I’m Really Playing Basketball

Native American.

The news that Larry Brown led the Dream Six team out of the quarterfinals is still frantically spreading.

Especially for Larry Brown's coaching of the Olympic Games, they are attacking like crazy.

No one thinks there is anything wrong with the Dream Team and the American Basketball Association putting all the blame on Larry Brown. No one sympathizes. Even his disciples dare not speak out in the face of surging public opinion at this time.

The Associated Press bluntly stated: Larry Brown is entirely responsible for today's results. His reputation is indeed loud enough, but the entire Olympics was a mess in terms of organizing offense and assisting defense. At the moment of being eliminated, maybe many people will Like Carmelo Anthony's idea, with a dog tied to the coach's bench, maybe the Dream Six team can go further.

The Daily Image said: The Chinese team caused the collapse of the basketball dynasty established by the United States since 1988, and they also ended the United States' "Dream Series."

It is undeniable that although the strength is far from that of the original "Dream One" team, the personal abilities of the American team members are still higher than those of their opponents.

Everyone knows that basketball is a team sport, but Larry Brown, the experienced head coach of the "Dream Six", doesn't know that!

As a head coach, he cannot integrate the team and all the players are working independently. The overall cooperation of the American team is far from that of the Chinese team. To be precise, it is not on the same level at all.

Larry Brown's tragic experience is all reasonable in the face of such a huge failure. The only person he can complain about is himself!

CBS Sports Network is even more ruthless: Is the Chinese team better than us? Okay, Lithuania is better than us? That's okay, but Greece and Puerto Rico are also better than us? !

Based on his state before the start of the Olympics and his embarrassing performance in the group stage, he should have left long ago!

Good guy, watching the national media crazily beating up Larry Brown here, Wade is really happy!

Originally, he did not want to go to the United States for this year's Olympics.

As an American, you can't go to the Olympics to cheer for the Chinese team, right?

How embarrassing it would be when the Chinese team and the American team meet in the finals.

No need to worry now.

Larry Brown is gone. The US team has been eliminated. He can happily take his wife and children to Greece to cheer for Chen Xiao and Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi.

Thousands of miles away in Cleveland, James had the same idea as Wade at this time.

The U.S. team is still in the Olympics, and he really can't go to Greece, and now that's really no problem.

However, compared with Wade, there is another thing in Xiao Zhan's heart that is different from Wade.

It’s great to be able to avoid the big trap of Dream Team 6 this time.

Now Xiao Zhan is really happy, but he also hates the hook that forced him to participate in the Olympics at the last moment.

This wasn't the first time Hook had forced his hand.

In fact, every time he said in an interview: "I will never leave Cleveland. There is no better team for me than this team. I love the fans here, I love my teammates here, I love here Everything. I will bring a championship to Cleveland. I will never leave!"

Someone would come out to warn him. With Xiao Zhan's IQ, how could he not see that Hook didn't like his hometown of Cleveland?

Hooks must be ready to get him out of Cleveland.

To be honest, for Xiao Zhan, who is now full of white moonlight, this is annoying.

Moreover, Hook had been asking him to do various commercial promotions last season, which hindered his normal basketball training. This was one of the main reasons why the Cavaliers were eliminated.

To be honest, Xiao Zhan has already had big opinions on hooks.

Although the hook gave him a lot of money, now he found more and more that the value of the hook was more and more contrary to the value he pursued.

"LeBron, Nike hopes that you can attend a fan event in Los Angeles tomorrow."

"Don't go!"

"..."

James' agent Goodwin looked embarrassed. He has been very embarrassed recently. Although the whole country is attacking Larry Brown, it seems to have nothing to do with him, but...

He and Xiao Zhan's mother both support Xiao Zhan to participate in this year's Olympic Games.

He and Xiao Zhan's mother support Xiao Zhan's plan to cooperate with Nike to build Xiao Zhan.

Nike's influence in the American sports world is too great.

As long as Xiao Zhan is obedient, let's put it this way, surpassing Kobe without a championship, surpassing Jordan with one championship, there is no problem.

But now, Larry Brown has led the Dream Team to play like this, embarrassing everyone.

Not only was Hook embarrassed, he and Xiao Zhan’s mother were also embarrassed.

They are keen to make decisions for Xiao Zhan.

