Chapter 408: Group Stage (1)
The group stage adopts a lottery system to determine which 5 opponents will be met successively;
The opponents of the Dream Four team are: China/China Men's Basketball Team, Italian Men's Basketball Team, Lithuania Men's Basketball Team, New Zealand Men's Basketball Team, and French Men's Basketball Team.
The opponents of the German men's basketball team are: Canadian men's basketball team, Spanish men's basketball team, Argentina men's basketball team, Russian men's basketball team, and Australian men's basketball team.
The final result is that the "Dream Four" and the German men's basketball team seem to be the leaders, playing against five different teams, and they are magically staggered. Hehe, maybe God wants to save the suspense until the end too!
Only the Chinese-Chinese and overseas Chinese looked helpless and frustrated, and the Chinese/national men's basketball team met the Dream Four team in the first game; Chinese/Chinese people pay attention to a good start and a good opening, and the most annoying thing is to open the door and meet the "New Year Beast"!
Your mother, how do you still call people to live!
Prior to this, some of the biggest names had come up with all sorts of bizarre and plausible excuses to turn down the call of the Dream Four.
The NBA's top scorer and "God of War" Allen Iverson couldn't get off the wrong schedule because of the "Asian Fan Meeting" arranged by Reebok, and the liquidated damages were astronomical, so he could only helplessly say sorry.
Your mom, it's a fucking grandpa's schedule!
The NBA's No. 1 center, "Big Shark" Shaq O'Neal, was immersed in hard work at his alma mater for his bachelor's certificate. In 1990, O'Neal entered the business department of Louisiana State University, and entered the NBA after graduating in his sophomore year.
Mom, how many international tournaments you've missed!
NBA No. 1 scorer, Reggie Miller, has nothing to do, but no one invites; Maybe it's because he's afraid he'll bring those throat-locking and scolding incidents to the Olympics!
Tim Duncan worked hard, but he injured his knee at the US Championships, so he had to be taken out of the hospital, right?!
As for Kobe, more simply, he is Italian and has no obligation to play for the "Dream Four"; In addition, the Italian Blue Association is stingy, and it is not even appropriate to negotiate a large endorsement contract, who cares about you!
The others don't talk about it, each has its own things, and it seems that they are all busy with a mess!
The roster of the "Dream Four" is as follows.
Head Coach: Rudy Tomjanovic (NBA Rockets).
Centers: Alonzo Mourning (Miami Heat), Antonio McDyce (Denver Nuggets), Moon Baker (Seattle SuperSonics).
Power forwards: Kevin Garnett (Minnesota Timberwolves), Sharif Abdo Raheem (Vancouver Grizzlies).
Small forwards: Vince Carter (Toronto Raptors), Steve Smith (Portland Trail Blazers).
Shooting guards: Allan Houston (New York Knicks), Ray Allen (Milwaukee Bucks).
Point guards: Jason Kidd (Phoenix Suns), Tim Haddawi (Miami Heat), Gary Payton (Seattle SuperSonics).
The combination of old, middle and young, balanced positions, no matter how you look at it, full of firepower, which is beyond the ability of ordinary teams to compete!
No matter what team it is, as long as there are NBA stars, they must lead the team, as for what to ask, everyone knows it!
Switch topics.
Game 1 of the opening game: German men's basketball team VS Canadian men's basketball team!
Steve Nash, captain of the Canadian men's basketball team and the main point guard of the NBA Mavericks, nicknamed "The Son of the Wind"; The teammates paired with Nash are incomprehensible.
Outside matching, Rick Fox (NBA Lakers main small forward).
Inside, Todd McCulloitch (76ers backup center, champion hero), Samuel Delham Porter (2.11m block talent, NCAA Seton Hall sophomore), Jamal Magloyer (2.11m center, NBA Charlotte Hornets rookie, 19th in the first round of the '00 draft).
All three centers are defensive, with all offensive firepower on the perimeter, and the rest are college players.
The offensive routine is on the bright side, with Nash and Rick Fox playing "two-man turning" on the outside, shooting and shooting; The interior is responsible for grabbing rebounds and making baskets to pick up leaks. This lineup still has a little power on the offensive end, and the outside defensive end is simply a super colander.
The Canadian men's basketball team is also very helpless, and the Raptors stars who are guarding the door are all very big, and they refused the invitation due to nationality issues, so they can only make do with it like this. In the first game of the opening game, they met the German team, and needless to say, they were unanimously looked down upon!
In the pre-game warm-up, Nowitzki took the initiative to hug Nash, both of whom played for the Mavericks, and the inside and outside matches were very smooth, and they could be regarded as knowing themselves and their opponents.
Rick Fox took the initiative to hug Ussy, and the two had previously fought at the "Usy Club" in Ussy's house.
As soon as the whistle blows, the game officially begins.
Usyris scored an easy win over Todd McCulloch on the opening jump shot, and teammate Stephen Harman made a beautiful three-step layup.
On the Canadian men's basketball team's side, Nash's speed with the ball across the court doesn't look fast, but the change of direction and turn are as fast as lightning, and the best trick "lying on the ground shooting" is a must, suddenly jumping back sharply, looking like he has slipped and fallen, which scares you, but he shot at the last moment in the process of leaning back. Rick Fox is an all-round player, who can shoot, jump, pass, and run all over the court, and is very active.
On the German men's basketball team's side, the offensive routine is the "two-person turn" of Usyris and Nowitzki on the inside, and the defensive routine has also been temporarily modified to a double-tower lineup, which is very conservative.
The two teams played one on the outside and the other on the inside, and they were entangled in the opening 7 minutes, and they were tied several times.
The fans were very dissatisfied and booed!
German men's basketball head coach Jess Holger frowned, and finally changed his tactics, allowing Nowitzki to pull to the outside, still unable to withstand Rick Fox's offensive firepower, and finally reluctantly handed over the ball to Usi.
With Ussi as the center, the tactics immediately changed to Princeton's tactics, and the situation suddenly became clear!
Usilis began to launch frequent assists on the offensive end, chasing Rick-Fox all over the court on the defensive end, making Fox want to cry without tears!
In the final result, 91:81, the German men's basketball team had the last laugh with a 10-point advantage.
Usyris didn't shoot a single shot in the whole game, only scored 17 assists and 7 rebounds, but his contribution was very big and was unanimously praised!
Game 2, German men's basketball team VS Spanish men's basketball team.
Captain of the Spanish men's basketball team: Pau Gasol (2.13m center/power forward, EL player, not currently in the NBA), nicknamed the Spanish Rabbit, once he encounters an inside meat shield and forcibly dunks, he will automatically dodge!
The standard European-style soft big man, who can jump shots, pass the ball, and respond to the ball, is very versatile, but the defensive end makes people speechless! (To be continued.) )