Chapter 275 Mentoring young people and returning to the team
Along the way, Wang Zelin and Yao Ming chatted a lot, and only the two of them knew the specific content.
Wang Zelin didn't know how useful his words would be to Yao Ming, but when he finished what he meant, he felt much more comfortable.
He understands that relying on himself alone, Tianchao basketball will never usher in a real rise, just like Dayao, who was outstanding in the past, fully explaining what is meant by "One person is not strong, but collective strength is a pack of wolves!"
If Chinese basketball wants to rise, it must be brought about by all aspects, not by one person.
Surprisingly, at the first stop in Magic City, Yao Ming personally led Wang Zhilin to the Sharks' training base.
Walking into the training base, Yao Ming said loudly: "Everyone, stop for a moment. Let me introduce someone to you. He is the NBA's best rookie this year, the leading center from the Portland Trail Blazers - No. 36 - Wang Zelin."
Wang Zelin's sudden appearance gave the young people of the Sharks Club a big surprise. They quickly swarmed up and surrounded Wang Zelin.
This scene was very similar to what Wang Zelin saw in his previous life when a groupie met his idol.
"Okay, okay, don't worry. We have invited Zelin here today. He will definitely not let him run away easily. You can sign autographs and take photos, and you can even receive Zelin's guidance one-on-one up close.
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After saying that, Yao Ming turned around and joked with Wang Zelin: "You are really a god from generation to generation. You are now the god in the hearts of the younger generation of fans!"
Wang Zelin smiled and said happily: "Brother Yao, you are so humble. Who doesn't know that you are the benchmark figure of Chinese basketball? I have watched you play since I was a child, and I am still your die-hard fan."
"Hahaha! Okay, don't just talk about the situation. I remember that you said this to many NBA stars." Yao Ming was also happy and replied: "I'll trouble you today to play with these kids.
Let them see how vast the sky is and save them a day of being irritable and talking big words."
Wang Zelin promised: "No problem, Brother Yao, I will try my best."
"Uh~" Yao Ming hesitated for a moment and said: "Well, actually, you don't have to use your full strength, otherwise I have to worry about you destroying their confidence... Oh, forget it, just pretend that I didn't say what I said before, you
You can take care of it yourself."
As the CBA home team of Yao Ming, the Shanghai Sharks Club naturally has a deep relationship between them.
However, getting Yao Ming seems to have overdrawn all the Sharks club's good luck. After Yao Ming landed in the NBA, the club's performance was worse than the previous year. The 2012-2013 season was even worse, only finishing 14th in the CBA League and even entering the playoffs.
There is no qualification for the competition.
It has been almost 4 years since Yao Ming took over the Shanghai Sharks, and the club has lost tens of millions.
Yao Ming never refused to spend every penny.
But he also hopes that his investment in each season will receive sufficient returns and that every expenditure will be worthwhile, so that he can be worthy of the hard work he has invested in the club.
The purpose of inviting Wang Zelin here is not to hope that a qualitative change will occur in the players of the Sharks Club in one day, but more to broaden the horizons of young players and allow them to witness the world's top leagues and CBA.
The gap between semi-professional leagues.
Of the dozen or so players present, as long as one or two of them understand their hard work and realize it, Yao Ming will feel it is worth it.
After putting on his jersey, the warm-up preparations were over, and Wang Zelin gradually entered the state.
Basketball is a competitive sport after all!
The best guidance method is undoubtedly practical combat.
Under Yao Ming's instruction, Wang Zelin led the Sharks Club's red team composed of four substitute players and the blue team composed of five main players to have a simple training match.
It's not long, only 30 minutes, divided into two halves.
After more than a month's absence, Wang Zelin once again entered a financial state. After the training game started, the exclamations of the Sharks players and some staff on the sidelines never stopped.
The red team's unexpected jump ball was successful. In the first round, after Wang Zelin got the ball, he ignored the double team of two people and forced his way into the penalty area. Then he double-clicked and curled slightly, preparing for a one-arm split.
No. 15 of the red team wants to take off and block shots. They are all young people. Who doesn't have arrogance in their hearts? He admits that Wang Zelin is very strong, but this does not mean that he is weak.
In a daze, he had already seen the scene where he successfully blocked Wang Zelin and became famous for a while.
However, a tragedy is about to happen!
A physical confrontation between the two occurred quickly, but it was completely different from what he had imagined. No. 15 was knocked upside down by Wang Zelin's strong body and lay directly on the ground.
