Chapter 320: Towards Greatness, Onward
Three consecutive wins in the group stage, and two wins are European giants, if there is an element of luck in winning Spain before, then this time the Dragons defeated the German team, which blocked the fans' 'luck theory'.
Three consecutive wins have ensured the right of the Chinese men's basketball team to qualify, and now what they have to do is to beat the Greek team and then create a historic record, second in the group!
The Dragons' best expectation now is to finish second in the group, because in the following game, the Dream Eight team defeated the Spanish men's basketball team 119-82, which is also the highest score in a single game in this Olympic Games.
The Spanish men's basketball team belongs to the pond fish, the dream team was full of confidence and pride, they thought that this Olympic game was to chop melons and vegetables, but they cut out a cold sweat in the first game, if it wasn't for the good play in the fourth quarter, they might have to lose the opening game!
Since then, the Dream Eight team no longer takes it lightly, although it can't do the lion and the rabbit with all their strength, but when facing heavyweight opponents such as Greece and Spain, they will still show twelve points of strength. The Spanish team was defeated in this situation, and the Dream Eight team beat them by 20 points in a row and did not stop, which made the Spanish team really speechless and choked, and at the same time hated the Chinese men's basketball team that made them lose face.
The Chinese team doesn't care about the resentment of the Spanish team, they are happy now, three consecutive wins and the best record in history make the men's basketball team full of joy, but there are some small flaws, after the game, a reporter asked Chen Jianghua, asking him what he thinks of his performance today and the team's victory.
Chen Jianghua scored 10 points in this game, but it was in exchange for 11 shots, and he also had 4 assists, which is quite extraordinary, he was full of ambition and did not care about the terrible data of 7 turnovers in the whole game, and in the face of reporters' questions, he said proudly: "I am very satisfied with my performance and will maintain this state in the future." It's just that our core is not very in shape, otherwise we can defeat the German team faster. β
This answer made little Nelson change his face, originally he wanted to cultivate Chen Jianghua, but after listening to the translator's words, he firmly excluded Chen Jianghua from the knockout squad.
Although the Chinese team won this game, it actually gave a lot of mouths: the twelve teams in this year's Olympic Games, the dream team is the first-class, but their strength is not invincible, as far as the current performance is concerned, if the dream team is a first-class team, then the Spanish team and the Lithuanian team belong to the second first-rate, Greece, Argentina belong to the second rate, and Germany and other teams only belong to the third rate.
The strength of the Dragons is the most controversial, they only lost a few points to the first-class Dream Team, but won the second-class Spanish team by a dozen points, and from this point of view, they can be tied with the Dream Team for the first class. But against the third-rate German team, they still won a few points, so how should they rank?
The outside world's evaluation of the performance of the Dragons is that it is a young team, talented, inconsistent and needs to be strengthened.
But if you put it another way, each team chooses two or three main players to compare, there is no doubt that the partnership of Yao Ming and Chamberlain is definitely the world's first-class. In other words, in fact, it was the men's basketball team that dragged down the team, but in Chen Jianghua's mouth, it was Yao Ming and Chamberlain who dragged the team.
Americans hate men who don't take responsibility the most, so even if Chamberlain is young, every time the Warriors lose, he will find the reason from himself, telling fans that his teammates are doing well, and the loss is his own.
Chen Jianghua's behavior was suspected of shirking responsibility, and little Nelson was naturally angry.
But most people are still very happy, and they are all happy to win the German team to create the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, from the Basketball Association to the fans.
Liu Yudong, who is known as the 'God of War' in the CBA and the core of the national team before Yao Ming, wrote on his blog: "Today's Sino-German battle is very exciting, and it is really not easy for the Chinese team to win this game under such pressure at home." Winning this game not only made it to the top eight, but also created the best result in the history of the Chinese team, and now the brothers of the men's basketball team can put down their burdens and give it a go, and I expect the next games to be even better. β
But after all, he is an expert, and he saw the problem of the men's basketball team at a glance: "Today's fly in the ointment is that the outside line is deformed in the long range of strong confrontations, although it wins, but there are still a lot of balls that do not stick to the basket, and the offensive rhythm control is still unsatisfactory, if it can be improved, then we can make a big step forward, of course, this needs to be slowly run-in, after all, we have improved." In short, today's game shows us that the future of the Chinese team is full of hope, and we may not be able to challenge for the championship in the near future. β
ESPN's Sports Olympics column also made a special comment on the game, praising them with the title of 'Life and Death Battle, Yao Ming Leads the Dragons to Beat Germany'. Yao Ming scored 25 points and 8 rebounds in this game, and was indeed the primary contributor to the team's victory, and his role today was much greater than that of Chamberlain.
The Associated Press reported on the game, saying: "Yao Ming contributed 25 points to help the Chinese men's basketball team defeat Germany, creating their best record in Olympic men's basketball history." Yao Ming's performance in the game was impeccable, he dominated the inside of the game, and SUPER-Z's play was as strong as ever, although it was slightly worse than the previous three games, but this was not his reason, when he was on the court, their outside line did not care about him at all. Another player of the Chinese men's basketball team also performed very well, that is, former Nowitzki teammate Wang Zhizhi, who got 18 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists, which was perfect, and his confrontation with Nowitzki may be the most exciting shot of the game. After the game, the Chinese men's basketball players celebrated near the halfway line, as if they had won an Olympic medal. After the game, the coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, Nelson Jr., told this reporter, "I am very happy, it is very difficult to win this victory, and I know that we will not have any more pressure in the next game, the most important thing is to let the players have a good rest." "In the next game, the Chinese men's basketball team will face another strong opponent in Group B, the Greek team."
