Chapter 672 The Real and Fake Dream Team!
Latest website: The national team’s training lineup in West Lake City is very large this time.
All the players from the first team led by men’s basketball head coach Yunus and all the players from the second team led by assistant coach Adijiang came here.
This is the first time since the national team was divided into one team and two teams in preparation for the Olympics.
It is now July 17th, and the draw for the Olympic Games will be on July 22nd, and the Olympic roster will be produced after that.
For the 32 players currently in the first and second teams, these five days are the most important time.
After so many years of hard work, these five days will determine whether they can appear at the Olympics in the capital.
Therefore, returning to the national team this time, Ye Si can clearly feel how crazy and high-spirited his teammates are.
This Stankovic Cup is not the last warm-up game for the Chinese men’s basketball team before the Olympics. In addition to the Stankovic Cup in West Lake City, the men’s basketball team also has the Diamond Cup held in Jinling City on July 29.
In terms of gold content, the Diamond Cup is larger than the Stankovic Cup.
The Diamond Cup is one of the three major events organized by FIBA, second only to the Olympic Games and the World Championships. Only the championship teams from each state are eligible to participate. Of course, being eligible to participate does not mean that you must participate. You can also refuse. For example, in this year’s Diamond Cup, the American team, the champion of the Americas Championship, did not participate, and neither did Russia, the champion of the European Championship.
It can also be seen from this that FIBA has a long way to go to build the Diamond Cup into the third major event after the Olympics and World Championships.
Russia, the champion of this year's European Championship, did not come, but Spain and Italy, the champions of the previous two European Championships, did.
But the US Championship never came.
Without the winner of the U.S. Championship, the Diamond Cup would not have any gold content, nor would it have much recognition.
It can only be said that the American team is so influential.
Any worldwide basketball tournament without Team USA has no recognition.
As a result, this year's Diamond Cup is likely to be the last Diamond Cup. This third major event organized by FIBA may only survive three times.
I have to say, this is a pity.
The Diamond Cup is much more important than the Stankovic Cup, and its gold content is much higher, but for most players of the current men's basketball national team, it makes no sense to think so far.
Now they need to play well in these three Stankovic Cup games with Serbia, Angola and Russia.
In these three games, Serbia and Russia will not be the main players. The only main team is Angola, but the strength of this African champion is quite limited.
Under this circumstance, the role of this year's Stankovic Cup in West Lake City is to select the remaining main roster of the Chinese men's basketball team.
The 12 main men's basketball players participating in the Olympics this year have already confirmed captain Ye Si, vice-captain Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian, and Sun Yue. Apart from these five, the others have not yet been decided.
That's right, even Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng and other big guys haven't decided yet.
For the Chinese team, with Ye Si and Yao Ming, the only goal for the Chinese team to create history in the Olympics is to defeat the American team.
This time, the selection of the main players of the Chinese national team is not to select players with strong strength and experience, but to select players suitable to play for the American team!
It is currently difficult to produce the roster of the American Dream Team, which has caused some delays in determining the personnel of the Chinese national team.
Fortunately, the Dream Team will finalize its candidates in the next two days, so it will not affect the selection of the main players of the Chinese men's basketball team.
The reason why this year's selection of Dream Team personnel is so difficult is, for no other reason than James's defection from the Cavaliers.
Regarding the personnel of this year's Dream Team, except for one star position that must be reserved for the NCAA, the positions of the other eleven players have actually been decided before.
Although there are many stars in the NBA, they must be willing to play for the US national team.
James, Kobe, Wade, Anthony, Bosh, Deron Williams, Dwight Howard, Boozer, Kidd, Chris Paul, Prince.
These 11 players plus Derrick Rose, the most popular Yes player in the NCAA this year, are just 12 players.
But after James's trade took place, it was reported one after another that players from the Dream Team chose to withdraw.
The first to withdraw was Deron Williams, who was sent to the Cavaliers by the Heat in James's deal.
Being sent from the beautiful Miami to the hellish place of Cleveland by Pat Riley, Deron Williams' hatred for James and Wade in his heart will definitely not be lighter than that for Leafs.
