The Chinese men's basketball team played a warm-up match with the Southern California Summer League team.
There are ten teams in this league, namely the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Seattle SuperSonics, Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Toronto Raptors and the Canadian National Team.
This season there is a new Chinese Men’s Basketball National Team.
It’s just that the Chinese men’s basketball team only played four games.
The game schedule for four games has also come out, namely the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State Warriors, and the Canadian national team.
The reason for playing against the two teams in Los Angeles is for convenience. You can play two teams in one city, which saves trouble, time and effort. The reason for playing against the Golden State Warriors is because Yao Ming needs to show his face in front of his new club.
As for the Canadian national team... just for inspection.
Mainly I want to see how big the gap is between the Chinese men's basketball team and European and American teams.
On July 11, the Chinese men's basketball team played its first game against the Los Angeles Lakers. They came to Staples again, but this time they represented the Chinese national team. When Lu Yu came on the court, all the Lakers fans at the scene stood up and applauded Lu Yu.
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Firstly, you can see big-name stars like Lu Yu in the summer league, and the tickets are so worth it. Secondly, Lu Yu’s performance in the finals really amazed Lakers fans. To be honest, if it weren’t for Lu Yu being his opponent,
They have long become fans of Lu Yu.
Only then did the teammates of the national team realize Lu Yu’s influence in the NBA.
I had only heard about it before, but it felt so unreal when I saw it with my own eyes.
A yellow player is so popular in the United States.
In this game, the Lakers players also wanted to score points on Lu Yu, so that they could have a brilliant performance and be signed by the Lakers. The result was very pitiful that the Lakers' back line was intercepted by Lu Yu for five times.
Second-rate.
At the end of the game, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Lakers 101-92.
Lu Yu scored 27 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds and 5 steals. His comprehensive statistics taught the Lakers rookie how to behave.
Yao Ming scored 17 points, 16 rebounds and 2 assists.
Wang Zhizhi had 13 points, 12 rebounds and 3 assists.
The three of them together scored more than half of the Chinese men's basketball team's scores. Gong Xiaobin only got sporadic playing time, and even Yi Jianlian played more time than him.
Yi Jianlian performed well, scoring 7 points and 8 rebounds. His excellent physical fitness was eye-catching.
Especially his toughness in the interior has made many Lakers scouts set their sights on him. They believe that Yi Jianlian has the ability to play in the NBA. Maybe at the end of the next NCAA season, Yi Jianlian may participate in the draft, and then he can give it a try.
On July 13, the Chinese men’s basketball team played against the Clippers again.
The last time Lu Yu had a fight, he fought Clippers players, but it had nothing to do with the players participating in the summer league.
The Chinese men's basketball team won again.
Lu Yu performed regular operations, scoring 20 points and 11 assists. His assists were more than point guards Liu Wei and Guo Shi put together. People who didn't know better thought he was a point guard.
Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi scored 13 points, 11 rebounds and 17 points, 8 rebounds respectively.
The Clippers did not select any high-quality rookies this year. Chris Wilcox's skills were too rough and he was completely outplayed by Wang Zhizhi. Compared with Wang Zhizhi's delicate technical movements, he was simply a rough guy.
At the end of the game, the Chinese team won the game with a score of 107 to 83.
After the two games, the Chinese men's basketball team was shocked to find that the NBA team was nothing more than this, but they also knew that it was a summer league team and there was nothing to be proud of.
But if it were in the past, the team they played in the summer league would most likely lose.
But it seems different now, the fight is very easy.
For example, Zhu Fangyu, all he has to do is find a shooting position he is familiar with, wait for Lu Yu to pass the ball over, and then shoot the ball himself.
On the defensive end, Lu Yu locks the opponent on the outside, and Yao Ming acts as a natural barrier on the inside.
Winning is easy.
In the past, the outside line could not stop the opponent, and the inside line was as tired as a dog. In the second half of the fight, all the inside lines had lost their energy, and they were beaten.
Liu Yudong and Gong Xiaobin, who were sitting in the audience, looked at each other.
Then they both sighed.
This group of young people in the Chinese men's basketball team has shown them the hope of Chinese basketball.
Maybe it's Gong Xiaobin's fault that he doesn't like training, but he is a player who sincerely wants to win. He is not the only player who wants the Chinese men's basketball team to win. There are also the older generation of Chinese men's basketball players who have experienced the glorious Olympic quarterfinals.
