Despite the victory, the Dream Team was still scared and sweated. The attack waves of Serbia in the third quarter were too fierce. If Durant had not tried his best to hit the ring in the fourth quarter, they would have probably repeat the mistakes of 2UU.

Serbia lost in this game, but they were nearly 20 points when they were the biggest behind in the score, but in the end they only lost 6 points. The momentum in the second half was always very strong. It can be foreseeable that in the London Olympics two years later, this team will definitely achieve an excellent record.

However, the result of this game triggered a conflict in Mitrovica, Kosovo.

Mitrovica is divided into two parts: north and south by a bridge. The Serbs, with a minority population, mainly occupy the north and Albanians occupy the south. The discord between the two sides has been a long time.

In this semi-final match, seeing the American team defeated Serbia, the southern Albanians "started to celebrate the Serbian failure", which led to conflict. The ethnic issue in the Serbian region is still a major issue that triggers conflict.

First, the teenagers on both sides threw stones at each other under the bridge, and the teenagers kept shouting and scolding. Finally, the Serb police intervened and shot to deter the Albanians on the other side. This caused trouble. The police intervention triggered the intensification of the conflict.

At the most severe time of the conflict, both sides even used machine gun sounds and grenades to attack each other around the bridge.

After the conflict expanded, the European Union Police Force sent a special police force to support the local police. Afterwards, the spokeswoman of the EU Police Force Karin Rimdal said that a French military policeman suffered a gunshot wound to the leg but was out of danger.

The conflict caused damage to a police car, a police officer suffered minor injuries, and a Serb youth suffered gunshot wounds during the conflict.

Later, there were reports that two NATO peacekeeping soldiers were slightly injured in the conflict, but NATO officials denied this. As the report became clearer, people understood what was going on. The two rookie soldiers entered the scene of the gunfight for the first time and were too nervous. One of them fell from the bridge into the river, and the other soldier went to save him. The two were so slightly injured.

After reading this report, Chamberlain was shocked and said to Yao Ming: "Oh my God, can this be said to be, basketball has nothing to do with life and death, but it is higher than life and death?"

Chamberlain now understands that basketball games are not only about the entertainment and inspiration of fans. For some weak countries, victory over big countries on the basketball court means victory of the country, and national interests are above everything else.

Especially the young soldiers of the Serbian team, although their country has been repeatedly frustrated under the attack of the United States, even the great Yugoslav League has been disintegrated.

But when they stand on the basketball court and meet the American team, it means that the war between the two countries is still continuing, and this is their battlefield

Therefore, some players regard basketball as a weapon that can be used to safeguard national dignity. At this time, basketball has nothing to do with life and death, but it is indeed higher than life and death.

This made Chamberlain feel very moved that in today's materialistic society, the basketball court is filled with too many things beyond sports, especially the NHA has completely become a commercial league.

NHAR spoon stars play almost all for the sake of interests. There, the basketball court has never been a place that was once regarded as a "battlefield".

Yao Ming sighed and said, "So, we must win all the way to the end."

Chamberlain nodded heavily and said, "Then, we will quickly end the game with the Lithuanians and then go to the US team. We must win the championship. I want to tell the American fans that the world is not the era when they can win the world championship by just sending a few NHAI stars."

The Lithuanian men's basketball team has always been a super powerful player in the world basketball world. Whether in the European Championship, World Championship or Olympic Games, these seemingly ordinary teams can perform shocking performances.

There are no superstars in their team with starlight shining lights, nor are there unpredictable and exquisite tactics. With the tacit cooperation between the players and precise outside shooting, the Lithuanian men's basketball team can always stand among the strong basketball players.

At the 26-year Beijing Olympics, the Lithuanian men's basketball team made great strides and won the fourth place, but it was from this time that the team entered an extremely difficult period of pain.

With the departure of old players such as Jasvik Hughes and Siscoskas, the Lithuanian men's basketball team began a painful alternation stage between the old and the old. This team has excellent young players like Carnetis, but in terms of experience, they still have a huge gap with the older generation of players.

The Lithuanian men's basketball team only achieved a poor record of 11 in the 209 European Basketball Championship, which is already the second worst performance in the international arena. It is also because of this that the Lithuanian men's basketball team almost missed the Turkish World Championship.

Lithuania is lucky enough to be able to join the World Championships in Türkiye by a wild card. Originally, the Lithuanians' goal is probably only left to train young players and wait for the next peak period to arrive.

At this World Championships, Lithuanian men's basketball team was divided into Group B with Spain, Canada, France, New Zealand and Lebanon. In the 209 European Championships, Lithuanian team lost to Spain and France one after another.

It was only a year later, so pre-match experts and media predicted that this scene would be likely to be repeated at this year's World Championships.

At that time, the fans' expectations for Lithuania were that their overall strength was still at the upper hand compared to Canada, so they could only qualify from Group B as the third in the group.

Moreover, considering the lack of experience in this Lithuanian team in the current competition, they are likely to not be able to go too far. They only reached seventh place in the Tokyo World Championships four years ago. This year, for Lithuanian fans, the team has completed the task.

As a result, they found that the opponent in this World Championship was not as strong as they thought, and they reached the semi-finals all the way.

The promotion of the semi-finals can be said to have their own characteristics. The Dream Team is natural. The Chinese team is getting braver as they fight, the Serbian team is a dark horse all the way, while the Lithuanian team is confused.

Yes, they themselves did not expect that they would make it to the semi-finals. When they eliminated Slovenia in the quarter-finals, the media of the latter asked aggrievedly: "What about the promised training? How to train and fight in a world war?"