They hope they can plan everything about Xiao Zhan.

But in the end, what they planned was not as good as Xiao Zhan's own seemingly 'willful' decision.

Larry Brown brought Meng Liu's humiliation out of Greece, which made Xiao Zhan's mother become a lot more honest recently.

"LeBron, we still have a long contract with Nike. I hope we don't make the relationship with them too tense."

Goodwin knew that Xiao Zhan was full of resentment towards Hook, so he couldn't suppress it, so he could only try to persuade him a little.

He believes in James' IQ.

"I know, but I don't have time in the next week. I'm going to Greece to watch the Olympics."

"..."

Goodwin was speechless again. Is the Wonder Boy that important to you?

He didn't dare to say such words.

But he said quietly: "LeBron, I know it was Chen who advised you not to participate in this Olympics, but if you participate in this Olympics, the result of the Dream Six Team may not be like this."

From what he said, it seems that Chen Xiao deliberately prevented James from playing for the country for the Chinese team. In Goodwin's words, Chen Xiao is an insidious villain. Although Goodwin said nothing, , as long as Xiao Zhan is willing to accept this sentence, then Xiao Zhan will definitely be very wary of Chen Xiao.

But obviously, how could Xiao Zhan believe it!

He didn't believe that he could save the dream of Dream Team Six.

This time Larry Brown led the Dream Six Team to a defeat in Athens. The biggest problem was shooting.

In terms of three-point shooting percentage, no one from Meng Liu was selected into the top 10. In the quarter-final match against the Chinese team, I originally thought that after Meng Liu’s magical three-point performance against Angola, their confidence in long-range shots would be improved to a certain extent, but it turned out that the last game of the group against Uncle Black was just a dream. It's just the "reflection of light" from six long shots.

Against the Chinese team, they were beaten back to their original form. They made 3 of 11 3-pointers, while the Chinese team shot 15 of 30, with a hit rate of 50%. Xiao Chen made 8 of 15 by himself.

To make matters worse, Meng Liu is not only poor at long-range shooting, but his mid-range shooting, which NBA stars should be very good at, is also unsatisfactory. In terms of two-point shooting percentage throughout the Olympics, Meng Liu ranked first among the 12 team players except for Duncan, who ranked 63.79%. Four, with no other players ranked in the top ten.

The Chinese team has three pitchers, Yao Ming, Chen Xiao, and Wang Zhizhi, who rank in the top ten in field goal percentage, ranking first, fifth, and tenth respectively.

By the way, Yao Ming shot 78.5% from the field during the 2002 World Championships, which was astonished by the Americans as "miraculous."

Historically, Yao Ming's field goal percentage in the 2002 World Championship was 75.3%.

With Chen Xiao, Yao Ming's offensive opportunities are much better. Finally, someone is passing him the ball he is comfortable with. How can he not be great?

Therefore, after playing the American Dream Team, the "Xiao Ming Team" of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming has been called the strongest duo in the history of international basketball by professionals in the international basketball community.

Regarding the praise of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming in the international basketball circle, the media here in the United States can only bite their noses and admit it.

There was no way, the two of them scored 75 points together against the Dream 6 team, which was 1 point less than the 76 points scored by the entire Dream 6 team.

"Xiao Zhan, the combination of Dayao and I is invincible in the Olympics. At least, Larry Brown can't beat us."

Recalling what Chen Xiao said to him, looking at it now, Xiao Chen did not lie to him. The combination of Xiao Chen and Yao Ming is indeed invincible in the international arena.

Therefore, Goodwin's words will not waver James at all.

"I know, I will remember my relationship with Nike, but my schedule will not change. I will go to Greece tonight."

"..."

Goodwin thought he felt so tired.

He could finally understand Gloria's mood now. Ever since LeBron met Wonder Boy, things seemed different together.

The tired Goodwin left, and he was so tired that he didn't notice the cold look in Xiao Zhan's eyes behind him.

Hum, sowing discord?

I'll write it down first.

Xiao Zhan's revenge is not as fast as Xiao Chen's. Xiao Zhan always writes down his revenge first.

Chen Xiao naturally doesn't know what is happening in the United States now.

However, the next night after the Chinese team defeated the American team, Chen Xiao met three of his good friends in Greece.

Xiao Zhan, Xiao Tai, Xiao Pao, good guy, all three of them are here.

