The final round of the group stage began on August 23. In www.biquge.infoa, Spain won all five games to top the group and will face the fourth place in Group B. And the New Zealand team was eliminated. Italy narrowly beat Argentina by one point after a tough battle, so they and Argentina qualified from the group with 3 wins and 2 losses. The final qualifier will be a direct dialogue between China and Serbia and Montenegro.

At this time, the pressure on the Chinese players is very huge. Serbia and Montenegro were ranked No. 1 in the world ahead of the Olympics, beating the United States and Argentina at the 2002 World Championships, when they were still known as Yugoslavia, while China was only 12th in the World Championships. There is a clear gap in quality between the two, and the only good news for China is that Serbian and Montenegro star Studjakovic has not been able to participate in the Olympics.

Before the Olympic Games, Yao Ming had a beard and was determined to lead the team to the quarterfinals, and released his words - "If you don't enter the quarterfinals, you won't shave!" "The time has really come to test him. This incident exemplifies the cultural differences between China and the United States, where American athletes see national team performance as just one part of their careers; Chinese athletes attach great importance to national honors, and no matter how many achievements they have achieved in the club, they always put the national team first. The trio of the Great Wall of China won the championship in the United States, which made them more pressured, and they must lead the national team to achieve good results in order to be worthy of the cultivation of the motherland.

When the two sides entered the fourth quarter, the score was 51:54, and the Chinese team was still 3 points behind. Yao Ming himself scored 22 points and carried the team to bite the score. He was tired, but he was the only one in the team who could score points under the opposition's high-intensity defense.

As soon as the final quarter came up, the Chinese team was defended by Sebwai for a 24-second violation. Fortunately, the opponent's score was not easy, and he missed a long-range shot with consecutive three-pointers, and even Bodiloga was inaccurate. Yao Mingqiang made a foul and made 1 of 2 free throws. After a steal by Chinese point guard Liu Wei, forward Du Feng made another foul under the basket, but unfortunately he still made 1 of 2 free throws, and the difference was only 1 point at 53:54.

Sharpshooter Schipanovic, who had been silent for the whole game, finally woke up, and he hit two three-pointers in a row to widen the gap to seven points. This time it was the main small forward Zhu Fangyu who stepped up to save the team, who scored 4 points in a row and once again pulled the difference back to 1 goal.

This time it was Serbia and Montenegro's turn to be nervous, they were world champions and top teams, but they were forced into the last moment by the Chinese team. The Chinese team is like an immortal little powerhouse, no matter how hard they fight, they can't kill it, and they still stubbornly obstruct their victory.

And at this time, the Chinese team really showed what it means to be united. Yao Ming was tired, and the outside players played in turns, Du Feng, Li Nan, Liu Wei, and Zhu Fangyu played in turns one after another. Our Chinese men's basketball team is not a first-line team in the world, we lost to Spain by 25 points, Argentina by 25 points, and Italy by 37 points, but we have the dragon soul of the Chinese nation, and our dignity and spirit have not fallen!

In the final 1 minute and 44 seconds of the game, Yao Ming caused a foul and made 2 of 2 free throws. The two sides fought to a 63-all draw! The Serbian and Montenegro players have panicked, and they have started to gamble on outside threes, but they can't shoot anything. Yao Ming's hook shot caused another foul on the opposing center, and DeRobin Jacques, who contributed a game-high 17 points on the Serbian and Montenegro team, left the game with 5 fouls. Yao Ming hit 2 free throws and 2 hits again, and the Chinese team achieved a comeback!

The key time for Serbia and Montenegro was handed over to the number one star Bodi Loga, but he is also a player who has just played in the finals after a long season, and his physical fatigue is not below Yao Ming. This time he missed a step-back jumper.

The Serbian and Montenegro players were forced to foul, and Wang Zhizhi, who shot accurately, made two free throws to end the suspense of the game.

Although the Serbian and Montenegro players hit a three-point shot, the Chinese team still won 67-66 and staged a shocking reversal to successfully reach the quarterfinals. Yao Ming contributed 27+13 and became the biggest contributor again.

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Group B ended with a triumph for Lithuania, the United States and Greece. Lithuania topped the group with five wins, while Greece, the United States and Puerto Rico both won 3-2, and the Dream Six team tragically ranked fourth in the group after calculating the small score, and faced a strong Spanish team in the first round.

After qualifying, China can be said to have completed the task and is no longer under great pressure. They finally lost to their strong rival Lithuania by 20 points, and Yao Ming still played a superstar level of 29+11, which can be regarded as an explanation to fans across the country.

