Chapter 698: The Perfect Duo and the Somewhat Fake Dream Team!

As the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Australia with a score of 122-64 in the quarterfinals, the Chinese men's basketball team also achieved a breakthrough in Olympic history.

Reaching the semi-finals of the Olympic Games is the best result of the Chinese men's basketball team in the Olympic Games.

Before this Olympics, Yao Ming and most basketball people were unswervingly determined to strive for a lifelong goal!

This goal that they had been striving for all their lives and was unswervingly achieved was unexpectedly exceeded by this Chinese team in such an understatement.

The huge point difference of 58 points is the largest point difference in the Olympic men's basketball game.

To have such a point difference in a basketball game can certainly be called an understatement.

"Little Ye Zi, when you appeared, I thought about a day like this, but I never thought that this day would be so wonderful!"

Yao Ming was very excited and emotional.

"Little Ye Zi, every day with you is the most wonderful moment of my career!"

Yao Ming clearly knows that what he is saying now is from the bottom of his heart.

In the previous Chinese team, it was his own Chinese team. In the previous Chinese team, he had an unparalleled status.

In this Chinese team, he is only the second in charge and Ye Si's assistant. His status is still very high, but it is no longer supreme or unparalleled, but second to Ye Si.

In the NBA, it will take a long time for a player to adjust from being the top player to being the second top player, even if it is voluntary.

The big boss and the second boss not only change their names, but also their status and tactics on the court.

In the past, when Yao Ming was still the boss, he could do whatever he wanted on the court. He was the boss of the team and he had such autonomy.

But now, Yao Ming needs to cooperate with Ye Si. Ye Si can do whatever he wants, and he cooperates with Ye Si in doing these things.

Regarding such changes and adaptations, Yao Ming originally thought that he would need some time to adjust.

But later he discovered that he was wrong, and he was very wrong!

Ye Si's play on the court is so selfless!

It was so selfless that Yao Ming was a little embarrassed.

Not to mention the other Stankovic Cup and Diamond Cup, let’s talk about this year’s Olympics. In the six games he played in the Olympics this year, he averaged 23 shots per game and averaged 35 points per game. The specific data is 35 Points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks!

With this data, Yao Ming never thought that he could average more than 20 shots per game in the national team!

It's not that he doesn't want to take more than 20 shots, nor is it just that his physical strength is not good enough, but that he wants to take so many shots that there is no one in the national team who can pass the ball to him!

In the past, the balls passed to him by the national team were the kind of balls that required him to find a way to get opportunities by himself. He needed to dig them out by himself, and he needed to work hard to find opportunities by himself.

Passing like that makes every shot very costly for him, and every opportunity to take a shot consumes a lot of energy.

In this case, he can play comfortably and take more shots than he can!

Now with Ye Si, the passes he gives himself are passes where he can easily get opportunities. All he needs to do is put the ball into the basket. Even if there are singles in the game, there are not so many singles.

His changes in the national team were very obvious in the Angola game. He worked very hard to score 17 points in the first half. In the second half, he scored over 20 points in the half by just playing casually!

After partnering with Ye Si, he does not need to expend energy in redundant and unnecessary places. He can use his own advantages on the offensive end and easily defeat his opponents.

On the defensive end, he can also get more involved and get more results.

In the Chinese team, his defensive dominance is stronger than that of the Rockets. In the Rockets, he is the best defensive player!

In the Rockets, because of Roy, his offense is not that strenuous, so the defensive end is very involved.

In the Chinese team, because of Ye Si, he is more relaxed on the offensive end and more involved on the defensive end.

This feeling of dominating everything on both offense and defense is really cool!

One is a boss who works tirelessly to no avail.

One is a relaxed and comfortable second-in-command who wants to attack, defend, defend, and have data.

Let you choose, which one do you choose?

Of course it’s the second one!

The time spent partnering with Ye Si was truly the most comfortable period in Yao Ming's life.

Stankovic Cup champion, Diamond Cup champion, all the way to the Olympics now.