In this case, Deron Williams simply does not want to be teammates with James and Wade.
If his status is similar to that of James Wade, he can go to the Dream Team to compete with James Wade. For his status, why would he go to the Dream Team? Will he be humiliated?
Rather than doing this, it is better to quit.
After Deron quit, Chris Paul also quit.
Chris Paul really couldn't swallow the fact that his third-in-command was taken away by his good brother Lu.
He was kind enough to take Chandler to a party with James Wade and others this summer to have a beer together. He really didn't expect that when he returned to Goose City, Chandler he took out ran away with others!
But he was kept in the dark like an honest man.
Of the three brothers, James is the mastermind, Wade favors James, and Anthony is the talker.
I thought the three brothers had a life-threatening friendship, but I didn't expect that they were all superficial brothers.
Who can bear this?
During this time, Chris Paul feels that his cheeks have grown a lot.
Deron Williams quit when he quit. He was not well-received in the Dream Team. Although James is the most controversial now, when it comes to who has the worst reputation in the entire NBA, it is Deron.
If Deron doesn't come, a substitute can be found. Although Arenas still refuses, Billups agrees. Under Anthony's words to persuade Billups to come out to relax, Billups feels it makes sense and participates in the Dream The team can indeed relax, and a victory over Yes in the Olympics can be considered a consolation.
It is feasible for Deron to exit and be replaced by Billups.
But Chris Paul's withdrawal is really a headache.
Especially for Coach K, the head coach of the Dream Team, Chris Paul and Kidd are the two most important organizers, and Derrick Rose is actually a mascot.
In his tactical system, he does not need a point guard like Derrick Rose.
Fortunately, Billups was willing to join the Dream Team under Anthony's persuasion, otherwise he would have really had a headache.
In the past few years, he has been overwhelmed by coach Lorenzo Romar of the University of Washington in the NCAA. In the 2006 World Championships, the Dream Seven Team was humiliated and did not even win the runner-up. In this year's Beijing Olympics, it was he who He is ready to prove himself this year, and he will make his Dream Team 8 shine in the world like Mengyi did back then!
Chris Paul didn't want to participate in Mengba. Coach K was always unwilling to give up and made a last-ditch effort at the last minute, but in the end Chris Paul still didn't meet with him.
In the end, Coach K had no choice but to find a replacement from other American Dream Team stars, and Chris Paul really couldn’t find an excellent replacement for his position. There aren’t many point guards like Chris Paul with excellent offensive and defensive organization in the league right now. Guard, especially under the premise that Deron cannot be selected.
It turns out that the point guard cannot be selected, so other positions can only be used instead. Fortunately, the Dream Team has enough point guard positions with Billups and Kidd. On the contrary, there is only one Howard at the center position.
This needs to be corrected, and someone needs to stand up to Yao Ming under special circumstances.
And is there anyone in the entire league who is a more suitable candidate than O'Neal?
O'Neal was able to average more than 20+ per game with the Cavaliers last season, returning to his peak.
Just convincing O'Neal to return to the Dream Team is not an easy task.
In short, this year's dream team is definitely the most ill-fated one.
Until the match between the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team and the Serbian Men’s Basketball Team started, there was still no confirmed news about the Dream Team.
On July 17, 2008, in the game against Serbia, the starting players of the Chinese men's basketball team were center Yao Ming, power forward Yi Jianlian, small forward Zhou Peng, and guards Ye Si and Sun Yue.
This is a very athletic lineup, and the height is also quite high. The shortest in the entire lineup is Ye Si at 1.95 meters, and the remaining shortest is Sun Yue at 2.05 meters.
Obviously, Yunus asked Zhou Peng, a young player who has risen rapidly in the CBA this year, to replace Zhu Wan in the starting lineup. This is an attempt to improve the lineup. Zhou Peng's athletic ability and defense are indeed rare in the Chinese men's basketball team.
Serbia is a strong team, but it does not mean that Serbia is strong. In this team, Yes did not see his SuperSonics teammate Milicic.
Serbia did not qualify for this year's Olympics, and Milicic took a leave of absence early.