Italy faced a weaker Puerto Rico, leading all the way and eventually winning by 13 points. With a population of only 3 million, Puerto Rico is a very small country. This time, we were able to defeat the powerful Dream Team and reach the top 8, which has already made the people ecstatic.

Argentina and the host Greece met in the top two rounds, and in the end Argentina narrowly won by 5 points. Spanoulis didn't get a chance to play in this crucial game and didn't put in much of a show in the group stage. At this time, the Greek team did not belong to him as young.

The most striking is undoubtedly the battle between the Dream Six team and Spain. But it wasn't Duncan Iverson who dominated the game, it was Marbury. Lao Ma slashed 31+4 to lead the American team to 8 points to defeat the opponent and reach the semifinals. Spain ended their Olympic campaign with great regret, losing only one game, but it was a fatal one.

The groupings for the semi-finals are the United States vs. Argentina and Italy vs. Lithuania. The Americas Championship has attracted the attention of fans around the world, and even NBA commissioner David Brown. Stern was also on hand to watch the game. The game ended with an 89-81 win for Argentina, with Ginobili scoring a game-high 29 points on 9-of-13 shooting. The Dream Six team swallowed the third and most crucial defeat of this Olympic Games. They failed to make it to the final. This is the first time that the United States has lost an Olympic men's basketball gold medal since NBA players were allowed to participate in the Olympics in '92.

The defeat also caused an uproar in the media. Fox Sports was disappointed that the dream was over and the U.S. team no longer deserved to be called the Dream Team. The Associated Press also freely admits that Argentina is the better team.

The European duo was Italy's 9-point win over Lithuania. They will meet Argentina in the final.

On August 28, in the final ranking match, the Chinese team lost to Spain by 16 points and ended the Olympic journey in eighth place. Spain, with 6 wins and 1 loss, finished seventh. Greece also beat Puerto Rico by 10 points to finish fifth, with Spanoulis starting with seven points.

In the bronze medal match, the U.S. team finally regained their dignity. Marion scored a team-high 22 points to avenge an eight-point victory over Lithuania and avenge a group stage defeat. But this bronze medal will not satisfy the arrogant Dream Six team.

The next final was completely dominated by the Argentine, Scola broke out and cut 25+11, Ginobili also scored 16+6+6, and Argentina beat Italy by 15 points to win the first men's Olympic gold medal in history. Prior to that, the United States, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had won all of the men's basketball gold medals in Olympic history.

At the award ceremony, Richard . Jefferson's embarrassed expression of tilting his head to stare at the Argentine's chest gold medal was captured by American reporters. As soon as this photo was published, Americans were even more ashamed. Some radical fans even began to blame first-line superstars such as Garnett, O'Neal, and Kobe, believing that their unwillingness to play for their country brought shame to the country.

Young people are under tremendous pressure and may withdraw or even shirk their responsibilities. Camero. Anthony couldn't help but shoot at the old coach Brown after returning home, and he said that the main reason for the loss of the Dream Six team was that the head coach copied the Pistons' style of play too much, and the players had too little run-in time and were not familiar with the tactics enough.

Anyway, the ball has been lost, and in the face of the loss, the American professional basketball community has begun to reflect. Why did the ever-invincible Dream Team fail to make it to the Olympics? An analysis article by ESPN pointed out that the Dream Team lost, but the NBA did not. Although the final gold medal does not belong to the United States, Ginobili is the best player in the NBA, and Puerto Rico, which defeated the United States, also has NBA players such as Arroyo and Ramos, and it is the mature league of the NBA that has produced the best basketball players from all over the world that give them a chance to beat the Dream Team.

The article also reviews the development of the NBA in recent years, and international players have occupied an increasingly important position. The new champions include three Chinese, two Turkish and French, and they continue to expand their international trend by selecting Brazilians and Greeks in the draft. The Eastern Conference champion Pistons are also centered around the black superstar Bodi Loga. What about the last champions, Spurs? The two cores of Ginobili are Argentine, Duncan was born in the Virgin Islands, and strictly speaking, he can be regarded as the "foreign aid" of the American team. It can be said that international playerization is the general trend of the development of the league. The success of the Rockets is inseparable from their forward-looking approach to bringing in a large number of international players.

This report is far away from the cold, if the international players become more popular than in the previous life, I am afraid Bogut, Yi Jianlian, Qiao. Parallel goods with an international background, such as Alexander, are becoming more and more popular. The media should not only look at the good of international players, Pistons' Milicic is the recent painful lesson!