I’m Really Playing Basketball

On August 26, 2004, the bell was about to ring in the early hours of the 27th. In the Olympic Indoor Stadium, 14.5 kilometers away from the Olympic Village, there was a chorus of voices, cheers, boos, applause, and curses.

The world-famous Olympic men's basketball quarterfinals match between the Chinese team and the United States is over.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated the American Dream Team 6 with a record 108-76.

When this game ended, the world was in a state of excitement.

The scene was even more excited.

"Mello, I told you, don't panic, I will send you back safely."

Listening to the American audience yelling at Larry Brown, Anthony looked at Chen Xiao, who was smiling at this time, with a complicated look on his face.

If the U.S. team loses in an ordinary game, he and the U.S. team players, whether they are substitutes or main players, will not be able to escape accountability.

Just like Pierce in Dream Five.

But the American team lost so miserably in this game, by 32 points!

This is the score that is enough to end the era of the Dream Team!

Anthony really didn't expect that the American team would lose so much in this game.

Although Americans’ sense of home and country is not that strong.

Although the failure of this game, the artillery fire of the whole United States will face Larry Brown, and he and the players of the US team are selected, but he really can't laugh now.

"Chen, when I return to the United States, I'll treat you to dinner."

Finally, Xiao Tiantian and Chen Xiao hugged each other, then turned and left.

For Xiao Tiantian, this Olympics was really uncomfortable.

Of course, this Olympics is not just about Britney, everyone on the dream team is uncomfortable.

Even Popovich, who seems to be a transparent person, is having a hard time.

Many players on the American Dream Team 6 were recruited by Popovich.

Especially Duncan. If Duncan hadn't looked at Popovich's face, he would have joined a hell of a Dream Sixth Team.

Bringing so many people who are close to him here to deliver food with Larry Brown, do you think Bobo can not feel guilty or feel uncomfortable?

Even Duncan and the others didn't blame Bobo much, and Bobo himself felt bad.

This is also a huge blow to Bobo.

Of course, the biggest blow is of course Larry Brown, the head coach of the American Dream Team.

Let's put it this way, if the Dream Team didn't lose so miserably in this Olympics, Larry Brown could still pass the blame to the players.

But after losing so miserably in this Olympics, Larry Brown used a ridiculous excuse to blame the players.

Before the game between the Chinese team and the American team started, the public opinion in the United States was that it was better to tie a dog on the sidelines than Larry Brown.

Let's just say that the US team does have flaws in its lineup, but the strength of the US team's players is not fake, right?

You can lose, but how can you lose to Puerto Rico by 22 points at halftime and China by 32 points in the whole game?

This kind of loss is not only a problem with the coach, but also a problem with the players?

The players are obviously implicated by the head coach, okay?

Therefore, at the post-game press conference after the game, Larry Brown was bombarded by reporters from all over the world, including the American media.

In fact, Larry Brown had thought about losing in such a game and being besieged by reporters from all over the United States and the world.

What Larry Brown didn't think about was that before the Dream Six Olympics were over, there were players from the Dream Six team attacking him.

The player of the American Dream Team who was the first to attack Larry Brown was Anthony. After losing to the Chinese team by 32 points, Britney, who had been frozen since playing Puerto Rico, finally couldn't help it. She accepted an interview with the American media after the game At that time, he opened his mind and attacked Larry Brown, the "Dream Team Six".

Everyone knows that Britney, the star of the Denver Nuggets, was accused by Larry Brown of being too single after the Dream Six team lost to Puerto Rico in the first game, and was then put on the bench by Brown. People do have conflicts, after all, it's the coach who catches the mole and the mole.

"Benching is a blow to anybody," Anthony said. "I don't want to say I'm the best player in the world, but I'm not at the bench level."

"Besides, I didn't stand up and say this just because I was on the bench."

Britney is still very eloquent, and she didn't start criticizing Larry Brown directly.

Let me tell the American reporter first that I am not avenging a personal vendetta, but that I am completely out of public interest in criticizing Larry Brown.

