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On the evening of August 27th, a certain Star Cinema in Indianapolis, USA.
All members of the Chinese team participating in this year's Asian Men's Basketball Championship are gathering in a cinema to watch a movie.
The start time of the 2002 Men's Basketball World Championships is August 30. As usual, the training intensity in the days before the game will not be too high, and there will even be some leisure time. The men's basketball players who have been training hard for more than four months naturally want to do it well.
Can relax.
But even if you want to relax, since we are traveling abroad to compete as a group, there are definitely not many events to choose from.
We couldn’t eat randomly, walk around, do anything unique, and we couldn’t go far away, so going to the theater to watch a movie together became the most outrageous thing this time.
In response, team captain Jiang Yan spent some money to add Chinese subtitles to some of the current Hollywood blockbusters, such as "Spider-Man", "Men in Black 2", "Signs" and "The Fast and the Furious"
Waiting for Hollywood blockbusters to be released in the summer.
Several blockbusters are enough for the team members to stay in the theater for half a day without getting bored.
In addition to watching movies, Jiang Yan also spent some money to hire a chef to serve him well in terms of food. Although there is still a limit on how much each person can eat. After all, there is a competition and you can't eat too much, so many people still feel that they can't eat.
It's full, but it's much better than the sparse nutritious meals during training.
"Boss, when is your movie going to be released?"
At this time, "Men in Black 2" had just finished playing in the theater. During the intermission, everyone was discussing the movie. After discussing for a while, a young voice rang out. This person was Liu Wei, who had just entered the national team this year and was also a big player.
Yao's former CBA teammate, he was the main defender of the national team for a long time.
"That's what comes next."
Jiang Yan explained briefly.
Liu Wei asked about his "Fast and Furious".
"The Fast and the Furious" was released in North America on July 8. In one month, it took in a box office of 140 million US dollars in North America, which was more than 10 million US dollars more than expected. It was considered a very good result.
At this time, "The Fast and the Furious" will almost be released all over the world, including China.
When the national team came to the United States a week ago, the promotion had already begun. Various words such as "a new movie written by Jiang Yan" and "a Hollywood blockbuster that set the box office championship in North America during the summer season" made Liu Wei, Zhu Fangyu, Du Feng,
Young players like Dayao have wanted to watch it for a long time, but because they have to train, they can only wait until this time to feast their eyes on it.
"Boss, it is said that this movie used more than ten sports cars. Is it true?"
At this time, Zhu Fangyu leaned on the back of Jiang Yan's seat and asked a question that had been asked many times.
When Zhu Fangyu asked, other young players also raised their heads, causing some senior players in the team to shake their heads and laugh.
"I've said it eight hundred times, it's true!" Jiang Yan responded helplessly.
He knew what Zhu Fangyu's question meant.
Asked whether the dozens of cars that were scrapped during the filming were fake, and reminded Jiang Yan to remember that the promise is true.
When Jiang Yan first joined the training team in early July, a group of young people led by Zhu Fangyu admired Jiang Yan very much. Of course, there must be some dissatisfaction in their admiration.
Of course Jiang Yan knew that, and he didn't get used to them, so in the next two months of training, these boys were trained by him every day, making everyone miserable.
But everyone also knows that the benefits of being squeezed by Jiang Yan are huge.
After two months of training, in addition to everyone's cooperation becoming very tacit, everyone has improved in all aspects far beyond the two months without Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan's own evaluation is that this group of people has been able to keep up with his rhythm, and the semi-finals of this Asian Championship are basically stable.
But what should be reminded still needs to be reminded, so Jiang Yan directly reminded him with a straight face:
"Don't be too excited. When the time comes, you'll lose your temper. I'll have your juice to drink!"
"Don't worry, boss, just watch it. I'll bite whoever you ask me to bite!"
Zhu Fangyu showed a ferocious smile and was full of fighting spirit. He was worthy of the nickname "Zhu Baquan" in later generations!
The rest of the people are also full of fighting spirit, as if they can't wait for the competition to start tomorrow so that they can get the prizes agreed with Jiang Yan as soon as possible.
Jiang Yan was also very satisfied with this. He and Dayao looked at each other, smiled knowingly, and then continued to look at the big screen.
The top four is the goal of this expedition.
If they can successfully reach the goal, Jiang Yan agreed with the team members that he would pay for each person to buy a car.
The better the score, the more expensive the car will be.
Not only that, Jiang Yan will also receive more support, such as funding to study abroad, etc.
Although such a reward seems quite tacky, it seems unnecessary for Jiang Yan to personally pay for it.
But Jiang Yan felt it was worth it, and he really had to do it.
Because this has a lot to do with the current situation of the national men's basketball team.
