The men's basketball team has already been released.

Although Hu Qingniu was eager to defeat the Dream Team to prove himself, the results of the grouping came out, and it was the same as in history.

Group A, China, New Zealand, Spain, Argentina, Serbia and Montenegro, Italy.

Group B includes Oceania champions Australia, European champions Lithuania, African champions Angola and American champions USA. The other two teams are Puerto Rico, the third place in the Americas, and the host team, Greece.

The draw avoided the strong United States, but Argentina's path to the quarter-finals is still not optimistic. The Chinese team has two NBA All-Star players, Yao Ming and Dazhi, and the New Zealand team is the runner-up in Oceania; Spain and Italy are both well-known old powerhouses; Serbia and Montenegro won the 2002 World Championships.

It seems that there is only one Caigua team in Group A, unlike Group B, Angola, Puerto Rico, and the host Greece are all obvious weak teams, and there is basically no hope of reaching the quarterfinals.

Many sharp-eyed fans have discovered that as the continent with the largest population and land area, only one Chinese team in Asia has entered the main competition of the Olympic Games. For this reason, the local European media, AFP commented: The whole of Asia is looking forward to the Chinese men's basketball team in Athens.

The existing grouping of places is certainly unreasonable and unfair, and Oceania, which is sparsely populated, has two places, and you can hardly count any other countries in Oceania besides Australia and New Zealand.

The world basketball community has always believed that Asian basketball is in a weak position in the world, and there is no way to do it. In fact, apart from the current China, there is no other men's national basketball team in Asia that can only be seen in the past. Historically, until 2017, when Hu Qingniu crossed, only the Chinese team in Asia had ever entered the top eight in the world competition.

When the schedule came out, the Chinese team and the Argentine team were scheduled for the first match of Group A, and this game became the focus of attention of Chinese fans.

Among the characters that Chinese basketball fans are paying attention to, the top three are Yao Ming, Dazhi, and Hu Qingniu. This match is also known as the pinnacle matchup of Asians.

Facing the current Chinese men's basketball team, Hu Qingniu is also beating drums in his heart. The strength of this Chinese men's basketball team was created by him, including the enhancement of Da Yao, the enhancement of Dazhi and the return to China, all of which he single-handedly promoted. But what I didn't expect now was that it was himself who was the first to have a physical examination of Da Yao and Da Zhi's combination boxing. In history, Yao Ming led the team alone to bring China to the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games, and now where the ceiling of the Chinese team is, Hu Qingniu is not sure.

Hu Qingniu shook his head vigorously, abandoning the cranky thoughts in his head, he needed a clear mind to deal with.

The next day, the match between the Chinese team and the Argentine team began.

The starting lineup sent by the Chinese team is center Yao Ming, power forward Wang Dazhi, small forward Zhu Fangyu, scoring guard Zhang Jinsong, and point guard Li Nan.

Zhang Jinsong is a meritorious veteran in this team, he has won 8 CBA championships with Dazhi and Liu Yudong, with a tough style, excellent defense, and long-range shooting and breakthrough are of the highest level.

For Argentina, Hu Qingniu fielded his finely tuned starting lineup. Center Oberto, power forward Scola, small forward Nocioni, scoring guard Ginobili, point guard Sanchez.

Comparing the lineups of the two sides, the Chinese team's starters are a bit top-heavy, and the internal strength is stronger than the dream team, but the outside line can only be regarded as mediocre to be honest, and competing with strong teams is definitely the side that falls into the disadvantage.

Argentina's starting lineup is more balanced, and the players in each position are capable of playing in the NBA, but except for Ginobili, none of them are top-notch.

Before the start of the game, Dazhi and Da Yao hurriedly came over to drink Hu Qingniu to say hello, Hu Qingniu was too helpful to them. Especially Dazhi, it can be said that Hu Qingniu single-handedly pulled him out of the quagmire and turned the seemingly dead situation around.

The scene of the three of them talking happily was transmitted back to China, and a large number of fans began to fantasize about how good it would be if Hu Qingniu came to coach the national team? From the star to the head coach of the NBA, this kind of scenario was a dream two years ago, and now it doesn't seem far away.

Without further ado, it didn't take long for the referee to blow the whistle for the game, and the time had come to witness the real kung fu. This is also Hu Qingniu's first game in the FIBA arena, and whether he can succeed or not has touched the hearts of tens of millions of people.

In the opening game, the Chinese team attacked first, and Oberto and Yao Ming had a huge physical gap, which was not something that Hu Qingniu could solve.

The characteristics of every player in the Chinese team, Hu Qingniu is like a stream, and Li Nan's three points are points that must be paid attention to.

Sanchez listened to the coach's reminder and followed Li Nan step by step, not letting out any space to shoot, but he didn't reach out for the ball, just relying on his body to block the way.

Li Nan's body is considered good in China, but compared to Sanchez, a man with a body, he dared to bear it, and it didn't take long for him to sweat profusely in the confrontation, and it was the limit after half a game.

Li Nan hurriedly passed the ball out after half time, Zhu Fangyu received the ball, the current old Zhu is still very young, and he doesn't dare to be greedy, and Nocioni on the opposite side is stronger than him. As a newcomer, Lao Zhu didn't entangle very well and hoisted the ball into the inside line.

Yao Ming received the basketball smoothly, although it was a little far away from the basket, but Yao Ming glanced at it, and he probably knew that this position could work.

The ball landed with his left hand, Yao Ming immediately made a sharp turn, and after deceiving Oberto, Yao Ming pulled the ball with his backhand, followed by a forward turn and entered the inside, and touched the rebound, and the ball went in.

If it is Yao Ming in history, he can easily score goals in the opening game, but it is by no means as light as the current Yao Ming. Although Yao Ming in history was also invincible in the Athens Olympics, most of them were carried hard with his body, and there were always some physical problems in the fourth quarter. Now Yao Ming fights lightly and skillfully, as if there is no pressure to fight anyone.

It was unexpectedly scored by Da Yao that Hu Qingniu was expected, and it was Argentina's turn to attack, Hu Qingniu had to carefully observe whether the offensive end of this team could be opened.

Sanchez is not only physically stronger than Li Nan, but also his unique body coordination in Latin America also makes his ball control much stronger than Li Nan.

At this time, the Argentine team showed their teamwork ability that was different from other teams, Nocioni mentioned to cover without the ball, Manu's strange footsteps made Zhang Jinsong a little difficult, and when he met the cover, he directly lost the person.

There was a mistake in a link on the defensive end, followed by the Argentine team's non-ball cover, and finally the Chinese team was in a mess on the defensive end, Yao Ming went to help defend Sanchez, and the Chinese team didn't figure out where the ball went.

Finally, Scola scored an easy layup from the baseline. It left the audience with a sound of amazement.

The studio of the imperial court station was silent, and the guests and the host failed to say a word just now, and finally scored a goal, and Mr. Zhang Li said helplessly.

"This attack, I can only say that it is dazzling, I didn't see the series of off-ball screens and air cuts just now, I didn't see it too clearly. However, the coach opposite is Coach Hu Qingniu, and it can only be said that no matter how complex the tactics of his team are, it is possible. Two years ago, the Wizards also used several very beautiful tactics, and I heard that they were all original by Coach Hu Qingniu. ”

Sun Li continued.

"I haven't made this kind of mistake in so many years, and I really haven't seen it this time."