Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 479 - 159: This Era Belongs Only to Me! (5,000-word - , begging for subscriptions and monthly tickets)_2

Chapter 479: Chapter 159: This Era Belongs Only to Me! (5,000-word Chapter, begging for subscriptions and monthly tickets)_2
In the fifth match against Greece, the Greeks tried to recreate their 06 victory through team basketball but were reversed by Qin Yue with five consecutive three-pointers in the final quarter despite leading by seven points at one point.
At the end of the group stage, except for the third match against Angola, Qin Yue finished early after playing only half the game.
In the other four matches, Qin Yue made thirty-five three-pointers, a feat of astonishing proportions.
If this were the NBA, it would just be thirty-five long two-point jump shots.
But in FIBA, Qin Yue turned them into three-pointers, which always add one more point than two-pointers.
He was like an efficient scoring machine that never stopped, crushing one world-class team after another for the Chinese Team in the group stage.
After the group stage, the Chinese Team’s odds of winning the championship had surpassed those of the United States.
However, Qin Yue was not overwhelmed by the external praise.
As Qin Yue remembered, due to the chaotic situation in Group B of this Olympic Games,
the Chinese Team, which won five matches to advance to the quarterfinals as the group leader, would next face the Australia Team, known for their dirty style of play.
This was not an easy opponent to deal with.
Shortly after the game started, the weak side guarded by Yi Jianlian was frequently broken through by Australian wing players.
The Australian players seemed to have identified Yi Jianlian.
No matter where he stood, the ball handlers of the Australia Team resolutely attacked the side guarded by him.
Qin Yue knew very well that this was the predicament Yi Jianlian had been facing on the court since February this year.
In Minnesota, the Timberwolves’ management had given Yi Jianlian a resource allocation far exceeding the historical norms.
Initially, Yi Jianlian seemed to have the momentum to "rise to the sky."
But as NBA teams gradually learned about Yi Jianlian’s playing habits, many problems of Yi Jianlian were exposed.
On defense, Yi Jianlian’s defense was often not strong enough, and since he enjoyed core treatment at home for a long time, he often instinctively avoided confrontations.
On offense, Yi Jianlian’s shooting preparation was too long, he only attacked with his right hand when holding the ball, and in higher-intensity NBA games, his efficiency under the basket was less than 50%.
Though admittedly Yi Jianlian’s fans may not be very happy,
during this period, Yi Jianlian indeed gave people the impression of "Miss Jianlian" on the court.
In the first half of the regular season, Yi Jianlian, once hailed as one of the top five players from the 2007 batch, had hit a wall since February and hadn’t been able to recover his former glory.
Even at this Olympic Games, Yi Jianlian became the most "bullied" object by Qin Yue on the court.
Qin Yue knew that to survive in the NBA, Yi Jianlian must focus on defense and strive to become a space-oriented defensive power forward.
Because in the NBA, filled with super athletes, there were simply too many players who could match his physical attributes.
Yi Jianlian couldn’t use his physical talents to "rise to the sky" like he did back home.
So...
Midway through the first quarter, dissatisfied with Yi Jianlian’s progress over the past season, Qin Yue simply had Yonas replace him with Wang Lei and personally took on the defense as the power forward.
On the court, the defensive prowess of the twin towers formed by Qin Yue and Yao Ming was evident.
However, the brutal confrontations by the Australians caused the group stage’s precise Chinese Team sharpshooters to lose their composure.
Only Qin Yue and Yao Ming managed to maintain some accuracy under such savage confrontations.
Halftime ended with a score of 44 to 39.
After the group stage, which had given fans hope for a gold medal, the Chinese Team was trailing the Australia Team by 5 points at halftime.
Qin Yue couldn’t be satisfied with such a result, and in the locker room, said while pointing at the statistics, "I don’t demand that you seize every open shot opportunity, but can you show some fighting spirit on defense for me? Those Australian bastards are all descendants of criminals. They love brutal confrontations, so I want you to use even more brutal confrontations to topple them!"
After the halftime break, the Chinese Team’s spirit was greatly improved.
Zhu Fangyu took the lead, starting the third quarter by directly bear-hugging Joe Ingles from the Australia Team on the perimeter.
Sun Yue also snatched away CJ Bruton who was attempting to attack the basket, carrying both him and the ball in the next defensive sequence.
These two instances of turning Australia’s own methods against them with rough defense immediately attracted the displeasure of the Australian Team players.
But Qin Yue, always maintaining a calm demeanor, quickly made four three-pointers from the two forty-five-degree angles to ignite the entire venue for the Chinese Team.
Moreover, in the sequence where the Australia Team tried to stop Qin Yue’s pull-up shooting on the perimeter through double-teaming, Qin Yue first forced his way past Ingles on the perimeter with tremendous strength, and then dribbled straight to the Australian basket, savagely dunking the ball over Bogut!
This deeply satisfying in-your-face dunk, accompanied by Qin Yue’s expletive "I f**ked your mother’s c**t!" as he landed, instantly made the cheers in the entire stadium resound to the sky.
From the start of the third quarter, Qin Yue formally took over the game.
Apart from the plays where Yao Ming’s position was truly too advantageous, forcing a pass,
whether the Australians used double teams or triple teams, Qin Yue, removing the pass key, would brazenly and unwarrantedly complete the play in an utterly surreal manner.
And all of this left Yi Jianlian, who was not brought back on by Yonas for this match, staring wide-eyed.