With consecutive victories over the Dream Team and the Spanish Men's Basketball Team, the Chinese Men's Basketball Team became the talk of the town, flooding the news of all major media with reports about the Chinese Men's Basketball Team.
Although they had the dual FMVP combo of Zhang Yang and Yao Ming, even the domestic media had previously only predicted that the Chinese Team had the ability to compete with top world teams briefly, maybe for half a game or three quarters, unlike before when they would start collapsing in the second quarter, or even be completely dominated from start to finish.
No one expected them to beat the USA Team and then slaughter the Spanish Team!