"Chen, when I came, Michael asked me to bring you a sentence: 'I am very happy that the era of the Dream Team that I started was finally ended by you. This is the best fate for the Dream Team.'"

After hearing what Xiaopao brought for Uncle Qiao, Chen Xiao was also shocked.

While surprised, Chen Xiao was also quite moved.

Look at what it means to be open-minded, this is what it means to be open-minded!

What is the generous and selfless love of seniors for juniors? This is it!

"I have always felt that Michael and Kevin are the two most generous and gentlest seniors in the NBA."

Of course Michael is Jordan.

And Kevin, of course, is Garnett, the NBA's well-known and confidant brother to rookies.

However, after Chen Xiao finished sighing like this, no matter it was Xiao Zhan, Wade or Paul, there was silence for a while.

"Am I wrong?"

"..."

No, what you said is very, very wrong!

Of course, you can just complain about this in your heart, but don’t say it out loud.

Chen Xiao was very happy to see his three good friends before the Olympic semifinals between the Chinese team and the Italian team on August 27.

By the way, after the Chinese team defeated the American Dream Team and entered the semi-finals, it became the most popular team to win the Olympic men's basketball competition.

The teams that entered the semi-finals, the Chinese team, Spain, Italy, and Argentina, are all teams in Group A, and the Chinese team is the first team in Group A.

Coupled with the prestige of just defeating the American Dream Team, it would be unreasonable not to name the Chinese team as the favorite to win the championship at this time.

But in fact, facing the semi-final opponent Italy, the Chinese team is very serious.

I'm not disappointed at all because I beat Team USA.

For the Chinese team, Italy may be the most difficult team to beat in this Olympics.

In the group stage, the two teams were evenly matched.

Italy's style is very against the Chinese team.

Fast, very fast.

Accurate, very accurate.

And the defense is very disciplined.

Historically, in the 2004 Olympic Games, Argentina was the only strong player, and the second strongest player was Italy.

Historically, Italy defeated Lithuania, the top team in Group B, to reach the final.

Historically, Italy defeated Argentina in the group stage.

Although the Chinese team has suddenly become the most popular team in the world, this game against Italy is really not an easy game.

It was 8 o'clock in the evening on August 27, 2004, Athens time. 19 hours ago, the Chinese team had just played the game against the American team. Now, after less than 24 hours of rest, it was about to have another big battle with Italy.

I have to say that the men's basketball games at the 2004 Olympic Games were really annoying. The group stage was played every two days and the knockout games were played every day.

The Chinese team played last yesterday but played earliest today. This schedule is indeed very unfavorable.

However, for the players of the Chinese team, such a devilish schedule is not important, and strong opponents are not that important.

After eliminating the US team, the Chinese team players only have eyes for the Olympic gold medal!

"If we don't win the Olympic championship despite such a good opportunity, we will regret it for the rest of our lives, and Chinese basketball will regret it for a hundred years!"

This is what Chen Xiao said to his teammates before the game started.

Now Chen Xiao has become the de facto leader of the Chinese team, although the captain of the Chinese team is Yao Ming.

"Will we make Chinese basketball regret it for 100 years?!"

"Won't!"

Encouraged by Chen Xiao, Chinese players' desire for this game has reached its extreme.

At the Helinik Olympic Sports Center, the starting players of the Chinese team and the Italian team have already appeared on the court after warming up.

The Chinese team's starting players for this game are center Yao Ming, power forward Chen Xiao, small forward Zhu Fangyu, shooting guard Li Nan, and point guard Liu Wei.

"The starting lineup of the Chinese team has changed again in this game. Chen Xiao appears at the power forward position, while Liu Wei starts!"

"This is the first time Chen Xiao has started at power forward in the World Series, and this is also the first time Liu Wei has started at the Olympics!"

Seeing the Chinese team's starting lineup for this game, Teacher Zhang was very excited and also very nervous. This is the secret weapon of the Chinese team. There is no need to worry about Chen Xiao playing power forward. The key is Liu Wei playing point guard. His point guard Can the ball now face Italy's pressing?

Liu Wei, the ball control he has learned from Chen Xiao in the past two years has been proven in the CBA and Asian competitions and has made rapid progress. However, can it be used in international competitions and world series?

