In addition to Yi Jianlian, there is another person whose performance is also very eye-catching, not Wang Zhizhi or Battle, but Zhu Fangyu.

Yi Jianlian's excellent form made the Iranian team have to wrap him up in the second half.

At this time, whether the Chinese team can shoot on the outside becomes very critical.

Zhu Fangyu stood up.

He continued his excellent form in the CBA, shooting 4-of-5 from beyond the three-point line, plus 2 free throws to score a team-high 14 points!

The Chinese team was celebrating in the locker room after the game, and a group of people were celebrating around Yi Jianlian.

Although the Chinese team has been very dominant in Asia in the past, especially after Sun Hao and Yao Ming played one after another.

But they weren't there in this game, and the game was very suspenseful in the first half, and the players were naturally excited after winning.

Zhu Fangyu fought very hard, sitting there panting and smirking at watching his teammates celebrate.

At this moment, Sun Hao came in, smiled and reached out and knocked on the door.

"Brother Hao."

Yi Jianlian was the first to go up to say hello after he found out, and Zhu Fangyu also got up.

A group of people soon gathered around Sun Hao.

Don't say it, Sun Hao is the leader of the national team.

"The championship is secured."

Sun Hao reached out and pounded Yi Jianlian's chest hard.

The reason why he appeared in Qatar was to cheer for the Chinese team and worry about Yi Jianlian's performance.

After all, this is the first time that Yi Jianlian has participated as the absolute core of the national team.

Judging from tonight's game, his worries were unwarranted.

Yi Jianlian is no longer the Yi Jianlian in history, he can already be on his own!

After chatting with the team members for a while, Sun Hao set his eyes on Zhu Fangyu.

"That's a good job."

Sun Hao also reached out and beat Zhu Fangyu's chest.

Even if he and Yao Ming are not there, this Chinese team still has Yi Jianlian, Battle, and Wang Zhizhi, which can be regarded as star-studded.

But tonight's performance is second only to Yi Jianlian, and the word "good" is fully deserved.

Zhu Fangyu smiled and bowed her head, this is a little embarrassed.

The tough guy also has a tender side, and Zhu Fangyu is still a little shy in front of Sun Hao.

"Let's go, go out for a coffee."

There is no tea in Qatar, but coffee is available.

After Zhu Fangyu took a shower, she went out for coffee with Sun Hao and Yi Jianlian.

Qatar is a typical Middle Eastern country, small in size, but rich in oil and gas, quite developed economy, and tall buildings are not much better than Dubai next door.

found a high-end and quiet café to sit down, and Sun Hao chatted with them for a while.

Soon, Sun Hao talked about Zhu Fangyu's selection.

"You have to work hard for the next games, and if you continue to perform like this, the Lakers will definitely invite you to a tryout."

Sun Hao said to Zhu Fangyu with a smile.

Although he said hello to Kupchak about the trial, the latter would definitely not refuse.

But anything that is given is not the same as what you earn.

And it's not just this difference, playing well in the Asian Championships will also be very helpful to Zhu Fangyu's self-confidence, which will be beneficial to his later trials.

After all, the trial is just an opportunity, and if you don't participate, it means that you will definitely be able to sign a contract with the Lakers, and you have to fight for it yourself.

"Brother Hao."

But at this moment, Zhu Fangyu's expression suddenly became serious.

Sun Hao looked at him suspiciously.

"Do you really think I'll make it to the NBA?"

When Zhu Fangyu said this, he obviously lacked confidence.

"Why not?"

Sun Hao asked rhetorically.

It was at this time that he realized that Zhu Fangyu's self-confidence was much lower than he imagined.

"With my talent, I knew the Lakers would pick me, it must have been you who said hello, I ......"

"Wait."

Sun Hao interrupted Zhu Fangyu.

"Why do you think I said hello to the Lakers and the team chose you?"

He really didn't expect Zhu Fangyu to feel like this.

"Then why did they choose me?"

"You misunderstood Brother Hao, he was with me at the draft that day."

Yi Jianlian said on the side.

"Are you underestimating your Brother Hao's ability, if you really say hello, do you think you can fall to the 60th pick?"

Sun Hao also said with a smile.

Zhu Fangyu reached out and scratched his head when he heard it, as if he really misunderstood.

"But I can't go to the Lakers either, you see I have to fight for even a tryout, and the Lakers are fighting for the championship, so there's no reason for me."

Zhu Fangyu's next words fully showed his current thoughts: although he was selected, he didn't feel that he could go to the Lakers at all.

