At the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team was strong. Even the American media and fans believed that the Chinese team was the dream team in the world basketball world today.

Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, the two most popular first or second-person in the NBA and basketball world, are not only strong in their personal strength, but also have a very tacit understanding of each other.

The US team is not without players like Chen Xiao and Yao Ming. Kobe and Wade are also very strong, one at S-level and the other at S-, but let's just say that, the effect of Kobe and Wade's s-s is not as good as Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's s-plus A+, which is definitely not a joke.

Even the combination of Kobe, Wade and James, one s and two s-, may not be as effective as the combination of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's s plus a+.

Basketball games are never simply accumulating the personal strength of stars.

The personal strength of the 12 players of this American Dream Team is indeed strong.

Except for Boozer and Oden, the other ten players are all A-level players.

Among them, Bosh, Howard, and Ron Howard are A-level.

Anthony, Maddy, Arenas, Paul is a+.

And Wade and James are S.

Kobe is at the S-level.

In terms of comprehensive strength, the US team is indeed a strong player. Three historical players led the team, plus four super giants, and three superstar players, the remaining two are also all-star.

However, with such strong comprehensive strength, how much joint force can we exert when we reach the Olympic stage?

This time, the 08 Dream Team is reasonable in lineup, but it is impossible to compare with the Chinese team in tacit understanding. At the same time, the American Dream Team also has big problems in lineup.

For example, their center.

The Spurs fell to the ground twice in the finals, but it was because their center Howard was beaten by Yao Ming.

Under the NBA rules, Yao Ming can beat Howard, and in international arena, Yao Ming can also beat Howard.

What's more, there are really not only Chen Xiao and Yao Ming in the Chinese team today.

Now the power forward of the Chinese team, Yi Jianlian, 24 years old this year, was selected by the Jazz in the 2004 draft, and after four seasons of careful training by Jerry Sloan, Yi Jianlian's current strength is already quite outstanding.

Although the little Malone whom Sloan was looking forward to, except for Yi Jianlian's increasingly bulging muscles, Yi Jianlian felt that he was getting farther and farther away, but the inability to become a Malone does not mean that Yi Jianlian is not outstanding enough.

Yi Jianlian's performance with the Jazz last season was excellent both offense and defense. Although the Jazz did not make the playoffs last season, Yi Jianlian, as a power forward, scored 46% of his shooting percentage and 36% of his three-point shooting percentage.

Basically, I know everything. Although I am proficient in all aspects, I am very balanced in all aspects. The system's evaluation of Alien has reached the b+ level.

Nowadays, Ali Lian is a bit like Chen Xiao's former teammate Martin Ge, who was good at all aspects and has no top ones, so it is difficult or even impossible to get an A-level evaluation. However, because of his balance, even if he faces some A-level opponents, he can play.

Therefore, players like Yi Jianlian and Martin Ge, although their system scores are not that high, they are all practical tools.

Of course, what makes Alien better than Martin is that he is taller, has better shooting, and has stronger ball control and breakthrough ability, which is more suitable for Chen Xiao and Yao.

In addition, although the Chinese small forward Zhu Fangyu has been playing as a substitute in the Spurs in the past three seasons, his shooting has become more stable after the confrontation. In the international arena, he is definitely a very reliable role player and three-point shooter. After all, when he was 19 years old, he played with Chen Xiao and the others in Pierce.

This year's 12th pick has been the number one point guard in Asia for two years, and even won MVP in Ba this year.

Although Chen Jianghua was very embarrassed when playing against Ross and Westbrook during training in the United States, it was also better than most point guards in Naa when facing Ross, especially his speed and explosions were amazing, and his ball control was a very suitable point guard for Chen Xiao and Yao Ming.

In short, as long as the five main players of the Chinese team do not experience major injuries, the Chinese team is the most favored team in terms of the team's tacit understanding, running-in and comprehensive performance of personal strength.

Many people even say that the Chinese team in 2008 could compete with the Mengyi team that year.

Well, this is a bit exaggerated, but the media's mouth is normal.

The Chinese team can play the Dream Team for many sessions without losing, but it will suffer a lot if you play Dream Team for a while, and you will definitely not be able to beat it.

Because Dream Team is indeed the most perfect and most flawless Dream Team.

When facing Meng Yi, Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's advantages are not that great, and when Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's advantages are not much, the disadvantage of the Chinese team's insufficient lineup will be magnified.

But no matter what, before the Olympics started, the basketball world around the world was praising the Chinese team.

Therefore, before the Olympics started, the odds of winning the championship in China were the number one among all teams.

And the odds are far higher than those of the United States and Spain, the veritable Dream Team!

On July 29, 2008, Beijing time, the Diamond Cup, one of the three major international basketball cups, officially started.

There are six teams participating in the Diamond Cup this time, and the American champion of the United States is still absent. In addition, this year's European champion Russia is also absent. At the same time, the runner-up Spain also rejected the invitation. It has to be said that some of the three major cups in the Diamond Cup are indeed not allowed to be held.

Time is too embarrassing, and to be honest, those European and American strong teams really don’t like this championship trophy.

