basketball boulder

Chapter 157 Miami at four o'clock in the morning
The next day, the Chinese team ushered in the semi-finals.

Their opponent is Argentina.

In the 2002 World Championships, Argentina ended the Dream Five team.

In this year's Olympic Games, Argentina has just eliminated the Dream Six team.

Argentina is now called the "Dream Team Terminator".

A large number of players in their prime: Ginobili, Scola, Prigioni, Bottas, Delfino, Quinteros, Nocioni, Camoriches, Juan Gutierrez , Leonardo Gutierrez, Oberto, Gonzalez.

Compared with the Chinese team's dual-core combat, Argentina is more balanced, with strong positions in every position and no obvious weaknesses.

In the end, 71:60.

The Chinese team lost to Argentina.

On the other side of the European civil war, Lithuania narrowly beat Spain 66:62.

Then came the bronze medal match and the gold medal match.

The Chinese team lost to Spain and ranked fourth.

Spain won the bronze medal.

Argentina narrowly beat Lithuania to win the gold medal.

Lithuania took silver.

During the awarding stage, Argentina, Lithuania and Spain received gold, silver and bronze medals.

The Chinese team is jealous below.

They are only one step away from the medal!

Just can't get over it.

Yao Ming suddenly said: "Next time, in BJ, we must stand on the podium."

Li Lei looked at Yao Ming, remained silent for a long time, and finally nodded.

In this Olympics, Yao Ming averaged 20.5 points and 9.8 rebounds per game, second only to Spain's Pau Gasol, and he is already the top big man in the World Series.

李磊场均18.8分6.3篮板4.8助攻2.3抢断2.1盖帽，是中国队的外线核心。

The Chinese team has established Yao Ming and Li Lei as the two cores, one inside and one outside.

There are a bunch of newcomers on the front line, such as Mo Ke, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu...all have performed well.

The biggest problem is the back line.

The Chinese team couldn't even find a defender who could dribble the ball through midfield.

Li Lei has to allocate a lot of physical strength to do this every game, which is an unnecessary consumption.

At the end of August, the men's and women's basketball teams went back to China first.

After landing at BJ, Li Lei was shocked by the scene before him as soon as he got out of the airport.

The China Red is crowded with people, and countless fans are holding banners and holding flowers to welcome the triumphant return of the men's basketball team here.

Everyone on the basketball team was frightened by the situation.

It was Li Lei who reacted the fastest. He opened his suitcase immediately, took out the jersey and sneakers he wore in the game, and gave them to a few young fans.

Spoelstra said that the fans are everything to the players.

David Stern also told Li Lei: If you offend anyone, you can't offend the fans.

What's more, the ones guarding here are their own compatriots.

They have worked so hard to come here just to meet the idol in their hearts, how can you bear to refuse?

Li Lei proactively took photos with fans, signed T-shirts and basketballs for them, high-fived them, and shouted together: "Give me five!"

There were too many helpless people, and Li Lei was quickly overwhelmed by the fans.

Bill Duffy was a little worried about Li Lei's safety, and wanted to take Li Lei away as soon as possible, but Li Lei refused, still patiently interacting with the fans.

Seeing Li Lei's insistence, Yao Ming and others also stepped forward to interact with the fans, finally helping Li Lei share a lot of pressure.

Among the chaotic crowd, only Li Lei shouted from time to time: "Shake hands, shake hands, don't touch my abs, I'm ticklish!"

"Just touch my abs, don't go any further!"

The fans burst into laughter from time to time.

It turned out that Li Lei was so funny and kind, like an ordinary big boy.

The team committee saw that this was not good!
Regardless of player safety issues, the fans directly blocked the airport, affecting the normal operation of the airport.

And the fans are so crowded, it is also prone to stampede incidents.

The team committee immediately contacted the airport and borrowed a space from the airport to hold a temporary fan meeting.

When the airport heard that it belonged to the Sports Bureau, and it was the Chinese men's basketball team who had just made contributions, they agreed without saying a word, and even helped arrange the venue.

But there is a request. The staff at several airports are also fans and want to take photos with the players.

This is of course not a problem.

Thus, an impromptu fan meeting started in the large conference room at the airport.

From early in the morning, busy until the evening, it was finally over.

That's it, the fans still have more to say.

After that, the men's basketball team was praised by the Sports Bureau and the Basketball Management Center.

Some people even suggested that the spirit of the men's basketball team has reached the same level as the spirit of the women's volleyball team and the sonorous roses.

Li Lei then participated in some activities under the arrangement of the men's basketball team, Nike team and Duffy.

After half a month, everything came to an end.

Subsequently, Li Lei's team will return to the United States.

The team going back was bigger than when they came.

That is, there are more Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu.

The basketball management center expressed support for Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu going out to study.

The Guangdong team also reimbursed in full.

The outstanding performances of Yao Ming and Li Lei let the Chinese basketball world know how good American basketball is.

Also because of the desire to achieve another success in 2008, the basketball management center has a lot of tolerance for players to play overseas, and even expressed their support.

It can be said that if Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, and even future Chinese players can play overseas, they will walk on the road paved with the blood of Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi.

Li Lei, there is also a little bit of influence.

After arriving in the United States, Li's father and Li's mother returned to Los Angeles.

Li Lei and his party went straight to Miami.

During this period, Li Lei's good friends also came one after another.

Crawford, White Chocolate, and Alston are three streetball masters.

Wade, Haslem two teammates.

Milicic, Dior, Pachulia, and Mo Williams are comrades in the united front against the NCAA.

Including Li Lei, Zhu Fangyu, and Yi Jianlian, there are twelve people in total.

It is completely possible to form a 5v5 team, and you can also have a substitute.

In the first game, Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu felt the gap.

Real NBA players rely more on physical fitness than international players.

Yi Jianlian's talent is definitely unique in China, but compared with Milicic, it is really not enough.

Zhu Fangyu's talent is not too bad, but when you stand with Dior, you feel ashamed immediately.

The two were immediately hit by [-] points.

Especially Yi Jianlian, not to mention facing off against Milicic, even if he met Haslem, he was prevented from doubting his life.

As long as Haslem exerted his strength, Yi Jianlian couldn't hold it at all, and he couldn't make any technical moves coherently.

After the blow is over, it's time to give some hope.

Li Lei invited the professional team invited by Duffy last time to design a professional training plan for Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu.

It's a long term thing.

But Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu can clearly feel their progress.

On the highest stage, you will make the fastest progress.

The two are more eager to enter the NBA.

So, they saw what Miami looked like at four o'clock in the morning.

(End of this chapter)