The Way of the Center

Although he is in the national team, An Jie still does not relax in his training. E small Ω┡ said Ww』W. 1XIAOSHUO. COMEvery day when his teammates are taking a shower and returning to the hotel after work, only Anjie will choose to practice extra on the basketball court.

People think that those few hours of extra training every day will not help their progress at all, and will make them more tired and increase the risk of injury. In fact, it is not the case, one or two additional exercises are really ineffective, but after you persist in accumulating, you will be delighted to find that you are not doing useless work.

What's more, An Jie just got this stronger and faster body. To maintain this figure, he has to keep exercising for the past few weeks.

An Jie now has to keep himself in the best condition at all times. The matchup table for the knockout round was announced yesterday. The first opponent of the Chinese team in the group stage is New Zealand. If there is no accident, it should not be a problem to win the opponent.

But New Zealand is obviously not enough to make An Jie interested. The reason why he is working so hard now is to prepare for the US team in the second round of the quarter-finals! Take McGrady's words, that is: I have already begun to think about my next opponent.

It's not that Anjie underestimated the enemy, but that New Zealand really doesn't have much strength to show. Holding the player list of the New Zealand team, An Jie found that he didn't know anyone on it. This is not because Anjie is ignorant, but because the reputation of New Zealand players is too small.

Although the opponent of the US team is Angola, the African overlord whose strength is stronger than that of New Zealand, for Durant and the others, it should not be a problem to advance.

Once China and the United States both advance, the two teams will meet in the quarterfinals. This is why An Jie is so serious now. Competing with the young American team without superstars, An Jie really looked forward to the arrival of this game.

Sure enough, although the Chinese men's basketball team suffered a two-game losing streak in the final stage of the group stage. But against New Zealand in the quarter-finals, they still easily won the victory.

It is the most obvious feature of Deng Huade's Chinese team to limit the opponent's attack with a strong oppressive defense. This bloody American has indeed brought blood to the Chinese team. And this is even more prominent on the defensive end.

New Zealand's strength is not strong at all, and now it is still being defended by the Chinese team, and it has lost all rhythm.

Except for small forward Rohan Penny who scored 21 points in this game, none of the other players scored in double figures. The overall 48 shots were only 15 of the field goals, which made New Zealand unable to stand up.

As soon as An Jie tried his best, he realized that his opponent was completely defeated. This is why the FIBA ​​is not as good-looking as the nBa. Although the top players in each continent can enter the World Championships,

However, the strength gap between the teams is still huge. Even though it is already the knockout stage, this situation will still happen.

An Jie still clocked out of get off work in three quarters and scored 24 points, and Yi Jianlian also scored 25 points after playing the whole game. In the end, the Chinese team beat New Zealand 83 to 52, the Asian champion, not everyone can play.

Although they only defeated a weak team, the Chinese fans are still very excited. The victory over New Zealand also means that the Chinese team has advanced to the quarterfinals without Yao Ming!

You know, since the establishment of the World Championships in 1978, the Chinese team only reached the top eight in 1994! In the last World Championships, the Chinese team even created the worst 15th place in history!

In the past four years, people have experienced Yi Jianlian's growth, Yao Ming's injury and retirement, Wang Zhizhi's aging, and of course the most important thing, An Jie's rise!

Entering the quarter-finals this time, they encountered almost no obstacles except for the loss to Russia. As for the disastrous defeat in Turkey, everyone knows that Deng Huade played with a substitute, so there is no value for discussion.

"An Jie is definitely the savior of Chinese basketball!"

"I think we can really fight the United States!"

"The top eight is a hammer. According to An Jie's personality, it is not impossible for us to kill the Yankees."

Chinese fans are like this, complaining when they lose, and arrogant when they win.

"I didn't expect, Ann, that we would stand on the same basketball court as opponents." After the game, Durant was the first to call An Jie. He first congratulated Anjie for leading the team to create historic results, and at the same time he did not forget to talk about the confrontation between the two sides.

"Since we started playing professional basketball, we have never faced each other. I think tomorrow's game will be very interesting." An Jie leaned relaxedly in front of the locker room with a smile on his face. It is really rare that the opponent player is a better friend than the teammate of the national team.