Among the games he and Ye Si have cooperated with, they have not lost a single game so far!

For Yao Ming, he now fully agrees with what the team's head coach Yunus said.

"Yao, the combination of you and Ye is the most perfect duo in the history of basketball, even more perfect than the OK combination!"

"Perfect match on both offense and defense!"

Of course, in addition to agreeing with Yunus' words, Yao Ming also knew one thing very clearly.

Although he and Ye Si are a perfect match.

But that's not his fault.

Although he has epic finishing ability, his finishing ability requires a lot of passing.

As for Ye Si, he can perfectly adapt to many people.

But for him, the only perfect fit is Yes.

He wasn't Leaf's best teammate.

But Yease is his best teammate.

Being a teammate with Ye Si is really addictive...

Yao Ming's eyes were strange. Yes certainly didn't know what Yao Ming was thinking.

If he knew, he would definitely think Yao Ming was thinking too much.

Yao Ming was definitely the best teammate he had ever played with.

Although Durant was also very good, his maturity was not as high as Yao Ming.

Especially on the defensive end.

If it weren't for Yao Ming's current dominance on the defensive end, he wouldn't dare to surround the opponent's guard alone.

It was because of Yao Ming's dominance in the basket that he could press the whole court so unscrupulously outside.

Coach Jonas was right.

He and Yao Ming complemented each other perfectly.

"Little Ye, as long as we defeat the next opponent, we can stand at the top of the basketball world and face the biggest devil in the basketball world!"

Yao Ming's eyes were flashing with excitement and a scattered spirit!

With the Chinese team defeating Australia, the last semi-final was produced, and the matchups of the Olympic semi-finals were all produced.

The US team will face Spain in the semi-finals.

The Chinese team will face Lithuania in the semi-finals.

Four teams will compete for two tickets to the finals.

For these two matches, the public opinion around the world now supports China and the United States.

However, there are differences.

In the match between the United States and Spain, most of the public opinion believes that the United States will easily beat Spain.

Even the United States Dream Team has this idea.

"30 points, still the minimum consumption of 30 points!"

The players of the Dream Team are very confident, it's just Spain!

Spain is a team with many soldiers and generals in the world. It's true that it has many soldiers and generals, but meeting Yes also proves that it is just a bunch of rotten fish and shrimp!

Such rotten fish and shrimp can't be abused as much as you want?

In the pre-match public opinion of the United States and Spain, the world is one-sided.

On the Chinese side, it's a little different.

The public opinion still thinks that the Chinese team can win, but there are also many people who think that Lithuania can win.

This is the fifth time that the Chinese team and Lithuania have met in the Olympics. The previous four times, they all lost!

Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and other veterans of the Chinese team really grew up being abused by Lithuania.

The veterans of the Chinese team really have a psychological shadow on Lithuania.

If there is no psychological shadow on Lithuania, the head coach of the Chinese team is not a Lithuanian.

Jonas is great in the international coaching world, but there are many great coaches in the international coaching world.

When Chinese football was desperate, it chose to learn from Brazil, because Brazil was the strongest object that Chinese football thought it could learn from at that time.

In the finals, Chinese basketball chose to find a Lithuanian coach to learn from Lithuania, naturally because Lithuania was the strongest object that Chinese basketball thought it could learn from.

American basketball is unique, and no team can learn from it.

Lithuanian basketball can be learned.

It's just...

To be honest, Yes didn't think that Chinese basketball had learned Lithuanian basketball by inviting Jonas.

If they want to learn Lithuanian basketball, the Chinese men's basketball team should invite the current Lithuanian head coach, Sjepas Butautas, to be the head coach.

This Lithuanian head coach, who was selected as one of the 50 greatest players of the International Basketball Federation together with Sabonis, is the inheritor of Lithuania's iron blood and resistance basketball.

However, even if Sjepas Butautaus was invited, Yes did not think that the Chinese players had the temperament inherited by the Lithuanian players.

In Yes's opinion, it was useless for Chinese basketball to learn from Lithuanian basketball, and it could not be learned.

