Chapter 1 Mills' Three-Pointer

Mills missed a three-pointer from the outside, and Baynes jumped up to grab the offensive rebound.

Simmons called for the ball on the perimeter, but Baynes, provoked by Lin Yi's constant trash talk, chose to attack directly with the ball.

Exerting force, he also made a small move, bumping into Lin Yi and dribbling once, wanting to dunk.

However, just as he raised the ball, a palm technique descended from the sky, directly swatting the ball out of his hand.

The ball, knocked away, hit his knee and went out of bounds. The referee blew his whistle, calling a backcourt violation.

The crowd erupted in cheers.

Lin Yi's block was quite brilliant.

Tang Tian also gave Lin Yi a thumbs up. This guy was playing smart.

Lin Yi wasn't strong. His protection of rebounds relied more on height and positioning, while defense like that just now came more from judgment, striking after the opponent moved.

Li Mannis reached up and smacked his forehead. He felt like he was about to have a mental breakdown.

One Tang Tian was already enough to make him uncomfortable, and now Lin Yi had appeared. Was the Chinese team really going to make something happen!

Fortunately, in the next possession, Lin Yi received a pass from Tang Tian and shot a three-pointer, but it didn't go in this time.

Lin Yi wasn't Tang Tian after all, and his accuracy from beyond the three-point line still had a gap.

When the basketball hit the rim and bounced out, Li Mannis breathed a sigh of relief. If that had gone in, this game really wouldn't have been playable.

But before he could finish his breath, a figure soared into the air.

Yi Jianlian!

Lin Yi had cleared the lane, but Yi Jianlian was on the weak side.

He jumped high and directly slammed the ball in for a score!

15 to 4!

The point difference had been widened to double digits!

The Australian fans in the arena were silent.

In last year's quarter-finals, the Australian team lost more because they underestimated their opponent, starting Bogut and letting the Chinese team get off to a hot start.

This time they didn't make that kind of mistake again, but the situation was even worse than last year!

This time it wasn't just a simple case of underestimation, but that this Chinese team… was so strong!

Of the five starting players, except for Lin Yi who hadn't played in an NBA regular season game yet, the other four were all active NBA players!

And even Lin Yi was a legitimate number one overall pick!

The Australian team used to completely dominate the Chinese team in terms of quality, but now, even with Simmons joining, and with Tang Tian back in form, they simply couldn't compare with the Chinese team!

Just as he was thinking, Simmons' breakthrough was directly stolen by Tang Tian. The Chinese team launched a fast break.

Ding Yanyuhang quickly advanced and received Tang Tian's pass, slamming the ball in with both hands!

17 to 4!

Ingles barely managed to save the situation, scoring a three-pointer to help the Australian team stay alive.

But this time, after Lin Yi received the ball, he made a fake shot and passed the ball to Abudushalamu in the corner.

Abudushalamu quickly shot the ball.

"Swish!"

A clean shot.

Abudushalamu's response three-pointer went in too!

20 to 7!

Crazy.

The Chinese team had really gone crazy!

In a FIBA game, they had scored 20 points in just over half a quarter!

Tang Tian had 10 points, Lin Yi had 3 points, Abudushalamu had 3 points, and Yi Jianlian and Ding Yanyuhang each had 2 points. All five starters had scored!

"Damn it!"

Li Mannis had already started cursing.

Basketball games weren't just about looking at the strength on paper. Otherwise, the American and Canadian teams wouldn't have been defeated last year.

But the problem was that these NBA players on the Chinese team weren't just temporarily put together like the American and Canadian teams. They were all very familiar with each other.

Ding Yanyuhang, Abudushalamu, and Tang Tian were all former teammates, and Yi Jianlian and Tang Tian had always been regulars on the Chinese national team.

As for Lin Yi, what he did was very simple: protect the rim and stand at the top of the arc waiting to shoot!

"Damn it!"

Li Mannis glanced at Tang Tian and continued to curse.

Tang Tian, who had recovered his form, was really too terrifying. Shaquille O'Neal's "Tang Tian could win a championship with his grandma" statement wasn't false.

Tang Tian's offensive threat was too great. Two people couldn't defend him, but if they used three people to help defend and rotate, they simply couldn't rotate over.

This was the fundamental reason why the Chinese team's offense was so explosive.

Tang had gravity. After not seeing it for more than a year, most people had forgotten the fear of being dominated by it.

With eight minutes left in the first quarter, the Chinese team led the Australian team by a full 15 points, 25 to 10.

Fortunately, Tang Tian and Yi Jianlian both went off to rest at this time, and the game entered the bench rotation period.

Li Mannis finally stopped cursing and began to replace Dellavedova and Exum onto the court.

The point difference was a bit big, but now was a good opportunity for them to start chasing points.

As soon as the substitutes came on, Dellavedova hit a three-pointer over Wu Qian from the outside, helping the Australian team narrow the point difference to within 15 points.

Guo Ailun's breakthrough in the frontcourt saw him run into a double team.

But he had really improved this year. Before being double-teamed, he looked back and passed the ball back to Lin Yi at the arc.

Lin Yi took another shot from beyond the three-point line.

"Rebound!"

Li Mannis shouted from the sidelines.

Lin Yi had only made one of the three three-pointers he had taken. His accuracy wasn't stable.

"Swish!"

But before he could finish speaking, Lin Yi's three-pointer went in.

And what made him want to hit someone was that after Lin Yi made the shot, he made a gesture of blowing a gun with his hand, a showboating move that deserved 101 points.

Tang Tian was amused on the sidelines. This Lin Yi might not have very explosive skills yet, but his trash talk and showboating skills were already extremely proficient.

Lin Yi's answer ball was key. You could clearly feel the helpless expressions on the faces of the Australian team's players.

Back on defense, Exum's breakthrough was disrupted by Ding Yanyuhang, and Lin Yi grabbed another defensive rebound.

Li Mannis was a bit emotionally out of control, shouting loudly on the sidelines.

His angry emotions had an effect, and the defensive intensity of the Australian team on the court obviously increased.

And because Tang Tian was off the court, the offensive threat of the Chinese team's players on the court obviously decreased by a notch.

Ding Yanyuhang's breakthrough wasn't successful. He dribbled around and came out again, and he was quickly pressed. He was forced to pass the ball to Lin Yi at the arc.

As soon as Lin Yi got the ball, Landale also stepped up to press him.

There was very little time left on the shot clock.

Lin Yi didn't rush to shoot. He suddenly dribbled the ball to create distance from Landale, and then suddenly started doing crossover steps.

The fans in the entire arena erupted.

A 2.16-meter tall guy was doing crossover steps! And his sense of rhythm was very strong!

Landale tried his best to defend, but after Lin Yi's continuous crossover steps, his feet became a mess, he tripped himself, and fell directly to the ground!

And after he fell, in order to avoid injury, he wanted to adjust his body, but he was a big guy and it was too late. In the end, he actually knelt on the ground!

Lin Yi took advantage of the situation to break through to the inside and smash the ball into the basket before the help defense arrived.

Exploded. The entire arena exploded.

Poor Landale, this Australian player who had once discriminated against people of color along with Bogut, just knelt down and became the biggest background in the history of the Olympic Games opening game!