The teammates quickly agreed to Lu Yu's suggestion.
The teams on both sides were also divided.
Red team: Battelle, Wang Zhizhi, Hu Weidong, Li Nan, Guo Shiqiang.
Blue team: Yao Ming, Gong Xiaobin, Zhu Fangyu, Lu Yu, Liu Wei.
Liu Yudong is in the recovery stage and did not participate in this confrontation training.
Due to the return of Lu Yu, Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming, the entire roster has been expanded to 16 people, which means that in the end, four people will not be able to make the final roster of the national team.
At present, it seems that the biggest competition is the striker.
On the front line there are five power forwards, Wang Zhizhi, Gong Xiaobin, Du Feng, Liu Yudong, and Yi Jianlian, and five small forwards, Zhang Cheng, Chen Ke, Zhu Fangyu, Li Nan, and Hu Weidong.
There are two centers left, Yao Ming and Battelle.
The four defenders are Liu Wei, Guo Shiqiang, Wang Shipeng and Lu Yu.
The reason why Wang Fei played a pure center was mainly because the power forward could be used as a center. After all, at that time, the power forward was called the second center.
The small forward can be used as a shooting guard.
Just like Li Nan, this time he was assigned to the shooting guard position of the red team.
This makes it easier for him to rotate, so he picked players from such a lineup.
There is a high probability that Zhang Cheng and Chen Ke will not be able to go. He is hesitating about the other two players because Liu Yudong has not recovered from his injury. He is a bit torn between Liu Yudong, Du Feng and Yi Jianlian.
Yi Jianlian is the youngest, but his physical talent is obvious. Even if it is to cultivate the future strength of Chinese basketball, Wang Fei also wants to take him with him.
Forget it, I’ll leave the headaches to think about later.
Let’s take a look at their performance in this training camp first.
Li Nan saw that it was Lu Yu who was facing him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Lu Yu, please show mercy later..."
"Training, let's play casually." Lu Yu said with a smile.
Li Nan felt relieved now. Only Yi Jianlian knew that Lu Yu said that he could be beaten casually. In the past at Gonzaga, Black was basically beaten to vomit blood.
Every time Blake heard Lu Yu talking about casual beatings, he always wanted to find an excuse to run away. He even wanted to run back and forth instead. After all, running back and forth was just to make him tired, so he wouldn't be hung up and beaten on the field.
Yi Jianlian sat on the sidelines, watching the two sides prepare to start the confrontation, his eyes full of envy. He hoped that he could stay on the team this time, because during this period of training, he felt that he was no worse than these players who were hanging around in the professional league. If he were to change
A year ago, when he was still in the Hongyuan youth team, he would not dare to think about this kind of problem, so he felt that his choice to follow Lu Yu's footsteps was right.
Wang Fei did not make tactical arrangements for the players in this match. He was more interested in seeing what kind of game the players could perform without the guidance of a coach.
Each of the two teams has a player who has never practiced together in the team. The red team is Wang Zhizhi and the blue team is Lu Yu. However, Wang Zhizhi should be more adaptable than Lu Yu. After all, Lu Yu seems to have never played under FIBA rules.
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The blue team has one more Yao Ming, but the red team also has Battelle. What's more, the red team's other position players are more experienced.
In a 50-50 game, one side will definitely lose, but the loss won’t be too ugly.
This is what Wang Fei is thinking at this time, and it is also what most players are thinking.
However, I didn't expect that everyone would be surprised as soon as the competition started.
Liu Wei dribbled the ball across the half court and wanted to pass the ball to Yao Ming out of habit. Unexpectedly, Lu Yu came forward and asked for the ball. Liu Wei could only pass the ball to him.
Lu Yu glanced at Yao Ming while playing the ball. Yao Ming understood and moved up the screen. Lu Yu cut in from behind Yao Ming, and before Battle could catch up, he dribbled in and out to get past Battle and hit the basket.
Li Nan was very depressed. He originally wanted to grab it directly, but Lu Yu and Yao Ming were too close to each other, and there was no room for him to grab it.
Let him switch to guard Yao Ming, and I guess there will be no problem at all in crushing him from the high position to the low position.
But Lu Yu didn't seem to want to challenge Yao Ming, but went directly to the basket. Wang Zhizhi couldn't help defend. He helped defend Gong Xiaobin and missed it. Hu Weidong from the flank could only make up for it.
As soon as Hu Weidong came in, the ball in Lu Yu's hand flew directly to Zhu Fangyu's hand as if it was equipped with a navigation system.
Zhu Fangyu glanced at the three-point line under his feet, took a three-point shot without haste, and hit!
After only one round, Wang Fei was stunned because Lu Yu's fight was too simple, so simple that there was no strategy at all.
In the first pick-and-roll, according to the tactical play, the most appropriate choice is to play small to play big or big to play small. However, Lu Yu cut directly to the basket, forcing the opponent to shrink the defense. At the moment the opponent shrank, the ball was distributed to the outside.
