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

Chapter 24 Getting the MVP
Rick Carlisle kept recording data in the audience, from being undisciplined before to "top-level off-ball awareness, strong defensive aggression, not afraid of confrontation. Selfless style of play", but in the heart of the former , Zhang Tian has no professional experience, which is still his biggest drawback. Larry Bird will not pay too much for gambling on him. In a word, if this gamble succeeds, Indiana will make a profit. , On the contrary, it is just a waste of a draft pick.

The four commentators Xu Jicheng had already reached the center of the floor, and all the members of the US team left the field silently. Rob Evans paid the price for his stubbornness.The way they lost was exactly the same as the previous finals in Spain. Bobby Simmons broke out and was replaced by him. Then the bomb Navarro exploded, and the US team was taken away by a wave.Yue Pengfei's shooting tension is not as strong as the latter, but if the touch is opened, it is also very scary. After all, in his previous life, he beat Zhu Fangyu and other good players to win the three-pointer in the CBA three-point game.

"Xiao Zhang, now that we have won the championship, let's say a few words." Zhang Lili, his family, came over again.

Zhang Tian's statistics in this game are not as impressive as Yue Pengfei's, but Zhang Lili knows that without the former's defensive point, the other starters would not have such a comfortable scoring opportunity.

This is the value of a star player. Although Zhang Tian is the youngest in the team, his basketball talent has been fully revealed.

Apart from Zhang Lili, other reporters also came. Rick Carlisle took the DV he was carrying and left the arena. Larry Bird asked him to come to record the video of the final. Before Zhang Tian The latter has watched the video of the game.

Those were all brought over by scouts, and I asked myself to come this time because I wanted to discover more things.Although Jim Carrey's twin brother rejected many of Zhang Tian's unreasonable shots, the opponent's overall style of play was still very mature, at least not like a young player who had never played a professional game. The reading ability of the competition is absolutely unique in the entire World Youth Championship.

Zhang Tian did not take the microphone, he is very tired now, Rob Evans practiced a round of battle against himself throughout the game, thanks to his teammates tonight, "I am very happy to win the game, this is not my victory alone , This is the result of the joint efforts of our whole team. Before I came to Portugal, I personally thought that we could qualify for the group stage, and it was really a fluke for us to win the championship."

Zhang Tian didn't step on the US team that lost the game. The Chinese team won this game. If it wasn't for the opponent's head coach, with the US team's crazy European-style oppressive defense, the probability of the Chinese team wanting to win the game Less than ten percent.

Before the reporters finished their interviews, the current chairman of FIBA, Senegalese Abdoulaye Saimoro, and the current Secretary-General of Serbia, Bosri Rastankovic, came over, and the master of ceremonies following them carried several plates. , These plates contain championship trophies, championship medals, and MVP trophies.

The runner-up medals for the American team had already been handed out, and they looked at the Chinese team like outsiders in the corner.

However, these players have no other thoughts in their hearts other than regretting that they did not win the championship. After all, the US team did not even have a medal in the last session, and only won the embarrassing record of No.7.

"That guy signed up for the draft, do you think he will be selected?" Bobby Simmons didn't have any ill feelings towards Zhang Tian. This time he played against Zhang Tian twice in the World Youth Championship, and the former learned a lot from him.To be the most improved player in the future, there must be something special about him.

The other teammates didn't finish talking, and Steve Logan, who looked at Zhang Tian the most, taunted him directly, "If he can be selected in the draft, then I will be the No. 19 pick next year. U[-] World Youth The game is known to be one of the lowest-profile and lowest-value events in FIBA. That guy is nothing special at all, and wait to see the joke about his loss."

Logan said so, but he was jealous of Zhang Tian in his heart. Before this World Youth Championship, he never thought that the US team could win the championship, but at least he would also win the MVP. If he was blessed with this award, he would After a year of experience in the ncaa and participating in the draft, the market will definitely be good, but all these plans were destroyed by Zhang Tian. When the Chinese team reached the finals, the point guard of the US team knew that unless he had a chance in the finals Super god performance, otherwise, the MVP must belong to Zhang Tian.

What Logan thought was right. In the next MVP awarding session, two FIBA ​​leaders handed the trophy to Zhang Tian. At the same time, everything on the scene gathered here on the number 7 of the Chinese team.

After eight World Youth Championships, Zhang Tian can contribute 20 points, 4 assists and 2 steals, shooting 40.00% from the field and 30.00% from the three-point range.This statistic is not the most eye-catching among all the stats in the entire World Youth Championship, but anyone who has watched the Chinese team's game knows how important this former National Youth Team relationship is to the entire team.

Zhang Tian took over the trophy from Bosri Rastankovic. The latter was a basketball player. Of course, his greatest contribution was to allow Yugoslav players to play in international competitions. During this period, they were even attacked by guns. Intimidation, but the former was not intimidated, so there was a picture of Kukoc and Petrovic playing against the Dream Team in the 92 Barcelona Olympics. This guy's status in the entire Balkan Peninsula basketball field is really unmatched And, it can be called the godfather of a generation.

And the later Stankovic Cup is named after him, so the chairman Abdoulaye Sayemolo can't hold his airs in front of his secretary-general.

"Congratulations young man, you have won this trophy. I hope this is your starting point, not the end point. The NBA world is very exciting. I am optimistic about you." The trophy was sent to Zhang Tian, ​​and he hugged him.

Bosri Rastankovic supports Zhang Tian's practice of participating in the draft without any professional experience. This is what young people should look like. Compared with Zhang Tianlai, the European magician in the Balkans The guy is a negative example.He was selected by the NBA, and the reason for not playing in the NBA was that the draft pick was too low, which was an insult to him.

But Bosri Rastankovic knew that it was just an excuse. The real reason was that he was not confident in his own strength and was afraid that he would not be able to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA.

(End of this chapter)