I’m Really Playing Basketball

Chapter 844 The enemy is too strong!

This year's World Championship is the first time that Boss Qiao has led the national team. However, because this is only a mere World Championship, there are not that many superstar players to be recruited.

The players of the US team are not very interested in the World Cup or the World Championships, and then the US team has been losing in international competitions in recent years. If they are taking the blame, imagine the earliest Pierce, and then imagine two years ago. Oden Leonard Popovich.

If the Olympics can still attract them to take the blame, then the World Championships is really unnecessary.

There is no bonus if you win, but you still have to take the blame if you lose.

This benefit is completely out of proportion to the effort.

But Jordan is Jordan after all. He is now the president of the league and a big boss of the Bobcats. His appeal is still very objective, so this year's US team's World Cup lineup is still very luxurious.

In this World Cup, former Bobcats star and current Heat star Rose serves as the captain and leads the team.

Rose, James Harden, DeAndre Jordan, Westbrook, DeRozan, Devin Booker, Lillard, Harris-Barnes, Tatum, Cousins, Lopez, Horford.

This lineup is much stronger than the U.S. team's 2018 World Cup lineup in history.

Originally, Boss Joe was planning to invite his proud apprentice Durant to come out this time.

However, the Bucks lost to the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals of this year's playoffs. Now all the Bucks are focused on revenge against the Cavaliers and winning the championship next season. As for the World Cup, Durant really has no interest.

Of course, if Jordan really begged, Durant would definitely have to play, but Jordan couldn't do such a thing.

And for Jordan, he is quite confident. He feels that the lineup of the US team in this year's World Cup is luxurious enough.

The team not only has a superstar like Rose.

James Harden and Westbrook, one is the league's new superstar, and the other is the league's triple-double and scoring champion for several consecutive seasons.

In addition, Lillard is also a quasi-star who has become famous for many years.

It can be said that this year's US team's back line is invincible.

So much so that he felt that there would be no problem even if he gave a spot to his son Jordan.

In fact, there are still many outside superstars and all-stars who are willing to participate in the US team this year, but Jordan finally gave his son Jordan a spot.

Jordan's strength and qualifications naturally qualify him to be selected for the U.S. team.

But, his style is actually not very suitable for the US team.

After all, have you ever seen the US team play pick-and-rolls in FIBA arenas?

Can the U.S. team beat those international teams in pick-and-roll?

Therefore, Jordan's role in the US team is actually very limited.

But it doesn't matter. Boss Joe didn't originally want Jordan to have any role. He simply wanted to achieve the achievement of father and son being on the same team, and father and son being members of the US team.

Yes, Jordan and DeAndre Jordan became the only father and son in the history of the US team to appear on the same US team.

I have to say that this achievement is still a good story.

Of course, for Jordan, in addition to the achievements of his father and son, he also hopes to lead the US team to win the championship.

The U.S. team hasn't won the World Series in many years.

It has been 18 years since we won the championship in 2000 and now in 2018.

To be honest, a lot of things can really change in these 18 years.

Although the NBA is still the number one league in the world, the American team and American players are really not that powerful anymore.

As a result, more prickly international players like Gobert don't have much respect for American players at all.

For these international players, they grew up watching the Chinese team, Spain, Argentina and other teams beating the American team.

Therefore, as the head coach of the US team, Jordan feels that he needs to regain the prestige of the US team.

The Dream Team of that year was Jordan who led the team to bring the prestige of the Dream Team to its peak. After the Dream Team, the American team became the Dream Team that everyone feared.

This gives Jordan a very sense of mission.

After the failures of super-strong American coaches with different styles such as Larry Brown, Coach K and Popovich, Jordan felt that this was a mission given to him by God.

If even he fails, Jordan doesn't know when the next rise of the American team will be.

Of course, although Jordan is looking forward to his performance in this year's World Cup, the US team in this year's World Cup still faces great challenges.

The first is the lifelong enemy of the US team for the past 18 years, the Chinese team, which has won four consecutive Olympic championships since 2004.

The Chinese team can be said to be strong now. The Chinese team's three-star insiders, Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi, and Gao Bo, have now taken shape.

In the World Cup four years ago, Chen Xiao and Yao Ming left, leaving the Chinese team with a bit of a drought. After Yi Jianlian led the team through the crisis for four difficult years, the Chinese team completed its metabolism again.

The current internal strength of the Chinese team can be said to be directly catching up with the peak of the year.