Sina Sports highlighted the victory of the match with the headline "The German media mourn all over the field after the race, and the YZ group beats the CD group", which is the initials of Chris Karman and Dirk Nowitzki.
Sina Sports is not exaggerating, and the German media is indeed full of sorrow:
After the game, the German media was in mourning. Immediately after the game, the newspaper published an article titled "Nowitzki's team is out of the group stage". The Germans were already out of the quarter-finals: Nowitzki and his team suffered a disastrous second half in the decisive match against hosts China. The game against the United States has become meaningless.
One of Germany's most important newspapers, the World Gazetteer, said: "Before the Olympics, the Germans had great hopes for the team led by Nowitzki and Kaman, but after the group stage they had to face the fact that they would go home. Defeated in a direct dialogue with China, the Chinese team played aggressively in a match cheered on by 16,000 spectators. Although the Germans were in full swing in the second quarter, the poor performance in the third quarter made the team's comeback look weak in the last quarter. In the Chinese team, Yao Ming scored 25 points alone and was the hero of the game, while Nowitzki scored 24 points. β
Bild said: "This is the end of the road for the German men's basketball team, and after the next game against the United States, the German team will say goodbye to the Olympics." Under the leadership of Yao Ming and Chamberlain, the Chinese team played too well than Germany in the game. Although Germany set off **** in the last four minutes and almost equalized, it was the Chinese who laughed the most. β
The SΓΌddeutsche Zeitung directly criticized the performance of the German team, saying that the German team did not hold up at the critical moment: "Spain lost more to the Chinese team, should we praise the boys?" But in fact, today's game is a shame, the Chinese outside line is so bad, but our outside line is not resolute at all, not brave at all, which does not reflect the will of Germany. Two NBA players, Nowitzki and Carman, lost to two Chinese NBA players, Yao Ming and Chamberlain, which is understandable, but what about our outside line for Lu and nothing to win against the Chinese? β
The next game of the Chinese team is going to be the closing battle, their opponent is the Greek team, but the focus of the players is not on this game, their eyes, or the eyes of all Chinese sports fans are on the short track of the Bird's Nest, on August 18, the men's 110m hurdles will start, Liu Xiang will play for the first time.
Chamberlain finally got the tickets, and they didn't get one - knowing that he wanted to see Liu Xiang play but didn't have a ticket, Lenovo generously gave him five tickets, and they were eager to see Liu Xiang and Chamberlain standing together, because both of them were their spokespeople.
Winnie contacted Lenovo's director of advertising planning in the human resources department, and she hoped that Lenovo would remove some of Liu Xiang's promotional posters and replace them with Chamberlain's.
Lenovo politely rejected Winnie's proposal, and their reason was very good: "We can't see different ideas, miss, Mr. Zhang will be the protagonist of our focus on advertising, but not now, our protagonist in the Olympics is Mr. Liu Xiang, this is what we have promised, we can't be untrustworthy." β
Speaking of which, Winnie can't force others anymore, because people are standing on a moral standing.
After the game with the German team, Chamberlain began to call Zhang Zilin and Gu Chen to watch Liu Xiang's game together, he did not covet the beauty of the two women, but wanted to create a chance for the two and Winnie to resolve the misunderstanding, what Winnie did the day before yesterday, he thought was wrong.
Yao Ming happened to pass by when he called, and Chamberlain teased the two girls and said that I don't have a ticket yet, which of you will give me one, but Yao Ming laughed and said, "Don't you have a ticket for Liu Xiang's game?" Then tell me, I have more than a dozen here, Liu Xiang and I are fellow countrymen, and they were all given to me by his coach. β
Chamberlain was speechless, Lao Tzu couldn't buy a broken leg when he didn't have a ticket, and if you have a ticket, you all showed your tickets one by one, is it **** Lao Tzu?
What made him even more speechless was that on the morning of August 18, when he met Zhang Zilin and Gu Chen, the latter took a ticket and handed it to him.
Chamberlain showed his ticket and said, "I have a ticket, what are you giving me back?" β
Gu Chenqiao's face suddenly showed a hint of embarrassment, and Zhang Zilin suddenly became angry, she said, "Hey, are you **** us?" Isn't it fun to tease us? When you called us the night before yesterday, you said you didn't have a ticket, Chenchen found a lot of friends to find a ticket for you, what do you mean by taking out so many tickets now? β
Chamberlain secretly shouted that it was bad, and he happened to run into Yao Ming after joking at the time, and after a while, he forgot about the problem.
Seeing that Zhang Zilin was angry, Gu Chen hurriedly pulled her arm, Zhang Zilin shook it off, and Chamberlain laughed dryly: "Just kidding, so angry?" β
Zhang Zilin stared up at him, her two apricot eyes were round, and she said fiercely: "Do you know how hard it took to find the ticket for Lu Dao Chenchen?" She's not a big player or a big star like you, we're flesh and blood, when Chenchen was looking for someone to ask for tickets, that bastard actually did something to Chenchen......"
Chamberlain was taken aback, then he was furious and shouted: "Whoever dares to do this, Lao Tzu will do him!" β
He looked at Gu Chen, pulled Gu Chen's arm and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I just made a random joke at the time, I didn't expect you to help me so seriously." β
Gu Chen smiled sweetly, waved his hand and said: "It's nothing, that time you comforted me that I missed watching Phelps' game, this time I should, I just want to make up for my mistakes." β
Hearing Gu Chen say this, Chamberlain's face suddenly changed, his expression was very unpleasant, Zhang Zilin and Gu Chen were puzzled, and asked in unison, "What's wrong with you?" β