the rest, only noise

Chapter 883 Barcelona
After the confrontation match, players are free to allocate time.

Some are willing to go outside, so they go outside, and some want to go back to the hotel, so they go back to the hotel.

Some of them will stay in the arena to shoot, and then leave after reaching a certain number.

Wilson is the only one who will stay in the arena. Usually, you can see that he is full of enthusiasm for training, but today, he is very depressed.

Jordan picked up a glass of Gatorade, walked outside, and suddenly sang: "Sometimes I dream~" (Sometimes I dream)
This is a commercial song that Gatorade made for Jordan when he signed him.

Louis believes that the contemporary influence of this song is incalculable.

Whether or not Jordan is a winner right now, everyone loves him.

The child wants to be a trapeze man, eager to be like Jordan.

Standing in the damp arena, his body covered in sweat, with a towel draped over his body, Wilson watched those members of the blue team sing with Jordan.

"Like Mike~"

(like mike)
"If I could be like Mike~!"

(If I were Mike)
Louie left him alone for a few minutes before walking over.

This game can make Wilson see his own shortcomings.

He is younger than Jordan.

He can see something through this game.

That is, if he does not play for the Knicks, but for the Lakers or Celtics, his team will not be able to beat the Trail Blazers.

It's because he's in the Knicks, playing for Louie, and playing the right kind of basketball that he can bridge the gap in hard power between himself and Jordan.

"If Larry hadn't been hurt, you'd have won," Louie reassured.

"I won't make excuses, Coach." Wilson said frankly, "I lost to Michael."

Louie said, "But you beat him in the league."

"Yes."

"Why do you think you won?"

"Because I have a better team and a better coach."

"No, the Blazers are actually a better team than us. Have you forgotten? We had injuries, we had a tight rotation, and they were able to use a full-court press in the last half of the fourth quarter." Louie still shudders when he thinks about that game.

Looking back carefully, Wilson realized that Louie was right.

The Blazers were the better team in that series.

So why do they win?

Jordan averaged 40+ per game in the series and scored 53 points in a single game in the finals. He was definitely the most dazzling star in that round of the series. Whether it is a team or an individual, the Blazers are the stronger side.

"Thinking about it." Wilson smiled wryly, "I really don't know how we won."

"It's simple, I didn't make a mistake." Louis said confidently, "Dennis grabbed all the rebounds, Patrick wanted to win more than today, his defense is dominant, Alex, Sean. All the teammates on the court have only one goal. You did your own thing, and then, it was your miraculous five three-pointers. At that time, you didn't value individual duels as much as you do today. You believed in your teammates and then surrendered everything you have."

"In the end you won."

Louis looked at Wilson and taught like a mentor.

"This is the secret of the Finals. The stronger team and the strongest individual may not win, but the selfless dedication, hard-working defense and accumulation of rebounds, everyone's undivided attention, trust and respect for teammates ultimately make us an invincible force."

Over the next few days, until the Dream Team left Monte Carlo, Wilson and Jordan were in a delicate confrontation.

Wilson was woken up by Louis, he knew where he lost.

But it's one thing to know how to lose, and quite another to accept that you lost.

He is a man who does not accept failure.

The atmosphere in the dream team is unprecedentedly tense, and no one can relax anymore, but the coaching staff is happy to see them secretly competing.

When the Dream Team left Monte Carlo for Barcelona, ​​Louis made an impromptu decision.

He wants to invite all the students studying in the United States to go to Barcelona to watch the game.

The cost was of course paid by Louis himself.

Hearing the news, Yu Tiancan, Hu Weidong and Wang Mukong all offered to share part of the expenses.

Louis just let them mind their own business. After all, he is the sponsor of these children, and the league has nothing to say about it.

If Yu Tiancan and the others paid the money, even if it was only part of it, then the nature would change.

Stern is sensitive now about what people in the professional world and people in the college basketball world come into contact with.

Having lived in New York for many years, he not only enjoys the best football market, but also has the best investment opportunities and the largest network.

To him, money has long been something outside of his body, it is just a number, and if he sees too many people, he will feel numb, so he might as well take some out and spend it.

