Chapter 457: Victory
At the end of the game, because of Long Zheng's special status, the Salwyn basketball team did not even participate in the post-game press conference, so they quickly returned to the hotel under the escort of Long Dun. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Starting center Tim Duncan (dual U.S.-Salwyn federal citizenship, professional basketball player, playing for the Chicago Bulls), starting power forward Kevin Garnett (dual U.S.-Salwyn federal citizenship, professional basketball player, playing for the Houston Rockets), starting small forward Paul Pearce (dual citizenship of the United States and Salwyn Federation, professional basketball player, playing for the Chicago Bulls), starting point guard Long Zheng (Salwyn federal nationality, professional basketball player, playing for the Houston Rockets), Starting point guard Steve Nash (dual U.S.-Salween federal citizen, professional basketball player, playing for the Chicago Bulls); Power forward Gao Cen (Salwyn federal Chinese, amateur basketball player, soldier of the 1st Division of the Wehrmacht), small forward Chen Minghui (Salwyn federal Chinese, amateur basketball player, soldier of the 1st Division of the Wehrmacht), scoring guard Li Haoxuan (Salween federal Chinese, amateur basketball player, soldier of the 2nd Division of the Wehrmacht), point guard Zhao Jiayou (Salween federal Chinese, amateur basketball player, soldier of the 2nd Division of the Wehrmacht), scoring guard Ponnewin (Salween federal Shan nationality, amateur basketball player, Soldier of the Fourth Division of the Wehrmacht Army), point guard Khin Maung Seng (Salween federal nationality Rakhine ethnic group, amateur basketball player, soldier of the Fifth Division of the Wehrmacht Army), point guard Godanway (Salween federal nationality Burmese, amateur basketball player, captain of a Salween federal college basketball team), only from the point of view of paper strength, the Salween men's basketball team can only rank lower among the twelve participating teams in the Olympic Games.
Not to mention the 12 players in the team, all of whom are competing in the Olympics for the first time.
What's more serious is that in addition to Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pearce, Long Zheng, and Steve Nash, five of them are professional players, and seven of them, including Gao Cen, Chen Minghui, Li Haoxuan, and Zhao Jiayou, are all amateur players. Before this game, the coaching staff didn't know how much effort it took to coach the players alone, not to mention that the twelve members of the team were not familiar with each other at that time, let alone the tacit understanding on the pitch.
The first opponent in the group stage was Brazil.
At the beginning, when I learned the news, whether it was the coaching staff, Long Zheng, or the players themselves, they were all relieved.
There is no impermeable wall, the United States, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Australia, Greece, Brazil, Croatia, China, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Angola, Salwyn, among the twelve participating teams, excluding Salwyn, who is a dark horse, the United States belongs to a well-deserved super powerhouse, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Australia, Greece is the first group under the United States, and then Brazil, Croatia, Argentina, Puerto Rico are the second group, and China and Angola are the last third group.
As long as it's not the United States or the four strong teams in the first group, that's the consensus of the Salwyn men's basketball team.
If the team's first opponent was the European team Yugoslavia, the inexperienced Salwyn men's basketball team would not have won so easily. Such as Gao Cen, Chen Minghui, Li Haoxuan, Zhao Jiayou and other teams, and even the opposing Yugoslav players will play a psychological shadow.
Due to historical problems, in fact, after '98, the only players that Yugoslavia could recruit were Serbia and Montenegro, and the players from Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina could no longer represent the Yugoslav team.
But at the Atlanta Olympics in '96, players from Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina all represented Yugoslavia. Think about it, Croatia, which has just broken away from Yugoslavia, can fight its way out of the powerful Europe and qualify for the finals of the Olympic men's basketball competition with Yugoslavia, which shows the strength of Yugoslavia.
Truth be told, now that the former Soviet Union has collapsed, no European team can compete with Yugoslavia for the title of "King of Europe".
In the first game of the Olympic Games, the South American powerhouse Brazil was defeated, although this Brazilian team held the title of the weakest Brazilian team in history, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and in South America, the Brazilian team is still a well-deserved leader.
With only one game and just 10 minutes played, Ryu Jung led the substitutes to a big win over the opponent, which undoubtedly had an unpredictable positive impact on the team's morale and the mentality of the players.
Think about it, who doesn't want to play in a team that is always winning, and who likes to lose.
Because there is no competition task tomorrow, Long Zheng plans to take advantage of the opportunity to win the game to cheer everyone up and sum up his experience. At this moment, Long Zheng suddenly learned an urgent message and had to lead Jenny to leave quickly, so he could only hand over the task of summarizing the game to the coaching staff.
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On July 20, 1996, U.S. time, the first day of competition at the Atlanta Olympics was in full swing. On the other side of the globe, an unexpectedly huge war broke out in South Asia.
At 0:00 on July 21, 1996, Indian time, Pakistan's navy, land and air forces launched an all-out attack, launching a blitzkrieg to suddenly attack the Indian defenders at the junction of India and Pakistan.
Among them, the main force of the Pakistani army, about 300,000 people, with the help of its air force, set out from Pakistan-administered Kashmir, broke the iron fence and attacked the south, and attacked the 200,000 Indian troops in Indian-administered Kashmir on a large scale, and the Pakistan Army 50,000 tanks opened the way and quickly attacked the Indian army's weakly defended Punjab.
When the army and air force were operating, the Pakistan Navy was not idle.
Because the Indian Navy has been completely annihilated, the Pakistan Navy has been divided into four and dispatched at the same time to attack India's coastal defense positions along the coastlines of Gujarat, Maharashtland, Karnataka, and Kerala, creating an atmosphere in which Pakistani troops may land on the Indian mainland from the sea at any time, forcing the Indian military to concentrate its forces to support Indian-administered Kashmir and Punjab in the northeast. (To be continued.) )