Chapter 674 Make Team USA great and world champion again!(1/2)
"China is really a great country!"
On August 1, 2008, after the players of the American Dream Team returned to the hotel after climbing the Badaling Great Wall, almost everyone had a look of shock on their faces.
Especially for people like Rose who are doing this for the first time, their hearts are extremely shaken.
Not to mention a novice like Rose, even a veteran like Kobe, no matter how many times he plays, there is something new every time.
"Today we came here and conquered the Great Wall. I hope that when we leave here in the future, we can conquer this country!"
"Conquer this country just like the dream team conquered the whole of Europe!"
As the head coach of the Dream Team, Coach K is very satisfied with the looks on the faces of his players now. After the team was formed, he continued to instill his current concept of "big conquest" into these players.
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He takes this year's Olympic Games very seriously, and he also hopes that his stars will also take this year's Olympic Games as extremely important.
He has really sacrificed so much for this year's Olympics.
As the former number one coach in the NCAA, his status in the American basketball world is extremely high.
In the past, it would have been impossible for him to ask Anthony to recruit Billups like he did when he formed the Dream Team this year, then looked for Chris Paul and then continued to be frustrated. In the end, even if he was ridiculed by O'Neal, he would invite O'Neal out.
For this year's Olympics, he doesn't care about anything anymore.
He will use this year's Olympics to re-establish the invincible hegemony of the American Dream Team!
Just like Yumei!
At the same time, he also hopes that this year's Olympic Games can reshape his status in the NCAA and the American basketball world. No matter how amazing Lorenzo Romar is, he, Coach K, is still the number one coach in the American basketball world!
He gave everything for this year's Olympic Games, and fortunately his efforts were rewarded.
There was really nothing he could do except Chris Paul, who invited Billups and O'Neal.
The current American team is extremely complete, extremely united, and extremely powerful!
He once served as an assistant coach in the Dream Team. He is very aware of the strength of the Dream Team and the atmosphere within the team.
The individual players of the Dream Team are of course stronger, but there is no doubt that compared to the degree of unity, the Dream Team 8 completely beat the original Dream Team.
The players of the Dream Team are more like a performance team where everyone can perform.
As for his Dream Team 8, everyone is here to fight!
James, Wade, Kobe, O'Neal...
These big guys from Dream Team 8 are all here to fight for Yes.
Each of them has a common goal, and this common goal allows them to unite around him even if they have differences and discord.
After the dream team is formed, Coach K will emphasize this aspect of the 'great conquest concept' within the team whenever there is an opportunity.
For these superstars, is there anything more exciting than conquering yes, conquering the Great Wall, and conquering the most populous country in the world?
Under his training, the morale of the Dream Team has reached an incredible level.
And this is also the source of his confidence!
After the Dream Team arrived in the capital, the place they stayed was not the Olympic Village. The Dream Team has never stayed in the Olympic Village.
For the wealthy dream team, no matter how luxurious the Olympic Village is, it is still too simple for them.
After returning from ‘conquering’ the Great Wall, the players of the Dream Team did not go out to play beer.
This is the requirement of the Dream Team. Now the whole world knows that the biggest opponent of the Dream Team in this year's Olympic Games is the Chinese team.
The two teams are the two strongest teams in this year's Olympic Games.
Although the Dream Team does not agree internally that the two teams are on the same level, information received from the Dream Team from all walks of life shows that they are not so popular in China.
When many superstars from the Dream Team came to China in the past, they were welcomed by huge crowds of people.
But this time, they felt no enthusiasm, only deep hostility.
We don't regard them as idols, but as rivals.
The people within the Dream Team are dismissive of this hostility, but no matter how dismissive they are, they still need to accept this fact.
That is, in China, they now need to objectively face the playoffs to face this game.
With the hostile looks that Chinese fans are looking at now, they must not do anything like what happened in the finals between Jordan and the Jazz.
Of course, this possibility is very low, but precautions are also needed.
