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The Warriors have completed their strengthening work this sumr.
At every position, this Warriors team, determined to return to the top, can only be described as full of talent.
And after several warm-up matches...
The roster for the Chinese n’s Basketball Team’s participation in the Olympic Gas is also basically determined.
It is worth ntioning that...
In the warm-up match against the Arican Basketball Team before the Olympics began, knowing that the Arican Basketball Team was still further screening their roster, Qin Yue not only sat out with Yao Ming due to "injuries", but also specifically instructed Yonas:
"We must not use zone defense in the ga, just let them play."
"Why is that?"
"Because we have no obligation to remind this United States team that they need to bring more shooters."
In August, after a series of warm-up victories, the United States team officially confird the roster for the Olympic Gas:
Centers: Howard, Bosh.
Forwards: Jas, Anthony, Boozer, Prince.
Guards: Kobe, Wade, Paul, Jason Kidd, Reid, Deron.
How can one describe the final twelve-man roster of this Dream Team?
Although the U.S. dia’s evaluation of this "Redemption Team" is that it is star-studded.
But in Qin Yue’s eyes, this United States team is full of problems.
Due to the seniority culture within Arican Basketball, players like Reid, Deron, Prince, and Boozer were destined to be rarely used.
Then...
After excluding these marginal players, you will find that besides Anthony, this United States team mostly consists of players who will be severely weakened under FIBA rules.
Especially the inside line of this United States team.
Previously, Qin Yue deliberately avoided alerting the Arican Basketball Team to the fact that they needed to bring Al Jefferson to contain Yao Ming, which is why he and his Brother Yao opted to sit out.
After all...
With his presence having created a massive butterfly effect in the basketball world of this tiline, Qin Yue was genuinely worried that the Arican Basketball Team might change their roster choices.
But now...
Looking at the inside line of this United States team, Qin Yue just wanted to say...
If he and his Brother Yao can’t tear apart the paint defense of this Dream Team...
Then he’ll go coal mining with his Brother Yao!
Under FIBA rules, once Howard encounters foul trouble, Qin Yue doesn’t even know who on this Arican team can protect the rim.
As for the ultimate weapon of Arican Basketball on the FIBA stage—the full-court press?
Sorry...
As early as the 2006 World Championships, the Chinese n’s Basketball Team had already mastered the technique to counter the full-court press.
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Soon after the United States team announced their roster, the Chinese n’s Basketball Team also officially announced their Olympic roster.
Centers: Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian.
Forwards: Qin Yue, Zhu Fangyu, Du Feng, Wang Lei.
Guards: Liu Wei, Sun Yue, Wang Shipeng, Li Nan, Chen Jianghua.
For this Chinese Team, which boasts two FMVPs, two active NBA players, and one forr NBA player...
ESPN expressed concern after the Chinese n’s Basketball Team announced their roster, saying: "The United States team must not take the Olympics lightly, as in the prior warm-up ga, we were all very aware that the Chinese Team did not exert full strength."
Before the basketball tournant of the Olympic Gas officially began, the odds of the Chinese n’s Basketball Team winning the championship were second only to the United States.
It’s just...
The warnings from the Arican dia didn’t seem to be taken seriously by these superstars.
Just like in Qin Yue’s mory, Jas was busy promoting the Beats headphones, in which he and several figures from the rap industry held shares.
Before the Olympic Gas began, to avoid his teammates getting bored during the long journey...
The always considerate Jas specially gifted each of his United States Basketball Team teammates a pair of Beats headphones.
And with the Dream Team attending various events, these oversized headphones imdiately caught the attention of the fans.
Undoubtedly, this was a textbook case in comrcial marketing history.
Because the Beats headphones, unlike Nike and Coca-Cola, did not spend huge sums to beco an IOC sponsor, yet they beca a mobile billboard for the entire Dream Team during the Olympics, thanks to Jas’ gift-giving gesture to his teammates...
Originally, Jas also gave a few pairs of headphones to Qin Yue.
But being soone who had been through it, Qin Yue was simply not interested in such alternative headphones, so he quickly handed them over to Evans.