When Jiang Yan first joined the national team in early July, his blood pressure nearly exploded when he saw the national team training roster.
How to describe it, it’s just one sentence: Sometimes the Basketball Association is qualified to be a chaser, but it is not good to be a leader. It’s a waste of life!
Why do you say that? Because Jiang Yan has seen too many problems.
Strictly speaking, the importance of this World Championship is actually not that great.
At first, Jiang Yan thought this was related to tickets for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but later he learned that the World Championships and Olympic tickets had nothing to do with it. Even if he was the champion, he would have to fight for it again in his own continent's championship next year.
In other words, this year's World Championships and the Busan Asian Games after the World Championships can actually train troops to prepare for the 2004 Olympics or even the 2008 Olympics.
And the Chinese team really needs to do this now.
On the one hand, the veteran team members of the Sydney Olympics are now almost half-disabled. Hu Weidong, Liu Yudong and other older members have suddenly become less angry because they won the gold medal. If we want them to work as hard as they did at the Sydney Olympics, it is simply
Too difficult.
It is understandable that their long-cherished wish has come true. In addition, they are suffering from injuries, they have reached the stage of retirement, and their form has seriously declined. Therefore, it is physically and psychologically unsuitable for them to come to the World Championships this time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Moreover, Lao Hu and Jiang Yan also said that in fact, they didn't want to come this time, and they couldn't defeat them after they came, but the superiors forced them to come.
On the other hand, even if Hu Weidong and others are not on the roster, the core of the team is still there. Da Zhi and Da Yao are both NBA-level players, and Jiang Yan is a super-level Dinghai Shenzhen. With the three of them here, the rest of the team is actually a little bit better.
It's close, I can still play in this game, but the worst thing is that my results are close.
But, as far as the Basketball Association is concerned, it just wants results!
Must reach the finals of the World Championships!
Must win the Busan Asian Games!
This was the goal set by the Basketball Association from the beginning.
So when Jiang Yan joined the training team, what he saw was that Hu Weidong and a bunch of "old, weak, sick and disabled" were still training hard there.
And this is not what makes Jiang Yan the most angry. What makes him most angry is that you can just bring in some potential newcomers, but in reality, many of the new members that Jiang Yan saw when he first registered were...
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Only then did Jiang Yan realize that it was an old problem with the system that had occurred again!
I got results and thought I could really do it!
Not only that, but there is also a more harmful problem, that is, when you have money and the market becomes bigger, all kinds of inexplicable human relations begin to change, and then all kinds of honey operations start to happen, such as those who are related to each other, take credit for their efforts, and so on.
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Head coach Jiang Xinquan was also replaced and replaced by new coach Wang Fei.
Basketball director Li Yuanwei was also changed, replaced by Xin Lancheng, who was criticized the most by fans in later generations.
"Believe in Gods, Ghosts and Lancheng"!
His counterpart is "Thank God Xie Yalong" who single-handedly brought Chinese football into the ultra-dark era in 2005!
Jiang Yan's vision went dark at that time.
The superiors simply can’t figure out the situation!
Things that should be replaced are not replaced, and everything that should not be replaced is left in a mess!
If we continue like this, we may not even make it to the quarterfinals, let alone the finals.
The level of this World Championships is extraordinary, it can even be said to be better than that of the Sydney Olympics.
This year, Yugoslavia and Argentina are at their peak. If the Chinese team has the same lineup as the Sydney Olympics, it will not be easy to surpass them.
But now, Liu Yudong, Hu Weidong and others are suffering from injuries, and the newcomer is here to get gold, and the superiors are not clear about the situation. It can be said that the time and place are not favorable and the people are at odds!
Therefore, it is understandable that the original time and space men's basketball team defeated Laos and Busan consecutively this year.
Jiang Yan naturally doesn't want this to happen.
Because if he really loses the game, he will definitely be scolded the most. Who makes him an "outsider"?
So Jiang Yan found Xin Lancheng that night, and then activated a new skill to output.
The blue skill "Kick-Ass" was a skill Jiang Yan acquired as a private tutor on the crew of Zhang Guoli's "Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan 2" in Beijing for half a year before he joined the training team in early July.
The skill effect is: when you teach someone verbally, it can cause the other person to have an epiphany effect. The stronger the tone, the stronger the effect, and there are no side effects.
To put it bluntly, Jiang Yan can point his nose at someone and scold them. Not only can he wake them up, but he doesn't have to worry about retaliation.
This is an excellent skill, although there are restrictions on its use. For example, you have to reason and cannot teach blindly. The skill can only be used once a day, and the continuous activation time is only fifteen minutes, and it consumes a lot of mental energy.
But it is really useful when it works, because the effect will continue after you wake up.