The 34-year-old Yi Jianlian just had the best performance of his career in the NBA last season. He led the Jazz to the Western Conference Finals and also won the second team.

As for the 23-year-old Zhou Qi, although he failed to gain weight last season, it was still relative. His confrontation became stronger and his strength was slowly improving. After winning the Rookie of the Year, he also averaged 17+ per game last season. With the data of 9+2, his long arms are very effective in the NBA. He can average 2 blocks per game. In the FIBA arena, his long arms are absolutely amazing. Coupled with his shooting ability, he is definitely a player in FIBA. It's better than being at NAB.

As for Gao Bo, the top pick in this year's draft, Jordan naturally knows this person. After all, he is also a visiting professor at Chen Xiao Basketball University and has taught Gao Bo.

Let's put it this way, if he had the No. 1 pick, he would choose Gao Bo.

Gao Bo performed very well in the 2016 Olympics when he was 17 years old. Two years later, his strength in all aspects has increased. Similarly, he is also the kind of player that is very suitable for FIBA.

In this case, the Chinese team has three such outstanding inside players, coupled with outstanding NBA outside players such as Big Nephew, Ding Yanyuhang and Hua Tsai, as well as the long-handed and ball-savvy players who grew up in the Chinese team. , the Chinese team has now become the US team’s biggest enemy.

Yes, after so many years, the group of young men with long arms and legs and high football intelligence selected by the Chinese men's basketball team have grown up.

In the future, the characteristics of the Chinese men's basketball team will be long hands, long legs, and high basketball IQ.

In addition to the Chinese men's basketball team, the US team's old enemy Serbia is also the US team's archenemy. Let's put it this way, the current US team's shortcomings are the center and inside positions.

And Serbia has two centers, Milicic and Jokic, who are simply the king of the US team.

In the Olympics two years ago, Jokic and Milicic defeated the centers led by Oden and Howard. This time, can Cousins and Lopez, two centers with completely different styles, change everything.

Yes, this time Jordan completely changed his team building style.

The reason why Popovich lost so miserably two years ago was because he wanted to show off his tactical system, balance offense and defense, and then win technically and tactically.

But who knew that his own skills and tactics could not match those of FIBA's tactician masters, and then he collapsed. Because of his pursuit of tactical balance, his lineup did not have players who could break the game, could not beat the tactics, and did not have strong players to change his destiny. In the end Only avalanche.

In order to learn from Popovich's lesson, Jordan did not adopt the team-building strategy of balancing offense and defense this time, but chose sides.

Jordan feels that no matter how bad the physical quality of NBA players is, it is not that bad in FIBA. If they can't prevent it from shrinking in FIBA, there is no need to recruit people for defense.

Therefore, this time, Jordan selected 12 players who were all offensive-minded.

Compared with other FIBA teams, isn't the U.S. team's strongest point its own offense?

He didn't believe that so many offensive players were of no use in FIBA.

Rose is useless, there is James Harden, James Harden is useless and Westbrook is useless, Westbrook is useless and Lillard is useless, Lillard is useless and Devin Booker...

There are so many outside players with excellent offensive talents, he doesn't believe they are useless!

It was in this atmosphere that Boss Qiao confidently led the American team to their loyal South Korea on August 24th.

Yes, this time the World Cup is hosted by Japan and South Korea, and fans in these two countries support the US team.

There is no way, fans in Japan and South Korea really don't like the Chinese team. It should be said that watching their old rivals rise to become the strongest in the world, they are really unbalanced.

In this case, since you can't expect your own team to beat the Chinese team at your home court, you can only expect your father.

In addition to the grievances between family and country, Japanese and Korean fans actually have greater resentment towards Chen Xiao.

In the past ten years, how many high-quality girls from Japan and South Korea ended up going to him?

It can be said that Chen Xiao is the person hated most by Japanese and Korean fans.

And what makes them most uncomfortable is that no matter how much they hate Chen Xiao, it's useless.

They can't even say it out loud, they can only hold it in.

Let’s just talk about Japanese fans. They can guess the relationship between Hashimoto Kanna and Chen Xiao, but can they tell?

You can't say, Hashimoto is their national treasure, they can't destroy their national treasure.

The relationship between Hashimoto and Chen Xiao is really going to be dug out. The worst that Hashimoto can do is quit the industry and quit the idol world to concentrate on basketball, or he can be raised by Chen Xiao like a canary. Anyway, Chen Xiao, the richest man in the world, is not short of money.

