Chapter 1 The Reunion After a Long Absence

August 2nd, New York, Madison Square Garden.

Before the game, when Su Feng saw Larry Brown lecturing the members of the US men's basketball team...

If he wasn't worried about Duncan's restless hands messing up his carefully styled pre-game hair, Su Feng would have really wanted to walk up to Brown and say to him:

Mr. Larry, all encounters in this world are reunions after a long separation.

As the initiator of the two friendly matches specially prepared for the men's basketball team before their expedition to Greece...

In addition to the match between China and the United States in New York on the 2nd, the men's basketball team will also face the US team in a second match in Los Angeles on the 4th.

However, unlike ordinary friendly matches...

In order to prevent the Chinese men's basketball team from accidentally defeating the US men's basketball team in these two games, according to the competition system, except for the first quarter, in the remaining three quarters, the 24 players of the two teams will be selected by Su Feng and Duncan, and they will play alternately.

On the one hand, this will allow the young players in the men's basketball team who have not played in the NBA to experience what it is like to cooperate with NBA players, which will play a role in training the team.

On the other hand, this kind of more entertaining game...

Can also allow American fans to continue to live in their dreams.

And you know what?

Although this kind of competition system means that these two friendly matches between China and the United States will not have any reference value, both Chinese and American fans are very interested in this kind of competition system.

On the 2nd, in the first friendly match between the two teams, similar to Su Feng's memory, the US men's basketball team exposed their anxious ability to break through the zone defense as soon as they came up.

Because he won the championship with the 76ers this year, the new科...

And the opponents in the same group, in addition to Serbia and Montenegro, New Zealand, Spain, and Italy...

Different from Su Feng's memory, Argentina, which should have been in the same group as the men's basketball team, was assigned to Group B this time.

And in this way...

Su Feng always felt that whether the American team could qualify from Group B had now become a matter worth thinking about.

In his previous life, Su Feng relied on defeating Greece and Angola in the group stage to ensure their qualification for the American men's basketball team.

But now, because the Chinese men's basketball team has become a seeded team, Angola and Argentina have swapped groups...

So...

"I hope Larry Brown will be okay then!"

That night, looking at the grouping table for the men's basketball competition at this Olympic Games, Su Feng silently prayed for Larry Brown.

From the 6th to the 8th, after arriving in Greece, the members of the Chinese men's basketball team mainly focused on adjusting to the time difference.

As Britney had predicted...

After arriving in Greece, walking in the Olympic Village, Su Feng received at least fifty small cards inviting him to some forest.

And among them, in addition to some unknown female athletes, there were even some male athletes who were eager to fence with Su Feng.

Four years ago, as early as the Sydney Olympic Games, Su Feng had heard Carter mention the chaos of the Olympic Village.

No way.

As a large-scale multi-player sports event, these energetic and passionate athletes are just so good at playing.

Sometimes, if you accidentally take the wrong path, you can also accidentally run into athletes who are engaged in fierce battles in some corner.

Fortunately, because the Chinese Olympic delegation has always had strict regulations on this, and Su Feng is not interested in women other than Britney now, Su Feng's main task these days, in addition to adjusting to the time difference, is to take Britney shopping.

And Su Hao and Su Bao Bao, who were brought to Athens by Britney, have also become star figures in the Chinese Olympic teams.

As a result, on the 9th, the Chinese women's volleyball team members and Liu Xiang, who came to蹭 Su Feng's steak, argued about whether Su Hao should play volleyball or participate in sprinting in the future.

In Liu Xiang's words, with Su Hao's figure, he looks like a natural sprint flyer.

And in the words of the Chinese women's volleyball team members, among the three major Chinese ball sports, men's basketball already has Su Feng, so without considering Chinese football...

Su Hao should stand up and save Chinese men's volleyball.

And just when Liu Xiang was about to be drowned in the saliva of the Chinese women's volleyball team members...

