Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 728 Intra-team Confrontation
On July 7, four days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Dream Team played a warm-up match with the French team in Monaco.

In this game, the performance of the Dream Team was quite bad. The players seemed to be out of shape at all. The French team once led by 8:2 and 16:13. Although the Dream Team finally won by 111:71, the fans They also watched very lively, and even Prince Rainier of Monaco made a special trip to watch the game and left satisfied.

But Nelson, as the head coach, can obviously feel that the players have rested.

On the second day, after having breakfast and preparing for routine training, Nelson said to the players, "I won't practice today. I'm going to play a confrontation match. Listen carefully, it's for real!"

Nelson's words immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Before this, the Dream Team had also played several confrontational matches, and even drew a few times, but they were all stopped by Nelson, and they did not continue to let them really decide the winner, but this time was different, starting from Nelson's From the words, it can be heard that this time the bayonet is going to be popular.

The players immediately became interested, and everyone talked about how to divide the players in a while.

For the players of the Dream Team, the greatest joy in the previous matchups was to divide the players. After all, it is rare to be teammates with different stars, and the fight has a special flavor.

It's just that the division this time is really difficult. Jordan, Li Weisi, and Magic all want to lead the team separately, and the two teams simply don't have enough points.

In the end, after various struggles and compromises, Li Weisi led Pippen, Bird, Barkley and David Robinson to form the blue team, while Magic, Jordan, Mullin, Malone, and Ewing formed the white team.

Drexler was unable to play because of a slight injury in yesterday's warm-up match. O'Neal is just a younger brother in this team, so naturally he couldn't get a spot to play.

Before the start of the game, the doors of the arena were locked, and all the reporters, team PR, and cameramen were kicked out. Only one assistant coach Nelson joined at the end of the season was holding a video camera to record on the sidelines.

The teaching assistant was in his early 40s, with a beard that completely covered his slightly pointed chin, and looked at the video in the camera with a serious face.

Nelson attaches great importance to him. This time he came to coach the Dream Team. In addition to bringing the Van Gundy brothers, he also brought this new assistant coach.

"Greg, remember to make me handsome later!" Robinson laughed at the assistant coach in the field.

"I really don't know if you are embarrassing me or this camera when you say this." The teaching assistant pointed at the camera and joked.

It seems that the two are quite familiar with each other, which is no wonder, because this assistant coach named Greg, whose full name is Greg Popovich, has been an assistant coach in the Spurs for nearly four years.

Unfortunately, in the middle of this season, Spurs owner McCombs fired Brown and all his coaching staff. In this way, after Brown's introduction, Popovich came to Nelson to continue to be an assistant coach, and this decision was also supported. With the support of Warriors owner Frank.

With Popovich proficiently adjusting the camera equipment, the players also finished their warm-up training and stood on the court one by one, and the game officially kicked off.

Robinson and Ewing, the well-known rivals in the league, took off at the same time, bringing the competition in the league to Europe.

Although Robinson is 3 years younger than Ewing and entered the NBA 4 years later than Ewing, Robinson has surpassed Ewing in terms of achievements so far, except that Ewing defeated Robinson once in Robinson's rookie season. , Only in the last two seasons, Robinson beat Ewing to become a team.

Poor Ewing, who was suppressed by Olajuwon in the first four years of his career, and now Robinson continues to suppress him. He obviously has a fierce face, but he only has M's life. How can he reason?

However, this time the jump ball, Ewing, who was 3 cm shorter, successfully defeated Robinson and successfully won the ball for the white team.

After the magician got the ball, he immediately launched a fast break. The fast break combination of the magician and Jordan is almost invincible in this world.

I saw the magician make a classic pass without looking at people. The basketball passed through several people and successfully fell into Jordan's hands. Block the shot for an easy layup.

The entire scoring process took less than 4 seconds, and it was so hearty that the people watching the game couldn't help but shout out.

Nelson, in particular, yelled at the blue team, "Cheer up, you've already been kicked by Michael!"

Next it's the blue team's turn to attack.

This time, there is a problem with the distribution of the team. Originally, there was no problem with the four major players in teams of two or two, but because Bird was plagued by back injuries and could not reach the peak level, cracks appeared in this fragile balance.

Although the blue team has arranged Barkley and David Robinson, who have performed well during this period, the combination of Magic + Jordan still makes people feel that the white team is stronger.

Li Weisi dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and was defended strongly by Jordan.

For defending Li Weisi, the magician will naturally not let him defend. After all, even Hurley can play at the All-Star level under the defense of the magician, let alone Li Weisi.

After this period of training and his own adaptation to the ankle support, Li Weisi has gradually recovered his form now, and the elf who once performed miracles on the court has returned to people's sight again.

Due to the fixed ankle support and the change of his own crossover force method, Li Weisi's speed has weakened a lot when changing direction and breaking through. However, through his own grasp of rhythm, Li Weisi still has the league's top breakthrough ability.

Facing Jordan's defense, Li Weisi successfully made a breakthrough through Jordan's left.

However, Jordan's reaction was also quite quick, and he hurried back, trying to make up for it. At this moment, Li Weisi dribbled the ball under his crotch, and immediately shifted his center of gravity to the right side, successfully deceiving Jordan's center of gravity.

And Jordan reacted quickly, and immediately changed direction forcibly again, preparing to continue to block Li Weisi, but this time, he seemed to hit a wall.

At some point, Robinson suddenly ran out of the penalty area, just blocking Jordan's side, and Ewing, who had been defending Robinson, came to Li Weisi through the defense.

It's just that there is still a time gap in such a defense change. Although the time gap is not long, it is enough for Li Weisi.

After breaking through one step to the right, quickly step back, collect the ball, bend the knee, push the elbow, and release the shot. The whole shooting movement is smooth and smooth, without wasting any time.

The basketball flew out of an arc against Ewing's fingertips, and then fell steadily into the basket, 2:2.

At the same time, Nelson's words came to mind again: "Michael, you were so humiliated by West. If I were you, I would hit another one!"

Nelson, who was afraid that the scene would not be intense, continued to stir up the anger of both sides, and the smell of gunpowder on the field became stronger and stronger even after the match had just started.

(End of this chapter)