Two days later, the Trail Blazers faced their second opponent in the summer league.
Houston Mosaics!
The Mosaics are currently in the process of rebuilding, and they didn't find any good seeds in this year's draft, at least none of the inside players who can put pressure on Wang Zelin.
His teammates all know that this is the last game of the summer league for Wang Zelin's rookie season, and he will go to the national team to gather after the game.
Therefore, in this game, David Vanderpool not only gave Wang Zelin the right to allocate his playing time at will, but his teammates also actively helped him with the ball.
After all, the previous gifts were not given in vain.
At this time, the right location, the right people, and the three forces are blessing you, today is destined to usher in a massacre...
In the second game of his career, Wang Zelin took 28 crazy shots, making 15 of 20 two-pointers, 1 of 8 three-pointers, and 4 free throws. He scored a career-high 37 points and 11 rebounds.
+2 blocks.
He shot 8 three-pointers alone. You can imagine how high Wang Zelin played in this game.
The shooting rate of 1 out of 8 is a bit embarrassing, but overall it doesn't hurt.
Lillard, who was the second biggest beneficiary of this game, scored 15 points and 18 assists. The number of assists was also a career high.
Wang Zelin played a total of nearly 40 minutes in this game. Thanks to this being a summer league, the intensity of the confrontation was not as high as in the regular season, otherwise his 68% physical fitness would not have been able to survive.
Through this all-out battle, Wang Zelin probably also knows the limits of his physical fitness: in the NBA regular season, if he still exerts his full strength like today, he may only be able to last about two and a half quarters.
Lack of physical fitness has become his primary problem now.
The physical attribute inherited from McGee was only 64 points, and it took him nearly two months to reach 68.
In this period of rapid growth, two months of training only resulted in 4 points of growth.
Sure enough, hard work can only be used as a supplement, and krypton gold is the way to go!
Wang Zelin turned his attention to the fan points he had been hoarding for several months and now has more than 7 million.
In the end, he decided to wait and wait until 10 million to play a big wave.
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Starting from the 18th, the Chinese men's basketball team will start their Olympic journey. Their first stop is Poland. The Chinese men's basketball team will play the last two warm-up games before the London Olympics here. After that, they will fly directly to London to join the competition.
Olympic opening ceremony.
The two warm-up matches officially given by the Polish Basketball Association are at 5 pm local time on the 21st and 3:30 pm on the 22nd, so Wang Zelin still has enough time to alleviate the trouble caused by jet lag.
In the Olympic warm-up rankings announced by FIBA, the Tianchao men's basketball team has a record of 3 wins and 3 losses, just over 50%.
But compared to previous Olympic warm-up matches, this one is undoubtedly the lowest quality.
Why do you say that?
Because there is a new change this year: FIBA has canceled the Diamond Cup!
The Diamond Cup is a pre-Olympic event, and in the past it was required that all Olympic teams participate.
In Sydney, Athens and the Kyoto Olympics 44 years ago, the Tianchao Men's Basketball Team participated in the Diamond Cup where all the main teams played, which can be regarded as a true appreciation of the general strength of the participating teams.
However, after this year's diamond game was cancelled, in the matches between the Chinese men's basketball team and Russia, Serbia and the Kangaroo Nation, the opponents basically sent youth teams, and the level of competition was not comparable to that of the Olympic Games.
Let’s just talk about the so-called “American Star Team” that the media was crazily promoting at the beginning!
Most of the members of that team are players who couldn't even play in the NBA Development League. What's there to be proud of in defeating such an opponent?
This warm-up match was undoubtedly a failure for the Tianchao men's basketball team.
The ancients all knew that "you can win every battle if you know yourself and the enemy." However, this time the Chinese Men's Basketball Team couldn't even figure out the strength of its opponents. No wonder it suffered five consecutive kneels in the Olympics, creating a humiliation unprecedented in 20 years.
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At 3 pm on July 18, Wang Zelin and his parents had arrived in Poland, which is located in central Europe, and successfully reported to the men's basketball training center.
"King, you are finally here. Do you know that I have been waiting for you to the point where the flowers are almost withered?"
When Deng Huade, the white fat man, saw that Wang Zelin finally came to report, he showed enthusiasm.
"Old Deng, please don't do this. The impact will be very bad."
Wang Zelin directly pushed Deng Huade into Yao Ming's arms with his backhand.
Use fat people to defeat fat people!
I haven't seen him for a while, but Yao Ming's weight is increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Now he no longer has the body shape he had when he was an athlete, and he is about to evolve into the female omen Sun and Moon that he will become.
After the brief polite greetings, the first thing after the report was a physical examination.
It's not a physical examination, but about the physical health of the players.
Of course, these are not important. Everyone knows that this kind of thing is just a formality. The most important thing is the press conference at 10:30 on the second day.
Announcing Wang Zelin’s official return to the national team!
At the press conference, Wang Zelin, the eighth overall pick in the NBA this year, announced his return, which can be regarded as a major reinforcement for the national team.
The main people present this time were Wang Zelin and team leader Yao Ming, as well as men's basketball head coach Deng Huade.
However, the reporters here are much cuter than those in the United States, and the questions they ask are quite kind, and they understand that you are good to me, and everyone is good to you.
Something is going to happen!
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By the time the press conference ended, two hours had passed.
When Wang Zelin, Yao Ming and others returned to the men's basketball training center, they happened to catch up with lunch time and went directly to the restaurant of the arena.
Good guy, is this food almost ready for the New Year’s Eve dinner?
There are fish, meat and big lobster...but is it really good to eat like this?
Looking at Sun Dasheng who was chewing a big chicken drumstick, Wang Zelin fell into deep thought: I remember that when we were training in China, our diet was quite strict. How come we are here...
Seemingly sensing Wang Zelin's shock, Chairman Yao patted him on the shoulder: "The people above always advocate something. We must not make the athletes suffer before the game. You know..."
Okay, this is probably the so-called national situation needs~~~I understand!
Wang Zelin shook his head and asked his trainer Tom Bruce, who followed him wherever he went, to start preparing lunch.
However, the more he ate the lunch this time, the more he felt it was tasteless.
Looking at the arrogant teammates around him, Wang Zelin's complacency when he first came to Poland seemed so worthless.
Can his arrival really bring about any changes to the men's basketball team in front of it?
In the next London Olympics, the men's basketball team will lose five out of five games by a staggering 132 points. The fundamental reason is that the 2008 golden generation retreated so unexpectedly.
Especially core Yao Ming, his retirement has completely deprived the Tianchao men's basketball team of a superstar who could compete with the world's top teams.
It also made the men's basketball players who were used to the team's tactics built around Yao Ming suddenly no longer know how to play.
To be honest, in the years after Yao Ming suddenly retired, the performance of the men's basketball team in international competitions was really disastrous, and Wang Zelin didn't know whether he could make a difference in the next London Olympics.
He is still too young and does not have the same dominance as Yao Ming did in 2008. All he can do now is roll up his sleeves and work hard to go as far as he can.
Sigh...it's so difficult!
"Zelin, why are you eating here alone?"
Suddenly, a low and slightly Cantonese accent came from behind.