Coach Lee

Chapter 36
At the end of the third round of the group stage, the qualifying situation of each team is gradually becoming clear.

Team USA, the group leader, 3-0
After that, there are three teams that are also 2-1, Lithuania, Croatia, and China.

Finally, Argentina and Angola both have a 0-3 record.

Argentina vowed to compete with the world's top teams before the start of the game, but bad luck and accidental injuries to the main players also brought them into the same desperate situation as Angola.

Argentina's last two opponents are Angola and Croatia. With their broken formation, it is too difficult to turn around.Unless some miracle happens.

The remaining opponents behind Angola are Lithuania and Argentina. They may be able to win Argentina, but Lithuania is not something they can covet.

It can be said that the Chinese team's 2-1 record has basically locked the group qualifying.

If they qualify, they will be the Olympic quarterfinals!
The best Olympic result of the Chinese team was the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, when it was No.9.

The ninth is only one step away from the top eight, but it is like a natural barrier and cannot be passed.

No one thought that the Chinese team, trapped in the death group, could break out of the encirclement.

When they heard the news, the whole Chinese team was excited about it!
Olympic quarterfinals!

The few old guys who participated in the World Championships in 94 were okay, but the others couldn't hold back.

"Fuck! Wang Dazhi, I, I'm dying."

Wang Dazhi was so excited that he hugged Li Nan so tightly that he almost died.

Everyone is very happy to see, this quarter-finals is really exciting.

However, excitement is excitement, what's next?
There are still two most powerful opponents waiting in the group stage. Even if they qualify, what about the opponents in the knockout stage?

Not surprisingly, the next opponents the Chinese team will face are the United States, Lithuania, and Yugoslavia!

These three teams are the absolute top three in the world.

Looking at everyone's training as if they were playing, everyone was still teasing Wang Dazhi, saying something about remembering to treat guests after returning to China, but Li Nan sighed.

"Ah~"

Everyone's heart is out of the game.

Everyone in the Olympic top eight is really satisfied.

No one thought of fighting.

It's no wonder that the game against the US team will be defeated by 63 points!
Li Nan's disappointed expression was noticed by Director Gong.

Does this kid still want to engage in the Dream Team?
Before the Rocky Mountain Summer League, the Chinese team played against the Dream Team.Completely not the opponent, lost 61 points.

Everyone knows that they can't beat the US team, so this game should be played as a training session.

"Xiao Li, what do you think?"

Director Gong suddenly asked such a question, and of course Li Nan said it all at once.

"Every time against the U.S. team, the Chinese team is a training session, a training session. To be honest, I'm fed up with training sessions! Why don't we want to really compete with them? We do have a gap with them, but we have to be in Learn to improve every time you compete with them!"

Learn to progress?
Director Gong stared at Li Nan closely, this kid always gave him the feeling of being a peer.

"Xiao Li~"

Just as Director Gong was about to say something, a group of people suddenly poured into the training ground.Leader Wu was the leader, followed by a group of foreigners in suits and leather shoes, all with the signboard of the organizing committee.

"Captain Wu? Who are they?"

Head Wu's face was not very good-looking, so he still explained the matter.

These people are from the Olympic Organizing Committee.

What they said was that someone reported that the Chinese team was taking banned drugs.

"Xiaogong, let the boys go with them."

Head Wu was very helpless, but he had to.

This was found before yesterday's game.If it weren't for the pressure of head Wu, the guys in the men's basketball team would have been tossed a lot yesterday.Then yesterday's game against Argentina was suspended.

Yesterday, the Chinese team beat Argentina, and Captain Wu couldn't stop those people.

Today, those guys also came to the door.

"We are the Angola team from the Olympic Organizing Committee reporting that your team took prohibited drugs."

"noisy!"

"Those offal from Angola!"

"Do you believe what they say? Then I said that Jordan took medicine? Why don't you investigate?"

The boys were very angry.

The group of guys in suits and leather shoes all looked calm, "Please cooperate with our work."

In the end, the 12 young men of the Chinese team followed suit.

However, is it really just the offal in Angola?

Nobody knows.

On this day, NBC TV and TNT TV in the United States are very strange.

"In yesterday's Olympic basketball group match, the U.S. team beat its strong opponent Lithuania and won three consecutive group matches. The next opponent of the U.S. team will be the Chinese team, the strongest team in Asia."

"July 7th, the Atlanta Olympic Basketball Stadium, the US team vs. the Chinese team! The battle is about to start, everyone is welcome to watch!"

"The 18-year-old Chinese teenager scored 40 points against Croatia, scored 12 three-pointers, and broke the Olympic record twice!"

"In the summer league, the Chinese teenager Li defended Kobe Bryant, the No. 13 pick of the Lakers, without scoring a single point."

"The Chinese teenager said bluntly that he will bring his talent into the NBA."

News reports, coupled with Li Nan's highlight performance, blocks, dunks, three-pointers, every movement is so chic.This naturally made the audience in front of the TV unavoidably curious.

This wave of publicity came very strangely and abruptly.But the effect is extraordinary.

Many locals in Atlanta were the first to be encouraged.

"When did the Chinese become so good at basketball?"

"Are people named Li so good? Hahahaha, I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's game. I hope this kid won't let me down."

"It's just an Asian kid. If he finds some sense of accomplishment on a junk team, he's so awesome? Dream Team [-] will definitely teach him to be a man."

"40 points? 12 three-pointers? My God, Jordan never scored that many points in the Olympics. This kid is still worth looking forward to."

"Hey hey, I'm not afraid you know, I'm actually here to see the Dream Team bullying people. I heard that in the warm-up match, the Dream Team beat the Chinese team by 61 points. Will this game win by [-] points? ?”

The conductors at the Olympic Basketball Arena are very busy these days.However, today I was so busy that I didn't have time to drink a sip of water.

"Hi, give me two tickets for tomorrow's China-U.S. match. The location is better, the closer to the front the better. What, there are only three tiers of stands?. Okay, hurry up, hurry up."

"Give me five nononos with consecutive numbers, not today's, I want tomorrow's. China-US war, you know? Only the top stands with consecutive numbers? Then, just take five at random, and the ones at the front. "

"I want a ticket for the China-U.S. basketball game tomorrow. What? It's gone? Are you lying? How could it be gone?"

there is none left!Really no more.

The China-US war on July 7 has not reached the day of the 26th, but the tickets are already sold out.

There are only 3 seats in the arena, and about 5 tickets are sold in general games, and nearly 1 tickets are sold for Dream Team 3 games.

The Sino-US War, but all sold out!A total of 3 copies were sold out!

A game that has attracted quite a lot of attention from Atlanta is about to start.

(End of this chapter)