In the basketball world, starting from the 99 World Youth Championship

Chapter 222
Although Rich Paul and James had some friendships, these friendships would become so vulnerable when interests were involved. When James' mother Gloria asked him what kind of protection he could provide for James, Li Qi Paulo was confused. Although he relied on Zhang Tian and made a name for himself in the brokerage circle, except for the ones left by Zhang Tian, ​​they were still undiscovered gems. As for when those raw gems would be unearthed ,Nobody knows.

Rich Paul didn't even have a chance to communicate with James, so he was dismissed. Although he was not reconciled, he didn't continue to look for him. Perhaps it would be good to concentrate on managing a superstar like Zhang Tian. At least his starting point is against James. If the opponent enters the league, the first thing to face is Zhang Tian's series of records, especially in the playoffs and finals.

After the Adi executive came that time, he never came again, which relieved Zhang Tian a lot. There were no moths on his teammates, but on the night before the start of the game, a few people came with the men's basketball team. Sydney leaders held a meeting in a Sydney hotel for the men's basketball players, and while it was said to be a decompression, it didn't look like that at all.

"Well, you played well in the group stage, especially the three games against the United States, Lithuania, and France. I hope you can guard against arrogance and impetuosity and continue to maintain this state, especially Xiao Zhang. I am very optimistic about you."

Hehehe, Zhang Tian sat on the side, casually raised the juice glass, and his teammates were also under his influence, they were no longer so casual about diet and so on. As for whether they are doing face-saving projects, it doesn't matter at all At least he has this attitude, but he didn't even have an attitude before.

Jiang Xingquan was dragged over by the leader to chat for a few more words, anyway, it was just a few key points: "What Zhang Tian said is correct, and second, although you are the head coach, it's good to be a mascot on the sidelines. Three stands for the last class Post." To sum it up, Zhang Tian can play as he likes, don't set up any tactics, anyway, judging from the tactical quality of this group of men's basketball teams, they may not be able to run out.

Jiang Xingquan has now resigned himself to his fate. Although he qualified first in the group stage, the process was thrilling, especially the loss to New Zealand. He simply experienced the biggest setback in his coaching career. I rushed here, and only then did I realize that some players really don't need to play tactics, just give them the ball, and they and basketball are natural.

Russian head coach Stanislav is very happy to advance to the quarter-finals, but when he thinks of his next opponent, the Chinese team, his head starts to grow bigger. The current Russian men's basketball team is not the invincible Soviet men's basketball team. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the entire powerful basketball team was also dismembered. The most deceitful thing is that all the people assigned to Russia are crooked. People like Sabonis are not Russians at all. Very angry.

So in recent years, Russia has been vigorously cultivating rookies in the basketball world. Kirilenko, who made his debut at the World Youth Championship last year, is one of the best. However, AK47, who competed with Zhang Tian for the MVP of the World Youth Championship last year, exists , In less than a year, he couldn't even see the opponent's exhaust.So Kirilenko plans to buy out his CSKA Moscow contract and enter the NBA one year in advance.

But this has nothing to do with this game. How to limit Zhang Tian and Yao Ming in this game. Yao Ming currently has 18 points and 9.3 rebounds in the paint, and his shooting percentage is 60.00%. His shooting is not just in the restricted area. , Many of them are in the middle distance near the inside waist.This data is exaggerated.

In addition to Yao Ming, Zhang Tian is the core of the Chinese team. His average data per game is much more gorgeous than Yao Ming, and he is both offensive and defensive. Such a player will make his head coach very comfortable. The opposite head coach Very headache.

Stanislav realized this, and he still had to double-team Zhang Tian to the end. As for Yao Ming, it would depend on whether the inside tanks were useful. If they were really useless, that would be fine.

At three o'clock in the afternoon on the 28th, the first match between the Dream Team [-] and Australia will start. Andrew Gates, who is currently leading the standings in this game, really hopes that his team can be upset so that he can Continue to brush points.

However, Rudy Tomjanovich didn't give him any good shots at all. He replaced a very strong defensive lineup in this game, Kidd, Payton, Ray Allen, Garnett, Mourning, The single-defense ability of any of these five people is enough for the Kangaroo Legion to drink a pot. Luke Langley, a member of the Bulls champion, is completely incapable of facing the Kidney Fighter and the Big Hard Special.They lost the game 80:65. The team's scoring champion Gates scored 9 points in 2 of 7 games, which is the key to the Dream Four team's victory.

The hosts were the first to be out. Australia was very upset that Dream Team [-] had no humanitarian spirit at all, but there was nothing they could do about it. After all, the hard power was really far behind, although it seemed that Gates and Zhang Tian were the same Type, but his defense and ability to attract defense are not at the same level.

After two hours of rest after the first game, the duel between Lithuania and Canada began immediately. Before the game, no one was optimistic that Lithuania could beat the Maple Leafs. After all, Canada has several NBA. level existences.

But Jascovicius, the future king of European basketball, showed his power. He faced Nash, scored a game-high 27 points, and intercepted Nash's pass to Rowan Barrett in the final stage. , Lithuania miraculously reached the semi-finals, which is the best result Lithuania has achieved in the Olympic Games after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Two of the semi-finals have been decided, and Lithuania's opponent for the semi-finals is the Dream Team [-]. Jaskovicius has a chance to take revenge. The match between Italy and Yugoslavia will take place three hours later.

This game was more anxious than the previous two games, but after an overtime battle, Italy was still defeated by Peja. They lost because they had no star players, and they didn't know who should score at the critical moment.

In this way, if the Chinese team enters the semi-finals, then they will face the last world champion Yugoslavia, and Zhang Tian has already played against the two European kings Rigodo and Jaskovicius. There is another king of Europe-Dejan Bodi Loga.

(End of this chapter)