I just play ball

Chapter 383
As the sparring practice continued, Jokic successively showed his singles scoring skills such as turning around before the low post, turning around and hitting the board after the low post, and making a strong hook in the low post. Come on, Jokic's physical strength dropped rapidly after encountering the confrontation. After about 10 minutes, he was out of breath and his hands and feet were slow.

In order to help him achieve his goal, Kupchak formulated a contract with an incentive clause, that is, if he keeps his weight below 240 catties for two consecutive seasons, then starting from the third season, he can get up to A reward of $100, and the content of the incentive clause will be extended to the contract after the end of the rookie contract.

Jokic reluctantly agreed, and everyone agreed to supervise him.

After the trial training, Li Yue returned to Scale's apartment, just in time for ESPN to broadcast Anthony's interview video.

When the host asked Anthony why he chose to join the Rockets instead of staying in New York, Anthony expressed his envy for the achievements of Li Yue and LeBron. For this reason, he was willing to sacrifice part of his salary to join the Rockets, just to beat the Lakers to win the championship.

Speaking of this, it means that they really want to kill the Lakers, or they are very ruthless.

Taylor called and wanted to respond, but Li Yue said that he didn't need to pay attention to it. There are too many strong teams in the Western Conference. The Rockets may not be able to meet the Lakers in the playoffs. Everything they say now is hypothetical, and it is easy to become the laughing stock of 'NOT1...NOT2...'.

NO.14 In the morning, Li Yue took a private plane and set off for home.

In order to avoid potential safety hazards, he did not announce the specific itinerary, and even issued a statement imploring fans not to go to the airport to pick up the plane. At night, the building fell behind the Shanghai Metropolis. Sure enough, he did not see too many fans and left directly through the staff passage.

After a night of rest, he officially started the youth basketball training camp tour, aiming to cultivate more talents.

A total of [-] days, seven cities, [-] students, he tried his best to guide the basic training methods, and in his spare time, he discussed cooperation matters with many organizations, participated in the recording of basketball-related variety shows, and collaborated with traffic stars. Shoot a short video, hoping to help more young players improve through the power of more people.

At the end of July, the funds represented by Li Yue and Yao Ming reached a cooperation to establish a basketball talent incubation project. It is estimated that in the next ten years, more than [-] million US dollars will be invested to help outstanding basketball talents get the opportunity to be promoted to professional leagues. The content includes but is not limited to Professional guidance, US and European training camps in sports institutes, and participation in various high-end leagues.

At the beginning of August, Li Yue went to the national team to report and began to practice with his teammates.

Time is short, unable to implement too many advanced methods, we can only help optimize as much as possible.

Taylor reported various trends in the United States in the form of emails every day. The Rockets made an extreme operation and actually recruited Ariza with Asik as the main body. The starting lineup directly reached the strongest in the league. Si got Love, successfully formed the Big Three, and officially opened the seven heroes of the alliance to compete for hegemony.

At the end of August, the national team arrived in Spain ahead of schedule to prepare for the World Cup.

Li Yue and Yao Ming came forward and applied for the opportunity to train with several strong teams, but all suffered disastrous defeats.

Foreign media reported this widely, declaring that except for Li Yue, the rest of the national team are rubbish.

However, such low-level provocation methods did not cause internal strife, but instead increased the team's cohesion.

On the evening of NO.30, the national team played against the New Zealand team led by Thunder center Steven Adams.

At the beginning of the game, Li Yue was severely double-teamed, and it was difficult to catch the ball, but Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue got a lot of open shots. When it was the national team's turn to defend, Li Yue turned into a goalkeeper on the flanks, greatly slowing down New Zealand's offensive rhythm .

After halftime, the national team led by 12 points and maintained their advantage in the third quarter. However, in the fourth quarter, Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue's physical strength declined seriously. Li Yue still had difficulty receiving the ball. New Zealand took the opportunity to launch an offensive. smooth.

At the critical moment, Li Yue suggested that he be the point guard and receive the ball directly from the backcourt.

Coach Gong Luming adopted the suggestion, and New Zealand continued to double-team unscrupulously. Li Yue withstood the pressure and scored three goals in a row. The defensive end contributed another steal and a block, helping the national team win 76-74.

After a day's rest, the country ushered in the strongest opponent in the same group, the US team.

