On August 20, 2008, the first elimination day of the Olympic men's basketball team began.

On this day, basketball, which has been overwhelmed by track and field, seems to finally have a little meaning to clear the clouds.

On the morning of August 20, Ye Si had no track and field tasks, and after winning the fourth gold medal of the Olympic Games yesterday, the whole team also organized a small celebration for Ye Si at noon today, at which the leaders of the men's basketball team and the leaders of the General Administration of Sports were almost all present.

After all, Ye Si is now the first person in the history of Chinese sports.

A teenager who is still a few days away from reaching the age of 21 has become the first person in the history of Chinese sports in one fell swoop.

It is possible to win up to 10 gold medals at the Olympics.

You know, even in the entire history of the Olympic Games, the highest number of gold medals in a single Olympic tournament by a single individual is only five!

Although this is almost impossible, as long as the Chinese men's basketball team defeats the Dream Team, then Ye Si's number of gold medals in a single session will double the original maximum number of gold medals.

This achievement is simply jaw-dropping!

"If we didn't know the actual strength of the Chinese men's basketball team very clearly, if we hadn't watched the game between the Chinese men's basketball team and Angola, I would definitely believe that Ye Si could lead the Chinese men's basketball team to win the championship!"

The big leader of the General Administration looked at the young man with four gold medals around his neck with some regret and said with a sigh.

Perfection is a wish, but it is also only a good wish.

Perhaps the biggest effect of this desire is to deceive public opinion and the media into clicks.

Before the start of the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Angolan men's basketball team, the whole country felt that the Chinese men's basketball team could compete with the United States team for the title of Dream Team.

Now, it's very empty, it's very empty!

Now everyone can see that the reason why the Chinese men's basketball team is so strong is all due to the encirclement tactics of Ye Si to surround all the opponent's guards.

But how can such a siege encircle the defenders of the Dream Team?

Obviously impossible.

"Let's do it and cherish it, it doesn't matter if you can't be perfect, Xiao Ye is now a legend who will not fall in the Olympics."

Becoming the first person in the history of Chinese sports, for Ye Si, it seems that there is no difference, his status in the Chinese sports world is already very high, the only athlete who can be independent, even if he has the title of the first person in the history of Chinese sports, his treatment cannot be higher.

"Although the actual effect is useless, it can also allow you to reduce some of the harassment of being relied on and sold to the old."

Harassment of relying on the old and selling the old?

Yao Ming's words made Ye Si somewhat enlightened.

Ye Si could see that Yao Ming was indeed experienced in this area.

After Usain Bolt announced his retirement from the 200m race, Yes's form in track and field changed to harvesting form.

For Yese, competing in track and field now is all about reaping gold medals.

As soon as he shows up on the track, the opponents around him will feel the chills.

There's no way not to be afraid, every game, whether it's the preliminaries, quarterfinals or semifinals, finals, every game breaks the world record!

How many world records Ye Si broke in this Olympics alone, Ye Si himself does not know.

In this case, Ye Si will naturally focus more on basketball.

And basketball does require more effort from Yes.

In the game with Greece, although Greece was still abused by China by more than 30 points, when attacking, Greece still couldn't break through Yes's encirclement, but on the defensive end, Greece's changes are still very worthy of the Chinese team's vigilance, that is, when Greece faced Yes on the defensive end, it used a bag clip, a two-person bag all the time.

This is extremely rare in FIBA.

Although Yao Ming's performance in the game with Greece was crazy, he scored 38 points alone.

But what if the opponent has a center who can defend Yao Ming?

Ye Si looked for Yao Ming's pass after being pinched, but because the pass was too far, there were many mistakes.

Now the Chinese men's basketball team needs to solve a problem, that is, there is Ye Si's encirclement net on the defensive end, and there is no problem before meeting the American team, but on the offensive side, how to solve Ye Si being caught all the way, Yao Ming may meet the opponent, can others stand up and end the game?

When the opponent's three people are placed on Yao Ming and Ye Si, the opponent's three people defending China will only have two players, in the face of such a three-on-two, can Yi Jianlian take responsibility?

