Chapter 1600 1599. Brothers of Righteousness in the International Arena!

"Ace, after working so hard until now, I can finally play against you in the knockout round. You know, it has always been my dream to play against you again in the knockout round. It feels great to be in the same era as you, a guy who is destined to dominate an era. I can represent the country and play against you so many times. "Ginobili looked at Liu Mang and said.

"This..." Liu Mang didn't expect that when he saw Ginobili after entering the Wukesong Arena, the first sentence Ginobili said was this!

Seeing the reporters surrounding him, Liu Mang hurriedly said: "You are too serious."

Ginobili was stunned when he heard this answer, and responded: "Is it serious? Thank you for your concern. My back injury is fine and will not affect today's game."

"..." Liu Mang felt pained by the sequelae of returning to China. He had heard some English-speaking reporters in his country laughing.

Liu Mang was too lazy to explain, so let it go!

But he really didn't expect that Ginobili, an international superstar who won the Olympic gold medal, defeated the US team many times, and was destined to leave his name in the world basketball arena, would say such a thing!

However, during this Olympics, Liu Mang has already felt a lot of differences from the previous World Championships.

During the group stage, more than half of the players of almost every opponent came to him for photos and autographs. If the opponent had NBA players, they would basically come to him for autographed jerseys after the game, and they would still want the original ones. After Liu Mang asked Coach Zhang for instructions, he would give the jerseys to the opponent. Of course, in order to give the opponent a little face, he would also ask for the opponent's jerseys back.

The jerseys that Liu Mang wanted to deal with were actually a kind of reciprocity, and the opponent was very excited about it.

Now even Ginobili said such words... It may be related to the fact that after Ginobili finished this Olympics, Argentina will most likely not have the strength to enter the finals. 8 of the 12 players on the Argentine team are over 32 years old...

In other words, most of these players will retire in the World Championships two years later. Even if Ginobili can still maintain a good state at the age of 33, he cannot prevent the rapid decline of the Argentine team's strength.

So Ginobili regarded this game as the last time he could compete with the Chinese team at the same level. He believed that this game was the last time he, the defending Olympic champion, could compete with Liu Mang in the national team with the same proud championship attitude.

From 3 to 5 pm, the Chinese team and the Argentine team were preparing for the game, and neither team cared about the quarter-finals between the US team and the Russian team.

At 5:30 pm, when the warm-up was over and the pre-match preparations were completed, the two teams entered the Wukesong Arena. They learned that the US team defeated the Russian team 91 to 79 and became the third team to advance to the semi-finals.

The Russian team was soft against other countries, but suddenly became hard against the United States. Fortunately, it was Kidd who came off the bench and Iguodala and James' counterattack connection, Kidd's guided counterattack, two forwards cut in, Bosh and the little blacksmith responded with three-pointers, and the score difference was widened to more than 10 points, winning the game without any danger.

After learning about the results of the match between the US team and the Russian team, Liu Mang immediately focused on the next game.

If they win, they will continue. If they lose... they can't even go home. The people of the whole country can't accept that they fall here!

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Pablo Prigioni, Manu Ginobili, Carlos Delfino, Luis Scola, Fabricio Oberto, the Argentine team sent out their strongest starting lineup.

On the Chinese team side, the starting lineup of Liu Mang, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian, and Yao Ming appeared.

Looking at the opponent's lineup, Liu Mang felt that Argentina's sports strength was really strong! It is said to be the last year of the golden generation, but the five players in their starting lineup have the strength to play rotation in the NBA or even stronger! They have become weaker, but only weaker than their peak in 2004. They still have the ability to upset the top three in the world!

If it was four years ago, before Liu Mang joined the national team, the national team except for the inside three would probably be weak when seeing Argentina's lineup of four NBA players and one of the best European point guards, but now...

The Chinese team is more motivated than the opponent! Instead, the Argentine team is overwhelmed!

First, it is Yao Ming who came to the center circle. Milicic did not join this year's Olympics. Except for Gasol, no inside player is more aggressive than Yao Ming on the sideline!

This giant beast made Oberto feel short of breath when he came to the center circle.

The pressure is too great!

Oberto feels that time is too cruel. Four years ago, they played against the Chinese team with the still immature Liu Mang and Yao Ming for fun, but now they can only challenge each other as challengers.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, the last quarter-final that everyone expected started. The golden whistle referee from the Australian league came to the center circle, blew the whistle to start the game, and threw the ball into the air...

Yao Ming won the jump ball, and the Chinese team attacked first!

After receiving the ball, Liu Mang did not rush to advance, but waited for Yao Ming to get into position, because the opponent's players had already retreated to the basket, and there was no three-second defense, so the opponent did not have to worry about anything else.

Liu Mang slowly pushed forward to the front court, and when Yao Ming went to the inside, he said to the veteran with 9 years of experience in the La Liga professional league in front of him: "Pablo, do you want to try in the NBA? I think you can do it, let's win the world championship together!"

"Watt...Puta!"

Prigioni was about to reply when the opponent had already started to break through!

Who would have thought that a recognized world's strongest player would actually play dirty! Prigioni yelled angrily and hurried to chase after him.

Prigioni was already 31 years old, and his physical fitness was far inferior to his peak period. He was also distracted by Liu Mang's trash talk and could only watch Liu Mang's back rushing into the inside.

Oberto and Scola shrank in the inside, and seeing Liu Mang rushing in so easily past Prigioni, they quickly moved up. Liu Mang went deep into the three-second zone, attracted a double team, and then passed the ball to Yao Ming.

Yao Ming received the ball and jumped into the basket, and fiercely smashed the ball into the basket through Scola!

Poor Scola was knocked to the ground by Yao Ming and slid half a meter away...

It was so tragic!

It was horrible!

Just like Gasol with the pass from Calderon, if Yao Ming had the opportunity to receive the ball and lift it up in this position, his lethality would not be even comparable to Gasol!

In the original time and space, Yao Ming did not have such a guard to pass the ball to him in the national team, but here, the unkind brother has Liu Mang!