"Ann! Tomorrow you have to ask me to make a few more calls!" Westbrook's yell also came from the phone.

"Don't worry Russell, I'll let you score one or two points." An Jie has no humility, and he never shows mercy to such mutually damaging jokes.

Seeing An Jie talking and laughing happily with the players of the US team, the rest of the Chinese team felt more uneasy. The US team is too strong for them. He just created a historic achievement and is about to be hit in the head immediately, who can bear it.

Guo Shiqiang, the assistant coach of the national team, couldn't understand what An Jie did. No matter what your relationship is in the club, when you are in the national team, everyone is an enemy. How can you have such a happy chat with your enemy before a big game.

Now it’s all good. The coach of the national team is an American, and the core of the national team is closer to the Americans. He really doesn’t know whether this team is still the Chinese team. A plan surfaced in Guo Shiqiang's mind.

Time passed quickly, and the day of the Sino-US war on September 9 finally arrived. Although the Dream Nine team is known as the weakest dream team in history, but look at their lineup, Derrick Rose, Chauncey Billups, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Eric Mike Gordon, Rudy Gay, Danny Granger, Lamar Odom, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook and Andrew Yi Godara. This lineup is definitely a fantasy level in the World Championships. In this way, the Americans also said that this is the weakest dream team.

Even if the Chinese team has An Jie, facing the US team with this lineup, China still has almost no chance of winning.

"Hahaha, Ann, I knew we would meet at the World Championships. Sure enough, you did it!" Before the game, Westbrook warmly hugged Anjie and joked. Although Durant was a little introverted, he also greeted An Jie warmly.

Guo Shiqiang looked at each other angrily. In fact, it is common for players from both sides to greet each other before the game in the NBA. But in Guo Shiqiang's eyes, this kind of behavior is simply unreasonable. Even if you want to lose, you have to lose with backbone. Showing up to others before the game, what kind of man is this!

An Jie has returned to his own half to discuss tactics with his teammates, but Guo Shiqiang still misinterpreted what An Jie did.

"There should be no pressure in this game. It is enough to play at a real level and enjoy the game." Before the game, Deng Huade decided to let the players relax. After all, the U.S. team is not a team that Deng Huade can easily defeat with any strange trick. An Jie and Yi Jianlian could indeed compete against this group of people, but what about the others? Including the big brother Wang Zhizhi, none of them could do anything in the match against the US team, let alone the others.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the game, the US team's offense was quite rapid. They all knew what kind of guy was guarding the inside line of the Chinese team. If they didn't use real strength, they couldn't score points against An Jie.

But even so, Anjie's zone defense still brought a lot of trouble to the US team. Even Durant, who is tall and long, was blocked by Anjie on a layup.

When the Chinese team attacked, the players of the US team were obviously absent-minded. Except for Chandler and Odom who were defending Anjie and Yi Jianlian seriously, the US team's defense against the rest of the Chinese team can be said to be just a display.

But the outside line of the Chinese team really found an opportunity under the slack of the US team. Wang Shipeng and Sun Yue made consecutive shots with the assistance of An Jie, and An Jie and Yi Jianlian also scored several beautiful goals inside the US team. When the first quarter ended, the score was 20 to 23, and the Chinese team was only three points behind the US team!

All the Chinese fans couldn't believe this result. Anjie had brought them enough surprises, but they were on par with the US team? This surprise is still too big.

In the second quarter, when Deng Huade used substitute players, the point difference was quickly opened. Except for the general bench players of the Chinese team, the others are really unusable. Not to mention facing the US team, even against other opponents, China's substitute players rarely performed.

After Anjie played again, the situation of the game did not change much. When the US team began to defend seriously, almost everyone in the Chinese team except An Jie misfired. Including Yi Jianlian, couldn't score like the first quarter.

5o to 37, at the end of halftime, the point difference has been widened. But Guo Shiqiang didn't think so. He felt that the reason why the Chinese team, which was not at a disadvantage, ended like this in the second quarter was entirely due to Deng Huade's inaction and An Jie's inaction!

Then an astonishing scene happened like this.

