Coach Lee

Chapter 711 Meeting the Finals
On August 2004, 8, the Athens Olympic Games opened.

The Olympic torch returns home.

This Olympic Games is also the largest reunion of the Olympic family.

202 athletes from 10500 countries and regions participated in 28 major events and 301 minor events.

Li Nan, the Chinese Olympic flag bearer, led the 407 athletes of the Chinese delegation into the Olympic Stadium in a bold and high-spirited manner.

The athletes of the Chinese delegation challenged the limit and climbed new heights with the Olympic spirit of faster, higher and stronger, and bravely set more new records in track and field, basketball, swimming, cycling, weightlifting and archery to win glory for the country.

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The next day, the first day of the Olympic Games, at 11 am, the first Olympic gold medal was born!

Chinese player Du Li won the women's 502m air rifle championship with an Olympic record in 10 rings, winning the first gold for the Chinese sports delegation and becoming the first gold medalist in the Olympic Games.

The competition for gold and silver in the Olympic Games also kicked off.

The Chinese men's basketball team is also about to start working hard.

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The Olympic men's basketball competition is divided into two groups, AB and AB.

A: Team China, Argentina, Serbia and Montenegro, Italy, Spain, New Zealand;
B: Team USA, Australia, Lithuania, Angola, Puerto Rico, Greece.

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The Chinese team's group opponents are all strong enemies.

The Argentine team won No.2003 in the 2 Americas Championship, second only to the US team;
Serbia and Montenegro, called Yugoslavia before 03, they were the champions of the 2002 World Championships,
Spain and Italy respectively won the runner-up and third place in the European Championship in 2003;
The New Zealand team was the runner-up of the 2003 Oceania Championship;
There are four champions in Group B.

The 2003 Oceania champion Australia, the European champion Lithuania, the African champion Angola and the American champion team USA.The other two teams are Puerto Rico, third place in the Americas, and the host team, Greece.

The favourites, without a doubt, the US team!

In the past few years, the American Basketball Association has also worked hard this year, begging, begging, and crying, and finally brought together all the big names.

The dream team sent by the US team this time is an all-star lineup, a real all-star lineup, a real dream team.

4-阿伦-艾弗森、5-贾森-基德、6-特雷西-麦克格雷迪、7-文斯-卡特、8-卡梅隆-安东尼、9-勒布朗-詹姆斯、10-科比-布莱恩特、11-迈克尔-里德、12-肖恩·马里昂、3-阿马雷-斯塔德迈尔、14-凯文-加内特、15-蒂姆-邓肯。

With 12 NBA players, all of them are All-Stars, such a lineup is naturally the biggest favorite to win the championship.

And another favorite team after the US team is the Chinese team!
A Chinese team with 9 NBA players including MVP player Li Nan!

Some media even compared the Chinese team with the US team. Everyone believed that the two teams would meet in the finals. Some media even thought that the Chinese team might even kill the US team.

After the game started, everyone knew that it was true.

The strength of the Chinese team is really strong.

In the first game, the Chinese men's basketball team 98:78 the Spanish men's basketball team

In the first game, Li Nan didn't hold back, and fired all his firepower, scoring a game-high 35 points.It directly penetrated the Spanish team's perimeter defense.

European giants Barcelona shooting guard Juan "The Bomb" Navarro was completely out of order, scoring just nine points.

The 18-year-old Spanish teenager Rudy Fernandez, who was in charge of defending Li Nan in rotation, received 13 fouls in only 5 minutes of playing, and was still crying on the bench when he left the field.

On the inside, Yao Liang and Wang Dazhi suppressed the brothers Paul Gasol and Marc Gasol.

Yao Liang had 16 points, Wang Dazhi had 15 points, Paul Gasol had 12 points, and Marc Gasol had 9 points.

Yi Jianlian got 10 minutes of playing time, and he also completed a flying dunk on the head of Pau Gasol.

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In the second game, the Chinese men's basketball team 99:62 the New Zealand men's basketball team

37 points to win!
New Zealand wanted to play at a slow pace, but the Chinese team didn't give it a chance, they just wanted to chase your ass and beat you.

In this game, Zhu Fangyu broke out and scored the team's most 28 points.

Li Nan scored 24 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists. This is Li Nan's third national team triple-double performance.

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In the third game, the national men's basketball team 88:87 the Argentine men's basketball team

The Argentine men's basketball team is really good.

The overall style of play of the Argentine team has the taste of the highest level of basketball.The skill of using tactics in actual combat is already proficient.Their defense is also worth mentioning. When the height is not dominant, they can fill in every hole with quick defense and help defense, making it difficult for opponents to shoot comfortably.

Ginobili is indeed a monster, and he always has miraculous performances in key competitions.

Their inside line Scola is also very good on the offensive end.It is obviously a floor flow that cannot be jumped, but his waltz has amazed the world.

There are also Nocioni, Delfino, and Oberto are all very good.They played enviable team basketball.

However, Argentina still lost in the end, losing to the superstar of the Chinese team, Li Nan.

At the last moment, Li Nan took over the game and hit the winning three-pointer, which established the victory for the Chinese team in one fell swoop.

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In the fourth game, the Chinese men's basketball team 87:77 the Italian men's basketball team

Wang Dazhi broke out, scoring 28 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, leading the Chinese men's basketball team to easily defeat their opponents.

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In the fifth game, the Chinese men's basketball team 87:66 Serbia and Montenegro men's basketball team
The Chinese team, which has won all four games, has ensured the first promotion in the group stage, and then Li Nan, Wang Dazhi, Yao Liang and other five starters watched from the sidelines in the fifth game.

The Chinese team, which did not have the starting Five Tigers, played in a mess at the beginning, as if they had no backbone at all.

However, the opponent Serbia and Montenegro also played in a mess, and the state was too bad.Even the European MVP player Bodi Loga is a teammate who can't be distracted.

After all, Yugoslavia's country was ruined and their families were destroyed, and their minds were no longer on the field.

Director Gong quickly called a timeout.Established a style of play with Yi Jianlian as the core and space-based second center Du Feng supporting with long shots and air cuts.

Yi Jianlian didn't play well, but everyone was still willing to give him a chance.

When Yi Jianlian blasted a dunk over Bodi Loga's head, Li Nan and others on the Chinese team's bench all jumped up.

"yeah!"

"Good job, Allen!"

"Sister Lian, you are amazing today!"

After Allen dunked and scored, the whole person's momentum was different.The Serbian and Montenegro team was preoccupied, and the more they fought, the more frustrated they became.

China also did not give the opponent a chance and directly opened the difference to 20 points.

At the end of the game, the players of Serbia and Montenegro cried. The country was about to be broken and the game was lost. They were speechless facing the elders of their hometown.

Yi Jianlian also cried.He accidentally scored a team-high 25 points.

Hugging the captain, Yi Jianlian burst into tears.

"Captain, I did it!"

When he was thrown into the sky, Allen smiled.

So high, so cool.

"It turns out that's what it feels like up there."

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With all five victories, the Chinese men's basketball team successfully entered the Olympic quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals, the Chinese team eliminated the host Greece team 86-60.

In the semi-finals, the Chinese team beat the European powerhouse Italy 84-80 with 4 points.

It is the US team that joins the Chinese team in the final.

(End of this chapter)