Jordan: I thought he was there to help me!

Chapter 1112 Among you Spaniards, there is a traitor.

"Brother, do you think I'll ever be able to represent the national team again in my lifetime?"

To Lin Tian's surprise, Guo Ailun, who is always smiling and seems to have no worries or emotions, was surprisingly pessimistic in his first words after leaving the court.

Not only was he pessimistic, but his younger brother's eyes were also red. Lin Tian had no doubt that if he said a few harsh words, he would burst into tears on the spot.

"Do you know what your biggest mistake was?" Lin Tian pulled Guo Ailun aside and said, "You got the generational order wrong, nephew. Your uncle calls me brother, so you call me brother too, is that right? Why did you do that?"

"You still know my uncle?" Guo Ailun paused for a moment, then asked a profound question.

"Nonsense, we've played basketball together. Did I block your head off, nephew?" Lin Tian rolled his eyes, indicating that the kid should wake up.

"Oh! Oh, oh!" Guo Ailun clapped his hands, suddenly realizing, "Guo Shiqiang, right! Then he's my uncle! Not my maternal uncle! Bro, you're messing with Sa Beining, and you've already put up with it! How could my uncle have the surname Guo!"

"You're finished. You can forget about ever playing for the national team again." Lin Tian elbowed Guo Ailun, realizing he'd overthought things and actually tried to comfort the idiot.

He doesn't need comforting.

Didn't you see that only 20 seconds have passed and he's already done?

"Uncle..."

"roll!"

"Why!"

After that, Guo Ailun didn't dare to say anything. The little nephew still had some sense of propriety, especially since the Chinese team was in a bad situation on the court without Lin Tian.

Although the interior height has increased, with Yi Jianlian and Dalai Lama joining the team, Spain currently has Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka, whose defensive line is absolutely impenetrable.

Spain's strategy right now is to have Marc Gasol guard the perimeter while Serge Ibaka stays hidden, ready to unleash his power and block shots at any moment. The NBA's shot-blocking champion's skill and ability are truly extraordinary.

Two minutes into the second quarter, Ibaka delivered three blocks! He was a nightmare for all the players on the Chinese team.

In short, China's offense encountered huge trouble at the beginning of the second quarter.

The gap between the two sides widened rapidly in those two minutes. With Fernandez driving to the basket and scoring two points while drawing a foul, the gap between the two sides reached nine points.

If Fernandez makes the free throw next, then Hebei China Fortune will be down by 10 points!

"Lin." Old Nelson reached out and called Lin Tian to his side: "You probably won't be able to rest for the next few games. Spain's intensity is higher and greater than I expected, so you'll have to play all the remaining games."

"No problem! That's what I'm good at." Lin Tian smiled, not taking it seriously.

"And let me give you a heads-up, you definitely won't be able to rest for a second during the final battle the day after tomorrow. Get ready and manage your energy accordingly." After saying that, Old Nelson patted Lin Tian on the shoulder, implying that it was up to him to handle things.

Lin Tian didn't know whether to call Nelson conservative or radical given his current situation.

You say he's conservative? He's already started arranging rotations for the finals.

You say he's aggressive? He says the opponent is too strong, and we have to be careful.

All I can say is that this old man is truly extraordinary.

At the same time, Lin Tian also discovered that Old Nelson was more worldly-wise than he had imagined.

At this point, what he really meant was: Your backcourt is just too bad, neither Guo Ailun nor Sun Yue can be the main point guard in this kind of game, so you should go up and save the day.

But the old man didn't say that; instead, he said that Spain was too strong.

The 'mad scientist' who dared to criticize everything and everyone has grown up. It's gratifying.

Before Fernandez took the free throw, Lin Tian strolled onto the court and substituted Sun Yue, who had only played a little over a minute as the point guard but was already sweating profusely.

In addition, Wang Shipeng and Lin Tian came on together and replaced Xu Yong, who had just been on the court.

In the past two minutes, Xu Yong has also been under tremendous pressure. With Lin Tian absent, it was this guy's turn to face the endless double-teaming by the Spanish team.

With Calderon acting as a mole, Spain must have thoroughly studied Xu Yong's playing habits, preferences, and weaknesses. As a result, as the opponent's primary target, Xu Yong immediately lost his dominance from scoring 10 points in the first quarter. He scored no points in those two minutes and even committed a turnover.

Old Nelson told him to go down, firstly to calm him down, and secondly to help him forget the terrible moment that had just happened.

Xu Yong's strength is crucial for China's chances of winning tonight!

At this moment, the lineup on the Chinese team's field consisted of Da Zhi, Yi Jianlian, Zhou Peng, Wang Shipeng, and Lin Tian.

"Whoosh!"

After a crisp thud, Fernandez calmly slotted the ball into the net, widening the gap between the two sides to 10 points!

The biggest score difference so far tonight has occurred.

