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

Chapter 9 The Final Battle of the Group Stage

The day before the match against the Greek team, Zhang Li and Sun Zhengping's CCTV commentary team finally arrived in Aveiro, because the last group match of the Chinese team will be played here.

Although Aveiro is not as prosperous as Porto, Zhang Lili and the others are not here for tourism after all. There was a huge wave.

CCTV's interview team easily found the location of Zhang Tian and the Chinese team, who were preparing for the game of the Greek team.

"You are Xiao Zhang, right? Can I interview you?" Zhang Li looked at the family in front of him, who was nearly ten centimeters taller than him, and was more pleased. A genius, as a former national team icon, he is very willing to see this scene.

Zhang Tian looked at Wang Fei, the latter pulled Wang Bo up, and the team training continued, while the former and his group went to a Starbucks.

Xu Jicheng and Su Junyang were not left behind by Zhang Lili and the others. As the first batch of basketball media people who came into contact with Zhang Tian, ​​they obviously had more information than Zhang Lili who came later.

"Xiao Zhang, is it true that you participated in the NBA draft after the Chinese team qualified in the group stage?" Wang Zhizhi will also participate in the draft this year. He has been delayed for several years. There will be no place to stand.

And Zhang Tian is obviously different from Wang Zhizhi. He is not yet 19 years old, and he still has a lot of time to raise the ball, but now he is arguing to go to the NBA. Isn’t it too late?Is it a bit of a loss?

While stirring the coffee cup with a spoon, Zhang Tian answered Zhang Reasonable's question, "It's true."

When Zhang Lili heard this sentence, he knew that the show was coming, and Su Junyang and his gang also knew it, but unfortunately the latter was completely out of touch now, "Then do you think you will lose the election? It is a common practice to be seen by the NBA. Except for those overseas players who play in the NCAA, the draft picks are generally not too high, and they may even lose the draft. You have considered these Is it?'

Compared with ordinary basketball writers, Weiping Bryant obviously understands and touches more things, and what he just said is not unfounded worry, but a very real existence.

"I have considered all these issues, but I have confidence in my own strength. I think I can become the first Asian basketball player to gain a foothold in the NBA."

Zhang Tian’s foothold does not mean watching the water dispenser wave towels, handing water, and applauding, but to become the main rotation, or even the starting lineup.

Zhang Lili didn't bother with this issue any more. They came this time to continue explaining the Chinese team's game. After all, in the history of U19, it was the first time for the Chinese team to win two games in the group stage. Really a miracle moment.

However, the opponents in the last group stage are not inferior to the US team in terms of difficulty, and they are now forced into a desperate situation. They have no other choice but to fight to the death. Apart from winning the Chinese team themselves, they also have to pray for the Egyptian team Being able to beat the US team upset, so that they have the chance to compete with the other two teams to qualify for the group stage, it can be said that the situation is very unfavorable for the defending champion.

As the head coach of the Mythical Legion, Yannakis's hair is almost bald. Before the group stage, although he was assigned to Group B, known as the death group, as the coach of the defending champion, the former did not feel that the Chinese team What trouble can the Egyptian team from Africa bring to their team.

From the perspective of the progress of the group stage, the Egyptian team has the same idea as Yannakis. The first two games of the group stage were 0-2, which completely lost the chance of qualifying, but what the hell is the Chinese team's 2-0.

The Chinese team has already participated in the four World Youth Championships this year, but this does not mean how strong they are, it only means that the competitiveness of the Asian region is too high.

2-0, this is the script I expected for the Greek team, but unexpectedly it belongs to the Chinese team, Lanshou Shiitake, especially in the next game against the Chinese team, not only to win the opponent, but also to see if the Egyptian team can explode into a small universe Pull down the US team, otherwise, the defending champion is likely to be eliminated from the group stage, creating a shame since the World Youth Championship was founded.

While plucking his hair, Yannakis watched the videos of all the matches of the Chinese team, including the videos of their Asian trials last year, but the former's pain was that in last year's trials, there was no such guy as Zhang Tian Shadow, as a result, the opponent became famous in the duel with the US team.Under the defense of an NCAA elite player, he scored 30+, which is something that several of his disciples failed to do.

The last game was an obvious example. Bobby Simmons and Matt Carroll crippled the trident of the Greek team. If they lose this game again, the Greek team will really have no hope of advancing. up.

Yannakis kept writing and drawing with a tactical board. It seems that the game against the Chinese team must use a 3-2 defense. Although this will deplete the offensive attributes of his own players, the two evils go hand in hand. whichever is lesser.

The evening game still started at 09:30, and besides the local fans, there were also many foreign students.They held their homemade signs to cheer for the Chinese team.

There are four commentators tonight, Zhang Lili, Sun Zhengping, Xu Jicheng and Su Junyang. The latter is really making a lot of money, because among the four, he is the one with the most average qualifications, but he can explain this weight on the international stage There are only advantages and no disadvantages for the future.

"The starting lineup of the Greek team remains unchanged in this game. Papathopoulos and Fortis are partnered inside, and the third position is their scoring leader Diamantopoulos. The match between him and Xiao Zhang in this game is very good. It's very exciting, both of them have similar styles of play, but Xiao Zhang can shoot better."

As for the other two guards of the Greek team, they are tool men, so there is no need to report their names. Before the rise of Kobe Spanoulis in Europe, the Myth Legion's guard line was a scumbag.

"Next is the starting lineup of our Chinese team, Liu Wei, Yue Pengfei, Zhang Tian, ​​Li Ke and Mo Ke. This lineup is the same as last game."

After Zhang Lili introduced the lineups of the two sides and the referee threw the ball up, the game had already started.

Papathopoulos relied on his wingspan to catch the ball to his No. [-] position. The Greek team's No. [-] position took the ball and ran towards the Chinese team's half court, and the Chinese team retreated very quickly. Give the opponent a chance to break fast.

(End of this chapter)