I’m Really Playing Basketball

On July 27, 2004, Chen Xiao left the United States and came to Belgrade, Serbia.

Because Chen Xiao has led the team in Asian competitions in the past two years, Chen Xiao did not participate in this year's Olympic warm-up match. Chen Xiao waited until the Chinese men's basketball team was about to play in the FIBA ​​Diamond Cup before joining the national team. Will make up.

After coming to Serbia, Chen Xiao met his teammates from this Olympics.

Chen Xiao, Yao Ming, Bage, Wang, all four NBA giants are there.

At the same time, this year's No. 16 pick, Jazz player Yi Jianlian, was also selected for the national team, becoming the fifth NBA giant in the national team.

In addition, the members of the national team include Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Du Feng, Guo Shiqiang, Hu Weidong, Liu Wei, and Chen Ke.

Compared with the World Championships two years ago, the Chinese men's basketball team has not changed much in this Olympics.

Wang Zhizhi was re-elected to the national team.

Yi Jianlian represented the national team in the World Series for the first time.

However, Xiaoyao Wang Gong Xiaobin and Zhang Cheng unfortunately lost the election.

Zhang Cheng is due to his strength, while Xiaoyao Wang is due to his age. Coupled with the arrival of Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi's return, the national team really does not need him.

In short, for the current national team, it is indeed quite strong.

So much so that the current men's basketball team is known domestically as the strongest national team in history.

To be honest, in the past two years, the national team has been refreshing the title of the strongest in history.

At the 2002 World Championships, he was called the strongest in history. After all, he was the runner-up in the World Championships.

Then with the growth of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, coupled with the foothold of Ba Ge and Wang Zhizhi in the NBA, and the new generation of Yi Jianlian also entering the NBA, it can be said that in this year's Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team has really reached a new level. high.

Therefore, now, the generation led by Chen Xiao and Yao Ming is considered the super platinum generation of the Chinese men's basketball team.

Perhaps in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, there will never be a pair like Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, such a generation.

Therefore, domestic fans have placed great hopes on the Chinese team of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming's generation.

They already finished second in the World Championships two years ago. In this year's Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team comes with the honor of competing for the championship.

Now the Chinese men's basketball team has attracted more and more attention from Chinese fans because of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming. Everyone is beginning to expect this team to write a new history at the Athens Olympics.

As the core of the current Chinese men's basketball team, reports that Chen Xiao came to the team were greatly welcomed.

Although the current Chinese men's basketball team is called the strongest in history, even an NBA All-Star like Bago has no privileges in such a historically strong team.

But there is no doubt that Chen Xiao is the privileged player in the Chinese team.

Even the only privileged player.

NCAA MOP, NBA FMVP, AMVP, World Championship MVP, Asian Championship MVP, Asian Games MVP, Chen Xiao has now become the only player in the history of Chinese basketball who has participated in all competitions and won the MVP. .

Of course, the two NBA MVPs are not so convincing, after all, the regular season MVP has not been won yet.

But there is no doubt that even if Chen Xiao's MVP is still short of the NBA's regular season MVP, Chen Xiao's achievements are already difficult for others to match, and may even never be matched.

Let's just talk about Yao Ming. Yao is the second greatest and most powerful player in Chinese history. When he sees the honors Chen Xiao has received now, his scalp is numb.

Therefore, after Chen Xiao returned to the national team, he naturally became the center of the entire national team.

Yi Jianlian, who represented the national team in the World Series for the first time, looked at the way Yao Ming, Bage, Wang Zhizhi and other national team bosses were all surrounding Chen Xiao after Chen Xiao came back. His eyes were full of curiosity and surprise, but he also felt Of course.

"Xiao Chen, it seems that you stayed in Cleveland for half a month and didn't bring any strong support to Cleveland."

"Yao Yao said that the Heat's goal next season is to win the championship. What does Mr. Chen think the Cavaliers' goal is next season?"

"Bug, I think you should pay attention to your Lakers. O'Neal has returned to the West. You will face O'Neal four times in one season. Are you mentally prepared?"

Seeing Yao Ming, Chen Xiao, Wang Zhizhi, and Battelle talking and laughing about the NBA, Yi Jianlian's face was full of yearning.

To be honest, Yi Jianlian also hopes that one day he can join the four big brothers in discussing NBA topics.

Just like when Jordan, Magic and Larry Bird, the leaders of the Dream Team, were discussing these things, Barkley and Pippen were not qualified to interrupt.