Even if the players of the Dream Team do not really regard China as their opponent, they have never thought about losing to the Chinese team. Their goal has always been to beat the Chinese team by more than 30 points.
They still have to accept the objective fact that the current atmosphere is tense.
This kind of tension is really something that O'Neal, the oldest and most senior member of the team, is not used to.
When he was in Dream Team 2, who in the world was qualified to regard the United States as an opponent?
I have to say that Coach K’s “Great Conquest Concept” of “Make Team USA Great Again!” is correct.
The dream team is slowly losing its aura due to the "efforts" of unscrupulous juniors like James.
The Dream Team has lost a total of three times in its history, but these three times were Dream Five, Dream Six, and Dream Seven losing three times in a row!
It would be really embarrassing if Mengba loses again this year.
The great Shark is now doing the same great things as the Dream Team back then!
"Make Team America great again!"
If the great Shaq holds the gold medal in one fell swoop and shouts these words when he is on the championship podium, it will definitely become one of the most classic scenes in basketball history!
O'Neal never thought that the reputation of the Dream Team would be so badly damaged by the Dream Team's backdoor.
After dinner, O'Neal never thought that in the Dream Team, there would be a day to watch the opponent's game together!
And what I was watching was not the Olympic Games, but the Diamond Cup game that I had never heard of!
At that time, Dream Team 2 didn’t do anything. They defeated Russia by 46 points in the final. Dream Team 3 also did nothing. In the final, they easily defeated Yugoslavia, who was so strong, by almost 30 points. Now they defeated the Chinese team by 30 points.
Need to study their game tapes in advance?
It was Coach K’s request to watch the Diamond Cup final between China and Argentina collectively.
In Coach K’s opinion, it is easy to beat the Chinese team, but it is not that easy to win by more than 30 points.
The dream team needs all their attitude to achieve their goals.
"After yes joined the Chinese team, the strength became extremely strong. In the Stankovic Cup ten days ago, the Chinese team won all three games, beating the opponent by more than 30 points in each game. The opponents in the three games were
Champions of Europe and Champions of Africa.”
In order to make these NBA superstars more cautious, Coach K is exaggerating the Chinese team's record.
African champion Angola is indeed worthy of its name.
But the European champion Russia...
It’s just obvious that Coach K’s exaggeration is effective.
Seeing that the atmosphere in the team was now tense, coach K continued to introduce.
"In the first two group matches of this Diamond Cup, the Chinese team defeated African champion Angola 130-65 and Oceania champion Australia 101-89, and finally joined Argentina in the finals."
"In the past half month, the Chinese team has defeated the champions of all continents except the American champions!"
"Now, they are competing for their first world championship in team history!"
"Now, they are suppressing Argentina!"
In Coach K's very seductive voice, the players of the Dream Team finally turned their attention to the ongoing game on TV.
Feeling the obvious change in the surrounding atmosphere, Coach K nodded with satisfaction.
Although he has been explaining this Chinese team to the Dream Team players around him.
But coach K has been paying attention to the match between the Chinese team and Argentina.
Argentina will participate in the Diamond Cup this time with all its main players.
Scola, Delfino, Ginobili, Oberto, Nocioni... these NBA veterans are all starting players.
Facing such a powerful Argentina, the game was controlled by the Chinese team from the beginning.
Argentina's tactical contract, Ginobili was choked by Yes even from the first minute of the game.
The demon sword that was so famous in the NBA was like a dull sword in front of Yes.
Of course, even in the NBA, Ginobili is still a dull knife in front of yes.
But in the NBA, although Ginobili is dull, he has the strong team support of Duncan and the Spurs.
But in the national team...
The Argentine national team as a whole is not strong in front of the Chinese team.
Except for Scola who has an advantage over Yi Jianlian, the advantages of others are very limited.
Even though the young Chinese player named Zhou Peng looked very young, Argentina's third position still couldn't seize the opportunity.
To be continued...