This is actually a very normal idea, and the rookie selected by the 60th pick of the championship team means it.

As for what Sun Hao told him before, he didn't think he could compare with Ginobili.

Ginobili lived in a very different era from his.

At that time, information was not developed, and the Spurs purely relied on the ability of overseas scouts to pick up leaks.

But now, he still knows very well how many pounds and taels he has.

Sun Hao, it was only at this time that he knew the truest thoughts in Zhu Fangyu's heart.

This is still a little different from what he imagined.

After all, the scene of Zhu Fangyu swinging his fists on the court made him too impressed.

"Xiao Zhu, I think what you said is fine, but there is something I think you should listen to."

When Sun Hao said this, not only Zhu Fangyu, but even Yi Jianlian looked at him curiously.

"If you don't give it a try, you probably don't even know how good you are."

What Sun Hao said will be defined by many people as poisonous chicken soup in the future, but in fact, this sentence is very true.

Many times people are afraid not that they don't have that ability, but that they don't even have the courage to try.

If you try, the chance may be less than 1%, but if you don't try, the chance will always be zero.

What's more, people often don't know how strong they can be when they push themselves.

"Brother Hao, don't tease me, I'm ......"

"Zhu Fangyu."

Sun Hao interrupted Zhu Fangyu's words again, and even changed his title.

"You don't fight with people on the court, and you don't have any courage here in the NBA? If it still doesn't work, you will continue to practice in the CBA, try again next year, and if it doesn't work next year, then next year. ”

Sun Hao looked directly at Zhu Fangyu and said.

In history, Ding Yanyuhang did this, he didn't think that Zhu Fangyu's talent was worse than Ding Yanyuhang, not to mention that he trained with him before, Zhu Fangyu was stronger than the same period in history.

Zhu Fangyu was stunned for a while, and finally gritted her teeth.

"Okay, isn't it an NBA!"

Isn't it just an NBA! Sun Hao's agitation method worked!

Everyone has a different personality, Zhu Fangyu obviously belongs to the kind of person who is easy to get started, otherwise there would be no unequivocal fight with others on the court.

Sun Hao's words are very in place.

"That's it, if you count how many Chinese play in the NBA, there is a lack of a forward, and you have to be the first person."

Sun Hao smiled and patted Zhu Fangyu's shoulder.

He really hopes that Zhu Fangyu can go to the NBA to be his younger brother and thug.

Zhu Fangyu nodded.

Sun Hao said so, what else did he have to hesitate!

……

Time flies, and it's late September in a blink of an eye.

The curtain has fallen on the Asian Championships, and the Chinese team finally won the Asian Championships as in history, and qualified for the 2012 London Olympics.

You read that right, the Asian Championships at this time are directly linked to the qualification for the Olympic Games, so this championship is also of great significance to the Chinese men's basketball team.

Because this means that in the future Asian events, Sun Hao and Yao Ming can be completely useless.

Even, maybe when more Chinese players enter the NBA in the future, Yi Jianlian will not be used.

It's a very virtuous cycle.

Yi Jianlian was successfully elected as the MVP of the Asian Championships with an average of 23.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists in the game.

Don't ask why there are so few rebounds, Harris has been using Yi Jianlian as a small forward, and it would be strange if there were more rebounds.

In addition, Zhu Fangyu's performance is also quite good.

He can contribute 11.4 points in the competition, second only to Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi in the team.

What's more, he shot a whopping 53% from three-point range!

Although the intensity of the Asian Championships is not as high as that of the international competitions, this hit rate is still very revealing.

The most direct point is that after the Asian Championships, Zhu Fangyu successfully received a trial invitation from the Lakers.

As long as O'Neal is around, the Lakers need a consistent outside shooter, and that was evident last season.

So three points is the most direct reason why they chose Zhu Fangyu.

And Zhu Fangyu's stable performance on the outside of the Asian Championships is also the reason why they decided to give Zhu Fangyu a trial opportunity at this time.

And this timing is also critical.

At this time, the training camps of all teams have been opened one after another, including the Lakers.

After the Lakers completed a batch of signings in the summer, the team's roster has basically been decided:

Point guards: Sun Hao, Payton, Louis Williams

Quarterbacks: Finley, Christie, Damon Jones

Kozen: Ariza, Hori

Omae: Walker, Brian Cook, Tony Kukoc

Centres: O'Neal, Mourning, Anderson

All 14 are on guaranteed contracts, and the remaining one is the team's 15th man.

