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Chapter 19 A Typical Case of 1 plus 1 being less than 2

After the "bronze medal match" comes the final.

The two teams that entered the finals remained the same: Argentina and Italy. The final result also remained the same: Argentina won the gold medal thanks to Ginobili's magical performance.

This is the first time that the gold medal has gone to another country since the United States formed the "Dream Team" in 92.

This day came earlier than expected.

The organizing committee awarded Olympic medals after the game, and Ginobili also won his first Olympic Finals MVP trophy.

His peak period has just begun.

The "magical Manu" is far from his most brilliant moment. Of course, for the Argentine, this is his most brilliant moment.

The Olympics is a dream, and the NBA, well, it’s just a place to make money!

The Olympic men's basketball "best lineup" was also released on the same day.

China Men's Basketball Team became the biggest winner:
Su Wan and Yao Ming were both included in this list.

You know, only Manu was selected from Argentina, which won the gold medal. The remaining two spots are Tim Duncan of the "Dream Six" and Pau Gasol of Spain.

But their selection was well-deserved and did not cause any controversy.

Yao Ming averaged 7 points, 22.3 rebounds and 10.3 blocks in 1.7 games.

苏万的数据更为全面，场均24.6分5.6篮板4.4助攻1.6抢断0.6盖帽。他不仅是华夏男篮的“得分王”，还是奥运会所有男篮里的“得分王”。

People are in high spirits when good things happen. It was the last "farewell dinner" of the Chinese men's basketball team before returning home. As Battelle was not there, Su Wan made an exception and drank some red wine.

The others just drank like crazy, making history and everyone was very happy.

At the end of the drinking, Zhang patted Del Harris on the shoulder and said drunkenly: "Djokovic, if you teach like this, you will have to lead the next men's basketball team. Then we will try to win a medal!"

Even Yao Ming has a big tongue.

In addition to the fact that the Chinese men's basketball team finally won the Olympic semi-finals and he and Su Wan were selected for the "Best Team", he was also happy about something else. Carol Dawson just called and informed him of the team's big deal:
The Rockets sent Francis, "Old Cat" Mobley and Kevin Cato to the Magic and got "super scorer" Tracy McGrady, who won the "scoring champion" title last season.

In the new season, he will work with top outside players.

It's not that he dislikes Francis and Mobley.

Thanks to Francis's protection during his rookie season, he was able to adapt to the NBA more quickly. He always remembered this kindness.

It was only through his cooperation with Su Wan that he realized how comfortable it was to cooperate with an outside player who was good at both offense and defense. There was nothing wrong with the scoring ability of "Big F" and "Old Cat", but their defense was really "the most difficult thing in the league."

The aftershocks of the deal continued for days.

Some media didn't expect the Magic would really trade McGrady for Howard. Even if McGrady himself publicly requested a trade, couldn't he say a few soft words? In this era, superstars need to be coaxed. If not, who will follow you? I thought it was an era where teams could deal with players at will?

TNT believes that the Magic management's move is as stupid as letting Shaquille O'Neal go in 96. Another part of the media is shocked by the birth of another "super duo". ESPN calls this deal "a major earthquake that changes the league's landscape". Yao Ming and McGrady are called the "new OK combination".

Only Su Wan knew that this deal, which was now causing a shock across the United States, would only result in sighs six years later.

It can be said that Yao Ming is not as good as Shaq, or that McGrady is not as good as Kobe, or that injuries are as severe as a tiger. Anyway, they did not play the dominance that the outside world expected.

The best result of the "Yao-McGrady combination" was only the first round of the playoffs.

On the contrary, without McGrady, Yao Ming led the Rockets into the second round of the playoffs.

This is a classic case where 1 plus 1 is less than 2.

Compared to this deal, Suwan is actually more curious about whether the Rockets can reach higher heights if this deal has not been made and Francis and Mobley still stay in the Rockets. You know, this lineup was originally copied from the Rockets team that won two consecutive championships in 94/95. According to the original plan, the Rockets would play the "one star, four shooters" tactic after Yao Ming grew up. Unfortunately, when the lineup was about to be successfully tested, Tomjanovich was diagnosed with "bladder cancer" at this time and had to retire for treatment.

The "one star and four shoots" tactic also drifted away in the night wind of Houston with his departure.

Van Gundy Jr. took good care of Yao Ming. During his tenure as the head coach of the Rockets, Yao Ming, who had gained weight, was well protected by him. But in Su Wan's opinion, "one star and four stars" is the tactic that can allow Yao Ming to show his best.

But like JJ said, there is no if...

After all, I will never have the chance to see Yao Ming like that!

The deal caused a stir across the country, but not every city put the story on their front page.

So there's some happy event in Houston, right?

Who doesn’t have something to be happy about?
For example, a lot of news reports in San Antonio are about Ginobili, and Cleveland's sports headlines are also full of Suwan's name. Suwan, who has already gained a lot of fans in the summer league, has made Cleveland people even more excited after the Olympics.

Such a large amount of exposure is definitely a good thing for Suwan. Even the newspapers, led by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, either said that "LeBron's strongest outside assistant for the new season is in place" or that "Uncle will replace Zadunas as a more suitable second-in-command for the Cavaliers", as if "he came to assist LeBron" was a done deal.

He didn't yell in rebuttal.

What he needs to do now is to get into training as soon as possible.

After playing 7 games in the Olympics, he gained another 19 zone points. On the plane to Cleveland, he opened the attribute panel and spent all the zone points. Among them, 5 zone points were used for him to continue to improve his physical potential. Now his physical potential value has reached 9 points.

He put all of the remaining 9 points into core strength, and the potential value of core strength also reached 7 points.

Su Wan had considered this addition carefully.

In the 7 games of the Olympics, in order to ensure that the "The zone" mode lasted long enough, he usually played with Yao Ming in the first half, in the "saving effort" mode. Even so, he could only maintain the "The zone" mode for 20 minutes at most in each game. Once he needed to invest a lot of energy on both offense and defense, like in the game against Puerto Rico, he could not maintain the 20-minute duration at all.

This shows that 72 points of physical fitness are far from enough for his playing style, and he needs to continue to strengthen his physical fitness.

Increasing the potential value of "Physical Fitness" can allow him to improve his physical fitness more quickly.

Core strength largely determines his upper limit in the "The Zone" mode, and Su Wan needs to continue to improve it. Moreover, both strength and physical fitness are aspects that cannot be improved after the start of the season, so he must seize the few remaining time in the offseason.

(End of this chapter)