After the group stage, some people are happy and some are worried.

The Chinese team historically qualified for the third place in the group, and the country was jubilant. In previous world competitions, the Chinese men's basketball team entered the top eight and took the last train as the fourth in the group. And the third place in the group, which means that the Chinese men's basketball team has entered at least the top six of this Olympic Games.

Athens '04 was the last Olympics to be a ranking tournament. Historically, the Chinese men's basketball team narrowly defeated the world champion Serbia and Montenegro by 1 point before narrowly qualifying from the group of death.

The third place in the group means that even if the Chinese men's basketball team loses the first round of elimination, it will still be ranked fifth and sixth.

In contrast, the 02 World Championship champion Serbia and Montenegro did not qualify from the group, and competitive sports developed rapidly, just two years, and rising stars such as Yao Ming and Gasol made the veterans of Serbia and Montenegro complain.

Although Italy was also disappointed to finish fourth in Group A, they did make it to the knockout round, and they still had a chance, but the opponent was the United States, who won Group B, and the hope was not very good.

The Dream Six team in history also bumped in the group stage, and this time the lineup is stronger than in history, and the overturning of the boat in the group stage did not happen. The U.S. team won all the games and won the first place in Group B, echoing Argentina in Group A.

At this moment, many people can see that Argentina is the most advantageous competitor of the American team in this tournament.

TNT's Barkley explains.

"Coach Doctor is a natural winner, and if he can make the Bobcats a league powerhouse, why can't it be Argentina this time? I'm optimistic that Argentina and the United States will meet in the finals. ”

Barkley didn't say enough, can the U.S. team really beat Hu Qingniu's team, Barkley is difficult to convince himself to give a positive answer through the observation of the past few days. The fluidity of the Argentine team has not been seen in any world team.

Compared to other countries' teams, which can obviously be seen to be short-term training camps, and teams that are temporarily organized for the country's competition, the Argentine team does not see this at all, and they can often pass good balls that "the ball comes before the man". This requires a high degree of fit and long-term training.

Barkley has also heard that Hu Qingniu flew to Argentina almost immediately after the Eastern Conference Finals to lead the team in training. Argentina's training camp lasts at least two and a half months, and the training is not slack, but the stars of the American team can train well for one day in three days. Barkley, who was once a member of the Dream Team himself, understands this.

But no matter how relaxed they are, their strength is there, and no one can threaten them. But now it's different, more and more international players are rising, and the gap between American basketball and international basketball is narrowing.

The situation of this year's Dream Six team, Barkley looked hanging. However, not many people can clearly understand this, and Barkley, as an outsider, is not affected by subjective factors. Larry Brown, for example, apparently hadn't foreseen his own crisis yet. is also immersed in the dream of winning the NBA championship and winning the Olympic Games again. He didn't pay attention to the crisis within the Dream Six team.

Hu Qingniu also met Wade in the past few days, and Wade complained as soon as they met that the coach didn't pay attention to him at all. He played well in a limited amount of time on several occasions and was much better than Marbury in the starter, but Wade still didn't get an extra minute of playing time in Game 2.

Moreover, the internal training of the American team is very chaotic, and the players represented by Iverson do not train well at all, and sometimes they are absent for no reason. It is often the 03 generation and Duncan and Marion who often train together, which is almost half a team. That's why there's almost zero coordination on the field.

So where did Iverson and them go, Hu Qingniu asked, and Wade broke the truth.

Iverson, Marbury, Xiaosi, and Boozer accept invitations from European media every day to shoot programs on location. Iverson even took the time to accept a local endorsement in Greece. In addition to these money-making projects, shopping is of course also indispensable, and Iverson alone came with more than a dozen groups of relatives and friends.

Hu Qingniu couldn't help but be helpless, this is also the tradition of the dream team. Back then, Jordan and Barkley were even more excessive, going in and out of the casino nightclub every night, and they didn't need to rest at all. The Olympics are just a show for them.

But does the current Dream Six team also have the capital to do this, it seems that it is really strong. It is said that before this Olympics, the U.S. team had only lost two games in total. These two games include NBA stars participating in previous games, that is, when the Dream Team did not have a team, and until '92, the U.S. team had been playing the Olympics with a college team.

Whether there will be a third game in this session depends on whether Hu Qingniu can teach these arrogant players to be human beings.

After the group stage, the specific group rankings are:

Group A, 1st place Argentina, 2nd place Spain, 3rd place China, 4th place Italy.

Group B, 1st place USA, 2nd place Lithuania, 3rd place Australia, 4th place Greece.

According to the format, Argentina, which is the first in Group A, will face Greece in the first knockout round.

This year's Greek team is not the best in the world, but only a second-rate team. Hu Qingniu developed a strategy from the beginning – to play his own style of basketball.

The opponent is a weak team, so it is they who are looking for a breakthrough, and Hu Qingniu only needs to let the Argentine team play at their own level.

What is the current style of the Argentine team, that is, the attack is sharp, which the Greek team found out at the beginning of the meeting.

Argentina are a team that never tires, they are always on the move, everyone is looking for their chances. If it is the Pistons team that has just won the championship, of course, it can target Argentina's weak three-point ability, and most of them rely on the effective interception of the offense by mid-range shooting.

But the Greek team's execution ability is far behind, and even the Dream Six team may not have such ability.

So the Greek team was blown up in the first half, and it was not the starters who were threatened, but the substitutes. Delfino and Montecchia scored 10 points each. Greece were still losing points against Argentina when they came to the full starting lineup.

Spanoulis struggled on the defensive end tonight, without the smashing style he had last time out against the USA.

In the end, the Argentine team won the game with a super high score of 125:95.

On the other hand, the U.S. team also won easily, and the Italian team's strong three-point attack ability was not worth mentioning when it met the U.S. team. The U.S. team directly started the attack, and 8 members of the Dream Six team scored double-doubles, winning by 40 points.

Everything looks so rosy.