Anthony then said: "This time the U.S. team performed so badly. Larry Brown, who led the Pistons to a good record last season, is the biggest problem. We are not the Detroit Pistons. We don't play more than 90 games together like the Pistons. We only trained for two weeks for the game. He shouldn't copy the Pistons' tactics."

After Anthony fired the cannon first, the passing forward Richard Jefferson of the American team kept frowning and sighing after hearing this and shook his head. Seeing this scene, how could the American reporter next to him let him go.

Faced with reporters' frantic questioning, Richard Jefferson said that he couldn't understand the result of the Dream Team being eliminated in the first round of the knockout tournament: "Since the establishment of the 'Dream Team', the U.S. team has never failed. We have given up the Olympic championship to others. But this time, we lost so many games. And we lost so miserably against the Chinese team. It stands to reason that we are the strongest. I really don’t know what happened. What."

Richard Jefferson's words are almost equivalent to directly naming Larry Brown, but Anthony has already named him, so Richard Jefferson does not need to name him and can let everyone know what he means.

You players are the strongest, but your poor performance is of course the coach's responsibility!

Therefore, after Richard Jefferson finished speaking, other Dream Team players who had finished the game were also approached one after another.

Now that Anthony and Richard Jefferson were firing, they had no worries.

For example, Boozer, who spoke after Richard Jefferson, said: "Our opponents are a group of very great players, especially Chen of the Chinese team, who may be one of the greatest players on the planet. But even so, We won’t end up fighting like this.”

While Boozer stepped on Larry Brown as usual, he also didn't forget to brag about Chen Xiao.

Of course, while some players from the Dream Team stood up to criticize Larry Brown, it was not that no one defended him. For example, Ron Howard said at this time: "I think maybe the team's running-in time is too short. Their cooperation is not yet proficient. However, I don’t think there is a team in the Olympics that is better than us. There are many factors that determine the outcome of the game, and each of us needs to review it.”

It's just obvious that Luo Ge's words are definitely not the mainstream in the US team's locker room now.

Therefore, after Luo Ge finished speaking, Marion, who was suddenly frozen in the fourth quarter of the game, directly criticized Luo Ge and said: "Our performance was indeed substandard. We missed the shot at the critical moment, which is terrible, but I think what’s even more terrible is that Larry Brown always replaces players who can hit shots at critical moments, and I’m also confused about it.”

Marion's words were absolutely stunning.

Brother Luo was dumbfounded when he said this.

Anthony, who took the lead in attacking Larry Brown, was inexplicably surprised.

This is a huge improvement!

Marion's words are simply saying that Larry Brown, who has been catching moles recently, is the mole!

This is interesting.

It turns out that the ‘clown’ in the end is actually me.

At this time, Larry Brown, who was holding a press conference with Popovich outside, never expected that the honest man Marion would use his honest face to stab him with such a heart-wrenching sword.

But, honest people can also be angry, okay?

With Marion's victory, the Spurs players who still supported Larry Brown completely stopped defending Larry Brown at this time.

The entire U.S. team's locker room also became a meeting to criticize Larry Brown.

To be honest, as the head coach of a team, it is indeed sad to coach the team like this.

At the very least, USA Basketball Association President Tom Jernstadt, who was supervising the game with the team in Athens, knew what to say at this time.

The Dream Six team lost to China by 32 points. With such poor results and performance, someone has to take the blame. The players stepped on Larry Brown. This is definitely not a blame-shifting, but simply dissatisfaction with Larry Brown.

But as the chairman of the American Basketball Association, he needs to find a scapegoat for the failure of the US team by considering the blame.

"We are very disappointed with the result of the game, but this cannot be changed. Now, I can't explain to you the reason for the failure. I know that our players have great complaints about this Olympics. The only thing I can tell you now is Unfortunately, Larry's contract with Team USA has ended and he will not coach our remaining games. We will discuss a new helmsman in the near future and try to come up with a way to restore the dominance of American basketball. "

Blocked shot.

