Chapter 427: The Crisis of the Chinese Men's Basketball Team
Who can believe that Yi Dun, who has always been very weak in sprinting and jumping events, actually achieved such results at this London Olympics.
Although Yi Dun's performance in the previous 100-meter event was outstanding, far better than his previous performance, it was still within an acceptable range. It was not particularly rare for a professional athlete to run a 100-meter sprint of 10 seconds and 5 seconds.
But now this long jump score is really unacceptable. The first jump jump directly grabbed the gold medal of German player Rutherford, and the second jump jump was even more exaggerated.
It has become the best result in the past twenty years, and this result is also ranked fourth in history!
Yi Dun has another chance to try to jump. Will he directly break the long jump world record that has been blocked for more than 20 years tonight?
If it were someone else, the audience would definitely not think so much, but now that this happened to Yi Dun, everyone would not think much about it.
Just as everyone was looking forward to it, Yi Dun did not apply to the referee to cancel the third trial jump. It can be seen that Yi Dun also had the idea of breaking the world record tonight.
"I hope it can succeed. The significance of breaking records at the Olympics is quite great. Although we certainly don't suspect that Yi Dun has the ability to break records, this thing still depends on performance."
"Yes, the long jump record has been covered in more than 20 years. In terms of the difficulty of breaking the record, it may not be much smaller than the javelin record. It would be great if Yi Dun could break the record."
"It's beginning, it's Yidun's turn to come on."
Amid the discussions of everyone, Yi Dun began his third try jump.
After learning from the previous two experiences, Yi Dun's walking posture in the air was very relaxed this time. According to Yi Dun's own estimate, the results should be much better this time.
However, Yi Dun was not sure that he could break Powell's world record, mainly because the height of this record was still extremely amazing, after all, it had been covered with more than 20 years.
Even if I have the ability to easily win gold, it doesn’t mean that any record can be easily broken.
In Yi Dun's opinion, it is not impossible for him to break the long jump record, but it requires some luck, and it is impossible to break it by just jumping casually.
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Yi Dun's last test jump ended, and the surveyor immediately finished the measurement and gave the results.
8 meters 91!
A record that is extremely close to the world record. The audience and Yi Dun's relatives and friends couldn't tell what kind of mood they were after seeing this result.
Being happy is naturally happy. After all, this is the second score in human history of 8.90 or above, ranking second in history, and it can definitely be called a great achievement.
But I was inevitably a little regretful in my heart. Yi Dun failed to break the world record that had been covered with for more than 20 years.
In addition to regret, everyone actually knew very well that this record would be broken by Yi Dun sooner or later...
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Yi Dun shook his head and sighed, walked out of the sand pit. This result is quite a pity. Compared with Powell's record, it is only 4 cm away. Even if he performed a little better, the record would be broken.
In the morning, Yi Dun had only these two events. After the competition, he returned to the Olympic Village directly.
Director Xu was already waiting for Yi Dun's triumphant return. This long jump gold medal was undoubtedly a real huge surprise for them.
"Yidun, congratulations!"
Director Xu came forward and congratulated Yi Dun first. Such an unplanned gold medal was indeed a gratifying congratulation.
Seeing that Yi Dun's face did not have much joy, everyone knew that it was probably because it did not break the world record, Yi Dun was not as happy as he imagined.
"Okay, you're still so young. This time you haven't broken the world record. There are countless opportunities to break all the records at once, and each one is a semi-permanent record, so how can you let others play." Director Xu patted Yi Dun's shoulder and said.
Yi Dun nodded and sighed, "Hey, it's a pity. It's only four centimeters away. Even if I pulled it a little more in the air, I guess the four centimeters distance would come out."
Everyone laughed and began to ask around Yi Dun. What they wanted to know most was whether Yi Dun could have any surprises in the next decathlon.
Yi Dun did not give a positive answer either. If he said it, what else would be a surprise.
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At present, in the live broadcast room of a television station in the United States, O'Neal, the special guest, was already confused and had no idea of facing Yi Dun's long jump result.
