super legend

Chapter 151 Athens Olympics!
Although O'Neal has left the Lakers, the Lakers' leadership dispute does not seem to be over. Will it evolve from the OK dispute to the Kobe and Sun Zhuo dispute?
Kobe agreed to renew his contract with the Lakers, and did not ask the Lakers to trade Sun Zhuo. This has already explained a problem, that is, Kobe feels that he can suppress Sun Zhuo. At least in the next three years, Kobe believes that Sun Zhuo will not be able to threaten him. status.

But Kobe underestimated Sun Zhuo's growth rate. Maybe Sun Zhuo can't compare with Kobe now, but once Sun Zhuo reaches the full level, plus those game bugs, he has the strength to compete with Kobe for the boss.

O'Neal was forced to leave the Lakers because of Kobe, and now he has resentment towards Kobe, so he is looking forward to seeing Sun Zhuo grow up quickly, and then snatch Kobe's Lakers boss over. At that time, he will also laugh in Miami.

After talking with O'Neal on the phone, Sun Zhuo called Phil Jackson again. Although Phil will not be Sun Zhuo's coach next season, but in the past season, Phil trusted and used Sun Zhuo very much, and Sun Zhuo knew that It won't be long before Phil will return to the Lakers.

The two greeted each other, and Phil knew that Sun Zhuo called to care about him. After all, Phil won the championship for the Lakers, but he couldn't get a contract extension, which made anyone feel wronged for Phil.

Phil smiled heartily on the phone, and he didn't seem to be in a bad mood, "Legendary coach Cotton Fitzsimmons said that you don't really know what kind of coach you are until you get fired. You don't have to, Sun." Worrying about me, I'm ready to retire from the basketball world, I'm going to find something to enrich my mind, I'm finishing "The Final Season" now, after I'm done with this book, I'm going to leave Los Angeles, go to New Zealand, Australia, and small islands in the South Pacific to travel."

"You are always looking for ways to improve yourself." Sun Zhuo admires Phil very much, maybe it is because of Zen, Phil treats the results of things well and badly, he sees it very freely, and always finds something for himself to do .

Phil smiled and said, "Although we've only been with you for one season, I think we've already established a relationship. Maybe we'll have the opportunity to continue this relationship in the future."

Sun Zhuo was very happy: "This is what I want to say. You will definitely come to the Lakers again. I will wait for you and let you lead us to another championship!"

Phil did not promise to Sun Zhuo, but said with a smile: "Frankly speaking, I am not interested in saving a terminally ill team. I hope you don't mind if I say this, but the situation of the Lakers next season is not good." Optimistic, apart from personnel changes, the key is whether the backcourt combination of you and Kobe can have an effect of 1+1 greater than 2? I have coached Jordan and Pippen who are similar to your two positions and took six The championship, but you two are Jordan."

Even Phil Jackson is not optimistic about the Lakers next season, especially the backcourt combination of Sun Zhuo and Kobe. It seems that Sun Zhuo's second season may not be as easy as the first season.

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The days of training in the national team passed quickly, and a month passed in a blink of an eye. Sun Zhuo went to Athens to participate in the Olympic Games with the Chinese men's basketball team.

The Games of this Olympic Games started two days ahead of the opening ceremony on August 8th, and the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games will be on August 11th.

At the opening ceremony, Greek actors demonstrated the romance of the Aegean Sea and the civilization of ancient Greece with poetic and dreamlike performances. The unique torch lighting ceremony pushed the opening ceremony to a climax.

It is hard for Sun Zhuo not to be excited in such a grand and gorgeous scene. The Olympic Games is the stage that every athlete dreams of. Sun Zhuo is proud of himself as a professional athlete!
At the entrance ceremony, the tallest Yao Ming was the standard bearer of the Chinese delegation. Yao Ming was a head taller than everyone else, so it was very easy to find the Chinese team on the spot.

The first match of Sun Zhuo’s Olympic Games will be held on the 15th. There are 12 teams in the Olympic men’s basketball team, which are divided into two groups, A and B. The teams play against other teams separately, use the form of points to eliminate the last two in the group, and then select eight teams to enter the knockout round.

The Chinese team's opponent was very strong in the first game, and it was the Spanish team with Pau Gasol!

Don't look at the Spanish team in the previous life who only got No.7 in this Olympic Games, which is only one place higher than the Chinese team, but Spain won all the group matches!They only lost one game in the entire Olympics, and their winning percentage was the highest among all the teams. Even Argentina, who won the championship in the end, lost two games, one of which was to Spain!

Argentina, which won the championship, lost to Spain. It is conceivable how strong Spain is, but one thing is one thing. They were very unlucky and met the US team in the quarter-finals. A Marbury broke out, so he could only get seventh in the end.

The first opponent in the Olympic Games is so strong, which makes everyone in the Chinese team a headache. Although the group stage can be lost, everyone still wants to pursue a good start. At least they can’t play badly in the first game, right?

Coach Harris has also been talking about Spain's opponent in the past two days.

Coach Harris, who is known as the "Silver Fox", has also done some research on the Spanish men's basketball team: "Speaking of the Spanish men's basketball team, I have to mention the U1999 World Youth Championship in 19, which was the core of that World Youth Championship. Starting from the now powerful Spanish men's basketball team, they defeated the American U19 men's basketball team in the World Youth Championship that year and won the championship trophy. That was also their glorious starting point. Pau Gasol, Navarro, Jose Calderon , These three people are very difficult to deal with, they are also the core of Spain, they will be our focus on defense on the field."

Paul Gasol and Jose Calderon were still active in the NBA until 2017, which shows that they are really capable, especially Paul Gasol, who has not suffered a metatarsal injury in 04. Sol has a strong athletic ability. Sun Zhuo has a little impression of the match between Spain and China in 04. I remember that this year, Yao Ming was blown away by Gasol.

"I remember that even against the US team, Gasol is unstoppable in the interior. Gasol will definitely cause a lot of trouble for the Chinese team, and the rules of the FIBA ​​​​are different from the rules of the NBA. The Olympic Games The game did not defend for three seconds, which will be more beneficial to inside players like Gasol, and the position of the FIBA ​​three-point line is not as far as the NBA's three-point line. Gasol can even pull out to shoot a three-pointer. It seems that, If you want to win Spain, the key is how to limit Gasol's performance."

Paul Gasol is now in the Memphis Grizzlies. If he meets the Grizzlies led by Gasol in the NBA, Sun Zhuo will not have the slightest fear, even if there are no such strong opponents as Kobe and O'Neal.

However, for some reason, Sun Zhuo felt that Gasol was like a big devil when he came to the international arena, and he felt more terrifying than Iverson and Duncan of the US team.

Sun Zhuo remembered what Kobe had said to Gasol after the 08 Olympics.

"He's the best in the world!"

(End of this chapter)