After one quarter of this lineup of Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Zhou Peng, Ye Si and Sun Yue, Serbia collapsed. The Chinese men's basketball team defeated Serbia 30-14 in a single quarter at the Huanglong Arena with the cheers of all West Lake City fans!
Although I know that China is very strong now, and although I know that Serbia is a noob without any main players, but no matter how novice it is, this is still a European team!
“Is China so powerful now?!”
Watching Serbia being defeated on TV, Coach K was really shocked!
The connection between Yes and Yao Ming is simply unstoppable!
Especially Yes's god-level jumping pass. When surrounded by four such tall players, the entire Chinese team seems to be really unstoppable!
At the very least, a team like Serbia cannot be stopped!
"The Chinese team led by Yes is simply a food abuser!"
Coach K was shocked. He knew very well that many people in his team wanted to fix Yes in the Olympics this year. He wanted to do it too, but...
"It doesn't seem that easy to beat China by 30 points in this year's Olympics..."
Beating China by 30 points is the goal of Coach K and many Dream Team players, because since Mengba’s goal is to catch up with Mengyi, it naturally needs to beat its opponents by more than 30 points in every game.
Before Mengyi's Olympic finals, he beat his opponents by more than 40 points in every game. It was not until the finals that he only defeated Croatia by 32 points.
The strength of the Chinese team amazed Coach K. This team is not that easy to abuse.
When the game ended, the Chinese national team beat Serbia by 50 points 116-66 at the Huanglong Stadium!
The game was humiliated by 50 points, but the Serbian players did not feel humiliated. The moment the game ended, the Serbian players rushed towards Yes.
The Serbian players didn't seem to care at all if they lost by 50 points.
"Because of Milicic, Yes is extremely popular in Serbia. In Serbia, Yes is called the savior and gospel. He saved the pride of Serbia, Darko Milicic!"
As the CCTV commentator for this game, Su Qun was very proud when she said these words, and the audience in front of the TV were equally proud when they saw the group of people on the TV who were so excited and even cried after taking photos with Ye Si.
"What is an international superstar? This is an international superstar!"
"This is Ye Si's influence in the world!"
"This reminds me of last year's Asian Championship in Japan where all the players in the Asian Championship were chasing Ye Si."
"The appearance of Ye Si not only makes the Chinese team's game extremely beautiful, perhaps, we now look more like a dream team like the Dream Team!"
"We were called the dream team by the Japanese media at the Asian Championships in Japan last year!"
For fans in West Lake City, seeing such a scene after the game is really a refreshing thing.
"This five thousand yuan is worth spending, it's so fucking worth it!"
After the match between the Chinese team and the Serbian team, the entire West Lake City and the entire China were shocked by the Serbian players chasing Ye Si and crying because they took a photo with Ye Si.
Ye Si also caused a sensation throughout Asia at the Asian Championships in Japan last year.
But that is backward Asia!
This is not to be discriminatory. Although Europeans, Asians, and Africans are all human beings, and they are all the same, in the minds of most people, Europeans are indeed a little bit more different.
Being able to be pursued by these Europeans and these white people really made many people understand. It turns out that they usually say that Ye Si is not only great in China, but also in the world. It is really not their bragging, not their YY !
"Yesi is China's business card, the best business card, there is no doubt about it!"
When Teacher Zhang Liji shouted this sentence, it was quickly verified.
On July 19th and 20th, the Chinese men’s basketball team defeated the African champion Angola and the European ‘champion’ Russian team 120-79 and 118-60.
After the game, the players from both teams were as crazy as the Serbian players.
And just when the Yesi storm began to blow across China, on July 21, 2008, the day before the Olympic group draw, the Dream Team finally announced its 12-man roster!
James, Kobe, Wade, Bosh, Anthony, O'Neal, Howard, Boozer, Prince, Kidd, Rose, Billups.
Full of star flavor!
Almost at the same time, the 12-man roster of the Chinese men's basketball team was also announced.
Ye Si, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, Zhou Peng, Chen Jianghua, Du Feng, Liu Wei, Ding Jinhui.
The young lineup is incredible!
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