I’m Really Playing Basketball

September 22, 2003, the day before the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and the Syrian men's basketball team at the Asian Men's Basketball Championship in Harbin.

Chen Xiao, who had been staying with his wife and children in Yan City, finally came to the ice city of Harbin to play with the Chinese men's basketball national team.

As soon as Chen Xiao came to the national team, Dayao, Bage, Dawang and the teammates and coaches of the national team sent their blessings to Chen Xiao.

On September 11, 2003, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is August 15 of the lunar calendar, Chen Xiao's child was successfully born.

Nicknamed Zhongqiu, I have a 7-pound baby. Mother and baby are safe. The original due date was September 16, but it was a few days early, at 39 weeks. The baby was impatient to run out of his mother's belly.

Because sister Yiren gave birth naturally, she recovered quickly after delivery. Now that she has started confinement, sister Yiren can move freely and take care of the baby. If it was a caesarean section, Chen Xiao would definitely miss the Asian Championships.

To be fair, even without Chen Xiao in this Asian Championship, the Chinese team playing at home will not have any problems.

Dayao, Bage and Wang, three players who have already established themselves in the NBA, are bullying others when they are put on the Asian stage.

Dayao won’t talk about it.

Bago is the man who replaced O'Neal with Brother Ji.

In order to thank Bug for his contribution to the Nets last season, Rod Thorn and the Nets specifically renewed Bug for 2 years with a mid-level contract worth 10 million US dollars before signing him first and then using him as an addition to O'Neal. of.

I have to say that although Rod Thorn, the general manager of the Nets, is strong, he is not impersonal. The Nets need to balance the transaction and need a player with an annual salary of 5 million to trade O'Neal, but who is not given?

Give you a multi-million contract and send you to Los Angeles, one of the best places in the NBA. In terms of treating heroes, Rod Thorn can still be a godfather in the NBA like Jerry West. No matter In other words, my heart is open.

If Chen Xiao was traded after winning the championship, Rod Thorn probably would not have sent Chen Xiao to Cleveland. Of course, Rod Thorn would have been stupid to trade Chen Xiao after the Nets won the championship.

So there is no point in saying this.

Let me tell you an unknown fact: Bago is the first Asian player to receive an annual salary of more than 5 million in the NBA.

A mid-level contract player in the NBA, this player has an amazing reputation in the Asian arena.

There is also Brother Wang. Brother Wang played as the main power forward for half a season in the Heat last season due to the Heat's shortage of players. This season, he renewed his contract with the Heat with a two-year base salary of 3 million yuan, but it is fully guaranteed.

Wang's performance with the Heat last season was his best season since entering the NBA. He averaged 23 minutes per game, 10 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 0.5 blocks per game. As an insider, his shooting percentage was lower. He only shot 42% from the field, but his three-pointers were very accurate, with a 40% three-point shooting rate. However, this shooting rate was lower than Wang’s three-point shooting rate in the Mavericks last season. In the Mavericks, Wang’s three-point shooting rate was 40%. Brother's three-point shooting percentage is 41.5%.

However, it is normal for the number of shots to increase.

Overall, Wang performed well for the Heat last season.

The advantages are obvious and the disadvantages are also obvious. He is also the third player in the NBA after Chen Xiao and Yao Ming to average 10+ points per game in the NBA.

Brother Wang's data last season, in terms of data, the basic salary is a bit low, but it is normal. A mid-level contract is not something ordinary players can get. The highest contract offered to Brother Wang this summer is the Clippers, which is just a mini-middle-class contract. , this is already the limit.

For players like Wang Ge and Ba Ge who are not young and have extremely obvious advantages and disadvantages, if they want to get a contract above the middle class, averaging 10 points per game in a season is definitely not enough. General, the only two players on the Nets with contracts worth more than $5 million last season are Kege and Kidders.

Or he could prove himself in the playoffs and finals, just like Bago, who has a special ability to fuck O'Neal.

Facing the pursuit of the Clippers, this is a difficult choice.

The main reason why Brother Wang turned down the Clippers in the end was because he was used to the Heat environment and with Dayao by his side, he was also at ease. Brother Wang was already a little tired of wandering.

I would rather take $1 million less in annual salary in exchange for a better environment in the future. This choice is actually very good for Brother Wang.

An All-Star starting center, the highest-paid NBA player in Asia who single-handedly carried O'Neal in the Finals, plus a power forward who can average 10+ points per game in the NBA.

