Chapter 789 Grand Slam and James’ Hatred!

"Ross is a really good player."

On the morning of January 11, 2009, after the team's routine training in the morning, Zhu Fangyu sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Wang Shipeng next to him also nodded silently.

Coming to the NBA is an irresistible temptation.

It is a huge temptation for any player. Even Zhu Fangyu, who has always rejected the Rockets before, has never thought about coming to the NBA.

But he knows very well that if he can't make a name for himself in the NBA, coming here will basically mean nothing.

He is no longer a young player with unlimited potential, and his starting position in the national team has been replaced by Zhou Peng.

Because in the new national team with Ye Si as the core, his future potential and plasticity are no longer enough to grow with Ye Si.

Just like Yao Ming was the core back then, they were the ones chosen to grow up with Yao Ming.

Whether they have grown enough to match Yao Ming's level is needless to say.

Their potential has been exhausted in the process of growing up with Yao Ming, and they no longer have the plasticity to adapt to Ye Si's style.

At their current age, it is more important not to come to the NBA to pursue their dreams but actually sit on the bench. Now they need to play games and maintain their physical condition and game state, although regular time is not the player that Ye Si needs. , but as long as they can maintain their strength and as long as the national team has not yet replaced players, they can always use their own characteristics to find a suitable position in the national team.

And this is the reason why he has always rejected the Rockets. For the 2008 Olympics, it is impossible for him to sit on the bench with the Rockets, and then for the 2010 World Championships, it is impossible for him to sit on the bench for the Rockets.

Now every player of the Chinese men's basketball national team has a dream, which is to become the first Grand Slam team in international basketball to win the three major world cups.

Olympic Games!

World Championships!

FIBA Diamond Cup!

These three major events are the three major world events of FIBA.

Now the Chinese men’s basketball team is the 2008 Olympic champion.

The 2008 Diamond Cup champion was just one short of the World Championship.

The previous teams closest to the Grand Slam were the United States and Argentina.

The United States and Argentina are both Olympic and World Championship champions, but both fall short of the Diamond Cup.

The U.S. team disdains participating in the Diamond Cup and does not recognize the Diamond Cup. Argentina attaches great importance to the Diamond Cup, but it always fails to win the championship. Every time it comes to participate, it is either second or third.

Now the Diamond Cup competition has been canceled because the US team never sent anyone.

In other words, in the history of world basketball, if you want to win the Grand Slam of the World Series, only the three Diamond Cup champion teams of China, Australia and Serbia and Montenegro can win the Grand Slam. Serbia and Montenegro have now changed. into Montenegro and Serbia, so only these four teams have a chance to win the three Grand Slams.

But Australia and Seville and Montenegro are short of Olympic champions and world championships. When will they win the Olympic champions and world championships?

The Chinese team is different. The only thing left for the Chinese team is the World Championships!

In the United States, in the NBA, no one cares about whether it is a Grand Slam or not.

But internationally, in China, the Grand Slam of a project is taken very seriously.

The highest personal achievement of China's national table tennis players is to see whether they win a Grand Slam.

Chinese men's basketball players may become Grand Slam winners in international basketball events, which was unimaginable before.

This is a historic opportunity.

No one wants to fall in front of this historic opportunity, and no one wants to pass by such a historic opportunity.

Especially men's basketball players like him and Wang Shipeng who have won Diamond Cups and Olympic Games.

Not to mention Zhu Fangyu, even Wang Zhizhi, who was extremely eager to return to the NBA and prove himself, endured the pain and rejected many, many invitations, and finally chose to stay in the Bayi team, train hard, and maintain game condition. Work hard to keep your place in the national team, work hard to be on the stage of the 2010 World Championships, and work hard to realize your highest dream as a basketball player.

This is the choice of these national team veterans. Competition and status come first.

And young people like Chen Jianghua, Zhou Peng, and Ding Jinhui are working hard in the CBA to adapt to the needs of the NBA based on the guidance they received from Ye Si in the national team, and to be ready to enter the NBA at any time and improve in the NBA. preparation.

