Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 471 - 156: I Will Personally Conduct the Funeral for American Basketball (Nearly 10,000-Word Update, Begging for Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets)_2
Chapter 471: Chapter 156: I Will Personally Conduct the Funeral for American Basketball (Nearly 10,000-Word Update, Begging for Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets)_2
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The Warriors have completed their strengthening work this summer.
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 Men’s Basketball Team’s participation in the Olympic Games is also basically determined.
It is worth mentioning that...
In the warm-up match against the American Basketball Team before the Olympics began, knowing that the American 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 game, 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 confirmed the roster for the Olympic Games:
Centers: Howard, Bosh.
Forwards: James, 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. media’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 American 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 American 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 timeline, Qin Yue was genuinely worried that the American 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 American team can protect the rim.
As for the ultimate weapon of American Basketball on the FIBA stage—the full-court press?
Sorry...
As early as the 2006 World Championships, the Chinese Men’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 Men’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 former NBA player...
ESPN expressed concern after the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team announced their roster, saying: "The United States team must not take the Olympics lightly, as in the prior warm-up game, we were all very aware that the Chinese Team did not exert full strength."
Before the basketball tournament of the Olympic Games officially began, the odds of the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team winning the championship were second only to the United States.
It’s just...
The warnings from the American media didn’t seem to be taken seriously by these superstars.
Just like in Qin Yue’s memory, James was busy promoting the Beats headphones, in which he and several figures from the rap industry held shares.
Before the Olympic Games began, to avoid his teammates getting bored during the long journey...
The always considerate James 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 immediately caught the attention of the fans.
Undoubtedly, this was a textbook case in commercial marketing history.
Because the Beats headphones, unlike Nike and Coca-Cola, did not spend huge sums to become an IOC sponsor, yet they became a mobile billboard for the entire Dream Team during the Olympics, thanks to James’ gift-giving gesture to his teammates...
Originally, James also gave a few pairs of headphones to Qin Yue.
But being someone 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 James?
Thus, Qin Yue decided to keep the headphones James gave him safely treasured away.
This was evidently beyond James’s expectations.
Because James’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 me and must always be locked in my treasure chest to show how much I value you."
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James was busy selling headphones.
While earlier, during the friendly games 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 American Basketball Team before the Olympic Games began.
The consecutive defeats in the last three major tournaments clearly hadn’t made them realize that they had lost their former dominance.
Up until the opening ceremony, the American 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 Men’s Basketball Team...
So, the doubtful United States team immediately asserted that they would prove Kobe wrong by dunking on Sun Yue in that opening game.
"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 Messiah and ’Big-Yao’.
As for the others? Don’t forget they lost to us by a staggering fifty points in the warm-up game."
"No matter how strong Messiah 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 American 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 games.
For now, let’s set aside the worries.
On August 8, 2008, at 8 PM.
Accompanied by the beating of fou drums by 2008 drummers, 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 Games, 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 member of the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team as the flag bearer; however, this time, 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 commentator 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 moment, 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 times, Qin Yue had long realized that Yao Ming was even more nervous than he was.
Even after the grand opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, 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 home Olympics opening ceremony and recalling the cheers coming from all directions, what Qin Yue gained was something that he could never obtain in the NBA...
The feeling of going home.
This wonderful and unique feeling was something 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 moment, his heart set on shattering American 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 American basketball.
And this funeral could only and must be organized by him personally!
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