Chapter 694: Different Nowitzki and Wenshui Win Double Gold Medals!

On August 20, 2008, the first elimination day of the Olympic men's basketball team kicked off.

On this day, basketball, which had been under pressure from track and field, finally seemed to have a chance to see the light.

On the morning of August 20, Yes had no track and field tasks. After winning the fourth gold medal of the Olympics yesterday, the whole team organized a small celebration for Yes at noon today. At the celebration, the leaders of the men's basketball team and the leaders of the General Administration of Sports were almost all present.

After all, Yes is now the first person in the history of Chinese sports.

A teenager who is only a few days away from turning 21 has become the first person in the history of Chinese sports.

It is possible to win up to 10 gold medals in the Olympics.

You know, even in the history of the entire Olympics, the highest number of gold medals won by a single person in a single Olympic Games is only five!

Although this is almost impossible, as long as the Chinese men's basketball team defeats the Dream Team, Yes's single gold medal number will double the original maximum number of gold medals.

This achievement is simply jaw-dropping!

"If we didn't know the actual strength of the Chinese men's basketball team very clearly, if we hadn't watched the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and Angola, I would definitely believe that Yesi could lead the Chinese men's basketball team to win the championship!"

The head of the General Administration sighed as he looked at the young man with four gold medals hanging around his neck with some regret.

Perfection is a wish, but it is just a beautiful wish.

Perhaps the biggest role of this wish is to deceive the public opinion and the media for clicks.

Before the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Angolan men's basketball team, all of China thought that the Chinese men's basketball team could compete with the American team for the title of the Dream Team.

Now, it's very empty, very empty!

Now everyone can see that the reason why the Chinese men's basketball team is so strong is all due to Yesi's encirclement tactics of all the defenders of the opponent.

But can such an encirclement encircle the defenders of the Dream Team?

It is obviously impossible.

"Treasure it while you can. It doesn't matter if it's not perfect. Xiaoye is now an unfailing legend in the Olympics."

Becoming the first person in Chinese sports history doesn't seem to make any difference to Yes. His status in the Chinese sports world is already very high. He is the only athlete who can be independent. Even if he has the title of the first person in Chinese sports history, his treatment can't be higher.

"Although the actual effect is useless, it can also reduce some of the harassment from people who take advantage of their seniority."

Harassment from taking advantage of their seniority?

Yao Ming's words made Yes understand a little.

Yes can see that Yao Ming is indeed experienced in this regard.

After Bolt announced his withdrawal from the 200-meter race, Yes's state in track and field has become a harvesting state.

For Yes, participating in track and field competitions now is to harvest gold medals.

As long as he appears on the track, his opponents will feel scared.

There is no way not to be scared. Every game, whether it is the preliminaries, quarterfinals, semifinals, or finals, every game breaks world records!

Yes himself doesn't know how many world records he broke in this Olympics.

In this case, Yes will naturally focus more on basketball.

And basketball does require Yes to pay more attention.

In the game with Greece, although Greece was still abused by China by more than 30 points, Greece still couldn't break through Yes's encirclement when attacking, but on the defensive end, Greece's changes are still very worthy of China's vigilance.

That is, Greece used double-teaming when facing Yes on the defensive end, double-teaming by two people all the time.

This is extremely rare in the International Basketball Federation.

Although Yao Ming's performance in the game against Greece was crazy, he scored 38 points alone.

But what if the opponent has a center who can defend Yao Ming?

Yes's pass to Yao Ming after being double-teamed was very beautiful, but because the pass distance was too far, there were many mistakes.

Now the Chinese men's basketball team needs to solve a problem, that is, there is Yes's encirclement on the defensive end. There was no problem before meeting the US team, but on the offensive end, how to solve Yes being double-teamed throughout the game, Yao Ming may encounter opponents, can others stand up to end the game?

When the opponent's three players are on Yao Ming and Yes, the opponent will only have two players to defend the three Chinese players. Facing such a three-on-two situation, can Yi Jianlian take responsibility?

