The Fifth Point Guard

  Chapter 459 The United States is also upset, and the era of separatist rule comes (second more)

  Due to the poor ranking in the 2002 World Championships, the American men’s basketball team must participate in the 2003 American Men’s Basketball Championship and win the top three to qualify for the Olympics.

  Spurred by the disastrous defeat of the previous year, many top NBA stars applied for the competition, easily won the championship, and at the same time obtained the qualification to enter Athens.

  However, due to safety reasons, 10 of the 12 players who originally participated in the U.S. Championship chose not to play in Athens.

  The American Basketball Association can only look for alternative candidates, and the revised lineup of the American Dream Six is ​​very different from the original.

  On the team, only two MVP superstars Tim Duncan and Allen Iverson have never left the team.

  The 12-man roster of the final Dream Six Team is as follows:

   Center: Emeka-Okafor

  Power forwards: Tim Duncan, Carlos Boozer, Amare Stoudemire, Lamar Odom

  Small forwards: LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Sean Marion, Richard Jefferson

  Shooting guards: Allen Iverson, Dwyane Wade,

  Point guard: Stephen Marbury,

  The coach who coaches this Dream Six team is Larry Brown of the Detroit Pistons.

  After the Chinese team upset the Spanish team by 17 points, the American men’s basketball team also capsized the next day.

  They lost even worse than Spain, losing to Puerto Rico 73-92 with 19 points.

  The Spanish team should be grateful to the American team, because their disastrous defeat caused the biggest upset since the start of the Olympic Games.

  The major websites immediately removed the Spanish team’s upsetting news and replaced it with the more popular American team’s loss.

  The starting lineup for the US team that day was Marbury, Iverson, Jefferson, Odom and Duncan.

  When I saw this starting lineup in front of the TV, even Shen Tong couldn’t help but jokingly said: “Meng Six’s ranking is too random, so Richard Jefferson was allowed to start.”

  In Shentong's view, James, Anthony, and even Marion are above Jefferson.

  Although Jefferson is a good friend of Shentong, it is true.

  Puerto Rico’s starting lineup is Arroyo, Ayoso, Otiz, Rolando and Santiago.

  Puerto Rico, except for Arroyo, none of the other players have any NBA game experience.

  People thought this was a training-style massacre by the Dream Six team. Who knew that Puerto Rico and the United States played on a par in the first quarter.

  In the second quarter, Puerto Rico played a 28-7 fantasy quarter.

  Ayoso, who faced Iverson, scored a team-high 12 points in the first half, while Iverson only scored 4 points.

  When I saw this, Shentong finally understood why he was 1.78 meters tall and could not get the opportunity to start or even play at Peking University. Because of the height problem, it would really become the target of the opponent's attack in the official game.

In the 76ers team, other players will do their best to help Iverson defend or supplement defenses, but in the Dream Six team, no player is willing to lower his status and take the burden of dirty work, especially Iverson's partner in the backcourt is still Marbury, who is always taller than the sky.

  In the first half, Puerto Rico shot 57% from the field and 50% from the three-point field.

  In comparison, the US team's shooting percentage is only 45%, and the three-pointer is only 1 of 13 shots.

  The huge gap in shooting percentages created a big lagging behind Dream Six.

   In the second half, the adjusted dream six hits once improved, but with the strength of Arroyo and Ayoso's double guards, Puerto Rico has always firmly grasped the rhythm and initiative of the game.

  Until the end of the game, the Puerto Rico players did not relax at all.

  In the end, they beat the US team 92-73, breaking the biggest upset since the start of the Olympic Games.

  Spain and the United States lost both in the first game of the Olympic Games, which surprised many media.

  More media have played the headline "The world basketball pattern will be redefined".

  It seems that world basketball has entered an era of separatism.

   Perhaps stimulated by China and Puerto Rico, the recognized fish belly team in Group B, the Angola team from Africa, even almost defeated the European champion Lithuania.

  In the end, Angola lost 73-78 by 5 points, but Angola received unanimous praise from the media, which also shocked the Lithuanian team in a cold sweat.

  Spurred by China, Puerto Rico and Angola, the New Zealand team also showed great bravery.

  They almost overturned the powerful Italian team.

69-71, they are closer to the upset than Angola.

   After these two games, the view that "there are no underdogs in this competition" has formally formed.

  Argentina and Serbia and Montenegro do not know whether they have been stimulated, the two teams also played inextricably in the first game.

  Finally, the Argentine diamonds were even more shining, and they narrowly defeated Serbia and Montenegro by 83-82 and won the opening.

  The most relaxed in the first game was the Greek team at home. They easily defeated the Australian Kangaroos 76-54 at home.

  After defeating the Spanish team in the first game, the confidence of the Chinese men’s basketball team was bursting, and it also gained the attention of domestic and foreign fans.

  In the second game against New Zealand, the Chinese team played more like a strong team than Italy.

  They beat New Zealand 89-62.

  Yao Ming played exceptionally well in this game, scoring 39 points, 13 rebounds and 3 blocks, which became a nightmare for the New Zealand team.

  Shentong played quite low-key compared to the first game, "only" scored 20 points.

  Wang Zhizhi played harder than the first game, scoring 11 points and 9 rebounds in a quasi double-double.

  After the US team experienced a black first defeat, in the second game, the Greek team, which played 77-71 at home, showed the true qualities of the dream team.

   also announced the return of the king.

  The first game was just a nap by the tiger.

  In the next game, the Chinese team lost to Argentina 77-82, and won their first defeat, but the scene did not fail.

  Then, the Chinese team beat Italy 82-79 and achieved 3 wins and 1 loss.

  In the final game, China defeated Serbia and Montenegro 80-75, achieving 4 wins and 1 loss, the same record as the Spanish team.

  But because of the relationship between victory and defeat~www.ltnovel.com~ China ranked first in Group A, Spain ranked second, and Argentina and Italy ranked third and fourth in the group.

  Group B, after the US team defeated Australia 89-79 in the third game to achieve two consecutive victories, it was beaten down by the Lithuanian team 94-90.

  The US team, with two wins and two losses, won an 89-53 victory over Angola in the final match of the group stage, securing a ticket to the semi-finals.

  No one thought that the Dream Six team would play so hard in the group stage.

  Lithuania, Greece, Puerto Rico, and the United States ranked one to four in the group stage.

  The Chinese men’s basketball team, which had qualified first in the group, made the fans very happy.

  But when they saw the rankings of Group B, everyone was shocked.

  Because the Chinese team, which has finally achieved the best group record in the Olympics, will face the powerful American Dream Six team in the first game of the knockout.

  Although Meng Liu has lost two games in the group stage, no team dare to say that they can beat this team in a certain game.

  On the afternoon of August 28, the match between the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team and the American Dream Six will officially start.

  (End of this chapter)