What's more, this little expense is just a drop in the bucket for him.

When the Dream Team came down from the airport, the scene was even more chaotic than the ten-minute battlefield at the beginning of "Saving Private Ryan".Hundreds of journalists rushed past the cordon set up by security with their cameras in hand.

When I was in the United States, those journalists were bastards, so there were rules.

European journalists have no rules at all. Louis saw many reporters fall down and be trampled on by their peers.

He only hoped that no one would be killed at the scene.

For the sake of safety, the American Basketball Association arranged the hotel where the Dream Team stayed near the US embassy.

When Louis got off the bus and was about to enter the hotel, he realized how powerful the Dream Team was.

He simply waved to the crowd and made the front page the next day.

The hotel was crowded with onlookers, no one knew what they wanted to do, maybe just to see this group of stars?Fortunately, the security measures in the hotel are quite strict, and there are policemen with live ammunition everywhere.

In addition to the local police, snipers are ambushing around the hotel for peripheral security.

Helicopter patrols are constantly flying over the hotel.

This level of security is not available to other athletes. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Dream Team is Barcelona's number one protection target.

Before the start of the Olympic Games, if there is a warm-up match, Louis will invite the Chinese team to join the dream team.

This is of course a small lesson for his compatriots.

Due to the influence of Louis, the national basketball team in 1992 had three more Yu Tiancan, Song Tao and Wang Mukong.

In addition to Hu Weidong, this Chinese team has four active NBA players, which is the team with the most active NBA players in the Olympic Games except the Dream Team.

Outside of practice and games, Dream Team players spend most of their time in full-service hotels.

Famous names have become their shackles, and only sometimes, the tragedy master will improvise and go outside for a while.

Louie is the only one of the main members of the dream team who can travel normally.

He is famous in America, but in Barcelona, ​​he is just an ordinary Asian.

Louis would go out every day, mainly to meet the foreign students of the Road School.

Except for those who couldn’t come due to something, there were 52 foreign students from the Road School who came to Barcelona this time. They were like a super large tourist group, escorted by professionals, and supported by Louis’s funds. Some older children who had already gone to university would help take care of their younger siblings.

Although Louie allowed them to watch any game, they were only interested in basketball.

This is also the original intention of Louis inviting them to Barcelona.

There are countless children all over the world who have their own basketball dreams after watching the performance of the Dream Team, and use this to climb to the top. Perhaps, some of them will complete similar stories.

Before the start of the game, Heat owner Micky Arison invited the Dream Team to visit him on his yacht in Barcelona.

This made everyone on the Dream Team very excited. Since they couldn't go out, the hotel had become a high-level prison, and they were too eager to go out.

Arison shows the difference between the rich and the super rich.

It is not uncommon to have a yacht. As long as they are willing to spend the capital, Jordan, the tragedian, and Wilson can all have their own yachts.

But Arison owned a superyacht, and when they discovered that the air-conditioning system on this yacht was malfunctioning, they had a backup yacht brought in.

"He has a spare yacht. I feel like I'm a fucking bumpkin in front of Alisson!"

It was such a snobbish world that even Sir Charles felt inferior.

And when it comes to game day, the Dream Team will first hold a media meeting.

More than 1000 reporters crowded the scene, and when Louis led the players into the venue, the audience gave warm applause and cheers.

All, including Louie, had a public relations officer on hand to answer questions from reporters.

To the surprise of the Dream Team, the foreign media didn't think they were invincible.

Because the myth that the US team is invincible has been broken.

Even if they are very strong, everyone does not think that the All-Star players can cooperate with each other.

In this regard, Louis felt amused: "We didn't give up our holidays to come here to lose. We will show the Olympic spirit like other athletes. When the game starts, you will know what it means."

Some Brazilian journalists talked about their defeat of the US team at the Pan American Games in 1987.

For this reason, Ewing sarcastically said: "If we lose to the Brazilians here, we will not return to the United States."

Then another reporter asked Jordan something unrelated to the Dream Team.

"I heard that Portland is actively working on getting Lithuanian center Adavis Sabonis to the NBA. What do you think of this matter?"

(End of this chapter)