While the Chinese men's basketball team confirmed their eighth place, the American Dream Team's journey to the knockout stage also came to an end. They fell to the hands of Argentina again in the semi-finals. After failing to enter the finals of the 2002 World Championships, they fell to the semi-finals again.

Although they still have the chance to compete for the bronze medal, for this team, not winning the championship is equivalent to failure. Regardless of whether they can win the bronze medal in the end, in the eyes of American fans, they are all a group of losers!

It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time that America has failed to win the Olympics after forming the Dream Team.

Although this day will come sooner or later, it seems to be a bit early. You should know that when the United States is determined to officially form a Dream Team composed of NBA superstars, American experts predicted that "this team will embark on a journey of dominance for at least 30 years."

But unexpectedly, when they arrived at the Dream Team 4, America fell on the stage of the Olympics, which was unexpected to the Americans.

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The fans were very dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction was not offset by the victory of the Dream Team in the subsequent bronze medal battle. You know, they had already fallen once in the World Championships, and this time the "Dream Team" fell again, which means something self-evident.

Although it is not to say that the United States is definitely not the overlord of the basketball world now, as foreign media said, the national team that can threaten their dominance has appeared, and there are more than one.

For a moment, all the fans looked at the NBA. After all, the main force of this league is basically the basis for the formation of the Dream Team. Their attitude is the key to whether the Dream Team can regain its dominant position in the future.

Judging from the various performances of the Olympic Dream Team, the players' abilities are definitely not a problem. The problem is that they are not suitable for the pace of the FIBA ​​game, especially the joint defense of European teams, which has reduced the skills of these NBA players who are better at breaking through in half.

In addition, there are many rules that are different from FIBA, which also affect the performance of the Dream Team in FIBA.

If the American Dream Team wants to quickly adapt to the FIBA, then the NBA's rules must be closer to the FIBA, which is the root cause.

But in this way...

This game is not good!

David Stern was sitting in the office of the league president at the moment, and he knew that American fans were waiting for him to give an explanation, but the problem was that these rules of the NBA were set to make the NBA play more intensely. For example, without joint defense, it was to encourage stars to play singles and make more breakthroughs, so that the scene would be exciting. If the joint defense is introduced like the FIBA, the number of singles of the stars can be predicted and will definitely be greatly reduced. In this way, will the unique characteristics of the NBA disappear?

So, how to change this rule is a big problem!

In fact, David Stern has not been unaware of the Dream Team's struggle in the international arena over the years, and he had issued a statement in 2001, allowing the head coach to use joint defense.

However, judging from the situation on the NBA's defensive end in recent years, players are still focusing on single defense and additional supplementary defense. Few head coaches will take the initiative to use joint defense.

This is also the default unspoken rule of the league's head coaching circle.

They do not accept joint defense.

In addition, David Stern also specially added the Skills Challenge on last year's All-Star Weekend. From the several links required for the Skills Challenge: dribbling, passing and shooting, it can be seen that the original intention of this challenge is to make players pay attention to their basic skills.

After all, in international competitions, especially in this Olympics, it is obvious that European team players are very solid in basic skills such as "fortune, pass, and investing".

This is also why they can play smooth team attacks.

However, this event has only been in place for two years, and the baby said, "I can't be a fat man in one bite." It will take time to quickly make NBA players notice the importance of these basic skills.

In short, Stern was not without movements, but none of these movements had a significant effect.

Of course, this also has something to do with his "pretending to be deaf and dumb" to a certain extent. He does not want to change the rhythm of the NBA game and encourage personal offense. Only with breakthroughs can there be confrontation, and only with confrontation can the audience feel passion!

But this time the Dream Team suffered a Waterloo in the Olympics and showed obvious discomfort in the game against European teams. He knew that it would be impossible not to change!

First of all, the people will definitely not want to see the Dream Team so entangled in the international arena again. They need an environment that can adapt to the international arena to help them change;

Secondly, NBA has always regarded itself as the "world's strongest basketball league". However, the national team composed of stars from here cannot beat those European guys, which is indeed not a big deal!

So, NBA has to make some changes!

David Stern thought for two days and held three or four meetings during the period. Then, while the American fans were waiting, he issued a statement. In addition to re-emphasizing that NBA allows the use of joint defense, he also promoted the NBA skills challenge again, increasing the bonus for the event, in order to make this challenge gain more attention...

This statement seems to be just repeating what you have said before, but sometimes, the effect of saying it twice is definitely different from that of once!

Anyway, the fans are very satisfied with the league's attitude. Next, it depends on whether the head coaches and players of each team in the league can buy it or not.

This has nothing to do with the official attitude! It depends on whether those players are willing to change.

However, just one day after the fans thought the official had already given a response, the official made some explanations on the referee's call changes. There are many regulations, but most of them are irrelevant. However, careful experts noticed that the official mentioned the concept of the cylinder principle for the first time...

The cylinder principle refers to the right of each player on the basketball court to have the ground position where he is and the space above him, because this space is like a cylinder, so it is called the cylinder principle.

The cylinder principle is the basis used by the FIBA ​​to determine whether a player is foul. As long as the cylinder of the ball holder is violated, it is basically equivalent to a foul.

In the original NBA call, except for the cylinder principle clearly mentioned in the interference ball, there is no concept in other aspects.

Including when we mentioned the cylinder principle this time, we did not use this word clearly, but used different statements to vaguely define the cylinder principle.

At first glance, this change is not important, but it must be noted that after this, some yellings based on the cylinder principle will inevitably appear in the mind when the NBA referee calls.
Chapter completed!