In Beilun, Ningbo, a taxi stopped at the entrance of the men's basketball training base.
Lin Yu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, counted out a large ticket worth a hundred dollars, handed it to the taxi driver who had been chatting with him, and said: "No need to look for it."
I was just about to open the door and get off the car.
The driver spoke Ningbo Mandarin: "No, I still have to find money. Just sign your name for me. I am your fan. You don't know. The room is full of posters, with you on one side and
On the other side is some kind of Japanese female star..."
Lin Yu smiled and did not ask who the Japanese female star was. He nodded: "Okay, then sign your name."
He took the notebook handed by the driver, found a blank page, and signed his name "Lin Yu".
The driver had already found the money and handed it to Lin Yu, then thanked him one after another.
After getting off the car, Adijiang, the deputy leader of the men's basketball team, was already waiting at the door. He was slightly surprised to see Lin Yu get out of the car.
He didn't expect that Lin Yu, such a big-name NBA star, would actually take a taxi to report here.
"Dayu!"
With a smile on his face, Adijiang took two steps towards Lin Yu and greeted him. The two shook hands and then gave him a big hug.
"The training team is waiting for you and Dayao now. Come on, come with me to meet Director Guo."
Guo Shiqiang in Adijiang's mouth refers to Guo Shiqiang. Guo Shiqiang, who has just retired, is already the head coach of the men's basketball team this year.
Of course, this head coach is only in name only, the real coach and command of this men's basketball team is the foreign coach Yunus.
At the training ground of the training center, Lin Yu met Guo Shiqiang.
"I've been waiting for you for almost a month, Dayu!" Guo Shiqiang hugged Lin Yu directly, and then pointed at Lin Yu in a joking tone.
Lin Yu smiled: "I'm here now, isn't it? It shouldn't be too late, right?"
"It's not too late, of course it's not too late. By the way, how are your injuries?" Guo Shiqiang said with a smile, and then thought of Lin Yu's injuries.
"We can already conduct low-confrontation training, but we can't do high-intensity training yet, and we can't play games for the time being."
Lin Yu quickly introduced his injury situation.
Guo Shiqiang frowned: "Can I play the Stankovic Cup?"
Lin Yu shook his head: "It's best not to fight."
Guo Shiqiang hesitated for a moment and then said: "I'm going to ask the leaders above. You first follow Director A to get the national team's equipment, and then find a dormitory to live in. You won't participate in training today and just wander around."
Before leaving, Guo Shiqiang said to Adijiang again: "Director A, you can take Dayu to see Yunus again."
Yunus was standing on the sidelines of the training ground, supervising the training of the training team players. As soon as Guo Shiqiang left, Adijiang brought Lin Yu to Yunus.
This foreign coach from Lithuania is considered a typical European coach, and he is also one of the most successful foreign coaches in coaching men's basketball.
After meeting Lin Yu, Yunus smiled and extended his right hand: "Lin, I'm glad you can play for the country. I have watched your games in the NBA. You are a very good wing player. The national team needs you very much."
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As the real head coach of the national team, Yunus naturally knows every player of the national team, especially Dayao and Lin Yu who are currently playing in the NBA.
Regarding Dayao, Yunus believes that Dayao is Fiba's biggest killer. In Fiba, which does not have a three-second zone and does not limit zone defense, Yao Ming, who is 2.26 meters tall, cannot be defended.
The men's basketball team has always had a strong internal strength, with a mobile Great Wall. In 2006, in addition to the old Great Wall Dayao, Battelle and Shou, there was also the domestically invincible Tang Zhendong, and the young Arab League who had just begun to rise.
However, it is difficult for outside players to be used for great purposes. Even in this time and space, Lin Yu, who had not made explosive progress, was equally difficult to be used for great purposes.
It can be said that the men's basketball team has always been lame on one leg.
In the past season, Lin Yu has made great progress and grown into a top outside shooter and defender, making up for the national team's outside deficiencies. In Yunas's tactical system, Lin Yu's position is quite important.
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"He can shoot three-pointers, organize attacks at the top of the arc, and defend. He is a typical European team player!"
Ever since Lin Yu was confirmed to be able to fight for his country, Yunus had been looking forward to Lin Yu's arrival.
The men's basketball team reached the quarterfinals in the 2004 Olympic Games. In this World Championships, the men's basketball team has another NBA quasi-star Lin Yu. Yunus believes that the men's basketball team can achieve better results.
Lin Yu met with Yunus, and then greeted his teammates in the national team one by one.