, have also experienced countless regretful losses to strong European teams. They hope that the Chinese men's basketball team can be better, and they also hope that the Chinese men's basketball team's results will not only be the top eight.
After playing two games in Los Angeles, Lu Yu had dinner with Kobe and his family.
Of course, Stewart, who is always busy with food, is indispensable.
Lu Yu always felt that Stewart looked at him strangely.
As a scumbag, Lu Yu could naturally guess what this look meant.
Please.
wrench!
You are only twelve years old, you are still a child!
On July 15, the Chinese men’s basketball team returned to Oakland to play against the Golden State Warriors.
The fans at the scene burst into huge applause. They were welcoming their No. 1 pick to the Warriors' home arena for the first time. Although Yao Ming did not represent the Warriors this time, they still could not stop the enthusiasm of Warriors fans.
Arenas came over and hugged Lu Yu, then glanced at Yao Ming: "This is our team's No. 1 pick this year? Shetter, what did you eat to grow so tall?"
Yao Ming smiled: "I think it may be genetic."
Arenas looked at Lu Yu, who had grown to over 2 meters tall, then looked at Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian sitting on the sidelines, and said with envy: "You yellow people have really good genes."
However, Arenas is not playing in this game. He is just here to watch. If not for the arrival of Lu Yu and Yao Ming, he would not have given up his opportunity to take a vacation and come to watch a bunch of rookies play.
In addition to Arenas, several of the team's main players were present, such as Jason Richardson, Antawn Jamison, and even the team's power center Dampier.
Game start.
Lu Yu took the initiative to pass the ball to Yao Ming. Yao Ming squeezed inside without squeezing his opponent. He was a little thin at this time, but it did not affect his offense. He turned around and made a hook. The defensive players could only look at the ball and sigh.
It’s out of reach!
The basketball hit the net.
"Hey, this big guy is pretty good!" Richardson said with a smile.
Two rounds passed.
After Lu Yu picked and rolled, he passed the ball to the high post.
Yao Ming was one step behind the free throw line and raised his hand to shoot. His shooting posture was not standard. His arms were raised a bit high, and his big hands almost covered the entire basketball. However, the shooting arc was very good, and the basketball fell into the basket with a swish.
basket.
"This big man is great." Jamison also nodded and said.
Two more rounds passed.
Yao Ming held the ball in a high position and suddenly threw the ball behind his head. Lu Yu, who cut in from the other side, picked up the ball in the air, floated in the air, and smashed the ball in from the other side with his back.
"Wow, this big man is so awesome!" Arenas stood up excitedly.
All the fans in the audience stood up excitedly.
Bravo.
He can attack at the basket, shoot from the high post, pass the ball, and is 226cm tall. There are not many such big centers in the entire NBA!
The management in the stands of the Warriors seems to see hope for the team's revival!
Only Dampier looked gloomy.
He has always felt that, except for O'Neal, there is no center better than him in the entire league, but the emergence of Yao Ming made him feel threatened!
Not to mention the second center in the league, I don't know if he can keep his starting position with the Warriors.
Just the title of the opponent's No. 1 pick is enough to make him a substitute for a period of time, not to mention that the opponent has a huge Chinese market behind him.
If Yao Ming does not perform well, he still has a chance to become the starter again, but looking at Yao Ming's current style of play, might he not perform well?
In this game, the teammates of the Chinese Men's Basketball Team deliberately provided Yao Ming with the ball so that Yao Ming could continue to score.
In the end, Yao Ming scored 30 points, 14 rebounds and 4 assists, and the Chinese men's basketball team also won the game 98-71.
After Yao Ming's game, he received a warm welcome from Warriors fans.
Lu Yu just smiled. He felt that through this game, it would be a good choice for the Warriors to realize the importance of Yao Ming.
In fact, several NBA teams in the summer league are not strong. According to the current strength of the Chinese men's basketball team, it is normal to win the game. After all, the players in the summer league want to express themselves more, so their coordination is much worse.
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Even the coaches are mostly assistant coaches of the team.
Just like the Bulls' summer league last year, when Lu Yu was playing, the Bulls' coach was Cartwright, who was still an assistant coach at the time.
So being able to win against these teams, Lu Yu felt there was nothing to brag about.
But for the domestic media, it's different. The Chinese men's basketball team beat the NBA team, not to mention the summer league, even the Development League.
In Lu Yu's previous life, the Chinese men's basketball team had only defeated two summer league teams in its history.
