Chapter 1297

After two days of rest, the rematch ushered in the final round.

As before, this round of competition is divided into two days, and the games of Group I and Group J will start first.

The Chinese team will also usher in a match against Cameroon at 7 pm.

Sitting on Embiid and Siakam, Cameroon has the strongest inside strength in this World Cup and has not lost a single game so far.

The inside line of the Chinese team is weak visible to the naked eye.

For the Chinese team, this will also be the most difficult game they have encountered since the start of the World Cup.

Moreover, the final round of the competition, how to qualify for the group stage has become the most concerned issue of the outside world.

The Chinese team is currently ranked third in the group with 9 points. Whether they can make it to the quarter-finals depends on the game between Greece and Argentina in the afternoon.

There are a number of hypothetical situations that will emerge here.

Situation 1: The Greek team wins the Argentine team, and the Chinese team loses to the Cameroon team.

In this case, Cameroon has 6 wins, 0 losses and 12 points to qualify. Greece, Argentina, and China all have 4 wins and 2 losses, depending on the point difference.

This is also the most familiar scoring link for Chinese football fans.

The so-called net difference is the sum of the difference between a team and the other two teams.

Take the Chinese team as an example. They lost to Argentina by 15 points and then won by 25 points to Greece. The net difference is +10 points.

So based on this established fact, the Greek team's previous point difference was -25, and they had to beat Argentina by 36 points to get a +11 point difference to advance.

For Argentina, their previous point difference was +15, and they must control the loss to 4 points in order to get a +11 point difference to advance.

Situation 2: The Greek team loses to the Argentine team, and the Chinese team loses to the Cameroon team.

In this case, the Cameroon team still has 12 points to qualify first in the group.

The Greek team was directly eliminated with 3 wins, 3 losses and 9 points.

The rest of the Argentine team and the Chinese team both accumulated 10 points, but because the Argentine team had won the Chinese team before, the Argentine team advanced and the Chinese team was eliminated.

Situation 3: The Greek team wins the Argentine team, and the Chinese team wins the Cameroon team.

The Chinese team and the Cameroon team have 5 wins and 1 loss, with 11 points to advance together. The Chinese team is first in the group and the Cameroon team is second in the group.

Greece and Argentina had 4 wins and 2 losses, both were eliminated with 10 points.

Situation 4: The Greek team loses to the Argentine team, and the Chinese team wins to the Cameroon team.

This is also the most complicated situation.

First of all, the Greek team was directly eliminated with 3 wins and 3 losses, and the point difference in this game will not affect the subsequent score calculation.

The records of China, Cameroon and Argentina are all 5 wins and 1 loss, and they need to be counted as in the second case.

The Chinese team currently has -15, Cameroon +5, and Argentina +10.

The Chinese team is the most unfavorable situation among the three teams.

They need to beat Cameroon by at least 10 points to advance, and they need to win by at least 25 points to become the first in Group I.

The four situations, for the Chinese team, can be summed up.

If the Chinese team loses to Cameroon or wins less than 10 points, it depends on the opponent's face;

If you beat Cameroon by more than 10 points, you will definitely advance.

The absence of Tang Tian caused the Chinese team to lose to the Argentine team by as much as 15 points. This small point has been brought to the final battle.

This also put enormous pressure and challenges on the Chinese team.

However, during the training session in the morning, all the players from the coaching staff to Tang Tian to the Chinese team showed enough confidence.

Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, also appeared at the team's training ground.

He was also interviewed by reporters on the sidelines.

"Do you know how the Chinese team counts points to win?"

Now there are various postings on the forum and various topics on Weibo, and this question was naturally thrown to him by the reporter.

"I'm not good at math, but I know that if I win the game, I will have the initiative."

Yao Ming shook his head.

"Then do you think the Chinese team can win?"

the reporter asked.

"certainly."

Yao Ming's answer is also very simple.

After the training of the Chinese team, the Cameroon men's basketball team also came back to the field.

When the two teams met, Tang Tian stopped to communicate with Siakam for a while.

The reporters also watched the training of the Cameroon men's basketball team.

They basically attack inside and shoot outside, which is also consistent with their previous game style.

After training, Embiid was interviewed by reporters on the sidelines.

The reporter also threw the same question to Embiid.

"Do you know that if you count small points, if the Cameroon team loses to the Chinese team by more than 10 points at night, they will advance?"

the reporter asked.

"No, I don't know, we don't count small scores, we only look at big scores."

Embiid is also quite confident.

The only possibility for Cameroon to be eliminated is to lose more than 10 points to the Chinese team. If they win, they will definitely advance, which is why he said to look at big points.

"Then what do you think is the advantage of the Cameroon team?"

The reporter then asked.

"Inside, Pascal and I both have advantages in matchups, and we will make good use of this."

Embiid also has no reservations, and in fact there is nothing to reserve.

The strongest inside team in the World Cup is against one of the weakest. This advantage can be seen by individuals.

In the afternoon, the match between the Greek team and the Argentine team took the lead in the afternoon.

For these two teams, this is also a battle of life and death for both sides.

The Greek team still has a glimmer of life if they win, while the Argentine team will enter the quarterfinals as long as they win.

Neither the Chinese team nor the Cameroon team came to the scene, because it is basically impossible to play against each other afterwards, and they are more adjusting their mentality before the game.

However, on the hotline, Chinese fans paid unprecedented attention to this game.

Very simple, if the Greek team can win against the Argentine team, and the winning score is between 5 and 35 points, then the Chinese team will directly enter the top 8.

After the game started, the number of Greek fans on the hotline skyrocketed.

The game was also extremely intense.

The Argentine team still played their freehand basketball, attacking the ground with mercury.

However, the Greek team seems to have regained the outside touch since the last game, and the combination of inside and outside play is not a disadvantage.

The two teams fought until the end of the fourth quarter.

With 1 minute left before the end of the game, the Greek team even tied the score at 86.

But at the most critical moment, the 39-year-old veteran of the Argentine team Scola showed off. He hit two three-pointers against Borosis and Antetokounmpo.

These two three-pointers also allowed Argentina to defeat Greece 92-88 and advance to the quarter-finals ahead of schedule.

After the game, Ginobili, who came to watch the game from the sidelines, excitedly ran onto the field and hugged Scola, who also reached out and touched Ginobili's head excitedly.

Only Argentina was still fighting in the golden generation of Argentina, but he successfully brought this Argentine team into the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

The fans on the hotline are extremely regretful.

The Greek brothers are unreliable, and now they can only rely on the Chinese team themselves.