The rest is just noise

Chapter 1415 Is the championship still far away?

As soon as the draft was over, Louis stopped being involved in team affairs just like last year.

Because those who should renew their contracts had already renewed their contracts last year, this summer will be the off-season for the Lakers.

There won't be too many operations, just make sure it stays the same until next season.

Louis enjoyed a two-day holiday with his family before flying home.

During Louis's absence, the head coach in charge of the national team was Del Harris.

Previously, the men's basketball team had been training for two months and played more than a dozen warm-up games, with a very good record.

This year's World Championship has attracted great attention from all parties, because it is the first World Series since Louis coached the men's basketball team, and the minimum goal above is to take off the hat of the eighth player.

For Louis, this is not even a goal.

After Louis and Harris met, they first asked about the current situation of the team.

Harris said very confidently: "Don't worry, the team's morale is high and we can't wait for the World Championships to start tomorrow. We have a great chance this time!"

Louis' purpose is to test the strengths and weaknesses of both sides in all aspects through this game.

Then, the cup entered the knockout round, and the men's basketball team faced the United States team.

The current strength of the national team actually does not need the help of 18-year-old Yao Yueban.

In the second game of the group stage, facing Lithuania, the bitter host of the men's basketball team, Louis used the flank attack firepower of Hu Weidong, Liu Yuqing, Du Shuai and others to establish an advantage through unlimited roll call, exploiting the weaknesses that Sabonis could not get out of, and using the hot three-point rain.

Expand the advantage and suppress Lithuania from beginning to end.

The two sides fought fiercely for four quarters. Three minutes before the end, the Dream Team used counterattacks and three-pointers to open up the score. Finally, they defeated the men's basketball team 114-105, winning three consecutive games and entering the second week of competition as the first in the group.

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This year, the men's basketball team is placed in Group C, along with Brazil, Lithuania, and the United States.

Decide who you want and who you want to serve as a backup, and then you go overseas to start training.

Louis didn’t know what Harris meant when he said the opportunity was great. Maybe it was the opportunity to win?

Through the advantage of FIBA's rules, the Chinese team's insiders gained the upper hand.

After that, the U.S. team met Yugoslavia in the finals and fought fiercely for four quarters. Finally, they defeated Yugoslavia at home and won the Freedom Cup as they wished.

In the three games of the second round, the Chinese team faced Australia, Argentina and Spain. Louis always believed that the personal ability of his outside core was superior to that of the European powers. Therefore, at the beginning of the game, he also tried his best to tactically prepare for the outside

provide support.

Yu Tiancan, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Yueban, these three people stopped inside, and the dream team had to weigh their weight when they met.

The national basketball team's outside shooters became the killers of the European powers, and Argentina was defeated by a 22-point gap.

On July 29, Louis led his team to fly to Greece to participate in this year's World Championships.

But Louis is different from any coach in the history of men's basketball. He did not need to consider other influences when making this decision.

In mid-July, a dream team composed of Pence, Hill, Garnett and other new generation of young NBA superstars held the "Liberty Cup" International Invitational Tournament in Las Vegas.

Although he does not yet have superstar-level weight, Nowitzki has passed this small test and demonstrated his potential as the NBA's most undefensible offensive killer in the future.

This national team is formed on the basis of last year's team, supplemented by Yao Yueban from Wake Forest University and Du Shuai, who withdrew due to injury in the previous session.

Core players such as Liu Yuqing and Hu Weidong did not play for a long time.

The young Nowitzki also made his debut in this game.

Among them, the Chinese team, the German team, the Greek team, the Canadian team and the Yugoslavian team were invited to participate.

There is still more than a month left before the World Championships in Greece, and Louis does not want to waste time on the squad.

Of course Louis is not immune, and with Yao Yuehan's potential, he is fully worthy of this spot.

After winning a good start, Louis made a speech that would become very famous in the future: "I have a team that is beyond good. Anyone who has the honor to coach them and does not aim at the championship is ridiculous. The world champion is not the United States.

If they can take people’s accessories, so can we!”

According to general practice, the group stage match against the United States should be strategically abandoned.

The expectation of being the quasi-number one pick will also make Yao Yueban train harder.

The addition of Yao Yueban has greatly expanded the men's basketball team's interior talent.

"This guy is really the bad guy for the men's basketball team."