In the previous games, he has been the third point of the team, and Yi Jianlian, who does not have many opportunities to perform, is likely to be the winner or loser of the Chinese team in the next knockout round.

Younas is not very sure about Yi Jianlian's ability to take responsibility.

This needs to be tested by the game, but for the Chinese men's basketball team, they now need to understand their opponents.

Of the eight teams that entered the knockout round of this year's Olympic men's basketball team, Spain, Argentina and Germany, the Chinese team is certainly the most familiar.

The four teams in Group B, the United States will be very familiar to everyone, while Lithuania, Russia and Australia are not so familiar.

And the game on August 20 is just the right time for the Chinese team to understand the situation of these opponents in the future.

On August 20, the first knockout game was the second in Group A, the Spanish men's basketball team, and the third Russian men's basketball team in Group B.

"Russia beat Spain in last year's European Championships."

Before the start of the match between Russia and Spain, Younas was explaining the players of the Chinese team.

They know the strength of Spain, although the outside line has been exploded, but the internal strength of this team, the overall strength of the whole team is quite good, such an excellent team was defeated by Russia, which is indeed a little surprising.

The Spanish men's basketball team and the Russian men's basketball team are a pair of old enemies, these two teams met in the 2007 European Championship final, and in the end, the weaker Russia defeated the hosts, the biggest favorites to win the championship, with a last-minute stunner.

Will Russia be able to beat Spain again this time?

For the Chinese team, they are of course supporting Spain.

Spain is very strong, and if Spain advances, they will play the United States, and it is certainly better to be able to use Spain to consume the United States.

However, listening to Younas mention the situation in Russia, the Chinese players are a little unsure of the true strength of this very mysterious team.

This team is quite an amazing team.

Russia is looking forward to another magical performance, and this time, when the two teams meet like this at the Olympics, it is clear that Spain is ready for revenge.

And the end result?

In this knockout match, which began at two o'clock in the afternoon, Kirilenko's Russia was slaughtered by Spain by 20 points, 99-79!

Now Russia has completely lost the scenery of the European Championships.

The European Championships a year ago were the year of the canonization of Russian head coach David Blatter, the American coach who brought Princeton to Russia and made the Russian European Championship myth a reality.

And like David Blatter, there are also Kirilenko, who was super god in the final, and finally steal Big Gasol, which made Big Gasol strained. The three of Holden took the Russian men's basketball team on a magical journey at the 2007 European Championships.

But this year, in the 2008 Olympics, although these three are still in Russia, the magic of Russia is completely gone.

"Magic is magic after all, and if magic comes repeatedly, then this team is not Russia, but Seattle SuperSonics, and again, this person is not Kirilenko or Holden, but Yes."

'It's a shame we went out in the quarter-finals of the Olympics, Spain are a strong team, they've always been a strong team, they're better suited to the semi-finals than us, and we, maybe we need to start all over again, but unfortunately I can't start again.

After the end of Spain's revenge on Russia, the head coach of the Russian men's basketball team, the legendary American coach of Europe, David Blatter, announced his resignation from the position of head coach of Russia.

The first game of the men's basketball knockout round between Spain and Russia was a little cruel and bloody as soon as it came up.

Looking at the Russian head coach interviewed on TV, all the Chinese men's basketball players in front of the TV were looking at Ye Si, who was silent at this time.

They very, very agree with this Russian statement, yes is a person who can always work miracles!

It's just that the team that always works miracles is the supersonics?

That's true, but now we need to add a Chinese team!

Yao Ming thought secretly in his heart after retracting his gaze from Ye Si's body.

After Spain defeated Russia, the second knockout match was the one that the Chinese team paid the most attention to, with Argentina, who were third in Group A, facing Lithuania, who were second in Group B.

One of these two teams must be a possible opponent for China in the semi-finals.

If the opponent is Argentina, there is nothing to worry about, but what about Lithuania......

The Chinese men's basketball team is not very familiar with Lithuania, but Younasdu Lithuania is quite familiar.

In Younas's opinion, Lithuania is a rather difficult team, perhaps the toughest team for the Chinese team other than the United States.