"Gibberish! Gibberish!" At this moment, the Spanish coach on the sidelines also started speaking in a language that Lin Tian couldn't understand. Needless to say, this person was speaking Spanish, and he was giving instructions on tactics in Spanish.

This could be considered an advantage for the Spanish team. Since the Chinese team didn't have a Spanish translator, no one on the team could understand what the old man was yelling about. Since no one could understand his tactics, they naturally couldn't make any targeted arrangements.

"Bo-dong, dong-da-luo!" Just when the entire Chinese team couldn't understand what he was saying, Lin Tian, ​​while dribbling past the Spanish team's bench, smugly shouted something to their coach that the entire Chinese team also couldn't understand.

The Spanish coach was immediately stunned.

The Chinese team members didn't understand what he was saying, but he did! Not just him, the entire Spanish team understood it.

Well, Ibaka might not understand, but everyone else definitely will.

This is in Spanish!

It means: I understand!

The Spanish coach looked at Lin Tian incredulously, he had never heard of this person speaking Spanish.

When did he learn it?

Did they learn Spanish just to target us?

The Spanish coach was practically having a brain freeze, but thankfully his assistant coach reacted quickly, immediately yelling at Lin Tian, ​​"Gibberish, gibberish!"

Lin Tian has a notorious reputation; everyone knows how dirty his mind is when he plays. The assistant coach reacted quickly; he wanted to test whether Lin Tian could actually understand what he was saying and whether he really had the skills!

"My name is Da Bu Li... (I can't translate this anymore, so I'll leave it at that)" Lin Tian glanced arrogantly at the assistant coach, then turned and left.

The sentence he left behind was, of course, in Spanish.

"You dare speak to me? Who do you think you are?"

These two sentences basically represent all of Lin Tianhui's Spanish.

The rest couldn't be said in a setting like tonight; they were all things like "You're so sexy," "I love you," "Baby, would you pose like a frog?" "I want to hug you," and the like.

These words were learned by Lin Tian from a Spanish women's basketball player named Abalde on the second day after the opening ceremony.

The girl said she wanted to learn some basketball skills from Lin Tian to improve her basketball level, so Lin Tian took the opportunity to learn a few Spanish phrases and then demonstrated his ball-handling and pressing techniques and strengths to Abald.

The Spanish team certainly didn't expect that there would be a traitor among them.

Although she was on the women's team, she was indeed a traitor.

However, if they asked Lin Tian, ​​Lin Tian would think to himself: As your buddy, I have already avenged you.

Something happened between me and Abald that is enough to avenge you.

In any case, Lin Tian's two sentences shocked the Spanish team's coaching staff and many of their players.

When they communicated on the court afterwards, they became very cautious and their voices became noticeably softer. They obviously did not want Lin Tian, ​​the tactical mastermind, to know the details of their tactics and then use that as a breakthrough to break through their tactics.

Unfortunately, on the chaotic field, even if players shout out tactics to each other, their teammates may not be able to hear them clearly. Now, with the added pressure of guarding against Lin Tian, ​​the efficiency of communication is naturally reduced.

That's when China's opportunity came.

To be honest, Lin Tian didn't know how much the Chinese team actually benefited from this. He only knew that the Spanish team had indeed fallen into a trap. When playing in the NBA, everyone was quite unrestrained in shouting out tactics, and they weren't afraid of the opponent finding out.

God knows why they're so scared right now.

It can only be said that Lin Tian's threat was still too great, and the intimidation he brought by those two Spanish sentences was quite effective.

And, the Chinese team has started to catch up.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Chinese team had narrowed the gap between the two sides from 10 points to 5 points.

During this period, Lin Tian still did not shoot and did not score, but he did hit a three-pointer. Yi Jianlian also received passes from Lin Tian that directly broke through the Spanish team's defense and slammed them into the basket twice.

"This Lianzhi inside combination is really effective," Yang Yi said with satisfaction. "With Lin Tian's help, they've completely broken through the Spanish team's Gasol and Ibaka inside combination."

"Ultimately, Ibaka is an outsider. His teamwork and chemistry with the rest of the Spanish team aren't as good. So even though he's famous as the NBA's shot-blocking king, his teamwork with Marc Gasol isn't as good as the Gasol brothers' teamwork."

"Poor teamwork can easily create space and opportunities! And we have the best people in the world who are most adept at seizing and creating opportunities!"

"And another important point for the Spanish team is that Pau Gasol is getting old, he's over 30, and in terms of a basketball player's career, he's nearing the end of his career. It's highly likely he won't be able to play in the next Olympics."

"Spain needs someone to take over, and who will it be? Currently, it seems to be Gasol and Ibaka. So, hey, the Spanish team must give Ibaka a lot of playing time; they have to keep Ibaka happy! That way, Ibaka will come back for the next Olympics and World Championship!"

"Otherwise, if you see that he's not in good form or his performance isn't good, you can remove Ibaka from the competition. Ibaka won't be happy, and what will happen? Hey! He won't play with you anymore! He won't come next time, so what will you do then?"