After all, the 2010 World Championships will be a completely different competition from the 2008 Olympic Games. They were the 2008 Olympic champions, but their championship was entirely brought about by Ye Si, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue and others. , they also want to leave their colorful names in history.

This is a normal thought among young people. For example, Chen Jianghua now has the ideas and courage to remove Sun Yue from his starting position.

This is the vitality of young people. They are not afraid of anyone except Ye Si. In order to be teammates with Ye Si in the starting lineup, they may even think of pulling Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian down.

But veterans like them don't have such great ambitions. What kind of NBA dream? This dream is of course important, but it is definitely not as good as the World Championships and the three major cups!

Although they are unwilling to admit it, they are indeed dead bones in the grave. The older they are, the more conservative they are. Wang Zhizhi chose the dream of the national team between the two dreams.

And they just had the best of both worlds.

Coming to the Bulls is a very tempting choice, and it is also a choice that may be sweet or poisonous.

Judging from the Bulls' nearly half-season NBA career, both Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng feel that this choice is sweet and not poisonous.

In this half of the season, although they are not the starting players of the Bulls, their status in the team is very special.

They are the confidants of the team's head coach Scott Brooks. They are also Rose's respected Yes teammates and Rose's mentors.

It is precisely because of his status as a Yes teammate that no matter how much the team boss Ben Wallace dislikes them, he does not dare to bully them. At best, he will exclude them.

NBA veterans such as Antoine Walker, Ricky Davis, Mark Blount, etc. also dare not bully them. After all, they are teammates of Yes, and they are not former teammates, but current national team teammates!

There are ten or twenty minutes of playing time in every game. In normal times, you can teach Rose, who is eager to learn and respect them, how to shoot, and by the way, teach Rose, who is very interested in Chinese, how to speak Chinese.

This is simply the most perfect NBA life.

Not only did they maintain the state of the game, but because the trainers in the NBA are really powerful and their team's status is very high, the trainers have to treat them as the core and develop special training plans for them. This is much better than the CBA. CBA, they are also the core, but is the training level of CBA comparable to that of the NBA?

Therefore, their physical condition has also been strengthened very well, and the originally good confrontation has become even better.

To be able to have such a perfect NBA life, in addition to thanking the national team's assistant coach Scott Brooks and the current Bulls player Rose, I have to thank Xiao Ye.

In the past, when they were in China and in the national team, they really didn't expect that Xiao Yezi would have such a great influence in the NBA.

If you want to say that young people in the NBA are afraid of Ye Zi, forget it.

Ben Wallace, Antoine Walker, Ricky Davis, Mark Blount, these people are all afraid of the influence of Xiaoye!

Especially Ben Wallace, they could clearly feel the incomparable hatred for them from Ben Wallace, but they didn't dare to do anything to them!

It's really incredible to make Ben Wallace give in.

And Ricky Davis, a person who originally hated them very much, in this year's Christmas game, after Xiaoye amazingly scored 100 points in front of James, his attitude towards them even changed from very disgusting to willing. Talking and laughing with them.

"I must find a chance to thank Xiao Ziye properly tonight."

"It's time to thank Xiao Yezi properly."

Wang Shipeng nodded.

He feels that not only he and Wang Shipeng need to thank Xiao Yezi, but every Chinese player in the current NBA should thank Xiao Yezi, and every player who enters the NBA in the future also needs to thank Xiao Yezi.

The reason why the Chinese team and Chinese basketball are so prosperous and looking better and better is not because of the emergence of Yao Ming. So many years after Yao Ming appeared, there is still only one Yao Ming in Chinese basketball. At most, there is one more Yi Jianlian. Let a hundred flowers bloom. Think about it. Do not think.

But after Ye Si appeared, the entire Chinese basketball really started to bloom. Whether it was reporters, experts or ordinary players without talent, everyone benefited.

Even something like the International Basketball Grand Slam is imaginable.

No, it’s not that I dare to imagine, but I dare to pursue it!

On January 11, 2009, the Seattle SuperSonics started another road trip to the Eastern Conference after two consecutive defeats against the Rockets and Timberwolves. The first away opponent was a team currently ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference, with 16 wins and 20 wins. Negative Chicago Bulls.