After registering with the General Administration, Louis officially returned to the men's basketball team.

But the suspense of the game didn't last beyond three quarters. The U.S. team's athletic advantage on the wings and rotational counterattacks that could defeat all opponents allowed them to win easily.

The second phase of the national team has received too much attention at home. Louis chose to go overseas for the competition, firstly to keep things clean, and secondly to find high-quality warm-up matches for the team.

It’s just that the national team has always had a tradition of bringing in newcomers in competitions. In Louis’ previous life, Wang Zhizhi in 1996, Yao in 2000, Kong Kongyi in 2004, Xu Yong in 2008 (retired due to injury, absent)⑴, and Guo Shao in 10 years.

, Zhou Qi in 2014... No matter how the national team is formed, the coaching staff will bring the best talents from the next generation to help them experience and improve.

The men's basketball team was eliminated by the United States team and stopped competing in the "Liberty Cup".

117 to 102

Although the Chinese team has an inside advantage, if the game continues normally, the point difference in this game is the talent gap between the Chinese team and the American team that is difficult to erase.

The men's basketball team entered the battle easily and met the world's top team Yugoslavia in the first game of the cup.

104 to 87

Lithuania was also knocked down. The men's basketball team won two consecutive group matches and then faced the last opponent in the same group - the American Dream Team.

On the tenth day of the training camp organized by Louis, the roster can basically be determined.

After a year of training in the NBA, Bodiloga became more comfortable playing FIBA ​​games. He scored 26 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists to defeat the men's basketball team.

This time, Louis did not hold back, shortening the rotation to eight people, and used all his strength to fight the American team.

As a result, it indirectly helped Hu Weidong, Liu Yuqing, Wang Mukong, Du Shuai and others to play dominant outside performances.

In the second game after that, the men's basketball team defeated the German team by a huge score.

This is a game that Louis has prepared carefully.

In Louis' impression, Bodilloga played well every time he played men's basketball.

On the first day after returning, Louis first organized the players on the roster to play a match.

Louis still had reservations about this game.

However, when Louis made the decision to go all out to win, the men's basketball team leader was obviously surprised and disapproved.

The purpose of the coaching staff's existence is to erase this ten-point gap.

They are already very strong, so what are they afraid of? Just do it!

It turns out that if they play according to the US team's favorite rhythm, there will be a physical strength gap of more than ten points between them.

A skilled two-meter-two insider can bring too many associations to people.

The men's basketball team entered the second round with two wins and one loss in second place in the group.

Yao Yueban will not say it anymore, not only does it attract a lot of attention domestically, but it also attracts a lot of attention abroad.

In the next half month, the men's basketball team has been training in the United States, and almost no news has leaked to the outside world.

It's obvious that the players appreciate the coaching staff's decision.

Some scouts predict that in the next few years, no matter which draft Yao Yueban participates in, he will be the definite No. 1 pick.

Australia relied on physical fighting style and the Chinese team entered overtime and was defeated by Hu Weidong.

Spain tried to counterattack with offense, but Liu Yuqing and Hu Weidong scored a total of 12 three-pointers, annihilating them in one fell swoop.

The format of this year's World Championships is very simple and clear. There are two rounds in the group stage. In the first round, the same group will have a civil war. In the second round, the 12 teams with the best records in the first round will be selected and divided into two groups for a cross-over melee. The team with the best record will

Four teams entered the final four, and the remaining teams competed in the rankings after the group stage.

In the first game of the World Championships, the men's basketball team faced Brazil. They used their inside advantage to the extreme, successfully suppressed the Brazilian team's score within 50 points, and ended the game with a high score of 94 points.

In the two rounds of games, the Chinese team advanced to the semi-finals with a record of 5 wins and 1 loss. This not only fulfilled the expectation of taking off the hat before the game, but also had the opportunity to create a new history.

"Our goal is not only this, no matter who stands in front of us, we will defeat them!"

The team captain Hu Weidong spoke to reporters with great momentum on the night he reached the semi-finals.

⑴I have always wondered why no one wrote a basketball article about reopening Xu Yong. Isn’t Carter’s name famous in China? This is one of the biggest what-ifs in the history of the Chinese men’s basketball team. Xu Yong’s early retirement due to injury is a huge problem for the national basketball team.

The loss also started the curse of the men's basketball team's wing ace being plagued by injuries.

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