Chapter 288: The Butcher Who Sharpens His Knife

Although it was the second time he returned to China during the holiday, An Jie did not have the opportunity to return home this time. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info he didn't come back today to relax, but to shoulder the task.

"The World Championships must at least qualify from the group!" After winning the Asian Championships last year, the Basketball Association issued such a hard indicator to the national team this year. Although from an international point of view, this World Championships has become very helpful. Not to mention that many NBA stars such as Kobe Bryant and James voluntarily quit, even Tony Parker, Dirk Nowitzki and other leading stars from various countries will not participate in the game for various reasons. The World Championships, which has always been known as a gathering place for football stars, suddenly lost its focus. There are no stars, not only do they not pay attention, but they also greatly reduce the level of the entire World Championships.

Take a look at the lineup of the American "Dream Nine" to see how unscrupulous they are at the World Championships. Most of the American team is young, and the only one is the "old man", which is Chauncey Billups. Others, such as Durant and Westbrook, are all young guys who are about the same age as Anjie.

In July, when An Jie was still training hard, James, who originally planned to recruit An Jie, announced that the Heat would be his next home, and the Heat Dream Triumvirate, which was enough to change the pattern of the NBA league, was formed. This signing alone is enough to show how buzzing the free agent market has been this summer. In the hearts of NBA players, the O'Brien Cup is their highest aspiration. Now that all the awesome guys are busy finding their next home, who has the heart to participate in this painless World Championships?

For example, Stoudemire, who originally wanted to play for his country, but under pressure from his new club, the Knicks, he finally chose to give up.

It's also ruthless, and Stoudemire almost reached the top of his career with the Suns last season. But because he failed to reach the finals, Xiaobawang just said he would leave without looking back.

And what about Anthony, who lost to the Thunder in the first round, and he also fell out with the Nuggets management completely, and the transfer is almost a sure thing. All the big names are thinking about their future or "money", and no one wants to think too much about the World Championships.

Perhaps at this moment, only Presti's Thunder can generously "lend" their players, and it is not surprising that the names of the three Thunder have appeared in this World Championships. Presti has just signed a new contract with Durant, the team's future cornerstone, while Anjie and Westbrook each have one-year contracts to fulfill. What's more, after the one-year contract is executed, the Thunder still have a team draft, and Presti will definitely choose to execute it without hesitation.

It can be said that this turbulent summer, as long as Durant is stabilized, it has almost nothing to do with the Thunder. It's no wonder that Presti and Sanshao are willing to devote themselves to the World Championships, because for the three of them, all the gossip from the outside world has nothing to do with them.

Even though the NBA's summer transfer news is much more exciting than the World Championships, not everyone will lose interest in the World Championships.

For example, for China's particularly bureaucratic sports environment, the World Championships are still a big competition, as long as it is a big competition, it must win glory for the country, and it must not be ashamed! Therefore, although Durant participates with the mentality of coming to play, An Jie must go all out just like playing in the NBA.

As soon as he arrived at the training camp to report, An Jie found that this national team was very different from a year ago. Although the men's basketball team won the Asian Championships last year, Guo Shiqiang's lack of coaching level is also in the eyes of the top. In April this year, the Basketball Association announced that Bob Deng Huade II, the American and coach of the Shanghai team, would become the new national team coach.

Not to mention the American's coaching ability, at least his tough style can bring more blood to this national team. But what is laughable is that the Basketball Association actually arranged for the previous coach Guo Shiqiang to be Deng Huade's assistant. Guo Shiqiang was unhappy that Deng Huade had snatched his position, and now he had to do chores for a foreigner who snatched his position in his national team, and Guo Shiqiang was even more unwilling. Although the Basketball Association gave Guo Shiqiang the hat of "Chinese Coaching Staff Chief", to put it bluntly, he is just a miscellaneous person. I really don't know what the Basketball Association thinks, they don't seem to be happy if they don't bring a little turmoil and division to the national team.

There is a clear and secret battle between the coaching staff of China and the United States, but fortunately, the players of the national team are harmonious and do not form cliques.

When An Jie met with the team on the first day, almost everyone greeted him warmly. Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi and other leaders who have a good relationship with An Jie naturally need not say much, they have been waiting for An Jie for a long time. And newcomers such as Su Wei and Zhou Peng have great respect for An Jie, who plays in the United States.

"Oh my God, Anjie, what did you and the UAE eat, they were as strong as cows. Wang Zhizhi ran over and pinched An Jie's arm in disbelief, this guy felt like a different person than last year. Yi Jianlian is already much stronger than before, but compared to An Jie, his little progress is not surprising at all.

"I just practiced it in Los Angeles a month ago, hehe. An Jie scratched his head embarrassedly, on the surface, it was a change in a year, but in fact, the month and a half that had just passed was the main reason for his huge change.

Looking at An Jie's figure, even Su Wei swallowed his saliva. He thought that Yi Jianlian was strong enough, but he didn't expect that now An Jie looked even more terrifying. The thought that he would soon be training and fighting with this kind of guy made him feel a chill down his back.

