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Last night's 2023 Basketball World Cup disappointed the king of basketball.
I thought I saw two great games. After all, after the elimination of the Chinese men's basketball team, the rest is a strong showdown.
Just like the United States vs Lithuania or Spain vs Canada, there are still a few more games!
The United States and Serbia told me that this is no longer the case, and then they must take it seriously and win not only well, but also big victories.
The Serbia vs Lithuanian match will be played first.
Lithuania has two big white bears, Valanciunas and Motai Younas, on the inside, and tough shooters like Kuzminskas on the outside. The victory over Team USA has boosted their morale tremendously, and it looks like they can at least reach the semifinals.
But Serbia didn't know much, they weren't perfect enough and they played an overwhelming game.
Without Jokic, without Mišić, Lušić and Trump, and with Simmanic temporarily absent due to a nephrectomy, Serbia still shot 55% from the field in this game, averaging both points and assists per game. This is the second highest in the event, but the average number of errors per game is the second lowest in the event.
Against Lithuania, Serbia first pressed the penalty area and blocked the attack inside many times from a high position, but they bullied Motai Yunas and could not keep up.
The color zone of Lithuania was directly destroyed. They had to put Motel up front and replace Varane, which left a hidden problem in terms of physicality and mistakes.
After the inside pressure ran out, Serbia again started shooting from the outside. Bogdanovic actually made such a long three-point shot that Lithuania's defense was completely tightened.
Varane was forced close to the free throw line and the inside was empty, and it was difficult for Serbia not to cut into the box and dunk easily.
This game is not playable at all. Lithuania trailed by more than 20 points in the second half. In the final moments, they pulled all the centers to try to take three points, but they still couldn't turn around.
Serbia beat Lithuania 87-68 by 19 points to advance to the semifinals.
Later the U.S. vs. Italy game was even more brutal.
Now, basketball fans are beginning to wonder if the U.S. team deliberately lost to Lithuania and want to choose the Italian team to play.
Italy made it to the quarterfinals, but their lineup was fatally flawed: there were no big white bears on the inside and no reliable three-pointers.
The U.S. team played two tough games at this basketball World Cup, one against Montenegro and one against Lithuania.
In the game against Montenegro, he was suppressed by NBA center Vucevic. Trailing in the first half, reversed in the second half. Against Lithuania, in addition to being unable to deal with the two centers of Varan and Motel, he also hit the opponent's outside shot, so he lost.
Italy has nothing, just a group of strikers who play the wrong way, but this style of play is the best play of the Americans.
Italy's three-point shooting rate in this World Cup is only 31.4%, ranking 21st out of 32 teams, only slightly ahead of the Chinese men's basketball team (31.3%). Italy had a tough time in the face of Team America's endless defensive changes, unable to open up no matter how many times they tried to block and dismantle. Guard, who shot 46.2 percent from three-point range, was blocked.
Throughout the first half, Italy shot 2-of-19 from three-point range. The team scored just 24 points, trailing by 22 points and basically going into garbage time.
The U.S. defense counterattack was very swift. Bridges had 24 points and seven rebounds on 8-of-11 shooting. Let people see Durant in a trance.
The real Durant was very happy. He updated his social media accounts after the match, writing: "Seriously, brothers, let's win another gold medal! ”
Italy's inside line is full of holes for the United States. Reeves even made a song "White People Can Fly" and put out a wave of makeup.
The United States easily beat Italy 100-63 by 37 points, setting the largest point difference in basketball World Cup history.
After the game, Italy coach Bozek encouraged himself: "Before the game, everyone in the world thought that Italy had no chance to win. There is a small animal that does not fly, but it does not know, so it flies. "Yes, it's a bumblebee. We could fly, we didn't know, so we got to the quarterfinals. It's unbelievable, we shouldn't be playing against Team USA because we're number one in that group and that's sports. ”
What does that mean? To explain this, aerodynamic engineers have proven that the bumblebee's wings are too thin and its body is too large for it to fly. It turns out that bumblebees really fly. Entomologists believe that the bumblebee itself was unaware of this fact, so it learned to fly by force.
I didn't expect to hear such philosophical examples when watching basketball. Bozek has something.
19 points in one game and 37 points in the other. The point gap between the two matches is 56 points. Both are one-sided. Does this mean that the game is not good-looking or the level is too low? Of course not.
This just shows that world basketball is developing too fast. If you want to be a strong team, you have to keep everything in mind. You need to have enough size centers and forwards, face-to-face defenders, reliable three-pointers, and fast enough offense and defense. Shift.
If they lack the same, the opponent will catch them and destroy them completely.
We in the Chinese men's basketball team have missed too many lessons, and it is not easy to replace them.