He didn't know much about decathlon, but he couldn't resist "understanding" about Yi Dun. In addition, he had already told him to go to London to block Yi Dun after the London Olympics. Such a big gimmick, O'Neal could naturally participate in the commentary on this game.
In the first two games, everyone knew that this was Yi Dun's weakness. O'Neal explained these two games, and mainly did not want to see Yi Dun beat everything. He wanted to explain Yi Dun's weakness, and he could tease Yi Dun from time to time.
As a result, after the first 100-meter game, O'Neal's prepared words were really unspeakable, because Yi Dun's 100-meter score was already quite outstanding in the decathlon circle.
Since you can't tease me for 100 meters, then focus on the long jump event.
As a result, after the long jump event, O'Neal had nothing to say. With his understanding of Yi Dun, this kind of thing would never happen.
He jumped 8.91 meters long? Yi Dun had two chicken wings on his back?
What makes O'Neal most uneasy now is that it is not that Yi Dun's performance is amazing, but that Yi Dun's current bounce ability makes O'Neal extremely scared.
The reason why he said he could beat Yi Dun before was that Yi Dun had no offensive means, so that he could at least stand invincible.
Even Yi Dun can't score, so what can I win against myself? At least he can guarantee a draw.
But now, as Yi Dun's bounce ability becomes terrifying, the disadvantages of insufficient height are also significantly compensated. In this way, will Yi Dun's offensive ability be greatly improved?
The more O'Neal thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. This time he made a bet with Barkley, he could not put the pigeons on his own, otherwise Barkley would have something to say in the future, and he could not raise his head in front of Barkley.
So he had to go to London.
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Yi Dun had three games in the afternoon and didn't eat much at noon. He happened to meet a group of men's basketball players in the cafeteria. They had training in the morning and were about to have lunch together.
"Yidun, it's a pretty job."
"I really didn't expect that your bounce would be so good?"
"Did you always pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger before? Or is there no challenge in CBA, and you can't even bother to jump on the court."
"Good guy, Deng Huade just said that he hopes you can come to help us earlier. Our situation is a bit bad now."
A group of men's basketball teammates surrounded Yi Dun. Obviously, they also knew that Yi Dun almost broke the world record when he jumped long in the morning.
The situation of the men's basketball team is quite bad now. Although they are not in Group A with the United States, the strength of Group B should not be underestimated.
There are six teams in Group B, namely Spain, Australia, Brazil, Britain, China and Russia. Even Russia, which has come from the undraft, its strength cannot be underestimated.
If you want to talk about the strength of this group B, according to past records, the weakest one is probably the host UK.
There are a total of five games in each group. Now the Chinese men's basketball team has finished one game and has lost awkwardly.
I lost to Russia in this game. If I had a narrow defeat, it would not be unacceptable. After all, Russia is not a soft persimmon. The team's AK47 Andre Kirilenko is also a star with a name and surname in the NBA, at least it has a much higher status than Yi Jianlian.
But the Chinese team lost to Russia with a big score, and the final score of 52:71 points made the Chinese team look quite weak.
When Yao Ming was there, it was impossible for the Chinese men's basketball team to score only 52 points in one game...
It can be clearly seen that without Yao Ming, his influence on the Chinese men's basketball team is too great.
Now the Chinese team is in an extremely passive position. If you want to advance, the Chinese team needs to win two of the next four games to be qualified for promotion.
Even if you win two games, it doesn’t mean you can advance 100%. You may still have the same number of games. After all, only four teams in a group can advance to the quarterfinals.
It seems that the chance of winning and two games in four games seems to be very high, but considering that there is a game against Spain in these four games, the chance of appearing is immediately smaller than 70%.
Spain is the strongest country in the basketball world today except for the United States. At its peak, the Chinese men's basketball team could compete with Spain, but it was just a competition. The chances of winning Spain were very low.
