It was the "Dream Six" who saved the Lakers and Kobe Bryant, whose botched performance at the Athens Olympics stole headlines, diverted attention and sparked strong complaints from fans**.

The U.S. Basketball Association gave Larry Brown a chance to prove himself, and then he helped his opponents prove himself. The teams that met the "Dream Six" in this Olympics were all happy, and they didn't think that the original NBA stars could be so easy to deal with.

Stoudeyer didn't compete, and Brown summoned his favorite disciple Ben Wallace into the team to "save the game", and the outcome was already doomed.

At the same time, Brown's strict style made it difficult for many players to adapt, and the U.S. team simply couldn't generate enough cohesion to win the game. This severity is reflected in Brown's denial of rookies, whether you're the top pick, the top pick, or the probe.

If you are a dragon, you have to coil for me, and if you are a tiger, you have to lie down for me.

I say you can do it, you can do it, you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it.

The Dream Team's game is a chaotic battle, and Brown doesn't have much on the sidelines and rarely calls a timeout. He just pinched his waist to watch the game on the sidelines every game, with his own BGM, and he almost danced for a while.

Using the rookie, I am uncomfortable, not on the big book, I am uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable......

The basketball association thought that it was very unkind to get rid of Brown for no reason, and it turned out to be a big joke.

In Guo Xu's previous life, the "Dream Six Team" lost to Argentina in the semifinals, and lost a total of three games in the Olympics, while the U.S. men's basketball team had only lost two games in the Olympics before, and they finally mixed a bronze medal as a fig leaf.

In this life, the "Dream Six Team" also lost a total of three games, but the losses were even more ugly.

They lost 69-93 to Puerto Rico in their opening game, and fans were stunned. The "Dream Team" scored less than 70 points in the whole game? Arroyo, who was a role player in the NBA, beat up American captain Iverson?

The reality is such nonsense, I didn't dare to write like this in the early years, for fear of being sprayed to death by fans, and Iverson was too black.

The U.S. also lost 85-97 against Lithuania, losing both games by double digits and sparse offense.

In his previous life, Marion played a lot of time in the Dream Six team, averaging nearly 10 points per game, shooting more than 5 percent, and was an important rotation of the team.

It doesn't matter if the United States loses two games in the group stage, it can still qualify from the group. Brown did not forget to praise Ben Wallace for helping the United States turn Germany from 12 points down in the group stage to a narrow one-point victory, and he did a very good job defending Nowitzki in the second half, and he was the one who best understood Brown's tactical intentions.

In the quarterfinals, the U.S. team met the powerhouse Spain, lost 76-94 and withdrew from the competition for medals.

Brown couldn't praise anyone this time, and he was at a loss on the sidelines. Big Ben faced Gasol, who had shooting range, height and arm span, could attack with the ball, and could handle passes, and was blown out of the ......

In Guo Xu's previous life, the United States eliminated Spain by relying on Marbury's super-level performance, he didn't care about the team's tactics when the team was behind, and relied on his personal ability to score consecutive heads-up points, and scored 31 points to lead the team to complete the reversal.

This time Marbury didn't go to Athens, Brown let Iverson hold the ball to attack, let Big Ben and Duncan defend solidly, and let Spain maintain the lead until the end.

LeBron James lost his hair on the sidelines; Wade's cheeks are bulging and he seems to be practicing toad skills; Carmelo Anthony stared blankly at the scoreboard.

But no matter how much they want to help the team, they can only sit on the sidelines and be spectators.

Anthony, in particular, fell out with Brown in the first game and never played again.

In Brown's view, Anthony is just one more advertising model on this team, and he needs a tried and tested warrior, so even this year's star Okafor has played more minutes than Anthony.

Brown has publicly criticized Anthony for not working hard in his training, Anthony kept his distance from his teammates, and Anthony's shot selection was poor...... The old coach couldn't get used to this talented but lonely teenager at all.

After Game 3, Brown said: "He didn't settle into the team at all. At this time, his life must have been very hard, but he still did not take the initiative to adjust, and we can all see from his training and his physical movements. Giving a player 2 minutes of playing time and his only action is shooting, is this team basketball? James only played seven minutes in the warm-up game against Germany, but he always encouraged his teammates on the bench, what kind of attitude was this? It's clear when you think about it. ”

After the team was eliminated, Anthony also had his own saying: "Shooting the ball wrong? I didn't have any playing time at all, so how could I shoot well? I have nothing to complain about...... Now we lost ugly, and everyone knows who is most responsible. ”

In the end, the "Dream Six Team" won the seventh place, breaking the sixth-place record set by the "Dream Five Team" in the 2002 World Championships. In the most humiliating moment in the history of the U.S. men's basketball team, this team almost accounted for it.

They shot just 43.7 percent from the field and 29.5 percent from three-point range, compared to 48.2 percent from the field and 44.1 percent from three-point range.

Iverson averaged 15.1 points, 2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game to become the team's leading scorer, and seemed to be the team's most reliable. In fact, he had the most shots on the team and a team-low shooting percentage of 37.8 percent.

Brown's defense is not systematic, and Duncan is not reused, so he can only pin his success or failure on Iverson, who led the dream team into the 76ers, and a group of stars watched Iverson play iron.

After the loss, there was a lot of scolding in the media and on the Internet.

Say that the "Dream Six" lineup is weak? No matter how weak it is, it's a group of NBA stars, and the second-rate star lineup can't compare to other countries? Even if anyone on those teams plays in the NBA, they are basically role players, and Gasol and Nowitzki are the only big-name stars.

"Iverson is the heart of Brown's hands, but he's a pure blacksmith who can't do Puerto Rico's wonder boy Arroyo one-on-one. Why don't you let Jason Guo go to the Olympics? He's already said he hasn't been invited at all. ”

"I didn't invite Jason Guo to play in the Olympics, and found a cancer to be the captain, the Basketball Association is really talented."

"Can Larry Brown use Duncan as Wallace, Marbury as Anthony, and James as a fringe man, and a more amateur coach than him? If you don't have a coach, you won't be like this, right? ”

"Brown is deliberately finding fault, right? It's always the same people who rotate, they don't need young people at all, and the comments after the game are about the same, and they are just as unready as Milicic. ”

The outcome of the men's basketball team has also changed, after eliminating the United States, Spain defeated Argentina by five points under Pau Gasol, and won the Olympic gold medal by beating Italy in the final.

At the heart of the team, Gasol won the Olympic Most Valuable Player award. He's always been the center of the game, and as a big man, he can play single, he can respond, and his defense is not bad. He has proven himself on the international stage, signing a big contract in the NBA is just around the corner.

With such an experience of leading the national team to win the championship, Gasol's life is even more different from his previous life. Guo Xu is very skeptical that the Lakers will be able to trade "Sister-in-law" to the team to assist Kobe Bryant in the future.

Another reporter asked Guo Xu to evaluate the American team and Larry Brown.

Guo Xu refused to comment, he didn't bother to say anything at a glance, the American team was embarrassed, and there was no need for him to make a conclusion.