Although Yi Jianlian is already an NBA player, because he has not played in a game yet, he really does not have such qualifications.

Let’s not talk about Chen Xiao and Yao Ming.

The most popular fried chicken in the NBA.

As for Bage and Wang, they are also big guys who have averaged 10 points per game in the NBA.

In front of them, he really was nothing.

Of course, Yi Jianlian is looking forward to Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, Bage and Wang.

Obviously, other Chinese players, especially young players, are looking forward to Yi Jianlian.

Although Pippen and Barkley are not qualified to participate in the discussion of Jordan and Magic Bird, they can at least watch from the sidelines, and they are not even qualified to watch from the sidelines.

However, don’t make the perspective too fantasy.

Although Chen Xiao and Yao Ming were discussing the situation in the NBA next season, other Chinese team players could not get involved.

However, in the Chinese team, Chen Xiao, Yao Ming and Brother Wang are still very friendly.

Never give other teammates a feeling of superiority.

Especially Chen Xiao.

After Chen Xiao returned to the team on July 27, he immediately began training with Zhu Fangyu, Du Feng, Liu Wei and other Chinese team players.

Use various experience cards to examine and train Liu Wei's dribbling.

Use various experience cards to examine and train the defense of Zhu Fangyu, Du Feng and others.

In fact, Chen Xiao has used quite a few experience cards on his national team teammates over the years.

It should be said that there are very many.

Therefore, as the head coach of the national team, Faye Wong can clearly feel that the ball control and defensive abilities of the current Chinese team players have really improved tremendously compared to two years ago.

Let's put it this way, because of Chen Xiao's existence, the current Chinese team has much better basic skills than the Chinese team in history.

Especially the basic skills of dribbling and defense.

And this is why the Chinese team is confident that it can expect something in this Olympics.

And this is why in this Olympics, the Chinese team's winning odds are almost as good as those of the American team.

The Chinese team is not only capable of raising the ceiling because of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, but the team's basic strength has also become much stronger.

Otherwise, there is only the ceiling without the foundation, which is duckweed without roots.

"It seems that everyone has practiced a lot in the CBA this year."

Chen Xiao was very satisfied after testing it with his teammates.

I have to say that after finishing second in the World Championships, whether they are veterans or young people, the spirit and motivation of these players on the Chinese team are completely different.

Looking at Chen Xiao's teaching to the players of the Chinese team, Yi Jianlian on the other side was still very envious, but he was a little shy and didn't know how to join in.

"Ah Lian, you are now the only person on the team who has not studied with Teacher Xiao Chen."

After Bago's thugs slapped Ah Lian on the shoulder, the envious Ah Lian was shocked and frightened by the sudden attack.

And then, Bage's words frightened Ah Lian even more.

"Ah Lian, can't you tell? You are so arrogant that you actually look down on our teacher Xiao Chen."

Looking at Battle standing next to him with a smile on his face at this time, Yi Jianlian was frightened to the point of being stunned.

Bage, I’m not, I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense!

When did I lose sight of Brother Chen? !

After being frightened by Bago, on this day, Ah Lian, who was originally extremely shy, seemed to be following Chen Xiao all the time like Chen Xiao's little fanboy, pestering Chen Xiao and asking Chen Xiao to Xiao teaching.

Seeing that the only newcomer of the national team was so frightened by him that he integrated into the whole group, Bago had a smile on his face, a very satisfied smile.

"Brother, you were too scared just now."

"Have it?"

I do not believe!

I think it's just right now.

Bago thought with a smile in his heart.

By the way, as Bago's competitor in the national team, if Bago was still the same Bago in history, it would be absolutely impossible to help the UAE in this way.

Just kidding, in history, Bago tricked Yao Ming to death because he didn't like Yao Ming.

Bago in history has never been a good big brother.

but now……

I have to say that the realm is different.

Whether he is the runner-up in the World Championships, the NBA champion, or the NBA All-Star, Bago's current strength may not be as good as his honor, but his level is definitely high enough.

Not to mention having no desires or desires, Bago's pursuits are really completely different now.

In this way, after Chen Xiao returned to the team, the head coach of the Chinese team Faye Wong, the assistant coach of the Chinese team, the head coach of the Lakers Byron Scott, and the head coach of the Heat Spoelstra were all visible to the naked eye. It can be seen that the atmosphere within the Chinese team is completely different.

"The wonder boy is really amazing..."

Spoelstra, who served as the assistant coach of the Chinese team for the first time, was full of admiration.