The first time was in 2007, in order to prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team started a summer league. At that time, the Chinese lineup was very strong, which could be called the strongest in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team. The players included Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian, Liu Xiaoyu, Wang Shipeng, Wang Zhizhi, Sun Yue, and Mo Ke.
, Li Nan, Zhou Peng, Ding Jinhui, Zhang Jinsong, Wang Zhongguang, Wang Lei, the members of the team at that time were all well-known figures in the CBA, and they were also the original members of the 2008 BJ Olympics.
Of course, Yao Ming is not here.
It was this lineup that helped the Chinese team reach the top 8 of the Olympic Games. However, even such a strong team ultimately only won one of the five games in the NBA Summer League that year, and it still relied on Yi Jianlian in the three-man package.
After the game, he hit a rebound shot to win the game.
The other team was the Chinese men's basketball team that served Poland, and finally achieved a record of 1 win and 4 losses.
Winning all three battles like this would have been almost impossible in Lu Yu's previous life.
Not to mention, in the current NBA, even in the summer league, the competition is more intense than it was a few years ago.
However, the Chinese men's basketball team that has achieved results, from top to bottom, from head coach Wang Fei to every player, their goal is no longer the summer league, but the real strong European and American teams.
Therefore, the Canadian national team has become the most important opponent for the Chinese men's basketball team to test its strength.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Canada was placed in a group of death that included Yugoslavia, Australia, Russia, and Spain.
Under the leadership of captain Nash, Canada won four games and lost one, qualifying first in the group.
In the crucial battle with Yugoslavia for the top spot in the group, Nash scored a near-triple-double of 26 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, leading the team to victory.
In the knockout round of eight, Canada lost to France by five points, and Nash left the field in tears.
Subsequently, in the qualifying match, Nash led the team to defeat Russia, and Canada achieved a record of seventh place in the Olympics.
Although it is only seventh, you need to know who are the teams Canada has encountered?
Yugoslavia, Australia, Russia, Spain!
On July 19, after a four-day break, the Chinese men's basketball team played against Canada at the Warriors' home arena. This game was equivalent to the two teams borrowing the Warriors' arena.
The Warriors are also very happy. The Chinese men's basketball team has Lu Yu and the Canadian men's basketball team has Nash. They both have stars, so there is no need to worry about selling tickets.
What's more, local fans can watch Yao Ming's games again.
Especially since there are so many Chinese fans in San Francisco, the summer league alone has given the team management an optimistic outlook for ticket sales next season.
Nash and Wang Zhizhi are teammates of the Mavericks. The two hugged before the game.
He and Lu Yu have little interaction, because they only played a few regular season games last season, and the two of them are not in the same position, so there is basically no chance of facing off.
But he knew that Lu Yu was the most difficult opponent for the Chinese men's basketball team.
Even more difficult than the No. 1 pick from the Warriors.
There is also Wang Zhizhi. He and Wang Zhizhi are teammates. Naturally, he knows Wang Zhizhi's strength. He can stand in the rotation for a strong team in the Western Conference like the Mavericks. He may have the strength to start in a weak team. He has no reason not to let his teammates from the national team
Pay attention to it.
The game was very tense.
The Canadian team obviously cooperated more tacitly, and with the presence of Nash as a leader, their offense was in order.
But the defense is a bit miserable.
They couldn't guard against the Chinese men's basketball team's offense.
Lu Yu was like a sharp knife on the outside, easily tearing apart Canada's defense, and Yao Ming kept stirring things up on the inside.
However, relying on its own offense, the Canadian team still clung to the score.
Especially when Lu Yu and Yao Ming took a break at the same time, they took the opportunity to overtake the score. This shows that the strength of other Chinese men's basketball players is still far behind the Canadian national team.
This cannot be seen in the summer league games, because the main lineup of the summer league has no tactics at all, let alone their substitutes.
Their substitutes are just soy sauce.
Canada is different. Even the substitute players are playing for European teams.
In the first half, the two sides were tied at 47.
In the second half, the situation suddenly changed. Lu Yu scored three consecutive three-pointers, completely blowing the clarion call for the Chinese men's basketball team's offense.
Canada has clearly been fooled.
In the final game, the Chinese men's basketball team won the game 99-92.
Nash said in an interview after the game: "Don't let the players of the Chinese team play, otherwise their offense will be unstoppable. From the Chinese men's basketball team, I saw the rise of another basketball power!"
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