group stage, China, Argentina and Spain are the three best performing teams.

As for the U.S. team, they lost to Greece by two points. They failed to suppress Turkey as much as they should have, and were blown away by Turkoglu. However, they won, stumbling and stumbling to get first place in the group stage.

, unlike the last Olympic Games, where we lost two games in the group stage, we finally saved face.

Wade, Antawn Jamison, and Shane Battier are the three players who take the greatest credit because they can shoot...

However, there are also some other teams that give the four first-placed teams in the group a headache.

Such as Saihei.

This Serbian and Montenegrin team is very different from the Serbian and Montenegrin team two years ago. Their surnames all end in C, which is all kinds of "odd"...

Except for Milicic, everyone else looks completely different from the Serbian and Montenegrin team they played against two years ago.

Including Milicic, compared to two years ago, there have been earth-shaking changes.

Milicic averaged 19 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3 assists, 3.2 blocks and 1.6 steals per game. Milicic is among the top two in Serbia and Montenegro in almost all statistics!

Milicic ranks first in Serbia and Montenegro in terms of scoring, first in rebounds, first in blocks, second in assists and steals, and among the players in Serbia and Montenegro who have taken more than 5 shots in total, Milicic ranks 100%.

He also ranks first in field goal percentage with 52, and ranks first in the Serbian and Montenegrin team with 9 three-pointers.

The most important thing is that Milicic ranks first among all players in this World Championship in blocks per game!

The name is still called Serbia and Montenegro, but in 2005, Serbia and Montenegro had disintegrated. Just because when they qualified for the competition, the country was still called Serbia and Montenegro, but in fact, this Serbian and Montenegrin team does not have many former Serbian and Montenegrin teams.

It is a team composed of young players from a country in Serbia.

Previously, the Chinese team players were focused on their own group matches and did not do much research on other teams. With this schedule of five games in five consecutive days, no one could tell who their opponents would be in the finals. In the final game

It was only after the match that it was determined that the opponent was Serbia and Montenegro.

Another point is that Serbia and Montenegro are not the imaginary enemy of the Chinese team, and they are not a group. They will not deliberately study a declining basketball emperor.

The characteristic of the young team is their spirit. In the first game of the group stage, they played Argentina until the last moment. Argentina relied on Scola's last-minute corner three-pointer to defeat Serbia and Montenegro 79-77.

Although the Serbian and Montenegrin team has mainly replaced young players, most of the players are born in the 1980s. Most of the players born in the 1970s in the last Olympics went back to their hometowns to farm or raise cattle, but they are Serbia, and most of the players are still tough.

The Eastern European style of play has a strong defensive impact, as strong as Argentina. In the first three quarters, they only scored more than a dozen points against Serbia and Montenegro, and they only scored 24 points in the final quarter before they came back.

There are three tall men in the Serbian and Montenegrin team. The tallest is the 21-year-old Costa Perovic, who has been noticed by the NBA. He is 2.17 meters tall and is the one who keeps the inside defense of the Serbian and Montenegrin team from collapsing when Milicic is resting.

The essential.

In the match against France, Serbia and Montenegro only allowed the French team to score 50 points.

On the contrary, those black muscle monsters from Nigeria beat Serbia and Montenegro by more than 20 points.

But Nigeria has so many muscle monsters, but the Chinese team can’t do it!

However, the Serbian and Montenegrin teams are not without examples of being defeated by teams with poor skills. Argentina scored a decisive victory, and Venezuela also relied on its outstanding performance from beyond the three-point line to narrowly defeat Serbia and Montenegro 89 to 85.

Therefore, although the Chinese team is in trouble with the opponent's group of Eastern European white men, they are still very confident.

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In the past, except for the 2004 Athens Olympics, on the first rest day after every Olympic Games or World Championships group stage, the Chinese team held a press conference to reflect, summarize and express that they would work harder next time...

This time, the Blue Association was very expressive. Instead of holding a press conference at the venue to deal with reporters, a group of officials in the imperial capital held a press conference to publicize their great achievements. The national team was fully committed to preparations.

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The preparations for playing against the Italian team are actually very similar in that they are both a group of muscle monsters.

However, compared to Italy, where most players are black, Serbia and Montenegro are all white, so if a team with good skills plays well, it has a relatively good chance of winning.

And...the Chinese team definitely has a strength advantage, so their mentality is very good.

I concentrated on preparing for the game for a day. In order to preserve my physical fitness, I only conducted simple training. Soon, on August 26, the day came for the match between the Chinese team and the Serbian and Montenegro teams.

"Happy birthday……"

At noon, the national team held a simple birthday celebration for Liu Mang. They did not wait until they defeated the US team in the group stage before giving Liu Mang a surprise like they did in the last Olympic Games. Today, the Chinese team has enough confidence to defeat Serbia and Montenegro.

Liu Mang blew out the candles in the shape of 24. This small birthday cake was specially bought by Director Zhang.

The management of the Chinese national team is relatively strict. Since Liu Mang returned to the team on July 30, except for the holidays on August 12 and 13 to get together with his family, the rest of the time has been collective activities or staying in the hotel.

, or stay at the training ground arranged by Japan.

If they want to see their families, they come to see their husbands, their sons, and their boyfriends.

Seeing the little Loli unplugging the candle of 24 and putting it on the table, and running to the side with a small cake to eat, Liu Mang was a little emotional. Before he knew it, he was already 24 years old. In his NBA career, he just changed to 24 years old.

The number 24 jersey also has a good meaning.
Chapter completed!