From today on is the king

Chapter 1290 1289. Play as the last game! (810 asking for double monthly pass)
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On the afternoon of August 8, Liu Mang devoted himself to preparing for the battle.

Yesterday, the second day after the Chinese team entered the semi-finals, when watching the match between the US team and the French team, it was still very relaxed, but it is not so easy now.

Liu Mang remembered that in the original time and space, in the 2006 World Championships, the Greek team was the runner-up and lost to Spain in the final.

But the pressure is still great!

The current mood of the Chinese team players is like an exam. The first page of the test paper is still testing the nine-nine-nine multiplication table. When the big question on the second page is turned, it suddenly becomes a nuclear fusion equation...

In the minds of basketball fans, the US team is definitely the world's hegemony.

Even if they have lost two consecutive World Series, they cannot shake their status in people's minds.

As long as the Olympic Committee and FIBA ​​allow professional basketball players to participate in international competitions, the dominance of the US team will be unshakable. It cannot be shaken by other countries winning once or twice. They can always send a bunch of top [-] or even top [-] and top [-] players in the world to participate in the Olympics or World Championships.

In fact, if professional athletes are not allowed to participate in international competitions, after the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, the U.S. team’s dominance may be more obvious...

The Chinese team directly met the strongest team in their minds, and of course the pressure was great.

Everyone, including Liu Mang, was under a lot of pressure.

But to be honest, the U.S. team may be the weakest opponent among the three Chinese teams, Spain, the U.S., and Greece.

In the original time and space, Spain, Greece, and the United States happened to be the top three, and the Greek team eliminated the United States in the semi-finals.

So playing against the US team is actually the best situation for the Chinese team.

However, Liu Mang is more confident than when he played against the US team last time!
The main confidence comes from the improvement of Liu Mang himself and Yao Ming in the past two years!
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"We must pay attention, the opponent will definitely be stronger this time than last time!" Guo Shiqiang emphasized in the national team meeting.

"We should pay attention to the US team this time. They will definitely be more motivated than the last time we played against us. We don't think that we are better than them if we win once..." Li Nan also emphasized.

After training in the afternoon, the head coach of the Chinese team, Yinhu Harris, held a national team meeting.

Yinhu listened to the interpretation of the team interpreter and nodded in agreement.

However, as the head coach, Silver Fox couldn't keep watching the air pressure get lower and lower. He continued: "But the US team is the weakest team in the semi-finals. We play against them better than the other two countries."

Guo Shiqiang and Li Nan are the future head coaches, even the head coaches of the national team. They may not be better than Silver Fox in terms of business level, but they are stronger in one place. They know the level of their own national players better.

Most of the pitchers who can beat strong teams and score so many points are due to Liu Mang and Yao Ming. Even Wang Zhizhi enjoys Liu Mang's passing and Yao Ming's containment defense, so he ranks third in the national team with an average of 13 points per game.

And this World Championships, the Chinese team scored in double figures, and they were the only three NBA players.

As Li Nan and Guo Shiqiang, who have very good coaching skills, they often play a key role in team meetings.

The two veterans emphasized that the strength of the US team is not without reason. There is too much public opinion supporting the Chinese team to win. Although many fans around the world like the strength of the US team, once a team is likely to beat them, the fans almost overwhelmingly support the US team's opponents.

I don't want to see the US team dominating the world basketball all the time, then the Olympics and World Championships will be meaningless, and basically nothing else can be seen except for the US to show its strength.

In the past few years, basketball has become more and more popular, which has a lot to do with the former Yugoslavia and Argentina winning the world championship successively. It has mobilized the enthusiasm of some countries in cultivating basketball talents. With the promotion of the country, world basketball can develop better.

And the Chinese fans... always feel that if they win once, they should win forever, and they are more confident than the Chinese team players. They haven't played in the semi-finals, and they are imagining about the world championship.

The Chinese team has been preparing for a possible confrontation with the US team. Tactical preparations have been made long ago, and the coaching staff has been paying attention to the US team's game.

The Chinese men's basketball team hired Silver Fox with a high salary and raised their salary. The purpose is obvious. Silver Fox knows NBA players very well. Among the strong teams, except for the Greek team, there are no NBA stars. The US team, Argentina team, and Spain team all have a large number of NBA stars.

With Li Nan and Guo Shiqiang's clear self-awareness, and Yinhu's understanding of NBA stars, the Chinese team has prepared as much as possible in terms of tactics.

Watch the game next!

The Chinese team is working hard to prepare for the game, and the US team has not underestimated the Chinese team.

There may have been some contempt last time, but after losing once, the players of this US team dare not be careless.

Especially the main players of the Dream Six team that lost to the Chinese team last time, most of them also participated in the World Championships this time.

When Liu Mang first saw the U.S. team roster, he was very glad that Duncan, who has become better in the CIC, was unwilling to participate in this World Championships. He was ashamed last time and dared not play international competitions with Larry Brown.

After a few games, Duncan understood the gap between Larry Brown and Popovich.

Tactically attach importance to the opponent, and strategically, we must have confidence in ourselves.

After some discussion, Yao Ming finally concluded: "We have won against them once, and there will be a second time! For our country, for the fans, we will play tomorrow's game as if it were our last game!"

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Time flies, and on September 9st, the day for the Chinese team to compete with the US team has arrived.

"Uncle, Dana's mood is so complicated right now." Little Lolita sat next to Liu Mang with her arms folded, as if she was thinking about something.

"What's complicated?" Liu Mang asked while eating a nutritious meal.

"Uncle, don't you have any pressure? We are very strong in the United States!" Little Lolita felt that her country's team was underestimated, and Liu Mang was so happy to eat nutritious meals. It didn't look like he was going to fight against the world's strongest team at all.

"Stress... yes, yes, why are you so complicated, you brat?" Liu Mang responded casually.

"Dinah has grown up!"

"Yes, yes, yes... Then tell me about the grown-up Dinah, why is your mood so complicated?"

"Dinah wants uncle to win, but she doesn't want to see our country lose." Little Lolita made a tangled look again.

"That's it..." Liu Mang thought for a while and said, "Then Dinah, you can support Uncle and me, and the Chinese team will win!"

"It makes sense... Wait, uncle, what's the difference between this and our country's loss?"

(End of this chapter)