But what can they do?

Therefore, Chen Xiao was really confident, but they were afraid of it. They could only watch with gritted teeth as Chen Xiao showed off in front of them. Today he was with Hashimoto, and tomorrow he was with Shiraishi.

According to recent news, Chen Xiao and Saito Asuka have been having some trouble recently. During an interview, she was full of praise for Saito.

Saito is said to be very talented in basketball skills.

What he said was that he really broke their defenses.

After Hashimoto focused half of his energy on the WNBA, the most popular young idol in Japan recently is Asuka Saito.

So, you said how uncomfortable this group of Japanese viewers and netizens are.

Therefore, since Chen Xiao and the Chinese team came to Japan on August 1st, they have become the public enemies of the entire Japan. For ordinary teams, coming to Japan to face such great pressure is really stressful.

But who makes the relationship between China and Japan very special? The more the Japanese hate them, the more motivated they will be to fight.

This year's World Cup is divided into four groups in the first stage. Except for the Chinese team in Group A, which is in Japan, the other seven groups are all in South Korea.

This year's World Cup is divided into eight groups, with four teams in each group. The top two teams in the group qualify, and the bottom two enter the qualifying battle.

In the second stage, the top two 16 teams will continue to be divided into four groups, then the top two in the group will advance to the knockout round, and the bottom two in the group will enter the ranking match.

The third stage of the knockout round is the single-round promotion match for the top eight.

In Group A, the Chinese team is in a group with Japan, Cote d'Ivoire and Venezuela.

From this grouping, we can see the Japanese team’s careful thinking.

The strength of the Japanese team is just like that now. When Chen Xiao promotes basketball in Japan, he has always promoted women's basketball. Men's basketball still relies on the slam dunk stage. Therefore, if Japan wants to advance, it needs to look at the other two weak players.

Keeping the Chinese team in Group A is just to make yourself look good. After all, you see, the Japanese team has chosen the strongest one to be the group opponent. As for the other two who are not that strong, it doesn't matter.

But obviously, the Japanese team's little idea failed in the end.

It can only be said that many times competitive sports are not based on these little ideas. Are these little ideas useful?

It is definitely useful, but it requires you to have the corresponding strength. If you don't have the strength, it will be useless no matter how much you think about it.

Let’s talk about the Japanese team this time.

Originally, I wanted to win a game against Cote d'Ivoire and then fight against Venezuela.

But in the opening game, the Chinese team beat the Japanese team 130 to 48 crazily, amidst the boos of the Japanese fans, and beat the Japanese team by 92 points. This really broke the Japanese team's defense.

Why do I say this? Because September 2 is the date when Japan officially surrendered in World War II.

At Japan's home court, facing the old enemy of the Chinese team, they lost such a score.

After the game, the Japanese fans who were madly insulting the Chinese team immediately turned their guns and insulted the Japanese players.

Let’s just say it was a bunch of crazy seppuku.

This crazy momentum even continued outside the court and on the Internet.

After being beaten by the Chinese team to a score of 92 points, the Japanese team completely lost its support in Japan.

Under such circumstances, it is really impossible for the Japanese team to implement its own strategy.

Therefore, the Japanese team, which formulated the strategy of "let one game go, win one game, fight one game", ended up falling directly to fourth place in the group and the second stage of qualifying after losing three games in a row.

The Chinese team, which qualified first in the first stage of the group, was placed in a group with Russia, Puerto Rico, and Italy in the second stage.

In the end, in the second stage, the Chinese team also successfully won all three games, ranking first in the group and advancing to the quarterfinals.

The opponent of the Chinese team in the quarterfinals is none other than the American team.

The Chinese team and the American team met so early. Obviously, since the Chinese team did not lose the chain, it must be the American team that did.

Yes, in the second stage, the US team lost to Spain in the group stage.

At the end of the game, Boss Qiao was confused.

Popovich, who watched the game in front of the TV, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The failure of FIBA really broke his spirit, and he didn't feel relieved even after returning to the NBA.

This time, seeing Jordan also lose, he was slightly comforted.

It's not that he is incompetent, it's that the enemy is too damn powerful!

Over the years, the American team has really been beaten in all kinds of ways in FIBA!

This is just Spain, there are France, Serbia, and even...

China!

So, Michael, have a moment of silence.