Then..."Bang!"...smashed the basket successfully.
Wang Zelin shook his head in disappointment.
The vision of these young people in China will always stay on the physical test lines of the Blue Association and Blue Tubes. This is simply self-destruction!
With such physical confrontation, it is no wonder that in every international competition, the Tianchao men's basketball team is a dish on other people's tables and can only be slaughtered by others.
It's just a pity that Yi Jianlian...
After pulling up No. 15, who was still confused, Wang Zelin said with a serious face: "Since you have chosen to play inside, you should know what strength means to inside players. Don't always think about pure skills. Basketball is a competitive sport.
, fundamentally speaking, it is still an exercise that relies on physical fitness. If you have time, practice more bench presses!”
After a few simple tests, he completely lost interest in this training match. Being bored, he simply played unparalleled, so that these young people who have not shed their childishness will know what professional basketball is!
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After 35 minutes.
An extraordinary training match has ended.
68:13...The score of the blue team composed of main players was almost blocked by the red team in single digits.
As a solid NBA All-Star player, being placed in the CBA is simply a dimensionality reduction blow, let alone an underdog team in the CBA.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wang Zelin's impeccable defense was on the inside. Throughout the game, the blue team players' success rate in attacking the basket was very small. Wang Zelin's hands were like a spider web, completely covering the basket.
The basket is sealed.
When Wang Zelin made big shots again and again, the blue team's offensive mood was completely shattered, and the guide took gambling-style outside shots.
How can a player make a shot when he has no confidence?
Therefore, the main players of the Sharks Club faced the most painful game in their respective careers.
Although it was just a training match, Wang Zelin's performance on the field was enough to make them unforgettable for the rest of their lives.
The players and staff at the training base already showed shocked expressions one by one.
Because today's showdown was too unexpected.
Although everyone knew before that Wang Zelin played very hard in the NBA and was in a mess.
After all, he is the NBA's Rookie of the Year, the best second team player in the 2012-2013 season, the All-Star vote leader, and the starting center of a strong team in the Western Conference Finals...
A series of achievements means that Wang Zelin, who has just debuted for only one year, has reached the heights that Yao Ming could reach in the NBA, and even exceeded it.
At least, Yao Ming has never touched the Western Conference Finals in his NBA career!
But everything in front of me was too outrageous.
No one thought that the blue team could win, and similarly, no one thought that the blue team would lose so miserably. It was just like a college team playing a primary school team, and the latter was completely beaten to pieces.
The first core of the Sharks team, Yao Ming's old teammate Liu Wei, was standing on the court stupidly at this time, unable to recover for a long time.
This kind of dominance is almost comparable to that of Dayao, right?
Liu Wei looked at Wang Zelin, who seemed to have just finished his warm-up exercise, with no red face and no panting. He felt that this guy was a monster.
"You've almost rested, do you still want to play?"
Wang Zelin asked.
Now, no one dared to answer the phone anymore.
In just 30 minutes, they already had the most intuitive judgment in their minds...
Is this the strength of star players in the NBA?
The gap is too big!
Can anyone in the country compete with him?
The idea came to mind unexpectedly among the Sharks players.
Maybe Brother A Lian can do it!
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Another night has passed.
On the morning of July 22, Wang Zelin, accompanied by Yao Ming, reported to the Wukesong Gymnasium in Kyoto, which is the temporary training base for the men's basketball national team.
Seeing Lao Dengtou again, the two greeted him warmly and then began to attend to business.
Generally, the first thing an athlete does after reporting is a physical examination.
Naturally, it is not a detailed physical examination, but basic information, such as strength, speed, etc...
Wang Zelin does not need a physical examination. He is NBA Rookie of the Year, All-Star, and the center forward of the Trail Blazers in the Western Conference Finals. A lot of titles are enough to prove that he is the strongest player in the national team.
People with strength always have many privileges.
Therefore, many tedious processes can be eliminated.
After the health check-up, which Lao Deng was most concerned about, the whole process was completed, and the next step was the most important thing.
Press conference~Announcement of Wang Zelin’s return to the national team.
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Wang Zelin officially returns!
On July 20, the East Asian Cup football match has just ended, and domestic sports attention has focused on the men's basketball Asian Championship, which is about to start in about a week.
The selection of national men's basketball players is naturally the focus of attention from the outside world.
Among them, Wang Zelin, the only NBA star in China who has not yet returned to his team, has received the most attention.
