343: See you next time, in the finals(1/3)
The Dream Team lost two games in a row at the beginning of the group stage, which really made Yingjiang feel embarrassed.
Prior to this, since NBA players played in the Olympics, the Dream Team had not lost a single game in the Olympics.
Not to mention losing, any team that could compete with the Dream Team in the past would have been considered a great player.
In the past, the dream team was like your goddess, you could only watch from a distance but not play with them.
But now, even thieves like Puerto Rico can play with the dream team at will.
In fact, in Sydney in 2000, the Dream Team's dominance had already been challenged.
Although they are still undefeated in Sydney, the Dream Team has won very thrilling games in several games.
But thrilling is thrilling, and the result is at least satisfying.
By 2004, the Dream Team dynasty completely collapsed.
At the end of the game against Lithuania, Larry Brown's eyes were dull and he felt unbelievable.
What the hell...
Why is the Olympic journey different from what I imagined!?
Larry Brown insisted on participating in the Olympics despite being injured, just to win an Olympic gold medal and enrich his resume.
Speaking from now on, we are also Olympic champions and worthy of being a famous coach of our generation.
It was agreed that the Olympic gold medal would be awarded directly, but the application process turned out to be so troublesome.
At first, Larry Brown didn't want Tomjanovich to pick the peaches, so he insisted on playing with the injury. But if he had known this, he might as well have let Tomjanovich come!
Other coaches lead teams to compete in the Olympics with a gold-plated background, so how come it turns into a mess when it comes to me?
It’s so funny that he didn’t fix this mess himself.
If Tomjanovich comes, Dream Team 6 may not be so miserable.
Master Tang doesn’t say anything else, but at least the lineup selection will be more reasonable than this.
Although many stars don't want to come, don't underestimate the NBA's talent pool. Even if the stars don't come, it shouldn't be a big problem to form a reasonable lineup.
With a few shooters, AI and Duncan can play alone in peace, and Dream Team 6 will not lose like this.
Larry Brown thought this was the NBA, and Iverson could do something good when playing one-on-nine.
Just follow that idea.
That idea itself is unreasonable. Otherwise, it would not be able to win the championship even if it is stronger than AI.
Larry Brown also has a dream that "as long as the Dream Team presses the other teams for the whole game, it won't play anymore."
Indeed, in the 1990s, as long as the Dream Team pressed the whole court, their opponents might not even get past halftime.
But...my lord, I have eaten poop!
Now the Dream Team no longer has the dominance it once had, but the strength of other countries is growing rapidly.
This is no longer the era when the dream team could easily win the championship.
Everything you do must keep pace with the times. Not to mention playing basketball, even writing novels. These days, you don’t know how to illustrate pictures that keep pace with the times. You are embarrassed to say that you are writing novels.
Larry Brown is under great pressure now. His team has not won a game since the start of the Olympic Games.
If this guy can't even qualify for the group... Larry Brown is really afraid that one day he will walk out on the street eating hot pot and singing songs, and be suddenly shot down by a black gun.
After all, anything can happen in the area of Mi Li's house where shootings happen every day.
A general can have a lot of imagination, so what is impossible for a head coach?
What's more, Larry Brown is still in Detroit.
While Larry Brown was still in a daze, a reporter came over and said, "Coach Larry, what's going on with the team now?"
This MiLijia reporter looked very worried. Basketball is our dominant sport.
When you fight like this, do you lose your own face? No, you lose the face of our great United States!
"Uh... bad luck, bad luck. In the last game, our own touch was too poor, but today the opponent's touch was too good! Look at the shots just made by Jaskovicius, they were not good at all.
It’s unreasonable!
But even if he can get in, who can do anything about it?
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, we can't always be so unlucky. Don't worry, the advantage is still mine!"
Although Larry Brown was panicking inside, he couldn't just cry out in front of reporters, right?
In the next few games, the Dream Team must ensure complete victory in order to qualify safely.
I didn't expect that one day, the dream team would actually be worried about qualifying from the group.
On the other side, the New Zealand team was so abused by Yao Ming that they couldn't take care of themselves, and everyone began to doubt life.
A player who is taller, stronger, and faster than you is already desperate enough.
As a result, you find out that his skills are even better than yours!
Have you ever experienced this kind of despair?
The New Zealand center felt his balls hurt when he thought about what he had just experienced.
When defending, you can only look at the back of the person's head, and there is no room for interference when taking action. This feeling is really stupid.
But New Zealand players don't blame Yao Ming. Today, the culprit of New Zealand's abuse is...that devil Bao Che!
It's so good, I have to pretend to provoke Yao Ming.
Without Li Ang's life, he got Li Ang's disease.
Anyone can learn the ninth art of pretending?
The key is that he does not directly defend Yao Ming, so it is his teammates who are tortured.
This wave is equivalent to if you went to a KTV and called two long-legged people once, and you took them out after drinking because you were not satisfied.
As a result, it was your brother who paid the money the next day.
Enjoyment is what you enjoy, suffering is what your brothers suffer.
Who can bear this?
The centers of the New Zealand team really want to beat Boucher nine times in three days, pretending to be happy for a while, and destroy their teammates in the crematorium.
After this game, it is basically a certainty that the Chinese team will appear.
All it takes is one more win to definitely qualify.
Although the next opponents, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro and Argentina, are not good opponents, fans believe that it is impossible for the Chinese team to lose three consecutive games.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Introduction is the confidence that a world champion should have~
Sure enough, in the next two games against Italy and Serbia and Montenegro, the Chinese team won both of them.
The match against Italy attracted much attention, after all, this European powerhouse had beaten the Dream Team by 17 points in the warm-up match.
People think that no matter how bad the Dream Team is, it is not easy for a team to beat him by 17 points.
No matter how tired a wolf is, it is still better than a husky. Being able to defeat a tired wolf proves that being too selfish is not a bad thing.
The match between the Chinese team and the Italian team was absolutely exciting.
However, what surprised people was that the Chinese team won this game very easily.
Because in that game, after Yao Ming blocked the basket, Yiduli's cutting was basically abolished.
They can only win with outside shooting.
But today, Italy's outside shooting was just out of shape, and it couldn't do anything offensively.
On the defensive end, Italy is not easy either.
In the last game, Yao Ming shocked the world with 39 points in a single game. In today's game, Li Ang continued the climax with a performance of 37 points in a single game.
In the original history, the Chinese team lost very miserably in this match against Italy. If Li Ang remembered correctly, he seemed to have been beaten by the opponent by more than 30 points.
But that game was not actually about how good Italy's offense was, but how bad the Chinese team's own offense was.
The reason why Li Ang still remembers it is because no one on the Chinese team scored in double figures in that game. Even Yao Ming only scored 9 points on 3 of 12 shots. It was considered Yao Ming's worst performance in the Athens Olympics.
But things are different now. The Chinese team's offensive points cannot be contained so easily.
Li Ang relied on one post-up move and scored 27 points in the first half.
In the second half, the Italian team began to shrink its defense against Li Ang, and Li Ang distributed the ball to Yao Ming for a shot.
These two cores, inside and outside, make the Italian team very difficult to defend against.
In the end, the score was 85 to 68, and the Chinese team won by 17 points.
Li Ang assured that this was really just a coincidence, and the Chinese team really did not intentionally remind everyone that Mengliu lost to Italy by 17 points.
After this game, facing Serbia and Montenegro, the Chinese team also won without any suspense.
Although Serbia and Montenegro have basically retained most of the main players from the former Yugoslavia, due to various complex reasons, the players in the team are not united.
To be continued...