At that time, Su Hao just kept saying "Hello, Uncle Kobe, Hello, Uncle Kobe", and instantly ended this fierce debate.

And at this time...

Su Feng suddenly felt that it seemed like a good thing to hand Su Hao over to Kobe to hone him.

Because at least under the guidance of his Uncle Kobe, Su Feng doesn't have to worry about this brat choosing to play football in the future.

In Su Feng's eyes, he will support Su Hao no matter what he wants to do in the future.

Um...

Except for football.

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On the evening of the 13th, the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games was officially held at the Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece.

At this Olympic Games, 11,099 athletes from 202 countries and regions will participate in a total of 28 major events and 301 minor events, which is the most in the history of the Olympic Games.

Of course, this record will be broken by the Beijing Olympic Games in 4 years.

As the flag bearer of the Chinese Olympic delegation at this Olympic Games, when Yao Ming led the athletes of the Chinese delegation to appear on the stage, the rabbits in front of the TV proudly straightened their chests.

In 2004, the rabbits at this time did not know that the Zhonghua family was about to usher in a decade of awesomeness.

And when these 10 years are over...

At that time, no matter how much you tout the Olympic Games, the rabbits will only subconsciously say to you:

Oh, the Olympic Games? Can those poor countries still afford to hold them?

Yes, that's right.

Until that time...

Even Japan and the United States, which are regarded as gods by the "Japanese rabbits" and "Eagle rabbits" at this time, will no longer be unattainable in the eyes of the rabbits.

And as a gift to the Zhonghua family who is about to usher in a golden age, in this life, under the premise that the Chinese men's basketball team already has the strength to compete for the Olympic gold medal...

On the evening of the 14th, in the first game of the Chinese men's basketball team at the Athens Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team almost made their little African brother Angola cry as soon as they came up.

In the first quarter, when Angola couldn't limit Su Feng with man-to-man defense, they had to switch to zone defense.

But...

The discipline of African teams when defending zone defense...

Those who understand will understand.

As a result, at the end of the first half, the Chinese men's basketball team relied on Su Feng and Yao Ming's wonderful performance of scoring 17 and 14 points respectively, leading Angola by a full 27 points with 56 to 29.

In the third quarter, Zhang Bin, the head coach of the men's basketball team with a high degree of political and ideological awareness, decisively played "diplomatic basketball".

In the second half, young players such as Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu got a lot of playing opportunities.

In the end, after easily defeating Angola with 91 to 77, the Chinese men's basketball team got their opening red in this Olympic Games as they wished.

And the scene of Su Feng and Yao Ming being surrounded by Angolan players asking for autographs in the game was also deeply remembered by the rabbits in front of the TV.

On the 15th, the Chinese men's basketball team faced New Zealand back-to-back.

And compared with the game itself...

The most exciting thing about this game is probably the "Māori war dance" that the New Zealand players danced before the game.

In Su Feng's previous life, this game was one of Yao Ming's masterpieces in his national team career.

Throughout the game, under the premise that the Chinese men's basketball team's outside group collectively paid tribute to Los Angeles, Yao Ming almost destroyed the entire New Zealand defense with his own strength.

And after the game, Yao Ming, who scored 39 points in this game, also officially established his position as the boss of the national team.

However, compared with the big Yao who killed all sides in this game in Su Feng's memory...

Now this little Yao is on the court...

He is simply "lazy" whenever he can be "lazy".

Facing New Zealand's encirclement and suppression of himself in the game, Yao Ming frequently used hand-to-hand passes to form exquisite cooperation with Su Feng.

In the first quarter alone, the Chinese men's basketball team took a 15-point lead.

And in the second quarter, when he noticed that New Zealand's outside line was gaining momentum, Su Feng also worked with Da Zhi to extinguish New Zealand's counterattack with a wave of three-pointers.

During the intermission, when interviewed, the New Zealand coach said with a speechless face: "It's too luxurious that such an excellent player as Wang is arranged to play as a substitute in this Chinese team...!"

