Legendary star

Chapter 189 Olympic Games

On September 2000, 9, the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, all members of the Chinese men's basketball team moved into the Olympic Village. The arrangement was basically the same as when they participated in the warm-up match. The two youngest players in the national team, Yao Ming and Meng Xu, were arranged in the Olympic Village. After tidying up the same room, Jiang Quan, the head coach of the national team, called all the members of the Huaguo national team, held a small meeting, and started preparing for the Olympic Games.

In this Olympic Games, the Huaguo national team can be regarded as the most prosperous national team in history, with Wang Zhizhi, Battelle, and Yao Ming as three major centers inside, and Liu Yudong, the best power forward in China in recent decades, as a power forward. Although Liu Yudong has been plagued by injuries this season, it is undeniable that the current Huaguo basketball world really cannot find a better power forward than Liu Yudong.The front line is full of talents. Hu Weidong, Sun Jun, and Li Nan are all top-notch forwards in Asia, and Meng Xu is a player who has proven himself in the NBA.At the same time, there is another good news that Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong, the two pillars of the national team, have almost recovered. People are also in good condition.Under such circumstances, the National Basketball Association is also very optimistic about the prospects of the Olympic Games. At present, it has set the goal of breaking through history to the head coach of the national team, Jiang Quan, which is often said in the CBA. 3. Strive to reach the top 8 of the Olympic Games in this Sydney Olympic Games.

But what is currently unfavorable to the Huaguo basketball team is that in the grouping of this Olympic Games, the Huaguo team was divided into the death group. Several opponents in the group stage, the American team known as the dream team, and The Italian team, the champion of the last European Championship, as well as the traditional European teams Lithuania and France, and this French team is called the hope of Europe, and the French team is also considered to be the best hope to break the American basketball team's domination of the world basketball , and even the New Zealand team, the weakest opponent in this group, has a record of winning and losing against the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team in the World Series.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the group can appear, the head coach Jiang Quan has formulated a strategy for the group stage in advance, and at the same time communicated with the players under his command in advance.In the few games in this group stage, some games must be given up, some games must be won, and the rest must be fought for as much as possible.Among the five opponents in the group stage, the U.S. team will undoubtedly give up. The Huaguo men's basketball team has no hope at all against the U.S. team. The best situation is to lose by more than 5 points. It's better to give up voluntarily if you are seriously injured.The game against New Zealand must be won. Only by winning New Zealand can the Huaguo men's basketball team guarantee the hope of emergence, while the rest of Italy, France, and Lithuania must fight hard. There are 20 teams in the group stage There are only 6 places for the team to qualify, which means that at least two or even three wins are required to qualify. At the same time, in order to reach the top 4, it is necessary to avoid the strongest Russian team in the other group. In the game against the United States, the Huaguo men's basketball team must ensure that they win at least 3 of the remaining 4 games in order to qualify for second or third place in the group, thereby avoiding the strongest Russian team in another group.

After conveying the instructions of the National Basketball Association, coach Jiang Quan began to explain to the team members the tactics and strategies that the national team will implement in the group stage, and then each team member also distributed a piece of moon cake as a benefit for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Dayao, what's wrong with your mooncakes?" Meng Xu grinned as he held a piece of mooncake with five kernels. He didn't like mooncakes with five kernels the most.

"Mine are jujube paste, what about yours?" Unlike Meng Xu, Yao Ming, who has never traveled far, felt melancholy when he got the mooncakes. It seemed that he missed his family and girls far away.

"Let's change it, I don't like to eat five kernels." As soon as Yao Ming said that his mooncake was made of jujube paste, Meng Xu went up to grab it without saying a word.

"The mooncake with five kernels is the authentic mooncake, and other mooncakes with jujube paste are heresies." Somewhat helplessly, Yao Ming took the mooncake with five kernels that Meng Xu forced into his hand, and said helplessly. In fact, he didn't like it either. Five-nut mooncake: "Meng Xu, you said that the melon seeds, peanuts, sesame seeds, almonds, and walnuts are all delicious if they are separated separately. Why are the five kinds of delicious food mixed together, but they are somewhat inedible?"

