After finishing the Warm-up Games and completing the roster cuts, the China Men's Basketball Team boarded a plane for Tokyo.
On the plane, the players were all discussing the ranking list that Japanese media had just released.
"I thought Japanese people were pretty modest, but now it looks like they're just the same as the Koreans next door."
"And putting us in fourth is way too hilarious. We came here to take down the Americans. Australia and Spain aren't even worth mentioning."
Lin Yi kept ranting away.
Tang Tian sat behind him, listening with a helpless shake of his head.
After spending this stretch of national team training together, Tang Tian had discovered that Lin Yi had two defining traits.
On the court, he loved talking trash more than anything; off the court, he was a total chatterbox.
He was Tang Tian's complete opposite. Tang Tian fought whenever something bothered him on the court, but remained calm and steady off it.
The two of them together really gave off an Ice and Fire Double Heaven kind of feeling.
"They think Brother Tang can't do it anymore."
Ding Yanyuhang said from the side.
The moment he said that, laughter broke out across the plane.
There was a reason Li Chunjiang had not let Tang Tian play much in the previous Warm-up Games.
On one hand, Tang Tian really had not played professionally for some time, and returning to high intensity competition required a gradual adjustment period.
On the other hand, it was naturally to throw out a smoke bomb.
This Olympics Group Stage was truly a Group of Death. With Australia as their very first opponent, throwing out some Smoke bombs was absolutely necessary.
Take the World Cup, for example. When they faced Australia in the quarterfinals, their easy advancement had