In the second half, after changing sides, the New Zealand men's basketball team had completely given up resistance.

And Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu also happily ushered in the leveling time again.

Online, after the Chinese men's basketball team won two consecutive victories, the rabbits' confidence in this men's basketball team winning the championship in Athens can be said to have increased greatly in an instant.

Of course, this confidence also stems from the crotch performance of the American men's basketball team next door.

As in Su Feng's memory, in the opening game of the Athens Olympic Games, the American men's basketball team surprised the world.

In the game against the younger brother of the Americas, Puerto Rico, you can often see Duncan helpless after being double-teamed, and James and Anthony sitting on the bench frantically biting their thumbs.

And at this time, Larry Brown always felt that this was not the same as he had imagined.

Duncan is supposed to be unmatched in FIBA rules, and this American men's basketball team can win the championship by playing casually?

In the game against Puerto Rico, facing Puerto Rico's zone defense, it's fine if the American men's basketball team can't attack.

But looking back, Larry Brown found...

He, who knows nothing about FIBA, is best at the iron-blooded defense theory in the NBA...

It turned out that it didn't work at all.

On this night that broke the hearts of countless American fans, Puerto Rican men's basketball star Arroyo was simply more Jordan than Jordan.

Inside breakthrough, outside one-on-one.

Although McGrady, Kidd, Iverson and others have withdrawn from this American men's basketball team before the start of this Olympic Games...

But who would have thought that the unknown Arroyo could have a Jordan addiction in front of this American men's basketball team?

In the hotel, when watching this American men's basketball game, Su Feng suddenly felt sorry for Stephon Marbury and others.

Because as long as you leash a husky on the coaching bench of the American men's basketball team, I'm afraid this American men's basketball team will not be like this.

Admittedly, under the FIBA rules system, it is difficult for these stars who are used to playing in the NBA all year round to adapt for a while.

But based on the talent of this American men's basketball team...

Just by using five on five to keep pressing the whole court, there are not many teams in the world that can play against them.

It's a pity...

Facts have proved that in Su Feng's original timeline, it was not that Brown was unwilling to give Milicic a chance.

But, even if you give him James, he can let James watch the water dispenser.

Online, after the American men's basketball team's worrying debut, American basketball fans even suspected that this American men's basketball team had been threatened by "terrorists" before the start of this game.

After all...

No matter how much a懂球帝 knows about football, he can't understand why this American men's basketball team suddenly crotched.

As a result, American fans who thought that playing Puerto Rico was just a nightmare, how could they have imagined it.

Their nightmare has just begun.

On the 15th, just as the Chinese men's basketball team was celebrating two consecutive victories, in the game against the Argentine men's basketball team, the American men's basketball team, which had just let Arroyo have a Jordan addiction the night before...

Met "the real Jordan" on this night.

As the number one enemy of the Chinese men's basketball team in Su Feng's eyes at this Olympic Games, after two years of leveling up, the golden generation of the Argentine men's basketball team, led by Ginobili, once established a lead of up to 20 points in this game against the American men's basketball team.

And compared to Arroyo, the Puerto Rican Jordan, Ginobili, the Argentine Jordan, is obviously several dimensions higher in level.

At the scene, when commenting on this game, the American commentators at the time even said: "Manu Ginobili is the God of Athens!"

On the court, after this game entered garbage time, it was the rookies of the American team who Brown looked down on before, who, through their tenacious defense, retained some face for the American men's basketball team in terms of score.

In the end, after losing to the Argentine men's basketball team with 81 to 94, the American men's basketball team, which happened to have two consecutive losses, has become increasingly pessimistic about the situation of qualifying.

On the 16th, the Chinese men's basketball team took a day off.

And on the 17th, in Athens, according to the schedule, the Chinese men's basketball team also ushered in their old rival Spain.

In Su Feng's original timeline, in this Olympic Games, the men's basketball team lost to Spain in the group stage and the subsequent seventh and eighth place ranking match.