For example, when facing Xin Lancheng and other new executives of the Basketball Association, Jiang Yan opened the door and turned on all fire.
"Hu Weidong, Liu Yudong, they are all injured and ready to retire at a very young age. You still let them play in such an unimportant game? What do you think? Ah?!"
"Whose nephew is that little defender Zhang Miao? You can get into the national team just by relying on your connections. You are so awesome!"
"After the Sydney Olympics, you made at least five to six billion, right? Where did the money go? Oh, you were engaged in renovations, building buildings, and providing some benefits that were not available, but you have invested money in youth training!"
"Do you really think the domestic level is high enough? You won a gold medal and you don't know your last name, right?"
"How big is the gap between us and the world's top teams? You, Xin Lancheng, have also been inspecting the NBA and NCAA for a year. Don't you know?"
"Don't always be anxious for quick success! This is basketball, a team sport, and we need a good base of athletes! It's not your track and field! It's not something you can get pregnant by drinking some cow urine!"
After a lot of scolding, Xin Lancheng and others, like Sun Tzu, did not dare to reply a word.
Then soon the skill also took effect. Xin Lancheng and others accepted it humbly, and then asked for their opinions: What should we do?
And Jiang Yan has already prepared a plan.
The first is to change the selection of personnel.
Lao Hu and the others can just be sparring partners. Anyway, Lao Hu and the others will fall short in this competition in Original Time and Space, so why not give the burden to other newcomers.
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As for the newcomers, they can just practice with anyone who is a member of the relationship, and they will be fine if they get into the main roster.
So Zhu Fangyu and others, whom Jiang Yan was very optimistic about, were helped upright.
Then the goal was lowered, and the strategic purpose of this expedition was changed to military training.
Xin Lancheng and the others were also worried about whether they would be scolded by the public.
Jiang Yan asked directly: Are you worried about public opinion or your official position? Wake up! Is the 2008 Olympics more important or this kind of World Championships? And if you are afraid of being scolded, then explain the situation. This time it is the training of the new army.
The public's expectations have naturally dropped.
Besides, with me and Dazhi Dayao here, are you still worried about not getting good grades?
Don't say anything else, just say this last sentence. Xin Lancheng and other newly appointed leaders breathed a sigh of relief on the spot after hearing this.
So the ultimate goal was set to be the top four.
Originally Jiang Yan wanted to go to the quarterfinals, but this is definitely not appropriate. Jiang Yan has become stronger now. He has absolute confidence to lead the team to the finals with a single core, and has already shown his strength. There is no need to be so low-key. No matter how low-key,
That would seem hypocritical. People are not stupid.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After saying this, Jiang Yan also gave some advice, which is to encourage players to go out.
At this point, Jiang Yan couldn't help scolding the leaders present about Yao's peeling skin before he successfully studied abroad.
After scolding, Jiang Yan also gave his own plan, which was to suggest that the Basketball Association learn from the later Neon Basketball Association.
As long as the players stay abroad, we will provide subsidies!
In this regard, I, Jiang Yan, can provide financial support.
At this time, the leaders of the Basketball Association nodded again, saying that they would consider this matter in the future.
After a lesson, the next development of things was indeed in line with Jiang Yan's wishes.
The final lineup of the Chinese team:
Head coach: Wang Fei
Center: Yao Ming, Battelle.
Power forward: Gong Xiaobin, Dazhi, Du Feng.
Small forward: Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Chen Ke.
Shooting guard: Jiang Yan, Zhang Cheng.
Point guard: Guo Shiqiang, Liu Wei.
The head coach was originally Jiang Xinquan, but old Jiang was also dissatisfied, and with Jiang Yan around, the position of head coach was not particularly important, so Wang Fei successfully stayed.
This also makes Jiang Yan very satisfied with the new skill "Head-on". With this skill, he will really get twice the result with half the effort in the future.
But at the same time, he also knew that this could only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
As for how to cure the root cause?
Wow, this is a big topic.
It’s so big that maybe it will get a 404 when I write it.
Therefore, Jiang Yan can only rely on his skills to take one step at a time.
So the superiors have temporarily settled it, and the next issue is the strength and integration of the new army.
To be honest, Hu Weidong, Liu Yudong and others are all the pride of heaven and very strong. Before Yi Jianlian and others came out, it was difficult to find anyone who could surpass them. But Zhu Fangyu and the others are not without their merits. Their biggest advantage is their youth.
Durable, energetic and passionate.
Moreover, Jiang Yan was able to flexibly switch between red and white faces, taking turns with "Shout-in" and "Affinity", and he quickly crushed a group of young men into an iron fist.
In the sport of basketball, sometimes morale is really important, so Jiang Yan believes that this new national team might really create another miracle in this World Championships.