Yi Jianlian, who has been the team's third point in previous games and has not had many opportunities to perform, is likely to become the winner of the Chinese team in the next knockout round.

Jonas is not sure about Yi Jianlian's ability to take responsibility.

This needs to be tested in the game, but for the Chinese men's basketball team, they now need to understand their opponents.

Of the eight teams that entered the knockout rounds of the Olympic men's basketball this year, Spain, Argentina and Germany, the Chinese team is of course the most familiar.

As for the four teams in Group B, everyone in the United States will be very familiar, while Lithuania, Russia and Australia are not so familiar.

The game on August 20th just allows the Chinese team to understand the situation of these future opponents.

The first knockout game on August 20th is the second Spanish men's basketball team in Group A against the third Russian men's basketball team in Group B.

"Russia defeated Spain in last year's European Championships."

Before the match between Russia and Spain, Jonas was explaining the Chinese players.

They knew the strength of Spain. Although the outside line was blown up, the inside strength of this team and the overall strength of the team were quite outstanding. It was indeed surprising that such an outstanding team was defeated by Russia.

The Spanish men's basketball team and the Russian men's basketball team are old enemies. The two teams met in the final of the European Championship in 2007. In the end, the weaker Russia defeated the host, the biggest favorite to win the championship, Spain, with a last-minute buzzer-beater.

This time, can Russia beat Spain again?

For the Chinese team, they certainly support Spain.

Spain is very strong. If Spain advances, it will play against the United States. It is better to use Spain to consume the United States.

However, when Jonas mentioned the situation of Russia, the Chinese players were a little uncertain about the true strength of this very mysterious team.

This team is a very magical team.

Russia expects to perform magic again, and this time, the two teams met like this in the Olympics. Obviously, Spain is ready for revenge.

And what is the final result?

In the knockout match that started at 2 pm, Russia led by Kirilenko was slaughtered by Spain by 20 points, 99 to 79!

Russia now has completely lost the glory of the European Championship.

The European Championship a year ago was the year when Russian head coach David Blatt became a god. This American coach brought Princeton to Russia and created the European Championship myth of Russia.

Like David Blatt, Kirilenko, who was super in the final, and J.R. Holden, who stole the ball from Gasol and made Gasol diarrhea, led the Russian men's basketball team to complete a magical journey in the 2007 European Championship.

But this year, in the 2008 Olympics, although these three are still in Russia, the magic of Russia is completely gone.

"Magic is magic after all. If magic happens again and again, then this team is not Russia, but the Seattle Supersonics. Similarly, this person is not Kirilenko or Holden, but Yes."

"It's a pity that we were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Olympics. Spain is a strong team and has always been a strong team. They are more suitable for the semifinals than us. As for us, maybe we need to start again, but unfortunately, I can't start again with everyone."

After the game of Spain's revenge against Russia, the head coach of the Russian men's basketball team, David Blatt, a legendary American coach in Europe, announced his resignation from the position of head coach of Russia.

The first game of the men's basketball knockout match between Spain and Russia was a bit cruel and bloody at the beginning.

Watching the Russian head coach being interviewed on TV, all the Chinese men's basketball players in front of the TV were looking at Yes, who was silent at this time.

They agreed very much with this Russian statement. Yes is a person who can always create miracles!

But the team that can always create miracles is the Supersonics?

That's true, but now we need to add a Chinese team!

Yao Ming thought secretly in his heart after taking his eyes off Yes.

After Spain defeated Russia, the second elimination match was the one that the Chinese team paid the most attention to. Argentina, the third in Group A, faced Lithuania, the second in Group B.

One of these two teams must be a possible opponent of the Chinese team in the semi-finals.

If the opponent is Argentina, there is nothing to worry about, but Lithuania...

The Chinese men's basketball team is not very familiar with Lithuania, but Jonas is quite familiar with Lithuania.

In Jonas's opinion, Lithuania is a very difficult team, perhaps the most difficult team for the Chinese team except the US team.

