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The five current NBA players in the Australian men's basketball team are Andrew Bogut, Patty Mills, Matthew Dellavedova, Aron Baynes and Joe Ingles.
Among the five, Bogut is undoubtedly the most famous. Not only was he the No. 1 pick in the NBA in 2005, he also won two championship rings with the Warriors in the past two years.
As a former teammate of Wang Feng, Bogut is quite popular in China. Although he is only positioned as a blue-collar center in the Warriors, he has also gained a large number of fans. This is just like when Dayao was in the Rockets, every Rockets player
Players can get more or less attention for the same reason.
But the relationship between Wang Feng and Bogut has never been very good, and the two of them don't even speak in private.
The reason for this is that on the one hand, Bogut has a very good relationship with Green. The latter had a bad relationship with Wang Feng due to his position in the team. Bogut is clearly on Green's side.
On the other hand, it's because Wang Feng knows very well what Bogut is.
It is now 2016, and Bogut has not yet been boycotted by the entire Chinese Internet for his various extremely controversial remarks, but this will happen sooner or later.
Bogut himself is an extremely dirty player, and he is a perfect match for Green. All kinds of flagrant fouls are commonplace for them.
"During the game, try to be careful not to get hurt."
Before taking the stage, Wang Feng, who was worried, reminded his teammates again.
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The game begins and the starting players of both teams come on stage.
Zhou Qi and Bogut jumped the ball. With the advantages of height, wingspan and jumping, Zhou Qi easily beat Bogut and won the title of Chinese men's basketball team.
The basketball was immediately handed over to Wang Feng, and from the Australian men's basketball team, Jazz player Joe Ingles came up to him immediately.
Ingles played 81 games for the Nuggets last season and started only 2 games. He averaged 15 minutes per game and averaged 4.2 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists. He is a standard role player.
His positioning is similar to that of Wang Feng when he first played for the Warriors. He is a 3D player. His main scoring method relies on receiving passes from open spaces and shooting three-pointers. At the same time, he performs well on the defensive end, especially on the wings.
Of course, he just performed well. He was obviously not qualified to defend Wang Feng!
Wang Feng stood outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle with the ball. Without any fancy moves, he directly broke through from the right side with the ball. His movements were as fast as lightning, and he passed Ingles in one step and rushed straight towards the basket.
"Do you choose to hit the basket as soon as you come up?" Bogut, who was guarding the basket, saw this, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. "You dare to fight against me based on your poor attack ability?"
Bogut, who has been a teammate with Wang Feng for two years, is already very familiar with Wang Feng. He has been watching the Chinese men's basketball game videos almost every day in the past two days, and has thoroughly studied Wang Feng's technical characteristics.
"Although I don't know when you developed this ability to break through with the ball in hand, are you not very good at dribbling with your left hand? As long as you block the movements of your right hand, you will not be any threat at all under the basket!"
Although Bogut plays dirty, he must be grateful. As a basketball player, he has a very keen sense of smell on the defensive end, otherwise he would not be valued by the Warriors as the team's interior defensive gate.
Sure enough, just as he expected, although he had blocked Wang Feng's right attack route in advance, Wang Feng still chose to attack from the right side of his dominant hand.
The bodies of the two collided fiercely in the air. Wang Feng reluctantly threw the basketball into the sky. The next moment, the basketball was slapped away by Bogut's big hand.
Bogut, who gave Wang Feng a big hit, shouted excitedly.
But the next moment, the whistle sounded.
"squeak--!"
Defensive foul.
Bogut looked at the referee in shock, while Wang Feng got up from the ground expressionlessly.
He did it on purpose.
During the breakthrough process, he paid attention to the position of Bogut, who was assisting in defense, and rushed forward to engage in physical confrontation, which Wang Feng was not good at, in order to draw a foul.
Apparently he succeeded.
If a small player fights a large player, with his physical disadvantage, he will more or less take advantage of some penalties, not to mention that Bogut's movements were a little too big in his excitement just now.
"Referee, my move was very clean! That was a good ball!"
Bogut was somewhat dissatisfied and went to the referee to argue, but how could the referee ignore it and continue to uphold the original decision.
Wang Feng, who stepped to the free throw line, made 2 of 2 free throws, giving the Chinese men's basketball team the lead.
The rules of international basketball are different from those of the NBA. Each player will be sent off for a maximum of 5 fouls.
Wang Feng understands that this game will be a head-to-head bayonet game. If Bogut, Australia's main interior defender, can get into foul trouble, the subsequent games will be much easier.
It's a pity that Wang Feng is not good at attacking the frame. Bogut was caught with a foul without warning. It will be a bit difficult to trick him later. At least it will be difficult for Wang Feng to do it. We can only wait and see if others have done it.
Opportunities continue to result in Bogut fouling.
After attacking the basket in the first round, Wang Feng's subsequent offenses focused on mid-to-long-range shooting.
As expected, the Australian men's basketball team has deployed targeted defensive tactics. Whenever Wang Feng makes a breakthrough with the ball, someone will immediately come up to help Ingles defend. And almost every time the position appears, it is the right hand of Wang Feng's dominant hand.
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"Sure enough, they already know that I'm not good at dribbling with my left hand..."
Wang Feng thought silently in his heart.
There is nothing that can be done about it. He only has a total of 100 free distribution points. Strengthening the ball control ability to 90 is already the limit. There is no point enhancement for dribbling with the non-dominant hand, currently only around 45.
Dribbling with only 45% of his non-dominant hand obviously cannot support Wang Feng's current breakthrough needs. Therefore, when faced with a double attack, Wang Feng can only choose to make a jump shot or pass the basketball to other teammates.
If Wang Feng's teammates were at the NBA level, a double-team defense like Australia's would be miserable. However, on the Chinese men's basketball team, there are too few players who can provide some help to Wang Feng. Even if there are openings, they cannot grasp them.
To seize the opportunity, Wang Feng often had to force his way under the defense of two people.
Ingles' attitude is also very obvious. I can let you break through because there are teammates who will wipe my butt for me, but don't even think about shooting from the outside. I will never give you this opportunity.
Defending against shots and not breaking out gave Wang Feng almost no chance to shoot a three-pointer in the first quarter.
Under Australia's targeted defense, Wang Feng took 8 shots and hit 3 goals, including free throws, and scored 8 points. Although his performance was not bad, compared with his efficient performance in the previous two games, it was indeed affected.
Except for Wang Feng, only the Arab League scored 5 points in the first quarter of the Chinese men's basketball team. The entire Chinese men's basketball team only scored 13 points in the first quarter. Fortunately, Australia was not much better.
In the past two days, Australia was not the only one who carefully studied the video and made targeted tactical arrangements.
On the Chinese men's basketball team, surrounding Wang Feng on the outside, they also created a set of defensive tactics to deal with Australia's passing and cutting cooperation.
In the first quarter of the game, Wang Feng intercepted Australia's passes as many as 3 times. The opponent's offensive rhythm was also disrupted, and he only scored 16 points.
At 13:16, with a 3-point disadvantage, the two sides entered the second quarter.