Don't talk trash to him.

Chapter 17 The American men's basketball team made history, and the Chinese men's basketball team also wants to make history

In the 02 World Championships, the American "Dream Team Five" created the worst record in history at home in Indiana:
6th in the world.

The humiliating result prompted many NBA superstars to agree to participate in the 2003 America's Cup.

The "Dream Six" easily assembled a group of elite soldiers and generals: Duncan, Iverson, Kidd, Ray Allen, O'Neal Jr., Brand, Carter, Bibby, Kenyon Martin, Richard Jefferson, and Nick Collison.

They swept all the way and broke out of the America's Cup.

However, a terrorist attack broke out in Greece, the host country, and the terrorists threatened to continue organizing terrorist acts in the future. A large number of members of the "Dream Six" announced their withdrawal. The American Blue Slant had no choice but to cram in a large number of freshmen and sophomores.

These include LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade from the "03 generation", and Amar'e Stoudemire and Carlos Boozer from the "02 generation".

These players have the ability and will become the backbone of the NBA in the future.

But now they are rookies after all, with little experience on the court, and they are facing FIFA basketball rules that are different from the NBA.

In addition, the head coach chosen by American Blue Slash is Larry Brown, who is famous for not liking to use rookies.

When the results of the warm-up match came out, a large number of American media were not optimistic about them and called them the "nightmare team." But even these vicious American media probably didn't expect that the "Dream Team 6" could be so outrageous:
In the first game of the group stage, they made a big mistake and lost to Puerto Rico 73-92, becoming the first team in the history of American basketball to lose in an international competition since the formation of the "Dream Team".

However, this defeat did not wake them up, and the second defeat followed, they lost to Lithuania. After the group stage was over, they ranked fourth in the group with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses, barely qualifying.

Such a result directly detonated the American media.

The angry Americans told them not to take the plane back, but to just swim back, because they had lost everything anyway.

However, they soon discovered:

Finishing fourth in the group may not be the most embarrassing moment for the US men's basketball team this year, because they are likely to fall in the first round of the quarterfinals.

According to the rules of the competition, after entering the "top eight", the two groups A and B will fight against each other alternately. The two teams with the best results will play against the other team with the worst results, and so on.

That is to say, the "Dream Team" ranked 4th in Group B will face Italy, ranked 1st in Group A!

In this World Cup, Italy was originally the runner-up.

It's not that they are lucky, but that they are strong.

Argentina was no match for them in the group stage.

What really worries American fans is:

In the previous two warm-up games, they won one against the "Dream Team" by 17 points, and in another game they barely escaped with the help of Allen Iverson's big "three-pointer". The opponent that avoided a "two-game losing streak" was none other than the Italian men's basketball team!

They have a huge psychological advantage against the "Dream Team 6".

In addition, finishing fourth in the group already put the "Dream Team" under tremendous psychological pressure.

Even David Stern was alarmed by this "quarterfinal match", and he personally rushed from New York to supervise the scene.

Originally, he supervised the "bronze medal battle" between the "Dream Team 6" and Lithuania. In the end, the "Dream Team 6" overcame the pressure, defeated Lithuania, and won the third place in the Olympics.

But this time, David Stern failed to bring good luck to the "Dream Team 6". There are many reasons:
The original "Dream Team 6" defeated Spain, the first in Group A, and accumulated a certain amount of self-confidence. But this time they faced Italy directly and had no time to adjust.

Another point is that the playing style of the Spanish men's basketball team is more American, which is the comfort zone that the "Dream Six" team is more familiar with. Marbury only had one outburst in the Greek Olympics, which was the game against Spain.

Facing the European and South American teams, this year's "Dream Six" was restrained.

78:69.

David Stern watched the "Dream Team 9" lose the elimination game by points.

The "Dream Team 6" continues to make history, this time with the worst performance in the Olympics:
Top 8!
The Chinese men's basketball team was also preparing for the quarterfinals, and Su Wan missed the result of this game. But right after the training, he got the news from his accompanying staff:
"Dream Six" lost!
This means that if the Chinese men's basketball team also loses in the quarterfinals, it may face the "Dream Team 8".

With Lithuania, Puerto Rico and Italy having done it, maybe the Chinese men's basketball team can also do it, leaving behind classic historical materials for bragging in a decade or so:
America is a basketball powerhouse. Do you know the "Dream Team"? I remember the Athens Olympics when I was beaten by my buddies and screamed!

But it's no use, the more it barks, the more excited I get, and the more excited I get, the more I do it!

Of course, this idea is just a thought.

What would be more glorious than defeating the "Dream Team" is to improve the Chinese men's basketball team's best record in the Olympics!
And now, the opportunity to make history is here:

In the quarterfinals, the Chinese men's basketball team, ranked third in the group, faced Puerto Rico, ranked second in Group B!

This should be the most suitable opponent for the Chinese men's basketball team among the other seven teams in the quarterfinals.

Because a year later, the Chinese men's basketball team without Su Wan played against Puerto Rico twice, winning one game and losing the other game by a single-digit score. This shows that the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team and Puerto Rico is comparable.

However, the Puerto Rican team that played against the Chinese men's basketball team a year later did not have the "ace point guard" Arroyo. He was the key to Puerto Rico's victory over the "Dream Six" team. He scored 24 points in the game against the "Dream Six" team, making a group of NBA stars outside the team lose face.

Therefore, whether Arroyo can be restricted will largely determine the outcome of the game between the Chinese men's basketball team and Puerto Rico.

The responsibility of defending Arroyo naturally fell on Suwan.

After the training, Del Harris talked to Suwan and said, "Uncle, I will arrange for you to defend the opponent's No. 24 core tomorrow. He scored points against the Dream Team . If you can limit him, I think you will definitely cause a heated discussion in America."

This "Silver Fox" is quite vicious.

I actually thought of feeding him "chicken soup" and "Red Bull".

Fortunately, Su Wan was born a "social animal" and he had no idea how many "big cakes" his boss had prepared for him when he was working, so he was already full a long time ago.

Harris's call not only did not make his blood boil, but made him want to laugh:
"Del, I am a Chinese player first, and an NBA player second!"

If the key point is wrong, how can this chicken soup be cooked correctly? — No, it seems that the values ​​of the West generally put personal interests above the honor of the organization.

Thinking in this way, Del Harris did not make the wrong "chicken soup", he just did not understand what "China's national conditions" are.

Su Wan didn't want to argue about the two values.

But for him, his true feelings at the moment are:
Create the best result for the Chinese men's basketball team in the Olympics!
Apart from this, he had no other thoughts.

(End of this chapter)