Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 478 - 159: This Era Belongs Only to Me! (5,000-word - , begging for subscriptions and monthly tickets)

Chapter 478: Chapter 159: This Era Belongs Only to Me! (5,000-word Chapter, begging for subscriptions and monthly tickets)
When this epoch-defining opening match officially concluded, the entire basketball world was in an uproar.
The new GOAT, Qin Yue, facing the United States team, scored 55 points, not only tying the Olympic men’s basketball single-game scoring record....
This is also the highest individual score ever against the United States in Olympic history.
Can the Dream Team still redeem themselves in these Olympics?
Former Dream Team member Christian Laettner said in an interview, "If you had told me in 1992 that someone could score 55 points against the United States, I would’ve thought you were crazy."
David Robinson said with a gloomy look, "I know the guys gave it their all in the game, but that’s what is precisely despairing; the decline of American basketball seems to be an irreversible fact."
Scottie Pippen rarely spoke a just word for Michael Jordan: "If someone had scored 55 points against us back then, I’m sure Michael would have scored even more points in response."
Legendary commentator Mike Breen, who called this match, summed it up: "Although I’d love to tell you this was just an opening game and that the United States team still has hope to catch up in the following games, if you watched the game, you would profoundly realize that the era belonging to American basketball has ended. Indeed, we have gathered a group of talented and gifted players for this event. However, the world’s best player is not in this United States team."
If there were any doubt left in the United States about Qin Yue’s status as the new GOAT, after this night, the whole American basketball world was left with only one voice:
Qin Yue is unquestionably the new GOAT.
The importance that American basketball placed on these Olympics, and the funeral that Qin Yue single-handedly held for American basketball, have elevated Qin Yue’s current fame to an overwhelming level, surpassing even Jordan.
Meanwhile, in China, Qin Yue is receiving unprecedented worship.
The day after the match, Qin Yue became the illustrious landmark for all of China’s Olympic delegations.
"You’ll need to be careful when you return to the country." Yao Ming said, "Now the whole nation is worshipping you as a national hero like Wei Qing or Huo Qubing."
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While the fervor of Qin Yue single-handedly crushing the United States’ redemption dream has not yet faded, the Chinese team is facing their second group-stage opponent in the Olympics—Spain.
Before the match, during the warm-up, many Spanish Men’s Basketball Team players actively approached Qin Yue, hoping to take a photo with him.
Little Gasol, in particular, bulldozed through several teammates like a newborn bull: "After the match... can we exchange jerseys?"
Seeing this, other players on Spain Team were displeased: "Hey, Mark, you play in the NBA, you’ll have plenty of chances to exchange jerseys with GOAT in the future, so you have to give us a chance!"
Qin Yue’s dominant performance in the opening game has made him a god in the hearts of all contemporary international players.
Thus, Spain Team naturally could not underestimate this Chinese team that possesses a deity, unlike what Qin Yue remembered.
However, soon after the match began, Spain found themselves in the same predicament as the United States.
On the FIBA court, Qin Yue’s violent jump shot was terrifyingly lethal.
Moreover, since Spain lacked the athletic ability akin to the United States, when Qin Yue was unabashedly taking pull-up shots, Spain found it impossible to defend.
This is exactly what made Durant a nightmare for all the mighty teams of the world in future generations.
In international competitions, restricted by the rules, court spacing teams could achieve should be smaller compared to the NBA.
But if the opponent’s scoring core could effortlessly pull-up three-pointers from the outside...
How do you defend that?
But unlike the United States, the Spain team, which did not fear the Chinese team’s zone defense, managed to preserve a certain suspense in the game’s outcome with outstanding performances from the wing players and Big Gasol until the fourth quarter.
But in the final quarter of the game...
Swish, swish, swish!
With Qin Yue’s arc-top pull-up threes falling like successive cannons, the game’s suspense was instantly ended by Qin Yue himself.
Final score, 90 to 108.
Regarding the 48 points Qin Yue scored for the Chinese team in the match, Spain Team head coach Garcia-Reyness said helplessly, "We collapsed before this GOAT of the basketball world even went all out. He rendered all tactics meaningless. On the international stage, you only need to give him the ball, and let him shoot as if he’s a machine, then you can win the game."
In the face of absolute personal strength, tactics indeed have little meaning.
Whether it was Durant single-handedly demolishing Serbia in later years or Curry scoring a combined 60 points in the Paris Olympics semifinals and finals, both have amply proven this point.
In the NBA, where he had never enjoyed shooting threes so carefree, Qin Yue already made a total of seventeen threes in the first two games combined.
This made many of Europe’s top teams gradually realize the importance of three-point shooting in the future basketball world.
Just as Mike Breen said...
Qin Yue is leading the entire basketball world into a new era.
Throughout the Olympic group stages, almost every night, Qin Yue was replicating such victories for the Chinese team.
In the fourth game against Germany, in a second quarter where the score was still somewhat close, Qin Yue hit four threes in a row against the German team’s defense and decisively widened the lead for the Chinese team.
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