And in the group stage, the men's basketball team happened to have a crushing defeat of 58 to 83.

From the actual process of these two games, objectively speaking, in the group stage, Batier's discord with Yao Ming did affect the men's basketball team's performance on the court at that time.

Therefore, compared to the group stage, in Su Feng's eyes, the more valuable reference should be the game between the two teams in the seventh and eighth place ranking match at that time.

As another big killer in the FIBA arena, Paul Gasol scored a total of 37 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block in the game.

Although when he was a keyboard warrior, as a Lakers fan, Su Feng also liked to complain about the soft Gasol.

But when facing this Spain, Su Feng didn't dare to take it lightly.

Because he knew very well...

How amazing Gasol's power is under the FIBA rules.

In addition, in addition to Gasol, Juan Navarro and Rudy Fernandez, who are familiar to Chinese fans, have also grown into Gasol's right-hand men.

As another team in the world basketball world to usher in a "golden generation", at this time, Spain's combat power in FIBA is not worse than that of the American men's basketball team at the same time.

Moreover, judging from the Chinese men's basketball team's next schedule, in addition to Spain, they will then have to compete with Italy, the runner-up of the Athens Olympic Games in Su Feng's memory, and Serbia and Montenegro, the champion of the last World Championships...

Therefore, being able to win this game against Spain is extremely crucial in Su Feng's view.

And on the court, after the players of the two teams finished warming up, the big screen at the scene also gave the starting lineups of the two teams tonight.

Chinese men's basketball team: Yao Ming, Su Feng, Zhang Jingsong, Hu Weidong, Guo Shiqiang.

Spanish men's basketball team: Gasol, Reyes, Fernandez, Navarro, Calderon.

In the center of the field, the little Yao, who had been hiding behind Su Feng and paddling in the past two battles, changed like a different person tonight.

After jumping the ball for the Chinese men's basketball team, in the first attack, the little Yao sat in the low post of Spain.

In the restricted area, after squeezing away Gasol, facing Reyes' help defense, the little Yao singled out two in the low post and scored the first goal for the Chinese men's basketball team through a hook.

2 to 0.

And back, Reyes just received Gasol's吊 pass and prepared to layup, this energetic little Yao slid to his front.

Good guy!

Mingming ah!

Have you already learned to use your Feng brother as a tool person?

On the court, looking at Yao Ming, who has only turned on the full power mode tonight...

At this moment, Su Feng always felt that his chest "hurts so much".

Forget it.

In Su Feng's view, it is also a good thing for this little Yao to learn how to keep in good health for himself.

After all...

Good steel, isn't it supposed to be used on the edge of the knife?

On the court, under the cover of the little Yao, Reyes, who didn't dare to forcibly make a move, quickly returned the ball to Gasol's hand.

And at this time, Su Feng also arrived and stood in front of Gasol.

In this group of matchups, Gasol is taller in terms of height.

But facing Su Feng's terrifying wingspan and solid horse stance, Gasol found...

At this moment, he really couldn't do anything with Su Feng.

On the basketball court, when打大打小, it's not all the time that big guys can easily get shooting opportunities.

And the reason why people like Charles Barkley and Su Feng can enter the inside is not only because they can always form a natural mismatch when attacking.

Through close pressing and compressing the shooting space of big players, small inside players can also make it impossible for big players to easily shoot on the court.

In the first attack of the Spanish men's basketball team, with the tacit cooperation of Yao Ming and Su Feng, the Chinese men's basketball team successfully defended until the moment when the Spanish men's basketball team's 24-second attack time was reset to zero.

And on the bench of the Spanish men's basketball team, the Spanish coach Garcia frowned in an instant.

Because unlike what he expected, the Chinese men's basketball team might make a mistake in this game...

The Chinese men's basketball team not only proved in this attack and defense that they know a lot about their opponent Spain.

And...

Su Feng, who is playing as the power forward, has also greatly reduced Yao Ming's pressure on the defensive end.

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