The current Chinese men's basketball team has undoubtedly entered a trough period. If you want to win Spain, it is really not an exaggeration to describe it as difficult as climbing to the sky.
If this game in Spain is not counted, the Chinese men's basketball team needs to win at least two wins in the remaining three games.
These three opponents are Australia, the United Kingdom and Brazil.
Brazil is very strong, with defensive players like Hilario and Valéjo on the inside and outside, as well as first-class players like Brazilian Lightning Barbosa on the outside. Even if there are shortcomings in the front line and point guard, their strength cannot be underestimated.
As for Australia, athletes in this country have many conflicts with Yi Dunna. They have outstanding offensive firepower in the backcourt, and there are also defensive evil guys like Bogut in the interior. It is not that easy to win if they want to.
Originally, the two opponents that the Chinese team had the most chance to win were Russia and Britain, but now they lost to Russia, so they are extremely passive.
Yi Dun also knows the difficulties of the Chinese men's basketball team now, but he can't do anything. At least he will definitely not be able to play today and tomorrow.
Men's basketball games are important, but winning gold medals for decathlon is even more important. It is impossible to completely give up so many gold medals for decathlon in order to get a better ranking for the men's basketball team.
Even if Yi Dun is willing, Director Xu and the others are not willing, and even the Basketball Management Center dares not take this responsibility.
The first four Olympic Games can be said to be the golden heyday of the Chinese men's basketball team. Since they won the eighth place in the Olympic Games in 1996, the rankings in the next three Olympic Games are quite good. Even in 2000, they have won the tenth place, the second best result in history.
But judging from this situation this year, it is obviously a tragedy. If there is no miracle, it will be difficult for the Chinese men's basketball team to appear in the group stage.
"Brother Lian, will you fight Spain tonight?" Yi Dun whispered to Yi Jianlian, who was in charge.
Yi Jianlian nodded dullly, "Stop calling me Brother Lian, call me Alian."
"We will do our best to play Spain tonight and strive to win. Yidun, will you play in the game the night after tomorrow?"
After playing Spain tonight, the Chinese men's basketball team will play against the British team the day after tomorrow. This is also their hope. Naturally, they hope that the stronger the combat power, the better.
"I will definitely be able to play. I didn't have a game the night after tomorrow, so there will be no problem playing against the British team." Yi Dun said while patting his chest.
This time Yi Dun signed up for the men's basketball event, which is different from the Asian Games.
For the men's basketball team at the Asian Games, it doesn't matter whether Yi Dun plays in the group stage in the previous group stage. Anyway, the Chinese men's basketball team will definitely qualify, and even in the subsequent series of games, Yi Dun can only play the role of adding icing on the cake.
But now it is different to the Olympics. Qualifying is an extremely difficult thing for the Chinese men's basketball team. If Yi Dun does not play in the group stage, he may not be able to participate in any game.
So Yidun has to participate in the next game against the UK no matter what, and even Yidun wants to participate in every remaining game.
If the Chinese team wins all three games left, there will be a chance to win the third place in the group. In this way, you won’t have to meet the US team, which is the first in Group A in the quarterfinals.
If only two games were won in three games, even if the Chinese team advanced and entered the quarterfinals, the result of the first game against the United States was self-evident.
On a high probability, the Chinese men's basketball team will be directly eliminated.
If you want to achieve breakthrough results in this Olympics, you must win all the next three games in the group stage.
Yi Dun has no luxury to lead the Chinese men's basketball team to win the championship, but this idea cannot be said to be a luxury to lead the team to achieve historically good results.
Yi Jianlian smiled. Although he didn't think that Yi Dun's appearance would definitely make the Chinese men's basketball team change their fate, it's better to have it than not. Yi Dun has created so many miracles in other fields, perhaps this time he can help the Chinese men's basketball team create miracles.
It can be said that Yi Jianlian guessed that he wanted to find a good start to find Yi Dun?
"Okay, then we'll wait for you. Come on in the next game, we'll wait for your good news!" Yi Jianlian said with a shy smile.
Chapter completed!