Chapter 210: American Basketball, I Don't Want My Face

The disadvantages of the U.S. team sending college students are even more obvious when they are down by a large score, and these young players in their early twenties are completely ill-equipped to withstand the pressure of the World Series, including two future NBA coaches.

In this case, the Chinese team, which has good tactical execution and discipline, is basically a situation where they are played and beaten at will.

In the second half, the only resistance they could make was to go into a state of impotent rage and then lash at the Chinese players.

But the American players did not expect that the Chinese team was not weak in this kind of small action.

Xing Weining and Liu Jianli directly hit a set of military physical punches at American college students after they came on the court, especially Liu Jianjian, who is 1.92 meters tall, not only elbowed Whitman out of a mild concussion with a technical foul.

In the second half, Liu Jianli only played 10 minutes, and actually grabbed 9 rebounds, of which 4 were frontcourt rebounds, and the shooting was 6 of 6, helping the Chinese team to stretch the difference to 50+ in one go.

Ruda has been substituted in the last ten minutes, because this game is no longer just hanging, the Chinese team is now everyone's explosive, even if they are replaced with Wang Libin, Xing Weining, Liu Jianli, Kuang Lubin, Gong Luming, this pure substitute lineup, they can still press the collapsed American team.

When the final score came out, viewers around the world couldn't believe what their eyes saw – 120:70!

50 minutes!!

The Chinese team won the American team by 50 points!!

It's a difference that even the craziest people before the game wouldn't have imagined!

Chinese fans will be short of breath with excitement, Americans will feel the biting cold, and neutral fans from other countries will be dumbfounded!

"I don't think American basketball has been defeated by us, they only sent a college basketball team, although our average age is younger than them, but you must know that the basketball elite in the United States is concentrated in the NBA, even if they only recognize money and have no sense of honor at all, but it cannot be denied that they are very strong."

Ruda's speech at the post-game press conference almost didn't off Americans, especially NBA players!

But the media around the world still likes it.

Wu Jie's Tai Chi is really good, don't look at his sassy words, but it is difficult for the media to catch the horse's feet.

Ruda dares to say anything, as long as these words are artistically processed, they can definitely make several big news.

Wu Jie is very painful, Ruda is so hateful, could it be that he is forcing himself to upgrade his five-star talent?

He could have guessed that American basketball suffered such a big defeat, and was humiliated like a pig's heart by Luda shrimp after the game, and now the dream team can't make their debut in advance.

Of course, the next Los Angeles Olympics will be too late.

But the next time the Americans pick the college team, they will definitely not give preference to white players, they will definitely select all the elite, and they can't afford to suffer another big defeat.

This means that in the 1984 Olympic Games, the Chinese team will encounter the strongest college star team in history composed of the 84th and 85th NCAA elites, and it is estimated that this will also be the final chapter of the American college basketball team.

If you don't want the Chinese men's basketball team to be retaliated against by the United States team, Ruda's four-and-a-half-star talent must be upgraded to five stars, and the main members of the national team must be slightly improved.

Otherwise, in the face of Jordan, Olajuwon, Ewing, Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Mullin, Thorpe and other college star team, if the national team does not improve now, even if it can't lose too many points, it has little chance of winning.

If Wu Jie doesn't want the Chinese men's basketball team to lose another big score in the Olympic Games, all the gains from this men's basketball World Championship can only be used on the men's basketball team.

The next day, all major American media published a deliberately bloody headline - "Waterloo of American basketball!" ”

This game is undoubtedly the most humiliating game ever for the American team!

Who would have thought that American basketball, which has the mecca of basketball in the world, would fall to this point?

On this day, in addition to the mourning of all major media in the United States, it is natural that there are important figures in the industry who complain about the fiasco of American basketball!

"The U.S. men's basketball team, I don't even want my face!" Cardinal Auerbach took the lead, "This loss is not an accident at all, how many American college star teams have been changed one session at a time?" Have you ever won the championship? Change the soup without changing the medicine! What level do you say this American team is, just a few people, you Stepanovic, McCormick or something are all playing inside, can he play? Can't beat! Don't you know if you don't have the ability? In the last session, they lost to Italy, Yugoslavia, Brazil, and the Soviet Union. This time, they lost to Spain and China, and they couldn't even get out of the group stage. If it goes on like this, it will lose to Australia, and Australia will lose to Argentina, and then it will lose to Canada, France, Germany, and then no one will lose. ”