This game in Asia is already considered bullying.

Now coupled with Chen Xiao, who was the first team regular season player in the NBA last season, All-Star MVP and Finals MVP, the Chinese team's lineup will really be a dimensionality reduction blow when they get to the Asian Championships!

No kidding, this lineup, let alone in Asia, would not suffer against any national team in the world except for the United States and the previously disbanded Yugoslavia.

When have Asian teams ever seen such a lineup?

Therefore, in this year's Asian Championships, the Chinese team led by Chen Xiao, Dayao, and Bage Wang will be the focus of everyone's pursuit wherever they go.

Even players from other national teams were as excited as little fans when they saw Chen Xiao and the four of them.

I have to say that last season, Chen Xiao, Dayao, Bage, and Wang were really the lights of Asia.

Especially Chen Xiao, Dayao and Bage.

After all, the three of them led the Chinese team to the finals of the World Championships last year!

So before the start of this Asian Championship, Agence France-Presse said: "All Asia is counting on the Chinese men's basketball team to show off in Athens!"

Well, no kidding, the Chinese men's basketball team is really the hope of Asian basketball now.

How far the Chinese men's basketball team can go in the world is what all Asian players are watching.

They say there are racial restrictions, but the Chinese men's basketball team is a standard all-yellow team, and there is not a single planning player in the team!

Because this year is the local Asian Championships, and it is also about tickets for next year's Olympic Games.

This time, the Chinese team led by Wang Fei played with all its main players.

In the first game of the Asian Championships on September 23, the Chinese team easily defeated the Syrian team with a score of 73 points, 123-50, at the Tianrun Stadium in Harbin.

Historically, the Chinese team won this game by 52 points, and now the Chinese team has won by 21 points.

Not to mention the growth of Big Yao Bage, let’s talk about the addition of Wang Ge and Chen Xiao. This Chinese team is not comparable to the Chinese team led by Chiang Kai-shek in history.

After last year's World Championships, everyone is now holding back their energy to create the best results in the 2004 Olympics.

The World Championships won runner-up, the championship team, Yugoslavia, the master of the Chinese team, has been disbanded, and the championship is gone. As the runner-up, do you want to become the main force in the 2004 resistance against the United States?

As the main force of the world's anti-dream team, the Chinese team.

You, a little Syria, count it as a ball.

If it were not to give face to Syria, no joke, this game would have started with 80 points, because in the second half, the Chinese team obviously let go.

After all, when playing at home, everyone is a guest, and rushing to kill them all is not the way to treat guests.

Syria scored 18 points in the first half and 9 points in both quarters.

The Syrian players had no way to attack in the iron wall woven by Dayao and Chen Xiao, and when Chen Xiao used the 'rampage' tank-like breakthrough he learned from Xiao Zhan, the Syrian players could not stop him at all!

Logically speaking, Chen Xiao's rampage in the international arena is somewhat limited. After all, there is no defense for three seconds.

But Chen Xiao's teammates next to him are Dayao, Wang, Xiao Zhu and Hu. In this space, let's put it this way, in Asia, it is invincible!

As for the Chinese team's first release, in Asia, whether it is the pick-and-roll of Chen Xiao and Wang Ge and Yao, or Chen Xiao's sudden break, Syria cannot be stopped by any tactics.

So in this game, when Chen Xiao and Dayao only played half of the game, Dayao already had 18 points, 12 rebounds and 5 blocks.

Chen Xiao made 12 of 16, scoring 28 points, 5 rebounds, 10 assists, 3 blocks and 5 steals in the half.

The most exciting moment of this game was when Chen Xiaosheng grabbed a Syrian player for a fast break. Under the crazy pursuit of the Syrian team, Chen Xiao went to the basket and did not complete the one-stop by himself. Instead, he turned around and passed the ball backwards. Dayao followed up, and Dayao dunked directly with both hands after receiving the ball.

This round, two people are on the same team!

In this game, the Chinese team beat Syria by 73 points, but the Syrian players were not discouraged. After the game, they approached Chen Xiao, Yao Ming, and Bage Wang one by one to ask for photos and autographs.

In fact, before the game started, Chen Xiao performed the "Eye of God" before the game, driving the entire atmosphere crazy. The Syrian players were already chasing Chen Xiao like the crazy fans at the scene. Xiao wants to sign autographs and take photos.

Shooting from the center circle!

When have they ever seen such a thing offline?

Not to mention them, even in the NBA, not many people have seen such a thing as a mid-circle performance!

