When the basketball world's primary focus is on Boston and secondary on New York, the Las Vegas Summer League Finals are less important.

Although this is the first time that the Chinese team has reached the Summer League Finals, it is still facing Li Zhen's old club.

But Americans just don't take summer league seriously, and... In their bones, they still think that Chinese basketball is inferior, with arrogant prejudice, and deliberately low-key treatment.

And this game was very intense.

Even if Li Zhen did not appear in the first quarter of the game, the Chinese team still had a good basis for advancing and retreating against the Knicks, which was very different from the scene of the first game against the Knicks.

"The progress of the national team is visible to the naked eye, and it is the same against the Knicks, but the quality of the game is completely different." Excited commentators tell excited fans on TV.

The performance of the national team players was also seen by the fans. Chen Jianghua, Liu Xiaoyu, and Liu Wei's big brother no longer cowered in the face of Nate Robinson, they all dared to make bold moves, overcoming their fears psychologically, and even the two young players dared to deliberately make moves to deceive Robinson's defense: after all, they were all people who had seen Nate Robinson drink Coke upside down, and knew that this guy's IQ was not high.

From defenders to forwards, the players of the national team have the courage to show their talents on the pitch.

When these courages come together, they form very different styles of play.

This training trip has been very effective because of Lee's real presence.

Everyone is happy about it.

Younas found that his flexible and diverse tactics were finally showing, the players found that their technical and tactical level had made a qualitative leap, and the leaders of the Basketball Association were waiting to return to China to receive the award, and the domestic fans were also encouraged and happy.

Li Zhen was also very happy.

He is happy not only that the Chinese team has improved, but that Nate Robinson, Balkman, David Lee are also improving, and the most important thing is that the Knicks' new point guard Ramon Sessions this year does have two sets.

He was even the best point guard in the class of 2007 in Summer League, and McConley, whom the Grizzlies drafted with the fourth pick, was not as impressive.

Recently, Isaiah Thomas has received a lot of praise for Ramon Sessions, and he has even been affectionately called the godfather of the draft by James Dolan in front of the camera.

That adoring little look... Li Zhen was stunned when he watched it on TV: he thought to himself what kind of ecstasy soup Isaiah poured into James Dolan, and what kind of story did he have to go through to eat soft rice so hard!

Now it's up to Pau Gasol's younger brother, Mark Gasol, who could be said to have won the 2007 draft if he enters the NBA next year and performs well.

46:57。

The Knicks led by 11 points at halftime.

In the second half, Li Zhen played.

The audience in front of the TV immediately felt what it means to be a superstar who is beyond the outside.

On the field, there was a tactical back-and-forth...... Swish!

Nate Robinson, who had a drifting stop-back jumper show, had a sore skull.

Due to the blessing of Mr. Tony Parker's 4 points of agility talent energy, Li Zhen's current jump shooting rate has reached 60% when he is full of energy...... However, it will decline rapidly as physical strength decreases and defensive intensity increases.

"Are you improving again?"

Little Potato asked in surprise.

Isn't this nonsense?

At that time, Balkman gave him a blank look. "When is Bruce not improving? Play well, don't blow it up, our back line is very competitive right now. ”

Nate Robinson was helpless.

He wanted to behave well, but the problem was... In the face of Li Zhen, he has no chance of winning!

After a single quarter of the game, Li Zhen led the team to recover the score and surpassed by 3 points.

In this level of competition, Li Zhen has the dominance of Michael Jordan.

In the fourth quarter, Li Zhen still only played half a quarter, but this half of the game gave the Chinese team an 11-point lead.

When he got off the court, he specially told the Knicks: "I won't play for a while, you have to do your best to fight." You can be merciful. ”

At this time, the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat.

Li Zhen doesn't want to be the one who decides the winner, and he hopes that this situation will motivate the players on both sides and allow both players to grow in the competition.

"It's true friendship first, competition second." The commentator watched Li Zhen take off his sneakers on the side of the court, and couldn't help but smile and said: "For Li Zhen, this is a left-handed fight." ”

In fact, this is true for Chinese fans and Knicks fans.

I don't have much obsession with winning or losing.

For Knicks fans, it doesn't matter if they win the Summer League championship or not, and it's not a tournament with much value.

For Chinese fans, reaching the finals is already a great success. Even if you win the second place, it will break history, and if you can win the championship, of course, it will be better. Li Zhen got off the field at this time and handed over the game to the members of the national team, and the fans were very understandable, and it was a good choice for them to be reasonable.

In love, the Knicks are his team.

Yu Li, the summer league is a place to exercise the key ball ability of the national team players, not a place to exercise Li Zhen's key ball ability.

Li Zhen's downplay broke the balance of power between the two sides, and the Knicks, who were originally pressed and beaten, instantly took the initiative.

However, the Chinese team showed unprecedented tenacity, and they clung to the defense. And on the offensive end, all the players focused on the attacking route.

Although the Knicks narrowed the gap with a slow process, the courage and strength shown by the Chinese team touched all the spectators.

"This is the real training!"

Director Zhang said this sentence over and over again.

But every time, it can arouse strong resonance with domestic audiences.

The game was played in the last second, and the Knicks were executed by Nate Robinson, who stepped over Chen's defense. But when Yi Jianlian came up defensively, he didn't choose to pass, and his forced shot was touched by Yi Jianlian with his fingertips, and the basketball changed its flight trajectory...... Backbite!

When the whistle blew, the basketball slammed into the rebound.

Missed.

116:115。

China won the Summer League title by one point, the first non-NBA team in Las Vegas Summer League history to win the title.

The Chinese team has made new history.

The land of Shenzhou has long been boiling, and everyone is excited about Yi Jianlian's last defense.

"We're confident now that we're going to face any tough opponents, really. Now I'm not even worried about the draw for the group stage, but other teams are worried about running into us in the group stage. ”

Yu Jia said excitedly on TV: "We are not easy to mess with. This is still Yao Shu's failure to participate and Li Zhen's failure to do his best. ”

"We certainly have every reason now to believe that the Chinese team will win a medal at next year's Olympics."

Director Zhang was very excited.

For so many years, this is even the longest face of the Chinese men's basketball team in the world.

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I've finally finished writing the summer chapter. Next, we will enter a new era of the NBA.