Pat Riley also commented on the second day: "American basketball players have a big career, and there are excuses for not paying attention to losing in the past few years. But what excuse do we have for losing by 50 points this time? If you hide it at the Olympics on your doorstep two years later, you will really be a laughing stock for the whole world. We must show the world the true power of American basketball. ”

At this time, even the 46-year-old Chamberlain publicly said: "The American team lost by 50 points in Colombia, I can't imagine that we would be humiliated like this, this is the most humiliating game in American basketball ever!" It's a great shame that we sent auto workers to win the runner-up in the World Championships in 1950, but now we can't even qualify for the group stage! If you can't find the right players to play, then I'm retired now, and I'm going to defend the dignity of American basketball at the Los Angeles Olympics. ”

Lao Zhang shook his body after speaking, I don't know if he was angry, or if he was overworked for the task of 20,000 people yesterday, he was a little unable to stand.

But it's not just Chamberlain, many active NBA players have expressed the idea of retiring to the Olympics.

Of course, they are only retiring for a short time, so that they can bypass FIBA's rules.

FIBA rules now state that professional players cannot compete in basketball at the Olympics and World Championships, including football, which has always had similar restrictions.

But if a professional player retires and his professional contract is terminated, he can play in the Olympics.

Of course, this approach needs to be negotiated with your own team, and it also needs to prevent the NBA from penalizing it.

Wu Jie knew that this could not be successful, because NBA teams would not agree to such a thing in the first place.

In this era, many NBA players are signed long-term contracts, and their salaries are no longer worthy of their performance after playing at a high level, but they can only receive a fixed salary due to the length of the contract.

If the team cooperates with them to terminate the contract, even if there is a private agreement, but if the player does not abide by this private agreement and signs a big contract with another team after returning from the Olympics, won't they lose their wives and soldiers?

So a lot of guys who are clamoring to retire, most of them have their own careful thoughts, and NBA teams are not so stupid.

The Chinese team will also be a little floating, after winning the American team, many players really feel that they are already invincible in the world.

As soon as this sentiment rose, the Chinese team was immediately defeated by Spain 99-92 three days later.

In this game, the Spaniards opted for a tactic that caught the eyes of the whole world, and they used various methods in the first half to try to prevent Ruda, and the means can be described as exhaustive.

But unfortunately, Ruda was too smart, and his passing vision, including passing skills, was terrifying, and this method made it easy for the Chinese team to score from the outside.

If it weren't for the average outside feeling of the Chinese team today, the Spanish team would have been more than 10 points behind in the first half.

But in the second half, the Spaniards felt that they couldn't prevent Ruda, so they let Ruda go and turned to defend the other 4 people.

The Chinese players were a bit drifting in this game, and they were still immersed in the situation of the last game and the first half of today.

In the second half, facing the heavy defense of the Spanish team, the Chinese players chose many unreasonable strong attacks, and the advantage accumulated in the first half quickly came to naught.

Ruda naturally saw it very clearly, and everyone's state in the game against the United States team yesterday was brought up, which also made many people feel that they really have the strength to beat the American team.

In the second half, facing the defensive strategy of Espanyol, some people still thought that they could score in front of the defense, and did not run around Rueda as wholeheartedly as before, but wanted to be a hero.

But this is also human nature, who doesn't have the ambition to climb up, and who is willing to be a supporting role all the time to be a green leaf?

So when they feel like they have a chance to score, they're going to make a decisive move today.

However, the reality is very skinny, the Chinese team can beat the European team, and it really depends on Luda's personal play to drive the whole team, and then through the excellent discipline and teamwork of the whole team, to expand the advantages of Luda's manufacturing.

What Wu Jie has improved for them is not the ability to attack individually, but the ability to fight and maneuver, mainly to help them withstand the positional attack of European teams on the defensive end.

Therefore, once the Chinese team loses teamwork and discipline, the offensive efficiency will immediately deteriorate, and it will make it easier for the opponent to defend.

Ruda finally scored 38 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists and 5 blocks, but still failed to help the Chinese team get a victory.

The only good news is that their two consecutive wins are enough to guarantee qualification, and this game is a battle against Spain for top spot in the group.

And this, in fact, has created the best result in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, because this is the first time that the Chinese men's basketball team has reached the quarterfinals of the World Championships.

As for the U.S. team, of course, it was eliminated in the group stage.

This is also the first time in the history of the U.S. team that it was eliminated in the group stage of the World Championships, so there are many Americans who don't watch basketball at all, and they have been shouting with the media in the past few days: "American basketball, don't even want your face"!