In the past four Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team has encountered Lithuania every time, and lost all four games against Lithuania. It can be said that Lithuania, a European enhanced version of the Greek team, is the nightmare of the Chinese men's basketball team.

Chinese young players may not be so familiar with Lithuania, but old players like Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi really grew up being abused by Lithuania.

Lithuanian players are not so famous in the world, but in the world and in Europe, the reputation of the four great Lithuanian inside players is still very loud.

The twin Lavlinovich brothers, Javuskas and Petravicius, these four people are very tough in defense, and they are also good at shooting.

And this team also has a front line led by players with good offense and defense such as Siskauskas, Kreza and Jasedis. Even in the guard position, Yes will face Sarunas Jaskevicius, who is European, but he grew up completely in the United States. He has the aggressive style of American players and the skills of European players. In the 2004 Athens Olympics, it was he who turned the Dream Six Team into the Dream Team.

Marbury, Iverson, Odom, these NBA famous names are all his supporting roles in the 2004 Olympics.

His performance in the Pacers was not very good under the NBA rules.

But according to FBA rules, he is one of the few top defenders in the world who has both American and European styles, and his nickname is 'European King'!

It can be said that Lithuania is a top team with both overall and star players. Does this team have any weaknesses?

Of course there are. The weakness of this team is that it is a little slow.

But such slowness is not necessarily a disadvantage against the Chinese team, especially when this team adopts the defensive tactics of Greece.

For the Chinese team and Jonas, although Lithuania is his homeland, he certainly hopes that Argentina can win in this match between Lithuania and Argentina.

But this is just his personal hope.

Argentina's guard Ginobili's performance in this game was quite sluggish. Although Scola was still stable, it was still difficult to beat four hands with two fists. Seven players of Lithuania scored in double digits in this game. In international basketball games, except for the US team, few teams can play such a whole in a strong dialogue.

"Ginobili was a little absent-minded in this game, otherwise Argentina would not have no chance."

Looking at the Ginobili on TV who seemed to be relieved just now, Yes frowned.

The match between Argentina and Lithuania ended, and the third match was between the United States, the first in Group B, and Germany, the fourth in Group A.

However, Yes could not watch this match with the Chinese team, as he needed to participate in the 5,000m final and the 200m final tonight.

"I'll go out for a while."

"Brother Ye, drink the water first."

"Drink it when you come back."

Looking at Yes's back, and then at the steaming, salted water in his hand, Sun Yue finally sighed and put the cup down.

"Brother Ye is too busy at this year's Olympics."

The match between Germany and the United States was the least suspenseful match among the four groups today.

The Chinese team had no expectations for this match. After more than an hour, didn't the United States still advance by slaughtering?

However, when the match started, all the Chinese players in front of the TV watched the match with their eyes wide open.

"Is this a match between Germany and the United States?!"

"Is this Nowitzki?!"

"Chris Bosh was fouled out by Nowitzki in the first half?!"

"The score at halftime was 48 to 46, and the Dream Team was only leading by 2 points?!"

Just when the halftime match between Germany and the United States ended and the Chinese players came back to their senses from the shock.

The Chinese men's basketball players were surprised to find that Yes, who had just left, had returned. He was also looking at the German No. 14 on TV with the same shocked eyes as them. It was unknown how long Yes had been standing beside them.

Looking at Yes standing there, Sun Yue looked at the cup of steaming salt water next to him and the two new gold medals hanging around Yes's neck. Sun Yue's eyes, which were originally shocked by Nowitzki, seemed to almost pop out of their heads in shock.

"Warm water wins two gold medals?!"

Warm water wins two gold medals? !

The other Chinese players, leaders and reporters present looked at the shocked Sun Yue, then at the warm water next to him, and finally at the two golden medals on Yesi's neck. For a moment, the noisy space because of Nowitzki became extremely quiet...

Hmm?

After taking his eyes off Nowitzki, Yesi frowned at the eyes of the people around him with some confusion.

Is there nothing wrong with me?