Chapter 425
When the NBA playoffs are in full swing, the CBA League Finals on the other side of the ocean have ended.
However, although the season ended early, not all of the CBA players were able to enter the holiday early.
The national team urgently summoned all the official and reserve members of the national team to prepare for the start of the secret training camp.
It is now the end of April and May, and there are only three months left before the official opening of the Rio Olympics in early August.
In this year's Olympic Games, the Chinese Basketball Association attaches great importance to it, or Wang Xiao's remarks and the growth he has brought to the team in the past two years of coaching the Chinese men's basketball team, so that the senior management of the Basketball Association can't help but be full of expectations for the results of this Olympic Games.
After all, if the Chinese men's basketball team really has breakthrough results in the Olympic Games, and even wins the championship and gold as Wang Xiao said, then all the high-level positions of the Basketball Association will be promoted step by step!
In order to prepare for the Rio Olympics, the Basketball Association contacted the training venue in advance, arranged the warm-up game, and hired a professional team of trainers from the United States with a high salary according to Wang Xiao's requirements.
Only one week after the end of the CBA Finals, all the members of the national team were called to start training.
Yi Jianlian, Cheng Jie, and Hao Peng, who missed the playoffs in the NBA, have all returned to China in advance to prepare, and Wang Meng, who was eliminated in the first round, did not rest, and rushed to the training site on the plane non-stop.
As the head coach of the national team, although Wang Xiao could not rush back to arrange the training plan as soon as possible due to the NBA playoffs, he also worked out the training arrangements for the training camp with the assistant coaches of the national team through telephone and video.
After the playoffs, Wang Xiao will return to China as soon as possible to devote himself to the training work.
The success or failure of the Rio Olympics will directly determine whether Wang Xiao's system upgrade can be completed, if he can't win the championship, then Wang Xiao's system upgrade will be at least until the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup!
That's too long, if it's calculated according to the reward of 200 victory points for every 1 game won by the system, how many more victory points will Wang Xiao lose in the past three years? How much training bonus can you give your players? Not to mention what kind of good things are there after the system upgrade, Wang Xiao has long been curious.
In the game between the Nets and the Celtics, the Nets finally had the last laugh, with a total score of 4:3, and the two sides fought for 7 games before the Nets won the game with the amazing play of Jeremy Lin.
After 7 games, Jeremy Lin averaged 29 points, 8.8 rebounds and 11 assists per game with a quasi-triple-double, as well as 2.2 steals and 1.8 blocks, performing like an all-round superman.
Of course, the reason why he can play such luxurious statistics is partly because of Lin's own personal strength, and on the other hand, because the Celtics' defense at the point guard position is really dwarfed.
Thomas Jr. can compete with the vast majority of All-Star guards in the league when it comes to offense.
But when it comes to defense, that's the end of it.
Thomas, who is 1.75 meters tall, is at an absolute height disadvantage no matter who he plays against at the point guard position, which makes it difficult for him to make a difference on the defensive end even if he has the speed and strength that is not inferior to anyone.
Jeremy Lin's current height is the same as Jason's. Kidd is similar, but also different, 1.93 meters, and Thomas Jr. has a gap of nearly 20 centimeters, which is almost the height gap between NBA outside players and inside players!
Therefore, when Jeremy Lin and Thomas Jr. are in the opposite position, even the relatively weak offense is full of lethality, and it looks like it is competing with Curry, Westbrook and other offensive two-way guards.
However, the good days of bullying Thomas Jr. have come to an end after the series.
The reason is very simple, the Nets' opponent in the second round is Wang Xiao's Bucks, and the starting point guard of the Bucks is Antetokounmpo, who is 2.11 meters tall.
Just finished bullying little Thomas, who was nearly 20 centimeters lower than him, and was about to face Antetokounmpo, who was nearly 20 centimeters taller than him, which was not a very good experience.
However, one thing to say, in Wang Xiao's view, among the point guards in the entire league, if there is no change of defense and defense, a simple one-on-one battle, Jeremy Lin may be the best performer.
In his old age, Kidd could defend James one-on-one on the court, and Jeremy Lin could naturally limit Brother Alphabet who had not yet grown to his peak level.
Although he is absolutely inferior in terms of height, weight and strength, Jeremy Lin is not a dead brain, he will find and play to his strengths in the fight, such as speed, agility and so on......
What will these two really look like after they are in position, even Wang Xiao can't guess.
During the regular season, the Bucks and the Nets played each other four times in the East, and the Bucks had a 3-1 record, but three of those games were before the All-Star weekend, that is, before Durant came to the Bucks, when the Bucks still needed to leave positions for Oladipo and Middleton, and Antetokounmpo was still the power forward.
In a post-All-Star encounter, Jeremy Lin was absent due to a sprained ankle, and the two also failed to fight.
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On May 2, at the home court of the Bucks, the Eastern Conference semifinals Bucks vs Nets game officially began.
Looking at Wang Xiao on the other side of the arena with his hands on his waist and watching the players warm up, Jeremy Lin had a wry smile on his face.
After entering the NBA as a champion in 10 years, Jeremy Lin has unknowingly spent 5 years in the league, and in the past five years, he has also played a big name in the NBA, three assist kings, two steals king, selected for the best second team and best third team, and selected for the best defensive team for consecutive years.
In the summer of 2014, he signed a contract extension with the Nets, and the Nets did not hesitate to give Jeremy Lin a five-year contract with a maximum salary.
Jeremy Lin, who has won honors and money, still has something unpleasant, that is, leading the team.
As the only star player of the Nets, Jeremy Lin can almost be said to have single-handedly carried the Nets forward over the years, and the only one who can help is Brooke. Lopez.
In this case, Jeremy Lin has basically been able to take the Nets to the top half of the Eastern Conference and reach the semifinals of the playoffs in the past few years, which is already very good.
However, in Jeremy Lin's opinion, this is not enough, far from enough!
As a professional athlete, you should aim for the final victory, which is the overall championship!
During his college years, under the tutelage of Wang Xiao, Jeremy Lin experienced the joy of winning the final victory several times in a row.
But when he arrived in the NBA, Jeremy Lin found that he continued to experience failures year after year, while his coach still enjoyed winning every year, as if it were commonplace.