Time flies so fast, and they have been training together for nearly half a month.
During this period, Yao Ming also came to the training arena to watch the team train.
He said he came to watch the team train, but actually he came to give Lian Dao a place to stand.
After all, this men's basketball team is really full of senior players, and Lian Dao has no domestic competition qualifications, so Yao Ming is also worried that he will be excluded.
But after arriving this time, I found that Lian Dao has integrated into the team very well, and the teammates are also very harmonious.
Yao Ming is also increasingly optimistic about Lian Dao's future.
Moreover, this time he also discovered that Lian Dao's strength had evolved again since his last trip to Houston.
This gave Yao Ming more expectations for the 2010 World Championships in Turkey.
Looking at his injured foot and thinking about the doctor's warning to him, Yao Ming also made up his mind.
During this period, after the team's continuous training and several games with other domestic teams, the men's basketball team has also determined the starting lineup for this Asian Championship.
Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng, Lian Dao, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi.
This time also truly established Lian Dao's status as the starting small forward.
There are no other players in this lineup who have any objections. Lian Dao, Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi are the strongest players at this position.
Moreover, Lian Dao's presence in the starting lineup also consolidated and improved the men's basketball perimeter defensive system.
On August 5, the men’s basketball team took a bus to Tianjin to prepare for the Asian Championships on August 6.
Before departure, Lian Dao also determined that his national team's number was No. 12. It had no meaning because there was no way to choose 0-3 as the jersey number, so Lian Dao chose the last one.
After confirming the lineup, the next step is to take makeup photos.
When the makeup photos appeared on the Internet, many forums and forums reposted them like crazy.
Just because Lian Dao, Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue stood together.
This directly excited many female fans, jokingly calling this the most handsome men's basketball team.
This is a direct stab into Dayao's heart.
I don’t know if Dayao will cry silently when he reads this comment. I just missed one Asian Championship and they became the most handsome men’s basketball team.
What does it mean? Look down on people?
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The opponents in the first round of the men's basketball team's group stage matches were relatively weak.
They are India, Hasakah and Qatar.
Although the opponents in the first round were relatively weak, it did not affect the attendance rate at all.
On the contrary, in these games, every game was full, and the proportion of female fans continued to increase.
Female fans of the men's basketball team have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
The key is that some female fans were outrageous enough to hold up huge photos of Lian Dao and the others.
You are not here to watch the game, you are here to blatantly chase stars.
The atmosphere of playing at home is really strong. As long as the Chinese team wins the ball, the cheers will ring through the sky.
That kind of cheering is no less than that of March Madness fans.
In these three games, the Chinese team also easily won by a large margin without losing any blood.
In the second round, when the Chinese team played against the UAE team in the first game, although there were some mistakes, the main reason was that the men's basketball team underestimated the opponent. The speed of the UAE team was their advantage, so the men's basketball team also made a lot of mistakes in this game.
, but after adjusting later, they also won by a big score.
After all, in terms of strength, the UAE is still lagging behind the men's basketball team.
In the second game, against Lebanon, China also encountered some difficulties at the beginning.
Lebanon's national team this time is still very good, and there are quite a few tall players inside.
And many players are also foreign aid players in the CBA.
As a West Asian team, Lebanon is very good at confrontation, and their skills are also quite good.
But the good thing is that Lian Dao continues to share the pressure on the defensive end, especially in perimeter defense and rebound protection.
Therefore, the men's basketball team has always maintained a lead in the score, especially Lian Dao who caught the opponent's pass from the outside twice to steal, and counterattacked to assist Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi to score.
The two sides fought fiercely until the third quarter, when Lian Dao also entered scoring mode.
At this time, Lian Dao's physical fitness was not an advantage in the NBA, but it did become an advantage in Asian competitions.
Holding the ball in the high post, dunking after a lightning breakthrough, three-pointers from outside, alley-oop dunks, and turning around and dunking in low post.
When everyone was exhausted, Lian Dao kept breaking through and dunking, and shooting three-pointers against the defense from the outside.
Throughout the third quarter, Lian Dao was like a perpetual motion machine, constantly tearing apart Lebanon's defense and scoring.
At the end of the third quarter, the men's basketball team also established a 37-point lead.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, after a wave of attacks to expand the score advantage, Lebanon saw that there was no hope of recovery and put on the substitute lineup. Seeing this, the men's basketball team also put on the substitute lineup.
D'Antoni also nodded with satisfaction when he saw Lian Dao's performance in the audience.
Lian Dao can play such an offense, which makes D'Antoni look forward to Lian Dao even more.
At the end of the second round of the group stage, in the third game of the second round, the men's basketball team also defeated Jordan without any blood.
The complete victory in the first two rounds can be regarded as revenge for the 2007 Asian Championships.
The 2007 Asian Championships mainly focused on training and sent out second-tier teams, so they achieved the tenth place.
In addition to being a second-tier team, the reason for such a poor performance is that teams from some countries in West Asia are also improving.
Many of their players are exposed to standard American basketball, and they are constantly improving in terms of confrontation and technology.
However, many media outlets deliberately conceal the reasons in order to attract attention, causing fans to misunderstand and gain maximum attention.
The men's basketball team also achieved a top-eight record in the last year's Olympic Games, which set the goal for this year's men's basketball team to return to the top of Asia.
In the first six games, they achieved a complete victory, and the Yinlang team also achieved a complete victory. Both teams qualified with first place in the group stage.
After finishing first in the group stage, the men's basketball team also received huge attention from domestic fans.
The next game will officially enter the qualifying round.
In the quarter-finals, the men's basketball team's opponent was the Chinese Taipei team.
Although the Chinese Taipei team is fourth in the other group, they are definitely not the weakest team among the top eight teams. On the contrary, their technology, speed, and tactical literacy are all very good.
But the Chinese Taipei team also has certain shortcomings. They are the shortest among the top eight teams and the team with the worst confrontation.
In this aspect, the Chinese team has an absolute advantage.
In this game, under Lian Dao's defense on the outside, they also made mistakes one after another.
In this game, the Chinese team's inside advantage was constantly amplified. Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi were also at home in the paint.
Lian Dao also sent passes one after another.
The men's basketball team also won this game easily with 105:86.
Lian Dao also scored 18 points, 15 assists, 7 rebounds, 7 steals and 5 blocks in this game with a 5×5 record.
5×5, this is it, you must know that the difficulty of 5×5 is even more difficult than a triple-double.
It can be seen that Lian Dao really treated the Asian Championships as a summer league.
In this game, Lian Dao also showed his ability as a defensive gate.
The successive blocks made all the fans in the audience excited.
It can be said that the Chinese men's basketball team entered the semifinals with a crushing attitude this time.
At this time, all the players were very relaxed because their opponent in the semifinals was the Lebanese team.
The big score victory in the group stage caused many players to relax their vigilance towards Lebanon.