One Thousand and Fifty. You Have Eleven More Thighs to Hug?
The Chinese team slaughtered the host British team. Except for Luol Deng, 11 British players came to Sun Ce and Yao Ming for photos and autographs after the game...
This scene was transmitted to China, and domestic fans were very excited.
The opponent is a fan. After losing the game, they came to ask for autographs. This is a treatment that Kobe and James have never had in international competitions. The last time this scene appeared was in 1992 when the Dream Team's Big Three, the Magic Bird, turned all opponents into their fans.
It was very unexpected. Sun Ce didn't expect that the opponent would come to ask for autographs after the game.
Sun Ce found that he seemed to have underestimated the popularity he had accumulated in the past three years in the NBA.
In the United States, due to many reasons, such as some large media like to step on him, even if he played well, they also guided public opinion, allowing American fans to infinitely magnify the role of the Grizzlies system on Sun Ce.
It may be that some opponents or even teams that want to get him are making small moves behind the scenes.
As for the fan environment in China, the degree of criticism towards athletes from their own country...
On the contrary, except for the media in China and the United States, Sun Ce is praised more than criticized. After Sun Ce won two consecutive MVPs, Sun Ce's evaluation in the international basketball world exceeded James, who won two consecutive MVPs in the Cavaliers! When Sun Ce won the NBA championship, Sun Ce was regarded as the best player of the younger generation in the international arena, and even a super genius who could possibly become the strongest player.
After the game, Sun Ce looked at the news reports on the Internet and clearly saw the difference between the international and Chinese and American evaluations of him.
It is probably the difference between having interests and not having interests. The American basketball world and the domestic basketball world have various interests. Even domestic fans have "interest needs". For example, if Sun Ce's performance is better than their favorite stars, it will be regarded as their interests being encroached.
In other countries, basketball is not the first sport. There are people who like the NBA. After all, the NBA is the best in global expansion among the major American professional leagues, and the United States is the most powerful country on the planet. The NBA has a wide audience in the world.
But the media and fans of most countries do not have such a deep sense of substitution as the fans of China and the United States, so most of them evaluate a player according to the honors they have won and the wonderful performances they have played. They are relatively objective and do not have so much subjective consciousness.
After thinking about this, Sun Ce was not too depressed. He just enjoyed the cheers in the international arena.
As for the NBA, if it really doesn't work, can't he just beat the opponents, the fans of the opponents, and the media?
Even if he can't beat them, it won't affect his life. Playing basketball itself is a happy thing.
This Sun Ce is very open-minded. Otherwise, if he was not open-minded after being called a system player for three years, he would have been depressed long ago.
In addition, he knows his own weight. Compared with players like Bird, Sun Ce feels that he is still far behind...
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After returning to the Chinese team's training hall, he took a shower, applied ice compresses, and received a massage from the masseur sent by James from the United States. After dinner, Sun Ce and Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, and Ding Jinhui made an appointment to watch the game of the American team. This was an appointment made after knowing the schedule before.
After winning the game, there is nothing to do today. I will arrange it myself. I will train tomorrow and play the second game against Russia the day after tomorrow.
The schedule of this Olympics is much better than that of the World Championships. There is a game every other day, and there are no back-to-back games.
The schedule of the Olympics is two to three games a day. The Chinese team and the British team finished the game at 5 pm. The game lasted 40 minutes. There were not as many advertising pauses, that is, official pauses, as in the NBA. Generally, the game can be finished in about 90 minutes.
The game between the Spanish team and the Australian team started at 6 o'clock. When Sun Ce and his five people arrived at the Olympic Park Basketball Hall at 8 o'clock in the evening, the game between the Spanish team and the Australian team had already ended. There was no suspense. The Spanish team slaughtered Australia 119 to 80, almost winning by 40 points.
The three games tonight are all games with a huge gap in strength in people's eyes. The attendance rate of the game between the Chinese team and the British team is high because there are many Chinese people, the British team is fighting on the home ground, Sun Ce and Yao Ming are popular worldwide, and even German fans come to support Yao Ming, so the seats are full; while the Spanish team and the Australian team are not very popular in the UK, and the attendance rate is just about 60%.
When it came to the game of the American team, when Sun Ce and others entered the stadium and came to the sidelines, the venue was already full of people.
There is never a shortage of spectators for the American team's games!
Even though the American men's basketball team has "only" won two world championships since the new century, both times have been the world's first, and other countries have won once at most.
And there are stars, the American team has a lot of superstars!
Even if the performance of the American team in the world competition did not meet expectations, the attendance rate is still the highest in every Olympic basketball or basketball world championship.
At 8:10, Sun Ce saw the Dream Team 10 consisting of Deron, Paul, Westbrook, Kobe, Harden, Iguodala, Anthony, Durant, James, Odom, Chandler, and Anthony Davis, and his scalp tingled.
Even though Odom was said to have lost his mind after being traded by the Lakers and became an alcoholic in the UK, and Anthony Davis had never played a professional game, these two might be easy to deal with, but the other ten players...
After entering the court, Kobe ignored the Nigerian players and walked to the sidelines. James, Anthony, Westbrook, and Harden also came to the sidelines. Sun Ce, Yao Ming and others also stood up. These players, or more Or have little friendship with the two of them.
Kobe arrived at the sidelines, glanced at Sun Ce, and without waiting for Sun Ce to say hello, he snorted arrogantly and turned away...
Sun Ce stretched out his hands. He was so angry when he saw Kobe like that!
When the bad water came, Sun Ce deliberately lowered his head and muttered in English. His voice was so loud that even the cheers of the fans could not completely cover up the voice that could be heard by Kobe, who had just turned around. ?"
Kobe, who had just turned around, tripped with his left foot and almost jumped out with his right foot. Fortunately, he had good core strength and stabilized himself.
Kobe was almost angry to death. Although he meant to show off his teammates, Sun Ce's words were too unpleasant!
Anthony and Westbrook were speechless about Sun Ce irritating Kobe again. James and Harden touched their foreheads helplessly. Every time Sun Ce met with Kobe or Durant, he acted like an enemy. Do it...
But both of them have gotten used to it. James got used to Sun Ce and Kobe not liking each other last summer, and Harden got used to Sun Ce and Durant not liking each other since his first year in the NBA. Who, no, Durant doesn’t even want to chat.
After saying hello, the US team players went to prepare for the game. Sun Ce watched Kobe take off his training clothes and hold the jersey in his mouth - the Nigerian team is going to be miserable!