In the past four Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team has met Lithuania every time, and Lithuania has lost all four games.

Young Chinese players may not be so familiar with Lithuania, but old players such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi were really abused by Lithuania and grew up.

Lithuanian players are not so famous in the world, but this is in the world, in Europe, the reputation of the four Lithuanian inner King Kong is still very loud.

The twin Lavlinovic brothers, Javskas and Petravisius, are very tough defensively, and they all shoot well.

And this team also has a forward line led by good offensive and defensive players such as Siskauskas, Creza and Jacedis, even in the position of defender, Yes is about to face the opponent Salunas Jascovisius, although he is European, but his growth is completely in the United States, he has the aggressive style of American players, and the skills of European players, in the 2004 Athens Olympics, it was he who made the Dream Six team finally become a sleepwalking team.

Marbury, Iverson, Odom, these NBA names are all his supporting roles in the 2004 Olympics.

Under NBA rules, he didn't do very well with the Pacers.

But in terms of FBA rules, he is one of the few top defenders in the world who has both American and European styles, and is nicknamed the 'King of Europe'!

It can be said that Lithuania is a top strong team that wants stars as long as the whole has a whole, if this team has weaknesses?

Of course, there is, the weakness of this team is that it is a little slower.

It's just that such slowness is not necessarily a disadvantage against the Chinese team, especially when this team adopts the defensive tactics of Greece.

In this match between Lithuania and Argentina, for the Chinese team and Younas, although Lithuania is his homeland, he must hope that Argentina can win.

But that's just his personal hope.

Argentina's guard Ginobili's performance in this game is quite sluggish, although Scola is still stable, but it is still difficult to beat four hands with two fists, and Lithuania scored double-doubles in this game, which is rare in the international basketball game except for the United States, few teams can play such a holistic dialogue in the strong dialogue.

"Ginobili was a little absent-minded in this game, otherwise Argentina wouldn't have had no chances."

Looking at the Ginobili on the TV who seemed to be relieved just now, Ye Si frowned.

The match between Argentina and Lithuania ended, with the third match being the match between the United States, the first team in Group B, and Germany, the fourth team in Group A.

However, Ye Si can't watch this game with the Chinese team, and he needs to participate in tonight's 5000m final and 200m final.

"I'll go out first."

"Brother Ye, let's drink the water first."

"Come back and drink again."

Looking at Ye Si's back, and then at the cup of steaming boiling water with salt in his hand, Sun Yue finally sighed and put the cup down.

"Brother Ye is too busy at this year's Olympics."

The match between Germany and the United States is the least suspenseful matchup of the four groups today.

For this game, the Chinese team has nothing to look forward to, and after more than an hour, won't the American team still abuse and advance?

It's just that when the game started, all the Chinese players in front of the TV were watching the game with their eyes wide open.

"This is a match between Germany and the United States?!"

"This is Novitsky?!"

"Chris Bosh was sent off for five fouls by Nowitzki at half-time?!"

"The halftime score was 48-46, and the Dream Team only led by 2 points?!"

Just when the half-time match between Germany and the United States was over, the players of the Chinese team recovered from the shock.

The players of the Chinese men's basketball team were surprised to find that Ye Si, who had just gone out, had returned, and they also looked at the German No. 14 on TV with shocked eyes, and they didn't know how long Ye Si had been standing beside them.

Looking at Ye Si who was standing there, Sun Yue looked at the cup of still steaming salt water beside him, and the two gold medals newly hung around Ye Si's neck, Sun Yue's eyes that were originally shocked by Novitsky seemed to protrude in horror.

"Double gold in warm water?!"

Warm water wins double gold?!

The other Chinese players present, the leaders and reporters looked at the frightened Sun Yue, then at the warm water next to Sun Yue, and finally at the two golden gold medals on Ye Si's neck, and for a while the noisy space became extremely quiet because of Nowitzki......

Well?

After retracting his gaze from Nowitzki's body, Ye Si looked at the eyes of the people around him and frowned with some puzzlement.

There's nothing wrong with me, right?