You know, because this Asian Championship is related to Olympic qualifications, plus there are four NBA players, Chen Xiao, Yao Ming, Wang Ge and Ba Ge, in addition to the live broadcast on CCTV and HLJ TV, at the same time, ESPN and Japan and South Korea Countries and regions such as China, Taiwan, and the Philippines also live or broadcast this event. Because the Chinese team was the runner-up in the last World Championships, this event has attracted strong attention from all over the world.

This made Chen Xiao's mid-circle shooting performance using his long-range three-pointer and scoring experience card during his trip to China instantly become popular all over the world.

The 'Giant Panda Storm' that originally only started in China suddenly began to sweep across Asia and even the world.

As a result, in this Asian Championship, the focus of the world's attention shifted from the championship to Chen Xiao, which Chen Xiao did not expect.

He only awakened to the long-range three-point attribute in the fourth game of the finals.

In the past, he didn't have the ability to shoot three-pointers from long range.

So there has never been a show like this.

With the ability to shoot long-range three-pointers and a large number of scoring experience cards for informal games, Chen Xiao would certainly think of such a performance.

After all, he is the Archbishop of the Mamba Cult and the Wolf King Cult!

It would be great to promote Mamba Cult and Wolf King Cult.

So during the trip to China, Chen Xiao tried it and the effect was very good. After that, Chen Xiao brought his mid-circle performance before the start of the game to the Asian Championships.

I didn't expect that it would cause such a big sensation in the world at the Asian Championships.

On September 29, 2003, at less than six o'clock in the morning, Stephen Curry, his younger brother Little Curry, and his younger sister Curry got up to watch the live broadcast of the Asian Championships on ESPN.

The Chinese team played Qatar in the semifinals.

For basketball viewers in the United States, they can't watch NBA games or NCAA games, and they usually don't watch games from other places at all.

The Asian Championships and European Championships are all the same. Except for the Olympic Games, even the World Championships will not attract many people if they are not local.

At last year's World Championships in Indianapolis, the U.S. team played in empty stadiums. During the match between the U.S. team and Yugoslavia, Yugoslav fans occupied the entire arena in the United States.

But this time, the ratings of the Chinese team's Asian Championship live broadcast on ESPN were surprisingly good in the United States.

Although it is not as good as the ratings of NBA and NCAA games, it is definitely not close to zero, and it is somewhat close to the ratings of the NBA Summer League.

These American basketball fans are so concerned about the Chinese team's game in the Asian Championships. Of course, the purpose is just for the logo-shot in the center circle that Chen Xiao performed before the game, which is the Eye of God!

Watching on TV, Chen Xiao made the initial movement of God's Eye in the center circle, put his left index and middle fingers on his own Yintang, and then, after an opening statement that is familiar to the whole world, shot the ball into the basket from the center circle, TV The three little Curries in front of the machine were so excited that they were already dancing!

"Hahahaha, so handsome, brother, the Eyes of God are so handsome!"

"This is not the Eye of God. This is simply the Eye that shoots into the sky!"

Stephen Curry blinked his big eyes, full of excitement.

“Only China has giant pandas in the world!”

"Only the Wonder Boy in this world knows the Eye of God!"

"The storm caused by China's giant pandas is still going on!"

"The next Asian Championship final between China and South Korea will be broadcast live on ESPN for viewers across the United States!"

Oh my goodness, an Asian Championships broadcast live across the United States!

I have to say that after testing the water in the previous seven games of the Chinese team, I found that the effect was very good. ESPN is directly increasing the popularity.

Who makes ESPN the most annoying?

Anyway, the NBA preseason hasn't started yet, so let's use this game to be at the bottom. After all, Wonder Boy's traffic is pretty good.

Coupled with his God's Eye performance in the center circle, the live broadcast of this Asian Championship final should be good.

BJ time on September 30, 2003, in the Asian Championship semi-finals with Qatar at 7:30 pm, the Chinese team won its seventh consecutive victory in this Asian Championship.

Easily defeated Qatar 103-60 at home.

In this game, the Chinese team once again had five players score in double figures. Dayao played 28 minutes and easily scored 20+10, while Chen Xiao played 30 minutes and made 14 of 20 shots, 34 points, 5 rebounds, 14 assists and 3 steals. 3 blocks of data.

After the game, Coach Faye Wong was very satisfied with Chen Xiao's performance in the game.

