Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 738 Unfavorable Start
In the end, the game was fixed at 113:70. The Dream Team won the Croatian team by 43 points. If I had known, this was the second seed in the tournament!

In the subsequent group stage, Germany lost 68:111 to the Dream Team. This time Bird rejuvenated and scored a game-high 19 points.

The Brazil team lost to the Dream Team 83:127. On this night, the legendary star Oscar Schmidt of the Brazil team was blown away by his idol Barkley.

Schmidt scored a team-high 25 points with 24 shots, but Barkley scored 14 points with only 30 shots.

The last opponent in the group stage, the dream team faced the host Spain.

The dream team was very friendly to the host, and gave them a decent defeat, 81:122, with a 41-point difference. It can be said that it was the team that lost the least in several games.

In the five group matches, they beat their opponents by 7 to [-] points. This kind of game also made the Dream Team become the same in the following games. Each game basically only played [-] minutes, and there was no suspense in the whole game. , Players, coaches, media and even fans are gradually numb, this is really numb to win.

Unlike the dream team that killed the Quartet, the prospect of the Huaxia national team is quite bumpy.

Long before the Olympic Games, due to the influence of the national "Olympic Strategy", many provincial sports associations reduced or even disbanded basketball teams with "large investment and slow results" in order to quickly achieve results. strength has been affected.

Fortunately, thanks to the help of Li Weisi and Frank, not only the young players of the national team have the most advanced training in the world, but also the key young players are allowed to study abroad and improve their strength.

The return of young players headed by Hu Weidong, coupled with the team's core Song Tao, and the support of a group of domestic players, made the Basketball Association full of confidence and shouted the slogan of "Single heart, strive to enter the quarterfinals" .

However, the reality is cruel. The first opponent of this young team in the group stage is the Lithuanian team led by "Roof of the World" Sabonis and Warriors player Sarunas Matthew Leonis. .

Although Lithuania is a bit of a country, like a chihuahua, it always likes to challenge some creatures that are bigger than itself, so bold and ignorant of current affairs.

But the strength of its basketball powerhouse should not be underestimated.

Due to the disintegration of Big Brother, Sabonis and Matthew Leonis naturally returned to their hometown Lithuania and joined the Lithuanian national team.

As the No. [-] center in FIBA ​​history, Sabonis's strength is certainly not comparable to the fragile inside of the national team.

Although Song Tao has played in the NBA for a few years, he has no power to fight back against the 221cm Sabonis.

In the end, the team lost to Lithuania 46:95 despite Hu Weidong and Sun Jun contributing 112 points due to the explosion of the inside line.

The opening was a sap, which made the Huaxia team's high morale instantly lost a lot.

It's just that there is no time for them to improve their mood, and soon they will devote their energy to the next game. The next opponent is the Puerto Rico team. This is a game that must be won.

In order to enter the quarter-finals, the strategic focus of the Huaxia team before the game was to win the two teams of Puerto Rico and Venezuela. After all, other national teams are too strong, and only these two teams are relatively weak.

However, being relatively weak is only relative. I thought we could win this game, but I didn't expect that the Huaxia team could not adapt to Puerto Rico's fierce style of play. Puerto Rico led by as many as 15 points in the first half.

However, unlike the previous game, this time the national team composed of Song Tao and Shan Tao had the upper hand against Puerto Rico. Therefore, in the second half, although it was still difficult for the team to score from outside, relying on The play of the inside line finally began to steadily chase points.

Finally, when the game lasted more than a minute, the Huaxia team succeeded in overtaking the score with an elegant three-pointer from Hu Weidong.

After that, the team played steadily, and finally defeated Puerto Rico with a thrilling 102:100, and successfully won a victory scheduled before the game.

However, the whole process can be said to be quite thrilling. In fact, until the end of the game, Puerto Rico still had a chance to win the game, but unfortunately they failed to grasp it.

Therefore, after the two games, it has sounded the alarm for every young player. The World Series is not a domestic game, and every team that comes here will not easily admit defeat. Do your best.

In the third game of the group stage, the Huaxia team lost again, this time against the CIS team.

Although the Commonwealth of Independent States team has lost a number of mainstays, the lean camel is bigger than the horse. As a strong European team, its foundation is still strong, and it is not an opponent like Huaxia that can be defeated with a few years of assault.

In the end, the Huaxia team lost to the CIS with 94:100. Although the points were similar, the score could not replace the strength of the two teams. No one who really watched the game believed that the Huaxia team had the strength to beat the CIS team.

Three games, two losses and one win, although they thought before the game that the results would not be ideal, but when they faced such a situation, everyone was still quite depressed.

Under such circumstances, Li Weisi suddenly visited the Olympic Village and came to the residence of the men's and women's basketball teams.

On this day, Li Weisi did not play golf or go to the casino with other members of the Dream Team. After rejecting several interviews, he and Frank came out of the hotel and drove a car alone to the Olympic Village. .

Frank arrived in Barcelona on the day of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Since Li Weisi and other athletes needed to enter the rehearsal in advance, Frank did not meet with Li Weisi. The two did not officially meet until the next day.

However, due to the intensive schedule, the two did not act in unison. They were all busy in their own way. It was not until the day when the Dream Team finally had no match that Li Weisi and Frank went out together.

The main reason why he took Frank out was that Li Weisi hadn't learned how to drive yet...

As for Li Weisi's job of hiding his identity, it is actually not complicated. As long as he wears a mask and hat and sits in the car, it is difficult for ordinary people to discover Li Weisi's identity.

After all, Li Weisi's height is only 190cm, which is considered relatively tall among ordinary people, but it is not beyond the ordinary category. Unlike O'Neill and Robinson, who are over 210cm tall, they are hard not to be caught even if they wrap their whole bodies in gauze. people found out.

In this way, at around 10 o'clock in the morning, Li Weisi and Frank finally arrived at the door of a dormitory building in the Olympic Village.

(End of this chapter)