However, the Lakers attached more importance to Zhu Fangyu and arranged a separate trial for him before the team's training session.

Kupchak and Phil Jackson were both there.

A second-round pick has this kind of treatment, which is inseparable from his status as a Chinese player and Sun Hao's national team teammates.

This is also an attitude of the Lakers: they will take everything about Sun Hao very seriously.

Some players came early, and they watched curiously from the sidelines when Zhu Fangyu tried out.

Most of them didn't know who Zhu Fangyu was, but it was interesting to see a player with the same skin color as Sun Hao in Los Angeles trying out.

And after looking all the way, they found that the performance of this Chinese was actually not bad.

This is the problem of self-confidence, the self-confidence that Zhu Fangyu established in the Asian Championships made him dare to make moves even when he arrived at the Lakers.

Sun Hao was there at the beginning, and he was still very concerned about Zhu Fangyu's trial training.

After reading it, he felt that Zhu Fangyu had a good chance.

Towards the end of the trial, the Lakers players arrived one after another.

"Antoine."

Just then, Phil Jackson suddenly called Walker.

Walker shook his big ass and passed.

Speaking of Walker, this guy's ass is on par with Barkley.

This makes him only 2.06 meters tall, but it is common for him to rebound double-doubles when swinging to play power forward.

There is also the famous hip twisting celebration, which can be called one of the NBA's representative celebrations.

Of course, Jackson didn't let Walker show off his ass at this time, he wanted Walker and Zhu Fangyu to compete by three points.

This sounds incredible at first glance.

Walker is a former All-Star, and even if the market gets worse, he is a proper NBA-level starter.

Now to have him go and compete with a guy who can't necessarily score in the NBA is a bit of a "look down" on him.

But this also clearly shows Jackson's methods, he is giving Walker a disgrace.

The result of this game is not important, it is an attitude that matters.

Jackson's daring to make Walker a three-pointer against a tryout guy in front of so many people shows that if Walker throws a three-pointer in the middle of a game, he dares to replace him.

Walker was obviously unhappy, and he held back the fire in his belly and competed with Zhu Fangyu for three points.

As a result, Zhu Fangyu actually won!

5 points, Zhu Fangyu scored 20 goals out of 25, and Walker only scored 16!

Walker, face fell to the ground.

Jackson nodded in satisfaction at this point.

He successfully gave Walker a dismissal, and he found that Zhu Fangyu's three points were really good.

Especially at Sun Hao's suggestion, Zhu Fangyu's three-point shooting rate was significantly faster than in history, which gave him a chance to adapt to NBA-level games.

"Yellow-skinned, one more round?"

Of course, Walker couldn't hold his face, and he shouted at Zhu Fangyu.

Jackson originally wanted to stop it, but he didn't expect Zhu Fangyu's reaction to be faster than him.

"One more game, but I'll win."

It was, excited.

Sun Hao was also happy to see it.

Compared with the person in the café who couldn't think about the NBA before, this is more like the Zhu Ba Iron Fist he knows.

Zhu Fangyu himself agreed, and Jackson didn't stop him anymore.

The two quickly competed in a second game, only this time Walker won.

Of the 25 goals, Walker scored 22 and Zhu Fangyu 19.

Don't look at Walker's three-point criticism by others, but that's also relative, he was obviously a little underweight in the first game, and his level is also NBA level when he is really serious.

After winning, Walker made his trademark hip-twisting celebration at Zhu Fangyu.

It's a very provocative move.

"Dark-skinned, one more round?"

Then, Zhu Fangyu shouted at Walker.

He didn't use the word "that", but it was clear that he had learned English well, and he just had to do it.

Walker froze for a moment.

The Chinese players he knows are only these few people who play in the NBA, and there are no opponents.

Zhu Fangyu's reaction gave him a feeling: Are all Chinese players so rigid?

However, this played into his arms, and he wished to win a few more times.

"That's enough."

However, Jackson terminated the two at this point.

If he didn't shout to stop, they would be able to work until the end of the training with the character that the two of them showed.

"Zhu, you can train with the team later."

Zhu Fangyu was a little dissatisfied in his heart, after all, he had just been pulled back by someone, but Jackson's next words made him a little unbelievable.

Is this, treating him like a "Laker"?

Of course, Zhu Fangyu thought a little too much.

Jackson just wanted to see Zhu Fangyu's abilities in other aspects.

For example, half-time versus full-court confrontation.

ps: It's a little better to hang up the salt water, but I can't write too much for the headache, sorry