In Qin Yue’s view, if he accidentally broke gifts from a good brother, wouldn’t it show great disrespect to Jas?
Thus, Qin Yue decided to keep the headphones Jas gave him safely treasured away.
This was evidently beyond Jas’s expectations.
Because Jas’s intention was to make Qin Yue, a beacon of the league, act as a billboard; he couldn’t foresee that Qin Yue would value this gift so much.
"Brother, don’t worry about breaking the headphones. If you want, I can give you more."
"No way, Brown. This is your gift to and must always be locked in my treasure chest to show how much I value you."
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Jas was busy selling headphones.
While earlier, during the friendly gas in Asia, Anthony, who had been restless, often went with Wade, Howard, and others to exchange insights with female athletes from other sports.
This was the state of the Arican Basketball Team before the Olympic Gas began.
The consecutive defeats in the last three major tournants clearly hadn’t made them realize that they had lost their forr dominance.
Up until the opening ceremony, the Arican Basketball Team was even engaged in a bet regarding the opener.
Because Kobe had warned the United States team to be wary of his Lakers teammate, who’s highly skilled at blocking shots, during the opener against the Chinese n’s Basketball Team...
So, the doubtful United States team imdiately asserted that they would prove Kobe wrong by dunking on Sun Yue in that opening ga.
"Kobe must be senile, for he advised us to beware of a player who can’t even get minutes in the NBA."
"Wake up, the only ones worth noting in this Chinese Team are ssiah and ’Big-Yao’.
As for the others? Don’t forget they lost to us by a staggering fifty points in the warm-up ga."
"No matter how strong ssiah and ’Big-Yao’ are, they can’t close that fifty-point gap, and this year we’re sending out our strongest lineup yet!"
When arrogance and pride appeared on every teammate’s face, Kobe and Jason Kidd, who joined the Arican team to seek redemption, could only show deep concern.
But even so...
Jason Kidd and Kobe couldn’t change the current state.
Because this year, the U.S. team, dubbed as sending out the strongest lineup, did indeed prove their superior strength over other teams in previous warm-up gas.
For now, let’s set aside the worries.
On August 8, 2008, at 8 PM.
Accompanied by the beating of fou drums by 2008 drumrs, in front of over 90,000 spectators on-site and hundreds of millions of sports fans worldwide...
Revisiting the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Gas, Qin Yue...
In a daze, found that unexpectedly, there were a few tears rolling down his cheeks.
Early before the Olympics began, it was customary to have a mber of the Chinese n’s Basketball Team as the flag bearer; however, this ti, they broke the traditional mindset.
The Bird’s Nest National Stadium.
When Qin Yue and Yao Ming, the two giants, stepped from the tunnel holding the flag side by side, the CCTV comntator said excitedly: "Now approaching us is the delegation of the People’s Republic of China, with flagbearers being our country’s two famous basketball players, Qin Yue and Yao Ming."
At this mont, it was destined to be impossible to describe Qin Yue’s feelings with words.
And Yao Ming?
Having accidentally touched Yao Ming’s large hand several tis, Qin Yue had long realized that Yao Ming was even more nervous than he was.
Even after the grand opening ceremony of the Olympic Gas, Qin Yue couldn’t calm down until late at night.
If...
In Oakland, the Warriors fans’ fervor imbued Qin Yue with a sense of belonging and identification that made him want to turn the Warriors into his team.
Then, by participating fully as a flagbearer at the ho Olympics opening ceremony and recalling the cheers coming from all directions, what Qin Yue gained was sothing that he could never obtain in the NBA...
The feeling of going ho.
This wonderful and unique feeling was sothing Qin Yue couldn’t forget even after waking up the next day.
Moreover, having held it in for an entire year, Qin Yue could confirm that...
After attending the opening ceremony, at this mont, his heart set on shattering Arican basketball’s dream of redemption had begun to beat wildly.
Opening the window, taking a deep breath of fresh air, and gazing intently at that date circled on the calendar, Qin Yue knew clearly...
That day would be the funeral of Arican basketball.
And this funeral could only and must be organized by him personally!
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