Chapter 290: Division
Although he is in the national team, An Jie still has not relaxed his training. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info every day when his teammates take a shower and return to the hotel from work, only An Jie will choose to practice on the basketball court.
People think that those hours of training every day will not help their progress at all, and will make them more tired and increase the risk of injury. In fact, it is true that one or two additional exercises are ineffective, but after accumulating a lot of perseverance, you will be happy to find that you are not doing useless work.
What's more, An Jie has just gotten this stronger, faster body. If he wants to stay in shape, he has to keep exercising for a few weeks.
Anjie must now put herself in top shape at all times, and the bracket for the knockout rounds was announced yesterday. The first opponent of the Chinese team in the group stage is New Zealand, and if nothing else, it should not be a problem to win the opponent.
But New Zealand is clearly not enough to keep Anjie interested, and the reason why he's working so hard now is to prepare for the United States in the second quarter-finals!
It's not that Anjie is underestimating, but that New Zealand really doesn't have the strength to do it. Holding the list of players of the New Zealand team, An Jie found that he didn't know any of the people on it. This is not because Anjie is ignorant, but because the prestige of the New Zealand players is too small.
Although the opponent of the US team is Angola, the African hegemon who is stronger than New Zealand, it should not be a problem for Durant and them to qualify.
Once both China and the United States qualify, the two teams will meet in the quarter-finals. This is the reason why An Jie is so serious now. Competing against the young American team without superstars, An Jie is really looking forward to this game.
Sure enough, although the Chinese men's basketball team suffered two consecutive defeats in the final stage of the group stage. However, in the quarter-finals against New Zealand, they still won comfortably.
Limiting the opponent's attack with a strong pressing defense is the most obvious characteristic of Deng Huade's Chinese team. This bloody American has indeed brought blood to the Chinese team. And this is even more prominent on the defensive end.
New Zealand's strength is not strong, and now it is still defended by the Chinese team, and it is even more lost in rhythm.
In this game, except for small forward Rohan Penny, who scored 21 points, no other players scored in double figures. And the overall shooting rate of only 15 of 48 shots made New Zealand unable to turn over.
An Jie had just exerted his strength when he found that his opponent had collapsed. This is the reason why FIBA is not as good as the NBA, although the top names in each continent can enter the World Championships, but the gap in strength between the teams is still very huge. Even though it's a knockout stage, this is still happening.
An Jie still clocked out in the third quarter and scored 24 points, and Yi Jianlian also scored 25 points in the whole game. In the end, the Chinese team defeated New Zealand 83-52, the Asian champion, and not everyone can play.
Although it was only a victory over an underdog, the Chinese fans were still excited. The victory over New Zealand also means that the Chinese team has advanced to the quarterfinals without Yao Ming!
You must know that since the establishment of the World Championships in 1978, the Chinese team has only advanced to the top eight in 1994! In the last World Championships, the Chinese team created the worst 15th in history!
In the past four years, people have experienced the growth of Yi Jianlian, Yao Ming's injury and retirement, Wang Zhizhi's aging, and of course, the most important thing, the rise of An Jie!
This time to reach the quarterfinals, except for the loss to Russia, there were almost no obstacles. As for the heavy defeat to Turkey, everyone knows that Deng Huade is completely used as a substitute to play, so there is no discussion value.
"An Jie is definitely the savior of Chinese basketball!"
"I think we can really fight the United States!"
"The quarterfinals are a hammer, according to An Jie's personality, it's not impossible for us to kill the Yankees. ”
Chinese fans are like this, complaining when they lose and arrogant when they win.
"I didn't expect Ah, An, we actually have to stand on the same basketball court as opponents. After the game, Durant was the first to call Anjie. He first congratulated An Jie on leading the team to achieve historic results, and at the same time did not forget to talk about the confrontation between the two sides.
"We've never been an opponent since we started playing professional basketball. I think tomorrow's game will be fun. An Jie leaned easily in front of the cabinet in the locker room, smiling all over his face. It's rare for an opposing player to be a better friend than a teammate in the national team.
"Ann, you'll have to let me pop a few more to-morrow!" shouted Westbrook over the phone.
