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"After this game, I have no regrets," said Yao Ming, tears streaming down his face after the match, "Unity has brought us to where we are today, but having Qin Yue undoubtedly gave us the dream capital."
Yao Ming’s heartfelt words after the final echo the sentiments of the vast majority of Chinese fans at that moment.
Qin Yue’s magnificent performance at the Beijing Olympic Games will not only be recorded in history.
Moreover, this epoch-making performance has also completely rewritten the history of the sport of basketball.
ESPN data expert Kirk Goldsberry said, "In this Olympic final watched by over a billion people, the ’Messiah’ scored 58 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 blocks, and 1 steal for the Chinese Team, successfully breaking the highest single-game score record in men’s Olympic basketball previously held by Brazilian player Oscar Schmidt and himself."
"Furthermore, Messiah’s averages of 46 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 blocks, and 1 steal per game in this event, along with his impressive 55% field goal percentage, 48% three-point shooting percentage, and 90% free-throw percentage, make him unquestionably the number one on the international stage."
It is worth mentioning that the average scoring record broken by Qin Yue at this Olympic Games was also held by Schmidt.
Historically, as a player who never played in the NBA but was successfully inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame...
Strictly speaking...
Schmidt, revered as the ’Holy Hand’ by Brazilian fans and the ’King’ Oscar by Italian fans, had long proven to the world how terrifying a forward who could score at will on the international stage could be.
In 1988, Schmidt averaged 42.3 points per game at the Seoul Olympics, which was the highest for a single Olympic before the start of this event.
And as early as 1987, against the United States team led by David Robinson and Danny Manning, Schmidt with 15 out of 7 three-pointers and scoring 46 points for Brazil, allowed the U.S. to taste defeat on their own soil for the first time.
Additionally, during his time in the Italian league, Schmidt conquered an American boy living in Italy with his unparalleled scoring ability.
Interestingly, that boy is now here at the Wukesong Basketball Hall.
On the court, biting his jersey and looking up at the scoreboard with feelings still in turmoil, Kobe could not come to terms with the fact of America’s redemption failure until the game ended.
When the buzzer announcing the end of the game sounded, members of the Redemption Team looked like soulless zombies.
Amidst the seemingly endless cheers from the crowd, the players of the United States team feeling like they’re buzzing in their ears, could only dejectedly watch the Chinese Team players celebrating frantically on the opposite half of the court.
Qin Yue turned the abstract concept of ’God’ into a reality in this Olympic Games.
If the goal of the U.S. team before the competition was to achieve redemption at the Olympics, then Qin Yue’s great performance was a mythical story he personally wrote for Chinese Basketball.
This will be the most beautiful day in the history of Chinese Basketball.
And it is also the day Qin Yue transcended and formally stepped onto the throne of gods.
"Considering that world basketball is in a more competitive era, we only need to invest more determination to return to the peak in the future," Coach K excused the Redemption Team after the game, "This defeat doesn’t mean that American Basketball has fallen behind the world; Messiah is also a star who grew up under the American basketball system."
Kobe did not accept interviews after the game.
James, needing some time alone, could only describe his mood as chaotic until the awards ceremony.
When the members of the Redemption Team, who almost wore arrogance and pride on their faces, stood one by one on the runner-up podium, they formed a sharp contrast with the bronze-winning players of the Spain Team.
With a thick enough skin, Marc Gasol became the biggest winner of the awards session.
The young Spanish center not only got the autographs of Yao Ming and Qin Yue, but he also successfully collected the socks Qin Yue wore in the finals.
They are a pair of great socks that need no explanation.
And what about Qin Yue?
At the moment he received the Olympic gold medal, looking at this medal called ’gold inlaid with jade,’ the pent-up passion in Qin Yue’s chest instantly disappeared.
However, what truly made Qin Yue lose control of his emotions was at the moment the national flag was raised.
When the national anthem was played, a sense of belonging that can never be gained from playing in the NBA almost instantly filled Qin Yue’s heart.
Tears unconsciously slid down from the corners of his eyes.
Emotions violently erupted from his chest.
When Qin Yue came back to his senses, the players of the Chinese Team had already walked up to him one by one, hanging all the gold medals around his neck.
Noticing this, reporters from all over the world gathered around and eagerly took photos of this world-famous painting destined to be passed down through history.
Under Qin Yue’s leadership, this congratulatory gift presented by the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team on the closing day of the Olympics to the people of the whole country is bound to have a profound impact.
After the awards ceremony, just as he arrived at the media room with his teammates, Qin Yue was informed that he needed to stay a few more days in the country.
The basketball association leader, with an excited face, told Qin Yue that the country had prepared a unique celebration banquet for them, where he, as the absolute core of this Chinese Men’s Basketball Team, would receive commendations from senior leaders along with his teammates.
