super legend

Chapter 154 First stop in Spain!
"CCTV, viewers and friends of CCTV, good evening everyone, I am Yu Jia, and now I will explain to you the first group match of the Chinese men's basketball team in the Athens Olympic Games. The opponent is the powerful Spain. Team, now both sides are ready, before the start of the game, let our director Zhang explain to everyone, will the Chinese team have a high winning percentage in this game?" Yu Jia and Zhang Weiping are both in Athens, and they will follow up the Chinese men's basketball team throughout the process , CCTV will also turn every game of the Chinese men's basketball team, because the Chinese men's basketball team is known as the best lineup in history, and everyone is looking forward to what kind of results the Chinese men's basketball team will achieve in the end.

Zhang Weiping said with a smile: "Everyone has high hopes for this year's Chinese men's basketball team. They think we have Sun Zhuo, Yao Ming, and Big Zhi. There are so many players who can be the main players in the NBA. Will this year be different? Today's opponents The Spanish team can give us an answer. Is this men's basketball team really different? Can it really compete with the world's top teams? It is really hard to say who will win and who will lose with Spain. After all It's the group stage. We haven't entered the knockout round yet. Everyone doesn't care too much about winning or losing. I think we can take a step and see if Spain can win this game. If we can win, we will do our best to win. We hope to place our hopes on New Zealand, Argentina, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro, and we must first ensure that the group qualify.”

Yu Jia nodded: "That's right, if we can win against Spain today, then the pressure on the Chinese men's basketball team to qualify will be much less. Let us wait and see how they can perform."

At the arena, the atmosphere was much worse than that of the finals that Sun Zhuo had just participated in. There were not so many people, but there were not many, especially the Spanish fans and Chinese fans, who were all cheering.

"Team China, come on! Team China, come on!"

After Sun Zhuo entered the arena, he heard such shouts from time to time.

"Sun Zhuo, come on!"

Suddenly there was a sweet girl's voice at the scene, and everyone was shouting for the Chinese team to cheer on, only she kept calling Sun Zhuo's name, she seemed to be a fan of Sun Zhuo.

Sun Zhuo glanced to the sidelines and found that it was a 15- or 6-year-old girl, wearing a white T-shirt and ponytail, with a pure and lovely appearance. After seeing that Sun Zhuo was also staring at her, her pink face froze. Red, extremely cute, sitting next to her are two middle-aged men and women who also accompany her to cheer for the Chinese team, they look like her parents.

"I have fans playing in Athens. It seems that this year in the NBA was not in vain." Sun Zhuo was also very happy.

Not long after, the American Dream Team Six also came to the scene!

"Look, it's the American Dream Team! I didn't expect them to come too!"

"Larry Brown, Tim Duncan, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James are all here! I don't know who they are here for, Spain or China?"

"Of course it is Spain. How can the Chinese team need to attract their attention?"

Even if the Dream Team [-] didn't deserve to be called the Dream Team, they caused a sensation as soon as they arrived at the scene. After all, they represented the highest level of basketball.

Not all the American team came. People like Iverson, Marbury, and Boozer did not come. Larry Brown, Odom, Wade, James, and Anthony were all there.

"I don't know how Sun will perform in the first game of the Olympics? Will he be as crazy as in the finals?" Larry Brown wanted to learn more about Spain, a potential opponent, and also wanted to see Sun Zhuo. Performance.

In fact, the Spanish team didn't take the Chinese team seriously at all. They felt that today's game was a sure win, and they seemed very proud of the arrival of the US team.

"Look, even the members of the American Dream Team Six came to watch our game, and even Larry Brown came over in person, which shows how much they value our Spanish team! They have already regarded us as their biggest opponent to win the championship!" Fernandez of the Spanish team was excited after seeing the US team.

Gasol and others also think so: "Of course, this year's US team lineup is not impeccable, we have already threatened them, this year we have only one goal, and that is the Olympic champion!"

The Spanish team didn't take the qualifying of the group seriously at all, and had set their goal on the championship. They took it for granted that the Chinese team was just trying to get out of the group.

The game started quickly. The Chinese team is currently using Yao Ming and Sun Zhuo as the dual core of one inside and one outside. Due to Yao Ming's height advantage, the ball will still be played from Yao Ming first, and then look for other opportunities.

However, Yao Ming seemed a little nervous. He made a mistake on the first ball and was cut off after a dribble. The Spanish team advanced very fast and quickly scored two points.

Afterwards, Yao Ming gave the ball to Sun Zhuo, and Sun Zhuo didn’t attack as soon as he came up. He was capable enough, and he had bug-level shooting and dunking. Let them find the touch, and then it will be easy to play.

It's a pity that Liu Wei, Da Zhi, and Li Nan were either lacking in confidence or had a bad hand feeling, so they didn't finish scoring.

At the same time, Gasol began to overwhelm the inside in the first quarter, using his footsteps to pass Yao Ming several times, and then hit hard at the basket. After a while, he scored 7 points by himself!
At this time, the Chinese team only relied on Yao Ming's mid-range shot to score two points!
"Pau Gasol is really good. He has speed, bounce, confrontation and basket. It's really hard to defend." Yu Jia said with emotion.

Zhang Weiping also said: "I didn't feel it when I watched the NBA. Watching him play in the Olympics is really like a fish in water. The key is that Spain not only has Gasol, they rely not on a single star, but on the entire team. Now a single Gasol is Playing the Chinese team like this, if the whole team is functioning, it will be impossible to play."

In the first quarter, the Chinese team was completely out of shape, and fell behind Spain by 12 points in a single quarter. The key point is that the Spanish team didn't seem to be playing hard enough, and took the lead easily as if playing for fun.

Seeing this, the coach of the US team, Larry Brown, also crossed his arms and looked serious. He knew that Spain could definitely threaten them.

James had never known anything about Spanish basketball before. After watching them play for a quarter, he was quite amazed. He couldn't help biting his fingers and asked, "When did Spanish basketball improve to this level?"

Larry Brown stared ahead, and said slowly: "Spain has a very complete first division league, ACB, which is the best basketball league in the world besides the NBA. Do you know the Argentine team? Among their five main players, Only Manu Ginobili under Popovich has no background in the Spanish league, so you can imagine how influential this league is. Spanish clubs have a complete youth training system, starting at the age of 15, every year older There is an independent team that matches the age, and different echelons are equipped with coaches, assistants, physical trainers and nutritionists. The usual training of teams at all levels is quite standardized, especially focusing on the cultivation of basic skills and tactical concepts. These things , is not comparable to Chinese basketball, and it is normal to have such a gap.”

"I also agree that Chinese basketball as a whole is not as good as Spain, but hasn't Sun Zhuo played yet?" Wade interjected, and also wanted to remind everyone that Chinese basketball still has Sun Zhuo, which is not so bad.

Brown looked at Wade and said, "Yes, he hasn't played yet, but I guess he might not play today. It's meaningless. He can't fight against the Spanish team alone. With the Chinese team's always conservative strategy, they may I will take this game as training and put the hope of winning on the other opponents."

(End of this chapter)