In the CBA, Su Wei is already a representative of a strong center. But as soon as I arrived at the national team, I realized that my "small body" was nothing at all.

"You have to take it easy, Jie guy, people call him a butcher in the NBA. Tsk, I feel sorry for you. Guo Allen looked at An Jie and made a joke in Su Wei's ear. But Su Wei couldn't laugh at all, for Guo Allen it was a joke, for him, this was a fact that he had to face. Just having the ball to fight against the training is enough for him Su Wei. You know, he's facing an NBA All-Star starter-level center!

"Welcome back to the team, you're half a month late, I hope you can adapt to the team quickly. Suddenly, a burst of fluent English burst into Anjie's ears. An Jie turned his head to look, and it turned out to be the head coach of the national team, Deng Huade, who walked into the training ground.

"Hello, Coach. An Jie stretched out his hand and shook hands with Deng Huade, although An Jie didn't know Deng Huade, but his fiery temper An Jie had also heard of it. For domestic players, Deng Huade may be too flamboyant. But for Yi Jian and Anjie, they have seen a lot of this kind of typical American coach.

"Later, you warm up first, then you have a tactical class, and then you have to fight in groups. "Deng Ward finished today's training plan with three shots and five divisions of two, and compared to most procrastinating local managers, Deng Ward's style is simply resolute.

When warming up, Anjie's every movement is always eye-catching. As the most successful Chinese player at the moment, he is naturally the target of everyone's observation. What is different about this guy's play from us? Chinese why can he gain a firm foothold in the NBA at a young age? With countless questions, almost everyone except Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi is warming up and observing An Jie.

Just by warming up, the players of the Chinese team found something different. At first, people thought that Anjie could play in the NBA because of his strong body and outstanding height. But after a few minutes of warm-up, many people praised An Jie's basic basketball skills and felt ashamed.

Even guards such as Liu Wei and Guo Allen admire An Jie's basic basketball skills. Every move he makes, every shot, the action is very good. In some ways, it's even better than those of them who play full-time defenders.

Just when everyone else was stunned to watch An Jie's training, Deng Huade called everyone into the office. Why wait for An Jie to come to Deng Huade to take a tactical class, all this is not without reason.

The core, although this national team has Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi, Deng Huade still left the core position to the young An Jie without hesitation. In the tactics class, almost every tactic Deng Huade talked about revolved around An Jie.

Although Anjie is the core, Deng Huade also stressed that the players must share the ball more. A really good team can't have only one strong core. Others have to play to their strengths in order to be able to make themselves and the team better.

In this alone, Deng Huade is much smarter than Guo Shiqiang. Guo Shiqiang only knows the tactics of death, it is difficult to give full play to the advantages of the players, and he also relies on the performance of the stars to tide over the difficulties at critical moments. But Deng Huade is different, he emphasized at the beginning that An Jie is the core, but the Chinese team can't rely too much on An Jie.

Guo Shiqiang listened to it with a disgraced face, and Deng Huade rarely adopted his own opinions. He, as an assistant coach, is just in name.

In the afternoon, Su Wei's nightmare finally came. In the confrontation with An Jie, Su Wei took advantage of it at all. Even if it was placed in the past, Su Wei would not be able to carry An Jie, not to mention that now An Jie's body is more than a star and a half stronger than before under the transformation of Peterson.

In the entire confrontation training, Su Wei did not defend against An Jie's attack once, not once. Of course, if a foul can be regarded as stopping the attack, then Su Wei has also defended it a few times.

Anjie felt like she was training with a trainer, with little resistance behind her. He doesn't even use the footsteps that Olajuwon has taught him, and he can get his chance just by punching hard.

Su Wei was "tortured" and sweated profusely, but An Jie still looked relaxed. At this time, Su Wei realized that the gap between himself and the NBA All-Star starting center was not just one or two points. All-round, Su Wei can be said to have a huge gap with Anjie in all aspects.

Don't look at An Jie being so strong now, his movement speed is much faster than Su Wei. Although the height gap is not large, in the face of Su Wei, An Jie is really as easy as beating a child.

Deng Huade watched all the confrontation training process, and then, in order to test An Jie's true strength, Deng Huade arranged for Yi Jianlian to be in line with An Jie.

At this time, An Jie finally encountered some obstacles. Although Yi Jianlian's performance was very good, and he defended An Jie beautifully several times, but in the end, An Jie won the competition. Now Deng Huade is relieved, Yi Jianlian is placed on the international stage, and he is also a "big killer" level figure. Now this An Jie is better than Yi Jianlian, and it will never be wrong to take him as the core!

After a week of training in China, the men's basketball team left for Istanbul, Turkey, where the tournament was held, to participate in closed training. During this period, An Jie's condition is getting better and better, and Deng Huade really can't imagine what An Jie will do in the official competition.

At this moment, qualifying for the group stage does not seem to be an impossible task.

An Jie is also excited about the arrival of the Asian Championships, he has not played an official match for more than three months, and the butcher has long wanted to taste the blood again.

On August 28, in Group C of the group stage of the 2010 Men's Basketball Asian Championship, China played against Greece. May God see the butcher and wish the Greeks good luck......