Byron Scott, who was next to him, took it for granted when he heard Spoelstra's praise.

"Chen always brings energy to the team, whether it's off or on the court, he always makes the team energetic."

This is what makes Chen extremely special compared to others.

Five days after Chen Xiao returned to the team, the FIBA ​​Diamond Cup finally started on August 1 in Belgrade, Serbia.

The Diamond Cup is one of the three major FIBA ​​trophies.

Everyone knows about the Olympic Games and World Championships, but they don't know that there is a Diamond Cup.

But this competition is indeed a very important competition, because the teams qualified to participate in this competition are all champion teams from all continents and world championship champions.

Yes, basketball’s Diamond Cup is equivalent to football’s Confederations Cup.

Of course, the Confederations Cup is not as famous as the World Cup and European Cup, but is it okay to say that the Confederations Cup is one of the three major FIFA cups?

However, football and basketball are different. There is no dominant team in football, so even Brazil and Germany will give face to the Confederations Cup. Regardless of whether it is a team participating, at least they are willing to participate and participate. This is called giving face. .

Basketball is different. There is one dominant team in basketball, the American Dream Team. The Dream Team does not give any face to the Diamond Cup and has never participated in the Diamond Cup competition.

Therefore, this is also the reason why the Diamond Cup is not as good as the Confederations Cup.

The strongest team does not give face, which challenges the original intention of the Diamond Cup. The purpose of FIBA's Diamond Cup is to compete for major champions and choose the best among the strongest.

But you can't say that Australia, the 2000 Diamond Cup champion, is the king of kings if they don't participate in the competition because they are the best prepared?

How dare you say you are the king of kings when you haven't even beaten Team USA?

This year's Diamond Cup, the United States team still did not participate.

But apart from Team USA, it was really packed with champions.

World Championship champion, host, Serbia and Montenegro (successor to Yugoslavia).

European Championship champion, Lithuania.

Asian Championship champion, Chinese team.

The U.S. Championship runner-up, Argentina, who competed in place of the United States.

Oceania champion, Australia.

African Championship champion, Angola.

It can be seen from the participating teams how high the level of the Diamond Cup is, although it is unknown because the American team does not give face.

However, for Chen Xiao, it doesn't matter whether the US team is willing to give face. In fact, he feels that the US team does not give face, and the other participating teams only regard this game as a warm-up match for the Olympics. It also doesn't matter.

Your submissive attitude toward this game will not affect my ability to fight hard in this game!

In fact, Chen Xiao returned to the national team at this time just for this competition!

Therefore, Belgrade fans are really blessed.

They really didn't expect that the NBA superstar Chen Xiao, who was considered just a warm-up match by the participating teams and the fans watching the game, would actually perform such a killing spree.

You know, as the core player of the Chinese team, one of the most popular teams in this Olympics, Chen Xiao's game status is very important.

How could a big kill in such a game not affect the status of the Olympic Games?

And this is also the reason why the US team does not participate in this competition, because this competition is before the Olympic Games.

If the American team participates, it will win the championship. If you want to win the championship, you must go all out. Going all out will affect the next Olympics.

In this case, it is better to ignore this game.

Therefore, Larry Brown, the head coach of the Dream Team who is still in the United States and still in New York, saw Chen Xiao on TV being so excited because he lifted the Diamond Cup MVP, and he had some disdain on his face.

Young people just like these imaginary things.

However, this also reassured Larry Brown. With Chen Xiao’s mentality...

“The Chinese team is nothing to worry about!”

Larry Brown still has some confidence.

His Dream Team Six will recreate the glory of the Dream Team.

All the face lost by Dream Team 5 will be regained!

Of course, it is not only the face of the US team that needs to be regained, but also his own face.

The Chinese team is now known as the strongest national team in history not only in China.

In Europe, it is known as the strongest international team in history.

In the United States, it is known as the strongest challenger in the history of the Dream Team.

If he can kill such a Chinese team, it will definitely wash away the humiliation of Rasheed Wallace in the playoffs.

It can be said that this Olympics is the 'only opportunity' for him to continue coaching in the NBA.

"I will never quit from now on!"

Larry Brown gritted his teeth and looked at Chen Xiao on TV.

Larry Brown never quits!

He is so stubborn!

At this time, Chen Xiao, who was excited in Belgrade, had no idea that he was being ridiculed by Larry Brown.

Now, Chen Xiao is full of surprises.

"Hahahaha, the Diamond Cup is a B-level competition!"

Hahahaha, it exploded! So cool!

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