Chapter 157: Score another 41 points to break history and advance to the semi-finals!
"Wang Feng scored 54 points! Helping the Chinese men's basketball team reach the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games!"
"After eight years, the Chinese men's basketball team returns to the top eight!"
In just a few hours, terms such as Wang Feng, the Chinese men's basketball team, and the Olympic quarterfinals swept across the entire Internet at an extremely terrifying speed, even pushing many news about China's gold medal events into the corner.
The charm of the country’s largest ball game is fully revealed.
At the same time, this is also directly related to Wang Feng's explosive performance in the last game.
What is the concept of scoring 54 points in a single game in the Olympics?
The historical record for scoring in a single Olympic game is 55 points. Wang Feng is only 1 point away from tying the record!
Looking at the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, there has never been such a super scorer. Even Yao, who was at his peak, only scored 39 points in the Olympics. This is also the record for the Chinese men's basketball team's single-game scoring in the Olympics.
When Wang Feng participated in the Olympics for the first time, he directly broke Dayao's record and raised the score to 54 points. Even looking forward to the future, it will be difficult for anyone to break this record... except Wang Feng.
Throughout the game, Wang Feng showed a kaleidoscope of offensive skills, including long-range three-point shots, mid- and long-range jumpers, breakthrough layups, behind-the-back jumpers...
Serbian players did almost everything they could to defend Wang Feng, but they were completely unable to limit Wang Feng's scoring.
It is completely foreseeable that without Wang Feng, Serbia's match against the Chinese men's basketball team would have been a smooth and uneventful crushing game. After all, this is a top-notch team that can fight the American team until the last moment.
But now, they have been eliminated, eliminated by the Chinese men's basketball team, and stopped in the group stage.
Wang Feng's reputation in China completely changed in almost one day. How many people criticized Wang Feng before, how many people criticize Wang Feng now.
No one cares about the process of the group stage, everyone will only focus on the results.
The Chinese men's basketball team qualified for the group stage, and under the leadership of Wang Feng, they defeated the powerful enemy Serbia. This is enough.
If you pay attention carefully, in the 2008 Capital Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team led by Dayao also had a thrilling advancement with 2 wins and 3 losses.
What's more, Wang Feng also presented the most exciting individual performance in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team!
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On August 16, the six teams in Group B also decided the winner. The new Croatian army, almost all composed of young players, was upset. They defeated Spain and the host Brazil in a row, with 3 wins and 2 losses, ranking first in the group and qualifying.
, followed by Spain, Lithuania and Argentina respectively.
As a result, all eight teams in the quarter-finals have qualified, and based on their respective qualifying rankings, the matchup table has been determined.
On August 17, Australia VS Lithuania, Spain VS France.
On August 18, the United States VS Argentina, Croatia VS China.
The general situation is the same as in Wang Feng's memory of another time and space. The only difference is that China, which eliminated Serbia, replaced the opponent in the top eight.
I have to say that Serbia’s fourth position in Group A is really good.
Although Croatia made an upset and reached the quarter-finals by ranking first in Group B, their overall strength is obviously weak in the quarterfinals. Before the game, they were ranked outside the top ten in the world, weaker than Serbia.
Some.
More importantly, if Croatia can be eliminated and enter the semi-finals, the opponent will be the winner of Australia and Lithuania, and there is a high probability that it will be Australia.
Australia is extremely strong, with 5 active NBA players, and ranks third in the world in men's basketball, behind only the United States and Spain.
Unfortunately, the other side of the semifinals is the United States and Spain.
Therefore, the current position of the Chinese men's basketball team is the easiest route to the finals. This is also the reason why Wang Fengfeng failed continuously in the group stage. He was aiming for fourth place in Group A from the beginning.
Qualifying from the group is not his ultimate goal, but finding ways to win a medal is!
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In the match on August 17, Australia easily defeated Lithuania 90:64, and Spain also defeated France with a score of 92:67 to advance to the semifinals.
What follows is the game on August 18th.
Needless to say about the match between the United States and Argentina, today’s Argentina is no longer the same Argentina that won the gold medal on the United States’ dream team. There is a huge gap in strength between the two sides. The United States team easily won 105:78.
After the match between the United States and Argentina, it was finally the highly anticipated Chinese men's basketball team's turn to face Croatia.
It is worth mentioning that the day before the match between the two teams, CCTV officials suddenly released an interview video. It was a deleted video about Wang Feng during the interview with the Chinese men's basketball team.
In the video, the host asked that question.
Wang Feng was silent for a moment, then his expression gradually became firm and his voice was sonorous and powerful.
"From my personal point of view, I think I should try to win a medal."
All Chinese viewers who saw this video were shocked.
So that’s the case. No wonder CCTV cut off this interview with Wang Feng. His answer was so shocking!
Trying to get a medal?
This is much more difficult than the battle of eight and four that China has been clamoring for for so many years!
The Chinese men's basketball team has been shouting slogans for so many years and still has not been able to achieve it, let alone competing for only three medals?
So why did CCTV, which deliberately deleted this interview because it was afraid of too much impact, release the video again?
Wang Feng gave the answer with his own performance!
In the quarter-finals, against Croatia, Wang Feng, who had exhausted all his cards in the last game of the group stage, had no reservations anymore.
In the first quarter of the game, the energetic Wang Feng bombarded the Croatian defense. He scored 16 points in a single quarter and almost tore Croatia's defense to shreds by himself.
In the second quarter, Wang Feng scored another 8 points. With 24 points in the half, the Chinese men's basketball team and the Croatian men's basketball team were almost even at halftime, 41:43.
The game entered the third quarter. Wang Feng took a short break. Croatia took this opportunity to hit a 10:0 run, widening the point difference to double digits. However, Wang Feng reappeared and scored 8 points in a row with sudden shots.
Recover the points difference!
By the fourth quarter of the game, the offenses of both sides fell into a stalemate, and the scores alternately increased. However, Wang Feng stepped forward at the critical moment. In the same position, facing the same defensive players, he scored 3 consecutive 3-pointers.
Go ahead and turn the game around.
In the end, Wang Feng scored 41 points to help the Chinese men's basketball team defeat Croatia 88:83!
When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, the Chinese men's basketball players rushed onto the court like crazy. Gong Luming on the sidelines was stunned.
"Won? Actually won?"
If two days ago, when the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Serbia and reached the quarterfinals, Gong Luming was shaking with excitement, then today, standing on the field and looking at the crazy celebrating players, he felt an unreal feeling.
Feel.
"Is it so easy? Will you make it to the semi-finals?"