"Don't worry, Russell, I'll let you score a point or two. An Jie is not modest, he never shows mercy to this kind of mutually damaging joke.
Seeing An Jie talking and laughing with the players of the American team, the rest of the Chinese team was more apprehensive. The U.S. team is just too strong for them. Just created a historic achievement, and immediately will be hit on the head, who can stand it.
And Guo Shiqiang, the assistant coach of the national team, is even more unaccustomed to An Jie's actions. It doesn't matter what your relationship is with the club, when you get to the national team, everyone is the enemy, and where is there such a happy conversation with the enemy before the big game.
It's good now, the coach of the national team is an American, and the core of the national team is closer to the Americans, he really doesn't know if this team is still a Chinese team. A plan surfaced in Guo Shiqiang's heart.
Time passed quickly, and the day of the Sino-American war on September 9 finally arrived. The Dream Nine may claim to be the weakest Dream Team of all time, but take a look at their lineup, Derek Rose, Chauncey Billups, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Eric Gordon, Rudy Gaye, Danny Granger, Lamar Odom, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook and Andrew Iguodala. This lineup is absolutely fantastic in the World Championships, and just like that, the Americans also say that this is the weakest dream team.
Even if the Chinese team has An Jie, but in the face of the American team with this lineup, China still has almost no chance of winning.
"Hahaha, Ann, I knew we were going to meet at the World Championships. Sure enough, you did!" Before the game, Westbrook warmly hugged and laughed with Anjie. Although Durant is a little introverted, he also greeted An Jie warmly.
Guo Shiqiang was angry on the side, but in fact, it is common for players from both sides to greet each other before the game. But in the eyes of Guo Shiqiang, this kind of behavior is simply unreasonable. Even if you want to lose, you have to lose with backbone, and show favor to others before the game, what kind of man is this!
An Jie had returned to his own half to discuss tactics with his teammates, but Guo Shiqiang still misinterpreted An Jie's actions.
'Don't be under pressure, play at a real level and enjoy the game, that's enough. "Before the game, Deng Ward decided to let the players relax. After all, the U.S. team is not a team that he Deng Huade can beat with any strange tricks. An Jie and Yi Jianlian can indeed compete with this group of people, but what about the others, including Wang Zhizhi, the big brother, who can't do anything in the game against the United States, let alone the others.
Sure enough, as soon as the game began, the U.S. team's offense was quite rapid. They all know what level of guy is guarding the inside line of the Chinese team, if they don't use real strength, they can't score points on An Jie's head.
But even so, Anjie's joint defense still brought a lot of trouble to the American team. Even Durant, who is tall and has long arms, was blocked by Anjie in a layup.
And when the Chinese team attacked, the players of the American team were obviously a little absent-minded. Except for Chandler and Odom, who are seriously defending An Jie and Yi Jianlian, the defense of the US team against the rest of the Chinese team can be said to be just decoration.
But the outside line of the Chinese team really found an opportunity under the laxity of the American team. Wang Shipeng and Sun Yue hit consecutive shots with the assist of An Jie, and An Jie and Yi Jianlian also scored a few beautiful goals on the inside of the American team. When the first quarter ended, the score was 20-23, and the Chinese team was only three points behind the American team!
All Chinese fans couldn't believe this result, Anjie had brought them enough surprises, but the surprise against the American team was still too big.
In the second quarter, when Deng Huade used substitute players, the point difference was quickly widened. The bench players of the Chinese team are really overwhelmed except for the rough. Not to mention facing the U.S. team, even against other opponents, China's substitute players rarely performed.
After An Jie came on the field again, the game situation did not change much. When the U.S. team began to defend seriously, almost all the Chinese team except for An Jie were dumbfounded. Including Yi Jianlian, they couldn't score like in the first quarter.
50-37, by the end of the half, the difference had been widened. But Guo Shiqiang doesn't think so, he thinks that the reason why the Chinese team, which was originally not at a disadvantage, played like this in the second quarter is completely the reason why Deng Huade did not act and An Jie did not work hard!
So an amazing scene happened.
At the end of the half, Deng Huade was still arguing with the referee about several controversial decisions, but at this time, Guo Shiqiang, the head of the Chinese coaching staff, led the players into the locker room in advance.