To be fair, even if the Chinese team won this game by 43 points, in the world, the Chinese team did not play well at the beginning of the game.

Qatar, the old rival of the Chinese team, is still very strong.

In this game, Coach Wang wants to try using Liu Wei as a point guard. Well, he will die if he tries.

Originally, Director Wang saw that Chen Xiao was so strong defensively and wanted him to try out as a power forward.

In the World Championships and Olympic Games, the opponents are not that weak. Faye Wong is worried about Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi's inside line because of Wang Zhizhi's defense. And Bago's speed is not good, so it is best to play center, and it would be wasteful for Yao to play power forward. .

Therefore, coach Faye Wong discovered that Chen Xiao is strong in confrontation, has good height, and is also very strong in confrontation. In this game against Qatar, he asked Chen Xiao to try power forward and Liu Wei to play point guard.

In the end, Director Wang realized that it was better to forget it.

After using Chen Xiao as the point guard in the previous game, it is impossible to watch using anyone else as the point guard!

In this Asian Championship, Chen Xiao's performance as a point guard really conquered the entire Chinese team.

The game has started so far. In the past seven games, the Chinese team has averaged more than 110 points per game, and more than 5 players have averaged double figures per game. Among them, Chen Xiao averaged 26 points, 13 assists and 3.5 steals per game, which is the highest score in the game. Wang, the leader in assists and steals, while Yao Ming averaged 22 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks per game, and was the conference leader in rebounds and blocks.

In addition to Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi averaged 16 points per game. Zhu Fangyu, who replaced the God of War and played the main role in the intercontinental competition for the first time, averaged 15 points per game. Coupled with Hu Ge's 12 points per game, the Chinese team's starting player Chen Under Xiao's organization, all the teams scored in double figures.

In the history of the Chinese team, when has there ever been a point guard like Dior!

After Dayao, Brother Wang, Brother Zhu Fangyu and Brother Hu used Chen Xiao, they would then use Liu Wei and Brother Guo. That would be really inappropriate!

This is not to disparage Brother Guo and Liu Wei. Both of them have their own functions, but it is really difficult for them to cooperate with the rest of the team in tactics.

Chen Xiao can play pick-and-roll with Yao Ming and Wang, and can break through and score for Xiaozhu and Hu. He can also attract double-teams in the low post to score for Yao and Wang under the basket.

As long as Chen Xiao is on the court, the Chinese team's offense will be smooth.

After eating six delicacies from all over the world, you suddenly ask everyone to eat cabbage and tofu. Of course, this won't work.

After the lineup debugging failed, the Chinese team ushered in the last opponent of the Asian Championships on October 1st, National Day.

South Korean team.

Because in the Asian Games last year, he led the team to win 5 on 8 in South Korea, reversing the Korean team.

The Korean men's basketball team has a real blood feud with Chen Xiao.

In addition, Chen Xiao traveled to South Korea and kidnapped two of the most beautiful flowers there, making their country's male Smecta the laughing stock of the Japanese pirates and treasonous children next door. This is a big problem!

Of course, even a fool knows that the current Korean team is just giving away to the Chinese team.

Except for some people who are worse than idiots, such as some people in Sports Weekly.

Damn it, there's something wrong with your brain.

"The war of the century is about to begin. Except for Chen Xiao, everyone is better than China - South Korea is waiting for Ha Shengzhen to grow up!"

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"In the battle in Qatar, after the fierce battle, you are exhausted. After the victory, you celebrate without emotion. But after calming down, Chinese basketball, please look down at Asia and look up at the world."

"Compared with the South Korean team that we defeated in Busan, they now have Ha Seung-jin, and now Ha Seung-jin is still young, so what about the BJ Olympics five years later? What if Ha Seung-jin grows up in five years? He is A giant who is no less impressive than Daba and no shorter than Yao Ming. Five years from now, he may be able to be on an equal footing with Yao Ming. By then, China will no longer have the center advantage and other positions will not be as good as South Korea. In the end, only Chen Xiao will be left in the Chinese team!"

"We'd better listen to arrogant words as harsh words of advice. We can no longer be afraid of South Korea, but we can't ignore South Korea, and we can't forget the shadow that South Korea has brought to me. In the midst of the burning prosperity, we must always Reflect on your own shortcomings and disadvantages, and know how to bow your head but also know how to look up."

"Instead of crying wolf, I just want to shout that Hesheng Town will definitely shock China and Asia in five years!"