After the game started, the situation was one-sided. Except for Li Yue, only Yi Jianlian could score.

Even so, the U.S. team still dispatched Durant, Clay, DeRozan, and Gay to defend Li Yue in turn, and at the same time arranged for Davis, Cousins, and Drummond to intercept, but Li Yue Turning on the invincible jumper mode, the point difference never exceeded 78, and finally lost the game 99 to [-].

On the evening of September 84nd, the country played against Ukraine back-to-back. Li Yue and Yi Jian joined forces to beat their star Alex Lane, clocked out of get off work in three quarters, and won a big victory 58-[-].

At noon on September [-]rd, the national team continued to face Finland.

Although the strength of the opponents is mediocre, many players of the national team fought continuously with high intensity and were severely lacking in physical fitness. Li Yue and Yi Jianlian supported the situation and guided them to a 9-point lead at the end of the fourth quarter, eventually winning 77-73.

On the afternoon of the [-]th, the national team faced Dominica without Al Horford and won easily.

The group stage came to an end. The national team qualified with 4 points with a record of 1 wins and 8 loss. The top [-] will face Australia.

Although Warriors center Bogut and Spurs guard Mills failed to appear in the Australian lineup due to injuries, Australia still has NBA players such as Joe Ingles, Matthew Dellavedova, and Aron Baynes.

After the game started, Australia directly resorted to zone defense tactics. When Li Yue was holding the ball, they even changed to two-point three-point play.

When the country was defending more, Li Yue and Yi Jianlian showed 100% motivation and successfully stimulated the morale of the whole team, so that young players such as Ding Yanyuhang and Wang Zhelin also chose to work hard, and they miraculously played inseparable with Australia.

The game was stalemate until the last moment, the national team trailed by one point, Li Yue was double-teamed by three players with the ball, jumped to the sidelines decisively, gliding in the air to pass the ball, Yi Jianlian dunked the ball to Baynes and scored, completing the lore 65-64.

With the joy of victory, the national team continued to face Lithuania, competing for the semi-finals.

Perhaps it was because the previous day's fierce battle had not been fully rested. After the game started, all the teammates played seriously abnormally. Li Yue decisively turned on the singles mode. Except for intersections, halftime, and timeouts, he did not rest for even a second.

In the end, he scored 48 points to help the national team beat Lithuania 73-69.

As a result, the national team successfully advanced to the semi-finals, refreshing the best results in international competitions.

That night, the news network gave a special 30-second report, and people all over the country praised it in unison. Many hot topics such as #我长大后想是做一个球球亚洲 Player#, #李越国之树梁# appeared on Weibo.

Among all kinds of joyful celebrations, the national team ushered in the top four opponent - Serbia.

In addition to the Suns rookie Bogdan Bogdanovic, Nikola Jokic was also selected for the Serbian team. Before the game, Li Yue "intimidated" him to release water, otherwise the new season would make him buy Coke all day long. The bottle is not given to drink.

It's a pity that the "intimidation" did not have any effect. On the contrary, Jokic played as he wanted on the court and helped Sevilla get a good start. After half the game, they were only five points behind, and there was no shortage of physical fitness.

In the third quarter of the game, Serbia increased its defensive strength, and the national team also responded.

Perhaps there were too many Chinese and Chinese people who came here to support the team. The national team insisted that there were only five seconds left, but Li Yue received the ball from the center line, directly shot a super long three-pointer, miraculously hit the rebound and made a steal Bogdanovic.

In the end, the national team narrowly beat Serbia 83 to 82 and successfully advanced to the World Cup finals.

There is no rest time, September NO.15, the national team will face the US team in the finals for the second time.

That night, at least half of the seats at the venue were occupied by Chinese fans, but the miracle did not happen again. The US team tried their best from the beginning. Li Yue and Yi Jianlian led the team to resist until the end, losing the game 98-119.

In the afternoon of the next day, the national team set off to return home, and arrived late the next night, receiving more than [-] fans from the airport.

CCTV1 carried out a special report, and activities to learn the fighting spirit of the men's basketball team were set off across the country. After participating in various celebration ceremonies, Li Yue returned to his hometown to visit relatives. After a week of rest, he flew directly to the United States to prepare for the new season.

(End of this chapter)