There's nothing wrong with doing this, you can't just have the entire Chinese team on the field with Deng Huade. But when all the players walked into the locker room, Guo Shiqiang closed the door of the locker room, picked up a marker, and stood in front of the whiteboard to tell the players about tactics!
At this time, Deng Huade, as the coach of the Chinese team, was still outside the field, but Guo Shiqiang made it seem as if there was no one outside, and directly closed the door of the locker room. And as an assistant coach, he does not have the right to assign the main tactics to the players unless Deng Huade authorizes it.
Halfway through the tactics, the door of the locker room was pushed open by Deng Huade. Deng Huade looked at his players in astonishment, and then at Guo Shiqiang standing in front of the whiteboard. What's going on?
"What are you doing, Guo!?" Deng Huade is not stupid, he knows that his assistant coach has always had an opinion about himself. Because Deng Huade almost never accepts Guo Shiqiang's proposals, but that is not because Deng Huade looks down on Guo Shiqiang, but because Guo Shiqiang's proposals are too low-level.
But Deng Huade can't directly say that he Guo Shiqiang's level is not good, so Deng Huade's ignorance was misunderstood by Guo Shiqiang as Deng Huade looking down on himself and the Chinese coach, and the contradiction between the two also broke out completely at this moment.
Guo Shiqiang held the marker in a daze, standing in place without gnawing. He didn't expect that Deng Huade would directly slash his head and snarl at himself. What's more, this matter was originally the fault of Guo Shiqiang.
"You let me out! Otherwise, I'll go out! In short, in this locker room, with you, there will be no me!" Deng Huade's face was flushed with anger, he stood in place with his waist crossed, and glared at Guo Shiqiang. Such a rash change of the head coach's tactics, not taking the head coach in his eyes, and challenging the head coach's authority. Guo Shiqiang's actions were too much in Deng Huade's opinion.
Guo Shiqiang was also stunned by Deng Huade's roar, he put down the marker and walked out of the locker room mechanically. And at the bottom, the players have long been quelled by the quarrel between the two coaches. At times like this, it's not good for players to help anyone. So, they simply watched the farce quietly.
An Jie shook his head helplessly, why Chinese basketball has not been able to achieve a substantial breakthrough, it is not for nothing. Even if there is no problem with the players, there will be a phenomenon of open and secret fighting in the upper echelons of them. Today this is just a small quarrel between the two coaches, and who knows how much political struggle there is within the basketball association?
After this humiliating incident, the players of the Chinese team have long lost their passion for the game. The U.S. team was already strong, and the Chinese team relaxed its resistance in the second half, which allowed the Dream Nine team to easily further expand the point difference.
Anjie scored 25 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks in the whole game, which is much better than Chandler and Odom.
But in addition to An Jie, the Chinese team only has Yi Jianlian's 14 points to watch. As for the others, without exception, they all scored in the single digits.
120-82, the U.S. team easily defeated China. After this game, An Jie's World Championships journey can be regarded as officially coming to an end.
After the game, attentive fans and reporters noticed that Deng Huade seemed to be very unhappy. It's normal to lose to the United States, and they don't know what Deng Huade has to be angry about. As everyone knows, Deng Huade is not only angry because he lost to the American team.
If a team doesn't even have a united coaching staff, how far can this team go? Fortunately, there are only a few international matches a year, otherwise An Jie would be exhausted to death if he stays in such a divided locker room.
Although he lost to the United States, he led the team to the quarterfinals, and An Jie can be regarded as having an explanation to the fans and himself.
In the 2010 Men's Basketball World Championships, the Chinese team achieved historic results, and An Jie also achieved good personal data, he was the only player in this World Championships who could cut an average of 25+10 per game. In the scoring list, Anjie is second only to Argentina's Scola, and Anjie is ranked first in the rebounding list, which is proud. Although there were some unpleasant episodes in the last game, the whole process was quite rewarding.
The time has come to September, and Anjie's holiday is getting closer and closer to the end. The next NBA season is the real stage for Anjie to test himself.
In the league formed by the Heat's Big Three, what other storms and waves can the Thunder set off? Everyone, wait and see.