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Originally, the men's basketball players were happily playing tricks in the Asian Championships, but at this time, some Chinese people would always jump out and make people disgusted.

Come to think of it, Yao Yao was really pissed off with this very offensive headline in Sports Weekly.

We have to reflect every day, why shouldn’t those teams that we abused by 40, 50, or 60 points commit suicide?

Let us look up at the world with a weak mentality. It’s okay for you to kneel yourself, but you want us to kneel with you?

In short, this seems to be a very rational, neutral and objective report, but it makes the players of the Chinese men's basketball team unhappy.

"Did these people take money?"

"Although we have collected money, what you said is right. We should really reflect on it. We still haven't won enough games in the past. When we play against the Korean team, none of you are allowed to let go!"

The mere Korean Foreign Propaganda Department actually dares to bribe traitors in China to feed us?

In this game, we are going to eat all the things you throw at us!

Sports weekly newspapers are very influential in China. First Sports News, many people go to newsstands every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12 noon to buy sports weekly newspapers.

Before the start of the Asian Championship finals, Sports Weekly published such a commentator's article on the front page, which not only caused trouble for the Chinese men's basketball players on National Day.

However, due to the authority of Sports Weekly, many Chinese fans think that the Chinese team is really difficult to play in this game?

Are you really going to be pinned to the ground and beaten by South Korea in five years?

Will Ha Shengzhen chase Yao Yao all the way to the NBA in the future?

Many viewers with doubts turned on the TV and walked into the arena.

Then two and an hour and a half later…

Watching the score between the Chinese team and the South Korean team on TV.

121 to 60!

Many spectators in front of the TV and at the scene who were holding sports weekly newspapers silently threw the newspapers on the ground, and then stepped on them hard.

Is this the Korean team that wants the Chinese team to repent and reflect?

Is this He Shengzhen who will chase Dayao to death five years later?

Dayao had 30 points, 20 rebounds and 8 blocks in this game. Even if you divide this number by four, Ha Shengzhen wouldn’t be able to get it!

In history, Dayao has 30+15+5, but this time he beat He Shengzhen, who will be chasing him in the future, very hard.

Of course, in this game, it was not just Dayao who played hard, Chen Xiao, Wang Ge, and Bago were all very hard.

Therefore, comparing the reports of Sports Weekly, there is such a huge contrast between the live audience and the TV audience.

Just such a group of people will make the Chinese team tremble in the future and make the Chinese team reflect on themselves all the time?

Shit reporter!

Sports Weekly is a good newspaper, but some reporters are really not human beings, not only in basketball, but also in football.

However, no matter what, on this National Day, being able to defeat the archrival South Korea with a double-kill score is definitely a matter of national celebration.

At the same time, in this Asian Championship, Chen Xiao, who averaged 26 points, 13.5 assists, 6.5 rebounds, 3.7 steals and 3 blocks per game, won the Asian Championship MVP, scoring champion, and three-point champion at the awards ceremony at 9:15 p.m. , best defense, best assists, and was selected into the best team together with Dayao and Wang Ge.

MVP, scoring champion, best team, and best defensive player, Chen Xiao received a total of four C-level potential cards.

The three-point king and the best assist received 2 D-level potential cards for Chen Xiao.

One World Championship contributed six potential cards, four C and two D, to Chen Xiao. To be honest, this is why Chen Xiao hopes to participate in this Asian Championship.

Seeing that there were so many official prizes for this Asian Championship, Chen Xiao really couldn't sit still and his eyes were red!

So, you brought your God’s Eye show here?

I'm afraid you don't even know how heated the discussion about your "Eye of God Circle" performance is in the United States right now!

Well, I really don't know.

But you’ll know when you get back, right?

"Xiao Chen, you need to practice your rebounding. Your task will be very heavy in the next Olympics."

"Coach, don't worry. The next time you see me, haha, I will let you get to know me again."

"I look forward to that day."

Chen Xiao said goodbye to the players of the Chinese team.

When leaving, including Chen Xiao, Dayao, Dawang, and Bage, everyone's faces were full of expectations for the future and next year.

The current atmosphere of the Chinese team is so good.

Two years of continuous wins and praise from around the world have given them the confidence to go to games they never thought possible before.

2004, Athens, Olympic Games...

"Next time, the result will be different!"

For this different result, Chen Xiao knew that each of them needed to continue working hard.

ps: The end of the third volume.

ps: Today’s third update is also the first update for the alliance leader. It’s not small, right? The fisherman has always been a man of faith, haha.