People's hearts are never satisfied. If they reach the semi-finals, the ambitions of Lithuanian team grow like weeds with fertilizer: What if we can go further and reach the finals?

Go to the finals

Go to the finals

Go to the finals

Lithuania shouted such a slogan, they knew who their opponent was, the Dragon Team, the strongest team in Asia, and the Chinese team, who had never lost all the way and had two NHA generals, Super King Chamberlain, Yao Ming, and Yi Jianlian.

But the Lithuanian team is not afraid. Judging from the historical record alone, they really have nothing to be afraid of.

After all, except for the Beijing Olympics, the national teams of both sides met 6 times in the Olympics. Every time the Chinese men's basketball team was defeated, losing to their opponents by an average of 3 points.

It is precisely because of the excellent historical record that the local Lithuanian media are extremely high-profile about today's game, and they even put the banner of "There is no strong team in Asia," said the author.

However, historical records always have their deceptive side. If you look closely, you will find that the six previous matches between the Chinese men's basketball team and their opponents occurred in the Olympics, and the two sides met for the first time in the World Championships.

Lithuanian basketball has a distinct tradition of attaching great importance to the Olympics, and the World Championships are a place for them to train newcomers for the Olympics. They have won the Olympic bronze medal three times and have not been able to enter the World Championships once.

In this World Championships, the Lithuanian team experienced a major change. A large number of veterans, including European king Jaskovihus, withdrew from the national team. The young people after the "2nd" began to control the national team. Their strength has dropped by more than one level compared to the Beijing Olympics two years ago.

Of course, as a traditional European strong team, the Lithuanian team that appeared in Turkey maintained the team's usual style: it pays attention to overall, confrontation and strength. Now the main offensive methods of this Lithuanian team are still a large number of high-quality pick-and-rolls and counterattack waves brought by high-intensity defense.

The defensive end Lithuania is similar to other European strong teams - active, tough, dense formation, and emphasizes physical confrontation, which is a bit like a replica of the Russian men's basketball team, using a lot of physical contact to suppress opponents' offense.

In the group stage, they relied on high-intensity oppressive defense to smooth out the 18-point gap and finally reversed and defeated the Spanish team. Although the team has an NHA inside line like Creza, the real offensive focus is on the outside line, and almost everyone of the forward guards has a beautiful three-pointer.

It can be said that such an opponent has caused a headache for the Chinese men's basketball team in the past.

But now, the situation is completely different. Chamberlain replaced Yao Ming as the starter, and the Chinese team's mobility in the inside has improved rapidly. He and Yi Jianlian are partnering in the inside so that the outsiders can flexibly use man-to-man and 2-regional joint defense.

In this way, every player can defend the Chinese men's basketball team, which is no longer afraid of the opponent's high pick-and-roll.

The Lithuanian team is now a bit like an enhanced version of the Russian team, but during the group stage, the Chinese team has been playing against the Russian team.

Through the group match against the Russian men's basketball team, Nelson Jr. has also learned to use the "fast vs. strong" style to suppress the opponent's tough defense in the offense.

What is more advantageous is that compared with the Russian team, the Lithuanian team's organizational defender Matthewlis is not outstanding and the oppression caused to Liu Wei is not strong.

As long as the defenders can pass the ball through half the game, Chamberlain can feel the feeling of being in pain and being in danger of life.

In the eyes of Chinese fans, the Chinese team, which has set a World Championship record, has pushed its head up and entered the Akara Arena.

In the past, the best record of the Chinese men's basketball team in the World Championships was eighth in the world, and now the worst is fourth in the Chinese men's basketball team. And Chamberlain never thought of winning fourth and third in the world. He only had one goal, gold medal.

So after entering the stadium, seeing the Lithuanian fans reaching the finals, lessons | Americans, after the banner, Chamberlain was depressed, he sneered and asked: "What exactly gives Lithuanians so confident?, to reach the finals? They can reach the finals."

"That's right, these birds thought we were men's basketball teams in the 1980s?" Yi Jianlian said indignantly, "We must abuse them and let them wake up."

Liu Wei said calmly: "Look at Sa. We have so many fans. They may not be our fans, so they are looking forward to us reaching the finals and teaching the Americans."

Chamberlain patted Liu Wei on the shoulder and said, "It makes sense. Your brain is still much more effective, so I will like them a lot."

As we talked and laughed, the warm-up was over, the game was about to begin, and the starting players of both sides were on the court.

The Chinese team is the old trick, Chamberlain Yi Jianlian Zhu Fangyu L Weiyue.

For the Lithuanian team, their head coach is the famous European coach Butautas. This time he took a different path and sent a large and four small lineup to play against the Chinese team.

The first big is the big center. Their center is Yav Tokas, 3 years old. He once played for Arizona for one year and was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in 201. He is currently the number one center in the Lithuanian men's basketball team, their captain, and a legend in Lithuanian basketball.

At the 204 Athens Olympics, Jaftokas once fought with Yao Ming in the inside. At the 26th Olympics, he led the team to the semi-finals, but these were not enough for Jaftokas to become a legend in Lithuanian basketball. What happened next made him the soul of the team.

In June 2008, Jaftokas was seriously injured in a car accident. Many people speculated that he would end his short basketball career, but he returned to the arena after just 6 months and reached the peak of his career step by step.

In this Lithuanian men's basketball team, which is in the alternation stage of the old and new, Jaftokas is a veteran of men. In the past seven games, he has firmly maintained the three-second zone of the Lithuanian men's basketball team and caused a lot of damage to his opponents.
Chapter completed!