Therefore, this time the Diamond Cup is also the last Diamond Cup, and there will be no more competition in the future.

However, no matter how much the Diamond Cup declines now, it is one of the three major cups, tied for the world champions with the Olympics and World Championships.

Therefore, although there are no European and American champion teams to support them, the team's quality is still good.

The six teams are divided into two groups.

Among them, there are hosts, Asian champions, Chinese teams, African champions, Angola, and Oceania champions, Australia.

Group B is the third European runner-up in Lithuania, the second-place American runner-up in the US team, and the second-place Asian runner-up in Iran, who is substituting the host quota.

Except for Iran and Angola, other teams are still very strong.

Of course, the strongest team is definitely the Chinese team, and the team that is most serious about this game must be the Chinese team.

After all, if the Chinese team wants to complete the women's volleyball team's five-time champion, they must win this Diamond Cup.

Therefore, although other teams are all participating in the competition, they basically regard this competition as a warm-up match for the Olympics, but the Chinese team is really fighting hard!

Of course, the Chinese team's goal this year is not just a Diamond Cup, but also a further goal. Of course, they will not fight stupidly in the competition.

In the two group matches of the Diamond Cup, Chen Xiao and Yao Ming played 20 minutes each time, and then they started to get off work. In this game, Wang Zhizhi and Wang Ge performed very well, turning into a "big beast" at the basket, which made Angora very badly.

Yes, I read that right. In this game, Brother Wang often played one and two at the basket, or even three at one and three at the basket. He is so tall. Brother Wang’s height is too high, and the black uncles have too stubborn figures and skills are too rough. He was stunned by Brother Wang’s false action with a slight shot.

However, from another perspective, Brother Wang, who scored 28 points in the whole game, was in good condition this Olympics.

Brother Wang said that this Olympic Games will be his last Olympic Games.

Brother Wang is no longer planning to play the 2012 London Olympics. After all, four years later, Brother Wang will be 35 years old.

At that time, who knew whether he was still playing basketball.

Of course, we all know that in history, Brother Wang still played in the Chinese team that was not young and bad in 2012, and even played in the Asian Championships in 2013, and was in a very good condition. He played in Jordan in the 13th Asian Championships and scored 33 points in 23 minutes, setting a lot of records, which was amazing.

In this regard, Brother Wang is indeed a player who is becoming more and more demonic as he gets older.

Especially in the international arena, Brother Wang is very powerful, and he is also the biggest killer on the Chinese team's bench now.

The most important killer on the team's bench is in such a good state, and the Chinese team is of course very happy.

The first game of Diamond Cup Group A was almost like a warm-up, while the second game of Australia was not that easy.

Although the Chinese team finally defeated Australia 100-84, this game was not an opponent that could be won by Brother Wang.

Chen Xiao and Yao Ming both played 30 minutes in this game, and they were not playing soybeans. Chen Xiao scored 28 points in this game and Yao also scored 20 points. In addition, Alien and Andy Lau also scored in double digits.

All five of the Chinese team played hard.

In the Diamond Cup group stage, the Chinese team won the first place in the group in two games and will face their old rival Argentina in the finals.

The Diamond Cup competition system is that the group stage ends and the finals are played directly, the first group and the first group compete for the championship, the second group and the second group compete for the third, and the third group and the third group compete for the fifth.

On August 1, 2008, at 7:30 pm, the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Stadium was full tonight.

The official ticket price for this final is 1,660 yuan, but the price of the scalper black market outside is even at a maximum of 20,000 yuan, and there is still no market price.

I have to say that the popularity of the Chinese team in this Diamond Cup is really high, mainly because Chen Xiao's popularity is really high.

After all, Chen Xiao is from Suzhou Province. For Suzhou Province, how could Chen Xiao’s pride in Suzhou Province play games in his hometown without supporting him?

In this Diamond Cup, every time the Chinese team matches, many people say that it blocked a city in Jinling.

Although this is a bit exaggerated, it is not that exaggerated.

Returning from off-court to inside the court, the Chinese team and Argentina are also old opponents in international competitions over the years.

Moreover, Chen Xiao has a very good relationship with Argentina boss Ginobili.

The two are very good friends, and before the start of the game, they were also happily greetings.

However, at the end of the greetings, the words Ginobili smiled in Chen Xiao's ear shocked Chen Xiao.

"Chan, tell you a secret, I'm leaving Magic, not just me, Tony, Tim, we're all leaving Magic!"

“…”

Chen Xiao was really shocked. When the Magic swept Ginobili's "godfather" Dougreaves out last season, Ginobili told Chen Xiao that he didn't want to play for the Magic anymore.

If it weren't for Magic, Duncan and Parker, he would have submitted a transaction application long ago.

But, I didn't expect that Magic actually traded Ginobili.

Obviously, the transaction is about to happen, and Ginobili knows in advance that it has been settled!

So, the Magic Team is about to collapse?!

One of his biggest opponents in the East and one of his biggest opponents this year is going to fall apart?

Chen Xiao couldn't believe it.

Seeing Chen Xiao's expression like this, Ginobili smiled and turned back to his team's bench.

However, when he left, Ginobili kept laughing in his heart.
To be continued...