Super Legendary Superstar

Although O'Neal has left the Lakers, the Lakers' leadership battle does not seem to have ended here. Will it evolve from the OK battle into a battle between Kobe and Sun Zhuo?

Kobe agreed to renew his contract with the Lakers and did not ask the Lakers to trade Sun Zhuo, which already explained a problem, that is, Kobe felt that he could suppress Sun Zhuo. At least in the next three years, Kobe believed that Sun Zhuo could not threaten him. of status.

But Kobe underestimated Sun Zhuo's growth rate. Maybe Sun Zhuo can't compare to Kobe now, but once Sun Zhuo reaches the full level, coupled with those game bugs, he will be fully capable of competing with Kobe for the top spot.

O'Neal was forced to leave the Lakers because of Kobe, and now he is resentful of Kobe, so he is looking forward to seeing Sun Zhuo grow up quickly, and then steal Kobe's leadership of the Lakers. By then, he will also be smiling in Miami.

After talking to O'Neal on the phone, Sun Zhuo called Phil Jackson again. Although Phil will not be Sun Zhuo's coach next season, in the past season, Phil trusted and valued Sun Zhuo very much, and Sun Zhuo knew Phil will return to the Lakers soon.

The two greeted each other, and Phil knew that Sun Zhuo had called specifically to care about him. After all, Phil had won the championship for the Lakers, but he could not get his contract renewed. This made anyone feel unfair to Phil.

Phil smiled heartily on the other end of the phone, and he didn't seem to be in a bad mood, "Legendary coach Cotton Fitzsimmons said that you can't really understand what type of coach you are until you are fired. Sun, you don't have to Worry about me, I'm ready to retire from the basketball world, I will find something to enrich my mind, I am now going to finish writing "The Final Season", after finishing this book, I plan to leave Los Angeles and go to Travel to New Zealand, Australia and the islands of the South Pacific.”

"You are always thinking of ways to improve yourself." Sun Zhuo admired Phil very much. Perhaps it was because of Zen. Phil looked at the results of things, good or bad, very freely, and would always find something to do for himself. .

Phil smiled and said: "Although I have only been with you for one season, I think we have established a relationship. Maybe we will have the opportunity to continue this relationship in the future."

Sun Zhuo was very happy: "This is what I want to say. You will definitely come to the Lakers again. I will wait for you and let you lead us to win another championship!"

Phil did not promise Sun Zhuo, but said with a smile: "To be honest, I am not interested in saving a terminally ill team. I hope you won't mind if I say this, but the situation of the Lakers next season is not the same." Optimistic, apart from the personnel changes, the key is whether the backcourt combination of you and Kobe can have the effect of 1+1 greater than 2? I have coached Jordan and Pippen in similar positions to you and won six Championship, but you two are both Jordans."

Even Phil Jackson is not optimistic about the Lakers next season, especially the backcourt combination of Sun Zhuo and Kobe. It seems that Sun Zhuo's second season may not be as easy as the first season.

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The days of training with the national team passed quickly. One month passed in the blink of an eye. Sun Zhuo went to Athens to participate in the Olympic Games with the Chinese men's basketball team.

The competitions of this Olympic Games will start two days in advance of the opening ceremony on August 11th. August 13th will be the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics.

At the opening ceremony, Greek actors demonstrated the romance of the Aegean Sea and the civilization of ancient Greece with poetic and dreamlike performances. The unique torch lighting ceremony pushed the opening ceremony to a climax.

Being in such a grand and gorgeous scene, it is difficult for Sun Zhuo not to be excited. The Olympic Games is a stage that every athlete dreams of. Sun Zhuo is proud of being a professional athlete!

At the entrance ceremony, Yao Ming, the tallest player, took on the role of being the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation. Yao Ming was a head taller than everyone else, so it was easy to find the Chinese team at the scene.

Sun Zhuo The first game of the Olympic Games is on the 15th. The Olympic men's basketball team has 12 teams, divided into two groups, A and B. The Chinese team is in Group A. It must first play the group stage, which is a single round-robin system. Each team in the group Teams play against other teams and use points to eliminate the last two teams in the group, and then select eight teams to enter the knockout rounds.

In the first game of the Chinese team, the opponent was very strong, the Spanish team with Pau Gasol!

Don't look at the fact that the Spanish team only finished seventh in this Olympics in its previous life, only one place higher than the Chinese team. However, Spain won the group stage! They only lost one game in the entire Olympics, with the highest winning rate among all teams. Even Argentina, which won the championship in the end, lost two games, one of which was to Spain!

Argentina, which won the championship, lost to Spain. You can imagine how strong Spain is. It's just that one thing is better than the other. They were very unlucky. They ran into the American team in the quarter-finals. Then Marbury had a big explosion, so he could only finish seventh.

The first opponent in the Olympics is so strong, which gives everyone in the Chinese team a headache. Although it is possible to lose in the group stage, everyone still wants to pursue a good start. At least they can't play badly in the first game, right?

Coach Harris has also been telling everyone about Spain as an opponent in the past two days.

Coach Harris, known as the "Silver Fox", has also done some research on the Spanish men's basketball team: "Speaking of the Spanish men's basketball team, we have to mention the 1999 U19 World Youth Championship, which was the core of that World Youth Championship and carried the The now powerful Spanish men's basketball team started. In that year's World Youth Championship, they defeated the United States U19 men's basketball team and won the championship trophy. That was also the starting point of their glory. Pau Gasol, Navarro, Jose Calderon , these three people are very difficult to deal with, they are also the core of Spain, and they will be the ones we focus on defending on the court."

Pau Gasol and Jose Calderon were still active in the NBA until 2017, which shows that they are really capable, especially Pau Gasol, who had not suffered a metatarsal injury in 2004. Sol has great athletic ability. Sun Zhuo has some impressions of the showdown between Spain and China in 2004. I remember that this year, Yao Ming was defeated by Gasol.

"I remember that even when facing the US team, Gasol was unstoppable in the paint. Gasol will definitely cause a lot of trouble for the Chinese team, and there are differences between FIBA ​​rules and NBA rules. The Olympics There is no defense for three seconds in the game, which will be more beneficial to inside players like Gasol, and the three-point line in FIBA ​​is not far away from the three-point line in the NBA. Gasol can even pull out to shoot three-pointers. It seems that, If you want to win against Spain, the key lies in how to limit Gasol's performance."

Pau Gasol is now in the Memphis Grizzlies. If he encounters the Grizzlies led by Gasol in the NBA, Sun Zhuo will not be afraid at all, even if there are no strong opponents like Kobe and O'Neal around him.

However, for some reason, once he entered the international arena, Sun Zhuo felt that Gasol was like a devil, more terrifying than Iverson and Duncan of the US team.

Sun Zhuo recalled what Kobe Bryant said about Gasol after the 2008 Olympics.

"He's the best in the world!"