"The question you asked is too difficult, and I can't answer you." After taking a bite of the mooncake, Meng Xu continued, "This five-nut mooncake, I think, is similar to playing basketball. What about these five players? They are all Jordans, and they are all likely to win the championship. But if five Jordans form a team, not to mention winning the championship, I am afraid they will fight first." After finishing speaking, Meng Xu was a little bit ashamed of himself. This set of fallacies was convinced, but Meng Xu's statement was borrowed from Popovich.When Meng Xu first entered the Spurs, Popovich once asked himself, do you think five Jordans can win the championship together?Meng Xu's answer is naturally yes, let alone one, ten are possible.

But Popovich told Meng Xu that a team with 5 players of Jordan's level will never win the championship. Basketball is a team sport. Since it is a team, someone has to sacrifice and give. From the Celtics before, to the Lakers and Bulls later, and even the Spurs now, teams will always win championships more easily than individuals.In fact, Popovich's main intention was to let Meng Xu understand that he must have the determination to sacrifice for the team, but Meng Xu seemed to be thinking about it.

"Maybe you're right." For some reason, the chat with Meng Xu strengthened Yao Ming's determination to win the championship in Shanghai. In the past, the Shanghai team was always beaten by various slaps when facing the Bayi team. Even the fledgling Yao Ming cried because of this. In the past, Yao Ming always thought that the Bayi team had more stars. Now after hearing Meng Xu’s words, Yao Ming changed his mind. Bayi is a basketball with soldiers as the main body. Compared with ordinary players, they have more team spirit and dedication, which is why they are a group of big-name players together, but there is no internal strife for ball possession and status like other teams.

On September 2000, 9, in the first round of the Olympic group stage, the Huaguo men's basketball team will face the strongest American team in the group. In this game, Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong, who have recovered from their injuries, did not start the game. Like Xu, he only played for a few minutes, got familiar with the rhythm of the game, and then left. In the end, the Huaguo men's basketball team also lost 17 to 72 to the US team by 119 points. The world has shown the strength of American basketball. The Huaguo basketball team, which suppressed all dissatisfaction in the Asian basketball arena, was unable to fight back after meeting the American team. The game entered garbage time from the second quarter.

On September 9, Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong started against New Zealand, China's second opponent in the group stage. Although Meng Xu only played 19 minutes off the bench, he also contributed 12 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists.In the end, the Huaguo basketball team easily defeated the New Zealand team 3 to 75.

However, Mr. Zhang Lili, the commentator of CCAV, publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with Coach Jiang Quan in the live TV broadcast. Teacher Reasonable, has some criticisms about Coach Jiang Quan's use of Yao Ming and Meng Xu.

"There is a problem with Jiang's personnel arrangement for this game." This is what Mr. Zhang Lili said after the Chinese team's starting roster was released, and after seeing that Meng Xu and Yao Ming were not included in the starting lineup.

"Hey, for a player like Meng Xu, how can you use it like this? It's unreasonable? Popovich doesn't even dare to use it like that." When Teacher Zhang Lili saw Jiang Quan's tactical arrangement for Meng Xu, the winning streak It's unreasonable, unreasonable. In this game, Meng Xu came off the bench and resumed his old skills to defend the core of the New Zealand team's outside offense. At the same time, on the offensive end, Meng Xu basically had no chance.

"Is this right? Is it reasonable to play like this? Look at Meng Xu's 3-pointer, which is the level of the NBA's 3-point leader." In the fourth quarter of the game, Meng Xu hit two consecutive 3-pointers, breaking New Zealand's After the momentum of the counterattack was killed, Mr. Zhang Lili continued to be reasonable and reasonable in the live TV broadcast. Just like this, just like this, also amused countless Chinese fans.

On September 9, in the third game of the group stage, the Huaguo men's basketball team played against the French team. Coach Jiang Quan also continued the arrangement in the previous game. The main players of the Huaguo basketball team played very well. At the end of the third quarter, they led the French team by 21 points. However, the outstanding performance of the Huaguo basketball team did not win the praise of Zhang Lili. Coach Quan's dissatisfaction.

During the live broadcast of the last game, Coach Jiang Quan knew about Zhang Lili's dissatisfaction with him the next day, but Jiang Quan had nothing to do with his big-mouthed predecessor. Zhang Lili, the No. [-] forward in Asia and the head coach of the national team, has a very high status in the entire Chinese basketball world, so Jiang Quan can only pretend not to hear Zhang Lili's criticism.

Some book friends suggested that I increase the number of words in each chapter to about 3000 words, which is more enjoyable to read, so I will try it in the past few days, and update as much as possible on the premise of ensuring 6000 words per day.Well, I still owe Sven Ke Nangong a chapter of hatred.

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