Not long after Tom Jernstadt finished speaking, Larry Brown, who was very eloquent at the press conference and had a verbal battle with Popovich, was dumbfounded by a sudden question.

"Larry, congratulations. After becoming the first head coach to lead the Dream Team out of the first round, you became the first head coach of the Dream Team to be fired early."

"..."

After the AP reporter asked the question, Popovich, who was sitting next to Larry Brown, felt as if his teacher had aged ten years.

Popovich knew that his teacher's basketball coaching career was over...

Regarding what happened to the US team, Chen Xiao and the players of the Chinese team did not find out until the next day.

The next day, the whole world was reporting on the match between the Chinese team and the American team.

The Chinese team defeated the American "Dream Six" team 108-76 and eliminated their opponents.

In the 2002 World Basketball Championship, the Chinese team also defeated the "Dream Five Team".

And this also made the Chinese team the first team to defeat different dream teams twice.

At the same time, in this game that attracted worldwide attention, Chen Xiao was the biggest contributor to the Chinese team's victory over the American Dream Team. He scored a game-high 42 points, including 8 of 15 three-pointers.

Yao Ming and substitute center Wang Zhizhi contributed 33 points and 11 points respectively.

For the US team, Iverson scored 18 points, Duncan and Ron Howard scored 14 points and 10 points respectively. Marbury played average today and only scored 10 points.

The next day, Chen Xiao saw Larry Brown's evaluation of him and the game from the newspaper.

"I want to congratulate the Chinese team. They are a real team, many players have made great contributions, and they have trusted each other before. In the first quarter, when we adopted a new lineup on the field, they took the opportunity Took the lead, but we couldn't come back. I'm proud of our players, they played hard. For example, Duncan, he had a foul problem in most of the game, I watched him play a lot of games in the NBA, Never been so constrained in the NBA. He's probably the best basketball player in the world right now. Without him, our team wouldn't be the same as it is now. I don't know if he could play 40 minutes in this game, the result What will happen.”

"But I don't mean to disparage the Chinese team, this is a team we know very well, we lost to them in the World Championships two years ago. They shot very well, shooting more than 50%, we can't reach it. Yes. We wanted to give the ball to the inside, but we never had a chance due to foul issues on Duncan and Dwight."

"We picked our players when we played in Puerto Rico, and we hoped to have the same lineup here. But some players dropped out of the team. We lacked the strongest group of players, but the international team will not be like that. They played better and better, they played against us and gained a lot of valuable experience. The level of basketball is getting higher and higher, which is not the same as it was in 1992."

"How to bring the U.S. team back to the top position in the world, I think we should consider the candidates for the team, the preparation time they need, and give them the best chance."

"The Olympic experience was a great thing, and it's something I've been looking for. I'm disappointed we didn't get the gold medal, but next time I'll have to. I love the sport, especially When I see a passionate team like China and talented players like Wonder Boy."

It can be seen that Larry Brown wants to maintain his dignity.

Acknowledge that the opponent is strong, bear your own dignity, and at the same time pass the blame to the players who quit and the system of the American Basketball Association.

However, the disappointing thing is that Larry Brown wants to use his eloquence to show dignity, but no one will give him dignity.

When he finished saying this, the Dream Team fired him.

Can you imagine how uncomfortable, embarrassed and suffocated Larry Brown was at that time?

"Dayao, are you happy?"

Facing Chen Xiao's question, Dayao nodded silently.

So cool.

but……

"He was a little too miserable."

"He asked for it."

After seeing what the Associated Press reported about Larry Brown's rejection by everyone, Chen Xiao smiled and said it to Dayao. Dayao, who was silent, also had a smile on his face.

"Yeah, he asked for it."

Dayao felt that he and Xiao Chen were still too kind.

He should congratulate Larry Brown for ending his career with Xiao Chen.

Dwyane, we have avenged you.

The vast expanse of white, the earth is so clean...

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