The national training team currently has 16 people, not counting Lin Yu and Dayao who are still not on the team. In addition to Lin Yu and Dayao, there are also Sun Yue and Zhang Songtao of the Aoshen team who are not playing in the CBA.
The Guangdong East team is a major player in the national team. Five players, including Yi Jianlian, Chen Jianghua, Wang Shipeng, Du Feng, and Zhu Fangyu, were selected for the national training team.
Then came the Bayi team, including Wang Zhizhi, Li Nan, and Mo Ke, who had returned, a total of three people.
In addition, Tang Zhendong and Hu Xuefeng of the Suzhou team, Zhang Qingpeng of the Liaoshen team, Wang Lei of the Shanxi team, Zhang Yunsong of the Capital team, Liu Wei of the Magic City team...
There are only 12 people who can enter the main competition, so the training team will eliminate six people, and finally form a 12-person roster.
After Lin Yu settled in the training center, Guo Shiqiang found him and gave him an answer about the Stankovic Cup.
"Dayu, I asked you, you don't need to play in the Stankovic Cup, but you must appear in the World Championships."
Lin Yu calculated the time it would take for him to recover from his injury. By the time the World Championships started, his physical condition would be good enough to compete, so he nodded and said there was no problem.
Guo Shiqiang then said: "You don't have to play the Stankovic Cup, but you have to keep up with the recent training, especially Yunus' tactical training."
The intensity of tactical training was not high, so Lin Yu nodded again: "No problem."
He basically spent his first day at the Beilun Training Center wandering around, saying hello to every familiar or unfamiliar player and coach, catching up on old times, or getting to know each other.
He is relatively familiar with Tang Zhendong and Hu Xuefeng of the Suzhou team, but not so familiar with players from other provinces and cities.
However, strength is always king on the basketball court. Even if Lin Yu takes the initiative to say hello to someone he doesn't know well, he usually receives a kind response.
Sun Yue, who plays in the North American ABA League, even came over to exchange ideas and experiences with Lin Yu about playing in the United States.
"Brother Yu, I watched all your NBA games last season. You were so strong!" Sun Yue, who sat next to Lin Yu, extended a thumbs up and continued: "ABA has a group of your fans.
We are all dreaming about the future, hoping that one day we can make a grassroots counterattack like you did."
"By the way, Brother Yu, tell me, what are the differences between playing in the NBA and playing in the CBA?"
Sun Yue suddenly asked such a question, and the young players of the national team pricked up their ears and began to listen attentively.
Before the 2008 Olympics, the Basketball Association encouraged young domestic players to go out.
However, not many players responded. On the one hand, the home team would not let him go, and on the other hand, there were also factors in which the players themselves were unwilling to go out to play.
After all, if you play in the CBA, you may not have that much money, but you will have fewer things to do, you are close to home, and nothing will go wrong.
But this does not mean that young domestic players have not dreamed of playing in the NBA. They are unwilling to take action, and it is true that some of them do not understand the reasons for the NBA.
"If it's different, I think it's confrontation. The intensity of confrontation in the NBA is very high. If domestic players want to get stable playing time in the NBA, a certain degree of weight gain is necessary. In addition, NBA basketball is paying more and more attention to
Players with two skills like long-range three-point shooting and perimeter defense will be very popular, like me."
Sun Yue thought thoughtfully, three-pointers and defense, he at least accounted for one defense.
Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu are also thinking that their long-range shots are good, can they also try in the NBA?
"Besides the difference on the court, I think the biggest difference is the difference in language, culture and skin color."
"I know this."
Sun Yue interjected: "Americans have a strong racial concept. Blacks reject whites, whites reject blacks, and blacks and whites reject yellow people. In addition, there are language barriers and cultural barriers. When we go to play in the United States, we must first break through
Yes, it’s the clique in the locker room.”
"If you can't break through, you will be isolated, and then you won't be able to get the ball, or even play..."
Lin Yu looked at Sun Yue with some curiosity: "Don't you play in Aoshen? Aoshen shouldn't have such bad things, right?"
"There are other teams in ABA."
"All right."
Many young players heard the discussion between Lin Yu and Sun Yue.
17-year-old Chen Jianghua, 19-year-old Yi Jianlian, 23-year-old Wang Shipeng, 23-year-old Zhu Fangyu, 20-year-old Wang Lei, 24-year-old Tang Zhendong...
They all had their own ideas, some were completely dissuaded by the troubles mentioned by Lin Yu and Sun Yue, some felt that the NBA was not that scary anymore, and some found their own future path.
In short, Lin Yu unknowingly changed the minds of some men's basketball players.