Today is September 21st, the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, as a traditional Chinese festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Reunion Festival. On this festive season, we are talking about the real and authentic team today, and only that dream team can be called the dream team. Notice that here I don't call it the Dream Team, but the Dream Team.
Here continues to talk about the anecdotes that the Dream Team can't go beyond being able to replicate and players.
Third, the dream team cannot be surpassed and cannot be copied
The Dream Team's lineup is by far the most powerful, luxurious and classic combination. On August 14, 2010, the "Dream Team" was collectively inducted into the U.S. Basketball Hall of Fame, the first in history. Eleven individuals were inducted into the Hall of Fame, with Christian Lightner alone failing to be inducted. Head coach Chuck Daly and assistant coach Wolkings were also inducted into the Hall of Fame. This dream team has always been considered the most authentic classic.
The impact of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games on the world basketball team and the promotion of basketball level are indescribable in words, which was one of the most important events in the world that year and a watershed for the rapid improvement of world basketball.
At that time, some media said that the world basketball level was fifty years behind the United States, but by the time of the Dream Four team at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, the world basketball level was infinitely close to the level of American basketball, so that due to the arrogance of the American Basketball Association players, in the 2002 World Championships, the 2004 Olympic Games, and the 2006 World Championships, the Dream Team composed of NBA players participated, it did not win the men's basketball championship for three consecutive years.
Coach Chuck Daly had the clearest idea at the time, saying: "Eventually there will be such a day, I am not saying that this day will come soon, but it is inevitable that [the international players] will improve to the same level as our players. When they look back, the Dream Team is the turning point in it all. ”
Bird also said: "This is the first time that a team made up entirely of NBA players is participating in the Olympics, so there is no doubt that this team is very special." The Olympics is like a child, it's always growing, always dreaming, fantasizing about what it will become, what it can do, it's all very special. ”
4. Anecdotes about the Dream Team
1. Trapeze and Magician. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Jordan initially didn't want to go, he said: "That's to hit bugs with intercontinental missiles." Magic Johnson was feverish about going, but was diagnosed with HIV when the lineup was not determined. In the end, Johnson used this as a chip to use half a bitter plan to convince Jordan to participate. Magic Johnson joked before the big game that if he couldn't win the championship, the whole team would commit suicide.
2. Glider and Pippen. Both wanted to compete in barcelona, but both knew they couldn't. Pippen knew that he had become famous late, but he did not expect that Pistons coach Daly admired him regardless of his previous suspicions, when the Pistons and Bulls were sworn enemies. The glider kept complaining, and then at a complaining press conference, he suddenly knew he had been selected.
When the team was still in the United States, there was a training session, the glider got up early, in order not to disturb the wife, put on the shoes in the dark. When I went out, I found that both shoes were right-footed—and for a long time afterward, everyone talked about how good the glider was.
3. Thomas's feud with Jordan, Stockton, and Malone. The best candidate for a point guard should be given to The Assassin Thomas in terms of technology and fame. But the Assassin had a conflict with Jordan the Flyer, who was talking very well, saying that if Thomas went, he wouldn't go, so Thomas didn't go. In the end, Stockton was selected for two reasons: one is that he has the ability, and the other is that he is willing to be a substitute very solidly.
Thomas knew, threw his anger at Stockton and singled out Stockton to score 44 points. The postman who did not go to work could not see it, jazz and piston met again, the postman avenged Stockton, an elbow opened the assassin, the assassin was stabbed, almost killing the assassin.
The Assassins were also not fuel-efficient lamps, and they fought psychological warfare for the postman. When the postman called him to apologize, he first smiled and forgave the postman, and then, the conversation turned and said, "But I know that some radical fans have guns, and they are not under my control, you have to be careful", which scared the postman into retiring.
During the 1992 Olympics, the Dream Team took part in a carnival organized by the NBA on La Rambla in Barcelona. Stockton walked inside in civilian clothes, and no one recognized him. He saw several American women, who claimed to be fanatical fans of the Dream One team, so he went over and asked one of the girls, "What do you think of John Stockton as a player?" The girl: "Oh, I think he's a pretty good defender!" ”
It was the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar that finally completed all the manuscripts of the fourteen dream teams of the American men's basketball team. When writing the Dream Three Team, the big dream Olajuwon was wrong, thanks to the reader's correction. If there are other inappropriate points, please point them out to your fans and friends.