But in the Chinese basketball world at that time, Lithuanian basketball was the best and the most worth learning.

From this, we can see what the status of Lithuanian basketball is in the Chinese basketball world.

By the way, Yao Ming's idol has always been Sabonis, a Lithuanian.

Whether Yes admits it or not, the Chinese basketball team is about to face its idol, the Lithuanian basketball team, and the pressure from the Lithuanian basketball team to the Chinese basketball team is not even comparable to that of the American team.

In the eyes of veterans such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, Lithuania may be an even more special opponent than the American team.

However...

For younger players such as Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue, Zhou Peng, and Ding Jinhui, the Lithuanian basketball team does not have such a sacred status.

Yi Jianlian also played in the last Olympics, but he was just a soy sauce.

So he didn't have much fear of Lithuania in his heart.

Yes could see what the Chinese team needed to overcome in the match between China and Lithuania. As the head coach of the Chinese team, Jonas was of course very clear.

"Although I am Lithuanian, I now represent China. I don't have any knots in my heart about the match with Lithuania, and my players won't have too many knots either. I don't think Lithuania will be anything special to them. I will handle these well, and they know very well what they need now. They will work hard. The victory or defeat of the game? Of course, I hope that the team of my motherland will go further, but I hope that the Chinese team I lead will win more."

The match between China and Lithuania is a match full of history, with quite a lot of highlights. As the head coach of the Chinese team, the Lithuanian Jonas is the focus.

When the Chinese team was training, Jonas was one of the biggest stars before the start of the game.

Although Jonas has been denying the specialness of Lithuania during the interview, he did not do so during daily training.

In the past two days, when the Chinese team was training, Jonas emphasized the most about psychological adjustment.

The battle between the Chinese team and the Lithuanian team was about to start, and during this period, Yes won the men's 400m and men's 800m championships in succession.

While breaking the record of the highest number of gold medals in a single Olympic Games in China, Yes also tied the record of the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games by a world player.

That's right, it's tied, not broken.

Before the 800m final, the record for the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games was Phelps!

Phelps has won 8 gold medals in this Olympic Games.

This pool monster dominated the water in this Olympic Games.

And this water monster was actually close to breaking the record for the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games in the last Olympic Games. In the last Olympic Games, he had already won six gold medals.

In this Olympic Games, Phelps finally broke Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals.

Of course, Yes also has a chance to break Phelps' record of eight gold medals.

All swimming events have been completed.

But he still has two events to complete, marathon and basketball.

After finishing the 400m and 800m events, Yes put all his energy on the men's basketball semi-finals with Lithuania.

August 22, 2008, the day of the men's basketball semi-finals.

Before the game between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Lithuanian team, a game between the American men's basketball team and the Spanish men's basketball team started first.

The American men's basketball team easily defeated Spain with a score of 125 to 95.

Yes could see that after the American team encountered a tough opponent in the German team in this game, this time they were ready to achieve another achievement of winning more points than the Chinese team against Spain.

In this game, the American team played extremely aggressively at the beginning, as if they were going to swallow up Spain.

The Chinese team can beat Spain by 31 points, they must win by at least 32 points!

But the final result was a win of 30 points.

Yes could clearly see how unhappy James and Wade looked on TV after the game.

Consecutive setbacks against Germany and Spain made some players of the Dream Team feel uncomfortable as if they had eaten a fly.

Especially in the game against Spain, they only won by 30 points. If it weren't for the fact that all the main players were still on the court during garbage time in the fourth quarter, they couldn't even win by 30 points!

You know, in the game between China and Spain, China didn't only win by 31 points, but in the fourth quarter, China used substitutes, and the last operation helped Northern Spain win by two points!

According to the game situation between China and Spain, China can win by 40 points if they are serious!

Now, they are exhausted but still can't achieve the effect of Yes alone.

Consecutive setbacks against Germany and Spain, who were suppressed by Yes, made the Dream Team feel uncomfortable.

They are the only team that surpassed the Dream Team 1, and they are a little weak!