Moreover, can his psychological quality be put to use?

To be honest, if someone traveled back to 2004 from 10 years later, they would definitely not have any doubts about Brother Wei's psychological quality.

Brother Wei is definitely one of the guards with the best psychological quality in the history of Chinese basketball. He may not be ranked high in terms of strength, but his mental quality is not much better than his.

Therefore, Liu Wei, who became the starter in this game and became the focus of the whole game and even the world, is now nervous and excited at the same time.

At the start of the game, Yao Ming beat Italy's 2.11-meter center Marc Nato with a jump ball

Italy's starting players for this game are Marknato, Garanda, Richetti, Blely, and Pozeko.

After Yao Ming succeeded in jumping the ball, the eyes of the whole of China turned to Liu Wei, who was pressed by the 1.98-meter defender Lihti at halftime.

"Can Liu Wei stabilize his possession in the press of the Italian defender?!"

Not only the Chinese audience is nervous, but Italian coach Carlo Carlo is also nervous.

Soon, everyone no longer needed to be nervous. Facing Lihti's pressing, Liu Wei made a very unpretentious turning breakthrough and easily shook off Lihti's pressing.

"I won't let Teacher Xiao Chen down!"

Liu Wei, who passed Lihti, gritted his teeth and thought about it.

Now I don’t know how his strength will fare when faced with the full-court press of the US team, but when faced with the press of Asian and even European defenders, he will definitely not panic anymore!

"Liu Wei's expression is very chic and handsome!"

Such a simple and unpretentious turn to get rid of, at this time, in Teacher Zhang's mouth, it was chic, handsome, and extremely gorgeous. It can only be said that everyone's expectations for Liu Wei were too low, and Liu Wei's performance this time was so surprising. .

Liu Wei's current ball-handling skills are of course stronger than in history. Facing European players who are skilled rather than talented, Liu Wei's ball-handling is qualified.

However, the possession of the ball was consolidated by Chen Xiao, but the organization...

Then don't expect too much.

Therefore, seeing Liu Wei's pass after getting rid of it beautifully, Teacher Zhang next to him was dumbfounded.

"Liu Wei's pass was very unreasonable, Chen Xiao didn't get rid of the defense!"

Pass too anxiously, you will make a mistake and be cut off!

And just when Teacher Zhang was shouting loudly and the Chinese audience in front of the TV wanted to take back their praise of Liu Wei, Chen Xiao, who was stuck with the Italian player at the free throw line, jumped up and grabbed Liu Wei's high shot from behind. A quick pass.

Then, Chen Xiao made a light mid-range fadeaway jumper against the Italian player's defense and hit the basketball in his hand to the basket in a shooting posture. Yao Ming turned around the opponent Marconato and succeeded in a split dunk.

2 to 0!

An original mistake, turned into a very beautiful internal pass by Chen Xiao? !

The Chinese audience in front of the TV cheered after being taken aback for a moment.

And Xiao Zhan in the stands kept smiling and nodding.

It’s a great pot, whoever uses it will know!

The defender of the Chinese team has good ball-handling skills, but his passing skills are a bit lacking. However, with Xiao Chen as an excellent player, the passing skills don't actually need to be that good.

Being able to meet Xiao Chen as a teammate, this Chinese defender is really happy, and he can cover up his shortcomings.

Brother Wei is indeed happy.

Because when he passed the ball to Chen Xiao just now, his hand slipped a little...

However, Chen Xiao can catch such a pass, which makes him don't know what to say.

"As long as the ball can hit Chen Xiao's hands, Italy will be in danger!"

The Chinese team has two inside players, one inside and one outside. How can Italy defend them?

The last time they played against Italy, Yao Ming almost collapsed due to the encirclement and suppression by Italy. Now, does Italy still dare to encircle and suppress Yao Ming?

If Yao Ming is not surrounded, Italy's inside line, which is 2.11 meters tall, will not be able to guard Yao Ming.

Therefore, after the Chinese team's first attack was completed, many experts on the scene had already sentenced Italy to death.

And the process and results of the game are indeed like this.

In the first quarter, the Chinese team, led by Chen Xiao, entered the state first. Yao Ming, Chen Xiao, and Yao Ming scored successively. The Chinese team took a 6-2 lead from the start.

The inside combination of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming suppressed Italy as soon as they came up.