The current record of the SuperSonics is 23 wins and 14 losses. After the Timberwolves defeated the Bucks on January 10, the Seattle SuperSonics' current record has dropped to the eighth position in the Western Conference, behind the ninth place in the Western Conference. The Houston Rockets are now 22 wins and 16 losses. , in fact, it’s not that far off.

Although after this trip to the East, the Seattle SuperSonics' schedule is relatively easy, but being threatened by the Rockets and falling out of the top eight is a completely different concept from being dropped out of the top eight by the Timberwolves.

When the Timberwolves threatened to fall out of the top eight, although they were nervous, most people were willing to believe that the Timberwolves could not threaten the Sonics. After all, the Timberwolves had always had the image of a weak team and a weak image.

But the Rockets are different. Last season, the Rockets were still the No. 1 team in regular season history with 73 wins and 9 losses, and the No. 1 team in the league's history in terms of hard power!

Even if this team really has many problems now, no one believes that they will always be in problems.

The Rockets will rise sooner or later, but the Seattle SuperSonics looked more like the team that had been in trouble before Durant's efforts.

Therefore, in the eyes of many people, the Sonics will be squeezed out of the top eight by the Rockets sooner or later, either in the last few games or in a game not far away in the future.

In fact, it is not just the coconut flour and coconut flour media who have such worries. In fact, even the Sonics players themselves have such worries. The one and a half games they lead over the Rockets is really not safe!

They all feel safe if they are one win ahead of the Timberwolves, but they all feel Alexander is one and a half or even two or three games ahead of the Rockets.

In fact, the Timberwolves are much better than the Rockets this season.

When Yeas and the Seattle SuperSonics players came out at the United Center in Chicago, they were greeted with applause by Chicago fans.

"Chicago fans are grateful to Yes and the Sonics for avenging them on Christmas Day!"

"According to a Chicago Tribune survey, Yes temporarily surpassed Jordan to become Chicago's most popular NBA player when it came to Christmas this year!"

Damn Chicago's most popular player right now!

Is it possible that someone who bullied Qiao can no longer use the knife or something?

Looking at the young Sonics Nine on TV, he looked down at his beer belly.

Jordan was dejected for a while.

Recently, he has been dreaming about what it would be like to play against Yes.

pity……

I was not born before you were born, but you are already old after you were born...

Recently, he even envied Kobe and James in his dreams...

"Yes, Bulls fans are too enthusiastic, right?"

"Yeah, I'm a little uncomfortable with it."

The Sonics players were surprised and surprised to be so welcomed by the Chicago fans when they came out, and Yeos was also a little surprised.

"Five pairs!"

"Five pairs!"

"Five pairs!"

Listening to the strange cheers of the Bulls fans, Yes certainly knew what these Bulls fans meant.

In this year's Christmas game, he scored 104+10+5+7+8 against James.

This is a 5X5 data, and 5x5 is also called a small five pair.

The 5x5 that Yease played in the Christmas game can be said to be the largest 5x5 in NBA history.

It's just that the largest 5X5 is not a true five-pair.

Chicago fans hope that he can play a big five-double in front of James, a real five-double.

Listening to the cheers from the Chicago Bulls fans, Yeos was surprised but didn't feel anything at all.

James's face in front of the TV was a little dark.

Although because of Wade's friendship and selflessness, he has come out of the shadows and cheered up again. Recently, he has been checking for leaks and filling in vacancies, striving to push his basketball path to the limit when the SuperSonics and Heat face off next time. Really let yourself reach the extreme of this path and become the real him in 2016, instead of the imperfect and imperfect him in the last game.

Wade told him that it doesn't matter if this path doesn't work. The worst thing we can do is find another path. Our team can support his change of course.

However, he was not willing to give in!

After so many years of playing basketball, he could change at any time, and he still changed after being defeated by Yes. He was not willing to accept it!

Five pairs!

Five pairs is indeed a good way to wash away 100 points of shame!

James's hands were clasped, his lips were biting, and his eyes were flashing.