From today on is the king

Chapter 1600 1599. The benevolent brothers in the international arena!
"Ace, I have worked hard so far, and I can finally play against you in the knockout round. You know, it has always been my dream to play against you in the knockout round again. I can be in the same era as you, a guy who is destined to rule an era. I can represent the country and fight against you so many times. It feels great." Ginobili looked at Liu Mang and said.

"This..." Liu Mang didn't expect that when he saw Ginobili after entering the Wukesong Stadium, the first thing Ginobili said was this!
Seeing the reporters surrounding him, Liu Mang hurriedly said, "You are too serious."

Ginobili was stunned when he heard this answer, and replied, "I'm serious? Thank you for your concern. My back injury is fine, and it won't affect today's game."

"..." Liu Mang felt pain from the sequelae of returning to China, and he had already heard some English-speaking journalists from his own country laughing.

Liu Mang didn't bother to explain, so let's do it!
It's just that he really didn't expect that an international superstar like Ginobili, who has won the Olympic gold medal, killed the US team many times, and is destined to leave his name in the world basketball world, would actually say such a thing!

However, during this Olympic Games, Liu Mang already felt many differences from the previous World Championships.

During the group stage, almost every opponent had more than half of the players come to him to take a group photo and ask for his autograph. If the opponent had an NBA player, they would come to him to ask for an autographed jersey after the game, or the original one. After Liu Mang asked Zhang for instructions, he would give the jersey to the opponent.

The jersey that Liu Mang is going to deal with is a kind of courteous behavior, and the other party is very excited about it.

Now even Ginobili has said such things... It may be related to the fact that after Ginobili finished this Olympics, there is a high probability that Argentina will not be able to enter the finals. Eight of the 12 players in the Argentine team are over 8 years old...

In other words, in the World Championships two years later, most of these players will retire. Even if Ginobili can still maintain a good state at the age of 33, he will not be able to prevent the rapid decline of the Argentine team's strength.

Therefore, Ginobili regards this game as the last time he can stand at the same height as the Chinese team. He believes that this game is the last time that he, who is still the Olympic defending champion, can compete with Liu Mang in the national team with the same proud championship posture.

From [-]:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m., the Chinese team and the Argentine team are preparing for the match, and neither team has the mind to care about the quarterfinals between the US team and the Russian team.

At 05:30 in the afternoon, the warm-up was over and the pre-match preparations were completed. When the two teams entered the Wukesong Arena, they realized that the US team defeated the Russian team 91-79 and became the third team to advance to the semi-finals.

The Russian team was soft against other countries, but against the United States, it suddenly became hard. Thanks to Kidd who came off the bench, Iguodala, and James' counterattack connection, Kidd guided the counterattack, two strikers cut in, Bosh and the little blacksmith responded with a three-point play, and only then opened the point difference to more than 10 points and won the game without any risk.

After learning about the results of the match between the US team and the Russian team, Liu Mang immediately focused on the next match.

If you win, keep going, if you lose...you can't even go home, and the people of the whole country can't accept them falling down here!

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Pablo Prigioni, Manu Ginobili, Carlos Delfino, Luis Scola, Fabucio Oberto, Argentina fielded their strongest starting XI.

For the Chinese team, the starting lineup of Liu Mang, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian, and Yao Ming debuted.

Looking at the opponent's lineup, Liu Mang felt that Argentina's sports strength is really strong!It is said to be the last year of the golden generation, but they are starting, and all five players are even stronger in the NBA rotation!They have become weaker, but compared to their peak in 2004, they still have the ability to upset the top three in the world!
If it was four years ago, before Liu Mang joined the national team, people in the national team other than the inside trio would have felt weak when they saw Argentina's lineup consisting of four NBA players and one of the best point guards in Europe, but now...

The fighting spirit of the Chinese team is higher than that of the opponent!Instead, the Argentine team was overwhelmed!

First of all, Yao Ming who came to the middle circle. Milicic will not join this year's Olympics. Except for Gasol, no inside player is more lateral than Yao Ming!

Oberto, who came to the middle circle, felt short of breath with this giant beast.

Too much pressure!
Oberto felt that the years were too cruel. Four years ago they were still playing against the Chinese team with the immature Liu Mang and Yao Ming, but now they can only challenge each other as challengers.

At 05:30 in the afternoon, the much-anticipated final quarter-final game started. The golden whistle referee from the Australian League came to the middle circle, blew the whistle for the start of the game, and threw the ball into the air...

Yao Ming wins the jump ball and the Chinese team goes first!

When Liu Mang received the ball, he didn't rush forward and waited for Yao Ming to settle down, because the opponent had already shrunk back to the basket with a group of people, and he didn't defend for three seconds. The opponent didn't have to worry about other things.

Liu Mang slowly advanced to the frontcourt. After Yao Ming went inside, he said to the veteran with 9 years of experience in the La Liga professional league in front of him, "Pablo, do you want to try in the NBA? I think you can do it. Let's win the world championship together!"

"Watt...Puta!"

Just as Prigioni was about to reply, the other party had already begun to break through!

Who would want to be recognized as the strongest player in the world to play tricks!Prigioni shouted an angry curse, and hurried to catch up.

Originally, Prigioni was already 31 years old, his physical fitness was far from that of his peak, and he was distracted by Liu Mang's trash talk, so he could only watch Liu Mang's back rushing into the inside line.

Oberto and Scola shrunk to the inside. Seeing Liu Mang passing Prigioni so easily and rushing in, they quickly moved up. Liu Mang went deep into the three-second zone, attracted the flanking attack and passed the ball to Yao Ming.

Yao Ming caught the ball and jumped into the basket with one step, and smashed the ball into the basket viciously through Scola!

Poor Scola was knocked to the ground by Yao Ming and slipped half a meter away...

That's horrible!
Horrible!

Just like Gasol with Calderon passing the ball, if Yao Ming has the opportunity to catch the ball and lift it up in this position, his lethality is not even comparable to that of Gasol!

In the original time and space, Yao Ming did not have such a defender in the national team to pass the ball to him, but here, there is no brother Liu Mang!

(End of this chapter)