This style of play can often be seen even on wild courts.
But Lu Yu used it so naturally, without any violation.
The simpler the play style, the easier it is to cooperate with unfamiliar teammates.
Wang Fei frowned slightly. He felt that even without Yao Ming's pick-and-roll, even if Lu Yu wanted to break through and attract the red team's shrinking defense, it would be easy.
"Lu Yu's ability..."
Wang Fei had already overestimated Lu Yu's ability, but when he actually saw it on the court, he couldn't help being shocked.
Is this the strength of NBA stars?
It was relaxing and comfortable to stroll around the courtyard. Players from various CBA teams had basically no defense at all in front of Lu Yu.
The CBA has many foreign players every year. Many of these foreign players are killers in the CBA, but some of them can't even hit the ball in the NBA. This shows that Lu Yu is several levels higher than these national players in the men's basketball team.
I just didn’t expect the gap to be so big!
Guo Shiqiang dribbled the ball past half court and immediately chose to lob the ball to Wang Zhizhi. Wang Zhizhi turned twice under the basket, shook Gong Xiaobin away, and scored a layup.
It can be said that after Wang Zhizhi's training in the Mavericks, his skills are one level ahead of domestic players.
Even Xiaoyao Wang Gong Xiaobin can't restrain him.
When the basketball team attacked, Lu Yu caught the ball from outside the three-point line and raised his hand sideways to make a shooting gesture. Li Nan refused to take a shot. As a result, Lu Yu made a shooting gesture again. Li Nan still refused to take a step, but this time Lu Yu did.
Direct pull-up shot.
Li Nan didn't react at all, and Lu Yu voted.
When there is no defense in front of him, Lu Yu's shooting percentage must be very high.
Whoosh!
Three-point hit.
When the red team attacked, Guo Shiqiang passed the ball to Battelle. Battelle wanted to provide support in the central axis and passed it to Li Nan in the bottom corner, but Lu Yu directly cut it off with a backhand. Then he threw the ball and people chased it. He only made one dribble in the middle.
His body has reached the three-point line in the other half.
too fast!
Wang Fei was completely stunned. From the steal to the fast break, Lu Yu only dribbled the ball once, and he was already outside the opponent's three-point line.
How can the defenders pursue this?
Lu Yu lucked out again and saw a vast plain before his eyes. He took off in three steps and flew in the air.
Such explosive power!
This jumping height!
This is full of power!
Boom!
The basketball was dunked hard into the basket.
Wang Zhizhi, who had played with Lu Yu, thought it was okay. He was used to the violent style of play in the NBA. Yi Jianlian had heard the legend of Lu Yu in the NCAA and was not too surprised. Yao Ming was slightly surprised, although he trained with Lu Yu
I have done this several times, but I never thought that Lu Yu would be so cruel.
But the other team members looked a little weird.
Hu Weidong shook his head. Even when he was young, he was far worse than Lu Yu now.
Li Nan looked confused.
This is what you told me, just hit me casually?
Wang Fei had to admit that Lu Yu is the answer to the current Chinese men's basketball team. Without Lu Yu, the Chinese men's basketball team would be a strong team in Asia. With Lu Yu, the Chinese men's basketball team would have a chance to become a strong team in the world!
To be able to become the tactical core of a team in the NBA and lead the team to the finals, Lu Yu is already one of the best players in the world.
The only problem is that there is a huge gap in strength between the men's basketball bench and the main lineup.
When encountering the world's strongest teams, they are likely to be defeated during the rotation phase.
He watched for a few more minutes to further confirm his point of view. Lu Yu was different from other NBA players. For example, Iverson might become acclimatized in the international arena, but Lu Yu would not.
Because Lu Yu's shooting ability is so outstanding.
Moreover, Lu Yu's body is stronger and can adapt to more intense confrontation.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Fei made another substitution adjustment and let several new players play for a while.
Yi Jianlian has shown great strength. If we look at the current power forward position, Wang Zhizhi's strength must be ranked first, followed naturally by Gong Xiaobin, but Gong Xiaobin's character and age will definitely not be able to play very well.
For a long time, the third rotation is particularly important. Liu Yudong has not fully recovered from his injury and cannot play for long. The only one left is Yi Jianlian.
From a practical point of view, Yi Jianlian can even be regarded as the first substitute at the power forward position.
Originally Du Feng was also good, but Du Feng was too thin. Compared with Yi Jianlian, who was already showing off his strength, he couldn't withstand Yi Jianlian's confrontation. However, Du Feng won because he dared to fight hard and was not afraid of anyone.
Wang Fei felt that he was going to have a headache in the coming days.
There will be a total of ten days of training, and then there will be four warm-up games in ten days. The four warm-up games will also be played against NBA Summer League teams, which means that this training will last for a total of twenty days.
After twenty days, they will return to China to rest for a few days and meet their families. Then they will continue training and play a few warm-up matches with national teams from other countries before arriving in Indianapolis, USA, at the end of August.
