Lamas called a timeout.

If he didn't, he would not only lose the game, but also Rui Hachimura's confidence, the future of Japanese basketball!

After the timeout, Hachimura was subbed off for Shin Bijima!

The Japanese team actually used a lineup with one big and four small players!

This lineup was hard to understand, but it had a surprisingly good effect. In the first possession, Bijima made a突分 (tu fen, sudden pass) to Yuta Watanabe, who scored a long two-pointer, finally breaking the Japanese team's scoring drought.

Moreover, the bigger purpose of this lineup was reflected on the defensive end. They double-teamed whenever the Chinese team held the ball, even triple-teaming Tang Tian!

This was using the speed advantage of the smaller players to maximize help defense and double-teaming!

However, this approach was useless. Tang Tian directly made a no-look pass in the triple-team to Ding Yanyuhang, who was cutting to the middle, and the latter directly slammed the ball into the basket with a two-handed dunk.

The Japanese team's attack failed, and when Tang Tian held the ball again, the Japanese team didn't dare to triple-team again.

However, under the double-team, Tang Tian easily hit a turnaround fadeaway jumper!

The two short Japanese players were basically air in front of him!

66 to 41!

The third quarter wasn't even over yet, but the Chinese team had already opened up a 25-point lead!

A sense of despair hung over every Japanese person in the arena.

If they were playing against the American team like last year, they knew they had no chance at all, and they would definitely dare to fight hard.

But the problem was that they played a stalemate with the Chinese team for a half, and then were suddenly crushed. That kind of change was really too easy to make people's mentality collapse.

Bijima's breakthrough floater still didn't go in, and the Japanese team completely fell into a scoring drought in this quarter!

But at this moment, the referee's whistle blew.

It was an air whistle.

The boos from the crowd were deafening, and Li Chunjiang also went to the sideline to protest.

But the referee completely ignored it.

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the referee from the second quarter was about to come online again.

Just then, Tang Tian slowly walked to the Indonesian referee and chatted with him in a very gentle tone.

"You know that all FIBA games are recorded. If you keep blowing like this, I can make you lose your job forever."

"You know, I have that kind of power."

The words were few, but they made the referee break out in a cold sweat.

Although Tang Tian had retired, his status as the world's number one basketball player was still there. Not to mention the NBA, FIBA completely looked at his face.

To make him lose his job in FIBA or even in Indonesia, it was completely possible.

After being stunned for a few seconds, he finally nodded.

If he didn't blow the home whistle, he would only be sad for this period of time. Compared to that, any normal person would know what to choose.

Bijima made both free throws, helping the Japanese team to narrow the score back to within 25 points.

In the Chinese team's frontcourt offense, Lin Yi was called for a moving screen foul by the baseline referee during a pick-and-roll.

In order to chase points, the home whistle began to go crazy.

But at that moment, an incredible scene appeared on the court.

The referee signaled that there was no foul, and the two referees' calls were different!

The game went into a technical timeout, and the three referees gathered together to discuss for a while, and finally watched the video replay at the request of the main referee.

There was indeed no moving screen, and the baseline referee was mistaken.

The Chinese team retained possession.

A burst of cheers erupted from the crowd.

The home whistle was painful, but no one expected the Indonesian coach to "rebel"!

Without the help of the referee, and with Hachimura not on the court, the Japanese team was swept away by the Chinese team like fallen leaves.

In the entire third quarter, the Japanese team only scored 5 points, while the Chinese team, led by Tang Tian's 25 points in a single quarter, scored 35 to 5!

At the end of the third quarter, the score difference had gone from 11 points to 41 points!

It only took ten minutes to go from heaven to hell!

The Chinese team gave the Japanese team an incredibly vivid lesson!

The final quarter became complete garbage time, and both sides replaced their bench players.

Most of the Japanese fans at the scene chose to leave early. It was already difficult for them to keep their tickets from being sold to Chinese fans. To make them watch this one-sided massacre was really too torturous.

The Chinese fans at the scene were already going crazy. Although the massacre came a little later than expected, it still took place in Tokyo!

Moreover, Fang Shuo, Wang Quanze, and Shen Zijie, who came on from the end of the bench, had no chance to play before, and this was their first appearance, so they were all holding back.

As a result, not only did the score difference not narrow during garbage time, but it also widened.

The score on the court was fixed at 110 to 52. The Chinese team finally defeated the Japanese team by 58 points and advanced strongly to the Olympic semi-finals!

Lin Yi jokingly said before that he would win by 58 points, but he didn't expect it to really come true!

Six players on the Chinese team scored in double figures, with Tang Tian scoring a game-high 35 points in three quarters.

The moment the game ended, domestic forums and Weibo had exploded.

"Real Tokyo Massacre!"

"This is a game that made the Japanese men's basketball team realize the reality. No grouping, no referees, they are the worst team in this Olympic Games!"

"Isn't that the truth? Just look at their performance in the China World Cup? Now it seems that Argentina was eliminated unjustly!"

"More importantly, Hachimura's confidence has been crushed, which may affect the next ten or even twenty years of Japanese basketball!"

"Has Japanese basketball ever had a future?"

"Tang is still the one who is ruthless and doesn't talk much. 25 points in a single quarter is like playing, no one can stop him anymore!"

"It's not like anyone can stop him! You've forgotten the horror of being dominated by Tang after not playing for more than a year?!"

"It's a waste of talent if he doesn't come back to play in the NBA in this state. I really want to see Tang Tian play in the NBA so much!"

"I want to see Lin Yi and Tang Tian's Chinese Derby. Lin Yi is really too likable in this Olympic Games. He's a natural trash talk expert! And he's so funny!"

"I want to see it too. Let the Chinese Derby become the main theme of the NBA, let the NBA become a league for Chinese people, let the league feel the terror of the Chinese!"

"I found that the Chinese team is also collectively sabotaging, and Shen Zijie's open dunk at the end didn't go in, so the score difference was fixed at 58 points. Ridiculous."

"Paul: Can't get past it, can you?!"

……

A massacre not only made domestic fans excited, but also blew up the fish pond on the Japanese fans' side.

It's not just the big score defeat, nor is it just Hachimura's confidence being crushed, but also the home attendance rate, and how much Japanese patriotism is left.

There is even the question of whether the mixed-race path in Japan is an outlet or a self-inflicted humiliation.

Some fans even felt that it was better not to have such an Olympic quarter-final that relied on grouping and referees but ended in a disastrous defeat, and demanded that the country's investment in basketball be cancelled.

Losing the game is not terrible, what is terrible is chilling the fans' hearts.

The Japanese team successfully did it in this Olympic Games.