The eastern area of the Olympic Village in the southern part of Athens, in the county of Petrarona, is where the basketball teams of various countries stay, and it is also a miniature version of the "United Nations", but it is the top 12 "United Nations" in basketball, of course, there are other sports in this Olympic Village, but basketball is concentrated in the easternmost part.

The name of the Olympic Village of the Athens Olympics is very interesting, such as the name of the Olympic Village of the Quesar Or, where the basketball teams of various countries stay, the name of the Crusa Orr is the child born to the snake demon Medusa in the three sisters of the sea god Poseidon and Golgong, the image is a Pegasus, the fighting force is strong, used to refer to the way basketball is played, and the statue or picture of the image of Pegasus can be seen everywhere.

The Greek Olympics are still very distinctive, the budget is not enough, and the creativity is to make up.

As for why the child born by Poseidon and Medusa was a horse, this made Liu Mang very curious when he first came here, and asked the Greek official who received them with a black line.

Qualifying for the 9th to 12th place has begun, and the top eight teams are preparing for the knockout rounds.

Fortunately, this is still the beginning of the century, Greece has not yet gone bankrupt, although there is no money to make the Olympic Village more gorgeous, but it is still equipped with an independent court for each basketball team, and now the first seven teams in the first eight miles are working hard to prepare for the Olympic Village...... Except for the U.S. team, everyone goes to a hotel, otherwise the stars won't come to the Olympics.

The training of the Chinese team is in full swing, and everyone is actively preparing for the American team.

Seeing that Liu Mang is constantly practicing left-handed shooting, the Chinese players are no longer surprised, Liu Mang's left hand is as easy to use as his right hand, and it is not the first time he has seen it in these few days of games, and everyone in the NBA will use his left hand.

Zhang Jinsong and Zhu Fangyu, two young people, called the taciturn Yi Jianlian to say something together, and then went to smash all the teammates except Liu Mang......

After a while, Liu Mang practiced a group of left-handed shots in the middle and long shots, and began the regular right-handed training, like practicing the middle shot, practicing shooting around the five fixed shooting points of the FIBA three-point line, each point is a hundred balls, and when he was instructing the staff, he found that his teammates were training more actively, Liu Mang was very satisfied, and he should have this positive momentum when he defeated the American team.

The U.S. team is in its weakest years in the past few years, and if there is a chance to do it, they will work hard with one shot!

For Liu Mang, defeating the American team this time is very important! Only by defeating the U.S. team this time will it be possible to complete the medal dream of a basketball career in the future! If the Chinese team can also win medals, it will inevitably set off a greater basketball fever in China and drive the development of domestic basketball.

As a basketball player, the more honors Liu Mang has, the more he finds himself to do.

For example, if you drive the domestic basketball craze, Yao Ming will become busier when he retires and becomes the chairman of the Blue Association in the future, so that he will not become a female Zhao Sun and Moon so quickly after retiring...... Let Liu Mang be the chairman of the Blue Association? No kidding, let's let Yao Ming deal with that group of laymen, the leaders of the domestic sports industry, there are few people who understand sports at all.

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After the first preparation day, on August 25, the semi-finals between Argentina and Greece and Puerto Rico and Spain were played this afternoon.

Argentina and Spain both advanced to the semi-finals.

Liu Mang watched these two games with great envy, if only they could play with the Greek team or the Puerto Rican team, even if it was Spain, but it was the United States!

"The Spanish team really stepped on shit luck!" Liu Mang said indignantly.

"Uncle, what's wrong with the Spanish team?" Little Lori, who was watching the game with Liu Mang, asked.

If you're in a bad mood, let's abuse Lori! Liu Mang grabbed Dina and rubbed Little Lori's face and said: "The opponent of the Spanish team is so weak, if they are second in the group, it will be time for them to play the United States, and we can meet Puerto Rico!" ”

"It's better to be a big than a ......" Little Lori's face was rubbed so that she couldn't speak......

"Alas...... I'll go back to the Olympic Village first, Dinah can't go out and run around, you have to go out and ask Levia to take you out! Liu Mang put the little Lori on the sofa, after watching the game, it was time to go back to the Olympic Village to continue training, the matter has come to this, Liu Mang can only prepare well and go all out!

Speaking of playing the American team, Liu Mang is more familiar with the opponent's style of play, everyone knows it well, including head coach Harris also knows the NBA, in fact, it is also a good opponent, but the opponent's lineup is too strong.

"Got it! Dinah doesn't go out, Uncle is not here, it's boring to go shopping...... The hateful uncle and villain eat Dinah tofu again......" Little Lori rubbed her face and picked up the remote control after speaking, and called up the Greek mythological romance drama, not only Chinese classical mythology was blindly written into a soap opera by various screenwriters, but other countries are actually the same.

Liu Mang saw that little Lori was watching a soap opera again, smiled helplessly, and then secretly kissed Levia and Alexia, who went to the room to take a nap, and left the hotel.

When he arrived at the hotel parking lot, Liu Mang sighed before getting into the car: "Tomorrow...... Fighting the United States, is it a surprise or a loss...... At this time, no one remembers that tomorrow is Xiaoye's birthday......"

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"The women's volleyball team has reached the finals, and it is in this stadium that this is really a blessed place for our country! Last time we also won against Spain here, we were the favorites to win the championship, we won against them......" Kuang Lubin of the Chinese men's basketball team was talking loudly to Min Lulei, one of the coaches.

Min Lulei could only smile and nod.