Playing in the World Championships in Leith.
It's just that this ten-day training camp is slightly different from the past.
In the past, they trained more in indoor arenas. This time, no matter it was sunny, windy or raining, they completed their training outdoors. In fact, at this time, Lu Yu no longer had to rely on this method to improve his breathing skills.
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But he made this suggestion after seeing the physical strength deficiencies of other players in the national team.
Training to the fifth day.
Gong Xiaobin quits!
"How can you practice like this? Last time I fell down, a big piece of the cover was broken. The outdoor venue was too miserable!"
He originally thought that the first day of the outdoor competition was just for fun, but he didn't expect it to be serious in the end, training outdoors every day.
It can be closed indoors, but outdoors it is often surrounded by local Chinese people in Auckland.
The most important thing is that if you fall during outdoor training, you are more likely to be injured.
It's not that they haven't trained outdoors. These old players used to practice three times a day. A lot of physical and speed training was done outdoors, but they didn't even train technical and tactical training outdoors!
Gong Xiaobin's resistance was immediately approved by others, such as Battle, who also did not want to train outdoors.
Liu Yudong didn't say anything.
Although he didn't like outdoor training, he still gritted his teeth and persevered. However, as the intensity of training increased, he gradually felt a little out of his depth.
But he knows that this feeling stems from injuries and has nothing to do with indoors or outdoors.
The training is almost entirely Wang Feiding's. The outdoor training method was decided after consulting Gonzaga University coach Mark Foyo. It was really not Lu Yu's suggestion.
He only learned that Gonzaga has a tradition of outdoor training after he curiously asked Yi Jianlian after Lu Yu proposed outdoor competition on the first day.
Gong Xiaobin's words are undoubtedly questioning Wang Fei's coaching authority.
Wang Fei grimaced and said angrily: "If you don't want to fight, you don't have to fight. Anyway, there are many people now. One more of you in the national team is not more, and one less of you is not more."
Gong Xiaobin stopped talking.
However, all kinds of laziness are inevitable in training. Lu Yu just glanced at it lightly, knowing in his heart that the first person to leave the team might be Gong Xiaobin.
In fact, I feel very sorry for Gong Xiaobin.
This is not the first time that he has been unable to play for the national team due to training issues.
In the "Karun Lake Storm" in 1999, the Chinese men's basketball team was training at the Karun Lake base in Jilin in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Gong Xiaobin and Lao Jiang had a rather fierce conflict on the training ground.
Jiang Xingquan thought that Gong Xiaobin's training attitude was not serious enough, so he said something to him in public. However, the young and energetic Gong Xiaobin may have felt that it was difficult to save face, so the two had a quarrel.
The conflict between Gong Xiaobin and Jiang Xingquan became semi-public.
This conflict directly resulted in Gong Xiaobin being excluded from the national team list for Sydney.
If it weren't for his personality, Gong Xiaobin's achievements would definitely be higher than what he is now, but that's just him, otherwise he wouldn't be called Xiaoyao King.
Wang Zhizhi also sighed secretly, and he was going to turn around and chat with Gong Xiaobin quietly.
When Wang Zhizhi first entered the league, his first master was Gong Xiaobin. Gong Xiaobin taught Wang Zhizhi many inside position skills. Now Wang Zhizhi still plays with Gong Xiaobin's shadow. From this point, it can be seen that Gong Xiaobin's strength is strong.
In the Chinese national team back then, Gong Xiaobin was the unbeatable main player at the fourth position. Even Liu Yudong, who had already dominated the domestic arena, could not shake his position.
When Jiang Xingquan was coaching the national team, he had some bad relations with the flamboyant Gong Xiaobin, so he deliberately hid Gong Xiaobin in a game against the South Korean team.
As a result, the Chinese team fell into a passive position from the beginning in that game. In the end, under the pressure of many aspects, Jiang Xingquan’s guidance had to send Gong Xiaobin to play. The effect after playing was immediate. Gong Xiaobin almost defeated the entire Korean team by himself.
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Actually, to be honest, Wang Fei and Gong Xiaobin have a good relationship.
It doesn't mean that just because Gong Xiaobin doesn't train, he won't take Gong Xiaobin with him.
It's not the first day that Gong Xiaobin doesn't like training. From any perspective, except for his height, Gong Xiaobin is a rare genius player in the history of Chinese basketball. However, geniuses are often arrogant, so Gong Xiaobin is also a veritable thorn in the side.
The team often reports that he is not active in training. In response, Gong Xiaobin said the most famous sentence in the history of Chinese basketball: "If I train, I have no opponents in Asia. If I train, I can't go to the NBA. So what do I do?"
Do you still need to train?”
So Wang Fei is very aware of Gong Xiaobin’s attitude problem.
It's just that he has been struggling in his mind whether to bring these mature veterans or bring some young players who can be cultivated.
And Gong Xiaobin's words tilted the scales in his heart.
