"China Team gave it their all. Once the USA Team got serious, they were terrifying. No team in the world could beat them!"
"The outcome has been decided. Although China Team lost, they could still leave Rio with their heads held high!"
"A glorious defeat. A silver medal was enough to prove what this China Team was made of, enough to prove Tang Tian's strength!"
"Let us congratulate the USA Team on winning their nineteenth Olympic championship! Congratulations to Dream Team XII!"
"Durant became the biggest winner! This was his first time defeating Tang Tian in the past two years!"
"The Olympics are over. Let's start looking forward to the new season, to the third chapter of the Pelicans and Warriors! That will be the truly fair showdown between Durant and Tang!"
By the end of the half, fans on the call-in shows were already celebrating the USA Team's victory in advance.
Tang Tian and China Team had both played to their strengths in the first half, but the unequal strength between the two teams had already removed any suspense from the result.
In the locker room during the half-time break, the huge deficit made the atmosphere somewhat gloomy.
Making the finals had already exceeded expectations, but everyone wanted the Gold Medal.
Even winning an Olympic gold medal in an ordinary event would bring glory to one's family back home, let alone basketball, one of the three major team sports.
If they truly won gold, every player on this team would become sizzling hot after returning home, their names celebrated in history.
But now, the Gold Medal felt both so close and so far away.
Tang Tian sat on the bench, resting while also thinking about how to turn the situation around.
China Team's individual ability was far behind