China won, 78:75. Liu Wei with a long 2 to lead, they turned over, Yao made the 1st FT and missed the 2nd intentionally
Yao Ming led China on a 78 vs 75 win over the Italian Benetton Triviso. He closed out the game with a free throw, purposedly missed his last one at 2 seconds, after Liu Wei hit a long range 2-point jumper at 3.8 seconds to surge ahead 77 vs 75. Yao Ming was again showing great competitive shape and form.....easily a double-double with 32 points/10 rebounds.
aww that's nice, GOO YAO!!! lol is there any highlight videos or more hot pics of russian cheer leaders tonight pry u r the man of the forum, we ask u for "everything" for real XD
But after these series friendly games Yao looked so tired even exausted at the final minutes tonight. CNT's offense relies on Yao in almost every possession.
He was a crackup. this foul is something very strange to me. lol. he ws saying thing like that. i swear he sounded identical to borat. lol.. I love this commentator. i hope euro sports keeps this guy on. just for entertainment value...
Yao Ming 32 points (11/15 FG% 10/11 FT%), 10 rebounds, 2 blocks, 5 turnovers, 3 personal fouls in 32 minutes of action.
I wish there was a Chinese equivalent to Rockets2k so that we U.S. Americans can get to see YAO in the off season. C'mon China, step your capture game up!
Team China 78-75 Benetton Basket Tamoil The hosts from Team China made the CBA-Euroleague Challenge crowd in Kunshan, China as happy as could be on Sunday by downing Benetton Basket Tamoil 78-75 in a down-to-the-wire thriller that either team could have won. Point guard Liu Wei broke a tie by downing a gutsy jumper while stepping on the three-point line with 4 seconds left to secure the Team China victory. The hero of those fans, Yao Ming, truly led Team China to victory by scoring 33 points and pulling 10 rebounds in 33 minutes on the floor. Yao was money in the bank as he hit 11 of 15 two-point shots and 10 of 13 free throws. Yi Jianlin followed with 13 points for the winners, while Wang Lei added 12. Team China won despite making only 2 of 14 three-pointers in the game, as opposed to 11 of 27 for Benetton. The author of 4 three-pointers, Demarr Johnson, paced Benetton with 19 points, while Lionel Chalmers hit 3 others and finished with 17 points. The third member of Benetton's scoring trio was Mario Austin, with 16 points, to which he added 9 rebounds. Almost three minutes passed without scoring before Yao gave the crowd a thrill by dropping in a hook shot to start the scoring, and when Yi followed with his own shot inside, Team China was up 4-0. Angelo Gigli finally got Benetton going with a triple, and Matteo Soragna copied him from the arc, allowing Benetton to tie 6-6. China's offense started clicking with Yao scoring the next 5 points and then Yi stealing, dunking and downing the extra free throw for a 14-8 Team China advantage. Benetton kept scoring from the arc, however, where Johnson's first triple made it 16-13, but Yao downed another hook as Team China held onto a 21-16 edge after one quarter. The Yao and Yi show continued on the offensive end, as they boosted Team China's lead to 27-22, but now Benetton's offense ws diversifying. Austin downed his first two buckets, Engin Atsur added another and Chalmers pumped a pair of three-pointers to cut the difference on the scoreboard to 31-30. Benetton had hit 5 triples by the time the first of them fell for Team China off the hand of Wang Lei. As the end of the half neared, the Team China offense found others sources for points. A nice turnaround jumper in the lane by Liu Xiaoyu came with a free throw, which he made to keep Team China in front by 39-34. Then the crowd got another treat to finish the quarter as Zhu Fangyu's three-pointer rolled around the rim twice before falling and giving the hosts a 42-34 halftime advantage. Benetton came out after the break and served notice of its intentions by reeling off a 0-8 that Chalmers started with a driving layup and Pops Mensah Bonsu finished with a fastbreak basket that forged a 42-42 tie. Team China reacted by going to its big man again, and Yao obliged with a dunk on offense and a blocked shot on defense. But it was Wang Shipeng, with a pair of drives, the second of which had a free throw included, who boosted Team China back in front by 49-44. Chalmers, Austin and Johnson, with another three-pointer, kept Benetton on the heels of their hosts, but Yao with a hook and tip-in, helped by Wang Lei's three-point play, made sure that Team China still was in front by 59-55 after three quarters. Benetton was far from finished. Johnson drilled from dowtown to open the final quarter, then Atsur and Chalmers copied him to vault Benetton into the lead for the first time in the second half. Benetton was still holding sizable 67-71 lead with 3 minutes remaining, when Yao reappeared with a dunk. Johnson answered with his fourth shot from downtown, putting Benetton up by 69-74 with 2:28 left to play. Yi started the Team China stretch run with a short basket, Wang Lei added free throws and Yao went to his hook shot again after getting good position to tie 75-75. After a Benetton miss, Team China saw its chance. Liu Wei took advantage of a collapsed Benetton defense to step forward and drain the go-ahead jumper with 4 seconds left on the clock. Benetton called timeout, but turned over its inbounds pass and then fouled Yao, who made the first try and missed the second as the clock ran out. Sunday, September 30, 2007 Euroleague.net http://www.euroleague.net/uleb/cba-euroleague-challenge/main/i/15620/1343/item
Quotes Team China head coach Jonas Kazlauskas I think it was a good and interesting game and I am happy to win against such an important club like Benetton. We have had success because we have had Yao in the last month. When you have a player of his level, every time you can get easy points, and that made a difference at the end of the game. We didn't start the game well. Maybe we were a little afraid of a team from the Euroleague. We made some easy turnovers. We finished the second quarter well, but after we started the third one bad. About our shooting, this is not the only time we've had it tough. There were some games before like this. This is something I talked about from the beginning: we need more games together with Yao, because it's not always easy to play with him. Sometimes the shooting problems are not about the shooters. If you have a player on your team like Yao, the players will always be hesitant to shoot because they are looking for the option to pass to him. That also makes our percentages go down." Team China center Yao Ming "CSKA is a very strong team, a recent winner of the European club championships. They have a lot of players I know, like Andersen and Papaloukas, who are among the best players in this world, so tomorrow is going to be a good matchup for sure." Benetton Basket Tamoil head coach Alessandro Ramagli "We arrived here after a heavy loss in the Italian Supercoppa, which was our first official game of this season, and a tough loss to come back from. But I thought tonight that our players played a tough game, with spirit and heart, and maybe they deserved something more. This game gave us some good ideas about our team. We have seven new players and I think tonight was a first step in knowing something about our future." Benetton Basket Tamoil guard Lionel Chalmers "I think it was very hard-gouth game on both sides. Team China was a very tough team. We attacked them a couple times, especially in the second half, but they stuck with it, and vice-versa, when they attacked us and we stuck with it. I had the feeling while playing it that it would come down to the end. We tried to stretch the lead when we got it, but they didn't let that happen. It's hard to win on the road in games like that, but I hope as we get better that we will be able to win these kinds of games." http://www.euroleague.net/uleb/cba-euroleague-challenge/main/i/15624/1343/item
Why would all these Australian and Italian teams traveled 1000 miles to play a friendly game during their regular season?
I watched the game. Yao had at least 1 TO where he blew an uncontested two-handed dunk. Yao still tends to not go up strong enough under the basket. He also had 2 point-blank dunk attempts foiled by weak fouls.
i believe euroleague wants to tap into the chinese market and the australian league is sponsored by a chinese business. and i'm sure they're paid handsomely for the trip.