At the end of halftime, Deng Huade was still arguing with the referee about several controversial penalties, but at this time, Guo Shiqiang, the head of the Chinese coaching staff, led the players into the locker room in advance.

There is nothing wrong with doing this, the entire Chinese team can't be on the court to accompany Deng Huade. But when the players all walked into the locker room, Guo Shiqiang closed the door of the locker room, picked up a marker, and stood in front of the whiteboard to explain the tactics to the players!

At this time, Deng Huade, the coach of the Chinese team, was still on the sidelines, but Guo Shiqiang acted as if there was no one outside, and directly closed the door of the locker room. And as an assistant coach, unless Deng Huade authorizes, otherwise he does not have the right to arrange the main tactics for the players.

Halfway through the tactics, the door of the locker room was pushed open by Deng Huade. Deng Huade looked at his players in astonishment, and then at Guo Shiqiang standing in front of the whiteboard. What is going on here?

"What are you doing Guo!?" Deng Huade is not a fool, he knows that his assistant coach has always had opinions on him. Because Deng Huade almost never adopts Guo Shiqiang's proposals, but that's not because Deng Huade looks down on Guo Shiqiang, but because Guo Shiqiang's proposals are too substandard.

But Deng Huade can't directly say that Guo Shiqiang's level is not good, so Deng Huade's ignorance was misunderstood by Guo Shiqiang as Deng Huade looked down on himself and the Chinese coach, and the conflict between the two completely broke out at this moment.

Guo Shiqiang held the marker in a daze, and stood there without chewing. He didn't expect that Deng Huade would yell at himself directly. What's more, this matter was originally his fault, Guo Shiqiang.

"Get out for me! Otherwise, I'll go out! In short, this locker room, without you, would not have me!" Deng Huade was flushed with anger, and he stood on the spot with his hips akimbo, glaring at Guo Shiqiang. Changing the head coach's tactics so rashly does not take the head coach seriously and challenges the authority of the head coach. What Guo Shiqiang did, in Deng Huade's view, was too much.

Guo Shiqiang was dumbfounded by Deng Huade's yelling. He put down the marker and walked out of the locker room mechanically. Underneath, the players have long been appalled by the quarrel between the two coaches. At this time, it is not good for players to help anyone. Therefore, they simply watched the farce quietly.

An Jie shook his head helplessly. There is a reason why Chinese basketball has been unable to achieve a substantial breakthrough. Even if there is no problem with the players, there will be open and secret fighting among the upper echelons of them. Today, this is just a small quarrel between two coaches. Who knows how many political struggles there are within the Basketball Association?

After experiencing this embarrassing enough thing, the players of the Chinese team have long lost their passion for the game. The U.S. team was already strong, and the Chinese team relaxed their resistance in the second half, allowing the Dream Nine team to easily expand the point difference.

Anjie scored 25 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocked shots in the whole game. This personal data is much better than Chandler and Odom.

But apart from An Jie, the Chinese team only has Yi Jianlian's 14 points to watch. As for the others, without exception, they all scored in single digits.

12o to 82, the US team easily defeated China. After this game, Anjie's journey to the World Championships has officially come to an end.

After the game, attentive fans and reporters found that Deng Huade seemed very unhappy. Losing to the United States is a normal thing, and they don't know what Deng Huade is angry about. As everyone knows, Deng Huade is not only angry because of losing to the US team.

If a team doesn't even have a united coaching staff, how far can this team go? Fortunately, there are only a few international competitions every year, otherwise Anjie would be exhausted to death in such a divided locker room.

Although he lost to the United States, but led his team to the quarterfinals, An Jie can be regarded as an explanation to the fans and himself.

In the 2010 Men's Basketball World Championships, the Chinese team achieved historic results, and An Jie also achieved good personal statistics. He is the only player in this World Championships who can score 25+1o per game. In the scoring list, Anjie is second only to Luis Scola of Argentina, and in the rebounding list, Anjie is ranked first, leading the pack. Although there were some unpleasant episodes in the last game, the whole process was quite rewarding.

The time has come to September, and Anjie's vacation is getting closer and closer to the end. The next nba season will be the real stage for An Jie to test himself.

In the league formed by the Heat's Big Three, what kind of storms can the Thunder make? Everyone, wait and see.