On the afternoon of August 26th, the Chinese team once again came to the Athens Pasinakos Stadium in Athens, also known as the Athens Olympiacos Stadium, this morning, the Chinese women's volleyball team has just gone through five battles here, with a slight total score difference of 3 points, 105-102, defeated the powerful Brazilian women's volleyball team with difficulty and advanced to the finals!

After a lapse of 8 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team reached the Olympic finals again, eight years ago, the Cuban women's volleyball team defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team in the final, this time the Chinese women's volleyball team successfully took revenge, and as long as it defeated Cuba and entered the finals, the Chinese women's volleyball team is basically scheduled to be the champion, the final opponent is the Russian women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team swept the other party 3-0 in the group stage, a total of more than 20 points, and the strength was crushed.

As a result, the pressure came to the Chinese men's basketball team.

Kuang Lubin, the leader of the Chinese men's basketball team, was very envious of the leader of the Chinese women's volleyball team, so during the warm-up before the game, he deliberately came to chatter, or very loudly.

Finally, Kuang Lubin was called away by the staff and went to the competition venue first.

Liu Mang complained: "This guy has nothing to do to increase the pressure on us, it's really annoying." ”

"Ace, this is also something that can't be helped, we are the first time to reach the quarterfinals with the second place in the group, and with you, we may still be able to reach the semi-finals, this feeling may be difficult for you to experience, but unfortunately we met the United States, if only we won a few points less against New Zealand and Serbia and Montenegro, it would not have surpassed Spain." Min Lulei sighed.

"Cut, it's not!" Liu Mang didn't say this, so as not to offend people, today he was depressed, no one remembered his birthday, even the family girl, and now he was pulled by an unknown team leader to increase a lot of pressure, it was really enough.

It's all to blame on Team America! Liu Mang thought that the guys of the 03 generation were so uncompetitive, they could lose Puerto Rico, if they were to fight for the top two, they would not fight so quickly, and the second in the group and the second in the other group could only be the final.

"It's all James! him! "Liu Mang has found a hateful object!

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In the game of the American team, everyone wants to see them lose, and this time even the Greek fans came to cheer for the Chinese team.

This time, the Chinese team is a weak group, no matter which other countries in the top four of Group A play the United States, they are not so disadvantaged, except for the Chinese team, the other three countries look like the United States.

The United States was killed by Lithuania, and Italy, which played the same way, looked to have the advantage; The U.S. team was wiped out by Puerto Rico, and Spain and Argentina also looked to have the upper hand.

The Chinese team, which relies on dual-core play, does not seem to have any advantages, and is all at a disadvantage, because although Kobe, Maddy, and Carter did not come, the American team still has Iverson who looks stronger than Liu Mang, and Marbury from the same university who is a mortal enemy of Liu Mang, and the Chinese team has Yao Ming on the inside, but the American team has Duncan, who is theoretically stronger.

On paper, the U.S. team has the advantage, all of them are stars, playing superstar basketball, and the Chinese team, which also plays superstar basketball, looks completely unable to compete with the U.S. team.

However, the Chinese team studied it for two days and did not think so.

Liu Mang and Harris agreed that there are not so many stars, but it is not a weakness, it may be their strong point! Because the Chinese team has a clear core of Liu Mang and Yao Ming, and the American team, there are two dual-purpose guards alone, and they are all starters, Larry Brown is more traditional than Harris, Harris has accepted the baptism of the No. 8 rookie, and also accepted the No. 8 rookie style of play, and incidentally accepted Liu Mang's style of play, but Larry Brown is famous for sending the strongest lineup to the death, and there is no offensive tactics at all.

Liu Mang feels that if there is no own situation, if the Chinese team plays against the American team, the weak will be weak and the gap in the point guard is too big, otherwise it will not be so miserable, 08 The American team has sent such a lineup, Cavaliers 1.0 peak James, Paul, Howard, Delon, Wade, Anthony, Boozer...... A bunch of the best players in the United States in their respective positions, as well as the little blacksmith who is at the peak of his prime, is regarded by the Americans as the "strongest player to strike", the Chinese team only lost 30 points when the point guard suffered so much, and if the guard line was less directly stealed, the point difference might be even lower.

And now such an American team, such a lineup, and the Chinese team has more of itself, Liu Mang feels that there is no chance to win!

Regardless of whether others believe it or not, Liu Mang believed it himself, and wanted to deceive his teammates to show his fighting spirit, Liu Mang deceived himself first, and then fooled his teammates.

After Liu Mang's flickering...... No, it was a speech to boost the team's morale before training two days ago, and the players of the Chinese team firmly believe that they have an advantage!

is such a fan-like self-confidence, plus this stadium seems to be a blessed place for the Chinese team, and the self-confidence is even stronger!

If nothing else, just do it!

After the players of the two teams entered, on the Chinese team's side, everyone was familiar with all the players on the other side, because even Emeka Okafor, a rookie, was already very famous among Chinese basketball fans, and the American team, the understanding of the Chinese team, Liu Mang, Yao Ming, and at most Wang Zhizhi.

James was just about to try two dunks, which was his habit before the game, and suddenly felt a familiar malice, and he didn't have to look back to know that it was that guy!

James originally saw that the opponent in the quarterfinals was the Chinese team, and his mentality was extremely relaxed, the last time they played against the Chinese team, they won 63 points, and when the American team was preparing for the game, most people didn't take the Chinese team seriously, even if they had Liu Mang and Yao Ming, they didn't care.

However, James felt that strong malice, and the whole person was not good! He had a feeling that the guy was just trying to him! The feeling I felt three times in my rookie season is here again!

James decided in his heart that he wanted revenge: "Damn! It's all Olympics! Why can't you hide from this guy! ”