But after all, the Italian team is not a weak team that collapses in one fight, and they quickly use three-pointers to counterattack.

In the first quarter, they made 3 of 6 three-pointers, which can only be regarded as their normal level.

The Chinese team made 0 of 2 three-pointers in the first quarter. Well, Chen Xiao did not pull out to shoot three-pointers. In order to cooperate with Dayao, Chen Xiao has been active in the mid-range in the first quarter of the game.

However, although Italy's three-point shooting in the first quarter was very good, in the three-point line, I'm sorry, the Chinese team's inside partner of Yao Ming and Chen Xiao really did whatever they wanted inside the three-point line. No joke.

In the first quarter, the inside combination of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming only allowed Italy to hit one two-pointer.

At the end of the first quarter, Chen Xiao hit two points from the free throw line, and the Chinese team ended the first quarter with 23-16.

In this quarter, the changed Chinese team also changed the difficulty of playing Italy in the group stage, beating Italy almost out of breath.

The two Chinese players who performed best in the first quarter, Yao Ming contributed 10 points and Chen Xiao scored 8 points. However, Chen Xiao also had 4 assists in addition to 8 points.

It can be said that the combination of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming almost destroyed Italy.

And, to be honest, the first quarter of the match between China and Italy was far more shocking than the 23-16 score.

Because the combination of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming is so incredible.

"Is this the strongest combination in FIBA ​​that Xiao Chen said?"

Xiao Zhan on the sidelines can really understand now.

Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's internal and external duo is already so powerful.

Now, the two turned around and turned into a double insider combination. How can the opponent defend against this?

Italy defended well against Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's internal and external combination in the group stage.

But facing Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's double inside combination, they finally collapsed.

And Italy is already a very strong team!

Therefore, watching Italy tremble and be ravaged under the Chinese team led by Chen Xiao and Yao Ming in this game, whether it is the audience at the scene or the audience in front of the TV, at this time, they feel that the recent FIBA ​​touted Chen Xiao and Yao Ming are the strongest combination in the history of international basketball, and it seems that there is really no problem.

Even Carlo, the opponent of the Chinese team at this time, thinks so.

"Is this the strongest combination in history under the rules of international basketball? It deserves its name!"

Carlo sighed.

The combination of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's double insiders in this game, whether it is offense or defense, is perfect.

"They ended the era of the dream team, and at the same time they will start a new era belonging to the Chinese team!"

89 to 69!

When the game ended, Italy's head coach Carlo looked seriously at Chen Xiao and Yao Ming on the court with their hands raised to celebrate the Chinese team's first Olympic final, and thought seriously in his heart.

This Chinese team really made him see signs of invincibility.

August 27th, Greek time, August 28th, BJ time, this day is definitely a day worth remembering for Chinese basketball.

In the men's basketball semi-final of the Athens Olympic Games, the Chinese team defeated the Italian team 89-69, reaching the final of the Olympic basketball game for the first time in history.

The Chinese team's number one hero in this game, Chen Xiao, had his first career Olympic triple-double today, with 25 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, while Yao Ming and Liu Wei contributed 27 points and 6 assists respectively.

For Italy, Soragna and Pozco scored 12 points each, Lombardoni scored 10 points, and Basler made 3 of 8 three-pointers today and finally scored 9 points.

The players with the most points on Italy's side were almost all substitutes, which shows how badly Italy's starters were defended by the Chinese team in this game.

At the last moment of the fourth quarter, under the terrifying defense line woven by the Chinese team's Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, the Italian team's offensive organization was in chaos, the players had no fighting spirit, and almost completely collapsed.

“It was a really mind-blowing game.”

In this game, James, Anthony, Wade and Chris Paul watched the match between the Chinese team and Italy. To be honest, they were quite shocked at this time.

The game between Yao Ming and Chen Xiao really gave them a sense of peak Duncan + peak general.

The key is that the peak general has never met peak Duncan.

More importantly, this combination of peak Duncan + peak general may turn into a combination of peak Jordan + peak Olajuwon at any time.

Who can bear this? !

"Do you think we can beat them on behalf of Team USA in the future?"

After Chris Paul asked, the three young NBA stars next to him were silent for a moment...

When looking at Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, they actually hesitated to lead the US team to defeat them and regain the crown!