Opening Alley-Oop, 180-Degree Poster Dunk!

Opening Alley-Oop, 180-Degree Poster Dunk!

China and Slovenia's game was scheduled for noon.

For players accustomed to playing at night, that wasn't ideal.

Still, the two teams got along well, and there was no friction between them.

Unlike when they played Japan and South Korea, when the China Team players came out wanting to kill them.

At 1:30 p.m., the game got underway in a friendly atmosphere.

The game was being played at the Philippine Sports Stadium.

The stadium was so absurdly huge that it could hold a full 50,500 spectators.

It was the largest basketball stadium in the world, bar none.

The Philippines considered basketball its national sport and had invested heavily in developing it.

There was another stadium of this scale in the Philippines.

The 50,500 seats weren't all filled yet; only a little over 30,000 people were in attendance.

But compared with the France team's quarterfinal, which had drawn only a little over 10,000 fans, today's crowd was already twice as large.

The vast majority of them were fans of Dongzi and Wang Yi.

The only game likely to fill every seat was Team America's.

Slovenia's lineup:

Center: Chalmers, who played for the Nuggets

Forwards: Zoran Dragić, Edo Murić

Guards: Dongzi, Prepelic

Their lineup wasn't especially tall.

Their center, Chalmers, was only 2.03 meters tall.

Slovenia's head coach, Aleksandar, had no one else to turn to at center, so he had Chalmers, who stood 2.03 meters, play the position.

Against a lineup like that, Coach Du Feng didn't go with a twin-towers formation.

He put Zhou Qi on the floor as the only center, with Shen Zijie as his backup.

Although Chalmers lacked size inside, he could shoot the three.

If they put two tall centers on the floor, they wouldn't be able to keep up with