"So now is China's chance! Because Spain won't let Ibaka play for just a short while. They'd rather try playing Gasol and Ibaka together than take Ibaka off the court."

"I think if we keep focusing on our inside game, we can easily take the lead again!"

"The most important thing is the shooting touch of everyone else besides Lin Tian, ​​because I think the Spanish team will definitely continue their double-teaming strategy after a quarter and a half! So Lin Tian, ​​don't let them down, keep passing the ball, and I believe our boys won't let Lin Tian down either, they'll make the shots he passes!"

Yang Yi launched into a smug analysis, covering everything from psychology to tactics, from on-field to off-field, from the present to the future—and it was all incredibly reasonable!

Then, when the timeout ended, Teacher Yang, who had been slapped on the left cheek in the first period, was also slapped on the right cheek.

Spain substituted Ibaka and brought back the Gasol brothers, while Rubio also returned to the field, bringing back their starting lineup.

China also defeated Dazhi, breaking up the Lianzhi combination that had been in good form and had achieved good results, and also changed back to the starting lineup of 1 big man and 4 small men.

This time, he not only got slapped again, but both coaches slapped him at the same time.

Our motto is "No matter what you say, we'll do it differently."

"Hehe, you know what, this world-class coach is just different! We can't keep up with their way of thinking!"

After both sides made substitutions, the first attack came from Hebei China Fortune.

When Lin Tian returned to the frontcourt this time, whether it was a deliberate arrangement by the Spanish team or they forgot, Rubio was the only one left to defend Lin Tian.

One person is guarding against me?

That's wonderful!

Facing a defender, Lin Tian didn't hesitate for a second. He dribbled between his legs, accelerated, and in the blink of an eye, he completely passed Rubio and drove straight into the paint.

Yi Jianlian desperately blocked Pau Gasol under the basket, preventing him from coming over to help defend. Although Marc Gasol rushed over and got in front of Lin Tian, ​​he couldn't withstand Lin Tian's full-force charge.

To withstand Lin Tian's full-speed attack, he would at least need to find a mutant.

"boom!"

After a loud bang, Lin Tian practically rode on Gasol's neck and delivered an incredibly domineering dunk!

The referees didn't let Gasol off the hook so easily. They promptly called a blocking foul and gave Lin Tian a 2+1!

Lin Tian's first shot of the night, his first score!

That was such a crazy and explosive dunk.

After that goal, all the fans inside the London Arena went wild!

Whether they were Chinese fans who had traveled across the ocean to support China, Europeans who were Lin Tian's fans, or local British fans, they all cheered and roared wildly at this moment.

That small square formation of about a thousand Spaniards was now completely silent; they were utterly stunned by Lin Tian's move.

That was too fast, and too ruthless!

At this moment, the Chinese football fans in front of their TVs were just as crazy. Cheers and shouts could be heard from countless residential areas, schools, factories, gatehouses, canteens, and meeting rooms throughout China.

That was an incredibly hard shot!

Yes, there are relatively quiet places within China.

For example, a television studio.

After Yang Yi was repeatedly proven wrong by both coaches in his tactical arrangements, the Spanish team's defensive tactics also proved him wrong, as they suddenly stopped double-teaming him. Yang Yi was truly helpless and had nowhere to complain.

So at this moment, Yang Yi finally quieted down.

I'm sorry to say any more.

Even the thickest skin has its limits.

British fans clearly remember that in the last group stage match, the Chinese team gave their home team a break, not only preventing the British team from scoring any record-breaking, humiliating scores, but also allowing them to secure their only victory in this Olympics.

British fans said: We remember the good things China did for us!

Then, they suddenly remembered the nickname Lin Tian had earned on the European track.

"Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!"

"Conquer us! Conquer us again!"

"Come! See! Conquer!"

The fans' roars and shouts came suddenly, especially the shouts about Caesar, which almost made Lin Tian think that Jonas had come to support his former disciples.

Isn't Jonas just the European Caesar?

Why is this little old man so popular in England?

He's really hiding his true abilities!

But Lin Tian soon discovered that neither Jonas nor Caesar had come to the scene.

Then, Lin Tian looked at the running shoes and tank tops that suddenly appeared on the sidelines and realized: That's me!

Before stepping onto the free-throw line, Lin Tian enthusiastically waved his hands up and down, interacting excitedly with the fans.

Come on, let's have some fun!

When Lin Tian stepped to the free-throw line, he saw Marc Gasol looking ashen-faced and Pau Gasol looking helpless.

"I suggest you continue to double-team." Lin Tian smiled, then raised his hand and calmly made the free throw.

As for whether the Spanish team will continue to double-team or not, that's up to you!

After that shot, the gap between the two sides narrowed to just 2 points in the blink of an eye!

One round is enough to catch up!

Then, this round came faster than anyone expected!

Rubio made a mistake! (End of Chapter)