Zhao Feiyang's successive goals put the island team's defense into trouble. After many adjustments, the island team simply chose to give up and focus all their energy on the offense.
Yuta Watanabe has also become the offensive core of the Japanese men's basketball team. Once he breaks through with the ball, all other Japanese team players take various covering measures with him as the core. This method does have some effect, but everything is under Zhao Feiyang's control. Personally guarding Yuta Watanabe will be ineffective later.
With 3 minutes and 40 seconds left in the second quarter, the island team attacked again.
Watanabe Yuta advances with the ball, and Zhao Feiyang goes up to guard one-on-one. Upon seeing this, other players of the island nation immediately went over to help Watanabe Yuta cover, and Watanabe Yuta seized the opportunity to break through to the two zones.
After entering the two zones, Watanabe Yuta used a jump step to avoid Liu Yunwei's interference. He had already raised the basketball and was about to take action, but at the critical moment when he was about to throw the basketball, a figure suddenly flew over from behind.
Zhao Feiyang jumped up high and slapped the basketball in Yuta Watanabe's hand amidst the exclamations of the audience.
Snapped.
He slapped Yuta Watanabe's layup directly away.
The basketball rolled out of bounds.
The whole audience exclaimed.
Watanabe Yuta's face was full of helplessness and frustration. The other island team players did not expect that Zhao Feiyang would send such a blood cap, and they fell silent for a while, and the team's morale further sank.
The ball is still in the hands of the island nation.
This time, Yuta Watanabe, who got the basketball, did not dare to face Zhao Feiyang's defense. He chose to use the pick-and-roll of his teammates to open up some space, and then raised the basketball at the top of the arc to shoot a three-pointer.
To everyone's surprise, Watanabe Yuta may have suffered too much psychological shadow. Not only did he fail to score a three-pointer this time, but he also made a three-pointer.
The whole place was in an uproar.
"I'll go! No! Why are you starting to quit?"
"Yuta Watanabe's mentality is probably broken! It must be the same for me! Who can fight with someone like Zhao Feiyang! Even those in Curry may not be able to completely restrain him, although Zhao Feiyang's defense is not good It’s considered top-notch, but it’s not bad either. It’s enough to deal with them..."
"It's like a college student beating a high school student. Not only does he use his physical advantage, but his technical advantage is also very obvious..."
Fans on the sidelines were talking a lot.
In front of the Japanese team's table, the team's head coach Matsushima Fazeya looked helpless. He frowned and shook his head from time to time. He sat down and stood up again. He hesitated for a long time, but he still didn't dare to put Watanabe in this situation. Yuta changed to rest.
"Watanabe! If you hold on a little longer, they probably won't send that guy to play again in the second half..."
Head coach Matsushima Feng murmured in his heart.
The same was true for Yuta Watanabe on the field. He felt very embarrassed after shooting a three-pointer and stood there with his head hanging down, looking annoyed.
"Come on Watanabe! Just hold on. As long as that guy leaves the field, the team will still have a chance, and you will also have a chance to regain your lost face..."
Watanabe Yuta cheered himself up.
The game goes on.
Zhao Feiyang still maintains a state of killing everyone. The Japanese team has nothing to do with his offense and can only try to increase some interference in other places.
On the offensive end, Watanabe Yuta's mistakes continued to increase, but the island nation's offensive dominance was still in his hands.
In this way, the Japanese men's basketball team relied on Yuta Watanabe's persistence to barely support the situation on the court and prevent it from completely collapsing.
But even so, by the end of the first half, the point difference between the two teams still widened to 25 points.
58 to 33.
Entering halftime.
The cheerleaders at the scene began to perform hot dances. The Chinese fans, who had been nervous for several games before, could finally relax this time. Everyone was enjoying the dances and the temporarily arranged programs. The atmosphere in the entire arena became very special. joy.
However, for the players of the island nation, it is extremely difficult for them to play like this.
In the locker room, the team's head coach Matsushima Feng changed his usual good temper and began to criticize some of the team's players.
"Where is your fighting spirit? Even if the opponent is a superstar, so what? He is only one person, but we have so many people, and we still have Watanabe..."
"Leave aside Zhao Feiyang's words, the China Men's Basketball Team is not much better than us... I can bear that you can't guard Zhao Feiyang, but what about others? Can't you guard him too?"
"Today's defense was really terrible! Not only did you lose to Zhao Feiyang, but you also lost to those players from the Chinese Men's Basketball Team... They are all young people, and you have much more experience than them. If If you can't even handle them, how are you going to explain to the fans after you return home from this game?"
Coach Matsushima Feng became more and more angry as he talked, but no matter what he said, he never pointed the finger at Yuta Watanabe.
Other players are playing in China and cannot escape the domestic circles. With his qualifications and prestige, he can certainly suppress them.
But Yuta Watanabe is different!
This guy is the hope of island basketball for the fans of the island nation. Even if his performance is not good enough and he has not yet been able to establish himself in the NBA, as long as he is still playing in the Development League, the hope of the fans of the island nation will still exist.
In order to maintain the confidence of these fans, it is said that the Island Basketball Association even allocated millions of dollars in subsidies to support Yuta Watanabe.
Although I don’t know whether this is true or false, it can at least be seen that Yuta Watanabe is indeed of a transcendent status for the island team.
"Okay! I've said everything I need to say!"
"We have to pick ourselves up in the second half...They're up 25 points and they shouldn't send that guy out again...This is our chance..."
After being reprimanded, the players of the island nation were not willing to give up. Of course, they still hoped to save the situation in the second half.
After guessing that Zhao Feiyang would not play again, the team's morale also temporarily recovered.
They really couldn't stand it against Zhao Feiyang, but playing against these young players from the China Men's Basketball Team was nothing to them.
Beep.
The second half begins.
Players from both sides appear again.
Amid the cheers of the fans, Zhao Feiyang once again walked onto the court wearing his jersey. The moment he walked onto the court, Yuta Watanabe and others were obviously stunned.
All of their faces had a look of incredible shock.
The head coach of the Japanese team, Matsushima Feng, was about to curse.
"idiot!"
"Why is that guy still playing? Asshole! What do they want to do?"
"Damn... We are the island nation's team, not the American men's basketball dream team. Why are they doing this to us? Can't they just give that guy a break?"