When he came to the special interview hall of Wukesong Gymnasium and saw a large group of reporters slandering him, Wang Zelin suddenly felt very tired.
In this era of rampant public knowledge, national self-confidence is far less strong than it was later, and the domestic media has always been irritating: foreign countries are submissive, but domestically they are typically arrogant.
Especially the public intellectuals who have the right to speak are obviously disgusting in their conduct and actions, but most of the Internet users still regard their quotations as wise words.
Really drunk!
Fortunately, at today's press conference, the questions asked by reporters were relatively nonsensical.
The press conference went on and on, and came to the classic "flagging" part. He remembered clearly that poisonous milk often appeared in this part...
A reporter asked: "Your Majesty, the Iranian team has been aggressive in recent years. Do you think the national team can defend the Asian Championship title?"
Is this all you ask about feelings?
It is true that Iran has always been one of the few powerful countries in Asia, and it even achieved two consecutive Asian Championships in 2007 and 2009.
Not surprisingly, Iran is the champion of the 2013 Asian Championships.
But is this national team the original national team?
Is Wang Zelin the original Wang Zhelin?
Obviously not.
He didn't dare to guarantee the World Championships and Olympic Games. After all, there were too many strong teams in Europe and the United States, but if it was just an event in Asia...
"Of course I have confidence! And not only this time, but during my playing career, I thank everyone for ensuring that the Asian Championship championship will always belong to China!"
Now that the "flagging" part is here, how can we miss out on the classic "showing off and slapping someone in the face" part.
As for successfully showing off...
Still got slapped in the face...
Everything depends on the next performance.
In any case, Wang Zelin's interview speech after the press conference is destined to ignite the entire Asian basketball circle.
The press conference was over, and Wang Zelin, Yao Ming, Lao Dengtou, and some accompanying staff boarded a plane bound for Malani, the capital of the Philippines.
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The whole journey takes less than five hours.
When they arrived at Malani, some of Wang Zelin's people also caught up with them for dinner.
After dinner, team leader Yao Ming introduced to Wang Zelin the 11-man roster for the national team and some important staff.
Many of the 11-man roster are old acquaintances, and of course there are also a few new faces.
No. 4 Guo Ailun
No. 5 Liu Xiaoyu
No. 6 Chen Jianghua
No. 7 Wang Shipeng
No. 8 Zhu Fangyu
No. 9 Sun Yue
No. 10 Li Xiaoxu
No. 11 Yi Jianlian
No. 12 Zhang Bo
No. 14 Wang Zhizhi
No. 15 Zhou Peng
And No. 20 Wang Zelin, who just returned to the team.
The 12-man national team roster has finally been assembled.
In last year's London Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team once again reached the top eight, but the pair Wang Qi and Zhu Ba announced that they would no longer compete in any World Championships or Olympic Games.
In principle, they were not planning to compete in the Asian Championships again...
Unfortunately, there is no successor in the domestic forward and defensive line!
Although judging from the original historical trajectory, the addition of the two people did not allow the men's basketball team to go very far in this Asian Championship...
Fortunately, I didn't say that I would no longer participate in the Asian Championships, otherwise it would have been a bit of a slap in the face.
In the evening, I don't know whether it was a deliberate arrangement or an unintentional arrangement. Wang Zelin was assigned to a two-person dormitory, and his roommate happened to be Yi Jianlian.
"Zelin, long time no see!"
Yi Jianlian seemed to have been prepared and stood up on his own initiative, wanting to help Wang Zelin pick up his luggage.
"Hey, Brother A Lian, I don't have much luggage, just a few clothes and documents. Just sit back and sit still."
Wang Zelin hurriedly declined.
"Okay, your bed has been made by the staff. If you feel uncomfortable, you can ask the staff to change it... By the way, if you want to have a midnight snack at night, go to 203 on the second floor, they serve it all night..."
After carrying his bags and moving in, Yi Jianlian introduced the base to Wang Zelin.
"By the way, can I go out for a walk at night? Is there anything fun in the Philippines at night?"
After listening, Yi Jianlian chuckled and said: "Of course you can, but the coach said that the Philippines is no better than in China. If you want to go out to play, it is better to go out during the day. In principle, it is not recommended to go out at night. Of course, if you want to go out at night, you can hire a professional
Together with the tour guide.”
After chatting for a while, Yi Jianlian suddenly remembered that this young man who had made great achievements in the NBA and might have to look up to him for the rest of his life was just a 19-year-old kid.
After sighing for a moment, Yi Jianlian felt a lot more relaxed.