pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 543 "Intimate" move
When the stadium staff announced the starting rosters of both sides, the players of the New Zealand team were not well-known. The names of the players rarely appeared in the news, and they were even called very awkward.

But when the name of the head coach of the New Zealand team was introduced, the audience fell into a discussion that could not be calmed down for a long time.

Bugatti, he has a well-known name: Miracle Coach.

The reason why he got this nickname is because he can always lead his team to play "miracle" games. Throughout Bugatti's coaching career, facing teams with a higher winning percentage than himself, his team's winning percentage is as high as 70%. No one is better at playing against the wind than him.

He can always let the players grab the only straw in despair, and then climb out of the abyss.

Although Bugatti is now over sixty years old, he is still full of energy, with his hands in the pockets of his straight trousers, and his eyes are determined to look at the Asian championship trophy next to the court. It is something he has pursued all his life.

Judging from the list of players announced by both sides, the Chinese team has an absolute upper hand. All the players in the team play in the top league and play important roles in the team. On the other hand, the New Zealand team, their team appears to be very "grassroots".

Therefore, when players from both sides enter the field, the cheers are almost all for the Chinese team.

In the final, Chinese audiences accounted for more than [-]% of the attendance.

This is the first time after five years that the Chinese team has once again launched an impact towards the Asian Cup championship. Chinese fans have waited too long for this moment. Chinese basketball has finally survived the "dark period" of the green and yellow, and the light has come.

"Come on, Chinese team!"

"Come on, Chinese team!"

It was the first time for the Chinese team to feel such warm cheers abroad. You must know that because of the "shady" relationship, the attendance rate of the Chinese team in the previous games was not high. Even against a team like Pakistan, the attendance rate of the Chinese audience was only [-]%. The rest of the seats were occupied by Japanese audiences, even though they did not really support the Pakistan team.

In the final, the Chinese audience did not give the Japanese team the opportunity to continue the "shady auditorium", and used "unconventional" methods to grab most of the tickets. If the ticketing system hadn't collapsed, the Chinese audience might have snatched more tickets.

"Finally it's a bit of a "home" game." According to the rules of the basketball game, the two sides of the game have to score "home and away games" before the game to facilitate the arrangement of jerseys. The Chinese team happened to be arranged in the position of the home team.

The New Zealand team will wear white jerseys.

And white, also known as the main color of the New Zealand national team, because they have a 65% winning rate in this jersey, while the probability of winning in a dark jersey is only 35%.

Both sides got their "favorite" color jerseys, stepped into the field, and waited for the official start of the game.

For the New Zealand team, this is a veritable away game.

Since the New Zealand team and the Australian team both belong to Oceania geographically, not Asia, so they participate in the Asian Cup as a "special status", and they participate in most sports as "Asian countries".

There were less than 500 New Zealand spectators present to watch the game. This is an extremely low number. You must know that this is the final of the Asian Cup. How could the final team have so few spectators?
However, due to the geographical distance, few New Zealand spectators came to Japan from New Zealand all the way, and the spectators present were all local New Zealanders in Japan. They spontaneously came to Tokyo to cheer for the team.

Although the number of spectators was small, it still made the players of the New Zealand team feel their strength. They were not fighting alone. In their country, there were still people who silently loved basketball and their team.

In front of the massive Chinese audience, the audience of the New Zealand team seemed weak, but this did not stop them from cheering for their national team. Even though they were surrounded by Chinese audiences, they still shouted the name of their country without any scruples, shouted the names of players they had never heard of, and shouted the name of the one who created countless miracles.

They hope that Bugatti can take New Zealand to create another scene of his counterattack in the NBA.

It is no exaggeration to say that the height that the New Zealand team can reach depends on Bugatti.

Bugatti can easily find scattered New Zealand spectators from the crowd, because they all have dark blue stickers of the New Zealand flag on their faces.

Bugatti couldn't help but put his hand on his chest, and gently stroked the national flag on his chest. He knew why he came back. For him, not winning the championship was tantamount to failure.

"Hate losing" is the "basic" quality that every professional player should have, and Bugatti has a particularly strong emotion in this regard.

It is precisely because he hates failure that he leads the team to stage a Jedi counterattack again and again, and he has done many tricks of defeating the strong with the weak.

This time, he faced the same situation again. The Chinese team was much stronger than the New Zealand team, but Bugatti was right. He also wanted to see if his basketball philosophy was still applicable to the current basketball environment.

"Go." Bugatti patted each team member's buttocks lightly to show encouragement. His encouragement method has always been straightforward, and slapping the buttocks is already very gentle.

The team members didn't feel any discomfort because of this touch, but they seemed to be used to it and didn't respond.

"Sure enough, this guy in the New Zealand team is not just as simple as the chairman of the Basketball Association." Mu Chenfeng began to doubt his real identity through the no-distance interaction between Bugatti and the players. It stands to reason that the chairman of the Basketball Association should be like Yao Ming, giving people the impression that he should be superior, but the relationship between Bugatti and the players is too "close", even like friends.

"It's time to play, don't think too much about it." Su Miao said.

"In short, be prepared for difficulties. New Zealand is not as easy to deal with as we imagined." Mu Chenfeng inexplicably had a premonition that this game would be more difficult than expected before the game.

(End of this chapter)